Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 29 - 31

Day 29: Inside Your Fridge

One side of the fridge

Top right Shelf: Some medicine for Peanut
Middle Shelf: Varieties of chillies & sauces
Bottom Shelf: OJ, 2 different types of milk

Milk wasn't part of daily meal where I grew up until I met Mr Minzy.
My daughter drinks a lot of milk.
We are in the midst of weaning her from drinking cow milk.

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Day 30: Nature

 

Love the beach!

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Day 31: You, Again

That's me with Friends Are Angels' Removable Fabric Wall Decal

Looks like the January's Photo A Day Challenge didn't go quite smooth as how I wanted.

But I did managed to find time completing this challenge.

I have learn something along this little journey of mine.

Still finding difficulty to open up. The fear of opening up that people might reject me.

I sometime wonder am I the only person think like that?

I have noticed it could be one of the past from the dark side still haunting me...

calling my name "Irene...remember the hurt that so pain and left the scars in your heart

when you open up and trust? Remember?"

Have you experience something like that too?

How do you overcome your fear?

I hope you enjoy following my journey :)

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You
2. Breakfast
3. Something You Adore
4. Letterbox
5. Something You Wore
6. Makes You Smile
7. Favourite
8. Your Sky
9. Daily Routine
10. Childhood
11. Where you sleep
12. Close-Up
13. In Your Bag
14. Something You're Reading
15. Happiness
16. Morning
17. Water
18. Something You Bought
19. Sweet
20. Someone You Love
21. Reflection
22. Your Shoes
23. Something Old
24. Guilty Pleasure
25. Something You Made
26. Colour
27. Lunch
28. Light
29. Inside Your Fridge
30. Nature
31. You, Again

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 24 - 28

Day 24: Guilty Pleasure

Bought this from Aldi few days ago. Not bad I thought.

I hardly eat chips, chocolate until I met Mr Minzy.

He is all about dark chocolate, ice cream and potato chips.

It was insane cuz our weight had been going up and down like a yo-yo.

So to date, I have made the decision to have the daily walk

pushing Peanut in her pram on daily basis.

Just so I won't be feeling huge guilt eating all these temptation.

It's about time to loose those baby fats and get the healthy body back.

Healthier life, Happier soul I say.

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Day 25: Something You Made

I can't sew but I can hand-stitched.

These are some of my hand-stitched soft toys I made when I started Missy Minzy.
Somewhat meditating activity..easily dwell into own world for hours.
You like? I'm thinking of making more. What say you?

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Day 26: Colour

Smiley face for you

We have been playing this for the last few days.

So colourful and great fun! :)

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Day 27: Lunch

My favourite: Maggi Mee Goreng with Sunny-side up egg

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Day 28: Light

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You
2. Breakfast
3. Something You Adore
4. Letterbox
5. Something You Wore
6. Makes You Smile
7. Favourite
8. Your Sky
9. Daily Routine
10. Childhood
11. Where you sleep
12. Close-Up
13. In Your Bag
14. Something You're Reading
15. Happiness
16. Morning
17. Water
18. Something You Bought
19. Sweet
20. Someone You Love
21. Reflection
22. Your Shoes
23. Something Old
24. Guilty Pleasure
25. Something You Made
26. Colour
27. Lunch
28. Light

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 20 - 23

Day 20: Someone You Love

2 loves of my life

they both means the world to me and they make me feel complete.

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Day 21: Reflection

Reflection from one of the wall art

Taken this shot inside of Taj Mahal, India last year

I miss traveling.

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Day 22: Your Shoes

 So I have show you my girlie girl's shoes. How about my hiking shoes?

They are very reliable and they have not fail me so far :)

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Day 23: Something Old (work)

Limited Edition LinoPrint: Tree Of Life

So glad how the prints turned out. Each print has its uniqueness.
Too bad I won't be making any of them...unless I have my own working studio
where I get to work away from Peanut cuz of the material I was using.

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You
2. Breakfast
3. Something You Adore
4. Letterbox
5. Something You Wore
6. Makes You Smile
7. Favourite
8. Your Sky
9. Daily Routine
10. Childhood
11. Where you sleep
12. Close-Up
13. In Your Bag
14. Something You're Reading
15. Happiness
16. Morning
17. Water
18. Something You Bought
19. Sweet
20. Someone You Love
21. Reflection
22. Your Shoes
23. Something Old

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 15 - 19

Day 15: Happiness

Happiness

Showing you something different. Print above is one of my work.

