My Dog Diary

I’ve been renewing the domain and switching hosting for the past few days, hence the lack of updates on this blog. Besides, I’ve been working quite a lot trying to get some work done too.

Some of the work are still pending for the final touch up. Here are a few that I’ve listed on Etsy.

Swirl Definition of Love Ring.

Basic Upcycled Long Purse/Wallet No.2

And my personal favourite, Basic Upcycled Long Purse/Wallet No.3

Go to my Etsy store (you can see on the sidebar) for more photos. I’m just plain lazy to upload all the photos here. Besides, I think they will look cluttered together… excuses. >.<

On the side note, we sold another Traffic Light T yesterday. Packed and ready to ship on Monday!

I was supposed to hold this on until I post all if them on Etsy and other places but I just can’t resist to write something! >.<

OK. First of all. A new necklace. Meant to drag my bf out for a walk.

And another ring.

And then finally, the new stuff that I’m extremely excited with!

A recycled/upcycled/repurposed (whatever you name it!) long purse/wallet from banner!

I have actually done a similar test unit a few years back, and am now still using it. That was solely done by hand (yeah hand-sewing, which was really painful! >.<). This, was sewn using sewing machine. I do improve, you see.

The ring and necklace are already showcased on etsy and other places, but not the long purse. Most like will up tonight or early tomorrow morning. I have been dreaming of having this in our product line and I finally did it!

As I was saying that we were extremely busy about 2-3 weeks ago, we were actually working on getting these up on time.

The company that I was attached with in a way was having one of their major events some time in the middle of June. I somehow got the idea that if they could have funky t-shirts during their 3-day event, it would look really great. So I suggested to my superior at work and then we came out with these.

We had all the working crews wearing similar t-shirts with different colours all over the three days. Orange on the first day, maroon on the second day, and blue on the third day. I forgot to snap photos of the orange and blue ones for the gents’ t-shirt.

As I was only there for one day and was already extremely tired, here are two photos taken when I was there, at Switch World 2008, Gurney Plaza.

Two funny Switchers. They were recording me when I was shooting photos of them. LOL.

And the sexy Switcher-boxer.

If you ever wonder what Switch is all about, check out their website here.

I’ve been wanting to update this blog for very long but could never really get a time to do so. Probably I just need some time to snap some nice photos of our products, or Xiao Bi, but… OK la all excuses! LOL. Lazy bum.

Anyway.

Today I thought of sharing a very nice experience with a very nice customer of us not long ago. Sometime at the end of last month I received an email sent to my personal email account. I thought it was a spam and luckily, I took a while to read through. It was an enquiry on our Couple-T. Instead of having our standard couple-T, this customer was asking if we could change the wordings ‘My boyfriend’ and ‘My girlfriend’ to their names.

It was such a wonderful and creative idea! I thought. So I quickly replied and worked out a fee for that. Instead of going through the standard fee for our customised-T, I discussed with DARL and worked out a better option for him. We happily suggested a method that, well, a bit more troublesome for us, but save a few bucks in his wallet.

We were running out of the size of the t-shirt that he required at that time. He was kind enough to pay us in advance and waited for almost two weeks to have both his customised-Ts ready. Everything went smoothly. We test printed several times before we got the t-shirts and special thanks to his patience, we did it without pressure. If you are reading this, thank you again!

So here are the end products.

Drop us a note if you are interested to declare your love via our couple-T!

Sometime last month DARL came back excitedly after meeting a friend, telling me that the sister and brother-in-law of his friend is having a cafe with home-brewed coffee in Penang. I know it’s one of DARL’s dream to have a cafe like this. But instead of having one ourselves, this time around the sister and brother-in-law hooked up with us to print them some t-shirts for their new business. Yay!

It was rather a rush work, as all the t-shirts needed to be ordered separately. While waiting for the blank t-shirts to arrive, we spent some time preparing and testing the stencils. We’ve made plenty of mistakes, plenty of carelessness, and learned a good deal of lessons and experiences. It was, after all, all worth it.

The cafe’s name is Sitigun. It’s situated at the Nagore’s Place, near the New World Park.

And I so LOVE their slogan/tag line: where good life begins.

After more than one whole week of hard work, we’ve finally got all packed and ready for delivery.

There are now under their soft launching period and will officially open on this Friday, 6 June 08. Me and DARL are both invited to their opening. I’ll blog more about it at Listen so stay tuned!