| Need LayerCake Tissue Cozy advice! (video) |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|03:42 pm] |
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Sprinkles or no sprinkles? See below!!
Also please excuse extra weird video. I was blindly recording with the digi cam (I usually use Photobooth) so I had no idea if I was actually in the frame or not. Hahah!
Cake Box from Twinkie Chan on Vimeo.
This is a “sketch” I did in photoshop before I started work in order to figure out the colors. As you can see, I initially did put sprinkles on it, but I am sort of leaning toward no sprinkles now…. hmmm!!!
Also here are some doggie vids from yesterday.
Here is Bibi eating her foot and Bunny saying hi with her butt.
Untitled from Twinkie Chan on Vimeo.
And moments after, here is Bibi checking out what’s on TV.
Untitled from Twinkie Chan on Vimeo.
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/10/need-layercake-tissue-cozy-advice-video/ |
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| Product Preview: Soft Serve Scarf!! |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|03:48 pm] |
I’ve been wanting to do another ice cream scarf for some time (I did one years ago), but just never got around to it. I wanted to refine the cone, and I wanted to make sure that my ice cream scarf didn’t look too much like my cupcake scarf!! Also a little birdie once wrote me a letter covered in cute little sketches of things. One sketch was of soft serve scarf. It looked like vanilla with rainbow sprinkles. I’d been thinking for a while about how to do it, and I finally settled on a plan.
I got a great yarn from ImagiKnit. I believe the brand is Twinkle. It’s super duper chunky, fluffy, soft and luscious. It’s truly delicious! I bought it in chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla. This stuff is $20 a hank! I probably won’t keep using this yarn, but it was nice to work with on this initial scarf.
The cone is good ol’ Vanna yarn. I like working with Vanna a lot, and there are a ton of colors (not great pink or yellow, tho!). I ran into the problem of the cone curling a bit. I seem to have this problem when I work in sc. I haven’t discovered or read about any ways of curing the curl, so I think for my next version, I will work in a wool for the cone so I can try to block it and stop the curling.
As you can see, this scarf is HUGE!! It’s too big for my taste. Not only is it big, but it’s also rather dense, eventho the chunky yarn is worked in dc, so it’s super heavy, and when you wrap it around your neck, it feels like a neck brace!!!
So next time: smaller pattern, looser work on the ice cream so it’s not so dense, and wool yarn for cone. I also want to do all vanilla ice cream, with rainbow colored party cones! I like how there is space across the top of the cone to stitch out words if I want, like people’s names!
I really want to make another version right away, but I have other pressing craft-fair projects to complete!!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/09/product-preview-soft-serve-scarf/ |
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| New Product Preview: Throw Pillows! |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|04:14 pm] |
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I went over to my parents’ yesterday to get help from my mom for this crafty project!
Usually I go bug Manda about my sewing needs, but I feel like she has a lot of her own sewing projects on her plate now, so I hit up Mama Chan. She claims to not sew very well, espesh clothing, but she sure whips up a mean couch-cover from her own pattern!
Here’s a peek of what we made. Next time I order my fabric from Spoonflower, I will make the images bigger. We felt that the pillows were a bit on the small side. At least I have my colors locked down now, so I can go crazy with my fabric orders!! Due to certain boo-boos on my part…there won’t be very many pillows at Renegade. There will be 4 kinds: tater tots, pickle jars, ketchup bottles, and hot dog packs. If people seem to like them, I will print out more varieties of foods. If they are a big flop, then I’ll just make a set for myself!!! 
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/08/new-product-preview-throw-pillows/ |
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| Need your help for the craft fair! |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|12:49 pm] |
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Hey guys,
I just sent out a mailing list message, but in case you are not on the mailing list, I am going to ask for your help here, too!
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to decorate my vintage fridge for the craft fair with magnets and pictures of other people wearing my goodies. I only have a small handful of customer pics, so if you could take a quick snap shot, or if you have some laying around, I would SO appreciate you emailing them to me (twinkiedink at gmail dot com) so your beautiful faces can be at my booth! I plan to print out the pics as little fake polaroids, so if you also want a little message or name or nickname or something written underneath the pic, just include that in your email as well.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I know it can be a big pain in the rear end to take pics and send, so if I happen to receive any new pics in my inbox, I super appreciate it!!!!!
I also never mentioned here in my blog that I will have some marked down prices on the more expensive scarves, so it’s definitely a rare opportunity and you should definitely come and visit! Nothing will be over $100.
