After the Lunar New Year festivities (read: eating lots, and giving out lots of money in the form of red packets), the year is finally feeling like it is starting properly. And I mean that in the goodbye-festivities-hello-daily-grind kind of way.
While it’s always a drag to leave the festive period behind, I am slowly getting excited about what I can achieve this year. My first order of business, though, is to -ahem- get my act together. There’s been lots of flying around and being out of the country in the past two months so I need to sit down properly and sort out all the projects I’ve been in the middle of and scraps of ideas I’ve been planning on doing.
When I left it last, I had finally completed a crocheted slouchy beanie I would be proud to wear in public, and a lil bow headband for a baby girl.
Monkey is my model as I have no actual baby on hand | Photo credit: Juxxtapose
I’ve also been messing around with hand lettering. My hand-writing naturally looks bleh, so takes a lot practice to get words looking like I want them to. I’ve been practising a lot with a brush marker I got at a roadside stationery store in Hong Kong.
One of my best-looking handwritten words so far | Photo credit: Juxxtapose
Controlling the pressure on the brush tip is a lot harder than I imagined, especially when you have to remember to make the correct turns and strokes at the same time. I can’t tell you how many times my spelling has been compromised cos I was too focused on the actual writing.
Hopefully I’ll get up to more of these project so I can share them with you. And, beyond that, I hope to produce more patterns/design/content/anything else that will be good enough to be offered up as free downloads!
As Singaporeans would say, good things must share!
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