faith, hope & love

Two weeks ago, Faith and I had a crafternoon at her house. One of the crafts we made was paper-making. It was a fun process, blending the old newspaper and magazines together 

with coloured pulp, sieve and flatten them to dry. 

Today i took some ink and scribbled Faith, Hope & Love on them. (1 Corinthians 13:13)

It's a season in life to learn these, Faith, Hope & Love. Especially it's drawing closer to the end of this year, I am thinking about the future, what to do next year, plans and dreams. Fear is lurking around. About the unknown and uncertainties. I need to refocus and trust and keep my hope. And love to see us through. What lies ahead... only God knows. I believe He has something planned for us. He knows what's best. 

Thanks Faith for the fun and bringing the dried up papers to me. 

Look forward to more craft sessions together. :)

.

DIY stencil pillow

A while ago, i spotted this lovely DIY stencil pillow by Wit & Whistle via Pinterest. I pinned it to my DIY board and was hoping that one day i would give it a go.

So last Friday I took out my sewing machine and made a simple pillow case out of a canvas cloth i bought from Spotlight. Then i stenciled a lovely quote onto the pillow using a fabric marker pen. It took me a few good hours to complete it. I am happy with the end result. yay! =)

Quote:

'We are all a little weird & life's a little weird and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it L O V E.'  <3

Word play & Round Montage

1. lake monger, 2. , 3. Aal izz well, 4. #ampersand, 5. Around the world. #travel #perth, 6. Seize #today #saturday #live #love, 7. , 8. Hello #giraffe, 9. Rise & Shine (lake monger) #saturday #morning

I downloaded the Montage iphone app yesterday and have been hooked on it since then. haha.

Do you use Montage? If not, go download it and i'm pretty sure you'll be addicted to it too! lol.

Been playing with some old photos on my iphone and making them 

into little random round montage featuring sceneries of beautiful Perth city.

Also, i fell in love with HelveticaNeue-Ultra Light Italic.

a catchy piano tune stuck on replay: Fade into darkness by Avicii. 

This is my favourite. The blue boat shed along Mounts Bay Road, Crawley. 

This was taken with my iphone back in September 2011 

while we were on a ferry passing by the Statue of Liberty. 

Ah, New York... i miss you.

Here's to a fantastic weekend!

Don't hold back

pages from Inspire, a typo-quotebook by kikki.K

Assorted Ampersand

These Ampersands just look so enticing, don't you think? 

spotted this at Tumblr via theothereugene =)

let's not lose sight

source: wowrainbows

work lately has been increasingly hectic for me. Other than work, i have many priorities that fight for my utmost attention. So, note to self, let's not lose sight... pressing on for every new day there'll be new joy, new strength, new mercy! For that, i am eternally grateful.

Press on!



Rainy Day Bliss



source: Tumblr

 Heavy downpour in Perth today! I thought Mr. Ducky wanted to have a swim in the puddle and enjoy the rain. Look how happy he was! lol.

more Mr. Ducky photos at my Flickr.

source: Tumblr

source: Pinterest

i can't help but to smile as i walked in the rain this morning to my car after work.

Rainy Day Bliss.

Play with your food (Part 2)

I have always wanted to bake cookies but never got around to it until this arvo.

Don't need a reason to bake i told myself. So i simply googled for cookie dough recipe and I found this recipe at Taste.com.au.

The recipe is easy to follow & the dough turned out Perfect!!

• 250g butter, softened
• 1/2 cup icing sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg, at room temperature
• 2 1/2 cups plain flour
• 1/2 cup cornflour

Step-by-step:

1. Using an electric hand mixer, beat butter, sugar and vanilla until pale and creamy. Add egg. Beat until well combined.
2. Sift flour and cornflour over butter mixture. Mix well. Divide in half. Press each half into a disc. Wrap each disc in baking paper. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
3. Preheat oven to 160°C. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper. Roll each disc out between 2 sheets of baking paper to 3mm-thick.
4. Using letter-shaped biscuit cutters, cut letters out of dough. Place onto trays. Roll leftover dough together and repeat. Refrigerate biscuits until firm. Bake for 15 minutes or until light golden. Stand on trays for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

• Hint: Dip cookie cutters into flour in between cutting each biscuit to prevent dough from sticking.

