I found Mr Jones Watches randomly on my social media feed, and went to the website. They offer unique watches, and a lot of the designs have caught my eyes, I wish to have them all XD. I bought one of them that's called Perfectly Useless Afternoon by Kristof Devos. All lovely watches also come with customization on the straps or engraving, which can be good gifts for your loved ones.
They also have limited edition pieces, which are always sold out, if you are not quick enough!
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Today I randomly listen to a podcast called "Our daily bread podcast" on Spotify. It's as if reading daily bread that I received last time in school/church, only in podcast form. The speaker talked about how to find joy in our every day mundane habitual activities, he also referred to a blog by James Ward called "I like boring things".
I read a few of the blog posts. Totally random everyday things, the last post called Loop was written May 2019, talking about when the author taking a walk, which reminded me about the walk I did recently. Since working from home, for nearly 2 years, that means my physical activities has greatly reduced, and I realized a lot of health problems arises. For some people, the things I experienced might be a small thing, but I believe it's a reminder that there might be issues that can be bigger if it's not handled properly. I went for a health check and doctor also suggest to go for 30 mins exercise every day. So to start, I went for a walk in the morning in botanic garden, halfway then return back to the starting point, 30 mins walk from the start to the end. I feel more refreshed as a result. Although it's hard at first, I'm getting use to this, after few more times, it becomes boring, as I took mostly the same route every time. Basically I want to incorporate this as a habit, so I will not think much about it, and just do it. Every time I'm doing something for the first time, there's a joy/excitement in doing new things at first, and a lot of things to discover. The example that I experienced is, I want to be better at French. I listened to a lot of French language learnings podcast, more than 30 mins every day, but soon I would loose interest in it. I feel if I can set up a habit of the things that I want to achieve, and be consistent with it, I would achieve what I want. Of course I'm aware that habit is not something that is built overnight, so, I'm trying, and I think the key is to find joy in the meaningless. Find what makes you happy in doing these things, and it won't be chores to do, but habits, good habits to have. This is my second work that I did for HonestKitchen. They are basically a company that sells food for your pet. Go and check them out the website here.
Check the GIFs I created for them, or use them in your instastory in Instagram, and search "honestkitchen". After successfully created inktobers art every day for 2 years (with a lot of pressures, hehe), this year, I only managed to do 12 of them.
This year theme that I created is my favorite packaged foods. I also tried to draw this using a textured watercolor paper and watercolor brush in procreate, which I enjoy using, just it takes longer time to work on each piece. I also doesn't set a goal to do this every day in October, and didn't set expectations, so a bit relax I supposed. Here's all of them, not in order. Go to my Instagram to check them out. Source: Pinterest.
After 14 times of trying hard, I finally success in baking my own macarons. HAHAHA. As silly as it seems, after the span of few years I tried to re-create recipes from Youtube, and failed. Finally successful when I went to baking class. It's not about the recipe, in fact they are pretty similar with the recipes I saw from Youtube, but I learnt some techniques from the class. The cookie should be dry enough before it's baked. This is the main problem that I had in my earlier attempts, also, different trials have different problems. So, glad, I finally found the secret of baking one. Mind you, it's really seriously finicky cookies, and you need to spent a lot of effort in making one, so I think 2 to 3 Dollars per piece is really because it's hard to make. The funny thing is, I don't really like this cookie because it's too sweet, it just looks cute (especially in pastel colors, or cartoony shapes). Every time I failed in doing something, in the end I want to think that I will be able to do it, I just need to learn from the mistakes and try again. :) Wow. It's end of the year. I literally just wrote 4 posts this year, talking about lazy.
Things that I'm grateful for:
Went for a trial class in abc cooking school, this month they have special trial class, which is stumped by Santa. Basically a log cake. It's a 13 cm chiffon cake base with chocolate ganache and some fruits as decoration. It looks pretty also it tasted great, it's not too sweet and the cake itself is airy. Good recipe. I decided to register as a member and enrolled in 6 cake classes. More cakes to come!
I know it's already end of January already, I just have some time to update my blog.
2020 has been harsh but:
Joy Aquilino, Editorial Director at Quarry Books and Rockport Publishers curated this challenge and was inspired by the variety of illustration styles as well as the variety of recipes and foods. My pic is one of the Joy's top picks! Check Pinterest board and all the entries.
Here's my submission Theydrawandcook has a handpicked design challenge, it's about Global Cuisine, where we create a food illustration or illustrated recipe of favorite foods, flavors or dishes from around the world. I submitted three (2 is still pending as for today). Here's the one approved.
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