Friday, 13 January 2012
CNY huat special
Fabric Frames - Made by Hand
These frames use high quality cloth and accesorries. It's a perfect gift for you to peg up your favourite photos and present it to your loved ones!
Grab the limited edition ASAP. Only 6 pieces. You can get to choose a pack of cute pegs to go along with the frame! $20 each or buy more for more discount!
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Special cards for everyone!
It's Wednesday! Are you ready for TGIF? Check out my latest baked cards. I had inspiration to make use of several animals-print papers, as well as using different coloured card stocks!
Hope to see you on Friday!
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| Freshly made yesterday. Hope you like them! |
Friday, 6 January 2012
Photos in 5Rs and 8Rs
Yummilicious :)
Love the print out quality . Hope you all like it too!
What's your favourite shot?
Love the print out quality . Hope you all like it too!
What's your favourite shot?
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Handmade Postcards - With Love, Joy and CNY mood
These are my latest creations of 2012. I decided to handmade postcard size items. These are 4R size and I came up with a few themes. Let me know which ones are your favourites! I decided to get my favourite Doraemon + Dragon Doraemon as my models for the CNY cards. Afterall, it is the Dragon Year!
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| Chinese New Year postcards, finished with the little Chinese festive stamps at the corners of the cards. caption |
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| The other series with little Red Ang Pow packet! |
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| Cutesy ones for those who heart little animals. |
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| Do you have need a Birthday postcard? Love the cupcakes. Afterall, cupcakes are popular these days! |
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| Wedding bells! I made several Vintage themed wedding cards as well as some funky ones too! |
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| V'day is coming soon. It is also known as International Friendship Day! For all occasions! |
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| Hello Postcards. Meant for the minimalist folks. |
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Lolli postcards ! New line of products
I was inspired by my very own photo postcards. Hence decided to make my own series of postcard-size cards! It's single side without any folds. I am trying stamp a nice border at the back and make it feel like a real postcard !
Ok what's in the air? Hmm BBQ bak gwa (dried meat slices) , love letters and pineapple tarts? Haha yeah Chinese New Year is round the corner. I am trying to make some CNY postcards and Valentine's day ones. Do you know Feb 14 is also International Friendship Day?
Speaking of that I better send some cute ones to my friends that are based overseas! Haha
Here's some creations I made today.
Ok what's in the air? Hmm BBQ bak gwa (dried meat slices) , love letters and pineapple tarts? Haha yeah Chinese New Year is round the corner. I am trying to make some CNY postcards and Valentine's day ones. Do you know Feb 14 is also International Friendship Day?
Speaking of that I better send some cute ones to my friends that are based overseas! Haha
Here's some creations I made today.
Who says Chinese New Year cards are boring?
Watch this space as I try my best to question conventions and traditions.
Don't you love these papers?
Don't you love these papers?
Friday, 30 December 2011
I heart 2011 (5 Key Takeaways)
It has been a blast. I will always remember 2011forever. This has been an eventful year for me as I made the biggest decision of my life to take a break from my former corporate job. Irrational as many would say. I'm a rebel in this regard for those who knows me. Life is too short for us to over think and ponder too much. It wasn't a hasty decision nonetheless, but one major decision I thought hard and thorough. I know I need to discover life further, beyond the regular paychecks and familiar terrain of Singapore in a comfort zone - Eat Pray Shoot Journey.
What are the takeaways from this year? There are a few key lessons I learnt so far.
1) Don't be afraid. Believe in your dreams. (Of course make a plan and not a half baked plan).
Remember no matter how much you plan, things do not go according to your A Plan. That's life! There were times I wondered if I have made the right choices. Sometimes the people who care about you the most are often the most critical ones. It is not as easy to be different in Singapore given the practical realities in Singapore (i.e 6th most expensive city in Asia!!!) and if you are not into getting the usual 5Cs you are different from the Usual Gang. Can you deal with the questioning and the look-of-wonders (Sometimes they even shake their heads!!!)? Hang on there, believe in your dreams. there will be other people who will back you up. Perhaps the dream will not be realised so quickily. We just have to have faith in ourselves! (Okay I know its easier to verbalise than to practise it in reality!!!)
