If you’ve been following me on my Facebook Page or Instagram,
you would have been seeing my posts about Tapirs~
I’ve been forced
(okay probably not forced… More like encouraged :p)
Encouraged to join a handmade market about Tapir Awareness (because pandas are taking a lil too much limelight here lol)
Hmm you probably haven’t heard much about Tapirs?
A lil quick fact about Tapirs… (Thank you wikipedia!)
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A tapir (/ˈteɪpər/ tay-pər or /təˈpɪər/ tə-peer) is a large, herbivorous mammal, similar in shape to a pig, with a short, prehensilesnout. Tapirs inhabit jungle and forest regions of South America, Central America, and Southeastern Asia. The five extantspecies of tapirs are the Brazilian tapir, the Malayan tapir, the Baird’s tapir, the kabomani tapir, and the mountain tapir. The four species that have been evaluated (the Brazilian, Malayan, Baird’s and mountain tapir) are all classified as endangered orvulnerable. Their closest relatives are the other odd-toed ungulates, which include horses, donkeys, zebras and rhinoceri.
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Publika (A shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur) organised this Tapir Awareness campaign and I’m loving it!
Shed some light on this animal too yay!
It’s just pretty sad to know how humans are causing extinctions to animals…
What we’ve done (deforestation) is all for our own benefit, pretty sad..
A lil’ glimpse on how their set up & exhibition look like:
(taken from my personal instagram)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEdJbOsnHLA/
Look at em mini tapirs!
I heard they’re done by kids, helping to raise funds for the Tapir team…
I was quite reluctant on joining this market..
Because we have to make tapir & black and white related stuffs..
You see, I don’t make these lol…
99% of my miniatures are all colorful :/
(Except for my oreos hehe)
Since my friend kept asking me about it… sure, why not 🙂
So I was doing a lot of preparation for it..
I made some miniature tapirs…
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEf9ph0mqw7/?taken-by=tinypinc
Made some grey and black, since not all tapirs are charcoal black :p
And I drew this in my shop last week, given by the organiser to be included on our stall 😀
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEc6TOyGq7k/?taken-by=tinypinc
(did you know baby tapirs have stripes and spots lol)
This is so fascinating! Their stripes just disappear when they grow up :p
A quick glimpse on how my stall looks like last week..
I made a lot of new stuffs (okay maybe just several…)
Some new kuih….(some kind of malaysian food / snack)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEga2Ckmq6C/?taken-by=tinypinc
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEgbeKkmq7h/?taken-by=tinypinc
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEZ5n45mqwn/?taken-by=tinypinc
I was sharing my booth with a friend – Cleo 🙂
She makes chocolate and she was having a lil workshop for kids and adults 🙂
She made these chocolate bars and you can decorate them to your liking 🙂
I LOVE HER CUTE STUDENTS.
How cute, this little girl was so excited she ended up licking up the sprinkles on her fingers :p
Of course I couldn’t resist not trying to make one…
It turned out like a pile of shit LOL.
Sales was pretty okay for me…
Although I wished for more :p
I’m happy how the event turned out and I love interacting with my booth-mates 🙂
I was offered with a lot of food (we were eating non stop)
I think I got fatter. lol..
I will be having another round of market (yes the same Tapir Market) this coming week as well..
It’s a three weeks event (but I took up 2 weeks only hehe)
Can’t wait to see what’s new next week,
I should probably eat less already ._.
Till then!