tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85345480477030593092012-01-25T14:42:36.601+08:00:: Book Artist :: Book Binder :: Crafter :: D.I.Y Specialist :: Illustrator :: Painter:: Paper Engineer ::Rozihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10482720849625058207noreply@blogger.comBlogger2361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534548047703059309.post-3833791422864402262012-01-23T01:10:00.000+08:002012-01-23T01:10:02.949+08:00

Love how the gems catches the light When I was asked to do a Maharani themed folder for a mas kahwin (dowery), I was not sure where to begin.  Google search didn't produce anything much and my other concern was do I make the folder specific to the amount it will contain, ie follow the size of the money. 360 individual blings, yes, I counted. Fortunately the client was able to provide

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 This order came from a long time follower, she even wanted to join the book classes I conducted but due to circumstances she could not.  And now finally, she's getting engaged! And naturally, she wants a folder of her own. The first part of the request was blings! Lots and lots of blings. With light green and pink. I have come to realise as much as I have the colours requested to start me off

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I only just learned this, it was too good not to share, extracted from Lillian Too - Feng Shui Master, also a belated Christmas greetings to all my fellow readers and followers in blogland, craftsville and artisans.. Wow - I just love all the bright lights and vibrant colors at this time of year - it's so energizing and uplifting! I was thinking today that the colour combination of green

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 An A5 no fuss no muss folder A request for a simple folder, green and silver initially. Then I asked for a third colour which was blue. Then the colour green got complicated, it was 'lime-green-but-a-tad-darker'... Looked around the environment for inspiration for that one, banana leaf green? Could it be...? Usually lime green is brilliant with yellow, I'm not sure which shade green goes with

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One day I got a call from the Chairperson of the Brunei Library Association 25th Anniversary inviting me to be part of their Regional Conference on Library, Archives and Museums to give a presentation. Wow, I'm honoured that I got asked. The next question was, what do you want me to present? The answer was, anything I like. Ok, that was a bit odd of an answer I thought. Then the chairperson

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 A client wanted something simple to put her wedding pictures in a nice album as an anniversary gift for her husband, and she chose the theme of red and gold to match her wedding outfit. At first I thought I'll do a mainly red album with gold accent, after looking at pictures of her wedding outfit I felt it was better to have gold with red accents to balance the red out and to complement the

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Close up of name plate with pink and purple heart shape gems around the names I got this really nice email from Nadhirah regarding her order, and she sounded really sweet too. All she wanted was the base colour to be deep purple and use whatever other colours that I see fit, and she wanted it to be clean and neat, no bows.  I got this great plan of combining deep purple with banana green and

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This is a tale about a last minute order, swallowing my ego and learning new things... And it goes like this... I got an email one late saturday night, did I know about it, no, I was more concerned with not being at the hospital in time when one of my favourite aunt passed away. Sunday morning after the funeral, my husband asked if I got the email. Um, no... Apparently, one of his work colleague

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A sweet simple folder, if I recalled it was a 'no ribbons' order with their names. I decided to sparkle it up by using various shapes and sizes gems in shades of purple and white. Picture don't do it justice, it's prettier in real life as the light catches and they sparkles and shine... More pictures can be seen here.

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Concertina guest book, all pink and purple This was commissioned by a friend whos long time friend was getting married and she wanted to give a guest book to the bride for the wedding. Conversation 6 months ago... Sen: I want a guest book. Pink and purple. Make it girly. Bling it up too! Me: Sure, no problem. I used purple and pink through out. From pink pages to purple covers, pink and purple

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Pink and blue back to back book  One day a friend and I were talking, her mother in law birthday was coming up and she was trying to figure out what to get for her MIL who has absolutely everything. She was telling me how her in laws are really into books, as from her description, the house was packed with books as they love books. She mentioned how her MIL also kept journals, and she would use

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I actually lost track of how many batches I've been making, it wasn't until I was preparing the invoice when I checked what number I was up to. Goodness, six batches already, and that translate to 120 stab bound autograph books I have made for the school so far. No wait, 130 because the first batch was 30 books and after that 20 at a time. Note to self, check when does contract making these

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Dessert Bento, made for a friend's birthday I'm sorry, I have not been updating in a while, I am currently fixated making bento. Almost daily. For the past few weeks. It started off with a need to practice for when my daughter starts school next year she is required to bring packed snacks from home. My husband gets to have the bentos I fix for his lunch, his staff have come to expect his bento

