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They remind me my childhood ... my dear childhood friends. Arn't they lovely?
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
New colour & pattern of the ReadingMate.
One of my favourite colour combinations - lime green and yellowish orange. They will be on the shop by this weekends!
Sent from Ako's iPhoneMonday, March 29, 2010
I'm so proud of myself!
I made the readingMate rubber stamp. Can you see how small the words I've done are? I forgot "full stop" but I think I've done it well enough. I focused on enjoying doing it, It's a procedure to break my mental block.
I think the hand carved rubber stamp is better than the printed one. Don't you think?
Hooray!!!!!
Rubber stmps!
I shoud admit that I have a whole kit to make rubber stamps from Japan because I am always fascinated by stamps and prints since i was little, but somehow I had a mental block to make it. I did not know why. Drawing, painting, felting .... No problem. However, when it comoes to rubber stamps my mind shuts down and my hands froze.
My friend Riyo makes her rubber stamps so freely (that's what I see) she even mentioned it's like a therapy.
I envy her.
I knew I would be a person who enjoys making rubber stamps.
But when?
Why ---
Because I couldn't image myself using the rubber stamps I made. To me that's a very important point when I make something. If I use it I believe someone in the world also would like it. If I use it, someone in the world also would use it. You know what I mean? That was my mental block. So. I decided to make the stamps that I USE. Sent from Ako's iPhone
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Do not forget to make FREE 50 MOO Business Cards - Finish 30th April
I will make a set of moo business cards it should have a different photo for each!
Handy shoe boxes.
Mike and I have been working in art school this morning I do felting and he does cartooning. I realized both of us use a shoe box for a temporary storage of work. I store my wool and he store his idea papers in it. I wonder what other people use a shoe box for?
Sent from Ako's iPhoneOne of my favourite colour conbinationLime & Orange
I love lime and orange. It's so live and happy and just looking at them it brings a cool breeze in my mind. Where is Autumn?????? They said it's almost 5 degrees higher temperture than average March weather, it'll be April next week!!!!!!!!
Sent from Ako's iPhoneVoice of Kookaburra and early birds from our neighbourhood
Birds in the morning gets noisier recently. I love it though.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Working on a new product
So many little things have to be done before a new product going for sale. Preparations are time consuming but rewarding in the end. al little more to go.
Archibald Prize: finalists for 2010 | Art Gallery of NSW
A few good ones in the finalists. I should go to have a look before it ends.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Survived white tulip
Yes it's that hot! Oh poor miss tulip. I know how you feel (sigh).
Sent from Ako's iPhoneLemon cake!
My dear friend Polyanna(Brazilian) brought her lemon cake for me. Mmmm yum.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
White tulips, Swiss cheese coaster & new products
It was a little productive day today. I was talking to my mum in Japan with skype phone using my iPhone+earphone (how handy is that!) meanwhile I could make Swiss cheese coasters.
My mum has no clue about felting so I sent some products as gift last week which she recieved and looking at them while I was explaining what felting was. Still difficult to let her grasp the felting procedure. I'm not sure if she completely got it. I should make some video and send it over (my mum doesn't use computer at all).
Anyway she loved my scarves and coasters and readingMate.
I haven't told her that I've been doing felting for a while because she's always worried when I started a new thing I don't blame her because so may times I proved her that I'm changable and won't stay with one thing, so I have to wait untill I can say "I've been doing this for xx months I still love it! " Then my mum is happy and I'm happy because I don't have to listen her saying "what if..." stories. :-)
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Small mantis on bacon
This is I found this morning - a dead small mantis on my bacon coaster. I haven't seen a mantis for a long long time and I wonder how and why on earth it came in my room and had to die on my bacon coaster? Poor little one :-(
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
I love my Chai tea!
This is something Mike and I are hooked with... "Chai Tea". The Chai Larte is very popular here in Australia. Any cafe would have it in their menu. This is something I missed so much while we were in UK. I believe Chai is from India and so many immigrants from India live in UK somehow Chai was not popular drink there l felt. My morning will start with a cup of Chai!
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Didn't I make a lot of scarves?
What a productive weekends! while Mike is in Melbourne I stayed in art school and using sanding machine to make cobweb style scarves for coming cold season. However the temperture was almost 30 degree that day. Where is Autumn?????
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Breakfast will be ready.
Egg, Bacon, Swiss cheese and Tomato. I am planning to make a lettuce coaster. Then it will be perfect breakfast!
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Having a breaky at cafe while waiting my car's done.
Banana bread & skil late. Yes, my cupmate(cup sleeve) is always with me. Yum...
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Location:Alexander St,Crows Nest,Australia
Tomato coasters finally!
After a lot of experiments, finally I made a tomato coaster! It was hard to make it look like tomato, phew...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Visiting the craft show
I'm visiting the craft show which started from today till Sunday.
I noticed that there are more felting products than previous craft show which is very good.
I bought a few ribbons for my ReadingMates. :-)
The wool yarns are very exensive to buy.
Things caught my eyes are a small iron and a scarf made of the different kind of yarns but it was sewn by sewing machine not knitted.
I wanted to buy the white thin cloth which was dissolved by water. Can't find it.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Canberra trip
We went down to Canberra to see the Impressionism exhibition. The clouds are amazing.
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