♥☆♥ Pastel Usagi ☆♥☆: Ruru Victoria Review ♡✧˖°

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♥☆♥ Pastel Usagi ☆♥☆: Ruru Victoria Review ♡✧˖°:   Hi again..!! I'm back with another review, I meant to have this posted much earlier but I have been recovering from surgery for a...

Kawaii Amigurumi Chocolate No.13

Kawaii Amigurumi No. 13 Chocolate!

YES! I finally finished Chocolate, for real, she looked very delicious ^___^ This is my 13th kawaii amigurumi collection and I'm very proud of it. I couldn't believe I made at least 13 amigurumi plush already, wow! Considering that I'm not doing this for full time and I'm very happy. :)

I hope Chocolate will find a good home, I'm sure her new owner will treasure her a lot.
Instead of making dress, I only made a flower necklace for her. I also made her a little birdie friend...sitting on top of her head. The little birdie was made out of wool felt and she a cutie pie <3 <3 <3. Chocolate also wearing a flower band on her ear, each flower is made with furry felt fabric with pearl beads in the center. All hand sewn >_<
If you are interested to find out more about Chocolate, you are welcome to visit my handmade craft shop in Etsy : https://www.etsy.com/listing/103234640/amigurumi-crochet-bunny?ref=pr_shop  Or you may find all my listings on the side bar menu. :D

Hello everyone, my name is Chocolate, nice to meet you all! <3 <3


I have a very innocent face, don't you wanna kiss my pinkish cheeks?


I am waiting for my new home, are you going to take me home?


This is my best friend ; birdie. He's very little and always sitting on top of my head.


Will you take me home please?

When I first making Chocolate I thought people might not like her..because she has very dark fur. But when I finished her...I want to keep her because she just way too cute...and delicious ^^  I really hope Chocolate will find a good home... someone will love her and treasure her for a long long time.

Hi, what are you looking at? I know....I am a cutie pie <3 <3 <3

I love you Chocolate!

Ester Charm Project

Hi Guys! Just finished baked my Easter charms commission. These charms will be send out on this Easter Sunday to a special someone. I took the liberty to make a bunny and a cross for this commission.
I thought it will be kind of special to have bunny (Easter...oh well, you will connect bunny with Easter, don't you?) also a cross, which symbolize church and baptism. Since it just came out from oven I can't really hold them xD I have to wait till it is cool enough then I can paint it. Oh my, I got SO many colors for this bunny, LOL! Promise will show you guys finish product and a lot of pictures!!

Hopefully I will have plenty of charms in order for me to shoot  a video for it. ^___^ By the way, I just uploaded a video to Youtube for my Alpaca collection review, you can click the link and take a look! The penguin in the video is for my Niece's Birthday gift, she's nuts about Penguins! ^_^
Here are another picture from the bunny...

Very round and cute! I can't wait to paint the little bunny's face :D
By the way, here is a closeup for my cute Golden Puppy's face!

Amigurumi Cute puppy! Still trying to make him (Yup, I've decided, it's him!) a jumpsuit and maybe a hat! He's way TOO cute to ignore, isn't he? <3 Love you puppy! When he's finally finished, I will make a video about him...ooooh, I can't wait to see him wearing new dress!
Thank you for reading my post! Next post: Dishes for weight loss. ^^ Please stay tuned!
GBU~

Amigurumi Golden Puppy No 9 WIP

 Amigurumi Golden Retriever Puppy Wonderful Day 

Just finished my cute round head Golden Retriever puppy! He's my number 9 creation. The puppy got very cute! I had to share with you, LOL I couldn't wait till I finish the outfit.
The puppy-chan has very round face, floppy ears and big brown eyes! Puppy will have a sundress and a headband to go with it. I might make a cute shoes but it will depend on how I make the sundress ^^
I received my fabric this morning and I really liked the fabric, not bad at all! I think I will be purchasing from this vendor, they are very fast and responsible, thank God! I was going to draft the dress but since I just came back from our Evangelic Meeting from church I guess I have to wait till tomorrow night.
I am TIRED physically but not mentally! I love our special speaker! He's a great speaker and often bring the truth from a simple joke...I had the privileged to sing the the Praise Team and I really enjoyed a lot!
I hope someone will adopt my puppy-chan. He's very special because it was the first time that I dye my yarns! Puppy will be available at Etsy...sorry, I will not make same puppy, because I only dye 1 ball of yarn...LOL
Here is the puppy No9!!

