Cute Things

Toy from Prague

A friend who just returned from Prague got me the neatest souvenir there!

czechtoy

I’m a bit Czech myself, and I think I can see some resemblance….

If Wishes Were Dishes

You know what would be fun? Making dishes with cute patterns on them.

elephantplates

(Not as easy to execute as a knitting project, unfortunately, but at least I can sketch it.)

Maybe it’s the warm weather finally come to NY, but my focus is just all over the place! There are suddenly tons of different projects that I want to start all at the same time.

A Pile of Pups

Only one more class to go in my Illustrator course, and I’m afraid I haven’t been practicing as much as I should be. But I’m still very excited about the application and all the crazy cool stuff you can do with it. Especially 3D effects!

pupsillo

This is a kind of preview of the next pattern I’ll be releasing in the Mochimochi Shop. Finally, a stacking pet for dog lovers! I think the illustration more or less looks like the knitted version, except less knitted and soft. (And grass is not included.)

For some reason, I’m suddenly feeling an urge to make stacking animals out of blocks of cheese. This sounds like a lot of fun to me at 1:20 in the morning. If only I knew an animal lover who was hosting a whimsical wine-tasting party.

BFF Series by Travis Cain

How cute are these little vinyl toys that I spotted on Pica + Pixel yesterday?

bff

They’re a new series called BFF, designed by Travis Cain. Very much my style!

bff2

They’re $7.95 each for a blind box, and you can get them at the Kidrobot website and at Schmancy.

A Shy Cory

Two months ago John set up a new 50-gallon fish tank in our living room and populated it with 25 cory catfish. They are too cute!

I just spent the past ten minutes trying to take their picture, but they’re a bit camera shy. The best I could do was a photo of a single cory at rest.

shycory

It doesn’t show up so well in the photo, but one of the cute things about corys is the way that their gills are pink, which makes them look like they’re always blushing.

You can see photos of all different kinds of corys at PlanetCatfish.