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More pop up frames, more birthdays, these two are for a couple of the immediate family members, it was one of those, hmmm-I-haven't-made-anything-for-them moment, and thought of making these, maybe it could be something they can put on their office table... I used the same pattern for the one I made for MIL, it being pretty and all and I just had enough to make another. And the person I'm giving

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 One day I received a text message on my cell or mobile, whatever you want to call it, that asked for a guest book, red and white with a hint of black, and roses perhaps... Out came the last of the beautiful embossed paper I had, my sister brought it back from the States a couple of years back, which I had been sparingly using, and now *sniff sniff* the last bits have been used up! *bawl* The

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 Sheer white ribbon with silver detailing A simple white wedding album for a simple couple. I was specifically told to keep it plain and no three dimensional decorations. None. At. All. What. So. Ever. But keep it wedding like. After I was done, I was tempted to put blings. Spartan like, here and there. When the client came and I mentioned I thought of putting blings but decided not to, she was

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After a long while, I've finally gotten around making a book! Long stitched binding using a maroon book binding thread, using a pretty blue oriental patterned japanese paper with gold for the covers, and a red with gold strands handmade paper as end sheet on the inside, lovely contrast. Oh, and I've cut windows in the spine of the cover so you can see the book block as an added interest. So

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With baby's first birthday coming up, I wanted to give something to her first classmates (she goes to a weekly 'Sing and Sign Language' classes since March for the past 12 weeks) to mark the occasion of her first birthday. At first I thought a pretty cupcake of a sort. Then it got me thinking how my baby can't have it (not for a few years at least) and I feel bad if I'm feeding my kid sugar, and

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This was order from a client, I would say she took the whole package, hantaran pertunangan, buku hantaran and menerima berian (engagement dower and dowry, engagement book and soon the receiving dower and dowry we're currently working on due in a couple of weeks time) of course all the hantaran (dower and dowry stuff) are made with my friend Heidi.Anyway, the client, a sweet girl, requested for an

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The SIL, FIL and MIL birthday presents for 2011I'm trying to catch up on posts here...What do you give for someone who has everything they need already? I don't want to get a present just because it's a present, I'm the kind of person who cares enough to puts effort and time into a gift. And I'm fortunate enough to have the talent, skill and experience to make these for the inlaws. I figured this

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Not to say nothing has been happening in the studio, more along the line of I can't remember where I last placed my camera so no new pictures until that is found...The studio have been abuzz with activity, past several weeks my cousin and I have been using up, or trying to, all the stuff that had been accumulating and recycling other materials as well. We have been talking about this for ages and

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These are my current favourite! I like how neat and tidy it looks. I love how considerate the client was for giving me ample time (she informed me two months prior to the event) and how nice she was when I called her up so I'm clear as to what she wanted. How easy I thought it'll be to get the colours and style...Everything checked apart from that last line. I hunted everywhere! In the end, I had

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Totally loving this one! Love love love! That is... until the next piece I'll construct, hehe... More pictures and story on next post when I'm free...

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I don't remember where I picked this one from, was browsing through my archive, but it sure as heck extremely appropriate right now for Japan, for the world, for yourselves, and for me...It's like having someone yelling and imprinting those words in your head doesn't it... It's like, "Wake up! Do something!!" Ok, ok ok ok!

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With the recent events of the earthquake and tsunami that have hit Japan, it's saddening to watch the news and hearing the body counts. Earth should not be taken for granted for one never know when it's might will be released...Organizations and countries came to help to the people of Japan, donations pouring in, lives are at stake. One picture of a rescue worker carrying a 4 months old baby girl

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Now that I've been doing things in the studio, I've also gone a bit side tracked... I've been hanging out a lot with a friend, Heidi, who have gotten herself into this 'hantaran' business (decorating dowers/dowries). We share stories of creative endeavors and challenges, I toss her ideas to try and tips and techniques that'll be useful to her. She does her own thing, I do mine.It was when one day

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Wishing all my readers and blog friends a very merry christmas & a happy new year, may it brings us more inspiration and creative endevors!

