too cute to eat.

via J-mama's Kitchen.

OMG! How cute is this?! I want a Miffy-shaped cookie cutter too! :D

lighted up!

via sweetberrys.

I almost died when I saw this; especially likeee the strong yellow one. But they cost almost twenty bucks per set, which is so pricey! :( Yeah, sometimes I think I'm a little too old to be going gaga over a children's book character too, but well. :)

oui oui~

French Toast Print Bag via Forever 21.

I love cute prints like these. :)

street car to street trike?

Was trying to collect information for cycling in Tokyo when I came upon this link. It's pretty hilarious looking at the Google crew pushing the street view tricycle more than trying to cycle it through the historic sites.

happy bunny new year!

via that darn kat.

I love this wallet! But it's a little above my level.
I've been sewing for the past one and a half days. (Actually it started because the metal bit on my dress broke on CNY day one, so I decided to screw the 'adjustable' part and sew the straps down.) I'm starting to see the wonders of pressing during a project. It's amazing what an iron can do.

It's all very therapeutic... until the euphoric fog starts to lift and I can see how much studio work I haven't done. Hmmmm.

warming

via Burdastyle.

Love these two dresses I saw on Burdastyle. I'd been wanting to sew a lot more during the December holidays but between the internship, (dismal) preparation for dissertation, and attempts to do the yearly catch up with friends, I decided to sleep as much as I could instead. Christmas was spent happily, though I'm dealing with the repercussions now, while New Year was all right.

Now that the (extremely short) internship is over, I have school to look forward to (uh), and a 300-word dissertation abstract to submit on the coming monday, which I have incorrigibly been putting off preparing for. So wish me luck! New year resolutions will be coming soon... I hope. :/

branding yourself

Magic Soup,

via NoteMaker.

Chocolate Rain.

aren't these products just adorable?!

(i like the 爆炸头 in Magic Soup, she's called Titta i think.)

i've always been fond of these 'little' boutique-feel brands (my guess is, they're probably quite lucrative considering they've made it out of their country). maybe it's silly, but it's always been a small dream of mine to have my very own brand. i've hoped to create a story and characters using a personal style, and print them onto everyday essentials like bags, shirts, and notebooks, etc... i think it would make me more than happy (okay, it would give me a real big kick) to see people using and wearing things that i've designed. :D

but it's easier said than done because i don't know what that style is.

googling 'Magic Soup' resulted in lots of yummy photographs of soup and i'm umm... distracted already. oh well. haha.

i miss reading.

advertolog

NLB 2004 advert: Park.

Google came up with this image while i was doing some searches about parks, and i thought i really like the colour of this photograph because of that surrealistic '80s-film feel.

oozing

theperfectpantry

don't they look too gorgeous to eat?

the memory of the roasted tomatoes in my Riders Cafe eggs benedict still makes me salivate. mmm. i wanna make some for myself too, if not for the fact that i have none of the herbs that they mentioned in the recipe. :|