DIY inspiration: cap-toe shoes

I really like all the cap-toe heels I've been seeing lately, but I've sworn off buying any shoes until all the ones I own are completely worn to death. Plus I'm not a heels-type girl anyway, but I couldn't help thinking about how easy it would be to DIY these types of shoes. All you'd need is your prefered colour of spraypaint and tape (to tape a straight line and cover all the parts you don't want spraypainted). A couple coats of paint on the shoe tip and that's it! You might want to spray on a coat of paint sealer afterwards, just in case. It's such an easy shoe-revamp!

1.YSL Opyum 105 cap toe pumps // 2.4.6. - Zara Toe Cap Heels // 3. Isabel Marant Gava Pumps // 5. YSL Opyum 105 cap toe pumps

These black lace-up boots look so comfortable... and the silver metalcaps would make great self-defense weaponry.

Chanel Toecap Boots

These sky-high YSL Pumps look mighty dangerous too...

Later on, I went searching online and found some simple & easy tutorials for cap-toe shoes. Personally, I think the cap-toe looks better on pointy pumps, but these following tutorials for rounded-toe flats are great nonetheless:

DIY Cap-Toe Shoes (using nail polish) from PostGradChic

DIY Neon-Toe Shoes from Green Wedding Shoes

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I'm on a self-imposed shoe shopping ban, but if you have a boring old pair of heels lying around, you might as well experiment with them and paint on some colour!

oh please don't go - we'll eat you up - we love you so

Author/Illustrator Maurice Sendak passed away this week. He wrote my all-time favourite children's book - Where the Wild Things Are (1963). The story is only 338 words long, but along with the ferociously fabulous drawings and Max's terrible eye-rolling, teeth-gnashing adventure, the book captures the wild world of childhood so well!

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Now...here are some fierce artistic renditions inspired by the Wild Things!

LET THE WILD RUMPUS START!!!

illustrated by Ana Galvan

illustrated by Craig Watkins

*this last image was found reblogged a billion times on Tumblr. 
if anyone knows the original artist, please let me know so I can credit him/her properly!


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If you want to see more, visit Terrible Yellow Eyes - a website entirely dedicated to artwork inspired by the Wild Things. Click here for the link!

Here's to childhood. I hope we never lose the wild thing in all of us.

when Star Wars meets potatoes

A couple days ago, my friend Angel sent me a photo of a T-shirt she saw that reminded her of me, since I like Mr. Potatohead and fries and basically any other greasy deep-fried potato product. 

Well, I thought it was super awesome, except for the fact that even though there's a Star Wars reference, there really was nothing else greatly galactic about the potato characters. 

So... I decided to draw a new and improved version. I based my Darth Vader Potato off this little guy here, a Star Wars Mr. Potatohead by Hasbro, aptly named DARTH TATER.

Here's my version of the T-shirt...

Presenting Darth Tater and... LUKE FRYWALKER (I thought of that one myself... genius no?) HAHA. Come on... it's punny...laugh, you!!!

This was coloured with some crappy dollar-store pencil crayons... but I'm pretty proud of my little Luke Frywalker. Now I'm tempted to draw the rest of the Star Wars characters in potato form!!!

music inspiration: Gungor

Lately, I've been listening to the musical group GUNGOR, a husband + wife collaboration with a unique eclectic style that I can't really define with any particular genre. They're super inspiring and definitely live up to their Grammy-nominated status. 

Probably their most well-known song, and one of my favourites, is Beautiful Things.

They've also got a blog with some pretty interesting topics - like this post HERE for instance, about art and perspective in life. Go read it. I think it's very well-written and insightful.

Anyway, what's exciting is that they're actually coming to Hong Kong this month!!! So I think I'll get to see them in concert! SO. EXCITED.

Click HERE for an awesome live version of Beautiful Things.

doodle of the day: pinocchio

This little lad is a tiny bit delusional, but full of well-intent. Plus, even though he seems prepubescent, he's got rock-hard muscles and a six-pack as sturdy as wood... the signs of a real man.