recipes and projects

Ina's been busy, ya'll. She made some recipe cards! Scanned and printed on..umm..nice paper. :)
A close up of those adorable little kitchen utensils.

For sale now!

love is the movement

A bag I made last month. Well, a bag I designed. I think the actual bag was sewn by my mom, some 5 years ago.

I'm so sorry, you guys. A BIG thank you to everyone who liked it, but it isn't for sale. At least, not with the letters arranged like that. I researched and found out that the design belongs to To Write Love On Her Arms, and they have it on hoodies and shirts and things. So I can't sell it. BUT... I can write something else, whatever you want. Completely customized.

Yay.

pears and whales and cherries

I've been crocheting recently, as you can see.

This is a cherry necklace. I love wearable fruit. And.. it's only 80 pesos! At least, that's my approximation of what the cost should be. It's pretty hard, crocheting so small. But please tell me your "price thoughts"! I'd love to hear them. I may change the string to chain. I don't know. But personally, I like the red string.
A pear! So adorable. Num num num.
Also a whale. Which Ina wants to hang from a mobile along with other different colored whales. A close up of my cherries..

So there.

My crocheting soundtrack:

All Time Low: Dear Maria
We The Kings: Check Yes Juliet
Katy Perry: I Kissed A Girl
Miley Cyrus: 7 Things
McFly: One For The Radio
Melee: Built To Last

It's kind of a weird mix, looking at it now.

teddy bears

Here's my very first teddy bear attempt ever. I think he looks good, don't you think? Of course, the furry fabric hid all my messy stitching and seam closing bits.
But still. He is adorable, and so fuzzily huggable, too! I love 'im.

Here are some things I made a while back, but forgot to post.
This is Peanut. Is he not adorable? This is Peanut with his friend. They are chillin'.
In teacups. Empty teacups.

This is a business card holder I made for my watercolor teacher.

It's so owly.
And here are some bookplates. They fit perfectly in the holder, but it sort of doesn't make sense to bring bookplates around with you.
And this is my desk (before I fixed it). I'd put an 'after' picture, but when it's clean, it is boring.

Messy is more fun.

;]

hellooo...

Okay. Since you guys want to buy papercuts (which I didn't anticipate, even if I told you I'd sell), I have some info.

1. Papercuts are the size of a piece of bond paper. 8 1/2 by 11 inches.

2. Tell me first what you want on it, and I can raise or lower the price according to how hard it will be to cut. I know right. Teeeeechnical.

3. This original artwork design (which you get to keep) can also be made into notecards and greeting cards and gift tags.



*happy dance on having accomplished something*
Yay.

papercuts

Nes-tuh-lay! Here's yours. I know you've waited a while. Hope you like it. :)
This second one was inspired by a song of McFly's. (of course.) It's called Star Girl, and it's currently my favorite "happy song". :D

I love this cut, too, even if I made a mistake. Eep. But you can still buy it, or anything else you want. just tell me, and if it is even remotely possible to make it a papercut, you bet me and my trusty x-acto knife will get it done. 'Cause that's how we roll.
"Galaxy defender, stay forever.. I'll never get enough of you." <3

reading

Sometimes, the world goes on without me.

you need flour for doughnuts

Here's that Abercrombie shirt I scored in an overruns rack the other day. I keep telling myself I won't buy tshirts, but my old ones are sort of disintegrating, and I couldn't resist this one. It fits perfectly, and it's navy! I'm kind of obsessed with navy blue right now. A close up of my necklaces: the guitar one is from Yela, of course. I miss you amiga! And the doughnut (eeee!) is from Ina. I came home one day, and she said, "Look what I made for you!" It's so adorable. How can I resist doughnut jewelery?
Here's me with my sisters, who I love to death. (Occasionally in the literal manner.)

Here are some flour sacks I found being sold for five bucks in a bakeshop in Santa Rosa. I haven't the slightest clue as to what to do with them, but I'm sure I'll figure something out. To test clothing patterns on, for instance.

