Last day of summer camp :-)

This month I have been working with couple different Oakland Rec center

Mostly for art summer camp programs

It was really fun to work with many different kids, that teach me to become a better teacher.

The past week I have been teaching in in Monclair rec center


I am the art summer camp teacher, and I teach puppet making!!


It was so much fun to talk to kids, it's amazing they have so much energy
and they have lots of cool imaginations and ability to draw very freely


It was really fun and cool job to do for summer


I'm sure I will miss them because we spent whole weeks together


but I am also looking forward to have more energy to work on my own studio ;-)

anyway..I can't believe August is almost over...

I need to start working more in my studio!

I promise next blog posting I will have some new work :-)

Now you can find me in San Francisco!!

This Friday I have a visitor to my studio!
She is a store owner from San Francisco (Gravel and Gold)
http://gravelandgold.com/

She pick some cup and mug to show in her store.
And this is a awesome shop on the 21st street,
So now, you can go visit my work in San Francisco!! Yeah!!

I am also on her maker's page which makes me feel like a star :-p

anyway, can't wait to finish my last summer camp next week so I can start working in my studio again!!!

Ahaaa......nightmare....

Yesterday I was so grumpy...
because my kiln didn't fire off, which means all my glaze are HALF way fired
and this is what it looks like


I know what you think..."oh, it doesn't looks too bad!"
But I think my camera didn't do the justice on this one.
so I got my best-worst example


Check out this one!!

It's so bad that I really like it, I think I will keep this one the way it is


and maybe make a sculpture out of it


anyway, now I need to pack up all the pots and re-fire them in San Francisco
oh...wish me luck, because you never know if the second firing going to save them or kill them..
keep your finger cross for me.

Summer time

I LOVE go to farmer's market
especially to the one by the China town in Oakland
It's the BEST farmer's market ever!!!


Their vendor's price are good, and have so many different variety of food


Now, with warm weather and lots of food in season, it is just a treat to go and see all different food.


Not only you can see all the food, you get to smell them too!!
you can smell flowers, herbs and many yummy food!!


anyway, this week I got luck that I talk Jason into go to the market with me


I had so much fun because I got to take all these photos and shop at the same time without carrying any of my purchase!! haa~

anyway, when is the last time you went to farmer's market?

If you want to go, I am always available :-)

Dealer's Button

Most of my friends knows that I LOVE poker.
Even though I am not a great poker player, but I love the game of poker.
and it just happen someone ask me to custom make dealer's button.
But this dealer button is a dog tag for a doggie name "Button".
and here she is!! (I think is a she...)

She is sooooo cute!!!


And here is her button (dog tag). Too bad in the photo I can't show the back side, it have her name and phone number. This is the first time I mad dog tag, it was fun!!


This is the picture that I got from her owner after he got the tag,
Anyway, I hope Button loves the button that I made for her!!!

Back to work:-)

Wow... time goes by so fast...
It's almost been a month that I haven't work in my studio. (shame on me:-()
I am not sure why? maybe is the weather? It's just so nice out side the whole time,
why would I stay in the studio??Anyway, finally I got my self into the studio for few hours today! Yeah!!
and I was happy that I did that,
because that reminded me how much I miss working in my studio.

here are some new stuff that I am working on--big latte bowls (with handle).
I really enjoy making them, it was nice little break from the shape.
anyway...time to go back to my studio now :-)

Birthday weekend

Just got back form a awesome trip to Mendicino, lots of cool people, houses, dogs and food!!

now is time to clean up my studio and ready to crank up some more work ;-)

Busy summer :-)

Yeah!! Me and Jason finally give in and pay for our internet!!
Now I can do more updating for my ETSY and my blog

The last month was really busy,
I don't even know how we both mange to do it all

well, it kind of a lot to list out what we did in the last couples weeks
I think picture is worth thousand word(or million?)
so here are couple pic of the Bazaar Bizarre at the Maker's faire


I had a lot of fun! there are so many people that I can't go walk around to see all the fun stuff!!the organizer was really awesome, they even prepared snack for all the vendors!
anyway...it was a two days event, and I had lots of fun also learned a lot form the shoppers :-)

The weekend after the Bazaar Bizarre it was Jason and my open studio!

we also have Noelle Nakame came over to show with us!!

and this year's open studio was a great success!
now two weeks after open studio, I am finally ready to make more new work!!!
Can't wait to go back to studio and make more pots!!

My cup on ETSY!!

This past week was so busy, Jason is doing woodfirng and
my sister is visiting me also doing Bazaar Bizarre on weekend

so I just kind of running around like crazy, finally have time to sit down and check my email
and I got notice from squareware that my cup is in her treasury

too bad when I checked, the posting was expired.
good thing that squareware put the picture on her blog so I got to see it
Yeah!!!

now, you can see it too :-)

This weekend!!

I know I have not been a good blogger.
But it's hard to keep your online life without internet.
It's been more than a month since my last posting.
Since I don't have any photo to show my current work.
so I post these ...
These are the logos for my shopping bags

I really like these , and it made me work on paper

So I have been working on my drawings
oh...these images are from my cups or plate that I drawn

and I will put it in photo shop to make them like this
anyway, my next sale is coming up soon.
It's this weekend at San Mateo

Please come see me :-)