card giveaway!

You might have noticed the word "giveaway" in my blog title. Yes, there is indeed a giveaway! So, I'm making some save-the-dates for a friend and taking out my dusty gocco printer and trying to make it work. I was pretty discouraged because my screens kept getting printed poorly! I've printed with it before and it turned out alright, but I guess I've never tried printing out large areas and the carbon never seems to get spread out evenly enough (even with the use of the filter). I'm still in the process of trying to figure out what to do. After reading some tutorials, I figure I'm going to go trek to the nearest library and make some photocopies and try one more time.

Anyways, in my discouragement, I decided to burn a different design using riso pens instead of printouts. It turned out alright, not really to my liking, but still nice enough that I didn't want to throw them away. So here, they are! A card set of 3 "you make me feel like i'm home" cards. They're not perfect, each with more imperfections that I can take (even being a gocco print), so here they are to be given away!


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Giveaway requirements

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post by Sunday (July 11th) at 4pm about a person that makes you feel like you're home and why they do. I will choose a winner though a random number generator after that and you get to take these babies home! I don't have many blog readers, so you probably have a really good chance at getting this card set. I'm also going to include other little goodies that I want to give away, so be sure to enter!

Have a blessed day!

gocco me do!

if you didn't get that, it was a beatles' reference. love me do? gocco me do? okay, i know i'm lame.

it's been a good week of finds and goodies!

first, there was a yard sale right by my work place. if you know me -- i love yard sales. i love the idea of buying someone else's treasure for unbeatable prices. who doesn't? i'm asian, it's in my blood!


i didn't get too much, but what i got, i love!

1. a bench and some foam+cloth to re-upholster it!
total: $7!

i'll show you pictures once i finish it. it's strangely difficult to find a staple gun amongst college students. you would think people just have them lying around... to staple things.

you can't even see the bench because i piled the cloth amongst other bedding on top. that way, when you see the end product, it'll be that much more of a surprise!



2. a bunch of tea tins... for free!


the lady saw me admiring them, and seeing as it was the last day of the sale, she told me just to take them all :). i put a little sprig in one, i think i'll name him henry.


onto my other big news: i just bought a gocco printer! i'm in no financial state to buy one... but i did it anyways. i know, i'm bad. :( but hopefully i can make prints that people will buy! and then it will be all worth it!



my first print:






why is something so small so expensive? :(


i made a bunch of cards for a friend's birthday. hopefully she likes them!
the prints didn't come out as perfectly as i wanted, and there are many many flaws and areas where i had to paint in the ink with a brush.... but i am still pleased with the outcome :).

i couldn't decided whether or not to give my little bear a hat, so i just ended up drawing them in for half of the cards :).



maybe i'll make more and put them on etsy? will anyone buy them?