I love the printing on the front.

Me in my shirt, and my shorts (remember them?) that I made, and a pair of black stockings my mom found in her closet. Haha. I was dripping sweat when Ina took this. I thought it was supposed to be the rainy season?

crocheted sea

A necklace I made about, hmm, a year ago? I completely forgot about it, because as cute as it is, choker necklaces aren't all that comfortable for me. It's an entirely original idea, which makes me feel happy. Haha. I crocheted it, then sewed on the beads and stuff. Here's a close up:


Yes, the blue thread is a weird color choice, I know. But I wasn't really thinking, and I'm always impatient with these things, assuming that no one will look at it up close anyway.

At least it isn't, you know, orange.

my shorts!

Here are those jeans-to-shorts I worked on recently! I'm so proud. *grins*

These were a pair of capris, which fit perfectly well, but were really weirdly flared at the ends, just above the ankles, and it looked really strange. And after a few fruitless trips to the mall, trying to find a cute pair of shorts that were also cheap, I decided to make my own. (I mean, the ones I wanted in Kamiseta were 800 pesos! I can't spare that for shorts!)

Here's how they look. Sorry I don't have any "before" pictures, I wasn't able to borrow a camera yet.

Here's a close up of my spontaneous embroidery on the pocket: Look at my tabs! Oooooohh, yeah.

Close up of the vintage buttons Mom never got around to using:

Tadah! Possibly my best clothing reconstructing project ever.

Now I have shorts! Thank goodness.

balloons

"One day he (the mouse) decided he needed to go for a vacation. And so he did."


Sorry, but that program that automatically crops scanned images is on a weird mood swing. So maybe ya'll can just squint at it.

I like it. Not immensely, but I like it.

wall art

Here is that big papercut that I sprained my finger working on (remember that?). Anyway. Its been done for a while now, I was just able to take a picture of it a few days ago. I think it looks nice in our house. Look.
So yes. That is where it hangs. Our nice cd player has expired, since Ina plugged it into an outlet and didn't check the voltage, so we have that in our living room. It isn'r so bad, the other one just looked..better.

Watch out for more of my paper stuff and *drumroll* a collaboration with one of my favorite people, Ms. Isabel Hernandez! Hahaha. I'm so excited, I could pee.

Later! <3

scherenschnitte

I'm very proud of this first one, I have to say. Haha. It was an idea that came while eating lunch. I sketched it right then, and cut for about and hour and a half. I think it came out really good, for a complicated drawing.
This is actually Ina's. I drew the people, and she went on from there. She's pretty good, don't you think?
This was Ina's request. She had written a song called "Little Bird", and she wanted me to illustrate a line from the song. The drawing was all from her brain, except for the little kerchief-on-a-stick bag. I was quite bent on putting that in. Haha.

The colors are actually pretty bright and vivid, they just kinda got lost in translation from the paper to the scanner. :P

Bunny!

Adorable, isn't he?

La-dee-dah.

the scrap bag

I dug into the cloth pile and came up with this. Ruby. Isn't she just the cutest?

I had the hardest time with her clothes. It isn't really a dress, it's more like a blouse, a skirt, and a sash. Still, I think it's a pretty decent first go at it.

I think I'll have to make a new one though, now I know how to. And I'll have to give her more hair.

Here is Ina modeling the armwarmers I made recently. I tweaked a pattern that I had. Woolly armwarmers just don't work well in the Philippine summertime.

I love the scallop-y parts on the top. Haha.

I know, these are absurdly bad pictures. But, don't you mind. I am praying hard for a new camera. And then I will post all the wonderfully lighted photographs that I can.

pretty pretty.

envelopes

Here are the envelope pictures I promised! Ta-daaah!

cap it off

1. Here's a cap I painted recently for a friend! (yay.)

2. And then a shirt I painted for another friend. (I wanted to keep it, but it wouldn't be much use, it's too big.) If you close up on it, the speaker's mesh part is really a Psalm. :)