Engraved 100+ of these tumblers for @craftpr x @timhortons today, with the help of @ruby.styles.lettering! If you were a guest at today’s event at @pipeshop_venue and have clips of Ruby and I engraving, pls tag us! 🤗 We didn’t have time to stop and capture any. 🫠
#vancouvercalligrapher #customgifts #brandactivation #vancouverengraving #luxurylettering #vancouverevents #eventengraver #onsitecalligraphy
Customizing Dee’s beats. ✨
#baybayin #vancouverengraver #engraving #filipinoartist #customgifts
A labour love, with hand-illustrated sampaguitas 🫶🏽✨
for @safglobalwonders.
#lelechandesigns #vancouverartist #sampaguitacandle #supportsurvivors #designedwithpurpose #hopeandhealing #saf #endhumantrafficking #empowerwomen #philippines
So proud to share the **Sampaguita Candle**, featuring a label I designed for @safglobalwonders, a nonprofit supporting women who’ve survived human trafficking.
As a Filipina and survivor of abuse, this project means so much to me. I’m passionate about working on things that uplift women, survivors, and the Philippines. The sampaguita, our national flower, is all about resilience and hope—just like the women in SAF’s recovery programs.
Every candle is a step toward healing. 🫶🏽✨
#sampaguitacandle #supportsurvivors #designedwithpurpose #hopeandhealing #saf #endhumantrafficking #empowerwomen #philippines
Often when I see my work in front of me, it’s so surreal. Most days I draw & tattoo, but sometimes I do branding and design t-shirts…and produce festivals…I wear many hats.
But at the end of the day I’m grateful for my family, friends, community, and all of you who make what I do possible. 🥰🥹🫶🏽 It feels like a dream.
ᜐᜎᜋᜆ͓ ᜋᜓᜎ ᜐ ᜃᜁᜊᜓᜆᜓᜇ̢ᜈ͓ ᜅ͓ ᜀᜃᜒᜅ͓ ᜉᜓᜐᜓ᜶
Thank you to everyone who stopped by the @dalaga.ca booth at Car Free Day yesterday! I had a great time sharing Baybayin with anyone interested & am grateful to everyone who purchased my art, stickers and merchandise! Also a huge thank you @zennawong for capturing these moments. 🥰🫶🏽
@carfreemain @carfreeyvr
✨THANK YOU✨ to everyone who came by my little shop at @kamayan.fest this past Sunday! Your support means I get to keep doing what I love and making art that evoke memories and move you.
Huge shoutout to my niece @thelonelyst4r for holding down my shop and representing me in such a professional way for the whole day, so that I could keep my focus on making sure the festival ran smoothly. You’re a rock star Sophia!
We’ll be back at it this coming Sunday for Car Free Day on Main Street! Come see us at the @dalaga.ca tent (Main & 26th).
#carfreeday #mainstreet #shoplocal
Are you as excited for @kamayan.fest as I am? 🥳✨
I’ll be launching new merch – come find me near the entrance! 🫶🏽✨
@dinerenblancvancouver last Thursday was a vibe. Thanks so much for hosting me @flowerfactory @whitetablecatering @luxaffairs @lavishliquid! 🫶🏽
19 years married today (22 together). I’ve officially been with you for half of my entire life @allanbchan, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love you!
Thanks to talented friends like @jasnoble, I have photos of me doing things I forgot to get photos of. ☺️🤗
Here’s one of me at @filcanbookfest. If you missed out on this free Baybayin demo, catch me doing it again at @kamayan.fest on Sept. 8!
#learnbaybayin #baybayin #filipinoculture #precolonialphilippines #decolonize
I had so much fun engaging with community & living in the moment at my pop-up at @filcanbookfest last weekend, that these were the only photos I managed to take. 😅
Thank you to everyone who came by to learn Baybayin or made a purchase. 🫶🏽 And thank you @magandabookshelf for inviting me to participate!
Kapwatids! Help us make Kamayan Fest happen! 🫶🏽
https://crowdfundr.com/kamayanfest
44 trips around the sun.
I’m embracing the wisdom and spiritual guidance that the number 44 represents. This milestone is a reminder to trust in divine timing and to stay attuned to the deeper messages from the universe. As I reflect on my journey, I’m grateful for the inner wisdom that has shaped me and the spiritual support that continues to guide me. Here’s to manifesting a future grounded in faith, resilience, and the pursuit of my true purpose.
This is 44. ✨🫶🏽
My ‘why’.
June is a big month in our household, with the celebration of Filipino Heritage month, end of school year activities, and the 3 of our birthdays.
This June is especially busy as my eldest daughter Kiana (on the left) just turned 18 yesterday & is graduating from highschool in a couple of weeks. Kaya (on the right), will be turning 15 this Sunday. These two are the reason I do everything I do. Because of them I want to be better, do better, and make this world a little better every day in every way I can.
So when you support me & the work that I do, when you buy that art or book that tattoo, you support them. And for that, I am grateful to you all. 🫶🏽
#workingmom #localartist #artist #tattooartist
Introducing the first of my Dalaga Collection. 🫶🏽 This collection will be a celebration of dalagas and a tribute to our resilience and resistance.
Channeling those “the cycle stops here” & anti-toxic tita vibes.
Look for the Dalaga Collection on the walls at @dalaga.ca later this summer!
#localart #filipinoart #filipinoartist #artisresistance
Temporarily put on my event designer/stationery designer hat yesterday, to celebrate my eldest’s 18th birthday. 🥹
Calligraphy/Stationery/Event Design: @lelechan
Flowers: @flowerfactory
Rentals: @debuteventdesign
Linens: @bespokedecor
Balloons: @frankieandcoshop
Venue: @the_teahouse
Kiana’s hair & makeup: @alsoknownas.lj
Thank you for capturing the memories of this day so beautifully @johnbello.ca!
Lakapati – Intersex God of Fertility
Philippine Mythology: Luzon Divinities
The latest addition to my Diwata Collection: Lakapati, the intersex god of fertility. (Yes, @bretmanrock was my inspiration).
“Long before the Spaniards arrived, the concept that there were more than two genders was socially and spiritually accepted in precolonial Tagalog society and other parts of what is now known as the Philippines. In many Spanish records such as the Boxer Codex and dictionaries it states that there were individuals who were born with male sexual organs, however were seen and considered as women by society often marrying men, dressing in women clothing, and partaking in activities often done by women such as weaving and cultivating the fields.
These individuals were not thought of as being abnormal, but actually were seen as people who were more closer to the divine, often becoming spiritual leaders, known as bayog, asog, bayoguin, those who were an intermediary between the mundane and spirit world. According to the Boxer Codex they were the highest spiritual authority of katalonans, the priests and priestesses. In fact, one of the most beloved deities in the Tagalog pantheon was Lakapati or Lakan Pati, the giver of food, fertility, and an intersex deity (in Spanish and English texts the term used is hermaphrodite, but to adhere to modern terms, I will refrain from using the old derogatory word and use intersex).
The name Lakapati comes from the Tagalog word “Lakan” which was a title for a noble ruler, the Tagalogs version of Rajah or Datu used in other parts of the Philippines, and “Pati”, which comes from Sanskrit and also is a title meaning master or lord of. Lakapati is The Deity of Sown Fields & Fertility.”
Source: @thepinaywriter