Something different from being mushroom and Minzy Girl.

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Day 16: Morning

Morning Coffee with a girlfriend
A very sweet friend who I am blessed to met at one of the handmade market
and we have became close friend..where I can talk and be myself.
Always nice to have great companion with some great cuppas!!
Resource

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Day 17: Water

Taken this in Kyoto this time last year.

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Day 18: Something You Bought

 Just in time replacing the old one!

Also, just received some new materials (in case you wonder, it is not the Sensodyne;)
for Missy Minzy's new print some time this week.
New experimenting! Exciting moment!

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Day 19: Sweet

Cadbury: Marble

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You
2. Breakfast
3. Something You Adore
4. Letterbox
5. Something You Wore
6. Makes You Smile
7. Favourite
8. Your Sky
9. Daily Routine
10. Childhood
11. Where you sleep
12. Close-Up
13. In Your Bag
14. Something You're Reading
15. Happiness
16. Morning
17. Water
18. Something You Bought
19. Sweet

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 14 - Something You're Reading

Day 14: Something You're Reading

Having a creative mojo strikes after not being able to create for more than 6 months.

Hence the pile of reference books. Top reading at this moment is

Conversation with Creative Women and Toddler Taming.

The 19.5 m/o is undergoing next phrase. We are trying the controlled crying.
The going to bed without a fight. Ahh, not an easy challenge.

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You
2. Breakfast
3. Something You Adore
4. Letterbox
5. Something You Wore
6. Makes You Smile
7. Favourite
8. Your Sky
9. Daily Routine
10. Childhood
11. Where you sleep
12. Close-Up
13. In Your Bag
14. Something You're Reading

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 12 & 13

Day 12: Close-Up

A Close-Up view of my Christmas Jar

I got this inspiration from one of the picture here.
So I decided to make a washi tape craft with one of my neglected coffee jar.

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Day 13: In My (Messy Nappy) Bag

In my messy nappy bag

Will name a few basic essential in case you wondering what are they:

Dry crackers, Nappy Wipes, Soft Toy, Toilet Roll, Emergency tops,

Muslin Wrap, Bibs, Water bottle (for adult and bub)

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You
2. Breakfast
3. Something You Adore
4. Letterbox
5. Something You Wore
6. Makes You Smile
7. Favourite
8. Your Sky
9. Daily Routine
10. Childhood
11. Where you sleep
12. Close-Up
13. In Your Bag

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 10 & 11

Day 10: Childhood

 I like Garfield. Little Twin Stars. Snoopy. Hello Kitty.

I grew up collecting cute stickers/items since young.

The cute one. The pretty one. The colourful one. You name it. I will take it.

Old memories: I used to hand draw them and make it into a card of some sort and post them to a Singaporean Penpal. We still keep in touch after almost 28 years of friendship.

I happened to blog about what I used to collect when I was a kid in one of my old post here.

Have a look if you would like to know more.

ETA: I somehow overwrite the Day 10's post by accident. Hence the 're-post'.

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Day 11: Where You (Peanut) Sleep

 These are the wall decals where Peanut sleeps.

 I like wall decals hence the reason I have designed my own.
The designs you are looking were not designed by me.
I have it nice and neat for her few months ago.
Thinking, oh yeah, she will be very pleased when she sees that.
How wrong was I! She tore most of the decals and left the odd bits for me to stick them on.
Mind you, she was only 12 m/o back then. Destroy monster from early stage. Haha!

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You
2. Breakfast
3. Something You Adore
4. Letterbox
5. Something You Wore
6. Makes You Smile
7. Favourite
8. Your Sky
9. Daily Routine
10. Childhood
11. Where you sleep

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 9 - Daily Routine

Day 9: Daily Routine

Part of my daily routine:

2 visits to the playground or park or duck pond on daily basis, if possible.

Peanut has a lot of energy. She is always on the go, non-stop.
We are always looking for new things to do and explore. Everyday.
I let her Run. Play. Climb & Chase. Laugh. Explore.
Play and Play and more Play! What fun!