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I was asked to make something for a guy by his wife for his birthday. She wanted something that he can have at work for his table. The thing that came to my mind was the pop up book/folder/frame watchamacallit. The original colour scheme she gave me was blue, white and black, and he likes planes. But when I saw the photo she provided the colours won't flow, and my other dilemma was how am I going

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I happen to have a spare if anyone is interested for that special engagement. It's A5 in size, 16cm by 22cm. Perfect for anniversaries (a friend had one and she wrote out the lyrics to 'their song' and placed it in the folder to give to her husband for one of their wedding anniversary, he was floored!) or that special photo... It got pink tassels in the corners just because... More details and

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A first time mother (not me) got a wonderful idea to have a guest book for her daughter's first birthday party. When she asked me to make one I thought what a great idea, a memory keeper! I might just do the same thing when my baby turns one... after I figure out if we'll actually have a party or otherwise...Anyway, the colour theme for the party is white and pink. I got other details like the

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She's almost six months old now, lots of milestones reached and more to come. Such an easy going baby, and mommy's been online shopping a lot for baby too, too many good stuff out there...Thanks to Sarah for the pictures one lazy afternoon spending with baby. Studio is slowly making a come back, did the fourth batch of books ordered from JIS and delivered, a couple of wedding orders, and the odd

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Us, baby is exactly 3 months old when picture was taken about two weeksish ago...Hi everyone, it's been three months odd so far, hanging in there with baby in the house. Learning and adapting to her developments and changes, all this is new and we're both enjoying having her. So far routine is all centered around baby and I'm taking things easy, with the husband, the two cats and the house to

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The guest book in action, not many signatures yet as we got there early so there would be parking in the basement as it was raining that evening...The happy couple! Ok, so we can't really see the groom's face and you can see how pretty the bride is and reason why I chose this picture was because of the cake, how many brides actually made their own five tiered wedding cake, each tier a different

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(Sorry about the pictures quality, shots were taken at night and I was tired to even think about redoing them, although now I kinda wish I did... oh well...)This is fun, the person who made my wedding cake has now asked me to make her wedding guest book. Not just one but two, one for the church wedding and the other for the dinner reception which I gladly said yes to.The colours asked for were

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Meet Baby Dyanna (as in the princess) with daddy. Born on the 12th June 2010, 3.35kg (about 7lbs), 55cm (22.5").Normal Delivery.13 minutes of pushing before she popped out!All creative endeavours are currently on hold until further notice...Mommy is currently recuperating. (I never expected post birth was going to be like this physically, ack!).My little angel :-)Mommy love you very much! xoxoxo

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Today is our wedding anniversary! First anniversary. Paper. I think I got that right. Paper is so appropriate for us in so many ways. Our love for books. Graphics. Novels. Recycled. What he does - writer, what I do - creative visual artist... Maybe I should do projects based on the theme every year. I wonder what I'll be doing when I hit the metals like silver or gold, probably a sculpture. Ooh,

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This is part 2, the guest books, part 1 was the buku hantaran. Now I'm going to refer the guy who's wedding this was for as Gorilla Guy because the very first time I met him, he was wearing a gorilla mask and that stuck with me, first impression, hehehe...The one who contacted me to arrange all this for him was Gorilla Guy's sister, and she wanted the buku hantaran (engagement folder) as well as

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The significant other and I had an interesting time last night, we made a belly cast... Well, he did most of the work, I just stood there as it was applied on to me. It took longer than I expected.He had to be all crafty and learn how to use the plaster gauze there and then.Lots of water was involved.We went through 5 rolls which I cut into strips prior.Cats got very curious to what we were

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...for the lack of posts, other things been occupying my mind, baby especially. So baby's blog is pretty active, especially now that the day is getting nearer... whenever that is... Me, 36 weeks!I am now in my 37th week, the doctor had said I can give birth anytime now... within the next three weeks... Yesterday I had that 'nesting instinct' all the pregnancy info I've been reading about says

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There you go, 30 stab bound books. I never realised 30 books would make a pile that tall. Made them on and off, whenever I had the time. Wasn't going to do the do-them-in-one-sitting mistake again. Destination, Jerudong International School Brunei, sent and delivered this morning. Now I have another lot to do for their next school term in August. Not too sure if it'll still be stab bound though.

