I dreamed couple days ago that I got my ears pierced. And I actually looked good with earrings on! Hm.. What does this mean? I’ve been kinda thinking about getting my ears pierced just because I think the earrings nowadays are so pretty.. you know, the long, dangly kinds. Is my dream trying to tell me something? Do I really want to make that irrevocable change? Who knows..
Heh.. I’ve been so preoccupied with work that I haven’t been keeping my promise of creating an artwork everyday. But that’s just an excuse, of course. Anyway, instead of an ‘artwork,’ whatever that may be, I present you my latest experiment in crafts! Ta da~
It is a pin cushion! I made it using a tiny copper pan and some wool fabric I salvaged from Matt’s old slipper bag. I knew I wanted to embroider it somehow, so I learned how to make French and German knots. Cool, huh. And don’t forget to check out the beads! They’re from my mom… What do you think? I think it turned out great! A little messy around the edges because I was a little inexperineced with the hot glue gun.. But that’s okay.. I’m happy with the results. 
Now, I have to actually start using this thing.. Maybe I’ll make some embroidered buttons. Stay tuned!
Happy belated Valentine’s Day~!
I made this card for Matt. Unfortunately, he was out of town on a business trip to Tennessee on the 14th, so I’m posting its picture now. It was my first time trying embroidery on paper. It was simple but I had to make sure not to stitch too close together because otherwise, I’d make a huge whole in the paper.
These are some sugar cookies I baked for Valentine’s Day.
First time baking cookies from scratch! I learned that beating butter and sugar is not for my weak arms. -_-;; Dipping them in chocolate glaze was fun. Heh.. Check out the little bumps. I guess my chocolate glaze wasn’t uniform enough. 
I know I haven’t been blogging at all recently.. And I admit, I haven’t been creating artwork everyday. So far, I missed two days.. 
But that’s okay because what I’m about to show you all are fantastic. *cough*
This is a quick experiment in making very textured linework. It reminds me of watercolor projects I did when I was in kindergarten. I would draw with crayons and color with watercolor. The crayons would repel water, so the linework always showed through.
Here I used a blue oil pastel to draw the umbrellas. Then I quickly colored with watercolor, scanned, and filled the umbrellas with some color using Photoshop. Done in Maruman CARnet sketchbook.
Tomorrow, I’ll show you a Valentine’s Day special. It’s all done and scanned. But you’ll have to wait!
I’m on a roll!
This is, if you will, the ‘opposite’ of my previous artwork. I just saved the pieces of paper left over from cutting out the shape of the branch (negative spaces) and used them to make this piece. Cool! The patterns are from a collage of papers from a clothing catalogue, and the white dots are white opaque watercolor.
This is how both of them look together in my sketchbook:
Ah, my dear skeptical readers, I’m happy to report that I’ve done all of the things I promised yesterday. Yep, I sure did! And here is my artwork:
I’ve always wanted to do this.. making a silhouette by cutting out a piece of paper.. It forces you to focus on shape design. What do you think? 
For those who keep up with my pictures, you’ll notice that the design is directly from this picture I took. You gotta love photographic references.
The scalloped edge is made by a Fiskars paper edger.. What a piece of junk! Maybe I got a defective product but its quality plain sucks. -_-;;
Publicly announcing these might come back and bite me some day but might as well do it.
So here they are, things I promise to do everyday:
1. Create an artwork. Any kind of artwork. Expect to see them here.
2. Sit-ups and push-ups. One more than the previous day.
3. Lift weights (for my weak arms).
4. Read. Anything. Anything but stuff on the web.
5. Make at least a page of sketches. This is different from #1 in that this is for brainstorming and bigger projects.
6. Write a diary.
7. Rock out ’cause I’m a Guitar Hero. Just kidding.
You think these are realistic goals? I think so.
If you’d like, you can bother me about them everyday.
Reminders are always welcome.