My patterns portfolio

It is more than a week since I haven´t created any new pattern. I am having troubles concentrating . I think this lack of motivation is due to my tiredness. 

I feel really exhausted as I have been working and promoting my work very hard these last ten months. Before that time, I hardly use my social media accounts. But last October I decided , it would be great to promote my work abroad. I feel so motivated, so excited to create my patterns online portfolio, like a child.   
I had to start from scratch as I didn´t have any patterns to show, as I had always sold them outright. Besides that, I used to designing for screen printing, using only few pantone colours. 

I felt so obsessed with creating my portfolio, that some days I worked even twelve hours a day, having very short breaks, also at weekends and not wanting to do anything else. I wanted to dedicate all my time to design and get informed about lots of patterns matters.

I feel I have finished a stage and I am going to start a new one. But before of it, I need to relax, I need to be away from my computer screen for a while. 

In my first post I introduced myself only talking  about work. I didn´t tell you about the happy mum I am having my eleven boys twin. All these lately months I have been focused in my work, and I haven´t spent lots of time with my children. They are on their school summer holidays term, so it is time to have a great holiday with them. 
I have rented a nice small house on the beach on a beautiful coast city called Denia in Alicante city, Spain. I like to be there on holiday in summer. 

My children love that place. They have spent funny days there when they were younger.

I feel I deserve this short holiday as I am happy of having created my Spoonflowers shop http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/juliagrifol which it took me lots of time as I had some difficulty in knowing how it worked. At last I have achieved bright and lovely colours on my fabric swatches. 

I have also created my society6 shop, http://society6.com/JuliaGrifoldesigns
my fan page, my new blog, my twitter account, my flickr album, and my pinterest boards.

 

I have also designed some prints for some on line fashion brands and I have been involved in some nice promotion projects. I have also entered in some patterns contests. I have started to license some of my patterns on online  brands, such as   http://kessinhouse.com/pages/julia-grifol,  http://www.artscase.com/artist/Julia-Grifol.htmlhttp:and http://www.kekacase.com/designer-cases/julia-grifol-disenadora.htmlhttp 

I am also very happy of belonging to a nice patterns designer group, where I have found lots of help and support. A group where I can share experiences, knowledge, and friendship. I joined them last May.

Lots of good things have happened to me and there are some new projects on the air, which I don´t want to reveal yet , it is too soon. I cross my fingers.

I wish you lots of inspiration. I hope to be able to be off the screen for some days, hard task!

I was in a hurry, I hope you can forgive my English mistakes. Sorry for them.

Have a  great weekend!