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*music fades in*
~Dancing in the sunlight~!
~Everybodys feeling warm and bright it’s …
…such a fine and natural sight~!
Everybodys dancing in the sun~light~~ *music fades out*
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Aww… aren’t they the sweetest thing you have every seen? This is a really cool present. While they might seem like normally cute little figurines - halt and not be fooled! These two figurines are actually salt and pepper shakers (everyone gasp in awe please) which I most definitely did not make.. (as I sadly lack the skill and the creativity). And I say it’s a really cool present because my ma was the one who received it.. at a wedding!
It’s definitely different from the expected chocolates or mini candle gifts that the bride and bridegroom would give out to their guests. There’s also a very lame but cute pun… that they (the couple) add flavour to each other’s lives..
Well I’ve never really thought much about designing (stuff like chairs and tables and figurines) but this little thing is just so innovative. !! it’s just really cute The theme that the entire design is centred on is appealing and different, which makes it jump out at the viewer. The figurines are also very simple; very simple lines and forms, (they just look like little blobs of dough) and they look good whether together (dancing) or separate. Sometimes certain desgins require both compenents in order to look complete, but for this thing I feel that they look just fine even as an individual blob.
Owing to the curved lines and the way the head is tilted to one side, the little things also suggest movement. I’ve seen another one that has the same idea as this but the figures are standing upright and stiff, and somehow it’s not that appealing. Maybe it’s because when movement is suggested the buyer can almost imagine that the blob-thing is alive ! (.. and we’d start playing with it and making it do weird scenes under bridges of feet) so on some level we interact with the blob (albeit childishly) and therfore adds a certain personal touch. And to make this tiny thing even more impressive, it’s got a function, so it would make me think twice about not buying it because then i’d have a proper excuse to purchase it instead of the usual ’but it would look so pretty on my shelf!’
It’s pretty amazing how such a tiny design (it can’t be taller than my finger) requires so much thought put into it to get to that level of success. It almost makes me want to dabble a bit into designing cute things… but sadly I fear I lack creativity.. (I confess to only being able to copy things)
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Even though I didn’t make this.. I’m still putting it under 2D.
Hey. My photography skills are quite good no? I mean, do you know how long it took to wait for the sun to shine through the window again? And when I was just about to take the shot, how annoying it was when the sun played hide and seek with them clouds? ^^
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Alexandre Dumas Pèregarden gnome meets billabong! :
Check out his hoodie!
This is practically what we did for the bulk of last year. The green thing that he’s holding is an ipod… without the ear piece. If I’ve got time I do want to stick in some thick white wire and glue it to his ears but that’s way down by ‘things to do list’.
Do you see our lil’ metallic zipper? Courtesy of ZY (and T&T and JY) ! I like that our group put in a lot of detail, like the front of the trousers, the shoe laces, etc. Pity it’s cracked. Can’t quite remember it was like that since we took it out of the kiln or during ‘shipping’ to the art exhibition.
Mr oops-I’ve-forgotten-his-name-gnome was featured in A Green Dot! A Green Dot is an educational art exhibit held as part of the celebration for NY’s 90th anniversary. So our gnome was given a small corner that he shared with other fellow urban gnomes!
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It’s definitely 3-D but I’m sticking it under 2-D anyway, for our painting skills and uhh.. my excellent photography skills.
stare and envy. !!
if you actually bother to click the link that is, can’t quite be bothered to resize the photograph.
chocolate cakey with strawberry
It’s not actually showing off my photography skills.. so it can’t be put under 2-d, but 3-d? Especially since I had the honour to help in making it.
Art is creating.
Creation is art.
Cake is creating (something).
hence,
Cake is art!
basically it was a cake that came with a cheem cheem name, something to do with ‘midnight’ and sophisticated looking words.. This is the remanants of what was left after we went through it. ^^ tasted pretty good too! like a slab of chocolate (instead of cake, but who cares?)
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Anyone heard of tatty teddy?
Honestly speaking, I had no idea the bear I bought was called ‘tatty teddy’ until I checked it online. ^^ It’s the grey one, probably one of the few that can pull off the ‘worn-out-but-uber-cute’ look. No idea what I’m talking about? Pop by Popular. Gift cards have a ton of these kinda bears.
I originally wanted to buy a rock star figurine, but given my limited resources (aka cash) and the inability to look far and wide (I couldn’t find one in the first place) so in a fit of genius-ity I took one of those tiny figurines – and changed it into a rock star! With the sunglasses and all… I tried to give it a mohawk but with paper as my fundamental medium, it was an utter and complete failure. With the mohawk it looked like one of those characters with only 3 strands of hair? But worse.. like 3 clumps of gelled hair. T T
They’re all photos.. so it might take a while? My sunglasses aren’t even 2cm long!
have you noticed that when you start using big fancy phrases, or words basically, it sounds a ton more profound than it actually is? heh ^^
