Would you set the table please?

Abundance of colors

I was busy playing with colors this week, again.
The museum of folk art and craft in San Francisco wanted to have some of my works at the museum shop so I tried to bring up many different ideas using bojagi technique.
These are some of the products I dropped off this afternoon.
Many different sizes of pin cushions-  some are cupcake shape and some are as tiny as mochi.
또 바쁜 한주가 후딱 지나가버렸다.
샌프란시스코의 포크아트와 크래프트 뮤지엄 스토어에  보자기관련 물건들을 선보이느라 콩튀듯 팥튀듯하며 바느질과 씨름을 하기를 몇 주나 했나보다.
이번엔 다른 크기와 종류의 바늘방석을 만들어 보았다-꽃모양, 컵케잌 모양 그리고 모찌 같이 앙증맞은 것까지.

 I thought I can show them and let Amelia choose what she wants to carry at the store but she grabbed all of them! And told me that some of them will go home with her :)
뮤지엄 스토어의 아멜리아가 고를 수 있게 여러가지를 가져갔는데 그만 다 두고 가라고 해서 빈가방만 들고 집으로! 그중 몇개는 자기집으로 갈거라고 찜하는 걸 보고 웃으면서 나왔다. 

 This is the treat that I came back with! Beard Papa's cream puff!! La Dolce Vita!!!
바트타러 가는 길에 들러 사온 크림퍼프! 인생은 달콤한 것!!

Wedding wishes

  She is moving to Korea to get married. The bride groom is her elementary school sweet heart.
 She wanted to get a Bojagi bow tie for her dad and a gift wrap bojagi for her parents in law.

The bow tie was made with her choice of colors and I made it as a ready made bow tie.

 

The gift wrap bojagi were made with red and blue colors which symbolized yin and yang. 

  

As I was making these two projects, I was hoping my good wishes and prayer for the couple's happy life were sewn together with silk pieces....

After the busy weekend

It was a wonderful weekend!
Last Saturday was the Korean Culture Day at Asian Art Museum in SF.
Left home at 9 am and back home at 11pm but hardly felt that I was tired.
There were wonderful artworks, great artists and many fun activities during the day.
And I really enjoyed the fancy dinner with wonderful live music at night.
Here is an article about the day.

http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110919000943

Korean Culture Day

Mark your calendar!

Korea Foundation Korean Culture Day

Saturday, September 17

11 am-4:00 pm

Enjoy FREE museum admission with the whole family celebrating the Korean moon festival of Chuseok. As a celebration of the good harvest on the autumn full moon day, people visit their hometowns and share a feast of traditional food with family and friends. This all-day family fun day offers docent tours, storytelling, food tasting, music and art. Korean music artist Kang Eun-il & Haegum Plus performs their “New music" for the first time in the Bay Area. Watch artists Shin Meekyung and Lee Kang Hyo demonstrate new and traditional forms of art making and create your own artworks to take home.

Wonderful way to spend a day

I went to SF the other day to see this exhibit.

Wrapping Traditions: Korean Textiles Now

http://www.mocfa.org/exhibitions/index.htm 

The museum of Craft and Folk Art is in downtown SF and it is a cute place to spend a day with good friends. Last time, I went there with Ann, who always love things Korean. This time I went with Minjee, who is Korean costume historian. Both times we spent quite long time at the museum.

As if I'm a kid who is doing scavenger hunt, checking every single techniques, stitches, patterns and artists' statements!

When I was buying a book, the girl who helped me was inviting us to the hands on workshop on Saturday, September 10th.

' Create your own Bojagi with remnants of fabric' !

How can I miss this fun activity?

Actually Minjee told the girl at the front desk that I am a local Bojagi artist :)

The girl was thrilled to hear that and asked me to come and help the activity.

Instantly, I promised her to come and help out the bojagi making.

Now I am so excited and looking forward to it! 

After we left the museum, we went to the San Francisco center for lunch and had Tom Yum noodle and Pad Thai. Yum!
On the way back we spotted the famous cream puff place, Beard Papa and of course we got a box of treat. 
What a wonderful way to spend a day and feeling city vibes! 
Life is good.

Mujigae bo, finally done!

When did I started this mujigae bo( rainbow bojagi)?
  It just took me quite long time to finish.

It has a simple design and technique but somehow didn't show much progress.

가끔 어떤 프로젝트는 한참을 가도 진전이 없는 경우가 있다.

 멕시코 시티의 루시와 함께 시작한 이 무지개보는 무슨 이유에서인지 다른 일에 밀려 늘 뒷전에 있다가 이제야 겨우 마무리를 했다.

 From September, I started to log my sewing time details about the project.

I think this helps me to plan, organize and utilize my time.

My next goal, plan the projects with finish time!

Let's see how I can manage my creativity in a productive way.

9월이 시작되면서 바느질시간과 내용을 짧게나마 기록하기 시작했더니 계획하고 정리하고 활용하는 습관들이기에 조금은 도움이 되는 듯도 하다.

크리에이티비티를 관리해서 생산성을 높인다? 한번 시도하고 지켜볼일!