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For three wedding events & photos!This book was made in... 2004! Goodness that was a long time ago... Back then I only knew two binding methods, coptic and stab. That was it. Good thing I expanded my répertoire.Right, this guest book was commissioned with the idea that it was for three seaperate wedding events. The couple was a local Chinese bride and a Protugese groom. So they had a chinese

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I was hoping I could get through this pregnancy without falling sick, and there I was, almost the home stretch with 7 weeks to go, I got sick! A cold, but it was still annoying enough that made me short tempered and cranky like hell. The worst is over, I hope, I'm just dealing with a stuffy nose, phlegmy, occasional cough and unexpected sneezes when it gets too cold.Despite being sick, I managed

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Isn't that cool? Check out the riot of colours! Over the weekend, my cousin Wina came over to complete the commission she got from a semi government entity's annual dinner, the organizers had asked her for twenty colourful snowflakes they going to use as part of their decoration. They encountered her small ones when she made them last December. So, armed with the materials she required, my studio

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A very popular colour combination pink and purple. This one is an A5 with an open heart center. The client was specific with the pink on the inside and purple on the outside. Pink & purple buku hantaran, engagement folderIt turns out that the client is a staff at where darling hubby works, so he brought the folder in, easier that way, also I figured an indirect way of promoting, you never know

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Aaaaannnndddd they're complete! Ok, 99% because I still have the single folder left which I finished earlier but now when compared to these I'm not too happy with and I might just take that one apart... maybe... The concertina portraitThe pictures given were a mix of both portrait and landscape, and to make that as one album I didn't like the idea of the dead space the framing will have. It's a

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It was that time of year again, the significant other's bithday. So this year I decided, I'm going to bake cookies, slap on fondant or icing on it, and write short messages from friends and family with edible ink pen on each one, record it, and compile into a book for keeps as cookies gets eaten.When I started receiving the quotes, greetings and memories I realised there was no way they'd fit on

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The home stretch is almost near, if only I could remember where the heck I place the rest of the material so I could do the covers... In mean time, cut boards to make covers... One is landscape and the other is portrait, can't wait for them to be finished. Dare I say by end of the week?

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Don't you just love it when you open up your email and you get this waiting for you in your inbox. Things like these makes all those late nights, fretting when will the paint/glue dry, accidently cutting your fingers with the knife, and so on and so forth worth it...Dear Rozi,I would just like to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU so much for the wonderful and creative wedding invites, they

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The first batch took me about fifteen hours to make from start to finish. Started on a sunday morning and didn't finish until about two in the morning the following monday. Somewhere in there was the toilet breaks and feeding. I was surprised that I was able to make all twenty and finish them in that time, but at the same time realised it's not a good thing to do it all straight in one go, not

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Part 1 is here...This is the second installment, This particular order is done between orders, a bit at a time, been hanging over my head, will be very glad when they're all done. Will do a proper post when they are all complete...So briefly, the end result would consist of three seperate structures, one is a folder that contains the main family photo, the other two consist of the rest of the

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When this folder was done, I thought she needed it this weekend, turned out I was early by two weeks! Even better, more time to do the others on the list.Effa and I been emailing back and forth on this one, I lost count how many colour changes she went through. And this was just for her engagement, I can't imagine what she's going through for her wedding end of the year.Heh, at one point, one of

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Well... since I am at the end of my second trimester and we figured lets have a last trip out and spent almost a week in Singapore, we didn't go far, but different enough. Besides, it was great to meet up with friends who lived there.Where's the pregnant belly?We went during the Chinese New Year period, and this fantastic floral tiger was outside the hotel where we stayed, there was a pair of

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Clients loved them! Very important that. And they were involved in the process too, which made quick work. The whole point was to keep the cost of the invites down. Points I needed to consider...The print run was low, 70 pieces. No commercial printers are willing to do that without charging you an arm and a leg.The clients requested different RSVP dates on some of them, which printers are willing

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This is what I'm staring at currently sitting at my table, it's a diagram to help me map out the subject units for the Art & Design course currently writing up.Yes, I have butterflies in my room.

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This year the chinese side of my family are not celebrating because of the recent demise of my late uncle and grand uncle, tradition dictates if there is a death in the family, there will be no celebration of any sort for a year or three, depending on which group you follow. So on the first day this year was a more mellow celebration and leaves us ample time to visit friends who are celebrating.

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What do you do when you have a limited amount of material but an abundance of frames and boards to cover...? You get all creative and really small seam allowance.

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I'm not sure if the camera was able to pick up the true colour since I took the shot at night... the background was a beautiful shade of olive green. I used up the last bit of the textured paper for this that I had saved for over a year. It worked well for this particular piece with the floaty gauzy bow. I don't really like doing last minute order but this was my first order from the guy side,

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I figured I'd take a shot of my references... These are the books I refer to for most things made in the studio and also for work for the curriculum I'm writing up, isn't that great, they get to do double duty! The big grey ones on the left are all my Keith Smith books, I managed to get them in with the help of a good friend. It took me a while to really appreciate them because they're very dry

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Just a sneak peak behind production, most of the time I'm trying to make everything flat...

