wall decor~ available in my facebook store :)

由設計師Gum親手製作及繒畫，超可愛又獨一無二嘅掛牆畫飾(20x20cm) 😍 同我家小狗一樣樣架！仲可以custom made 不同的小🐱小🐶😆 有興趣請pm🐶🐷🐱

Designed and handcrafted by designer Gum, these really cute and unique paintings can be mount to wall as decoration (20x20cm, comes with hanger and nails) 😊you can also place custom made orders for your beloved pets! pls send us a msg if interested 

😄🐱🐶🐰🐷🐻🐼

‪#‎walldecoration‬ ‪#‎handmade‬ ‪#‎shiba‬ ‪#‎chihuahua‬ ‪#‎poodle‬ ‪#‎labrador‬‪#‎schnauzer‬ ‪#‎husky‬ ‪#‎goldenretriever‬ ‪#‎pug‬ ‪#‎corgi‬ ‪#‎pomeranian‬

Shiba scandinavian style ^^

my beloved shiba inu in scandinavian style :) still trying to figure out how to mask this design into table placemat on envelop.eu!!

happy halloween! :D

kitty lantern~ 

and from last year :)

ginger by karumen

collection of my handicrafts :)

http://gingerbykarumen.blogspot.hk/

Happy Year of Sheep~

practicing chinese calligraphy with hubby :)

my first DIY scrapbook style photo frame :)

scrap-booking has never really come across my mind, but decorating photo frames has always been. so finally got the perfect occasion, which is to make a hand craft for my beloved :) so will give it a try! a vy simple one using whatever i can find at home....hahaha...

etsy

many cool stuff on etsy, let me join this community too :)
http://www.etsy.com/shop/karumen

雞蛋花

this flower felt from the tree right when i walked past it...oops i hope it wasn't me!

separately, finally done these 2 dolls! well, 90% done, still a bit more work to go....

oven glove from envelop

made their way today!

vy nicely made! but r quite too big for me.... :( i can stuff my entire forearm into the glove!

stay warm~ my first "DIY" oven glove :D

the original....

mocked up my design onto the oven glove template provided by envelop.eu~

my so-called little shop is opened! hehehe http://envelop.eu/shop/articles/details/p/stay-warm-2

will hv to order a pair myself first to check out its quality before anything! :)) sooo excited!!!

DIY tote bags - 2nd attempt!

a custom "order" i got from a frd who fancies nothing but bunnies! (her favourite is miffy, but that's copyrighted... so i need to try something else!)

with a new black fabric pen from muji - it is already much easier to draw on the cloth. but the red pen...um.. still need to figure that out. hope she won't mind n will actually use it :(

outlining with black on bag...

the final product:

initial "mock up" using paint...

now that i look at it again, seems like making it all B&W may be better....oh well it's a little too late to undo it

Done!!!

so this is what i'm trying to make...at first glance, it looks quite "unfinished" and ugly indeed...hehehe

n now, bunny meets its soul mate...*the* (empty) cookie jar!

merged!

n now, with the utmost important ingredient....cookies!!! (didn't get the time to make cookies myself, so these r just some supermarket ones...)

ps. photos r by iphone, not stunning but gd enough to show&tell a story :D

pps. i made these cookies before, but ate them all long b4 the bunny is done :(

work in progress

guess wut i'm trying to make? :)

n er, no, not so obvious that it's a shower cap, guess again!

will reveal once done! hopefully by next wk :D

can't find my crochet hook :(

but found these old photos instead...(i had a pretty bad camera back X years ago!)

these bunnies were for my parents' 25th wedding anniversary, if i rmb correctly the year :)

and then i found some random cloth i got from japan which i need to assign some purpose to (perhaps a teddy bear or bunny? if it's not too hard to do..hehe).....

suddenly wants to try all the DIY's for making dollies so badly! next weekend, i must pay a visit to get all necessary tools together!!

DIY Tote bags - first attempt!!

um, not exactly "DIY"-ing the tote itself, but the fact that i'm "decorating" it with my drawing, by both medium - hand drawn with fabric pens (not too successful, sob sob) and ironed on with transfer paper (slightly better results)

born the panda prototype!

pandas drawn by moi and gum with fabric pens. as u can see, we keep smudging the cloth n the blacks aren't "black enough" (oh n we were testing out 2 types of black pen too...so...not exactly pretty!)

fabric pens i got from vancouver & hk used on panda...none of them work well with my fingers :(

enhancing panda prototype & creating banana skin prototype with transfer paper <--slightly more managable, but still leaves some yucky yellow marks on the bag :((

added little details to panda

n so, by judging my own output quality, i say i still hv a looooooooooong way to go before i can go ahead n pursue my career plan c, which is to rely on selling pretty pretty bags n gds online and earn a living on it!! :P

plus need to find a way to lower the production cost...these transfer papers are expensive!!

more old works

was actually looking for some other photo albums...still couldn't find them, but instead found these paintings/drawings i did loooooong time ago!

n finally, a dish i made + paint during my last yr at university....learned n made it at a korean pottery place near my home. n ever since it's made, it's been fully utilised as a dish too! wahahaha

my imaginary tote bags

drawn on HK$16 muji bags...well i mean the image, not the actual bag, wakakka

today is ms vj's last day at work for the world's l_c_l *company*... aiiiiiyaaa i'll miss our gd old snake king times at L12 n L28 n BL1 la..... :(

but given u'll be just...erm...2 bldgs away, i bet snake king can still take place at nearby coffee chains such as the starbu_ks or sth like that geh :) as long as u'r free to 'ying chao' me n as long as i hv the time to snake king. wahahha

on a side note~ i've done packing la! flying back to van tmr, yay! to celeb pinetree's....10 yr anniversary! wah..same as hk (sorry for such a mo liu remark)

anyway, here's to the band geek me! (band in a different sense actually, but oh well, just to draw the easier-to-draw stuff, hehehe)

$50 sushi from MUJI

got this set of clay from MUJI n tried to create things out of it. was planning to create a bfast set with fried eggs instant noodles....but that was *much* harder than expected n finally, i created sth vy simple instead la....hehe

top view~

from the side~