D.I.Y. Tea Party Apron

Sometimes it's a challenge finding the right gift to give friends when they have birthdays or farewell parties so we've been sewing aprons as gifts. Each one is unique in pattern and style and most importantly practical (I hope). It isn't so much a "housewife" gift but a statement of independence as many of our friends are now overseas or in other parts of the country. It's a little something-something to remind them of their family and friends back home as they make their new homes elsewhere. This apron was for a friend's little sister who loved pretty colours so we made her a tea party style apron for her to play in.

This is an intermediate level project and will require 1-1.2m long cotton drill fabric or anything that is thicker. The length of fabric you will need depends on how wide the fabric is. If there is any left over pieces of fabric, you can easily make a small pocket to attach to the front.

Happy Sewing!

Pufftique Commish: Graduation Hat

Graduation season is back again!

To celebrate and commemorate the achievement of fellow graduates, Pufftique has been making little clay graduation hat as graduation gifts. I was planning to fly down to Wellington to attend my friends' ceremony but work came up so I missed...everything. To make up for it, I sent down some hat charms to congradulate them on their success.

Not before doing a quick photoshoot with Lisa from Pufftique to show off the fine handy work.

Media Design School Recap

Last year I took a course in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics at MDS. Deadlines were tight and I wasn't exactly an animator before I started the course so it was quite a tough year, for me at least.

Here are some things that I made for MDS:

Bicycle Network Victoria - Map

So this is something that I made a little while back. Couldn't show it back then because it hadn't been released yet, but since the DVD is selling right now, I can finally take that silly password off of the Vimeo page.

So at the start my only reference is a low res picture off their website, and I followed it pretty closely for  the trials. The drawing for this took a long time. Honestly I didn't want to draw the map but I had a lot of time back then so I thought I would challenge myself.

So it started with me doing a simple Google search for Tasmania. Nothing I found was usable really. It took another 2 days of screwing around and wondering whether I should actually take on this project or not before I thought EFF what ever, I'll give it a go.

It took about a week, a couple of hours here and there when I can get myself to stop procrastinating. I drew Tasmania, it's islands, the highlands, wetlands, lakes and rivers. Most of it was pretty accurate, but I know there are some parts in the Southern part of the island that I just got lazy on haha.

Check it out:



Great Escapade Tasmania 2013 Mograph from Andrew Cheung on Vimeo.

Thanks for watching :D