Month: May 2010

On Saturday, Hairy and I were supposed to meet up with some peeps at Pier 41 to take a ferry to Angel Island for Daniel’s bday. However, me staying up until 6am, and the Embarcadero being very crowded, meant that we missed the ferry that everybody else was on!!! So we just chillaxed around Pier 39 until the next ferry. The island was very cute, but, it was sort of a boon that we missed the ferry cuz I don’t know that I was really up for a ton of hiking. I had also worn the wrong shoes. I think my Marvin the Martian Keds Sneakers from the 90s finally just make my feet 100% uncomfortable!! Good bye, old friends! I should have thrown you away after you made my toes bleed in Copenhagen! After ferrying back to the SF, we all met up at Serpentine for some yummy yummy din dins. Here is a short video snapshot of part of that day! D’s bday: Angel Island, Serpentine from Twinkie Chan on Vimeo.

My hair is getting a bit longer than usual, so it acts kinda funky until I get it cut. Weird pieces stick out. I can’t tease it as well. Etc, etc, etc. Today I got really bored of my hair and wanted a baby bun on top of it my head. I curled the rest of it so I could poof and tease it, but it looked really bizarre. So then I twisted and pinned up one side and then braided the other. Now I have a mini bun side pony braid. Can’t decide if this is the worst thing ever, or kinda funny. Probably both. Oh, btw, the glasses tshirt is from AsiaJam. I get asked a lot where to buy tees, so, that’s where this one comes from! The hairbow is from Etsy.

I have had this sprinkley resin necklace in my faves from Stoopidgerl’s Etsy shop for a little while! I was so happy to finally make it mine! Today I also got my roots did. It’s the only moment in time you will see me with my hair flat or not in pigtails. I’ve been flip-flopping over getting a hair cut, or letting it grow out a bit. Then I thought it seemed backward to grow your hair out during the SUMMER!

I’ve been working on two of these for a commission. While sewing in the ends (the part I hate most about crocheting, espesh cuz I’m really anal about it) I stabbed myself underneath my fingernail with a small tapestry needle. Hurty! I’ve also been working on the design still for the Yummy You site and online shop, as well as working on an update to the Etsy shop. The mitts I’m working on for that update are soooo super scrumptious! I am also suuuuuper behind on some gifties I wanted to crochet for friends. Sadly, the gifties always fall by the wayside. I gotta make some time for that! It’s been a bit hard planning my booth for Renegade. I kind of want to focus on fewer types of items, but with higher quantities of each. It’s tough to decide which items to make the most of! I think I will have a handful of scarf designs, coffee cup cozies, brooches, tissue box cozies, zipper danglies, embellished cardigans, one special tshirt design, and maybe mitts? When I had mitts and cute-tility packs at Renegade last year, they did not sell very well….so I dunno if I should bother to bring them this time! I have a supremely fun idea for tote bags sewn from scratch. I better get on designing and ordering the custom fabric for that! Eep!

Last year, Hairy’s bday present to me was a lollipop tattoo. I then asked my friend Marissa if she could draw a few pieces for me. I’ve always loved her pieces that look kinda shiny and delicious. But I knew it might be hard to translate into a tattoo-able sketch. It kinda took me a while to get my schedule together with my artist Holly’s schedule, but I finally went in this weekend to get my lolli on! I don’t think I originally intended for this to cover so much of my arm, but to get a really good twisty lolli, size helps! I was super swollen yesterday, but it is much better today. I can’t wait for it to heal up! I have to admit that I feel somewhat more balanced now since I had one inky arm and one totally blank arm! I also booked an appointment in June to finally get to finishing my sleeve. When I was sitting in the chair on Saturday, I was like, “Why am I doing this to myself? This HURTS!” I thought more and more about how the needle was digging into my skin, depositing foreign debris INSIDE MY BODY. It got really disturbed by it all. No, I don’t regret any of it. I love all my work. I know I will have them when I’m 90 years old (my favorite comment from people). I’m just saying I think it’s kinda weird, too. Then I think about all the traditional, tribal, warrior-type tattooing that has happened all over the world for centuries. “Therapeutic” tattoos on a 5,000 year old ice man. Ritualistic and spiritual tattoos from Egypt to Japan. Etc etc etc. I don’t know where I’m going with this. My cutesy-poo art makes my day a bit brighter. I think that’s a powerful thing.

