My new hand-drawn moo t-shirt :)

It's summer now, I wanted to have my unique t-shirt for 2010. But how to get it unique? We end up with the idea of drawing my own t-shirt. Recently, moo is my favourite, I even have one drawn on my paddle :) So, I wanted one on my new t-shirt as well.

First of all, we did some moo sketches on recycled paper to develop the idea:
I quite like this one, because it's cute, sweet, and fat, haha! So, this will be my moo:

Next, we drew it onto the new white cotton t-shirt I got rcently:

Finished! Isn't it cute? :D

Here's how my new moo t-shirt looked after I permanently set the drawing, so, it's washable now :D

I would love to see your hand-drawn t-shirt, or if you prefer this kind of hand-drawn t-shirt will be available in my shop in October :)

4 new series to join the color pencil ear studs

This collection, PENCIL LOVER, is inspired by one of my childhood hobbies, collecting color pencils sets. I found that looking at them could always put a smile on my face. Recently, the idea of transfering them to be wearable jewelry pushed me to create this brand new collection, PENCIL LOVER. I hope they could also bring other people smiles :)

Yesterday, I got 4 more series to join the collection.
They are the purple/blue series:
the orange, magenta and red series:

the neutral collor series:

the purple/pink series:

and there will be one more to come either later today or tomorrow :)

Diameter of the studs: 7mm (9/32 inch)

Thickness of the studs: 6mm (7/32 inch)

Materials: color pencils, silver, and surgical steel

They are available from my etsy jewelry shop now:

http://www.huiyitan.etsy.com/

our 4th launch was in Marazion, Sounth West Cornwall

There's a small tidal island in west Cornwall called St Michael's Mount. At low tide, the island is walkable from the beautiful town of Marazion. To launch our kayak, we went there when the tide was high. Because we were facing the wind, it took us 35 min to paddle from where we parked to the nearest point of the island, and 25 min back. It was great fun!! After exploring in the sun for 4 hours, I am TAN now :)

St Michael's Mount at high tide yesterday:

Kayaking

Summer is the most exciting time in Cornwall: lovely sunshine, blue sky, wild flowers, golden beaches, juicy fruits... and of course it's boating time ^0^
This is how I look (a bit silly? I know, haha) when the Cornish weather allows me to have an adventure:
It has been 3 times since this spring. Fingers crossed that the coming Sunday is a sunny and no-wind day, so it could be launched again for St Michaels Mount :)

I was stared by Cornish cows :p

When I took this picture, these 3 cows stood in a line and stared at me at the same time. Why? I guess that's the specil cow way to say 'HI'? So...HI~~~~~~ ^_^

2 more treasuries to feature designers/artists based in the UK

There are many genius designers/artists in the UK. These are the handpicked work from them:

MADE IN THE UK (I):
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bf3df544d168eef637246ea/made-in-the-uk-i
MADE IN THE UK (II):
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bf3e3db4d168eef62e046ea/made-in-the-uk-ii

my small shandy bottles

These 25cl shandy bottles remind me the green version of small milk bottles :)

color pencil ear studs (the yellow/green and yellow/brown series)

These color pencil ear studs were first made in green/blue. Then few days ago, a friend asked me if I could make those color pencil ear studs in yellow, so here are the yellow/brown and yellow/green series, see if you could find the color(s) you like :):

DISCRIPTION:

Diameter of the studs: 7mm
Thickness of the studs: 6mm

Materials: color pencils, silver, and surgical steel

THEY ARE AVAILABLE FROM MY ETSY SHOP NOW:
http://www.huiyitan.etsy.com/

my mung bean sprouts

3 days ago, I imersed the mung beans in water. Look at them now, look at these healthy babies now:

I will keep updating :)

am so excited that I managed to do 2 more treasuries today

One is called SILK, it's a collection showing everything made of silk. It's a very interesting treasury. Aritists/designers are from all around the world:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bee6ea94d168eefb044cde9/silk

And here is another collection called ORANGE LOVE. Everything is in rich orange, from soap to origianl painting:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bee8cc815706d9124848ac7/orange-love

my mini Cornish garden

Recently, I picked up some small plants around Cornwall and put them in my tiny pot. Some of them are from a cliff, some of them are from a wall, some of them are from a beach. As you could see, some of them are still stuggling after the recent move, but some of them have settled down and are blooming :D
Anyway, Here I present my small Cornish garden:

PENCIL LOVERS (a collection about pencil)

do u know pencils could be used in many ways? here is a collection showing what artists around the world think:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bebcb582d6e8eef071344b3/pencil-lovers?sort=hotness&order=desc

just manage to make my FIRST treasury :)

Thanks for Krishenka's encourage, I made my first treasury:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4beab60355bf8eeffb757225/we-love-flowers

handmade card with matched envelope

This lovely card is handmade by artist sassa lynne. It is blank inside, so you could write your personal message :)

Size of the card: 7.5 cm W x 21.5 cm LMore works from this artist could be seen at http://www.sassalynne.etsy.com/ and http://www.sassalynne.com/