Author: TwinkieChan

Hairy and I will be going to Chicago for that weekend in June to attend the opening. I normally probably wouldn’t make the trek over, but he likes to travel a lot and I’ve never been to Chicago before, so what the hey! That’s what stimulus checks are for!! (I haven’t gotten mine yet………)

So cool! By Browncoat (I know this is totally huge and unviewable at twinkiechan.com, but don’t worry. I’m going to re-do the blog area of the site so that there’s more room and it’s easier to read and look at stuff!) Also, fun moment from last night before I went to take a shower: Hairy: The size of your hair is not directly related to your attractiveness. Me: Um….. you’re wrong! *closes door*

There is something very very wrong about this photo to me, yet it’s also too funny not to share, I think. It just reeks (haha) of real life. You’re in the middle of trying to take some okay-looking photos for somebody and then your dog takes a major dump on the patio that you need to pick up before the flies attack the poo buffet.

Heyo, I now have some stuff available at a boutique in Boston called OAK. I hope all my Boston friends go and visit and tell me all about it! Stuff will also be available at the website, www.oakboston.com, soon.

I know I said I was going to make a fruity post on eBay, but I was sort of overcome by cupcake fever! Cupcake pouches, swarovski pins….yup yup!

Me: Um, have you seen my checkbook anywhere? Hairy: No, is it in a specific holder or cover? Me: Yeah. JOHN DENVER!!! (obvy, I found it.)

Cuppycake pins: Custom sugar cookie pin: (Jody!) New felted cupcake belt/fanny pack: I need to take better pics. These were taken at night! I made this on Friday on a whim. Now I’m working on a newer version with a more ridgey yellow cake area. I have fun calling the cherry on top The Extra Hairy Cherry. Speaking of hairy, Hairy installed a new version of Photoshop on my Mac the other night, but I still have the muted-color problem once I upload images anywhere. It’s really weird. I have no idea what these images look like on your computers! Yucky and pale? They were nice and vibrant in Photoshop. I’ll check on ’em at work on my PC, too.

I have no idea if the new issue of Inked Mag is in stores yet, but go pick one up! Also, for a LIMITED TIME, I can offer you a discount code to subscribe to the magazine: 10 issues for $19.95. It’s a great deal for such a beautiful publication! Just go to inkedmag.com and follow the directions to subscribe. Your discount code is “twinkie.” Go go go! (My issue, the May issue, won’t be included in the subscription yet, so you’ll have to grab that one at the bookstore!) xoxo

I just put some things up on the site, Shop! There isn’t anything terribly new, but it’s all still pretty cute: cookie pins, berry pins, fried egg pins, the last of my t-shirts, the last of my button packs. You’ll notice two new items, though, SWEETpants and SWEETshirt hoodies! You’ll see! They are very silly. Tried to upload a photo of Bibi in a relaxing green tea bath, but photobucket is being really weird….more Bibi updates soon! She is not feeling very well right now (butt soup) so she might go to the doc tomorrow.

This is a video demonstrating my current regimen to cure The Cough From Hell: Also snapped some photos today of some stuffs (you’ll see I’m wearing the same thing in all of the vids/pics from today!). Beth from Jus Shar Designs worked on a little sweater with/for me and it’s really really cute! Here is a peek at one of the things I’m putting together for a boutique/website in Boston. Yellow cake with chocolate frosting is not only Renee’s favorite, but Hairy’s, too! I must now return to editing images for a good website update. Hopefully next week I will finally post up the sweetshirts/sweetpants, some pins/brooches, and some felted ipod cozies. Yay! Ok back to work.

This is the cupcake scarf I whipped up this week for my cousin in Hong Kong: It’ll probably get cut off at twinkiechan.com. I’m trying to figure out how to link Flickr to Word Press so I can just upload these to Flickr and post them here. I think I got Flickr and Word Press to talk to each other, but all I ended up posting was a “

