What's Up

Sorry for neglecting my blog for quite a while. If only you are right in front of me, my apologetic face looks something like this -----> /_\
I hope my fellow readers did not abandon me because of this?? If you're reading this, it mean you did not! Haha. Well, thank you for being so faithful.

Let's see what was I up to for the past week. There are a couple of good news I am going to share with you. I was so hounored to be approached by this online design website, designeRoof, to showcase some of my works on their site. Yay! Here is the link to the page. Be sure to check out some of the great artists/designers on the site as well.

The second wonderful thing that happened.. I was introduced to a friend's friend who owns a coffee house here in Singapore - The Coffee Nations. This very generous boss actually offered me a space to showcase some of my works, believe it or not, for NO cost at all! Best part was, he even offered to help me sell off the products if customers are interested to purchase them. Again, for NO commission at all! Where on earth can you find such a great deal especially when you've only met that person for the first time? All I can say is, I must have done a whole lot of good deeds in my past life. lol.

Here are some of the pics I took at the coffee house.

Before and...


after. I hope my products look more appealing than the puffs. lol. Oh I forgot to mention this is a two storey coffee house. A few of my paintings are also displayed on the second floor. Hee.


Coffee and travels is the concept of this coffee house. Here at The Coffee Nations, you get to taste different coffee from around the world. I really like its cosy ambiance.

Beautiful travel pics.


This place looks even nicer if you come in the evening.




Do come by when you visit Singapore! For more details, you can check here.
Oh boy, trust me, I've got so much more to share but my brain is threatening to pass out any minute. The time here is 1:37am now and I seriously need my beauty sleep. Good night to me and good morning to some of you. Zzzzzz........

BIG NEWS!!

After much consideration, I've opened a 2nd etsy store and 'relocated' all my Dollgift merchandise over. Fans of Dollgift, I hope you will visit our new store and continue to show us your support. Do you know I nearly bang my head on the wall for not doing this earlier when there were fewer items. Serves me right for being lazy, I had to re-list EVERYTHING again. The worse has yet to come. Read on to find out more...

For those of you who have been following Byrheea's news, most of the paintings are available in store now! Below are a few samples. If you like what you're seeing, please visit here for more details.







Now my worse nightmare is here. In brief, I have TWO official websites to maintain (byrheea.com and mydollgift.com), TWO etsy stores, DeviantArt, Flickr and a BLOG! Sigh. Why have I landed myself in this state. I know I have to find a solution to make my life easier (before I decide to bang my head on the wall again). SO. After weighing my options and going through all the agony.. I'm going with this solution; to remove the ENTIRE shopping carts from my official site and link the merchandise page directly to my Etsy store. But. Saying is easier than doing because this means all my effort and blood and tears and sweat and sleepless nights and...and... will all go down the toilet bowl.

Now I only hope you (yes everyone of you) could please pay a last visit to my site before I kill it. Thank you. Excuse me if you would for now, I need some time to grief...

New Products

Finally, 'A Letter For You' postcards are out on sale in Etsy now! Pen down your thoughts for that special someone or simply keep it as a collection. This set consists of 5 off-set printed postcards with matt lamination. They are signed on the front and titled at the back. For more information, please visit my etsy store.





A cute little pillow for your home? This pillow is a hand silk-screened image of one of my ink illustrations. Made with 100% cotton and stuffed with polyester fiber. For more information, please visit my etsy store.





Thanks for visiting! :)

'A Letter For You' Postcard

This afternoon, I just collected my first series of byrheea postcards together with my new business cards from the printer's. Fresh out of the oven, these postcards are packaged and ready to be sent out to the lucky winners first thing tomorrow. For those who have missed my Postcard Poll, you may checkout the post here.



A bit of sidetrack. I found these lovely hair clips while doing some shopping the other day and little Devon flashed across my mind. Devon, Emily's irresistibly adorable toddler is also a model for the clothes she make. Of course I am not exaggerating when I say Devon is a darling. Checkout her blog and tell me that you agree with me ;)





If you'd like to purchase this postcards set, they will be ready for sale in Etsy very soon. :D

Result For The Poll

The result is out! Thank you for the overwhelming response. As I have stated in the poll earlier on, I will only be counting the number of comments and not the votes from the voting list. I think it is more accurate this way.

It had been a close race between 'A Letter For You' and 'Waiting Forever'. But the winning entry goes to........ 'A Letter For You'!!!! Congratulations to those who voted for this entry.



People who voted for 'A Letter For You'.

