Into the woods

Yesterday I took a walk in the woods to take some photos. I brought along the three ranchhands (Omil, Bobo and Jep) to assist my shoot and help me identify some species. It was a nice day, though a bit hot. We brought a huge mirror to reflect the light since it gets pretty dark inside the forrest (and I just love mirrored light heheh).

The mirror split into two by the end of our shoot cause of the heat! Very scary. We learned a lesson: Do not carry a mirror with the mirror side facing the sun! Very stupid and dangerous. Luckily (in a broken mirror situation), the ranchhand Omil was safe from the shreds of glass that fell around him.

On our way home, we chanced upon this scene. :-) One of the cowboys had left his saddle and horse on one of the fields. I wonder where he went. Probably had a late lunch.

I have more photos that I would love to post of my past few days but the internet is quite relaxed around here. Tomorrow I'm going down to the city, I shall post then.

Bummer&Bummer's Puffer bride

our puffer bride
Originally uploaded by Rowari

The making of bummer&bummer's "Puffer Bride" is now available for viewing on my flicker :-)
This was supppper fun to make.

We went thru nearly 2 kg. of fiber-fill to create this. and lots of disassembled earrings for the headpiece. And lots of sleepless nights.

I designed the knitted top. We gave it to the model as a gift so I can't take a good photo of it. But should there be some free time, I will recreate it and rewrite the pattern and post it here as a freebie. As of the moment, the pattern is hard to understand hehehe I was just making up my own abbreviations as I went along since I had to finish it quick.

Liahavaina

Been quite a busybee lately. Just got back from Cebu for the Philusutec convention (it's a sugar industy conference, sweeeet). And the whole week last week I've been working with Burpee on prototypes for recycled wallets to be sent to Germany (with much thanks to our friend Yana for the hook-up).

I arrived yesterday morning and went straight to work on my resume and funky photo for the "Design your own Havainas Team" interview. And that is the photo above. So crazy cause the photo I brought fell out of the folder as I was walking in the mall to meet the lady in charge. Crazeee. Got the job :-) it's next month on Sept. 14-16. On the 13th they will orient us on assembly and all that. Pretty cool. And ofcourse we get to keep our one-of-a-kind pair after the project is done. I love my Havainas!!

Today I am sleeping over at my grandparent's house up in Bukidnon. I am so looking forward to that (and to take some photos of whatever my grandma has been up to).

I am still working on my design portfolio. :-( updating. updating. updating. my works are all over the place. And I can't seem to find a good printing place around here. Still searching.

California Memory: Beauty Queen

This is Mai. She was my muse in North Hollywood. A talented girl with the chameleon gene.

This shoot was done at our friend Mark's kitchen. My sister Angela did the make-up and hair. We draped this wonderful cloth around her and secured with staples. This kitchen is almost identical to my kitchen. A few months after this shoot, I moved to the unit across. Many happy memories.

CaliforniaMemory: baby doll

Taken sometime in 2005. Stocker Street. That's my sister Angela. We both worked on the make-up and I sewed the top.

At this point in my life I was a waitress at a deli in Glendale. I loved my job and was happy to have my sister over. Working on songs, doing shoots and loving California. I was 24.

Pincushion Challege: June/July SUMMERTIME

I know it's kindda late, but it was too cute to pass up. These pincushion flip-flops were fun to make. I crocheted the straps on there. The "flip" is for needles, and the "flop" is for pins. Can't wait for the next one.

Rainy days and Wednesdays

Brrrr. It is raining, raining, raining over here. Spent the afternoon trying to make candy with Angel. We have been experimenting with the strawberry juice from the processed strawberry. Experiment it was for first we took forever to let it get to the Hard Crack stage (and Angel was holding on the candy thermometer the whole time cause we couldn't clip it anywhere). When we finally got to the stage, it happened so fast that the whole thing burned in a second!

We ended up with a black hard candy that was really bitter. Nice going.

And we shall try again tomorrow on that matter.

I spent most of last night making my pincushion for the Pincushion Challenge: Summer. I didn't make it to the deadline but I will post a photo tomorrow anyway. I love this challenge because I love pincushions! Or anything fiber-filled for that matter. Oh yes. Hehehe.

Tonight I shall start on the apron for Tie One On. The July/August theme is Local Pride. Hmmmm. Bukidnon will be my town and I shall use some of the left-over brown cloth from my sisters' wedding. And probably fill it up with embroidery of sugarcane, corn, cattle, rice, vegetables, horses, goats, carabaos and trim it with the traditional Talaandig motif. Or maybe...ah whatever comes out!