Apparently I have contracted SARS. I noticed all the various syrups I have collected and decided to take a picture today. Buckley’s: This is some random stuff that Hairy picked up when he went out for cough syrup. Apparently its motto is “Tastes real bad, works real good.” It is sugar-free and alcohol-free. It tastes like a burning hot mess of yuck. And it doesn’t work very well. Hairy also made me breathe it in with steam. It burned my eyes. I do not recommend. He took a picture of my face underneath my towel and steaming hot bowl. My eyes were squeezed shut and my mouth was open, taking in the steam. It looked like I was being born. The Chinese Cough Syrup: This is some syrup that my mom used to give us when we were kids. I don’t know that it works very well, but it tastes GREAT. It has loquat or kumquat syrup in it, as well as other minty type things. Manda insisted I take some, so I did. Can’t hurt. Robitussin: The old stand by. I’m not sure that it works very well. I got the long lasting 8 hour kind. I took it before we took Bibi to the dog park, and then we came home to eat dinner and I passed out until midnight. I would say it lasts for 4 hours. Prescription Stuff with Codeine: I picked this up last year when I had the SARS cough. It’s been really hard for me to get a good night’s sleep and I was hoping that codeine would knock me out. No such luck!! Woke up today with 1/4 of a Ricola drying out my tongue. Vapo Rub: I just picked this up today. My mom is also sick and has been using it. I am desperate. I will try anything. I gooed myself up with this a few hours ago. I’m a little disappointed it doesn’t last very long. I’ll goo myself up again before bed time and hope for the best. In crafty news: I have been making stuff for my cousins in Hong Kong this week because my parents are going there next week. I’ll take a pic of my girl cousin’s scarf tomorrow. I’m not sure if I can finish my boy cousin’s scarf in time, unless he gets back to me. I made him a video with questions. God bless technology! This is yarn that he picked when we visited him in Vancouver. He asked me to pick the biggest baddest blue button I could find. I haven’t been having much luck with good blue buttons! Also, sorry about the SARS coughing. I am a terrible knitter. I had to google how to cast on, and I remembered the rest. The neckwarmer he saw for $70 was knit, so I wanted to knit his as well. Ah well. It’s the thought that counts, right?

Hey Gang! Just wanted to let you know that all my chocolate bunny pins are sold out! But there is one more cool thing on eBay that you can buy: a one-of-a-kind Glazed Ham scarf with detachable pineapple rings. I’m really proud of this piece, and I hope you love it! xoxo

Hairy hung up our plush deerhead today. We are working on a “kitschy urban forest” theme. Baby steps! (Sorry if the images cut off. You can click on any of them to see the full picture.) Hairy also covered a few things in astroturf: And yeps, that stump and the mushrooms are by My Paper Crane. This is a commission felt-applique hoodie I made for a boy: It’s a Fire-breathing Wordicorn. And finally, here is a preview of my real quick Easter eBay. Um, Easter snuck up on me and I had NO idea that it was in MARCH!!! DOH!!!! Anyway, I will post few cute things tomorrow-ish with some Buy It Nows for those who absolutely need things before Easter.

When a lot of people see Bibi, she is going crazy and acting like a lunatic because she gets excited about seeing people and other dogs. I guess I just also really appreciate how mellow, sweet, and loving she is, which then makes me totally obsessed with filming her when we’re at home. Here we are from today, after I made mini English Muffin pizzas and after she had a sardine snack. I am sure our breaths were really delicious. For a while she is on my lap, obsessed with eating her own foot. About two minutes in, we hold hands, and then at the end, she tucks in for a napplebee. I will be posting up some old buttons and tees, and NEW hoodies and SWEATPANTS as soon as I learn how to edit my own webstore :). xoxo

Hi Gang! I hope you all get a kick out of the new website design. I had a few giggles while drawing it, I must say! In the past, I had been blogging at Livejournal where you can scroll through some past entries, but I will be updating more right here from here on out! Here is a pic of some pins/brooches I finished last night and will be posting on the site when it goes up! And just in case you missed it on LJ, here is a short video clip of the cute astro-turf doggie ramp that my guy Hairy made for our pup Bibi since her little legs were too short for her brand new doggie door!

Welcome to the new, bright and shiny Twinkie Chan website! Take a look around, click on some foodstuffs, check out the shop (which I will now keep updated more often than every two years, I PROMISE), and go get yourself a snack and a juicebox. You’ll need it! xoxo, Twinkie p.s. Please sign up for the mailing list if you’d like to be notified whenever there are new items in the shop or on eBay. Thanks!