{ July 2012 Monthly To-Do }

{ July 2012 Monthly To-Do }

Study  Computer Graphic Homework # 3 Computer Graphic Homework # 6 Computer Graphic Homework # 7 Design courses registration Law courses registration Practice Drawing Read 3 Books: Art Competition  Work + Business  Resume update Business ideas, plans Logos Blog plan  Finance   Study investment book x1  Health  Exercise 16x Cook dinner 16x Dentist appointment  Family   Meal plan Weekly routine plan Stock list New dishes Garden plan Date plan Travel plan  Design Ideas   Traveller's postcard Disposable camera swap Handmade bracelet swap Leather craft idea 16x product 2x Decorate metal box sketch Exhibition list  Life Edit  Book list Craft kit + supplies list Clear desk Pack away winter clothes Scan magazine Scan notes Unpack and put away boxes

{ May 21-27, 2012 To Dos}

{ May 21-27, 2012 To Dos}

• Pay rent & bills (done May23, 2012)
• File Tax
• Get insurance and loan info
• Lifebook update (have a lot of catching up to do...)
• JSD research
• Resume update
• Computer homework 3 + 4
• Heart shaped Atc (done May25, 2012)
• Cupcake Atc (done May25, 2012)
• Roof Garden sketch ideas - we get a roof for the new apartment we recently get, planning on creating a roof garden of some kind with very limited budget. Will see what happens.
• Cambodia Travel journal sketches - still working on it after all these months...
• Read: Design Your Life (done May23, 2012), Righ Brain Business Plan
• Exercise: 
• Cook:
• Morning pages + Grateful journal:
• Art journal pages:
• Business ideas

{ What I'm Reading - Nov 9, 11' }

What I'm Reading.

I'm reading Taming Time. It is one of the books I got from City University on time management. It talks about setting priorities, plans and goals. Just got to 1/3 of it and going to try the time log tomorrow.

{ Happy Tuesday - Nov 1, 2011 }

Happy Tuesday :D

Mr. C finally let me play with his ipad + the wifi! Lots of fun free apps on the ipad now~~~ (I know I'm really late with this but I only come to the "i-thing" recently. The only other "i-thing" I have is an ipod nano 5... ) Anyway I especially like Labelbox (allows you to make labels for photos), Meeting Box (productivity app), Talking News (the one with Ben and Tom), Japan Life (a cute game with adorable graphics. I still have many others to play with. :D) I think I have posted about the leather bag I made not so long ago but this time I used label box to spice it up. Nice. I have also been watching videos and reading books about time management and GTD alot lately. One of things that really hits me is that I need to set up reward for myself when my daily and weekly todos are all done. I took a photo of all the yummy food I will get to eat as long as I finish off all the items on my list. Will see how it goes.

{ June Goal, What I Made # 13 & 30DJC }

What I MAde # 13 & 30Day Journal Challenge

#1 of 30DJC - Introduction. My June Goal list. Birthday Gift for mom: a mini leather pouch and a Tony Moly Lip Balm. I also got a mini bunny hand cream for myself.

{ Leather Craft 1 - Oct 2010 }

Since Mr. C is back from Canada with our lovely digital camera, I can finally take and post photos of things that I have made recently. :) Things that I have made for the Leather craft intro class: a leather bracelet a mini coin bag (It is not finished yet. I need to smooth out the edges, dye the leather and then stitch it up.) a key holder that I'm using (I like to make things that I can use rather than only being decorative.) an agenda cover that I made on my own using scraps. a kitty cat key pouch. (The instructor made a beetle one but I don't like it so decided to make a kitty one that I will use one day.) I'm going to go get leather tomorrow for our final class project, a leather bag!! I still have to decide what kinda bag I would like to make. I enjoy making little things like these and have registered for the upcoming Leather craft lvl 2 class. P.S. I've created another blog on Tumblr for Zakka called I ♥ Zakka. :)

{ New Projects! - Food Diary & Book of Happiness }

I have started 2 new mini lists (or projects?) to help me reach my goals: a Food Diary and a Book of Happiness. (To be healthy) Food Diary: I started to do it because Mr. C is "supposed" to be on a diet and is to keep track on what he eats but he often forgets. So it is easier for me to keep track of the meals we have together while at the same time, it helps to remind me to eat more healthy food. I used a half-filled monthly planner for it. Will take photo of the inside as Aug comes to an end. (To be grateful) Book of Happiness: I want to take more photos so decided to take photos of the small wonders everyday and at the end of month I will print one photo/day and stick them onto this little book. When I'm upset, all I need to do is to take one look of whats inside to make me happy and ready to go again. What do you do to help achieve your goals??

{ Goals for July, 2010 }

Goals for July, 2010 PLAN every morning & stick to it. Research ARCH/DESIGN SCHOOL. Update school PORTFOLIO. Study ALA exam for July 5, 10'. MARKETING ASSIGNMENT. Finish reading What Should I Do with My Life. Start learning ART CLAY SILVER. (starts on July 8, 4 classes - July) See DR. YEUNG (at least 2x - July) ARTIST's DATE 1x/week (4x - July) Finish 30 DAY JOURNAL CHALLENGE. (30 entries - July) EXERCISE 3x/week. (15x - July) COOK 2x/week. (10x -  July) MORNING P & GRATEFUL JOURNAL everyday. (31 entries - July) DRAW everyday (31 drawings - July) PRAY everyday BLOG post 2x/week (10 post - July) Finish 1 CRAFT KIT - July Will report back on how it at the end of July.

{ Journal Page - June 2, 2010 }

Even though I don't have night classes during the summer months I still find it difficult to squeeze everything that I want to do into my schedule. I'm still trying to put all my "in box" down onto paper for the GTD. It feels like it is going to take forever to list and clear my inbox... I really want to experience the"zen" feeling that some people experience when they are always on top of everything. So I will stick with whatever it takes (GTD at the moment) for me to get zen. I was looking at my bookshelf building my "may be list" and realized I have so many books that I have not got through yet. (not to mention books that are stored else where) So I set aside an hour as my reading time and another hour for journal/creative exercises hopefully I can get more reading and creative done this way. Finally a new journal page for Collage Play with Crowabout, I mainly journal about working on "inbox". And my cooking adventure begins, this is one of my first dishes on the upper right. :)

A handmade market I visited on May 30, 2010 around Central.
- Fabric set from Cherry Fair
- Pink handkerchief by Luluism
- Angry Mushroom pin and stickers by PinkPandaMary
I also went to the Hong Kong Interioanl Art Fair 2010, will blog about some of my favorite artists later. :)

{ Art Journal Feb - Mar 09' }

from upper left to bottom right:
1) Beautiful red rose from Mr. C.
2) Starting to read Getting Things Done. Only just finished the first chapter. Already have my things to do list and next step written down in my notebook.
3) Sweet! - About the sweet red rose I got. (Collage Play with Crowabout W26.)
Collage bird provied by Nancy.
4) Song - Still searching for my own song. Lost. (Collage Play with Crowabout W26.)
Collage elements provied by Nancy.

GTD

Found some interesting websites about GTD tools. Just started to use the Joe's Goals. This one is super easy to use & comes with the cute smiley icon... totally made for a visual person like me :p . I also found Backpackit which offers a lot more tools for handling tasks among groups. (But you can only get the 30 day free trial...) So I'm sticking with Joe's for now and will see how it goes.
xoxo night~~