Also I’ve been working on some cute new designs, and I will try to preview them here in the blog when I get a chance to take pics and post them!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/08/need-your-help-for-the-craft-fair/ |
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| My First Giveaway!!! |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|11:31 pm] |
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Hey kids!
I am doing my very first giveaway over at LovelyLittleDeer’sblog, and there is also a fun interview with moi!
The giveaway item is a custom sugar cookie pin :).
The contest ends on July 13! Please visit Becky’s blog to see how to enter!
Also, I was alerted to the fact that my first cake tissue cozy was featured in a blog about the 12 most Creative Tissue Boxes!
Also, we took my laptop into the Apple store today and discovered I have a janky video card, and since there are a bunch of class action law suits involving my video card, I’m getting it replaced for free!!! It’s going to take a while, so I still won’t be online as much as usual. I feel like not having my laptop allows me to do more work, while also keeping me from doing work. Haha. Double-edged sword! Also, using someone else’s computer is weird….the keys are all different, I keep making typos, I feel like it’s a little bit slower. It frustrates me a little bit, so I probably won’t use it very much.
I’ll still do my best to keep on top of everything I have to keep on top of. Don’t worry! But I mention it just so you know I may not comment on stuff as much!
I gotta go and work on t-shirt and postcard designs now!
Can’t wait to post pics of the soft-serve icecream cone scarf I have in the works. It’s dericious!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/06/my-first-giveaway/ |
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| Laptop is Out of Commish |
[Jul. 4th, 2009|02:18 pm] |
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Hey guys.
Last night, the screen on my laptop decided to take a break…. Hairy says they’ll probably have to send it away to be fixed. It’s kind of the worst time ever to not have access to my computer while I’m still designing stuff and preparing for Renegade, so we might just buy a cable and see if I can hook it up to our flatscreen tv, and then send the computer in after the show! AHHHH! We’ll see.
In the meantime, I can gank Hairy’s laptop when he’s not using it, but I just wanted to let y’all know if I don’t respond to your comments right away or post here as much!
Happy Fourth!!!
Hairy is roasting a chicken and we bought lots of foods to nosh. I gotta go baste that bird!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/04/laptop-is-out-of-commish/ |
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| Our New Fridge is In our Bathroom |
[Jul. 3rd, 2009|09:50 pm] |
We are the proud owners of a vintage fridge! We drove to Pleasanton last week to pick this up and use it for a display unit for the craft fair.
Hairy thought of paying for a storage unit for a month to put the fridge in, and then selling the fridge after the fair. But I suggested we just put it in the downstairs bathroom for now instead of paying for storage. Now we have the weirdest bathroom ever. It was already ugly (pea green walls and purple tile!) but now there’s an old fridge AND a Dora the Explorer pinata in it!!! (The pinata is a gift from my manager dude. He swung by last weekend with his supercute daughter Hayley McMuffin and he said he got the Dora pinata for me to customize into a Twinkie pinata!) Hairy says the Dora pinata has front-butt.
It’s in pretty good condition. Apparently it was repainted at some point, but there is till kind of a dent in the door and some rusting. It needs some stickers removed and some TLC, but it will be a cute way to hold the foodie scarves for events. I kind of want to keep it and use it to store clothes upstairs, but I’m afraid it will start to smell in there. Plus, it’s really heavy and nobody is going to want to haul it upstairs into the bedroom!
There was kind of a huge rigmarole involving this fridge for the first 48 hrs. Let’s just say, 10,000 spiders & beetles, egg sacs, a blackwidow, a whole can of RAID, asbestos, hissing tubes, and compressed frothy white oil all over the garage floor. It was really scary for a hot minute!
Even though it is shorter than I am and has had some heavy stuff removed from its guts, it’s still really heavy, and it will be interesting to move this thing around in the next 2 weeks!!!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/03/our-new-fridge-is-in-our-bathroom/ |
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| “Dessert before Dinner, the Princess Demands It!” (video) |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|07:36 pm] |
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Yesterday, I had lunch with my ex-office ladies. Our salads were not too delightful, but the company was.
I was also next to my favorite cupcake shop: Kara’s Cupcakes, so I picked up a little box of yummyness.
I just ate the last one (yes, before dinner!), and for some reason, I felt like I was supposed to record it and speed it up! Here’s what happened!! (I keep looking up and over because I was watching “Undeclared” on DVD!)
