Sketched Strangers #5

My favorites this time would be the pretty blonde lady and the Korean boy, who live in the same apartment with me. The lady always wears eye-catching outfit every time I run into her yet I could only remember this one (perhaps because it's pink-themed). I saw the little boy at the swimming pool and couldn't take my eyes off his inflatable beach ball! It's translucent, sparkly and got a cute toy porpoise inside; the drawing really doesn't do it any justice.

Lost & Found Shoppe x Vanilla x Weirdoinpink ;)

The joy of collaborating with two of your favorite shops at the same time! The artwork above was commissioned by Lost & Found Shoppe and Vanilla Shoes for their flagship store opening a few weeks ago. Lost & Found is a curated boutique where you can shop locally-made products and vintage findings while Vanilla Shoes, provides the most stylish (and comfy!) footwear. The project itself was kind of rushed but I had fun working on it.

Vanilla's beautiful collection. Vintage-inspired, ethnic, casual, and quirky style...you got them all.

These savory Eighteen Pies were heavenly. One of the best treats ever.

The lovely Anggono sisters who founded and managed Lost & Found and Vanilla Shoes. If you are coming to Pantai Indah Kapuk, be aware of this cute tosca-painted facade and do stop by! ♥

Featured: Me, You, Us

The brilliant Lisa Currie from The Scribble Diary has just launched her second book Me, You, Us and she invited artists all over the world to share their scribbles on some pages of Me, You, Us. I was drawn to Lisa via Instagram and absolutely love her clever projects and snaps of her tickling drawings! Definitely a huge yay to see my silly and super tacky scribbles featured on her page and Instagram feed, because it's actually pretty sad to fill the Matching Tattoos page...alone by myself. I have to visualize my future 30-years-old daughter and here is the result. You can read what Lisa said about my tattoos here and here.

Postcards From UK

One of my cousins is currently studying at Newcastle University in UK and my auntie gave him a visit last year. It has been my habit to sneak into people's laptop or camera and take as many vacation photos as possible from them (with permission, though). I selected my favorite shots and got them printed as postcards. The last one turns out to be my most favorite because.... well, it's a postcardception, people.
Have a great weekend! :)

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Creative Allies held a Poster Design Contest for Owl City and when I heard about this for the first time I wanted to faint. Here is the brief project : Owl City is looking for original art to celebrate his latest album, The Midsummer Station. The winning design will win $500 and your art will be turned into limited edition merchandise. For this contest, illustrate your own fantasy-like depiction based on the new album title, The Midsummer Station. Let Owl City's music create the soundtrack to your original art. Feel free to use song titles as inspiration for your images. Do not draw owls, cityscapes or depictions of Adam Young. No photos. Reading the regulations that they stated above drove me asdfghjkl because Owl City's songs ALWAYS make me ridiculously eager to draw a lot of things... like some bizarre, surrealistic and uncanny drawings. I started to make the poster a couple of days before the deadline. Not only because I'm one of the world's greatest procrastinators, but it was really difficult and confusing to think about the whole concept. Too many things to pour down to the drawings yet I can't put them all. After I finally finished it with a big relief, the deadline was officially closed and a few days later I received an e-mail from Creative Allies... my poster was featured on their Editor's Picks page.

It made my day! I also saw the other picks and those posters are really great and some of them are seriously breathtaking. A few days later again, I received another e-mail from Creative Allies, with the subject : Owl City Finalists Selected. My heart pounded like crazy....

... I saw my poster on the finalist page. On Owl City's official Facebook fan page. It means the whole universe to me because... man, I'm just so thrilled to see something that I made, with a big pure love (lol) for my idol, Adam Young, is featured on his official page. I have done a lot of stupid things to catch his attention (with endless tweets, posts on Tumblr and many more...) because all I want is his recognition!

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(I hope I don't sound like a ambitious obsessed fan who will turn into a harmful beast if I lose in this contest!)

The Tiny Book

Fell in love at the first sight with The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories when I saw it on hitRECord, an open-collaborative company, founded and directed by the awesome Joseph Gordon-Levitt. And thank heavens for Open Trolley Indonesia, this book is available to order on their website (although the stock is super limited and I have to wait for around 3 weeks for the restocking process) so I don't have to deal with PayPal, pricey shipping fee, etc etc.

