Watercolor Painting

I haven't done painting for so long since I started using computer creating logos and illustrations. I really missd it and so here's my first watercolor painting ever. I love this picture of my boys and since I couldn't do realistic painting...I went with line art/cartoon style instead. Result? Still needed a lot more practice, but not bad for my first try :P

Scarf for the Winter

As promised, here's one of my winter projects I did. Scarf made from recycled t-shirts and sweaters. I love the colors and how it turned out but it's a little too long.

Woot! Woot!

I went hang out with my friend a few days ago and she told me about weekly t-shirt contest at woot. So I'm giving it a try. Contest theme this week is Heart! I actually thought of "Heart beats" with heart playing drums, but someone else already did a good job on that one. (After I spent so much time working on it) Oh well, so I guess I have to stick with my own drawing style. Here is my new one, There's no place. I used my old image of kiwi mama and baby... If you think I deserve it, please vote for me :)

Here we go...

I just ordered fabric samples a few minutes ago. It should take about a week until I receive them. Here are my new and old patterns that I will start for my new fabric shop. Still can't think of a name... I'll take photos of the samples once I get them.... can't wait!

Catching Up

Happy New Year! I guess it's not too late to say that since it's not the end of January yet. As always, I'm so behind with uploading new projects that are probably old now plus I forgot how many things I've done for the last few months. I promise to find the pictures of all things soon. For now, check out my new creations from Spoonflower I'm planning to open a new etsy store just for fabrics. I'm excited just thinking about it... will let you know soon. :)

Coco Chanel

Introducing our new addition to the family, Coco Chanel! She is the sweetest thing I've ever seen. We adopted her from the shelter last Thursday and already she feels so comfortable hopping around the house and greeting visitors. Kaya starts drawing a lot of bunny pictures lately, he really adores her. What a sweet life :)

Stickers

As promised, here is my new promotion tool. Stickers of five of my all time favorite characters, Geekzilla, Hug Bunny, Narwhal, Fancy Peacock and of course Sweet Owl. Now I have something to give to the little ones that always come check out my table at craft shows. Plus I have to send in swag to Secret Society. They're giving away Chinese boxes full of goodies to the first 200 people who enter the show. I'll post more info later.

Messy room

Argggg.... I need to be more organized! Too many things to do and I kept moving on to the next project, one after the other before getting the old ones done. Result? here's what my room looked like. It's clean up time. I still have to run to Fedex office to print out stickers. (I'll show you tomorrow) Also need to print more mini stationery and notecards for this Wednesday. I have an appointment with this new stationery shop on Hawthorne...hopefully things would go well. Alright, gotta get rid of this messy room.

Doll Patterns

Again, Spoonflower has another fun contest. I applied my lovely owl pattern for the contest, of course. I also just ordered 2 yards of owl pattern to make my own dolls for Holiday craft shows and for gifts. Can't wait to see it! Anyway, if you're interested in submitting your own design, you still have time until Monday, Oct.19th. You can read all about it here. So hurry!

Spoonflower is the best!

Here is my very own fabric! Thanks so much Spoonflower for my prize. I haven't really figured out what to do with this 5 yards fabric, so my son asked if I could make him plush pirate and black cat for now... Not a bad idea actually. :)

Happy Birthday to the love of my life!

Hang Tags Series

Holiday season is coming our way, I have fun hang tags for everyone! Well, three so far; pirate, cupcake, sushi and a lot more to come!

IF - pattern

Hello Illustration Friday, I'm back! It's funny I decided to check IF today (after a year) and saw 'pattern' as this week's topic. It's just exactly what I'm interested in right now. I'd love to create some crazy fabric patterns someday (when I learn how.) So here is one of my favorite patterns I recently created. It has my favorite color and animal on it. I call it 'Bunny Wood'.

Card holder on Etsy, finally!

I've thought for a long time if I should list card holder
on etsy or not...as well as my aprons... Since I particularly set this shop up for stationery and graphic design services only, it seems too weird to have other things rather than paper goods on there. Oh well, it's an experiment because my sales have gone down for the last two years (I also kinda ignored it.) I finally try to maintain my shop again with new banner and new products. Hopefully, my efforts will make Sweet Bonny shop take off before the end of the year. Wish me luck, guys :)

Work in process!

An apron to be sewn, card holders to be done and windows to be scratched. I still have a few more projects I want to do but I need these done before I can start anything else. (Don't forget about house to be cleaned, food to be cooked, plants to be watered, laundry and dishes to be washed and what else?!?!?)

Presents of Mind Shop

I'm excited to announce that Presents of Mind
shop on Hawthorne will be carried my stuff pretty soon. This is the best gift shop in Portland, you can find so many local arts and crafts from stationery to jewelry. I always get lost in there. If you ever come visit Portland, don't forget to go to Presents of Mind. ;)

My five designs

Ninja Mew Mew, hawthorne PDX, Pirate Pete, coffee 'n bagel and Bunny Wood. Wish me luck!

Design a Sock Contest!!!!

I love love love Sock It To Me socks, they are the cutest. Carrie (owner) hired me and two other freelancers to design socks in 2006 and she picked these designs from me; peace and love and broken heart. I'm excited every time I see them in the stores.

Anyway, this is the third year they're having an annual contest (somehow I just found out this year.) Too bad, you can only be Portland residents to enter, blog here. Though don't feel bad, they also have an on going design a sock contest here. Check out their website and you will fall in love with those knee highs socks too :)

2010 calendar is here!

It's here! Announcing mini 2010 calendar. You can purchase one of your own here

I won the weekly fabric design contest, yay!

I hardly ever win anything, so this really makes me happy! Thank you Spoonflower and everyone who voted for me :) I feel motivated to create all day today. You can check it out here