Magnetic Bookmark

Just recently I stumbled upon a Instagram account that sells this super cute Magnetic Bookmarks. The artist and online store is @craftedvan, the store idea is making their own version of known characters like Harry Potter and his friends, Up, , and even Sailor Moon and the Sailor Warriors (actually this is the set that I want to purchase).

Unfortunately, the problem is their online store is based on Canada. Though they have an Etsy store for international clients. But calculating it and knowing the price of the item and also adding the shipping cost from Canada to Philippines, it would be too expensive just for a Magnetic Bookmark. 

That is why I decided to make one for myself, I also search the internet if there are other online crafters in the Philippines, who makes and sells this kind of bookmark. After looking into it, I found that there aren't any seller magnetic bookmark here. So I decided to make one, being a crafter myself.

This is my first collection sketch. 

Inspirational Business eMentor

I stumbled upon a website that blogs about online business tips and guides, at that time my online business had just started. I was searching for tips and guides for my online business to be more productive and to be able to give my customers good service and product. So  I naturally subscribed to his blog to get up-to-date tips on online business.

My Cup of Tea

My background on tea drinking:
Being brought up in a Chinese family, drinking tea is more of a usual thing more often when eating in a tea house and eating dimsums. Though I didn't notice it at first, I came to like drinking strong bitter tea flavors, because most tea that were served in tea house had very strong and distinct taste like black tea, oolong tea and etc.

I got used it the strong flavors and bitterness of the tea. The more bitter it is, the more I like it. But recently, I'm more obsessed with tea, due to the fact that I can't drink coffee anymore because of my very acidic stomach huhu... *crying inside*.

Never the less, whenever I see a shop that sells different favored teas and in a very cute packaging (must be eye catching!) I confess that I always make it a point to buy at least 1 box. Certified Teaholic! I also make it a point to try various tea flavors for variation and also to really know what tea that I really like to drink.

CLIPPER TEA

Organic Chamomile (left) Organic Green Tea (right)

My Funko Pop Girls

Since I'm a total fan of Game of Thrones, my Brickhead (a.k.a my boyfriend), had gave me a Daenerys Targaryen for our Anniversary last year. I super loved it. Now I'm looking for Khal Drogo for her to be partnered with. The thing that we didn't realize is that looking for a Khal Drogo Pop! would be that difficult. Here in the Philippines, there aren't much seller of Pop! figures and that Khal Drogo is more of a limited stock here. So up to now we are still looking for his husband...... Hopefully we'll find him soon, for them to be reunited (even just in my collection) Savage Love

Khal Drogo" Moon of My Life" to Khaleesi

Khaleesi "My Sun and Stars" to Khal 

"You are the moon of my life, that's all I know and all I need to know, and if this is a dream, I will kill the man who tries to wake me." -Khal Drogo to Daenerys Targaryan a.k.a Khaleesi

Stamp Carving Bonanza

Been doing stamp carving out or rubber materials since December last year. I started this hobby to help me relax myself from my regular work and freelance works. Stamp carving had helped me soothe my stress away and had help me to concentrate on doing one thing at a time since by nature I'm more of a multi-tasker. My intricate designs were inspired by Ms. Cynthia Arres, a Filipino Illustrator, I was looking for a tutorial using Xacto knife, when I stumbled her very useful and practical step by step guide in her blog.

 Since then I have already made maybe more than 20 stamps from easy to complicated design. Hoping to practice more to be able to carve lettering and intricate works more defined.

Here are some of my recent works and some commissioned works

 

Mini Workshop: 1 on 1

Last week, my best friend told me that her mom is interested in learning how to carve a rubber stamp; because I gave my friend a personalized rubber stamp (made from simple eraser) as a gift last christmas. She (my best friend's mom) was thinking that it would be a good hobby to do, so I accepted and said that I would be very delighted to be able to share my knowledge on rubber stamping. 

So we arranged to have our mini 1 on 1 workshop at their house yesterday, at first I was a bit awkward because it is the first that I would teach other people about my knowledge and thoughts on stamp carving. Truthfully, I'm still not an expert on this hobby because up until now I'm just using Xacto cutter and box cutter as my tools and not the usual Speedball Linoleum cutter, because for me it is still expensive and I still need to save some money to buy it; also here in the Philippines, Speedball products are still not readily available in the market. But hopefully in the future I may be able to buy one and be able to make a rubber stamp design out of it (fingers crossed....x x).