Wallpaper – Feb 2021
What is your favourite colour combination? How was everyone’s Lunar New Year weekend? 🙂 This month’s question was favourite colour combinations. When asked my favourite colour, I find it hard to choose just one. However when asked my favourite colour combination, I’m obsessed with red and pink together! Many of you have responded with your […]
Wallpaper – Jan 2021
What is your favourite kind of weather? Earlier this week, I posted this question on my Instagram story. Every month this year, I will pick an answer and design a wallpaper with it! 🙂 I realized that many of you like cozy, sweater weather kind of days! The kind of days where it is grey […]
Wallpaper – Dec 2020
It’s the time of the year where I go – how did time fly so fast?! December never really hits me until I see the Christmas fairy lights trailing the roads. And yet, I have been through a lot this year – saying goodbye to my Tokyo apartment and moving back to my family, opening […]
Wallpaper – Nov 2020
Hi everyone! A few more days into the launch of the Spring Collection of YABAI YABAI. I’m so nervous and excited! I’m also loving sewing and working in the new studio. Even though it is the end of the year, I have experienced a lot of new beginnings for me recently. To celebrate the launch, […]
Wallpaper – October 2020
By October, the Summer heat in Tokyo will have simmered down, and the cool Autumn breeze will flow through the windows of my apartment. The first thing I will notice is how people start to wear long sleeves on the streets. In the supermarkets, seasonal vegetables will start to change to mushrooms and pumpkins. I’ll […]
Wallpaper – Sept 2020
It’s the beginning of Autumn for a lot of cities, and surprisingly it has been pretty chilly as it has been raining a lot here too. This month’s wallpaper Petal Dance is a floral line art pattern that comes in two colours! These are great if you prefer using backgrounds that are more subtle so […]
Wallpaper – Aug 2020
Hi everyone! I have been pretty busy and August has been a great learning month for me. Now that my work is starting to calm down, all I can think about is spending a day swimming around in a pool or catching the sunset by the beach with a nice refreshing soda. Ahhh~! And two […]
Wallpaper – July 2020
Hey everyone! Hope that everyone is well and safe. Sometimes when I get stuck thinking of new ideas or have a lack of inspiration, I go back to the beginning. I’d like to think that patterns or prints all start with a simple shape. A simple dot motif can have thousands of variations, which I […]
Wallpaper – June 2020
The beginning of Summer reminds me of my trip to Jeju last year, where I stayed in a small bed and breakfast. My room had a view of the tangerine trees, and I used to gaze at them while sipping on a cup of coffee. Every single day was a pink sunset in Jeju, and […]
How I ended up in Japan
+ tips for people interested in moving here! Some of you have been curious about what it is like to live in Tokyo, and how I decided to move here. I hope to share some of my thought processes and planning before making the move, and also some tips that will make the move a little smoother. […]