Pet Project: huey&wah @ Etsy
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The past few days have been really hectic, with plenty of disagreements in between. But the fun part was on Monday and Tuesday, when Wah’s friends came visiting from K.L and we had lots and lots of good food, and met the legendary woman who sells meat floss and rap in Hokkien. Oh and not to forget a pretty little Japanese cafe that we discovered and I totally fell in love with it – which I’ll talk about it probably in the next post.
Anyhow.
About 2 weeks ago I started shopping for a handmade facial moisturiser and landed with several choices. After much considerations and all, I finally decided to go with this Calming and Clarifying Facial Cream with a Blend of Seven Botanical Extracts from DressGreen. It arrived last week and I am totally glad that I made this choice! Not only Lauren, the woman behind the brand, was quick and friendly in responding to questions, the cream has the exact texture that I was looking for, with the hint of scent from the blend – not too strong to annoy my nose, but just right to make me feel fresh.
Photo taken from DressGreen.
After using it for several days, I’m still pretty happy with it. It’s easily absorbed by my skin. Now the only thing I’m regret is I didn’t buy a toner together. Urgh!
 
As mentioned, we are working with Global Environment Centre (GEC) in a collaboration. Finally, we’ve listed our first collaboration work in our Etsy shop tonight.
GEC is a non-profit NGO, established in 1998 to address key environmental issues. GEC is based in Malaysia and supports activities worldwide. We’ll be upcycling their banners into merchandise and selling them in our Etsy shop. 10% of your purchase will be donated to GEC’s Forest Care Fund. Donations will be made on a quarterly basis starting August 2010, and will be updated in this blog.
More items will be added to this section NottyPooch + GEC soon – and don’t say I didn’t mention, some of their banners are really nice and made really really really unique and awesome stuff, and seriously, even I myself got excited over the work!
For the first time, the Treasury that I made hit Etsy’s front page! I haven’t been making Treasury for AGES and this was made during midnight with my eyes half-closed. Maybe I should do this more. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Click here to go to the original Treasury. The sellers really have some awesome stuffs to offer, whether or not you are going back to school! Wee! :D
Several weeks ago I made a deal with a friend and fellow Etsian, Christy of christystudio, to help her working on several aspects of her branding, and in return she gave me three of her bags. I mean. THREE. I’m not sure if she is being generous or what, but THREE. Not one, not two, but THREE!
I know Christy slightly more than a year ago when I was still with my day job. I met her once when I was in K.L, and I must say that she is awesome. Just awesome. Comfortable to talk with, friendly, and oh-so lovely! We could talk and talk and talk and seriously I just ignored Wah at that time. LOL! Even now, we could talk on the phone on many topics. She is just, so, awesome.
Anyway back to the bags. She completed the bags really quick and shipped to me weeeeeeeks before I could ship her stuffs down – and seriously, I feel really bad about this. I was supposed to ship her stuffs down two weeks ago but no thanks to our lovely printer who made plenty of mistakes this round (I wonder why!) and with grandma passing away in between, I could only ship her stuffs down today. It’s way OVERDUE missy!
And this lovely Meredith in Sahara is what I chose to have. It’s roomy with four pockets in total (one zipped pocket), and a leash with lobster claw clasp attached for keys. It’s actually a little too big for my usual choice but I’ve been carrying it around for weeks, and I’m totally in love with it! I basically have all packages in it when I’m hitting the post office. And oh did I mention that the material used is so soft that I can really hug it?
Since I’m not really a bagaholic – I can totally make use and stay with one bag for years – I gave the other two (a Juliet tote and a Chotto tote/messenger) to my mum and sister-in-law, and they both love what they have! Oh and for some reason we all chose to have our bags in Sahara. Teehee!
P/S: My little niece actually asked why every girl in the house got a new bag except for her. So to make her feel better, I had her posing for me. :P
Our main intention to start working and developing the coaster set was actually to fully utilise the materials that we already have. Just like any other sewing or crafting projects, there are always scraps or leftovers. Many of these pieces are too pretty to be thrown away, but yet too small to be made into regular work.
Some time last year when Wah and I had a conversation on how we can reduce or minimise waste in our working process, we jotted down several ideas, including this Valentine’s Day card, mini library card, and of course the coaster set. Some of the ideas still need more thought and work, while others are being turned into real work one at a time.
As for the coaster sets, after much arguments, we settled by using the canvas scraps for the extra moisture. These canvas scraps were ‘produced’ when we worked on the cases for MacBook and MacBook Pro.
The canvas scraps are being cut into small pieces and sewn together before being placed in between the banner pieces, to be sewn into a coaster. Yes it’s more work compared to buying new and ready-to-be-sewn materials. But we believe it’s essential for small business like ours to minimise waste, in any way possible.
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