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August 12th, 2021

Let’s find faces!

Let's find faces: level 1
 a smiley face on a rockALT
Let's find faces: Difficulty 2
Somewhat happy and spooky faceALT
Let's find faces: Difficulty 2.5
Do you see it?ALT

Three faces in line

February 3rd, 2021

On a beautiful sunny day in Yokohama.  Thanks Gamze and Mutlu( @gamzozer) for modeling!  Yay, the boston terrier bag became bigger and sturdier.  Now it’s returned to my shop.

December 21st, 2020

Printing a giant linoleum stamp for making canvas bags
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJEwHLcg6NE/?igshid=1e3ac5et9kyq5

November 3rd, 2020

My son turned six recently.  He loooooooves Spongebob.  So I decided to make Spongebob cake for his birthday.  For a non-baker person like me,  I must say it was a challenging project.

Face : bake a sponge in a square shaped mold

Eyes: bake chocolate cookies shaped like eyes, then decorate with blue and white frosting

Eyelashes and noses: store-bought chocolate sticks and cookies

Mouth: chocoate pencil

Teeth: marshmallows

Pants: bake a chocolate cake (I used the rectangle one for regular pound cake )

Legs: store bought cookies

Shoes: bake brownies shaped like shoes

When I started to carve the pineapple, it was about time to pick up the birthday boy from his school, so that I couldn’t add the chimney to the house.  Planning and time management is my weakness.

My son enjoyed the cake very much, but he also said, “there is no hole in the nose of Spongebob." 

 I thought that was hilarious.

November 28th, 2019

“For a Girl Who Loves Moomin”  

May 17th, 2019

Here’s my sloth stamp. Oh I want to see the real one so badly.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxkhMfRgi4L/?igshid=ftdqgl8vt4be

January 8th, 2019

I wish you a happy new year to everyone!! I carved this stamp for a vintage jewelry shop’s logo.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsZ6SfIA6vg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=brgif3fb256o

June 17th, 2018

Custom stamp of a dog♫

May 24th, 2018

Recently I carved this custom robin stamp:)♫

April 5th, 2018

2 rabbits♪ The client preferred them on rubber, so these ones are rubber stamps, not my regular linoleum block ones.