1. Wendi Schoffstall
2. The Bird Lady
3. LB Accessories
4. mamaroots
5. Fat Cat Crafts
6. Jan (janny.jay1990@gmail.com)
7. duringmyheyday
8. PrinkerWink
9. jacjewelry
10. Caroline D.
11. devonrose
12. Light and Writing
13. Elena
14. Christina (peasantsoup)
15. Bob

And the 5 lucky winners are...... tah-dah!!!!

1. mamaroots
2. Jan (janny.jay1990@gmail.com)
3. PrinkerWink
4. Caroline D.
5. devonrose

Once again, I would like to thank everyone for participating in this poll. It was definitely fun and exciting. Stay tuned for more interesting games! ;)

Postcard Poll

Hi everyone, I need your help! Which of the following 8 images do you think I should choose as byrheea's FIRST postcard print? You know, I would love to have them ALL but for now I can only afford one design. :( So please save my headache and decide for me.
Each of you are only entitled to ONE vote and closing date will be 31 Jan (next Sat). On 1 Feb, I'll announce the winning design and handpicked 5 lucky winners to receive this very first byrheea postcard set (3 postcards per set), titled and signed at the back.

Voting list is right beside this post.

1) Bear in mind that you can only vote once. To ensure each person only cast ONE vote, I'm going to count the votes by the number of comments I receive.

2) Be sure to leave a comment with the title of image you've voted. This is VERY IMPORTANT. Sadly, the poll does not have this function so there is no way I can know who voted for which image and thus it wouldn't be counted.

I'll contact you if you're one of the lucky winners. Good luck. :)











*Have you casted your vote and left your comment with the title of the image? If you do, thank you. :)

Some Works Byrheea

Guess most of you are more familiar with my Dollgift label since it is also on Etsy. For those who missed out my introduction on byrheea (1st post, dated 10 Jan) here are a few pieces of byrheea works I would like to share with you.



This is one of my favourite watercolour painting titled, To Where You Are. I did this on acrylic paper for a different texture. Because acrylic paper couldn't absorb water well, I had quite a hard time on this particular piece. However, I'm proud to say I love the finished painting and it was exactly the same image I wanted to portray in my mind. :)



This drawing titled, Trapped, was the very first ink drawing I did for byrheea. From then on, I fell in love with ink and was inspired to come out with my dollgift series.



This is the latest piece of work I've done a couple of weeks ago titled, A Little Too Late. I would say ink medium is harder to control compared with the watercolour I'm more familiar with. This piece is a challenge for me especially with the little details but I must say, I'm quite satisfied with the end result :)

Hope you've enjoyed what I share with you so far. Please note that above images are copyright of byrheea. To see more works or know more about byrheea, please visit www.byrheea.com. Alternatively, you may purchase byrheea merchandise at DeviantART. :)

Lovely Etsy Sellers

Today I received a compliment on my blog by yet another etsy seller, Light and Writing. I made a visit to her blog and saw two of my items listed in her Etsy favorites. Happy! :) And I must add that she has a lovely blog with loads of beautiful photographs. You got to try her 'Feed the Fishes' application (on right side of the page), cute!



Come to think of it, I've joined Etsy for a couple of months now and I would like to say that Etsy sellers are indeed amazing. Not to mention the many inspiring artists but more importantly, they are very supportive and helpful in many ways. If you don't believe, checkout the Etsy forum and you'll know what I mean. I'm sure you Etsy sellers out there will agree with me too. ;)

I may not be strong in my vocab but still, I would like to take this opportunity to mention a few such great people I've met there. First of all, Karen from EarringsByKaren. She was the very first person who dropped me an encouraging message when I joined Etsy last year (Oct). I hope she is doing great with her jewellery making now.

zJayne from zJayne and Fiona from fionachapman. For dropping me a message just to make sure I did not miss out their post after I posted a question in the forum (Dec). Thank you for being so thoughtful! :)

Then there was Marcie from marciejanedesigns (I've mentioned her in my blog a few days ago, dated 10 Jan). This wonderful lady has inspired me alot and she even went on to promote my work to everyone. Haha.. I have no idea of her real age but she does give me this motherly feel. (That's a compliment Marcie! :p)

Of course there are many many more of you out there. Btw, I've only made ONE sale in Etsy so far.. haha. But I've learnt alot there. :) Thank you everyone!

About Byrheea and Dollgift

Hmm... How should I start.. I’m sure there are more than one side in everyone. We feel different emotions at different time and different stages of our lives. byrheea (by rheea) portrays the more emotional me while dollgift reveals the childlike side of me.
Since music plays an important role in my life, it has to be one of the main themes in dollgift. And of course, this ‘doll’ represents the little girl I’ve created in my drawings. Oh, you might also see a cute little doggie in some of my drawings. He is none other than my lovely Dashund boy, Nono. :)


Nono on brother's desk.


Can you guess the length of his body?