I definitely need to pick up an In-and-Out t-shirt before we leave town.
Archive for June, 2008
Pressed Flower Art
One of my good friend’s mom does pressed flower art. Meaning, she arranges flower petals of different colors, shapes, and sizes, that were collected on hikes, walks, overseas travels, etc., into a scenery, object, person, animal,…or into pretty much anything. Even more amazing is that these pictures have visual depth, vibrant colors, along with intricate designs.
I can only imagine the amount of time, precision, and meticulous hands and eyes that go into crafting this dainty art from Japan. Not to mention having a good knowledge of the different types of flora.
Always inspired by pretty and elegant things such as this one, I spent the last hour or so doing research on it and where they possibly teach this technique in Melbourne, Australia. There’s a World Wide Pressed Flower Guild site which connects and features such artists from all over…the United States, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, etc., and even Scotland and Spain, but there is NO mention of Australia! :-/ If anyone of you reading this happens to know of someone who does this in Melbourne (or anywhere in Australia), please drop me a note to let me know. I am rather interested in taking classes and pressing a ton of flowers into art. Arigato Gozaimas!! (Although, it seems like this art form can also be self taught, according to a few artists’ websites…)
A few other inspirational pressed flower art sites amidst a whole host of other such sites from Google are from:
- Kate Chu – her artwork is slightly more traditional, more oriental, probably largely influenced by her Chinese background.
- Ivetta Moore – saw some more contemporary designs; I like that she introduces western and modern themes to her repertoire.
And of course not forgetting my friend’s mom’s beautiful art pieces (such as the one below), which have been featured on my friend’s Flickr.
Wall-E
I’m so excited for Wall-E! How does Pixar make even an old robot look so irresistibly adorable??
Packing up
We spent a big portion of last night putting stuff in boxes for the big move across continents. Whew! Packing is a lot of effort but sure is fun when you have someone doing it with you. 
It’s a song sheet, and it’s a favor holder
It only occured to me recently that there are more people who read my blog than I think, and that my real-life friends actually constitute a big portion of the readership. Which is great, because having readers – more familiar than not – kinda spurs me to keep updating this site because what’s a blog without a familiar, regular audience?
Knowing all that, even though some of you readers will be there at my wedding in…53 days (thanks to theknot.com’s calculations; !!!!), I still very much want to share the little projects I (and more recently Bryan and I) have done and ideas that we have for the wedding with friends and strangers alike, who enjoy reading about them. Also, who knows, a few months after the wedding, I may just very well be that girl who embarks on making a post wedding scrapbook and can look back to all these journal entries for reference. Unfortunately I’m not one to catalog too many little details or write profusely about wedding plans. So this will have to suffice.
Having said all that (phew!), here’s something we recently completed: our wedding song sheets, that also will double up as wedding favor holders. Here’s how it goes:
we printed out the song and a little “thank you” note on a 9X5 sheet (and will do them in two colors – lavender and sage), ink-stamped little embellishments on each page, after which we rolled them and tied them up with ribbons (will be ivory on that day but had to use green for this picture, just for example), and finally, placed our wedding favors – paper fans – through the rolled up sheet!
