Monthly Archives: February 2008

Another peacock feather design option

By Tien Chiu | Published: February 29, 2008
I call this one the “Wonder Woman” look…not sure if I like it as much as the other one, but, well, we’ll see.  Going down to Thai Silks tomorrow to find the base silk for the bodice – everything up in the air…
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Of granite, feathers, and chocolate

By Tien Chiu | Published: February 29, 2008
I took a photo of my slab o’granite today:   I think the best way to describe the color is that it looks like a wildcat would look if you made the spots smaller and arranged them randomly across the cat.  As a traveling tiger, this naturally appeals to me.  Too bad they didn’t have tiger-striped granite! The [...]
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Picked up my granite today

By Tien Chiu | Published: February 28, 2008
It was neat – they took me to the back, where they had thirty or forty remnant slabs of granite, and I got to pick the one I wanted!  There were lots of colors and thicknesses – I fell absolutely in love with a black granite with green-gold flecks, but it was 1.5″ thick and [...]
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Big chunk o'rock

By Tien Chiu | Published: February 27, 2008
No, I’m not talking about a diamond engagement ring – something even better!  I found a granite fabrication place on Craigslist that is going out of business and willing to sell me a large slab of granite on the cheap – $140 for a 33″ x 55″ piece!  This is WAY cheaper than the $400 [...]
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A peacock feather idea

By Tien Chiu | Published: February 27, 2008
I’ve been playing around more with Adobe Illustrator, learning how to use it mostly.  It’s still much much quicker for me simply to sketch it out with pencil and paper, but Illustrator gives me finer control over colors and also allows me to cut and paste.  (Besides, I wanted to learn how to use Illustrator [...]
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