handmade*love

HELLO!!!!!

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Well, first off, sorry for not updating regularly these days. I somehow let all the busy-ness in my life get the better of me. But I'm trying really hard now to slow down. One step at a time though.

Anyway, I'm back here today, for one very last time. Just to let you guys know that handmadelove's moving to a new home. Well, why the sudden move? Haha. I guess I needed somewhere to help organize my thoughts, my life and more importantly, I needed a platform for me to continue being who I am, but in a more professional way. Don't get me all wrong, but livejournal has indeed been a really good buddy for the past one year.

Well, apart from it's awesome navigation tools and presets, livejournal also saw me through my internship, final year project, graduation,

and most recently, my first ever solo show.


It's been a great experience so far. And I never want to stop thanking you readers, for always being so supportive of my art and my life. For listening, commenting, reading and most importantly, being ever so encouraging.

Livejournal and you readers have seen me grown! A year ago, I was just a simple minded girl who worked day and night on just school projects. Then, I was someone different, my ambition was just to work hard in school, do well and work in some smashing graphic design firm.

And a year later, I 've become someone so different. My life is now filled with art pieces after another, teaching and chasing kids.

I have clay and paints stuck on my fingers and hairs on most days. And on good days, I'm spick and span, with only my pen and moleskine in hand.


I'm now seeing how my life's taken on a totally different direction. I no longer want to be a designer. Instead, I find myself an artist now. It's a privilege indeed, to be able to work alongside the kids I teach, and listen to their little adventures-something that has become quite an inspiration of late.

Well, many of my clients and artist friends have been asking if I have a proper website. Well, I do have handmadelove at vox. But it gets kind of messy when I have two blogs around. So I figured, housing them all in one home would be a better idea. ;-)
A website? Maybe in time to come, yes. But for now, I'm sticking with blogging somewhere else, where I can share with people not only my art, but more importantly, what inspires me, and the kind of artistic musings I have in my life.

So, handmadelove* will be moving over to wordpress.
This time, it'll be more focused. Less personal stuff like rantings, complaints.
Instead it'll house my ideas, crafts, art pieces and inspirations.

So, thank you once again, and I hope to make this shift over to my new home,
together with you!

See you over at my {new home}!


PS: Oh!, and do say hi! I won't bite. ;-D
PPS: I'll still be posting on jr_nal at times, so do look out for me too!

Hello, yes I know I said, I'll be back only end of the week.
But then again, I'm excited to show you guys a piece
I did this morning:

[ The thing about Art: ]

Gouache + handwriting + paper collage + vintage stock
Okay, now it's back to working.
Posting will be kind of sporadic for a while.
At least for the remaining bit of this week and the start of next week.

But then, you can always see my little photo updates on my flickr.
I'll try to make it a point to update at least once in two days ;-)

xoxo,
Take care and be well!

Ps: Here's a quote of the day:

I've been busy. Really busy till it's painful.
Trust me when I say that having 8 jobs/commitments ain't a joke.

Anyway, I need to take a blog break, not only to do the many things
I need to do, but also to decide on certain things.

I will be back end of the week.
PS: With a new art piece to show you guys


See you in a bit!

Last week, we ventured to the Botanic Gardens for an afternoon picnic.
We ate sandwiches, pizzas, read and scared children off with our singing.
Took many many pictures and made new friends. The lovely golden retriever
and the can't stop laughing mommy. Haha. And of course, we couldnt leave
without some monkey tree climbing.





We should do this more often, next time more prepared, better food and maybe
even some kite flying, bubble blowing, card gaming and guitar playing.



Have a good Tuesday everyone! ;-D

Okay. It's monday again. I don't like mondays anymore.
The only thing I like about it is that I get to go
volunteer at the stables. Other than that,
Mondays are NOT fun. :(:(:(:(

I want to sleep in and not have to wake up at 6.45am.
Long gone are the secondary school days you know. :(

You know what I need?
I need a holiday. A LONG self discovery sort of holiday.
Un fortunately, I'm too tied down with work. Garh.