Hairy and I went to NYC and then drove to Boston because United screwed up our flight to Hong Kong last year and gave us travel vouchers. We ate lotsa food, and visited some friends. Some photo highlights: Me and Kerin Rose of a-morir. I love watching her brand get huger and huger. It’s exciting! This was our first time meeting in person. She cracks me up; she is so full of energy! We ate at <a href=”http://www.angelicakitchen.com/”>Angelica Kitchen</a>, and it was the healthiest meal I ate on the whole trip! Aside from the pop rocks chocolate she bought us at the Israeli market. ADDICTIVE. Hairy conducting business at our hotel in an ocean of pink accoutrement. Eating a giant Portuguese donut in Cape Cod/Provincetown. Being a huge dork in the North End of Boston. NEED MORE FOOD. EAT YOUR FACE. Ok, now there are a TON of pics under the cut!!!!! I kind of gave on proper chronology…. at least I got the locations right! 😛 I will try to post the vacation video montage soon. It will include Hairy’s run-in with the law.

New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts. Still here in Boston. Having work withdrawals….!!! Need to start prep for RenegadeSF!

Last night, I went with Hairy to his shared studio for an art show opening. His buddy Andy as well as Tiffany had pieces up. We were all starving, and then Tiffany told me about American Cupcake on Union Street. You just have to check out the menu. It’s like a little girl’s dream come true. Hairy ordered the PB&J with sour cherry, I got the mac n cheese, and we shared a giant order of tater tots. He had a red velvet cuppy while we were there, and I (the pastry pig) took home a lemon cuppy, a chocolate cuppy, and a BUBBLEGUM CUPPY!! Here’s a short video so you can see THE RAINBOW LIGHTS!!! I need these in my next house!!! (I accidentally knocked some frosting off this one when opening the lid!) I wanna live at American Cupcake. I want to throw parties in there!!! Cotton candy, popcorn, RED VELVET BREAD PUDDING!! WHAT!!

The Life Aquatic is one of my favey fave movies. I wanted them to come out with a ton of Team Zissou memorabilia, but mostly all you could find was red hats!!! Anyway, I randomly searched Etsy for Zissou swag recently, and I bought a Team Zissou Ring!! Proud Junior Member!! Join the team at Steve Zissou’s Etsy shop hehehe. In other news, I haven’t done an outfit post in a while, so here is what I’m wearing today: Dress: Nicole Lindner. (vote for her for this Detroit Designers Contest!) Leggings: I’m You Present Necklace: Cicely Margo Shoes: Miz Mooz. I’m actually just trying to wear these as much as possible and break them in so that they don’t break my feets when I take them to the East Coast next week!

Ahoy! Sorry for the radio silence. I’m trying to cram in a buuuuuuuunch of Yummy You work before going on a trip next week!! EEEE!!! I have been wanting to start exercising for a little while. My doctor told me back in November that I should lose like 5-10 lbs, but I never did anything about it because I was so busy. I figure now that there’s no such thing as the “right time” for anything, and I’ll always be busy, so I put on my gym shorts and my knee socks and went to business. I’m wearing the shirt and pigtails I slept in, and I didn’t bother to do my hair or my face. Here’s clips of me getting my sweat on with Carmen Electra’s work out. I am waiting for my Turbo Jam to arrive in the mail! Oh also, it’s kinda funny that Bibi is wandering around behind me the whole time. She likes to be supportive. 😛 Untitled from Twinkie Chan on Vimeo. Recently I went cray cray at the ebay store Refuse to be Usual. Items ship from Taiwan so you pay through the nose for shipping, so someone tell me where else I can find a hamburglar hoodie with hand-shaped pockets and a hand-shaped hoodie!! I actually took this pic for gothcupcake’s etsy shop for her hair bows, so if you click on the image above, you can get a pink sparkly hair bow, too! Lastly but not leastly, Dommie asked me to participate in a little Q&A on her blog, so check it out and find out what my favorite smells is!