I am looking very proud! Yes, I am a proud puppy! ( Mao Mao blog got new QR code!)

I LOVE playing games on my phone!
(erh...it's NOT your phone puppy...it's mine *__*)

LOL, I hope you all enjoyed today's post. I will post the dress when I finished. Thank you for reading my blog and PLEASE support me for Amigurumi page rank in Japan by clicking the logo.

★◆ 参加しています。 Maochan© あみぐるみ (^△^)©
応援して頂けると嬉しいです ☆ (^▽^)★★♥♫
Thank you thank you thank you! ^^

Amigurumi No8 Puppy WIP

 Amigurumi Crochet No 8 Puppy 

I wanted to use this yarn to make a Golden Retriever puppy, I thought the color will be close to the real Golden Retriever :) This was my first time to try to dye my yarns. Using Compulsion to dye..however I felt that it was not successful :S Why? Because all the fur shrunk after I dye...and it was not fluffy at all when it is finally dried. :( I saw other pro ami masters dye their own yarns and all their yarns looked fluffy and furry. :S I don't know what went wrong in the process *sigh* I guess I have to dye more in order to find out.
Anyway, here is the preview of the head and body ;P Hopefully these fur balls will evolve into a cute kawaii puppy ^^

Don't you think this looked like Golden Retriever fur? :D


Another angle...I really liked this yarn, hopefully I can dye in tea color soon.

I got 2 online shops at this moment and if you liked my collectibles, you may purchase directly from my shops: Etsy (store name: sirmaomao) & Storenvy (store name: ruruvictoria), thank you SO much for supporting me and I know I need it....a lot!!

I want to show few nice pictures of Mao Mao pictures that I took at my brother's house. They went to Holland last year and bought coo-coo clock. It's a very nice clock and I placed Mao Mao in there. He actually fit in that place...hahah
Here are few pictures...

Mao Mao! On top of the world! :D

Mao is looking at you!
Just came back from Youth Fair... it was the worst Youth Fair that I've been to. Raining raining and more rain. I don't like wet, sticky weather -_- I'll post more about the things that I purchased there <3
Take care everyone and have a great Weekend!
GBU

Amigurumi Snow Bear

Recently I started to crochet this Amigurumi Snow Bear for “Christmas Shoe Box” project from our church.  I thought it will be nice to make something unique for the child, of course I also included some other toys, note pad, pencils and T-shirts. Too bad that I couldn’t include RuRu’s designed T-shirt…  D:
It still in designing phase and might get ready around Jan Hopefully next year I can supply some for these kids.  The Christmas Shoe Box project is created for children in other countries with limited or no resources to things that we don’t even care. Like toothbrush, candies, toys, pencils & note pads. We have more than enough resources to use and these children needed but couldn’t get enough. Our church is been sponsoring this project for several years now, I used to buy things but I want to make something special this year.
Well, I’m not yet finished but just to give a preview…hehe, I hope you liked my version of Snow Bear (not polar bear). When I finished I’ll post it with a nicer back ground!
Oh, talking about background, I’ve been looking for a good material to make walls and floor. Do you have any ideas that you can share with me? I absolutely have NO idea where and how to get it. I only been to Michael’s Art Supplies and Joann Fabrics. I got some miniature things but am puzzled about the walls and floors. I really appreciate if you can share with me (>_<)


Okayyyyy, here are the pictures

Just finished…but I missed 2 legs…arrh

Snow Bear head (~_~)



He’s looking at you kid <3




” Hmm, where is my body? “





 


















