Would any of you be interested in buying stickers? I know there aren't many of you who visit, but I need an outside opinion.

I have more than these prepped and ready to go but here are some examples of stickers I've cut:

Suite Case Stickers



Bike Sticker


They are all vinyl decals and should be placed on plastic, glass, or other hard surfaces.

Argh! I'm trying to set up my little swirly design as a repeat for printing (maybe spoonflower or maybe fabrics on demand). The design repeats perfectly in software but when I try to break it down into a square or rectangle I seem to be getting 1 pixel off.

This is from my desktop:


Would you like to try it? Please leave me a comment and I'll send you the file.

And how super, super cool is it that you can have fabric printed with your own design and now there are TWO companies doing it?

One of my favorite places in the blog world is Lollychops - She has such cute illustrations, free downloads, and a sweet, silly way of writing her posts.

Lolly is hosting Cupcake week with La Fuji Mama, a food blogger. I trapsed around La Fuji Mama's blog for a bit and stumbled upon her Earth week posts which featured a product from Jenny Playford, Furochic.

Jenny's illustrations are super cute and playful. She's taken furoshiki to a new level. Her pretty, yet non-traditional, designs are incorporated into the product. And I am drooling over them! Jenny also has a book coming out later this year about furoshiki called, Wrapagami.

Below is an image of one of her cards:


image is copyright 2009 Jennifer Playford

Many well wishes to Lolly - who will be having surgery this week. My thoughts will be with you.

no really....

I love this blog... Green with envy, I am

I finished my top today - after a much needed run to Michael Levine's. I seriously could not stand to be in the store because it was so crowded yesterday. I grabbed everything I needed as quickly as possible and sprinted to the check out. I bought:

1 spool of thread in a ocean aqua to match my shirt
5 yards of fold over elastic (for Angry Chicken's 5 minute skirt)
2 skeins of yarn.

Here's the final shirt as modeled by my couch:



Argh - I wish I could schedule posts! it totally annoys me that I have to post 3 things in one day and basically nothing during the week. Must upgrade!

Friday at work, I was quite annoyed that my computer was having problems that required 4+ reboots. My laptop is slower than slow when booting up so needless to say, I had some time on my hands. I decided to doodle...

here is the original:



And here is the resulting pattern:



comments are most welcome.. color suggestions...would you like this for your desktop....think I should print it?

over the last week or so I've slowly but surely made progress on a new sticker for my bike. Inspired by the saddle I got as a surprise from Husband, I diligently traced one of the motifs into Illustrator:



Here's how the final stickers came out:



I lost the flower stamens and one of the inner circles for the flower center but that is the issue with cutting it so small. The final sticker is only an 1.5 inches across.

If you are interested in the vector file, please let me know. I can't REALLY claim it as my own work since I copied from my saddle, but if you want it for personal use only, I'll happily email the ginormous Illustrator file. Use the "contact" link in the top of the nav to make the request.

Ginko Tree in Little Tokyo:







Graffiti in Larchmont Village:



My Dream condo (which is now for rent but WAY out of my price range):

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Right

Husband and I had a wonderful day today!

We decided to have an adventure and take really long bike ride to some place new. We choose the Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival.

We started on the train and went all the way out to South Pasadena, hopping off at the Mission street Station where we were greeted by this guy:



We bike about 6 miles from there through Alhambra to Monterey Park. Well - that's 6 miles according to our bike computers.

The festival was kind of a flop and did have nearly as much cultural stuff to do. Most of the booths were the kind of thing you regularly see at local city festivals with a few exceptions. The anime was scarce most of the booths had t-shirts and food.

The long ride was very enjoyable and Husband got some photos along the way. I got an image of a flower I hadn't seen before.



One of the biggest surprises was stopping at Taco Bell and actually really enjoying the meal. I love Taco Bell for fast food but the stores around my neighborhood aren't very good. It mostly has to do with the food preparation - it's sloppy, sauce every where, burritos falling apart, etc... Not at this store.





See - nice and neat!

I know I'm weird but Taco Bell got me through college and I have a really soft spot in my heart for the cheesy mexican food.

My lovely friend, Marleine, and I had dinner last night at Katsu-Ya in Studio City. Fab sushi, arty, crafty, design talk were included in a few hours of total awesomeness. Mar and I used to sit in cubes next to each other, work on the same web site, and talk almost everyday. I saw her plan every aspect of her wedding, which I attended, and was so pleased to see her get extremely creative during that time.


Isn't she pretty?

In the last two years, we've both taken on new jobs and moved around a bit which means that neither of us has a chance to talk much face to face any more. I miss it...a lot.

She started a business shortly before we both switched jobs the first time, working on what seemed to be her favorite part of the wedding planning process, designing custom wedding invitations. I have mentioned her before, but she has a new stuff out now and I thought I would share a few of my favorites from the new line of letter press invitations! They have the cutest name too - The Olive Press Collection!





As you can see, this lady has some style. I think her designs completely capture a modern and chic aesthetic in wedding invitations.

Find out more about Paper Olive Invitations at these links:

Wedding Invitations - Paper Olive
Paper Olive Blog - Paper Martini
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