Oh, P.S. it’s the “Lemony Lemon” cupcake, and it’s SO good cuz the frosting is neither too sugary nor too shortening-y, plus the lemon FILLING is delish!!! The special cupcake of the month this month is SMORES: chocolate cupcake, graham cracker crumble, toasted marshmallow topping. I might buy some tomorrow if I’m feeling like a fatty, which I probably will….hahaha. I will be in the neighborhood again to have lunch with the BFF and her friend.
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/02/dessert-before-dinner-the-princess-demands-it-video/ |
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| Renegade Craft Fair infos! |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|02:22 pm] |
I can’t remember if I ever posted info for the fair!
It’s July 18-19, in Fort Mason here in San Francisco. Here is a link to the Renegade site.
I went to this fair last year as a shopper/visitor, and I was AMAZED at how many vendors there were! So Much stuff!!! Bring lots of cash!!! We ran out!
Manda and I will be at booth 92, which will be nearish to the frontish.
I’m starting to feel like there are 12 stages of planning for a craft fair. At first I felt anxious, then I felt relaxed (about having plenty of time to make stuff for my table), then I was in denial (about having no time to make stuff for my table), then I was FREAKED THE EFF OUT, and now I’m excited. I wonder what tomorrow will bring! Probably more freak-the-eff-out before this event is done.
Please come say hi. If all plans turn out well, I will have a really cool booth display, and LOTS of new, fun items!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/02/renegade-craft-fair-infos/ |
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| If you’re happy and you know it brush your teef! |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|06:38 pm] |
I’ve a feeling the happy, white teeth will sell first. Ahahahaha :P. I’m thinking of putting treats in them. Like dental floss in the happy tooth and candy in the sad tooth, so that the sad tooth will get some love!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/07/01/if-youre-happy-and-you-know-it-brush-your-teef/ |
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| Herbies (wiwt) and Peamus (recipe) |
[Jun. 30th, 2009|04:35 pm] |
Just jeans on the bottom! Dainty June top (I LOVE this line! Sold at All Mighty and other boutiques), Applenoggin necklace, holding a berry made by me! The shirt is making me a liiiiittle self-conscious about my little belly and muffins, but, whatever, it’s comfy and cute!
So Hairy has been cooking at home a bit more lately, which is delightful. 1) It’s helpful to not have to go out to eat as that sort of wastes time and I’m really pressed for time before the craft fair, 2) It’s nummy!
One of his concoctions is made of frozen peas, and it’s REALLY good. He calls it “smashy peas,” but I feel like I’ve seen something like that at restaurants, and it’s served hot and tastes more like a chunky pea soup. What he makes is cold, refreshing, very “green” tasting, and is more like a lemony hummus, but with green peas, and does not have that sort of mealy, grainy mouthfeel that bean dips can have. It’s 100% delightful and not at all pea-soup like. I think he pretty much transformed peas. We couldn’t think of a good name for it. I’ve been calling it Peamus. Here’s the recipe!!!
HAIRY’S TASTY PEAMUS
Whole bag of frozen peas, defrosted
1/2 cup olive oil
salt/pepper to taste
juice of one lemon
3-4 cloves of garlic
big handful of fresh mint
big handful of fresh parsley
half of a shallot
Put all this stuff into your food processor/blender, until you have the desired consistency, you know, hummus-like.
Hairy served it with a baguette. I think it could be a yummy alternative to mayo or mustard on a sandwich. I also just ate it with wheat thins. I almost feel like I could live on peamus and brownies and be happy.
EDIT!!: We’ve just been informed by CurvyQ that Peamus is in fact known as MOCK-A-MOLE!!!! Doh!!! I’d never heard of mockamole before, since I am not really knowledgeable at all of the world of food substitution!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/06/30/herbies-wiwt-and-peamus-recipe/ |
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| Bananas & Sweet Toofs (video) |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|04:07 pm] |
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It’s funny what sounds Bibi is aware of:
1) Hair Spray = keep a distance or you’ll start sneezing.
2) Hairy’s cell phone = someone’s ringing the door bell & coming for a visit.
3) Egg shell cracking = yummy boiled egg snack.
4) Reverse beeping sound on the car = parking = soon time to get out of car and go play!
5) Banana getting peeled = snacks for Bibi!!!
We don’t feed our dogs at the table. Hairy was very insistent upon this when we first got Bibi as a baby. So now when we eat, they might get curious, but they’ll usually go and sleep on the couch instead of bugging us.
We do feed them human food, fresh, unseasoned human food like fruit and veggies and yogurt and cottage cheese, but these usually go in their doggie bowls so they know that our food is our food, and their food is their food.
