Travel Journal: Japan Trip 2016

Buying funny beauty mask is a must! We actually bought  the mini porcelain masks here in a second hand shop!

So finally I scanned my Japan Travel Journal, and I would scan the rest of my travel journal entries from way back when, last entry scanned was India and that was from 2012, there are some mini trips I did after that before life takes over and I moved to Australia.

Talking about moving, we just recently settled down in our new nest, thus the huge time span between the trip and the posting of the blog. Every weekend we are either packing stuffs, putting them in the garage, and scouring for furniture etc since we moved from a fully furnished into an unfurnished apartments.If you would like to see my freshly decorated nest head over to my instagram, it is @shalindrome. 

Well, anyway at first I planned to do a haul post along with this, but actually I didn't really buy that much stuff when in Japan. I brought home lotsa food though but all got eaten straight away.... And Tadaaaaa here's my journal.....

Free Printable: Agate Slice Valentine Card

Hello, loooooong time no see. It's about three years since my last post, and within that time-slot I ended my long time relationship, obsessed with work, then met someone new, got engaged, quit my job, got married, and moved to Australia.....

Anyway to share my joy in coming back to the blogging world, I decided to do a freebie! I hope it's not too late to use on Valentine's Day, but even so you could just send it anytime. Cause I kept the design and wording pretty loose.

You will get two postcard-sized designs (one sided with blank background), and I also threw in a few more agate slices that you could use as gift-tags. Do print it in A4 or Letter with 150gsm or more paper or cardstock. Follow this link to download.

Please tag my instagram (@shalindrome) if you print and use it. Have fun and Happy Valentine's Day!

PSD card mockups by Graphicsfuel

Travel Journal: India

I actually scanned these pages like two, or was it three, weeks ago. Staying true to my procrastinating ass, I  made promises to myself and then I stalled. So without further a do, here goes...

Fascinating New Things

This week is super tiring but super happy too!!! And these are the things that keep the after work blues away. Ladies and Gentlemen meet my new laptop;  Sherlock Korolevich.

It's a HP Probook 4230s, with a second generation i5 and 4 Gig DDR3 all in a compact 12 inch package. Sweet... I've been without a computer for so long, I felt so blessed with one now. What a wonderful machinery. Of course I haven't try anything on it. I just used it for umm playing games (Angry Birds Rio) and watched DVD (Downton Abbey). 

So, is it fast? I can't really tell.

I received this packages from Annah and Holly that are filled with so much awesome stuffs!!! It's like Halloween and Christmas and Birthday in the same time!!! Super yayness!!

See!!! Awesome right?!! Annah made the silly cat-caterpillar thingie on top and Holly send this awesome cat buttons. They're such a cute cat people. And those are pin-up pins!! And how about that ribs earrings?!! Happy happy happy!!!

super cute right?!

TADAAAA!!! Isn't this just the most awesome necklace evvah??!! I think it's a velociraptor by the the shape of the head and raptors rocked! But recent finds suggest raptor have feathers, say you. Please shut-up and lemme have my Jurassic Park moments here. You wanna argue still? Then it's a T-Rex with head defect okay, you happy now? I dunno how the head gone defect, you go and find out if you're sooooo smart. Geez...

Umm now the inner geek have gone sulking let us summon the inner shopper.

Okay so this shopping thing happened when I HAVEN'T got my package (but the package come earlier, I just haven't get them from Mr Painsugar). Anyway it was fun so thank you Miss Dindie. You can read her version here. 

And oh yeah, I've started to join Fransis in at esgriming. It's a picture blog about ice creams : )

WIWT: 12, 15, 16 September 2011

 I was reading my new book before going to the office  when the light went off, and so I was leaning in front of my room by the door and continued reading. Then I kinda remember  a Glenn Fabry's Hellblazer cover and that's that.

What I Wore and Whatnots.

Okay, here goes...

My previous post kinda reminds me of what I love in Dindie's daily drawings. And as we talked about wardrobes and stuffs via AIM during our working hours, she kinda nudged me ( don't need pushing, I AM that easy) into doing "the What I Wore Today" thing. So okay, I spend the rest of my working hours into doodling things. (Apart from working that is, Ahem! and a just tiny tiny bit of pinning, I swore!).  To be precise, I was designing my soon to be character or avatar or whatevs. I mean if I'm like gonna do this everyday, I should simplify things, right?

Well, I kinda SUCK on that.

Simple and minimal is HARD!!

Drawing attempt number one is the wardrobe I wore yesterday. I was soooo distracted it came absolutely  UNLIKE anything in the what I wore today flickr pool (do check, it's awesome!!! AND the very-own Gemma Correll is moderating.) I spend the night before and (even wake up) early morning reading China Mieville's. You had me at, Kraken. 

I have a special spot in my heart for seamonsters and the ever growing Cthulhu-spawned-lore. So as you can see below, I have my head full of fidgety feelers that I later inscribed  in little notes.
Like a proper maniac.

oh yeah I wear my Docs too

Okay this is attempt number two, I kinda like my outfit the day before yesterday. I even take picture of it with my Toy Digital Camera (dunno the result yet, apparently I forgot to bring the CD-ROM), so yeah next time. Since I went wayyy overboard on the first, I kinda try to down-tuned it a, ummm, lot. Which in reality what happened is kinda the other way around. The Sep 8 outfit is a whole lot quiet than the 7's (Colors! Everywhere!!! Except the shirt which is black). Before reading Kraken I was re-reading Clive Barker's Abarat series, the  book covers might kinda inspired what I wore that day.

