Chelsea's wedding invitation

Being a slacker for a while, I knew the next post has to be an exciting one!

Here comes the freshly designed and hand-printed wedding invitations for Chelsea and Matt!


Chelsea came to me and asked if I would be interested in designing wedding invitation for her. Hell yes! Sure I am interested! She likes a simple invitation with drawing of herself, Matt and their kitty. After a few conversation understanding her wedding style is causal and fun, I suggest screen printing the invitation, as it gives the same human touch and uniqueness, but more cost effective than letterpress.



The best part of this project? The illustration! I understand what Chelsea was looking for and got on the right track all the way. The final illustration was actually the first sketch!

Project overview

Description: 5 x 7 wedding invitations
Client: Chelsea Hare
Date: August 2010
Quantity produced: 135
Time: 2 weeks
Print method: Screen printed

Give me a shout if you are interested!

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Knitting fishy is back!

織織覆織織，魚仔係0禁織。

是的，天寒地凍，又是織女回歸時！今年挑戰棒針，雖然要花多些時間，但棒針織出來的始終細密精緻一點，誰叫我向來沒法抗拒精細的東西呢！

目前已完成了淑女小圓帽，用了５支4號針織出來，還滿有成就感。

2009:


2008:



Here is some useful reference:

Knitting terminology in English, Chinese and Japaneses

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random illustration

I always love illustration.

But for some reason, I feel hesitated to sit down and start doodling. It's been easier for me to make bread from scratch than to start drawing on papers. (Yeah, I am weird....)

Fortunately it has been changed since I start working in Seattle. The opportunity to do illustration at work really get me started, and I have been trying different things to expand my illustration skill.

Here are some random stuff I did last year (click to see the illustration in actual size):

A for ada

Didn't really have much going on in my mind during the process, it was more like to visualize an emotion, a feeling or an atmosphere.

Fishy as yujai

Yujai = little fishy in Cantonese. I love drawing fishy, I guess I just love everything that can flow freely :D

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Wall arts: my little octopuses 塗鴉: 我的小小八爪魚

Most people in my team at work were extremely busy and not being creative for past 3 months. We were hoping to do something fun and interesting to keep the creativity juice flowing.

So here is our first project: painting the walls in our area.

I was extremely excited about drawing on wall since I wanted to do this so long (see messing up the walls) but I just cannot do that to my room because all the walls in the house has texture!!!! ARRRRRHHHH!!!




It's been a tough 4 months for me, but this drawing just make me feel goooooooood! I have a simile every time I walk back to my desk :D Creating a piece in large scale just make me feels happy!

In the meanwhile, I am planning to develop my little octopuses collection. First thing would a tee on threadless.com :D Vote for me! (will post that once I submit the design)

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Happy new year! 合皮扭耳!

終於我把去年尾欠下的食譜債都還清了!好~感~動~~!!

事實証明我是有進行各式各樣的廚房活動的，只是太忙又沒心情整理而已，花了半天才弄好喔！我已經又有好幾道甜點想做了，希望接下來不要太忙......(這絕對是妄想....不用加班就該偷笑了)

好啦，今天就先來點好玩的，最近我又回歸織女之路，聖誕節時做了一對hand warmer喔！花俏的我0丫，雙色還花邊呢！早上開車就不怕雙手變凍柑了～現在正鉤同色冷帽，完成就可以合成一套，或者明年可以挑戰織針織手套！以前魚媽媽差不多年年都教我編織，我又年年都忘記。去年終於有時間自行研究，邊看邊學就學懂了，難怪以前上課聽不懂，還是自己看書才明白！

My favorite needle crafts sites

Creative yarn :: creativeyarn.blogspot.com
knitty :: knitty.com
Gourmet Amigurumi :: www.gourmetamigurumi.com/
Ravelry :: www.ravelry.com

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