Free animal illustrations from Hohhi.com

cute Japanese illustration

I really love Japanese sozai, which literally means materials, and in this case, cute graphical materials.   But the ones I love have a certain magical quality.  They’re not just cute.  They’re almost life-like.  Like these illustrations from Hohhi.com, where animals come alive in an innocent world of their own.   So sweet, and so endearing.

You can find many free illustrations from Hohhi.com which are free to use, including pretty wallpapers and cute icons to decorate your blog or personal website.  Just remember to give proper credits and they’re a-okay to use.  The website is in Japanese but the main sections are in English so it’s easy to navigate. 

Have fun!

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Cute handmade brooch pins to tell your story

cute handmade pins

These imaginary stories cute handmade pins based on Lilymoon’s illustrations are too lovely!  Each piece is made with paper and hard plastic covering with a brooch pin on the back that is neatly sewn and glued on to the front piece.

Available are The Bird Girl Pin, The Sleeping Red Balloon Pin, Rendezvous Pin, I Will Fly Away Pin and The Lonely Aviary Pin which you can use as a brooch or on anything you like.

Only US$9 each and international shipping is available.

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Japanese inspired embroidery and stitching

One-point stitch embroidery

I started a new project on embroidery, after posting about stitchette embroidery patterns earlier.  As I have never done embroidery, I got some Japanese stitching and embroidery books from a local bookstore.  You can find similar books at Superbuzzy which specializes in Japanese crafts, books, fabric and cute stuff, with international shipping available.

I really love doing these.  I’m thinking of doing book jackets or bookmarks which can be done up quickly.  I’ll see how it goes.  For the moment, I’m obsessed with getting the images stitched up because they’re really cute!

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Cute papergoods, calendars and e-cards for free

Free cute papergoods

Here’s a fantastic Japanese resource which offers free calendars and paper stationery for downloads in PDF format. KF Studio is a cute Japanese website which also offers e-cards that you can send for free! 

Just look up the various sections on the top navigation bar and under each section, check the right hand column for different themes. 

Oh my so good!

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Fine Japanese free graphics and wallpaper

Free Japanese graphics

If you like Japanese graphics, you’ll love these free Japanese sozai from Fine.  It’s one of the sites that I keep going back to whenever I need some pretty graphics.  From wallpapers, nifty buttons, cute illustrations to pretty flowers and banners, I assure you that there’re definitely more than just fine.

Remember that these are only available for your personal use and do provide an acknowledgement to the site if you use the graphics.

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