Painted Ikea Mirrors..Unvarnished..

Start doing the two IKEA mirrors...( Hi Nora..just got to clear all these IKEA wood stuffs )... Simply hands free design...As I was painting the roses...it somehow got sticky..the paint on the brush dries up..still lots of paint on the brush though..myb the room was a bit cold.. I still have to learn how to eyeball the rose size so that there'll just enough space for the petals..not too many or too little. Although some blotches of paint as it dries up fast as I was painting them...it turns out quite uniform....if nak buat placemats lepas ni myb boleh lah sbb dah dpt consistent shapes and colors....Still tak reti nak bega2 kan the background...Nanti lah balik Msia nanti tanya sifu...

p/s..Mona..How do you like them???

Napkin Holders, Signage..In Progress...

I have been trying to get a few days of painting each week..usually frm Sundays till Tues. The other days have to be distributed for my other passions or chases.... I believe the strokes are getting consistent whenever I want to structure a rose. Although it is not the type I really one but it'll do for now. I guess..brushes do play a big part of it in getting certain forms of strokes just right. Other than that..knowing all the stuffs that get into it and practise..practises...

These are the things available around the house now..once finish with wooden surfaces ( Ala.. sifu.. it gives me confident la at this moment..) I will learn the other surfaces. have just got a fabric medium the other day...

Painting Try Outs..Utensils Holder..

I am trying not to leave painting for too long should I forget the skills. For me it's learned techniques thus I need to do it often..I will practise either on paper if I have no other surface but it seems to drag whenever I do it on paper.. I still need to have better choices of brushes, loading the brushes with enough paint etc..etc... But anyway.... I will keep on trying... This current attempt is to get a better hydrangeas & leaves..I couldn't forgo the roses still... I havent done anything that actually follow any pattern... I do them free hand to get the techniques rather than the design..so you can see in terms of placement..its neither here no there. I am limited with the products to be painted on...Beside IKEA..I just have to rely whats in the market that I can find...

Swags & Cinnamon Flowers

These are some of the accents completed today..all in all 2 swags and 8 cinnamon flowers. Than off to the gym for 1 hour treadmill..kene paksa by scoutmaster as part of healthy lifestyle... Now.. kaki rasa macam hilang..

p/s..Sold all above pieces this weekend..alhamdulilah....Bunga2 tu pun dah takde lagi instock rasa nya at SSF. I bought it from 3 years ago...yes..baru la ni dapat nak buat..

Topiaries & Signs In Progress...

It seems I am mostly doing this now...Basically because not many material options like trays, letter boxes etc... I need to go to IKEA soon and see what are available that I can paint.. Still..I don't have enough courage to paint bigger stuffs. Got to learn the steps better. Maybe another round of lessons with Nora and I can get going... If I have enough painted materials thought of putting it up in the community website.. will see how that goes or the craft show in Dec....

Stuffs..stuffs...

Ayman's Exhibits for the IB examiner... I like his chicken wire man & self potrait in blue.

The bluish duckie that caught my eye..there's a few more..chefs duckie & brown duckie..but I left those out and now it's in my mind..hmmph...

The bluish&pink edge handtowel with hydrangeas motifs..

Cutesy ya..!

Sophie Kinsella's books...3 for the price of 2..

Yesterday..we were in Bahran for Ayman's IB exhibits...basically the showing of his art work for today's examiner visits. I hope that he will fare very well...as he has been facing quite some hard walls recently...

Anyway..we had about an hour b4 getting to the school...so hannah wanted to drop by at Seef Mall...Here we tried out some crepes...which is basically lempeng tepung which the French had evolutionized..from the store's history script..it did mentioned that crepes originated from Asia a long..long...time ago. When I was in Paris in 2007..we did have some sweet crepes/lempeng at Bal's house..she said it can be bought in packs at the bakery...

I was slightly tipsy yesterday..wanting to find something sweet nd new...sort of an attack mode.. but I did have to stop myself into buying more of the cutesies....just bcos I was with Zayd who keeps shaking his head...arghhh...

So..this were it plus Sophie Kinsella books which goes for 3 for the price of 2...when I will be reading it actually..beats me!! But many seems to enjoy reading her books plus the first few pages I skimmed really sounds interesting....

Comfort Living...After 5 years..Some Shifting Around Was Done..

I have been living in this house for close to 6 years now..the house itself was built sometime early 80's..but for every 5 or so years it will be refurbished...so we had to ahve it done immediately upon returning from Zurich. If postponed, our turn might not come till another 2 or 3 months maybe...Anyway..it took about 10days to complete..with carpet & tile change, repainting, kitchen table-top change and outside painting too... Once it's done..till today..I haven't really complete putting back all the stuffs. Man..there's soo much small stuffs I don't know where it should be...probably bcos we are minus 1 shelving unit and bookcase..so stuffs have got no space now..Thinking a visit to IKEA is good now... The photos shows what I have done so far....still need more work..but probably once I got the extra shelves...