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Tired Week
My sister’s family is visiting town, but I felt like I had seen enough of them already in Toronto last summer. My sister in HK and my mom had dinner with them separately, I declined the invitations and kept myself busy with work. Finished re-engineering my studio’s mascot, DEXTER, to use a more flexible frame […]
tagged: 3D-printing, art, calligraphy, evil, faithfulness, family, friends, hk, injustice, patience, photography, politics, prayers, projects, running, self-control, social, sports, thankful
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Hot Week
It was a hot and muggy week. My biggest accomplishment at work was reviving my studio’s old Etsy shop to make available some hand-drawn artworks for online order. Not really expecting to make many sales, but happy that I was able to check off a Q2 task and wrap up one of my biggest projects […]
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Calligraphy and Meetups
Completed the last batch of commissioned handwritten calligraphy postcards. Thankful that the revenue from the commission was more than enough to cover the cost of the batch of expensive handmade recycled paper that I bought to show support for a local paper artisan. I even had extras to put back into my personal art fund […]
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44th Birthday
Took a day off on Mon to give myself the gift of time to do whatever I want for my 44th bday. I finally took the time to organize and display my growing series of critically endangered animal caricature paintings in my private living-room gallery. I’m not particularly fond of celebrating bdays, but I’m courteous […]
tagged: 10k-run, animals, art, brush-and-ink, calligraphy, depression, faithfulness, family, fellowship, friends, grateful, life, love, milestone, patience, practice-makes-progress, questions, running, sculpture, self-control, sketching, sports, time
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Workshops, Postcards, and Meetup
Just realized that I had attended 3 workshops in the past week – DIY coffee grind soap on Mon, Chinese rubbing technique on Tue, and letterpress on Sat. Work-wise, I managed to complete the first couple batches of commissioned work – a total of 25 handwritten calligraphy postcards. Those activities have occupied the bulk of […]
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Goodbye?
After 5 weekly classes, I said good bye to my seal carving teacher and classmate on Thur night. Though I probably wouldn’t recommend the instructor to others, I did learn from him what’s needed to carve my own seals for a recent project. During my calligraphy class that afternoon, my teacher said he’ll hand down […]
tagged: art, artist, calligraphy, canada, cartooning, faithfulness, family, farewell, friends, hk, Mil estone, movies, patience, politics, prayers, seal-carving, social
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Back On Track
After a bit of struggling with my own will power, and when I was just about to leave home for my second weekly running practice yesterday evening, my Fitbit watch couldn’t be turned on. I didn’t want to run my planned 10K practice without the watch to track my time and heart rate, so I […]
tagged: 3D-printing, art, calligraphy, christian, faithfulness, family, fellowship, friends, green, joy, kindness, pandemic, parents, questions, running, seal-carving, self-control, social, sports, work
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Catching Up
Made the extra effort to catch up with my 1000 calligraphy characters goal for Q2. Completed the 100 weekly characters target plus an extra 16 to make up for the 12 I lack last week. Had quite a few meetups this past week including dinner with family on Mon, calligraphy class on Tue, lunch and […]
tagged: 3D-printing, art, calligraphy, family, friends, patience, perseverance, projects, running, social, sports, work
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Hiccups
After making good progress last week on my Q2 goals, this week was met with many hiccups. Even with many morning efforts, my weekly calligraphy goals was still 12 short of my weekly 100 characters goal. Studio work was met with some unknown 3DP hiccups which I’ll need to troubleshoot this coming week. Running practice […]
tagged: 3D-printing, art, calligraphy, faithfulness, friends, important-date, patience, plants, running, seal-carving, social, sports
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Q2 Transitioning
Started executing my ambitious Q2 plan after the Easter holidays. Managed to keep up my weekly calligraphy goals while adding a new 5-class seal carving course. Picked up my order of handcrafted paper yesterday, will try to setup an online store to offer my calligraphy works in coming weeks. The calligraphy work, which I still […]
tagged: 3D-printing, art, calligraphy, digital-fabrication, faithfulness, friends, paper, patience, projects, running, self-control, social, sports, studio, thankful
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