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One of a Kind show Spring 2012

It has been a year since I did this spring show! Woohoo..time pass too fast!!
I miss last year's show because my parents came to Canada to visited the show. It was their first time to see the art/craft show and get an sense about what I have been doing in Toronto! Their visit is meaningful for both of us.

           This is my booth at last year, 2011 spring One of a Kind show.



                   So I catched up the last minute to see the show today.

I LOVE Jesse Broom's galss works!  

Finally I got this lovely tote bag from Bookhou, it's one of the hit item in downtown Toronto.

Tetsuya Ishiba 石田 徹也(1973-2005)

Tetsuya Ishiba

I saw Tetsuya's surrealistic paintings before.  Typically from most of his paintings,  you will see the emotionless man interacts with the industrial life in a grey tone. You might receive the depressive atmosphere and agree with Tetsuya's vision of our life. It's very impressive and totally inspiring.
However when I look at his work again, I have another different feeling since I noticed he's not in this crazy world anymore...

Tetsuya Ishida (石田 徹也, Ishida Tetsuya^?) was a Japanese painter, best known for his surreal portrayal of an ordinary Japanese life. He was accidentally killed by a train in 2005.

---wikipedia

Making things & Selling things

Every year when approaching to Christmas, I kind of have a mood of shopping ( or I have that mood all year round actually). The holiday's atmosphere makes people go for shopping, to look for something for family & friends, and of course for yourself.
The craft shows that taking place around the city is a must to go. Not only for looking for the beautiful and unique things, but also it's a chace to getting to know the handmade world and meet the makers directly, to embrace and support the artists' endeavor of their creation. This is an incredible experience for both maker and buyer, and also, this is what you can't get when you shopping in the mall.
My sweet friend plus studio mate Jen  Kneulman participating the OOAK Christmas show from Nov 24th- Dec 4th.

Freshly Printed

Booth#: U-51

Freshly Printed

Booth#: U-51

Lovely Jen with her booth

Not doubt her booth is a hot spot, I love her booth design alot! It's totally matching her products style and shows the artist's character. Jen got the "Best booth design" award from the show, Congrats!

Sonja ahlers ( photo via kat )

         Booth#: O-13

Sonja ahlers ( photo via kat )

Booth#: O-13

When I walked in Sonja's booth I felt like I walked into a cozy bunnies world. It totally blew me away!! I want to have the whole booth as a collection, does she have this option or can I afford it? hmmm...

The One of a Kind show will open until this Sunday, if you didnt check it yet, hope you can grab a chance to visit and you will surprise!

New website

Recently I renew my website: www.shuyulu.com. I made it on OPP, a website that help you to create your own website in a straightforward way! All I need to do is choose the templates (standard format)  that they provide and upload the images & documents onto it. It's a really helpful one for the artists I think and I strongly recomment it to whoever want to create a simple website for your art profolios.
Loving it!!

I think I won't deny to take the drive lessons anymore if I own this car!!!

Cozy

I made these needle felted brooches and now selling on  My Etsy shop.
When Im making these sculpture-like needle felted  brooches, it's remind me Yayoi Kusama's work- round shape sculpture and always with her signature polka dot pattern. Her work inspired me alot.

Autumn

I was so happy that my works sell in Kid icarus, and they also promoted my works on their website. Im really appreciate for the sale/ exposure opportunity, and they take good care of the artists' work!

This Thanksgiving long weekend I went to algonquin provincial park with my friends. Yes! Finally!!
Of course as we expected, the views are BEAUTIFUL! I can't tell which is the best because every corner is great. Sometime you can't describe the wonderful thing by words, it's just too powerless.
Thanks for the good weather too, it was another wonderful trip in this year!

My etsy shop!

Finally I make my esty shop!! This is so exctied!!
Now I feel like it is a real business.

Here's the the link:
http://www.thelsy.etsy.com/

                Wash Up - 8x10 archival watercolor print by Tracy Lizotte
Check from here

Little things make my day!

                                                Artist: Selena Wong  
                                                    Rabbit Outfit
                                                Mixed Media 3 x 4”

I bought this cute little girl magets set from the store kid icarus. Made by artist Selena Wong.
This little treasure cheer me up in the rainy day like today:)
Love it!
Have a good weekend.

Shows in the parks

This year I participated Cabbagetown art & craft show( Sep 9-11) and Queen West Art Crawl( Sep 17-18) again. It was a good experience no doubt-- selling work in the pretty parks in the sunny day, meeting people, make new friends & old friends come to visit, lots of cute kids & doggie...

And of course, I gained more experience from the shows.I like keep learning things and  absord knowledge through participate different things, and that's something you can't learn from school.

It's never too late

It's never too late to discover the amazing and beautiful things...
Here're some great work that I found recently from Anthropologie & Etsy:

Artist: Nathalie Lete

Bonjours, 2008

ceramic, 17"x 113/4"

Artist: Nathalie Lete

Chaperon A Pois, 2008

ceramic, 10" diamater

Sunlight fine art oil mix media painting

                                                Artist: Yangyang Pan

Autumn Landscape abstract oil painting

Artist: Yangyang Pan

Im not that into painting but I just simply love Yangyang's aesthetic and the colors of her painting.

Wish I can have all these works as my own collection!!

As well, it's never too late to start my blog from now I think?

I'd like to share my inspirations, ideas, wonderful and fun,, every great thing here!

Have a good night!