05.13.10
Super Happy Tokyo Love
Do you have a friend who gets a crazy-ambitious idea and then makes it happen overnight?
Cut to my friend Pinguino. She is amazing. She organizes bizarre food challenges, makes clothing out of duct tape and is a terrific artist to boot. Oh, and she planned a trip to Antarctica to meet penguins. You know, the norm.
Last weekend she co-hosted a show called “Super Happy Tokyo Love”. I was a featured artist :)
This is what I made for the show:
The inspiration… Puccho Japanese Candy…
I revisited my love for sculpey and made these necklaces. They are characters from a Japanese candy called Puccho. They have flavors like strawberry, peach, melon and yogurt. I also got the inspiration from a very creative woman who made some puccho cupcakes, which are adorable!
The necklaces are about the size of bottlecaps. I sculpted them, baked them then painted them. So fun :)
The inspiration… the Hayao Miyazaki film, My Neighbor Totoro…
Three little cupcakes with our friend Totoro and his two other little friends… I don’t know their names (I bet someone else out there does). These were a lot of fun to make… I especially like how the blue one is looking at the white one and they all seem to say “Why am I stuck in green icing?” :)
The inspiration… the soot spirits from another Hayao Miyazaki film, Spirited Away
This is a soot spirit, or Susuwatari. I thought he might like to hang out inside of a donut covered in his favorite food sprinklings. It dawned on me that taking a photo of a donut from straight on didn’t show the curves of the icing… oops. But there’s the front and the back looking… donut-like.
Hopefully there will be pictures from the event up, soon… there were a few pictures on facebook of the turtle race through the downtown Tokyo set. You know, like Godzilla, but with turtles. Wish I could have been there :)
Kristina said,
May 13, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Oh my gosh! These are so cute!!!! How did you make the cupcake critters? Are they sculpey too? Love the soot spirits “) Adorable! You should have them all for sale…so, so cute!
Graycee said,
May 14, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Love those cupcake critters!!!
Joanne said,
May 25, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Your necklaces are soooo cute! Are they for sale. I’ll have to check your site. Love your pictures of North Carolina and of the cows.
carrie said,
May 27, 2010 at 9:14 am
Joanne – I currently do not have the necklaces in my possession :) I have no idea which ones sold, either… so, when I do find out, I’ll let you know! You are very sweet to ask :) Miss you guys!!!
Kristina said,
May 27, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Spirited Away was on cable the night I arrived out in Hemet for my Uncle’s funeral. First time I ever saw it and it was fantastic!!!!!