Finally!

Finally I completed it last night! Yay! The first page I colored using Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils (I forgot to write a post about this. It's a gift from my husband). After 3 weeks of working on it, 30 minutes or less, almost everyday. I gonna frame it and wrap it and give it to my friend this Sunday. I hope she like it :)

A gift for a friend

One of my friends is suffering from post partum depression. She gave birth in December and has been having a difficult time coping with changes in her life. She has 3 kids and this is her third child. We are doing all we can to help her to pull through, including praying and encouraging her in our own ways. I have decided to color a page from my Art Nouveau Animal Designs coloring book, put it in a nice frame and give it to her. I hope my little gift can help to cheer her up a bit. Here is my WIP...

This is colored using my brand new Faber Castell Polychromos pencils which is a birthday gift from my husband. I will write more about this in a future post :)

My first attempt to color a stained glass coloring page

I have a couple of stained glass coloring book from Dover Publication but I never use them until recently. I wanted to take a break from coloring the usual coloring books and decided to color a page from my Fanciful Butterflies book. Pictures of the books that I owned and inside peek of the first book.

They are beautiful, aren't they? And here's the outcome of my first attempt to color it:

I used watercolors and markers. I like the outcome except that the paper sort of get wrinkled and not flat due to the effect of the water colors. You can see it on the picture on top left corner. You can avoid using watercolors if you don't like this. Use markers instead. But I guess considering the fun, this is still a worthy investment. The books are available on Amazon. See below.

Fanciful Butterflies StainedPsalms Stained Glass

I am coloring again!

So I am coloring again after taking a break for several months. Here are two of my latest work:

Also I added a Facebook like page block on my blog (on right side of this blog). The page is called Coloring Is Hip. I created this page in 2013 but I hardly have time to update it but for the past one month I received close to 100 likes and honestly I don't know how these people got to know about my tiny page lol but I'm very grateful for the likes. So this has motivated me to pick up coloring again. Do visit the page for more updates on my coloring activities. And if you feel inspired by my coloring work and want to give coloring a try do visit Coloring Is Hip store for hundreds of coloring books for adults. The books are inexpensive and you will be tempted to buy lots of if!

Family Field Trip to KL Bird Park

Well this is my first post in 2015! Before I write further let me wish you a Happy New Year 2015! How is your new year? What is your resolution for this year? Well I have a few but let me write more about them in my future post. As always I've been busy with life. We are homeschooling and the baby will turn 1 year old in a couple of days. How time flies! He still doesn't walk yet but I can foresee my life will get even more busier once he does. So what we have been up to lately? Apart from celebrating new year with some of our relatives, we visited the bird park! Yay! We been wanting to visit this park for some time but the weather was not too kind so we postponed the trip several times. But some time before new year we decided to go for it. And I was very happy because it was a perfect day for a 'field trip' - not too hot or humid and definitely not hazy.

We arrived at the part sometime before noon and decided to have our lunch at the nearby Hornbill Cafe. The food was okay, pricey of course but the service was good and I loved that the place was very clean and they have baby diaper changing station in the ladies washroom.

Right after lunch we proceeded to the ticket counter to buy our tickets. We are Malaysians (you need to show your MyKad or MyKid) so we enjoyed discounted rates: adult - RM25/pax and kids from 3-12yo: RM12/pax, free for babies and toddlers! There were quite a number of visitors mostly tourists but it wasn't crowded at all. My daughter was super excited and couldn't wait to go in. So here are some photos taken on that day. 

Some of things I noticed about this place:

1) This park is clean and very well maintained

2) You can feed the birds (some of them) using bird seeds that you can buy from vending machines 

3) There's a canteen where you can buy drinks and snacks and chairs and benches for resting

4) There's a playground at the furthest end of the park

5) There's a pond with waterfall where you can take close up pictures of peacocks

6) Lots of peacocks! You can even touch their beautiful feathers. 

Is this park worth visiting? I guess as a parent of young children I would say yes but make it fun and educational by providing them reading materials about birds before and after the trip. A few days after this trip I printed some bird activity sheets for my daughter just for fun. She loved it and wished to visit this place again in the future. Here's a photo of the activity sheets I printed for my daughter.

And here's the video of my daughter touching a peacock. 

And a video of us feeding an emu!

Recent photos...been very busy

It's been awhile. We've been busy with christmas and the holidays. It past midnight and I'm super tired. I had been up since 6am this morning. A long da ly indeed. I won't write long, just wanna share few recent photos.

Inspiration for today

Glorifying God vs glorifying self...search your heart for any hidden, secret ulterior motives.