Over the summer, I encounter a book called “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui” by Karen Kingston.
You usually “add” objects in Fung Shui. But Karen Kingston’s method is to “subtract.” By creating more space and less clutter, better energy will flow in your apartment/ house.
It’s very logical, but it is very difficult to get rid of objects sometimes, like gifts, pictures, objects that you have very strong memories of….etc. But Karen Kingston’s book really helped me organize my thoughts and feelings that I was able to get rid of a couple boxes worth of unnecessary objects in my life!

I highly recommend this book. Very thin and easy reading.

In the past few weeks, I found out that I am super allergic to dust mites. Yikes.
The best way is to encase your mattress, pillows, and blankets- which I did.
Another thing is to clean to keep dust and dust mites free.
My doctor said, “if you have carpets, you must vacuum everyday!”
No problem. I can do that with no problem.

Then Ms. Susie gave me a wonderful gift.
THE SHARK STEAM MOP. Yes it’s the picture on the top.
It is amazing. You just pour some water in the mop and plug it in.
This wonderful steam will clean your floor and carpet. The best part is you don’t need any cleaning soup, so it’s also good for your health. Eco friendly it is.
It also glides easily and the cord is super long so you don’t have to keep unplugging to switch sockets.

I know this entry has nothing to do with art, illustration or animation. But I thought I should write something about cleaning because that is my hobby these days.
As for illustration and animation- we’re working on 3 wonderful projects which I cannot write anything about at this point. Hopefully I can post an animation by end of this year!

I had a pleasure to be included as a consultant at Sesame Workshop’s advisory meeting.
Of course I can’t talk about anything that went in the meeting, but it was quite an experience!
The whole meeting started with a skit by President and Chief Executive Officer, Gary Knell, and Elmo (performer Kevin Clash).
I got to see the real elmo! The excitement was equivalent to meeting your favorite celebrity from your childhood. What an awesome performer Kevin Clash is.
On the second day, there was another performance. This time by Celso Machado from Canada/Brazil.
The spirit and energy he had was inspiring!

Of course there was a lot  of discussing, talking, and THINKING. It was only 2 days long but the amount of energy that went into the meeting was tremendous.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to Sesame Workshop. Also, they kept giving me a lot of souvenirs.

Pretty awesome. My favorite Sesame character when I was a little girl was Elmo, but I actually had a secret love for Oscar.
I found out that the new Sesame Street website has a “video” section where you can watch all the old clips from the classic Sesame Street.
Can’t embed it but here is the link for my favorite clip of all time.
Crayola Factory!

We decided to test out how it’ll look like in the lab scene for our film, “Something Left, Something Taken”.
The scientist is stiff since we just put him in there, but I think we captured the atmosphere of the look we want to go after.
It is very exciting.
I just have to keep crafting, and Max needs to keep cutting the animatic.

This will be our final resting spot… in our film!

The sets are large we started to have issues with where to store them in our studio/apt.