It can be time consuming but it's all worth it!
Cuz I will be coming home with a tired happy girl :)

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You
2. Breakfast
3. Something You Adore
4. Letterbox
5. Something You Wore
6. Makes You Smile
7. Favourite
8. Your Sky
9. Daily Routine

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 8 - Your Sky

Day 8: Your Sky

Left shot: around 2pm                                       Right shot: around 7.30pm ish

Missed out the gloomy sky this morning but managed to take 2 shots of the sky at different timing.

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You
2. Breakfast
3. Something You Adore
4. Letterbox
5. Something You Wore
6. Makes You Smile
7. Favourite
8. Your Sky

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 7 - Favourite

Day 7: Favourite

Believe it or not. This is my 3rd attempt drafting for the topic of the day - Favourite. I have a lot of favourite{s}. But this is my latest favourite. Emily Green's jewellery. It's my Christmas gift from Mr Minzy :) You should see the smile on my face and the non-stop excitement jumping up and down when I saw it.

I felt like a little girl again...at 30+ years old ;)

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You
2. Breakfast
3. Something You Adore
4. Letterbox
5. Something You Wore
6. Makes You Smile
7. Favourite

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 6 - Makes You Smile

Day 6: Makes You Smile

 

Instead of showing you photos of Peanut (my 19m/o) wearing funny goofy sunnies...making funny face. I thought I like to show you what usually makes me smile. So, I like accessories and they make me smile when I saw something I like and love. My handbag. My jewellery. My brooch. My watches. These are just some of my collection. I have to hide most of them away as Peanut is still young and she pretty much chew and grab it {tight} and not let go.

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You

2. Breakfast

3. Something You Adore

4. Letterbox

5. Something You Wore
6. Makes You Smile

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 5 - Something You Wore

Day 5: Something You Wore

I like stripey. Smart Casual is me. I don't make up. I'm comfortable going out without any lipsticks.

That is one of the reason why I created Minzy Girl (the character illustration in this blog) wearing stripey and red is my favourite colour. I also like to wear grey and black. Very Melburnian colours I have to say.

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Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012

1. You

2. Breakfast

3. Something You Adore

4. Letterbox

5. Something You Wore

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 : Day 4 - Letterbox

Day 4: Letterbox

I doubt there will be many of us posting our REAL letterbox for today's challenge. So I decided to show you my REAL letterbox and another shot inside of the letterbox too. The only good thing about our letterbox is that no snail living here..looks like the cobweb is gone too. Thank God! Haha :D

I happened to do some homework while drafting this post. If you would like to see how others' letterbox look like..click the 2 links right ---> this and that. Enjoy!

Please leave your link to your blog/page if you are also participating the challenge as I like to follow your journey and get to know you too :)

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 (Day 3)

Day 3: Something you adore

A few clips of goodness from Print & Pattern images are for personal blogging purpose only

One of the things which showing from my works are colours and plenty of them!! Another most important thing is surface pattern..imagine - texture & textile design. I attended a short course (Textile design) at CAE 2 years ago. I was blown away by the whole process. Thad had led me to more research about more Surface Pattern. Textile Design etc...and I found Marie's blog..and the Bowie Style. OMG! OMG! Am in love.

I bought the version 2 for my Christmas pressie and I knew it's going to be a late arrivals. Guess who just arrived in the mailbox when we got back from grocery shopping just now? YAY! The current issue has some of my favourite artists. Double bonus I say! Off I go to flick the book in Bowie Style! :))

Photo A Day Challenge: January 2012 (Day 1+2)

 

I bumped into this from one of my FB's newsfeed. It got me all curious and excited. I like challenge. I did a few of them over here, especially the 3 months challenge here - An art a day, Multiply my day last 2 December ago (how time flies!). That was something I look forward to write something here on daily basis. It was very good for me.

Anyways, I want a change and let you know me better. So I have decided to join this Photo A Day Challenge at Fat Mum Slim. Have a look at Chantelle's site if you are interested to know more :) Or you are very welcomed to follow my journey as I share that little bit of me. Comments. Thoughts are very welcomed. And this is how it plays...

Day 1: You

 This is me.

I was having a DIY facial done at home when I read about this challenge.

Hence the white clay mask on the face..:D

Day 2: Breakfast

I had coconut jam (Kaya) with butter on toast

No, I don't meant to show you a plate of breadcrumbs but I have honestly

forgotten that I have to take a photo for the challenge today.

Of course, my breakfast has to finish it off with a cuppa. Yeah, was very thirsty.. ;)