2) Creativity doesn't have boundaries.
You are the only one who can limit your own creativity. I put an idea into place and came up with Peakstarz. I made 250 cards in the past 3 months (I tried not to repeat designs!). I played with different product ideas and still in the midst of doing so. Play with the idea and just do it. Don't try too hard squatting in the toilet for hours and hope that one good idea will come out of the squatting. You just have to take a walk or make a trip to somewhere. Sometimes I think of a card design while I am showering. (Please don't visualise that scene! Haha)
3) Keep talking to people about your ideas.
Network is key. I met many different people this year. In my old job, I would easily meet about a few hundreds of people in the finance industry. I didn't try too hard to find out more about things I would love to do and explore more options. I did in this break. Made new friends from all over the places I had visited (e.g Smart IT-Geeks, Artists, Bummers, Hostels owners, Designers and many more). Somehow you will realise when you try hard enough to convince people about what you love to do, they will help you out by pointing to a possible direction. Remember to listen to feedback as well! (Screen through them though as everyone always has something to say and perhaps more naggings :))
Note: Remember point #1. You reinforce the idea further!
4) Social Media is the way forward.
We have seen so many social and political transformations within this year. If you do not bother to learn the tools to stay connected and to be seen and heard, that's too bad. This is your personal choice. I am trying hard to stay connected as it helps me with Peakstarz and sharing my ideas across. Be heard or be left out. Take your pick!
5) Do not be a lazy bum.
Let me tell you that it is so easy to waste your day awake. I am guilty of that. I made several plans and sometimes due to external and environmental factors, plans did not materialise. If I were to do a break once again, I would plan it slightly better and perhaps set myself with more realistic goals. Of course everyone is free to do whatever they want in a break. The key point is to ask yourself what do you want to do out of this break? If you purely want a good rest, make sure you indeed have a good healthy rest and not make your body more tired with nonstop clubbing and late hours doing whatever that isn't helpful to your body. Glad I have different motivators who constantly remind me to do things that are important (according to my so-called plans). I must thank you guys for being the bad guys and nag at me nonstop. This is important as I know I would curse at myself for wasting time away once the break is over.
TBC->(Watch out for my next few entries on my memorable journey this year!)
What are the takeaways from this year? There are a few key lessons I learnt so far.
1) Don't be afraid. Believe in your dreams. (Of course make a plan and not a half baked plan).
Remember no matter how much you plan, things do not go according to your A Plan. That's life! There were times I wondered if I have made the right choices. Sometimes the people who care about you the most are often the most critical ones. It is not as easy to be different in Singapore given the practical realities in Singapore (i.e 6th most expensive city in Asia!!!) and if you are not into getting the usual 5Cs you are different from the Usual Gang. Can you deal with the questioning and the look-of-wonders (Sometimes they even shake their heads!!!)? Hang on there, believe in your dreams. there will be other people who will back you up. Perhaps the dream will not be realised so quickily. We just have to have faith in ourselves! (Okay I know its easier to verbalise than to practise it in reality!!!)
2) Creativity doesn't have boundaries.
You are the only one who can limit your own creativity. I put an idea into place and came up with Peakstarz. I made 250 cards in the past 3 months (I tried not to repeat designs!). I played with different product ideas and still in the midst of doing so. Play with the idea and just do it. Don't try too hard squatting in the toilet for hours and hope that one good idea will come out of the squatting. You just have to take a walk or make a trip to somewhere. Sometimes I think of a card design while I am showering. (Please don't visualise that scene! Haha)
3) Keep talking to people about your ideas.
Network is key. I met many different people this year. In my old job, I would easily meet about a few hundreds of people in the finance industry. I didn't try too hard to find out more about things I would love to do and explore more options. I did in this break. Made new friends from all over the places I had visited (e.g Smart IT-Geeks, Artists, Bummers, Hostels owners, Designers and many more). Somehow you will realise when you try hard enough to convince people about what you love to do, they will help you out by pointing to a possible direction. Remember to listen to feedback as well! (Screen through them though as everyone always has something to say and perhaps more naggings :))
Note: Remember point #1. You reinforce the idea further!