” Yay, I got my body! “


I hope you liked what I did. I’ll make more Amigurumi dolls in the future and if you liked it, you may purchase in RuRu Victoria in the future. I’m looking at around Jan 2012 as well. BUT I do take custom orders if you want to get Amigurumi dolls for someone special for this Christmas PLEASSSSSSSSSEEEE let me know, I’ll be MORE than happy to take your order!
Thank you So much for reading my blog, May Mao be with you and have a great Weekend~~

Fun Mao Mao Bunny Tshirt Design

It's been a while since I update this blog, sorry about that guys >_< I promise I'll get better updating my art progress more often O_O

In case that you don't know what's happening to me, LOL, I'm currently building another shopping site selling my stuffs; T-shirts, T-shirt designs, Amigurumi dolls, cute stuffs around the world. I'm going to open design studio taking projects/assignments for various design for T-shirt, logo, posters, eFlyers, photo editing and possibly short video commercial in the future. :)

Here is a cute T-shirt design that I did for my Nephew & Niece. They both love Mao Mao very much and wanted him to be on their T-Shirt, so I designed this for them. This is made with press on fabric. It looks better if I can get it printed on shirt directly (digital print or screen print). Well, maybe in the future I can print it out.

I LOVE the expression of this bunny...hahah, he looked numb and Mao Mao was running away for his life!

I'm going to put this in my new online shop blog; http://www.ruruvictoria.com
and http://www.sirmaomao.com and if you liked the design please let me know.

Later, I'll make it available to purchase if you wish to use this commercially.
So please don't copy & paste this one, I got a high resolution one and I charge reasonable price.

By the way, if you are interested to hire me do a design work, please note me in here, I'll be glad to send you information. :) Thanks!

Thanks for reading my blog, have a wonderful Sunday ^_^

Alpaca | Arpakasso plush pictures

I recently got a lot of Alpaca plush from Japan. Please don't ask me why I got a lot, I meant at least like 9 plush... -_- I had none "zero" then I got desperate this is how it happened :S

I was in Taiwan back June and saw this "sheep" like Alpaca plush, I didn't pay much attention to it because I was not too fascinate with it besides I know it is popular before I went back to Taiwan. THEN, when I come back to US, I started to see a lot of people searching for it online. Go search any search engine you will know what I'm talking about then I thought "Geesh, what opportunity I've missed? I could purchase A LOT of it and setup an online store and sell it" Ouch right? Yeah.


Later, I found out there are plenty different Alpaca plush in Japan. Each one has different design, some with pastel colors then I thought "OMG!! I SHOULD BOUGHT THESE!!! They are SO CUTE!" double ouch right there. Ha!

Finally I started to search hope I can find someone selling but NONE! Later I found a girl selling from UK (-_-) In case you're NOT aware...UK British Pound is higher than US Dollar. D: Then I bought some from her. After that I waited almost for 2 months to receive my plush BUT before that I found my supplier and ordered several more.....hahaha, yeah now I got a lot and I want to find my alpaca a nice home and sell it.


I'll be posting more picture on my Online Store http://www.ruruvictoria.com but you can go to my Mao Mao's blog and take a look at the pictures of these cute Alpaca plush.


Here are few pictures that I edited for my Mao Mao's blog.

Cute Alpaca Plush <3

Aren't they cute? All the pictures you saw are belong to me ^^ I took the picture and edited. :) In case you don't know, I love taking pictures :P Hopefully I'll have my little amateur studio.

Alpaca Love

Aww, Aren't they cute? I'll be making some free wallpaper for my readers and subscribers. SUBSCRIBE ME! :D I hope you enjoyed today's cute article, I'll see you later this week, hopefully I'll meet my schedule and get my online store ready. Nite nite guys :)

Digital sketch? Wacom Inkling!

When I saw this Wacom Inkling I was like "I want this!!"

This is a really smart idea! Putting sketches in digital format, it will eliminate a lot of scanning and re-sketch problem. I some times have difficult time to redraw something that I drew on a piece of tissue paper earlier of the day. Sometimes I just can reproduce the lines again. Thanks to Wacom now I can sketch on a normal paper and it will be transferred to my PC :D

This is from Wacom website, talking about Inkling:

 " The Inkling digital sketch pen captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper. Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling is ideal for the front end of the creative process. Later, refine your work on your computer using an Intuos4 tablet or Cintiq interactive pen display.

