Month: July 2010

Come visit me and Elsie at Renegade Craft Fair San Francisco this weekend at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion from 11am-7pm on Saturday and Sunday! I’ll be debuting some fun new items and also a new booth design (which we’re still building and I have no idea how it will turn out!). I also just got a few copies of my book and will have one on display at my booth so you can check it out in person! Also, in fun announcements: Delia’s asked me and Yummy You! to design two exclusive t-shirts for them, and the shirts are available now both online as well as in stores! Check out this pic that grrrfeisty took! She is holding up the Cupcake Scarf tee, designed to look like you’re wearing a cupcake scarf without really wearing one! The other style is a giant frozen soda shirt with glitter, designed to turn you into a delicious frosty bev!!! Search “Yummy You” at Delia’s to check them out. (Don’t search for “Twinkie Chan” cuz nothing will show up!). I also made a fun VLOG for Delia’s about who I am & what Yummy You is, that I believe Delia’s is supposed to post to their Facebook page at some point…..so when it posts, I’ll let you know! I was gonna wait for the video to post before making an announcement here, but since people are starting to msg me already about seeing the tees, I figured I’d let the rest of ya know! 😉

We had 108 entries, and I used random.org to generate our winners! Congrats, Corinna & Star!!!!!!! I will send your goodies out on Tuesday, when I get back from Southern California!! If you read this first, please EMAIL ME twinkiedink at gmail dot com with your mailing addresses, and also please let me know again the color and thickness of your hair, so Jules can determine which formula is right for you :). I haven’t even packed yet for my trip, hehehe, but I will find your emails in WordPress somewhere if I don’t hear from you :). Have a great weekend everybody!! xoxooxo

(click for bigger image) Just finished this last night! Phew! I am hoping to debut a couple burger scarves for sale at Renegade, but we’ll see how much time I have! Eep! Workworkworkworkwork. (p.s. if you haven’t seen the hair product giveaway yet…click back to this entry!)

EDIT!!!! THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED!!! THANK YOU!!! OOOooh I have been waiting to announce this!! My awesome hair stylist Jules Chan has just launched her first hair care product! It’s the TEXTURE Powder Styler and you can get some at her website here where she also maintains a fun blog about hair. Her focus is Asian hair, but her knowledge and hair product covers any kind of hair! I have known Jules forever. When I finally wanted to chop off my life-long long hair in the late 90s, I had no idea where to get my hair cut. My mom used to cut it for me, or hair salons at the mall, and a few times, I even asked my little brother to do it just for fun! But when I wanted to go short, I knew I had to call in the experts! I was watching E! channel one day and saw a local hair makeover that took place at Architects & Heroes salon in San Francisco (it no longer exists now). I thought the people who worked there looked really “cool” and could give me some “cool” hair (incidentally, the colorist on the show ended up being my colorist for many years until she moved to the UK!), so I called them up and asked for a stylist who knew a lot about Asian hair. And that’s how I met Jules! She was the first person to ever tell me that I had to use product to get the hair that I wanted. This is a blessing and a curse as now I am a hair product ADDICT!! I have followed her from salon to salon, and now she is the founder and co-owner of her own salon, Dekko, which happens to be walking distance from my house! (Altho we’re moving soon, so that is moot, hehehehe.) Here is a recent article in the SF Examiner about her and the salon! Anyway, Jules is super awesome and has offered to giveaway TWO bottles of her new product to my blog readers, so we can have TWO winners! It comes in a light formula for light colored or fine hair, and a darker formula for darker hair. To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment in my blog (don’t leave one at Livejournal or Facebook, or else it won’t count!) with your email address and the color and texture of your hair! To earn an extra chance at winning, either Tweet or re-blog about the giveaway, and post that link in a separate comment here on my blog. Easy peasy! I’ll select two winners in one week. So you have until Thursday, July 22nd, to enter and spread the word! We’re leaving to drive to San Diego Comic Con that night, so I’ll probably draw around 6pm California Time 🙂 I absolutely could not wait for this product to come out. Since I am rockin’ the bangs these days, my bangs are the first to get oily on my […]

I just finished this Loopy Cuppycake Scarf for Mike of Twink, the Toy Piano Band! We did a little creative swap, and hopefully soon I will get to show you more about that! I haven’t made one of these loopy scarves for a super long time, and it was really fun!!! I have a lot of stash I can bust by making more of these, so I think I will after Renegade Craft Fair and Magic/Pool Tradeshow are over! I bought some heart sunglasses for another project and wanted to see what they looked like on my face. I ended up making this funny thing which reminded me of a cheesy photo in an 80s teen magazine. As real as it may seeeeeeeeeeem, it was only in myyy dreams!!!

Don’t hire this girl to scrape your paint.

On Monday, Hairy and I went with my pal Margaret, her hubby, and her dad, to Napa Valley. Her hubby is from Houston and had never been to wine country before, so Margaret asked if we would like to accompany them and have dinner. I won’t bore you with details, but we were starving, missed our tour of Rutherford Hill, and ended up eating nuts and berries from the Mondavi gift shop to stay alive. But the weather was perfect, the company was delightful. All in all a nearly perfect day outside. We ended up on a tour at Mondavi and tasted some vino. I do not like wine. I think it tastes like bowling ball cleaner and dirt and twigs. But I tasted a white, a rose’, and a red to play along. I enjoy the adjectives used to describe red wines like “insistent” and “muscular.” Sounds like a dude from Jersey Shore! “This cab sauv carries notes of dark cherry, thyme,  and The Situation.” We had dinner at Bottega, which Hairy was curious about since we see Michael Chiarello on Top Chef Masters a lot. However, it seemed from the menu that he is not even the chef there anymore? Regardless, the menu looked tasty. The best part was dessert: lemon curd with zeppoli (little Italian donuts)! Before dinner, we walked around this shop called Napa Style and I fell in love with vintage metal stepping stools and clear sea glass blue jars for drinking cups. If we ever make it out to the Alameda Antique Fair ( the next one is during Renegade! poo!!!!), I will def be on the look out for fun treats for our house. (oh, p.s. in the first picture, I was testing out a pose I stole from my Aunt Vivi. I saw an old photo of her from her early twenties, and she had the most awesome cheezy poses! I worship her skillz! I need to find more old photos so I can learn from the master.)

My highschool bestie is in town from Houston with her hubby, and my mom and I went to the new house with them. My friend studied interior design in school, so I wanted her opinion on colors for all the rooms on the main floor. When I went looking at fabric with Manda the other day for this fashion art project we are working on together, I found the above fabric and fell in love with it!!! (It is totally different than the art project, btw!)  I am now using this as color inspiration for the new house. It may not be what I had originally imagined, but I think it will work. There are a lot of elements I have to work around, leading to some compromise here and there, but overall, I have my fingers crossed it will turn out cute. I really just want to move in and skip the part where we have to paint every room and every baseboard, and pack up our loft, and set all our stuff up again! Right now, I am mentally frenzied with prepping for Renegade Craft Fair, as well as the outfit for the Sweet Streets II art show in L.A. that Manda and I are collabing on….plus I have to design a few more things for the next Yummy You catalog, all this month! Plus we are going to Comic Con in San Diego for a day as well as Disneyland after that. There’s a lot going on, but truthfully, I probably wouldn’t have it any other way!