Yellow Duck Round tag ( and I'm back :-)

It's a relief that I finally completed all my work project in time without so much problems. Well, there were some fuss about editing artwork before sending out for printing but it's just common problems for book design work, I guess.

Hmm...I don't know what I should write on this blog right now. My life in the past weeks seemed all about work. It's a bit surprising that I could finish reading 2 books during the time though. I got really stressed with the works and, besides sleeping, reading was the only way I could escape. I wish I could draw but I felt like I used up all my creative energy with my day work so at night I enjoyed other people's creativity instead :-)

There was a horrible moment during the weeks though. I think people from all over the world are praying for Japan right now. It's really a horrific news especially when I watched the tsunami washing away the city, not knowing where my sister, who was on a trip in Japan, was at the time. It turned out that, luckily, she was in the tsunami warning area but not the major one where the catastrophe struck hard. She's back home now, safe and sound but we still feel so sad about what happened over there. Just hope that Japan will recover from this hard time very soon.

Oops, I almost forgot to tell you that I have just added my new items on MerryDay shop The Yellow Duck round tag is my favorite. You can take a look at the details here:

Yellow Duck Round gift tags

Thanks for coming. Have a merry day :-)

Merry Phoenix

Something drawn during work breaks. Some kind of Phoenix with a promising, merry next life?, I guess. Love the fluorescent yellow :-)

Baby Duck Bath bookplate and stickers

Two more items I have just added on my shop. Baby Yellow Duck personalized bookplate and Yellow Duck Stamp Stickers.

I love making bookplates. I feel happy when someone buy it and has it personalized with someone else's name. It reminds me of my best friend who bought me Barnes & Noble's gift voucher. With such book-related gifts, what else could make book lovers happier?

The stamp sticker is another thing that I enjoy doing. It requires more labor in the cutting part. Have I told you yet that all my items are homemade? I print everything from my Epson printer and cut and make envelopes by myself. This way I can control color quality and I can experiment with different kinds of paper easily.

Anyway, I used to collect stickers years ago and before that when I was a kid, my sister, my brother and I had a bedroom door full of stickers. You know...the way kids put stickers on their stuffs but we had the whole door panel! It's very pretty, I have to say, with all colorful stickers attached neatly on the panel by my sister.

I moved out from that house some twenty years ago. My cousin's family stays in that house now and the door is still there. Sometimes, I just think that we should have brought that door with us too. It's an art piece and our childhood memory :-D

There will be more stamp stickers coming in this 10 Million Love collection If all goes well, I plan to have more stamp design because I really love the format and the words, 10 Million Love, don't you?

Thanks for coming and commenting. I may be a bit quiet but I'm still here :-)

As always, have a merry day!

Introducing 10 Million Love design collection

Today I have just put some new items on my shop. Not sure if you remember my baby bath illustration I posted last year. This yellow duck comes from that illustration. I fixed some part of the girl's face, make her cuter and put brown background. I think you know how much I love brown paper by now :-).

Then I thought this illustration could be played with. I could make it into a bigger collection. I started this design last year and it took me very looong time to complete with all other things getting in the way. Now I have finished the whole collection.

I proudly present you my very first design collection called '10 Million Love'!.

The wording came to me when I was designing a card for my friend. She wanted a matching stamp sticker to go with the card. So, I put the number 10 on the design as a start and then the words 'million love' just popped in my head. I thought it sounded sweet and simple and I could play with the types very easily too.

I'm so crazy with this design that I actually made 10 items for this collection! I spent my whole last Sunday taking photos of all the items like crazy. I got really exhausted after that!

Right now I have just listed 2 items on my shop. Can't wait to list more but I need to find time in between my book jobs though.

You can see more pictures of this collection but right now I only have 2 items on my shop here:

10 Million Love Gift Card

10 Million Love Sticker Tags

What do you think of this collection? Do you have any stationery items you would like to see in this collection?

I'm very excited with this new design, I hope you do too.
Thanks for coming. I wish you a merry day!

Sketchbook : friendship is a sheltering tree

I'm super busy again. But I will try drawing at night :-)

I want to stop the time...

That's what I thought this morning, to pause the clock and do whatever I want to do with no care of job deadline or future success.

Right now I just want to...

Read a good book.
Enjoy good blogs.
Watch some nice tv programs.
Oh...need to have my hair cut too :-)

I may or may not be back to work this afternoon.
Just let me have slow life period this very moment.

Be it a slow Monday :-)

Some more sketches

Have you ever been like me? Have tons of ideas going on in your brain but zero energy to work more on computer to create things. That happens to me right now and I'm feeling a bit frustrated :-( But I guess I have to take care of my health first. Going to take a rest. Charge my work battery for next week. Enjoy my weekend! :-D

By the way, I did my friend-theme sketch at night. I intended to have only black and red but, with poor light, I mistook blue as black! Well...I guess it still looks OK :-P

I'm going off line to sit back, relax and read something now. What are you going to do this weekend?

Oh...almost forgot. My Merry Rabbit bookplate got to Etsy front page yesterday! It's the first time for my shop, so excited! ;-D