In addition to capturing your sketch, stroke by stroke, Inkling allows you to create layers in digital files while you sketch on paper. Digital files are transferred to your computer using the Inkling Sketch Manager software, and later, exported to applications such as Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator®. Files can also be opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to edit, delete, add layers or change file formats. "

http://www.wacom.com

What's inside?

Inkling Digital Pen

Rechargeable Pen battery

Pen ink cartridge

Charging Case

Receiver

Rechargeable Receiver Battery

USB cable

Spare pen ink cartridges (4)

Inkling Sketch Manager Application (located on the Inkling receiver)

Quick Start Guide and electronic User’s Manual

It will be available in Mid Sep and now Amazon.com is taking pre-order...I'm going to order on myself tomorrow, Do you want one? Let me know if you have per-ordered already >_<

 Have a Great Thus guys... muah~

Photmanipulation print giveaway! Freebie!

I'm giving out 2 5x8 Mao Mao Fur Knight photomanipulation photo print to first 2 reader who comment on this article.

Yup, I ordered prints from my gallery in Deviant Art and wanted to make a nice gift for my subscribers and readers, SO if you liked my previous post about photomanipulation and want a copy print of my work, just leave a short comment in here then I'll contact you and mail the print to you.

I wanted to do this for long time...you know arrange competition, prize giveaway...etc but I NEVER got a chance to do that, finally I can do it. This will be the first one and hopefully many many giveaway will be arranged in the future.

In the meantime I'd like to ask you to subscribe my blog or follow me in blogger. this will boost my confident and wanting to write  and draw more good stuff on it. :D

Looked very big but actually it's about 5x8.

Just want to give you guys an update  about my online store. I got the name already and everything else except MERCHANDISE! Oh my GOODNESS! I'm running around without my head to get the merchandise that I want. One of the supplier that I was interested to purchase items seems not that interested so I had to find other suppliers who are INTERESTED.

Another supplier in UK just took my money and telling me to wait for the merchandise, it's been 2 months already and I don't have my merchandise.  =_= Talking about drama....here we have it all.

I'm also designing some stuff, so when I have it ready it should look really good. Hopefully the store will open at the end of this year or Next year, I'm aiming at Valentine's Day :D

Hopefully people will like my design <3 <3

Talk to you guys later and have a wonderful Wednesday~

Photomanipulation: Sir Mao the Fur Knight

Hellllooooo guys how are you all doing?

Thank God that Irene didn't come to Florida BUT I felt sad for all other States who got hit by Hurricane Irene. :( I really hope people are all okay there, my prayers to you all~

Never lose courage nor faith, you know that Mao Mao the Fur Knight from Kingdom of Charm will protect your heart from evil!

This is the FIRST ever photomanipulation that I ever done! I followed an online tutorial because I SO wanted to learn how to do this, and the ONLY way to learn is to DO IT BY YOURSELF! So, I found a very good website: http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/photo-manipulation-tutorials/ which offers plenty of tutorials on photomanipulation. I'm going to start my 2nd assignment and hopefully I'll finish by Sunday and WILL share with you guys <3 <3

You can download this full version on my art page: Marlinx Deviant Art page 

What do you guys think? I hope you liked it. I still can see little flaws here and there BUT I am very happy that I finished something and created some wonderful work for Mao Mao. He does looked real right? :D

I had to do some adjustment on the horse, because there was a "knight" sitting on the horse...LOL I had to "erase" the knight SPECIALLY his leg! Remember Mao Mao don't have a leg >_<

Also I adjusted brightness and contrast... I didn't like the light blue in the tutorial SO, I made it darker to have some dark feeling...yup, Mao Mao is GOING TO KILLS THE EVIL DRAGON! xD

I'm thinking my next project...hmm, I think I'm going to make an old attic with some antique toys and of course Mao Mao will be playing toys...with lights and smokes ( shall I say dust? O_O ). Wooo... I ca't wait to start now!

