More cards again

Been busy making paper flowers for cards - so here are all the cards made this week.

More cards

I've been really into cardmaking lately and making my own flowers from punches. Here's two cards made recently with my own paper flowers.

Happy Easter

It's been a long while since I last posted - life has been so busy. A few days ago I finally had some time to sit down and make a card. It was a Hero Arts challenge to make a card or anything with an element which was stamped on a medium other than paper. I was looking at an old ball of string and suddenly thought why not try something different. So here it is...I thought it looked pretty amazing because I could put colours on the image as well by colouring the string.

It's titled Live Simply and I think life should be like that - after all we are just here for a short while. Happy Easter!

Busy Card Making Days

Since Christmas is next month, I've been busy making cards again. Yupe, my father is the one always sending out Christmas cards faithfully so I make them for him every year. Here are some which I made recently. More work still to be done, and production has to be more efficient as the demand is not a small one... hehehe

Coromandel

Since I'm on the roll, thought might as well post all the pictures I've taken recently. We took a trip to Coromandel a few weeks back. It was a pleasant trip despite all the winding roads. Of course the highlight had to be the hike to Cathedral Cove. The beach was simply beautiful. Later we headed down to Hot Water Beach and gosh - the sand was really really hot!! We stayed at Whittianga and the weather was pretty good.

Hobbiton

It's been a long while since I last posted anything. Been terribly busy - after Jakarta, it was time to head to Auckland. However, last weekend, I managed to head to Matamata - the Hobbiton town. I wasn't sure what to expect, but the tour was pretty cool. Our group was rather small - only 5 of us since it was the earliest time slot. Our tour guide was fantastic - she could really tell us lots from the LOTR trilogy. The weather was beautiful that day and the tour included sheep shearing and feeding a little lamb. So here are some pics (no touch ups at all) - the view of the Hobbit dwellings, view from Bilbo's house, the Pretty Tree and Bilbo Baggins' party site.

Jakarta

No time yet to post pics of Barcelona... After more than a year's break, finally, finally, decided to work for a few weeks. This time it's an assignment in Jakarta. I have never been to Jakarta nor Indonesia before - so it's interesting to find out for myself what the city is like.

The food is great! No wonder all my Indonesian friends are always talking/searching for nice food when they are away from home. There's lots of variety and everything tastes so good. In the past 3 weeks, we've ate local delights, Tony Romas, japanese, thai & dim sum and this week I've promised myself - no more stuffing myself for lunch and dinner.

The shopping malls are very nice, cinemas are nicer than what we have at home, and I find many interesting sculptures and statues in the city - I don't know what they all symbolise but it's beautiful. There's the really poor areas in the city as well and polution is bad and many smokers around.

I don't think I will have time to go around to see more of Indonesia, but certainly it is a place I'd like to visit again...