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I dreamt I broke my awl and I was very upset as the awl in the dream looked like the metal broke like a twig into two, and I needed the awl to complete a book I was making. I can't remember why I was very upset about it, it wasn't my favourite awl and it's bent at the very tip of the point. Very strange...

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Right, am biting the bullet, I look at all the other artsy craftsy blogs out there and when they feature their studios it looks like a dream. I'm like, no way I can compete with these lot! Lovely curtains, soft furnishings, beautiful arrangements here and there... But hey, each studio got their own personality right? Mine is still in the process of being shaped, right now it just needs to

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We have two cats in the house, this is one of them. Sweet as honey and keeps me company in the studio. He'll be 5 years old this year in July, and right now having the time of his life."Wachu lookin' at?""Sigh... nothin' on tv... again"Yes, he really sits like that. I forgot to mention he's also a very talkative cat and he loves being cuddled. Pictures are too cute not to share!

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Being king and queen for a day, you also get to have your throne. Here, it's a big business when it comes to weddings and one of the expenses is the dais. You can choose to make your own or rent. When my sister got married ten years ago she had hers specifically made. Nowadays there are lots to choose from to rent.I had two, I had some of the functions at home and I had the main event at a hotel.

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This post is better late than never... Three weeks before Christmas, Wina and I decided for this Christmas why not raise funds for Animal Shelter Brunei? Rather than wait for someone to organise something, why not take the initiative to do it, and we did. We sold stuff we made and all proceeds went to AS. With the help of the ladies from the Hen House Harriers, and a few friends, we managed to

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Continuing on the wedding series, man I'm really dragging it out aren't I... The front of the invitePop up flower! Close up of pop up flowerI designed the invitation myself, keeping to the colour theme of the wedding. The intention was to keep the design minimal, non fussy and low cost. I stuck with black and white with a shot of red. For those of you who got cards to do, keep the following in

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I got an email one day with an attachment that says, "I want something that looks like this, with this and this. Is that possible?" I took one look at the picture and go, no problem.The attached picture in the emailI thought it'll be easy to find a print like that, it was all the rage, notice 'was'. The closest thing I could find was a silver backed and the pattern outlined in flock. Would the

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The email for this order was interestingly long. Colour combination of silver, white and turquoise was the theme. I visualised something clean and crisp and I wondered whether I could get away with snowflakes since it was a winter order.I used minimal flowers in various shades of blue greens, and used the silver as accents. I especially like the silver leaves at the ends of the ribbons, I don't

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Hello.I've been away for quite some time...Am slowly uploading pictures of past events...Playing catch up so to speak...Bear with me...A huge chunk of it is thanks to this one...Who would've guessed, not me that's for sure, I was convinced I was coming down with something and it was anything but this...How was I suppose to know apart from being nauseous like hell, on top of that I was fasting

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My cousin Wina and I are part of the Ladies Hash here and we decided it would be great to make something to sell for Christmas at the hash to raise money for Animal Shelter Brunei (their site isn't updated often unfortunately). We announced at the weekly gathering and got busy making over the long weekend. I decided to concentrate on cards since I thought it was something I know well, where as

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Apologies for not updating regularly, there's a reason, hopefully it won't be for long because it's very draining. Anyhoo, it doesn't mean I've stopped taking orders and if I haven't gotten back to your email or messages, don't worry, I've already blocked in your order in my time schedule, I just haven't discussed the details with you yet.One of the orders came from the Brunei Women's Group. I

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I love this shot, I had to make it the first picture for this post, plus, it shows the true colours used for the base, the other shots I think I over did it on AP. Nevermind, artsy shots always good.See those tassles? Perfect! A bit stiff here because they hadn't soften up yet, but it's all good, don't want them too limp either now do we... I stuck the flowers down in pairs randomly over the

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This was a double layer process, as I first had to use a light purple base and then an organza which got the deep purple spirals with silver detailing on top. Since the pattern was already busy I kept the embelishments simple, a wide white organza ribbon which edges echoes the silver pattern on the folder tied into a simple floaty bow and pink flower gems to add punches on an already very purple