The book is literally tiny. And the stories inside this tiny book are, uhm, literally tiny. I finished reading the entire content in 10 minutes (or less) right after the FedEx mailman came to my door. But no, it doesn't mean that The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories is useless or not worth to buy! Let's see...

These two tiny stories are my favorite. Each story is amusing and unique, and due to the super short lines, you are free to imagine the rest of the story, or even the beginning. In my opinion, this book will make a perfect gift. An anti-mainstream gift. Okay because this book is so so so cute, I took a lot of pictures....

AND BY THE WAY...

Aubergine Garland's 2013 Calendar is here, available to order, and ready to sweetly stand on your desk!

Pre-order will be closed on December 12. View the full pages and more details here on Aubergine's blog and always feel free to contact me via e-mail, weirdoinpink@yahoo.com or reach me via text, Twitter, Instagram, anything... to order!

Uuuuu Cozy

Received two lovely shoes from Ditchy Mitchy and Shoecorner ! Major yaaaayness! (PS : The new Shoecorner logo was made by me.)

Gosh, socks. I'm actually not a socks person, I don't have beautiful legz so apparently wearing socks will just make my figure looks shorter and moreover, it will give me extra chore to wash every pair... haha what a life. But Marks and Spencer have the cutest collection of socks... the patterns are irresistible, ZOMFG-ly cute, so... yeah :/

Is it possible to go out with these kind of footwear pairing without being teased????? Anyway, speaking about socks instantly reminds me of Christmas. So people, for your very own early preparation of Christmas / New Year greetings, go check Aubergine Garland and always feel free to contact me to order these cards!

A Post With So Many Labels (and Words)...

I had a big thing to announce but I will talk about it later. Maybe next year. If only you guys care. Meanwhile....

Sights of Europe with South-East map as background. The Eiffel Tower, the swan, and the harbor were captured by Thia (Instagram : ThiaElz) with her Lomo. I went to her place last week and she got this pocket, full of these kind of hipster photos (that was what she said) and well yeah, I HAD to grab some of them, hehe. Her new kitchen is cool, one side of its wall is fully covered with cork, a pin board material. So yeah... she is free to pin anything up there. A giant pin board, I'll totally get one for my future working space, or bedroom.

Those photos are so... postcard.

And I just bought my second Paul Arden book (I worship him), Whatever You Think, Think The Opposite. I terribly need a BIG self-help right now so, I thank God for these readings. It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be was actually a birthday gift for a friend, but I took it back because it is much more useful to me. I will replace the book with another, better gift. I hope he will read this.

Again, today, I just finished watching Moonrise Kingdom, movie of the year in my version. Errr I didn't watch a lot of movies this year (confession : the last time I went to cinema was when I went to watch The Avengers) and the excuse is not I don't have any company, but simply because I wasn't really interested, I'd rather spend my money for shopping and I'm easily distracted with any kind of annoying audiences around my seat. Too many bunch of chatty girls who discussed the whole story during the film or screaming babies.

And oh about the Moonrise Kingdom itself, it was set in 1965, which is already a huge reason why do I love this movie so much. The two protagonists, Suzy and Sam, make an undeniably lovely couple although their look contrasted with each other. Suzy is so beautiful, she has a 24-years-old look in 12-years-old figure. Sam, oh, Sam, he is tremendously cute like a baby. Their story was written in an uncanny plot, and totally enjoyable.

I liked Moonrise Kingdom's Fan Page months before I managed to watch this movie. Tavi Gevinson was the one who introduced this movie on her blog. And speaking about Tavi....

She liked the self-portrait artwork that I made for her on Instagram!!! And I realized it after the notification was sent five days ago. Couldn't be happier! She has became my big muse since I started to stalk her a few weeks ago, and a lot of weird projects popped up in my mind. Involving old Barbie toys and another abandoned stuffs that I kept inside the treasure box of my childhood.

This ultra cute painting of me was made by Hanna, so surprised when she sent me this hehe... and as an art trade, I sent her this. Quite similar because of the pink-ness, bunny, Wonderland-theme and cupcake?

Nah that's all what I have got so far. I talked quite a lot, I feel better.