Fishy Design Studio

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬. ✨

When I first sat down to write 𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈?, I knew I didn't want to write a simple "baby book." Beneath the rhyming verse, it’s a bittersweet coming-of-age story about the loss of innocence, the dreams we’ve forgotten, and remembering the people who shaped us into who we are today.

Much like The Little Prince, it’s a story you can grow up with, one that shifts in perspective depending on the era of your life you happen to be reading it in. Even though it is dressed up as a children's book, it is absolutely written to pluck at your heartstrings, playing melodies for your inner child. ❤️🎶

📖 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐧, 𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐚 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩! (Links in bio)

Tell me in the comments: What is a childhood story that you understand completely differently now as an adult? 👇

🎵I’ll open up and be your Parachute, and I’ll never let you down🎵

Who is the Starkeeper in your life?
🦁🐰🌳⭐️🖌️

Custom handmade red envelope design for the Year of the Snake!🧧🐍 #恭喜發財

Here’s one way to get creative with red envelope designs while recognizing your non-Asian family name. I’ve seen ones branded with Chinese last names being sold and thought I can do something similar with my version of a twist. I lucked out that HERNANDEZ is 9 letters, meaning it can stack 3x3 to shape like a Chinese character… like it’s meant to be 🙏🏻

#利是逗來

FOUND at the Burnaby Public Library 😱❤️😭🙏🏻!!! I can’t believe it made its way there. For a story inspired by its good old days, it is only fitting would find its way home back to Burnaby, BC ❤️🦁🐰🌳⭐️ Thanks for sharing, it totally made my day ^___^

My book "Can You Hear the Halcyons Sing?" is now published and available on Amazon and my shop!! 📔🖌️🦁⭐🐰🎶 www.fishydesignstudio.com

Some of you already know, I've been working on a children's book for the past 2 years and now it's finally time to close this chapter and wrap it up to end off 2022. Written in verse and illustrated by yours truly, it started off as a Pandemic lockdown project of a nostalgic story for self entertainment, but through the encouragement and interests from people around me, it now became something I could decently share with the world. Thank you to everyone who have been following this journey and cheering me on from the sidelines (you know who you are ❤️).

I've documented the entire journey in the making of this storybook on my website where you can see the evolution in my illustrations and all the trial and error I went through to get to where it is now (aka learn from my mistakes lol) - check it out =]

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This book is inspired by and dedicated to the people from the past who’ve, one way or another, made me the person I am today =]

Nobody knows what the future will bring,
but we'll always remember how the Halcyons sing