4) Social Media is the way forward.
We have seen so many social and political transformations within this year. If you do not bother to learn the tools to stay connected and to be seen and heard, that's too bad. This is your personal choice. I am trying hard to stay connected as it helps me with Peakstarz and sharing my ideas across. Be heard or be left out. Take your pick!
5) Do not be a lazy bum.
Let me tell you that it is so easy to waste your day awake. I am guilty of that. I made several plans and sometimes due to external and environmental factors, plans did not materialise. If I were to do a break once again, I would plan it slightly better and perhaps set myself with more realistic goals. Of course everyone is free to do whatever they want in a break. The key point is to ask yourself what do you want to do out of this break? If you purely want a good rest, make sure you indeed have a good healthy rest and not make your body more tired with nonstop clubbing and late hours doing whatever that isn't helpful to your body. Glad I have different motivators who constantly remind me to do things that are important (according to my so-called plans). I must thank you guys for being the bad guys and nag at me nonstop. This is important as I know I would curse at myself for wasting time away once the break is over.
TBC->(Watch out for my next few entries on my memorable journey this year!)
Monday, 12 December 2011
MAAD 9th Dec 2012
I had a great time at my most recent event. I am happy to meet new arty stall owners and exchanged some tips with them on different craft making techniques. In additional to that, it was a great experience to have an outdoor booth (despite the threat of the rainy weather) as there was a more regular crowd stopping and browsing my booth.
There was a X'mas costume party taking place at the Red Dot Museum. Hence I was pretty entertained by interesting characters that went past my booth. There were even 2 really good looking chaps clad in rockstar outfits who checked out my stall! They gave good comments and I was happy to explain my proudly made creations.
I noticed something funny. There were quite a few people who were looking at my photo postcards and wondered if I am the photographer who have taken these pictures. I explained a few times that I took a couple of trips this year and took some of these pictures. Until a point in time, I decided to stick a note at my postcard zone. "Yes, I took these pictures myself!". :) Perhaps people have the mindset that only guys are into photography. I'm not any expert but I do love photography! :)
Will look into printing my pictures in larger prints as the 4R photocards are a bit too tiny for some of them. I will put up some pictures and let everyone vote which picture they love the most!
Thanks for coming by my booth. My dad took away the little Sony camera which I have used it to snap some pictures of the booth. Please wait for a couple of days and I will upload the pictures of my booth! At this moment, I wish I have a better camera phone as it is much easier to upload on my blog/facebook/twitter.
Till next time. I will rework on my blog and reorganise everything! Thank you for your patience.
There was a X'mas costume party taking place at the Red Dot Museum. Hence I was pretty entertained by interesting characters that went past my booth. There were even 2 really good looking chaps clad in rockstar outfits who checked out my stall! They gave good comments and I was happy to explain my proudly made creations.
I noticed something funny. There were quite a few people who were looking at my photo postcards and wondered if I am the photographer who have taken these pictures. I explained a few times that I took a couple of trips this year and took some of these pictures. Until a point in time, I decided to stick a note at my postcard zone. "Yes, I took these pictures myself!". :) Perhaps people have the mindset that only guys are into photography. I'm not any expert but I do love photography! :)
Will look into printing my pictures in larger prints as the 4R photocards are a bit too tiny for some of them. I will put up some pictures and let everyone vote which picture they love the most!
Thanks for coming by my booth. My dad took away the little Sony camera which I have used it to snap some pictures of the booth. Please wait for a couple of days and I will upload the pictures of my booth! At this moment, I wish I have a better camera phone as it is much easier to upload on my blog/facebook/twitter.
Till next time. I will rework on my blog and reorganise everything! Thank you for your patience.
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| Proud of my little booth! |
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| Prety Happy with the little signboards I made and using losta scrap materials. |
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| Sunny Dolls for good weather (it kinda worked!) haha |
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| Photocards and Mini Cards |
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| Utilising the chair |
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| Little Helper |
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| Smile! |
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