I want to make more time for art!
Painting, collage work, etc etc.
YEEEEE. I reallly dont like mondays!

As much as I'm too curious to know what is wrong with my body, I'm scared too.
Most of you would have known about my week long fainting spells, dizziness and
fever on Sunday and Monday. It's strange how I'm not sick at all, no coughing, no
flu, but I was down with fever and when I recovered, my fainting spells came.

And these fainting spells would get so bad that even when I'm in the toilet, I kind
of feel like passing out. At first I thought it was just low blood pressure or something
similar, but it got so bad. Even after I increased my sugar intake. I still got dizzy and
super light headed at work, when I'm, travelling, even when I wake up after a nap.
And just yesterday, I burnt my wrist a little, with the iron cause I had another
fainting spell. Okay, part of it was because I'm clumsy too, but still, I lost control.

Anyway, I just came home from a trip to the doctors and it was so scary because he
was testing my hearing with a tuning fork and was checking my eyes and stuff, etc.
( It was a teeny wee bit like what the doctors do in shows when they realize the patient
has some neurological problem )

And so, he concluded that it might be something up with the nerves or my balance
thingy. I'm not too sure either. But I have to take pills for 10 days and if the problem
still persists, I need to get back there for a bit of blood tests. It might be some nerve thats linked to my balance or soemthing. Okay. It sounds scary and it sure is. The first thing I thought of was, what if I lose my balance and I cant paint or draw anymore?

Sounds scary. The last I checked up on Amitril-10 pills, the word ' Neurology ' appeared
so much, I chickened out and yup, here I am, sitting in my chair wondering and thinking
of possibly quite silly things.

But yeah I know God's in control.

:/ Scary but yes, He will bring me through.

On a less worrying note, we decorated umbrellas today! :-D






It was SO much fun! Hehs.
Minus my dizziness and light headedness.
Okay, dawn! God's in control! ;-)

Acrylic on wooden Plaque
3.8 x 5 inches
$50

*Prices are all in SGD*

This piece is still up for sale! Quick Quick!
What Makes Beautiful, closes in a week ;-D

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On another note, I'm so busy!
Learning Kidz just called. And I'll be taking their holiday classes.
4 Jobs + comissioned artworks to be done + Uni apps +
Project Big Move + Volunteering + Oshima handmade
book competition = 6 days a week/tired grumpy me

I want to be cheerful and happy.
But even the rain and late buses makes me grumpy and angry.
That's not very nice.

Tomorrow, bus 48 better be nice and come on time, cause I'm
going to leave my house even earlier. So it better be nice to me.
And tomorrow's kids better be polite to me too. If not, I need to
pray very hard not to snap at them like I kind of did on wednesday.

Haha.

At the end of the day, I feel the most comfortable hanging out with my crazy friends from cedar. Well, we were all 'brought up' a certain way, and we stuck to each other trhough thick and thin. So I guess this friendship's here to stay! ;-)


Hehe. Love you silly ding dongs! Here's a smiley :-D to more lazing around, more stupid pee jokes, more warm chawamushis, no to teeny weeny bikinis and cute things and blah blah!


Ooh, and thanks for the nice nice chiyogami. I love!

:D:D

And so, I woke up and said a bittersweet goodbye to the month of April.
April's been pretty great, my first ever solo show opening, my turning of twenty,
and so much more, but yet at the same time, it's been a pretty rough month for me.

I'm looking forward to what new things May would bring. And I would like to remain
hopeful that the month of May would be a good one.

I would like to push myself a bit more this month.
I want to start by becoming a better artist, and start settling things,
instead of letting them just sit there. I need to find some new kind of courage,
mainly to venture out into the wild side of nature, discovering little things and
berry - like plants, rediscover my love for the environment, and find a hopefully
better purpose for doing the things that I do, mostly being, working 6 days a week.

Well, we'll see.