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No 1 Craft For Christmas: Family Holiday Cards

December 25, 2013 by Carlos Leave a Comment

Surprise! The final craft in Veronica's 12 Crafts for Christmas is written by yours truly, the Carlos in carlosandveronica.net. And the final one, the No 1 Craft for Christmas is... (drumroll please....) our family holiday cards! We really wanted to have a fun and colorful family portrait on each of the cards. For my part, I thought that the photos should show how fun-loving we are as a group. So one evening a few weeks ago, we had a little photo shoot at my parents' living room by their big and beautiful tree. As with all of our crafts, they are 100% DIY, so we did not enlist the help of a Read More

Uncertain

November 17, 2010 by Veronica Leave a Comment

Here’s my first illustration using the Bamboo pen. I’m still getting my hands used to it and exploring stroke styles. I realize there’s just so much I can do. For this one, I decided to stick to a watercolor effect. As you may have noticed, it’s also my first time to draw a portrait. My husband, who just started illustrating characters/superheroes inspired me to try it out. You can check out his drawings at http://todaysdrawing.tumblr.com/ Read More

Jo Paints

Jo, my youngest daughter, lost interest in painting early this year. As a result, I also held back on giving her painting projects for a time. Remember a couple of years back when the girls and I did various painting projects almost weekly? We stopped doing that almost completely as I let them explore their Read More

Looking Back 2019

2019, the year before the pandemic, was a pretty eventful year. It was the year we let go of Kendo Creative (a small cafe and art hub we ran in Cubao), the year I went on a solo trip to Taipei, the year we went on many mini road trips as a family! A few Read More

100 Playful Abstracts

2021 was a particularly unique year to our family. And it wasn’t only because of the pandemic but also because we lived a large part of the year in the town province of San Juan, La Union. What was meant to be a two-week visit to surftown for my birthday almost immediately transitioned to Kayo Read More