For Illustrated Friday today, I received some one-liner submissions and picked one I liked. My favorite phrase is from the fabulous Adelene of Gula-gula, a luscious line of handmade chocolate liqueur truffles in Australia! Check out her facebook page here, you’ll want to order them all. Adelene is no ordinary chocolatier and wants her line of truffles to someday reflect …
Atelier Tuesday: Personalized Furoshiki Wraps!
I love textures, imperfections and and reuse-ability in gift wrapping and packaging. To me, they tell someone that everything about the gift matters, including what it was wrapped in. It can be re-gifted again many many times or find new life as other interesting uses. This experiment is one that I have been wanting to try for awhile now and …
Hand-made papers! With Flowers and Seeds!
The TreeSpace Studio is committed to using 100% post-consumer-recycled papers, hand-made papers and artisan papers whenever we can! What can be better than beautiful papers lovingly hand-made right here in Southern California? Nothing makes me click my heels more than discovering an artisan whose gorgeous creations plant seeds in my idea garden!
When We Didn’t Have Much…
SNEAK PREVIEW! A few days ago I read a disturbing article in a weekly news magazine we receive in the mail. It pointed out how kids today spend 90% of their waking hours connected to some electronic media or the other (among them the usual guilty triage of Apple paraphernalia, and various types of virtual reality apparatuses) They also multi-task, …
Materiality
I treasure the ability, in the field of architecture, to run my fingers over three dimensionality-the splintering of wooden edges, the warm, earthy ridges of plaster, the smooth cold of marble. There is no such tactile easiness in the world of the printed matter, and thus, a drumming need to reconcile a fundamentally two-dimensional entity such as a drawing, with …
Launching Soon!!!
It seems ( and is) forever since The TreeSpace Studio website went softly live. In a few short days, it will be officially launching soon, we’re dropping the sandbags and taking off, yay! Spent the past few weeks staring at the window wall of my studio trying to finish the website, portfolio galleries, and list of prices and services. Now …
The TreeSpace Studio’s Etsy Shop is Open!
My Etsy shop has finally launched! Check in regularly here to see if there are new items being added to the mini Etsy link on the sidebar or click here to visit the virtual storefront. Alternatively, if you are my facebook fan, you will now be able to directly click into my Etsy shop from within my facebook page! More …
Snowy Sketches
My very first white Canadian Christmas, ever. Every day was dusted clean, a fresh snowy start. The most fascinating thing was how the colors of each day differed from the day before. Some days it would be all gray and olive greens, and others high-key pinks and blues. Here’s series of watercolor sketches to remember them by:
Turn: God is in the Details
Anyone who is wise enough to have lived and achieved to old age would declare, quite vehemently, that resolutions cannot be met if one’s goals are not specific enough. To avoid the pie-in-the-sky mind that (often) threatens to hang over my idealism, I have outlined the below:
Turn.
Yes we have all heard that resolutions are meant to be broken. But is there anything that really compares to the joyous and naive innocence of a brand new year (and decade) with its brilliantly shining promise of fulfillment? Like a world that has been draped over with a soft serene blanket of freshly fallen snow, the turning of the …