Ok, there is something that I need to spit out! I can't hold it any longer! ARRRRHHHH!
What is it????????? I'm going to have my own online store! *phew* I said it! xD

I'm still setting up websites and merchandises, when I the store is finally ready I'll let you know and PLEASEEEEE buy something from my store..LOL ^^ Joking! You don't have to buy unless you want to :P

Ok guys, thank you for reading my blog...when have time please visit my other blog :Cute mao mao
Have a great Wednesday <3

Magic Inspired Watercolor Painting

Hi Guys long time no see!!! Yes I'm still around just being very busy lately.

Today, I want to share a very nice traditional watercolor painting by one of my friend on Deviant Art. I've posted a cosplay picture called "Magic" and this picture inspired him to paint the picture.

I really liked the way he compose the whole picture. If you visit my gallery (Marlinx Deviant Art page) you'll see the original character was lying on the floor holding a card and looking towards the camera. Instead drawing something similar, he drew a larger face and half body, you actually can see the expression from the character and it looked very interesting.

 

I am SO glad that he made this picture! I really liked it, specially with the little tear/diamond under her eye, simply BEAUTIFUL! <3 <3

I’m glad that my picture can be inspirational, I never know a simple picture can do this much! Hopefully I’ll create or have more “good” pictures to get people inspired OR can feel what I felt, see what I’m seeing. Challenging right? LOL, yeah I know but this is something that I want to go for it.

I’m also looking into “Cinematography” at the moment. I’m amazed by these short films have “cinema” feels…I really want to make something like that! Maybe in the future :)

Well, I gotta go sleep now.. I’m DEAD tired –_- . If you liked my blog or drawing OR anything, do not be stingy about sharing your words/comments with me ok? :) I love to make friends~~~~ Nite guys have a great Sunday!

GBY~

Amazing Kitty Charm here, LOOK!

Heyyyyyyyyy! I want to show you these wonderful kitty charms that I got from my trip in Taiwan. These are SO cute and colorful. I love all three colors, hehe it makes me really cheerful to see these colors!! They are JUST RIGHT for your purse, mobile phone or just simply carrying around using a hook and hook on your pants. These charms are not little, they are about a foot long (girlsssss, of course!)…like maybe 6-7 inches at the top. The fabric is very soft and smooth, possibly cotton with polyester? Sorry that I really don’t know how to describeon this but it is very smooth.

I right now ONLY have 3 kitty charms and I am not going to get anymore so if you want it please let me know If you are a cat lover, you should get one of these, it’s delightful! I swear you that you won’t find it anywhere. I even only saw few of these in one location and didn’t see it anywhere else.
If you know someone loves cat, you should get it for him/her as gift or keep one for yourself! This will bring their smiles on their faces!


Like I mentioned earlier, each items that I have in my online store are in limited quantities. I only bring small quantity items and these are handpicked items, they are very unique I, personally liked it very much. I won’t sell anything that I don’t like

Okie, these kitty charms are $12.00 each, Plus $3.00 shipping & handling.

You said WHAT? why $3.00 shipping & Handling? Well, I have to pack the item and personally and BUY packing board at the Postal Office, these boxes costs a lot of green ( you can see how much it cost on the back of the box ). I do not make any money on shipping.

SO if you’re thinking, please comment me with your Paypal email address and what color you want on my sir mao mao site.








Thank you very muc for reading my article! <3

Bath time - Mao Mao Comic

Hi guys!
Long time no action, haha I know I know!!  I've been very busy and didn't have time to do my favorite thing which is drawing! Finally I finished my first ever comic strip phew boy it was much difficult than I thought.

At first I thought it was easy, right... Just draw 4 little squares and then you're done. WRONG! It took me whole 30 mins thinking how to end this story, then another hour to finish sketch and color. I didn't finish the whole thing till tonight, hurray! ^_^

Well, this is my first try to make a comic out of Mao Mao OR anything. I might expand more character but for now it's the little girl ( no name yet! ) and naughty Mao.

