Everyday Life

Been at Claire's for awhile, and it has been a whirlwind of an experience...Taking a breather day and leaving before the sun sets.. Even a ghetto building like this one can look quite decent with the sun accenting it's back...courtesy of my new iphone and a fun app to take pictures old school.

April Fool's!

I didn't pull any fun april fool's joke on anyone...I hope others were able to today...
Can you believe it's already been one year since this:

Happy Anniversary to my one-year old husband!

Has it already been that long?

I can't believe I haven't posted since the 1st of March. My bad...this month is flying.  Keeping busy with work, and work, and more work.  I drew this sketch for a project (for work), but since it's not being used, I thought I'd turn it into a papercut piece.  Still working on that, but i thought I'd post the sketch.  Can you tell what it is? 

Alice in Wonderland inspired...

Some stuff on the Claire's website

Finally! Some of the stuff I've been working on @ Claire's hit stores.  And they're looking pretty good~ If you go to the Claire's website and follow the link to "Alice in Fashionland" (I know, I know...) you'll see some of the prints I worked on for this group. Here's a shot of one of them.  I worked on the "black and red Alice" series.  (the bag and the girl's t-shirt to the right) I had to go buy a tote bag for myself, because I am a dork. haha. 

there new favorite spot

Now kuro and shiro fight for this one basket.  Shiro (the white one) is slightly too big for it...we're going to have to get another one...we USED to use the basket for popcorn for those movie nights..but oh well.

a belated christmas picture

I don't know why I didn't upload this picture since it's one of my favorites, and Shiro is just...just so sparklingly beautiful :D No photoshop retouching here!

 

A little angel under the Christmas tree.

our very own tea ceremony

I got a few belated wedding gifts from friends this past month, and I thought I'd share since they are such wonderful gifts....First up this delicious tea set and of course, awesome tea.  I've always wanted a blossom tea set!  And those cute round cups with the flowers are insulated, so it doesn't get hot to the touch at all.  Form and function; it's a beautiful thing.

papercutting: Round 3

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I made a few different new year's cards...including these precious 10 pieces below. I wish I had the time and patience to make more of them, but alas, life gets in the way. I could however, share pictures with you! I do believe these cards came out rather nice this year...a good start to 2010.

I rearranged the background paper slightly on each card, and I gotta say, I had much fun making these :D

a small, amazing video

NZ Book Council presents "Going West." How so totally awesome! Happy friday~

A belated happy new year! papercutting: Round 2

I am still in shock that it's 2010. Where does the time go? I finally uploaded some of my photos from last year (sorry for the laziness).  It's been a small tradition of mine to make 'new year's cards' (kinda like Christmas cards, but for the new year), and  I decided to make a few different cards to give myself variety and to try out my new gocco machine.  A little handcutting and some beautiful washi paper, and voila! Happy Year of the Tiger!

My favorite are the white ones on the red back.  The metallic silver paint came out sharp on the white background,

and I found some nice paper to go with it.  :D Which one's your favorite?

a little bit of snowfall...

Papercutting gurus unite! How cute is this...if I had the time, I would...but gotta go pack...

We'll be on our way to Ann Arbor this evening to celebrate the coming of a new year.  Hip hip horray~!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone has a happy holiday! We added a hefty ornament to the christmas tree...big and black and furry...

papercutting: Round 1

We had a secret santa at the office, and they had specified that it be a "handmade" gift. I had done this illustration of one of the girl's in the office (i manipulated a photo of her and made her look like a jazz singer), and since I coincidentally got her as my secret santa, I turned that illustration into a papercut piece. It turned out pretty good, considering I barely had any time to work on it.  And of course, I conveniently had the perfect frame with mount too.  Ah~ it's so good to have supplies on hand.

On another note, I recently purchased a gocco machine (print gocco, as it's called in Japan).  OH WHAT fun I am going to have this weekend when my inks and screens arrive!

they are friends again, hey!

Kuro and Simba are now officially BFForever.  After their long fight over who will reign pride rock, they came to the conclusion that both could lead the wildlife of the safari, together, from the comforts of the couch.

Here is the king of the land, happy, and sleepy.

The king later got irritated by the camera flash.  'no pictures' he says.

It's feeling a little bit like Christmas...

I wasn't sure if I wanted to take out the Christmas tree this year, since I know that the kittens are going to be all over it.  But what is the holidays without a tree?  Now it's out, and we have so far learned that Kuro (the black one) likes to climb trees. go figure. I haven't caught him in action yet, but I hear the bell ornaments jingling now and again...Pictures of the tree, and Kuro munching on the fake branches.

I think I just found my new favorite scarf

I am sure you all know I'm a cat fan, but this hits the spot! Sausage dogs are funny...

Big Apple Sausage Dog Scarf from Kate Spade

eco-friendly lunch

I stumbled upon this website while pretend-shopping online (you know, where you put items in your cart but you don't end up buying anything) on Cyber Monday.  I've always been a fan of plastic bags, but they are such a waste...what a cute alternative! The navy shark is my favorite print.

Lunch skins from 3greenmoms

Happy Gobble Gobble Day!

I hope everyone had a nice and stuffing Thanksgiving! We didn't do a turkey this year (it was just the two of us) but we decided to do a pseudo-thanksgiving dinner consisting of turkey burgers, stuffing, mashed potato, biscuits, and a HUGE spinach and mushroom salad. YUM.  And in the course of eating this meal, we made these biscuit turkey burgers and highly recommend this with your leftover turkey and such. It's a combination of turkey (or turkey burger), mashed potato, stuffing with gravy, all sandwiched in the biscuit. You can't go wrong...it was delicious! Happy Thanksgiving Leftover Day!

The Lion King

I've had this Simba (from the Lion King) doll for, like, ever, and i took it out of the closet the other weekend.  Of course the kittens would love a large lion puppet doll! So we decided to recreate the movie in our living room.  I was a fantastic puppeteer.

tick...tock...

I'm hoping time goes by real slow this weekend so i can maximize the time off and really relax. (ahhh~) Have a good weekend!

A sexy little number from Brevity