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This order came during the fasting month, she wanted gold and cream to fit her theme colours, I assume it's also for the wedding, that would be nice... she saw the emo one during Hari Raya. Well, you can't compare really, the style and colours are so different!I knew I wanted the beautiful spiral pattern on either side with the soft floaty bow for a ribbon in the centre. But I was stumped on how

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Remember this...They contained these...Silver black with a romantic Emo...Inside the black folderInside the silver folderI almost had a hard time trying to figure out how to do this. The request was for two folders that could fit an A5. One has to be black with silver, and the other has to be silver with black. And Cha wanted it to be an emo romantic love theme and she loves hearts.With trusty

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I know it's been months, I just haven't had the energy, but now, we'll continue with my instalments about my wedding! Ha ha! More cultural lessons...In an Islamic marriage, one of the requirement is the dower, groom giving to the bride. In the Malay culture, we have the mas kahwin and the belanja angus or belanja dapur as the dower, the mas kahwin goes straight to the bride herself where as

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This was picked up this evening, they're for this weekend. I promised her I'll keep it under wraps until next week, then I'll show you what is underneath the wrapping :-D

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I just love Illustrator don't you, a simple quickie to commemorate.To celebrate the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, the whole month of Syawal is a time for celebration, to seek forgiveness from your love ones and friends, to strengthen ties, to start anew from the awareness of lessons learnt during Ramadan to be a better person. I seek forgiveness to those of you out there friends, clients,

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See this mess, remember a while back I had this to deal with. All my papers and anything that's rolled up. A mess I tell you, a mess!Then one day, I saw these purple bins with lids. Ooooohhh, how cool is that I thought, because they normally come in black, red or blue. But this one is purple! Wondered whether it was tall enough for what I had in mind, I bought them anyway. Plus, it was a buy one

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Text message received from a crystal friend:Who am I? I love my life, my work and home. I make mistakes and I put them right. I love to try new things and I want to live my dreams... What about you?My reply to message:I am creative,I make things pretty,I live in a world where love is aplenty,I dare to dream,I dare to try,the sky is the limit,I learn to fly,No earthly shackles can hold me still,

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This is so cool... ok, was just checking out the links of where people come from, I like to check out the ones that came from a search engine just to find out what word got googled that lead them to my blog. While on one of the track back at the end of the list was this link. And I just had to click on it and it took me to a blog entry. I love the fact that the hero got the same name and she's an

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Was on msn with an old friend, Sai, who lives in Australia and she's feeling pissed (angry-as-hell mode, not the drunk-like-sh*t mode) lately with good reasons. So to put a smile on her face told her to have a look at the work in progress of 'Fat Fairy'. There's a theme running here whenever I start to illustrate funny things... fat cats, fat pigs, purple flying elephant who's also fat...Here are

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Talk about a hot and sweaty day, really humid and stifling. We were running around doing errands and to his parents place to pick up books I made that I gave to him and his sister so I could display them as well because I wanted to add variety to the books that I currently have... I'm only down to stab bound and long stitch, stopped production due to preparing for the wedding, will start up again

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This is how the studio is currently looking, still trying to figure out how to better arrange the stuff and what should go where. Let's go on a quickie tour shall we... From the door looking left you see... First rack holds all my art books, the pile at the top are my origami books and the black bag on the floor contains the custom orders that I must get around to doing.The second rack the top

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Picture borrowed from Jac's Seraphina Yoga blogThis coming sunday, the 9th August between 4 to 6pm, I am invited to show and sell some of the books that I currently have, at the Tai Chi Hall at the Heng Thai Building by the Kiulap roundabout for a Yoga Arts Event for a mini yoga bazaar. Elaine will be there with her crystals, Nadia will be there with her baby cakes, Cindy with her cute cupcakes

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I finally finished sorting out my new studio. And I don't think I'm able to do classes this month like I thought I would, because we hadn't moved in yet. Waiting for curtains. Also we haven't found the right dining table either. And I'm looking around for the right work table that I can fold up so we could use it for classes in the studio! I also have to make curtains to cover up the shelves so

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Two deaths happened in the family recently. One of my aunt, who had been suffering from diabetes and both kidneys failed for a number of years already and was swiftly taken when she developed complications with her lungs. I remembered her well when the time I came over and my uncle was showing me how he would change the drainage bag that was attached to her abdomen to remove the used fluids to