However, boiled eggs and bananas seem to be the exception. I cannot shell an egg or peel a banana without Bibi getting all up in my face. So that’s where this video came from! Hairy had put out some tea, a pecan roll, and a banana for me for breakfast on Sunday, and once I hit the banana….I couldn’t shake the Bibi and ended up giving her the rest of it!
Today is all about sewing zippers and buttons = 2 of my least favorite things ever!!! It’s really hard for me to sew zippers onto the cute-tility packs. It’s a small amount of space to work with, and I have pins sticking all over the place, and I’m not a great seamstress to begin with. so I end up sticking myself a million times. Fun fun fun!
Today’s victim = Sweet Tooth cute-tility packs!! I’ve never sold teethpacks before. I only ever made one for my friend Elysse for her birthday. But I will be selling happy white teeth and sad yellow teeth at the craft fair!
Time to return to my personal zipper-hell!
Later I’ll try to post a really yummy “Hairy Cooks” recipe!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/06/29/bananas-sweet-toofs-video/ |
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| Rainbows Everywherez! |
[Jun. 27th, 2009|08:52 pm] |
I was delighted to see this fruity rainbow tart at Whole Foods just now.
Also, a neat surprise: a ginormous arch of rainbow balloons at the Home Depot in COlma!!! Sorry I didn’t get a pic of it. You’ll just have to make a rainbow balloon arch of your own!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/06/27/rainbows-everywherez/ |
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| Wanna join the Triple Scoop Troop? |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|01:31 pm] |
I will debuting all new t-shirt designs at Renegade (if I get all my shizz together). Here is the first one!
Three scoops of ice cream and a cute banner that reads: Triple Scoop Troop. Yes, it’s based on my tattoo! The whole idea was inspired by all the other ladies with triple scoop ice cream tattoos. I don’t know most of the girls, but I figured we were now all part of some loosely organized posse! I wanted a shirt for us and all the other people who just love ice cream!
I am still adjusting the colors, so this one is just a tester that I will be keeping. I’ve decided how I will print this design for the fair, but I need to figure out how to keep this in stock in the future without costing me a fortune!
Anyway, I have some more cute designs cooking up. More sneak peeks of those as they come in! I think that Hairy and I will be screenprinting the rest ourselves, at his “shop,” the Fondu Pot.
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/06/26/wanna-join-the-triple-scoop-troop/ |
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| Blog Comment Changes & More Crafty Snaps |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|03:37 pm] |
What the “craft bench” looks like right now.
Someone asked me what my craft area looks like, and, you’re kinda looking at it. I live in a loft, so there are no separate rooms for organization. I basically take over the living room. I have yarn stash in one corner, photo lights in another corner, and some crafty supplies in another corner. I like to sit on the floor and work, so I’m usually on the living room rug, leaning against the couch. If I have to lay out my work, I use the skinny table/bench behind the couch.
My official craft table is a bit of a wreck right now. I usually don’t work at it unless I’m doing something with beads. Otherwise, it’s storage and a place to put crap down!
In more administrative news, you may notice a change in the way comments/replies work on my blog. I really wanted you guys to be notified if I or someone else reply to your comments here. If I leave a comment on someone’s blog, I usually won’t check back on that entry to see if I got a response. I just won’t remember. So I like when I get notified if someone replies to me. That is why I made that change here.
Hairy told me that without notifications, commenters are encouraged to return to the page to see if they got a response, which would increase your site traffic numbers(?). I understand that from a numbers standpoint, but from a user’s standpoint, I’m personally just not going to check back!
So if you hate this change, I can also give you the option of deciding whether or not you get a reply message. But I like it this way because I feel it creates more of a dialogue between you and me (and others), and that’s what I feel that blogging is about, at least for myself, at this moment in time. With blogger, I can check a box to get a notification or not, but sometimes I forget to check the box! So I like the default. Let me know your thoughts.
Anyhoo, today I decided to curl my bangs under! It looked better before I brushed them out. I prefered it a bit piece-y, since I curled them in three sections. Oh well! Now I know for next time! Finger-brush, not brush-brush!
Last night, Hairy made pho!
I think it’s exciting we also get the dish of greens n things just like at a restaurant!
Now I’m going back to sewing pepperonis onto pizzas!!!
originally posted at http://www.twinkiechan.com/blog/2009/06/24/blog-comment-changes-more-crafty-snaps/ |
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