Finally, this is What I wore Today. No, not another book It is mangosteen inspired. And this link is for the products I was raving about. It's local and OH so yummy, I swore! And Voila, a little me-ness. About time.

From Paper to Fabric

From marker pens to threads. 

Finally my long longing of seeing my design being actually done came true. It's been almost a year! Phhhewwhhh!!! These designs are for my mother's mukena (moslem prayer wear) shop, GSA Collection. I find designing for my mother as quite interesting and challenging, for there are certain rules in Islamic art that need to be applied. For instance humans and beasts are things that should be avoid of, so in Indonesia most mukenas use floral motifs instead. But as a store that brands itself of providing exclusive and limited collection, my mother demand freshness, innovation and quality to each of her product. She's a perfectionist so she is naturally very demanding. Combined with her adept social skills and business instinct she is very successful in the business. 

In the past I've done candies, trains, even musical notes. And her head embroiderer/ designer, Soleh, has done coconut trees, gold fishes, and bamboos. Due to family problems he was vacuum for over year, and he's the only one who could translate 'out-of-the-box' designs  into embroideries. While others, while very skillful in embroidering, could only follow the already made examples or create new patterns but still in floral motifs (though still unusual in terms of forms or colors, following my mother's direction, they're not THAT surprising). So my designs are just dusting away for quite some times, until now....

"Delftware"

Selamat Tahun Baru

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Happy Two Thousand eleFun Everyone!

Sketching Sleeplessness: Updates

My scanner broke. I had to take photos instead. Sucks. But hey! Made progress. Not too sure will make it on time though. 

Do forgive my imitation of a  a telegram, I am in the mood of  hypin' lost arts up.

"Sleepless with the Fishes" 

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"simmeTry"

"Medulla Serpentis"

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The Sketchbook Project

"Eye of The Beholder"

"PeelS"

Strange Sleepless Heart

Finally! Finished  errr second-ish and third piece for  The Sketchbook Project. The second drawing is right beside my first, and I thought they looked better when displayed together, so here goes...

And as for the third (*doing the chicken dance*). Ladies and Gentlemen I present you the testing ground, the get to know the paper piece, the why-am-I-doing-this-crap-that-took-so-long-to-finish...

Whadda messy bunch of mismatched mishmash! Skull? Check! Sad looking woman? Check! Leaves? Check! Octopus Tentacles? Check! "Strange Fruits" ? Check! Eye-headed Cherub? Check! Eggs in a nest? Check...errr what else? I started running out of ideas of what else to put in there, I had few but it will only get weirder, and weird stuffs are harder to draw thus took longer to finish and my I've already done too much damage to my butt. And so I asked my sister...

Sketching Sleeplessness

 I think I need to set goals for myself for I am not ambitious at all. I tend to except things as they come, which is good for most cases, career wise though it's very very bad. All my old bosses said that I am lacking in motivation therefore lack of ambition."  Well, no sir, is just this world is so full of a beautiful things ( el-neato scatterbrain excuse, no? : p)

I need some discipline, I am bad bad girl (I suppose to insert a Gaga joke here but I won't). Have you seen Julie and Julia? Awesome isn't it to be able to push yourself 365. The mere thought of it made my head dizzy enough. There's Project 365 if you want, but thank you I'll pass. This time though, I plan to do it in the future.

And so I decide to join The Sketchbook Project instead. What is it say you (lazy ass link-clickers)? If you join the project, you will receive a plain Moleskine Cahier to sketch on and they've only got two rules, "first, the book must be used in some way - no sending us back an empty book or a completely different book! Second, the sketchbook must stay within its original dimensions (because we don't want to have to provide an extra suitcase just for your book while we're touring the country). There's a third rule though it must be sent back before January 15, 2011. And in the Spring 2011, the books returned will tour around the States. There are already 10.000+ participants this year. How wonderful to be connected with so many people doing the very same project.

And there are fun themes you can choose from like "things found on restaurant napkins", "science project gone wrong" and "a record year of rainfall". Yet apparently themes filled up rapidly, for I can no longer find my own theme, which is "Sleepless", anymore. So hurry up before you miss your divinely  theme! 

But here's a downer, the Moleskine you will receive is no sketchbook material per say, the paper was too thin. But the good news is as long as the notebook stay in the same size, you could change the original paper and rebind it. Or you could just simply stick two pages together since there's no rule telling how many pages to be filled per book....
Jessica from Maken Art made a test  using several drawing materials to the papers, go check.

And now for the first drawing....

I'm such a messy person am I? Photoshop could hide the "noises" but no, let's leave that. Anyway this, picture tend to be "quiet"  compared to my usual works. Well, truth to tell, there WAS a full-blown ornamentation on the left side, but I found it t distracting in the end, so I blacked it out. I also managed to control my strokes ergo not ripping the hell out of the paper. See I learned one thing already. Moderation.

And next, the cover

I couldn't ignore the bark of the Baroque Dog no more. If you think this is heavily ornamented, wait till you see my next .

Toodle oo Doodle oo

Menjelang Kuyang

"Menjelang Kuyang"

pen, marker, A4 paper

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