Little Things 225 : 2016 Compilation

It's the final week of 2016 ! Here is the compilation of 2016 goals achieved and failed, as I do this yearly to remind myself that some things in life matters, even how small it is and years from now, I'll remember this moment when I compile all this every final week of the year. Plus, never trust your hard drive to keep data, if you want anything permanent, go to the internet :F * 1. Read...

Video : Etsy Made Local 2016

Af finally compiled the video he took at the previous Etsy Made Local event - read the post here. Thaaaaank you Etsy team and also to Af who has been right at my side in every events + activities I participated since we got married.  These final months in 2016 had been great, fun, busy and exciting, I joined an event at Public Garden Singapore, with Etsy Made Local and also...

Tiny Thoughts : All things random in my life

Writing: Other than my personal blog, I write as a Chief Designer of Fin.my at: Fin's Medium, although I have my own personal Medium as well but I haven't written anything except replying to Mike Posner's posts and liking other people's articles on weekly basis. Note: I write at Medium when I put on my nerd hat.      Data: My new hard disk, Mr. Buffalo *barely 4 months where...

Random : Spooky Art Swap by Aviva

Image from Alexia's Twitter So for my Spooky Swap created by none-other-than the famous tumblr : Aviva Artzy last October, I sent my parcel to another awesome illustrator called Alexia Bee. Aviva contacted me and asked whether I was interested to join the arts swap *there was a lot of super-faaaamous illustrators and artists, and I loooove arts swap, so I said yes, yes, yes.  Here...

Events : Doodle Your Day with Azreenchan

Well it was not really an event, it was just a day with me and a bunch of kids. In October, I was emailed by someone from one of UPM's faculty : Faculty of Design & Architecture for a "whole day - school kids program" to teach doodling. I'm always up for new things, even though I never really had any experience teaching kids - so I just said yes. I was nervous, but the experience matters,...

Events : Art/Craft Booth's Price List 2016

Note : Future team member, please read the note down below. If you are planning on joining events or opening a booth in the near future, and you are an independent small artists/illustrators with no budget and doing this just for fun. You need to know the price range, so here I compiled the price range for this year's event that I asked around : Ilovebazaar , BTS Handmade Market : RM 80 per day...

Run : My First Half-Marathon & All the Firsts

Happy year for my aim to keep healthy throughout the year : I ran over 343km, almost reaching my upgraded goal of reaching 365km this year. I did my first international run in Bromo, Indonesia I did my first trail run in Bromo as well I ran my first 21km - half marathon  Trying to keep running every week is still hard. But I'm trying to at least run during the weekend. I think by far,...

Mini Escapism : Rimba & Rusa

A little splurge on fancy food and place.  We went to Rimba & Rusa after we wrapped things up at Etsy Made Local, because the sales was good I wanted to treat AF with a nice dinner. He helped me so much these past 2 weekends. I knew about the place because of Wondermilk & Hello Dear. As a designer, I am a big fan of their designing team : be it from the marketing point of view, or...

Events : Etsy Made Local & Battery Acid Club

Etsy Made Local :  This event was also a random tryouts for me. I applied and I got a place to open a booth on the Sunday from the 2 days event. I was really excited because I really like Etsy, and I was hoping that the Etsy community will be supportive and like-minded. I was right! The crowd was the best, this is one of my favorite event so far.  I sold so many sticker packs...

Events : Junk-ed Maker's Market, Wisma Central

The last 2 weekend were spent at different events : 1. Junked Makers’ Market in Wisma Central, Jalan Ampang near KLCC and another one 2. Etsy Made Local, at Battery Acid Club in PJ. Both were a one-day event. * The day started early in the morning on Saturday - we both drove to KL almost late because the event was supposed to start at 10am and we went out quite late to buy the tiles to...