Happy Amazing New Year~!!! YAY ;D

Wishing You A Wonderful Super Amazing New Year!! ;D

Hope you, your families and friends are all relaxed and feeling good with radiant spirits of 2010!!

And... Happy Fabulous Birthday to mihokooo, Happy Birthday to meee~!! I really appreciate your New Year's and Birthday messages!! Just what I needed to start a brand-new-born year! :D

My sweet friend Thomas Lehn from Switzerland, who soon will be publishing his first book, gave me bookmark competition information at Book Depository in UK. Congratulations again, Thomas~!! :D

I have submitted above design for the bookmark with a wish of saving lives of our precious trees! You can enlarge it by clicking the image. Hopefully mine will be chosen ;D

Let's make this 2010 another superb year with lots of joys!! ;D

Wonderful Smiles which warm your white snowy night ;D

Beautiful Happy Smiles from Serge and Elianaaaa!! I am SOOO HAPPY to have this picture from you, Serge! Thank YOU sooo much for sending it to me!! It makes me smile so big ;D

Besides this "Newborn MoMA" painting, he also purchased "POM Wonderful Purple Goodness" and "Flying Easter Dove" piece~!! Hurraaayy! I love his taste ;P He chose one of my favorite pieces from my previous collection and two from recent~!! I love to visit you again Serge and play with your beautiful and super cute Eytan and Eliana!! They are full of joy! ;D

And! My friend Lilly purchased this delicious painting since she loves cooking ;) I miss your cooking, Lilly!! Hope you and your sweet family are all cozy in your fabulous house! :D

And more! This is the most popular products in Mihoko's products! ;D New York Skyline Stamps (black)~!! I had sales a while back but haven't written Thank YOU so here we go!

Big Thank You goes to Rachel, Laurie and Amy in New York and Jessica in Arizona~!! Hope you, your family and friends are enjoying the beautiful holidays!! ;D

As you know, you can purchase Mihoko's products here ;)))

AND! Thank YOU Sooooo Much for all my sweet friends who voted for me in the credit card design competition! I didn't win... ;( but that's okayyy because I have the Altpick Awards~!! Woohoooo~!!! ;D I will keep going and submit more artworks!

Again, I really appreciate your warm support and sweet smiles AS ALWAYS!!

Pleeeaase let me know when you need my help with anything~!!! :D

Joined Altpick!

New Member in Pink ;DOne of the prizes for the Altpick Awards second place was one year Altpick Membership! Woohooo!! So I just joined! ;D

My URL is http://altpick.com/mihoko , very easy to remember ;)))

Hopefully this will lead to many freelance jobs!!

Coooome to meee~! ;D

Won Altpick Award : New Media : Second Place!!!!

YAAAAAY!!! I am still jumping with joy, have lots of goose bumps!! Super fresh news I JUST received from the Altpick founder Maria Ragusa-Burfield; my Dubai Skyline illustration for Wassla Weekly won the Second Place in New Media category~!!! Since I Really LOVE this piece, I am SO HAPPY to receive such an honorable recognition!! Thank YOU again, Maria, for the creation of Altpick and your friendly communication, and the Juries for choosing my artwork~!!

You can see all the 2009 winners here! The artwork will be in *Altpick Awards booklet* early next year ;D

HUGE THANKS goes to Ari Kushimoto who designed this fabulous website and decorated beautifully around my art which makes the artwork look much better! and Nasrin Shah Abushakra, the founder of Wassla Weekly, who worked SO hard to make this happen and she successfully created such a beautiful & educational website for Dubai!!

And even more surprisingly, today is Nasrin's Birthday!! This is all meant to be!! Happy FANTAAASTIC Birthday to YOU, Nasriiiiin :D

I really appreciate your phone call, Nasrin! Wonderful talking with you~!! Celebrating this special day from Boston the city you love ;D

Please Vote for me - Harvard Credit Card Design Contest ;D

Now my Credit Card Design for Harvard University Employees Credit Union is up!

I chose my rainbow fireworks design to celebrate Harvard ;D

Pleeeease vote for me from this page or the link below :D The process won't take you more than 5 seconds! You can choose 4 favorite designs from those student credit card designs. The first prize is $500 and more than that, I would be SO Thrilled if people carry the credit card and feel good every time they see my art ;D

Mine is #13!

https://www.huecu.org/forms/vote2009.html

Huge THANK YOU to everyone~!! Crossing my fingers, hair and everything else!!

Welcome to Haaarvard~!

From September, I am back in school, this time to study Environmental Management in a graduate program at Harvard University Extension School ;D I am still not sure I can really survive a Harvard education but so far my first papers were 5/5 and 10/10! Whew!! Pleeease wish me luck!!

My creative partner Brandon Welti and I were luckily chosen to be photographed by Jeff Pike for the school website. Jeff took so many pictures and all the pictures look great, which made us want to keep all of them ;P Jeff chose his favorite and the above picture is the approved for the website~!! Woohoooo ;D

Super smile~! Yeeees, makes you smile, right? :D He is the fabulous photographer behind the Harvard University Extension School website, such a fun person to work with, which made us think we were just playing together for several hours ;D Love YOU, Jeff!!

Here are some of my favorites from the shooting :D

Young Professional Theme~!!

Jeff asked us to wear "young professional" clothes one morning. Do we look professional enough?! I love the shining soft-green trees and my hair swinging in the wind ;D

Skateboard + Bike Theme :D

This was done on the day when we met Jeff Pike for the first time!

I thought I will miss New York so much but I learned Harvard Square has a similar New York City feel. You see artists, musicians, homeless people, cute gay guys and crazy happy people with multi-colored hair on the streets ;P Plus New York City is just 4 hours away! :D

So far I am having a great experience here!! People are super sweet, they will stop their cars for you if you are crossing streets, which makes you feel like you are a king or queen crossing the street with a velvet carpet underneath you ;D

Come to Boston~!! Wishing all my friends will move here :D

Speechless Natural Beauty...

My super talented photographer friend Takami (check out her gorgeous poetic pictures!) came to Concord with a cool hat during the summer and we went canoeing in Sudbury River! Thanks to our sweet neighbour John, we rented his canoe and put on the top of our car! You see the gorgeous reflection here?

Just start paddling the canoe, Che jumped into the water!! She has already experienced taking a bath, riding a loud and busy New York Subway, swimming in the Walden Pond, cuddling with me in bed, so maybe this was her new challenge?! Probably her curiosity made her jump! We are not sure why she jumped, did she like water or she didn't like canoeing? Hmmm... either way, now she is happily sleeping in my arm :D

Beautiful graphic patterns on water... speechless...

Happy moment surrounded by nature... :D Yes, this is taken by Takami Shimura ;D Arigatooo as Always!!!

And the gorgeous sunset!!