Cotton labels arrived! Had to hand sew them onto the Painter's Organiser prototypes and share new pictures with you. This batch of labels didn't arrive the way I wanted (all edges sealed) so I have to FrayBlock raw edges to prevent fraying! Adding this to the handmade quality. ;)

Here's a look at the current two fabric offerings for the Painter's Organiser. I have black and dark red drill cotton variations waiting to be sewn up, but here's a look at my grey one with M Graham's name filled in with a 0.3 Copic Multiliner pigment ink that's water proof!

Waiting for my order of gold heart-shaped jewellery tags to arrive + many more materials for jewellery making! This year I'll do my best to go all out and create everything I ever thought of and put it all out there. Materials have been sitting around for ages without being utilised and I hope this year, they will be happily put together into beautiful and useful items.

Here is shipment 1 of 2 of my Amazon M Graham oil paint order! I initially had just this set in my shopping cart but read elsewhere about other colours I ought to have as a starter palette so I added more paints into my cart (and I forgot and ordered a 150ml tube of Titanium White as well! Oops white overdose... Guess I can do more pastel works!)...

Here's the sturdy box my set came in. It was nicely padded. I ordered from the M Graham store on Amazon.

And a look at the front and back of the box in relation to my hand. I wonder when I'll be comfortable testing these paints out. D:

Went fabric sourcing and picked up three other colours I was thinking of working on for various combinations. I am so in love with the above grey fabric! It's a beautiful middle weight cotton canvas made in Japan that feels expensive and not too stiff. <3 I went to get the brown leather strap to match this grey, too! Now to figure out whether I should paint the wooden dowel a champagne gold colour so it may look nicer? (psst, shipment one of my M Graham paint order arrived! Suuuper delicious set of 5 oil paint colours with little bottle of walnut oil and alkyd medium. <3 *hoards*)


The maroon red and black fabric in the picture above are thinner cotton canvas drill also from Japan. I wish I could find the other colours to the grey equivalent. ;__; It's perfection!

Above was a work in progress shot the night before. Such a beautiful fabric! It would make a wonderful tote bag, too! Let's hope the shop still stocks more of this fabric, though I heard there may not be much of it left. :(

Happy lunar new year to everyone! It's the 9th day of the Lunar New Year season of 15 days in total and here I am chugging at my sewing machine the night before so I could realise a creation I had been thinking about since Friday night. :) It was so bad I woke up at 6am and started drafting the design and sizes.

This all started when I recently decided to treat myself to an order of M Graham oil paints from Amazon. I was elated that they offered shipping to Singapore and orders are also eligible for free shipping. I know I am still a new learner in oils, but I was curious to see how better quality artist paints would differ from the student grade paints I'm currently using (see above picture showing my Winsor and Newton Winton oil paints).

I also read about the qualities of M Graham oil paints: they use walnut oils and their oil paints are all solvent free. So no toxic smells when used indoors. They also ranked pretty well amongst other artist quality paints and affordable. I was contemplating getting Gamblin artist oil paints (because amazing artist Cuong Nguyen recommended them in his oil painting ebook) but I would need to order them through an agent from US e-stores, which I found troublesome in the end.

*whispers* I was also so tempted to get M Graham's watercolours and gouache paints because they use HONEY in their formula... But alas, I need to first handle oils well before all else!

So then I started searching around on the Internet on how other people store their paints and found the wall hanging pocket organiser to be a perfect way for me to store these beautiful oil paints that are on their way to me! :D Seeing how I couldn't purchase anything ready made, I thought why not make one customised to my own wall space and collection?

I can't wait to embroider/write in Van Gogh's quote onto the brush holder pocket (or top of the organiser):

"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."

<3 So I've put this up as a listing on Etsy and I can customise it to fit YOUR wall space and collection. :D I think I'll need to go source for other types of fabric and colours and try out various combinations to show how customisable this Painter's Organiser can be! Thanks to this I went to grab a few more bottles of Martha Stewart's Metallic acrylic craft paints to paint the wooden dowel for more variations.

I imagine these could house various brands of paints for painters who love collecting. :B What a sweet way to house these lovely paints! I also learnt that storing them cap down is the best as oils tend to float and pigments sink to the bottom. So having them downwards leave the pigments right at the opening for richest paints and less runniness.