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Ta-Da! The wedding cake! It has three tiers, the top was lemon buttercream, middle was orange sponge, and the bottom layer was chocolate fudge. The cake was designed more with him in mind, hence the Superman topper and teddy bears all around. There were 99 red roses representing everlasting love and if you want to know who made it and more pictures go here... no surprises really who made it ;-D

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This is for my international friends, blog readers and followers, a brief description to what each ceremony was about... and the reason why I was having such a wedding outfit dilemma since I have five occasions to dress up for...The Nikah... the solemnization, taking the marriage vow. For the muslims, this involved the groom to utter the vow with the condition it is said in one breath with no

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Occasion no.2, the 'Berbedak' outfit, fooling around for the cameraOnce upon a time, before this whole getting married bit happened, I was adamant not to have so many functions because I was single, was not in the frame of mind of getting married, didn't see the point of the functions and was skint. At that time.Then I had my wedding. With five separate functions. With five different attire. For

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Officially I'm now a Mrs! But it still hadn't sank it...Right now it's running around, getting stuff done. Still working too, my leave hadn't started yet, managed to move a huge chunk of workload. Got lots of pictures wedding preps and first wedding function last Sunday, can't wait to show them especially to my readers in the States and Europe, Brunei Malay wedding is just going to blow your mind

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A while back, I made an oriental journal, the cover was using what I called the 'Louis Vuitton paper' because the pattern reminded me of one of their handbags. I quite liked that book and saved a bit of the paper to make another version.. supposedly... but it never happened, it went into one of the bookmaking kits instead. But I still wanted to make another red and black book with the chinese

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This started out life as a demo stab book in one of my classes, the original binding was silver with a small bow at the top corner. After a while I got bored with the look and figured it needed jazzing up. I took off the binding and used the pink and purple ribbons, added my unlimited supply of paper flowers to the tail end of the ribbons...... and to the bottom corner of the book. I think the

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The book is making it's debut tonight for their wedding dinner. I kept the look simple and uncomplicated. I forgot to bring my camera so was using my camera phone to take these shot at work. My office roommate thought the book is for my wedding, nope, not my colours. I have a different idea for mine, providing I remember to do it.The covers is a textured purple paper, with a big pink with gold

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I only have one more weekend left until the whole wedding thing happening *eep*. Is everything prepared, I don't know. To catch those 'moment' shots, I don't know. Are my outfits even ready, I checked and was told they're not even sewn yet! Gee, that really helps with my anxiety level... Am I getting enough sleep, not really. It's one of those tossing and turning and tossing and turning and upset

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Yay! I found my camera cable! Found it this morning as I was clearing the work surfaces of the studio as the movers are going to move the last bits of the furniture today, the work benches and sofa bed. Those stuff are all on the floor now, will sort it out next few days. Never realised there were so much stuff...I said a couple of weeks ago I'd show you the new studio at the new house I'm moving

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I've been saving this image to post up for a couple of weeks already, remember a couple of weeks back me going on about my wedding invites and all... How I went and cut up sheets of paper and folded and folded and outlined and got my relatives over armed with a pair of scissors each for a couple of nights... Well, you're looking at some 1200 pieces of red, white and grey what-the-heck-are-they.

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I have just done the last two classes today (Pictures whenever I offload my camera) Here are some interesting numbers regarding the classes I've been conducting...22 classes I've had in total.16 of them were Beginners Stab Binding Class.3 were Intermediate/Advance Stab Binding Class.3 were Long Stitch Binding Class.63 students had learnt how to make a stab book.3 students returned and did a

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Fire in My SoulHere's a strange bit, I noticed that (after it was pointed out to me...) I only paint when I'm upset or depressed. Strange huh, pretty effective though, the ice cream is safe. And this painting came about when I was upset about something (can't remember what it was now) and needed to get that negative energy out of me. I didn't feel like painting my rose series (even though I have

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Look look! I'm so excited! Look at these darling long stitch binding books! I've never seen so many in one go! Imagine having these up on your book shelf. Mine are the first six from the right, the rest were made by students of the second long stitch class I conducted. Aren't they fantastic. I like my paper to be anything but white when it comes to making books, there is just something warm about

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This was what I did, I have to describe it to you because I forgot to take pictures, I was just so excited to see if it worked... I've written everyones names who left a comment one each on a square piece of paper. Each paper I then fold into a water bomb (instructions here on how to make it). I place them in a pile on the floor in front of Shazam! She jumped straight in and they went flying! I

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