more carving and more letterpress




I hope you won't get bored with my carving and letterpress posts.
Did the second colors for the swallows.There will be a third colors on it later on.



A proof for my thank you cards. I really like this orange but this is not the color I will be using..



I carved another " love", I don't like the first one. I worked on it too much and then I broke it and all the edges become crumble. It's hard to tell when to stop, sometimes I pay too much attention to the tiny details and I destroy the whole thing at the end. Specially after proofing with vandercook, I will look at the proof and keep working on some imperfect areas. It always ends up worse. I'm better without proofing maybe?? The swallows and deer print were without proofing and they came out very nice............................
oh my god, am I murmuring too much!! Maybe just like my instructor said, I push myself too hard!!!

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Bauhaus Accomadation.
I love that red cabinet and hard edges lines of Bauhaus building. Simply brilliant.

Have a nice week!
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iida umbrella shop イイダ傘店





postcard set







コマバッグ

I found this beautiful shop thru Kei Bu Sha where I do window shopping all the time.
It's exciting to see that they are selling lines & shapes in the shop now.
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Chinese say when you see swallows, spring is here!! (They also bring good news!)
I've printed these swallows last Saturday! I'm adding some more details(second color) and texts (third color) later.
Will show you the finally result !




Test printing different wood types.



and I pick this one at the end!


Oh My dear!!

the final!
(not exactly because I'm trying to find a match'g envelope and print something on it as well)




It seems like every single projects take more than 3 weeks to finish........
Also I'm totally in love with those vintage wood types, just like my instructor said,
" they are living types".

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This is from my inbox yesterday.
a blog about children book.

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I love those sages in our front yard, they have very delicate purple flowers and the leaves smell like passion fruit. (we have the ones for cooking with fish and meat too but I can't resist the smell of passion fruit..........)


We decided to bring some of them into the house. Put them in little tea cups.



But half hour later, ...................................
our cats think they are their toys..............




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a very nice set of photo

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the life of jamdani






I was so inspired to read the article about the jamdani and how it transformed into Dosa's beautiful scarves and garments.

Can't do the direct link here but go to the special project and click on the life of the jamdani. you can read the article and whole set of pictures.

I hope I will go visit their show room "Dosa 818" soon.

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have a nice weekend!!

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I baked some madeleines but not in shell shapes.
No tea, no coffee but I have mins perhonen 's 2009 catalog. The main theme is family portrait. Normal people are better than models.






(click to see it bigger)

itis edition
another reason makes me miss Taipei so MUCH!!



They also have a internet shop which is super nice!!






also their blog.......................................................................................................
see more pictures of their beautiful store/studio here, and here.

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tsumori chisato/ 2008 spring collection











All images are from humor!


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also, nice postcard collection from humor.
photograph/styling　by 小橋淳子

process







This project is not finished yet !! I need to print the text in the next class..... and then another card comes with it.

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Have you heard about" the impossible project"??
If they can make impossible become possible, that will be so so nice!

Since "Gocco" had been saved, why not Polaroid???

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I like this "good morning" music video from Taiwan.

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