Here are some photos taken while i was having heaps fun cutting out the alphabets...it was quite tricky and fiddly...some alphabets are harder to cut than others.

i love sprinkles!

love to create

More photos at my Flickr!

Brewing mind is thinking of more words to make while munching away the little alphabet cookies...irresistable!

I made a boxful of alphabets and other shapes...gonna bring them to church to share with the Sunday School Kids! I think they will have fun with the alphabets!!

Stay tuned...more words coming... suggestions welcomed!! =D

Begin your day with...

The Art of  the Title Sequence. A massive long string of movie blockbusters.
Simply fascinating. Well-done.
I like the appearance of the Pink Panther & Juno!



A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.

Presentation video for the SXSW "Excellence in Title Design" competition screening.

Editor: Ian Albinson (artofthetitle.com)

Initial concept: David Horridge (davidhorridge.com)
Special thanks: M. Keegan Uhl (mkeeganuhl.com), Bill Simmon (billsimmon.com)

Website: artofthetitle.com
Twitter: twitter.com/​ArtoftheTitle
Facebook: facebook.com/​ArtoftheTitle

Music: RJD2 "Ghostwriter"

++++++++++

Full film and television listing:

Intolerance
Phantom of the Opera
King Kong
Modern Times
My Man Godfrey
Make Way For Tomorrow
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
Gun Crazy
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Lady in the Lake
Fallen Angel
The Thing
Singing in the Rain
The Man with the Golden Arm
Anatomy of a Murder
Psycho
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Grand Prix
To Kill A Mockingbird
Dr. No
The Pink Panther
Goldfinger
Dr. Strangelove
Bullitt
Barbarella
Soylent Green
Mean Streets
Star Wars
Saturday Night Fever
Superman
Alien
Raging Bull
The Terminator
Brazil
The Untouchables
Do The Right Thing
Forrest Gump
The Naked Gun
Cape Fear
Reservoir Dogs
Delicatessen
Natural Born Killers
Freaked
Se7en
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Mimic
Donnie Brasco
Mission Impossible
Dawn of the Dead
Fight Club
Catch Me If You Can
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Fall
Casino Royale
Six Feet Under
Carnivale
Dexter
Mad Men
Iron Man
Juno
The Kingdom
Wall•E
Sherlock Holmes
Up In The Air
Zombieland
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Buried
Robin Hood
Machete
The Social Network
Enter The Void

-- source: here.

Read more about it here.

Inspire me Tuesday: Tie-Pography

Design/tie-pography by Ed Nacional

i think this idea is simply neat! A custom-made print using neckties as font would be a perfect gift for the men.

resource: via http://ednacional.com/

Font Fun

at Perth Institue of Contemporary Art (PICA)

Hello! it's been almost a month since the last post. Hehe, actually it has been good to be away from blogging for a while. Just purely enjoying the joys of everyday life.

colorful wall decals at PICA

Summer 2010-2011 is bursting with vibrant colors...

Happy as Larry!

This make me feel...Happy! lol!

A friend of mine just got engaged yesterday! So happy for her! Read about the proposal here.

Wishing you a Happy Week ahead with lots of inspirations & discoveries! Cheers!

Inspire me Thursday: Typography

Today i have happily stumbled upon an awesome collection of inspirational quotes by Julian Bialowas and they are friggin fabulous! Absolutely full of radness! I like the combination of typography & photography, not forgetting those frequently used yet powerful quotes too!

Check out his Flickr photostream & you'll get hooked! Follow & reblog his 365 quotes on his Tumblr too. I just did. lol!

my day is a lot more brighter now after scrolling down pages of these amazing photos+quotes. i hope same goes to you too!

p/s: a-ha, this could lead to a 365 project of mine...? something i've never done before. Would it be possible? (thinking) lol.