If you find it funny or worth reading please drop me a note and let me know, this will give me great courage to continue, of course I will try to improve whatever is lacking but support and show some love?
LOL Thank you SO much for reading my blog and comic.

Please visit my other blog: http://www.sirmaomao.com
and Deviant Art page: http://marlinx.deviantart.com

Bath Time

I'm bacl from vacation

Hi Guys! I'm finally back from my  vacation.
Well, I'm still tired and trying to recover from the trip, I'm just writing to let you know that I haven't forget about drawing nor updating blogs...just I'm way to tired to do anything so, SORRY >_<

I think next week I'll be able to start writing and sharing some interesting things that happened during my trip :) Lots of love guys and see you next week!


It's been raining all day... I felt sad in raining days =_= Take care guys <3

Praise Team Polo Shirt finish product

Hiya guys!
Finally I took time to pass by my church this afternoon and took MA shirt home, har har har!! I am SO happy that they really liked the polo shirt. The gray was a nice choice and the black printing just classic!

Overall, I liked it. It's crispy and all fine lines are really nice and clean! Take a look!

CBCM Praise Team Polo Shirt

 

 

 

 

Anyone can guess the theme song that I put on there? For those of you can read music, you probably can guess what song that I took from, if you know the answer please note me or reply in comments area ;P

Here is another shot for the polo shirt:

Full shot

Another closeup

:) Hopefully when I come back from my Taiwan trip I can start design some cute shirt for teens and for those young at hear *wink wink* What do you think? :P If God willing, I want to start my own studio doing ad design, t-shirt, banner, logo and manga :D Yeah!

I always have love for manga! I read manga all the time, when I was young I wish to become a manga artist....but didn't do anything. I am determined to do it this time! arrrrrrhhhh... pray for me for those liked my art...your encouragement means a lot to me, thank you!


Ok, I gotta go now...I'll be flying to Taiwan on Sunday morning and hopefully I can post something interesting from there. Please take care and GBU~ <3 <3

Cipher digital painting

Hi everyone!

I was going through my blog articles and saw Cipher -WIP and I sort of forgot to post the finished drawing on here >_< I'm SO sorry! LOL, I don't remember it at all! @_@

Ok, as I promised I'm uploading Cipher in here :D I hope you don't mind this late...lol
I've been busy doing other things, designing banners for our church and design shirts for
our Praise team. They told me that many people loved it! Also Coral Spring Church's Music Minister also liked my "Boy & sheep" design, she said she's going to order for her team. WOW! I'm really happy that they liked my design.


I was worried that I might not do a good job BUT, thank to God it turned out alright ^^ That gave me ideas to make T-shirt designs when I come back from my trip.

I will start to design T-shirts and some custom made stuffs with my Mom, stay tune for my announcement for our online shop ;P Hopefully this design thing will lead us into something more wonderful!

I might be able to update till July, before my next update I want to wish everyone a great summer and keep drawing!


Love your life and be happy, never, never give up!

Praise God T-shirt!

Hi guys!
Just want to share the new with you guys, I got the T-shirt few days ago it was pretty!
Picture is very crisp and proportion is just perfect! I was worried that picture might looked smaller on the actual Tshirt but it turned out just right!, YAY!

I didn't have the polo shirt but this Sunday I'll get it, I'll post it on here with both pictures. I think Blogger has some problem, it won't let me post any pictures, it said "Server rejected", not sure why but I'll try it again on this Sunday. :)

OMG, I just uploaded a picture! This is great!
Ok, another closeup of the t-shirt!

:) Picture is nice, specially the sheep, SO cute! I know that our English Praise Team didn't like this shirt, according to what they said " it's too cute!" I guess since they are all guys... they don't want cute stuff on them... LOL

This Sunday I will receive the other shirt, since we changed the shirt color so it will be gray and black logo. My sister was asking me how come I didn't design black shirt and white logo? O_O yeah, heheh, I never thought of it! I wanted to give some color to the team I didn't think "black" is a god choice. Anyway, I'll update you on Sunday. Please take care!