The latest craze of Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duck Project in Hong Kong lately inspired me to create a new character called Aoi Ahiru. Aoi in Japanese refers to the blue-green color. Ahiru in Japanese means duck. The name is partially a tribute to one of my favorite Sanrio characters from the early ’90’s Ahiru No Pekkle. Who remembers this cutie? 🙂
Aoi Ahiru has a special story. He was born originally yellow in color but over the course of time his feathers started turning blue green because he ate too many glowing microorganisms while swimming in Okinawa. Soon Aoi Ahiru’s feathers began glowing at night. He often helps lead lost ducklings back to their family.
Come show Aoi Ahiru some love by downloading and sharing his free wallpapers below!
I just designed a fun birthday event for a very special baby turning one years old. The theme was baby safari, using characters of baby jungle animals. I used a buffet and a birthday pendant banner as the focal point for the whole design and was inspired by all the many fun ideas on Pinterest! To save time, I bought a safari event decor set from accenttheparty.com set and created the birthday & photo pendant banners from scratch.
Here is a list of what I used to complete the design:
- water bottle labels
- favor tags
- apothecary jars with a favor sticker label on the top
- wire cupcake holder
- plastic cupcake tower holder
- 2 ivory colored tablecloths
- orange, green and brown balloons with white polka dots
- a large tissue paper flower
- pendant banner of baby’s photos
- cupcake character toppers
- cake character toppers
- cupcake liners
- balloon animals and coconut tree
Here are photos from the event for inspiration!
water labels
i used the plastic cupcake tower holder as a favor holder/display
i used the cupcake towers for brownie bites
the wire cupcake holder with cupcake toppers and cupcake liners
Happy New Year of the Snake! 新年快樂！☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆
Introducing Jelly Roll! She’s a baby snake that usually likes to curl up and snooze most of the time making her look like a poofy croissant roll. Jelly Roll is super excited that this lunar year is the year of the snake. When Jelly Roll is happy, a special insignia shows up on her forehead! Anyone who catches the insignia’s appearance is bound to have good luck.
Right click the image above and save as to download Jelly Roll’s free 1920×1080 wallpaper.
Here are also some cute decorations to print, cut and tape up to decorate your home lunar new year style!
It’s been a long whiles since I’ve had a chance to design a deco project. So while baby napped, I took the opportunity to deco my favorite Hello Kitty piggy bank. This was a project I have been wanting to do for a year but just never got around to it.
The kitty piggy bank was a birthday gift from a college buddy back in the days. Kitty collectors will recognize that this particular design is from the first Hello Kitty Angel product line dating back to 1998. I knew I wanted to deco kitty up to be a fabulous cake full of candy and dripping with sweets. It took three days to complete the design, working on different sides and waiting for each side to cure. I thought about all my kitty loving friends while deco-ing and am super happy with how she turned out.
Take a look at the making of our sweet candy kitty here and don’t forget to subscribe to our channel🙂
Here are a few 1920×1080 wallpapers for you! <3 Just right click and save as.
The holidays are coming! This year I’m feeling especially festive because it’ll be baby’s first Christmas 🙂 To get the house decorated up, I decided to make cinnamon pine cones by gathering pine cones fallen from our neighbors’ trees. They can even be dressed up with glitter or baking soda to look like snow has fallen. I left them as is because I love the rich cinnamon color on the cones and they make the room smell super yummy.
Here’s how to make cinnamon pine cones.
- Gather or buy a bag of pine cones that look full and are not damaged
- Line a baking pan with aluminum foil
- Rinse each pine cone under scalding hot water to get rid of any creepy crawlies
- Place the rinsed pine cones on the baking pan
- Sprinkle cinnamon on the pine cones generously
- Bake the pine cones at 250 degrees for one hour to get rid of any other hitchhikers that might be trapped in the pine cone
- Place the pine cones in decorative container of your choice and dress to your liking.
Enjoy the simple and beautiful decor that you just made!
