Archive for the 'family' Category

Birthday Card for Grandpa

January 2, 2010

It’s an 80th birthday card for Steve’s grandpa from his lovely grandchildren. I went back to plain old cutting chinese characters out of paper.

I found some gold paper and attempted at some framing. I thought cutting into cardstock over print paper was a joy, but cutting into metallic paper, it felt so good – cutting [...]

Dough Figurines

June 11, 2009

Speaking of different mediums, here’s a retro-post of what I did in 2004 for my mom. She started playing with modelling dough making small figurines for fun. Then the SFU Cultural Festival asked her to man a booth to show off these cool figurines – and production began. Little did she anticipate that she had [...]

Upbringing

May 12, 2009

This is why I am the way I am. The following picture is of my 3-year-old niece on one of her visits to grandma (i.e. my mom)’s house. This captures my childhood perfectly. My mom may be the only mom that will give a pair of scissors to a 3-year-old and tell her to use [...]