{ What I MAde # 27 - Mini Zine & ATC }

{ What I MAde # 27 }

I've jumped back into doing swaps recently. This zentangle atc is the first one I made.

The second mini-zine I've made ever. The template is from Miss Pickle of Fill it #2. Will post more photos of the swaps when they have been received by my partners. Swap-bot is a super fun way to pushing me into doing different art forms and meeting new people! :)

{ Art Journal - Mar 10 - 18, 12' }

March 13 - Project List.

March 10 - Yes I can, Yes I can!!

March 11 - Chocolate Banana Cake :)

March 12 - Mind Map for Blog.

March 15 - Noodle eating cat.

March 16.

March 17 - Let's go!

March 18 - Walk to Ma On Shan. The weather is so nice and the sunset is so beautiful !

{ What I MAde #26 - Lifebook 2012 }

{ What I MAde #26 - Lifebook 2012 }
I've read so much about Project Life and am interested in trying it, but I cannot find any store that carries it in Hong Kong. So I decided to make a simple journal as my own Lifebook instead. Will share more photos of it later on.

{ Art Journal - Mar 3 - 9, 12' }

Art Journal - Mar 6, 12' - I'm still doing the sketchbook exercise, but am sticking to exercise #1 coz I love the idea of recording the day and feelings with line drawings. Then picking out some strange and wonderful creatures from those lines. (The drawing above does seem like a strange bird from some far Eastern folklore? And I do tend to pick out living creatures from the lines more than lifeless objects. May be it indicates something?? hmm...) I tried to draw while asking myself the question, "How do I feel?" It seems like I do tend to draw circles or curves most of the time so I consciously started to draw straight lines, triangles, will see where this exercise want to go.

Art Journal - Mar 3, 12' I read a Garfield comic book at a friend's place. (I LOVE Garfield!!) So decided to draw the teddy bear that Garfield loves on the page. I don't often have time to color in the sketches, so I tend to leave them like this.

Art journal - Mar 4, 12' Went to Taikoo Shin to check out the Muji exhibition and went into a Micky mouse tshirt booth there. They have polka dot Micky balloons hanging all over the place. :P Not a big fan of a mouse.

Art journal - Mar 5, 12'Some craft supplies that I pick up from SSP. So many ideas and things to make but so little time...

Art journal - Mar 7, 12'

Art journal - Mar 8, 12' ...

Art journal - Mar 9, 12' I got a Pental watercolor pen from bookstore. I like this kind of pen with a water pump at the end coz I just need 1 water proof ink pen, 1 watercolor pen and a small watercolor kit for doing art on the road. I used to have an old watercolor pen but the tip of the brush is ruined since I forgot to take the water out after using it. The water must have soaked through and ruined the tip. So now I would remember to take better care of it.

{ Art Journal - Feb - March 2012 }

The Sketchbook Habit #1 - How do I feel? Sketchbook Habit building exercise by artist Suzette Morrow. I love doing exercise like this one since many unexpected ideas come out of this. I'm going to stick with this for 21 days. Will post more later.

Art Journal Feb 26 & 27, 2012. My lucky cat red pocket that I put the HKD$20 I won in a lottery! Yeah! :)

Art Journal Feb 28, 2012 & Purple Owl ATC Idea.

Art Journal Feb 29 & Mar 1, 2012. I finally bought a Jetoy notebook! It is quite pricey, but it is just too too adorable and that I have been thinking about it for months.

{ Cambodia Note Sheet - Feb 29, 12' }

I went to Cambodia in January 2012. I admit that I didn't really know much about the history of the country. (I still don't know much now. Reading a few books do not really make me more knowledgeable.)Before the trip, I did all the usual things that tourists do, read a few guide books, look up beautiful historical sites to visit, tried to learn some local language and customs. I know that Cambodia is not a rich developed country, but the guide books did not prepare me for seeing what had actually happened there. All the famous historical sites are all ABSOLUTELY wonderful!  But We have also visited the the Killing Fields and S21. It is heartbroken to see it. It is heartbroken to see lots of children walking around trying to sell you their baskets of souvenirs. It is heartbroken to see children waiting next to your dinning table so that they could eat any scraps. After I come back to Hong Kong, I keep thinking of ways to help these people. I still have not figured it out, but I decided to make something about this trip to Cambodia that may help these people in some ways. I have a list of projects and one of them is the note sheets above. I made the 2 sheets  for people to download as freebies and wanted to link the Cambodia Red Cross on the page so people can donate whatever amount they can.  BUT I cannot upload pdf files onto blogger, and I have not been able to find free web hosting services that I can upload these pdf files. (The sheets are created in Excel so they are output as pdf files.) Would any of you know of free web hosting service that would let me upload pdf file so I can link it back to blogger??  My english is no good, but I hope you can understand what I'm trying to do. Thanks for understanding.