Basket | oil pastel + colored pencil on Moleskine

The drawing was done on 4th April earlier this year during the KL Book Fair and the coloring was done yesterday.Here’s the close-up:

My moleskine: 31 pages left.

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Had this one early this year, but I dunno why I kept it unpublished. Maybe ’twas the messy background.

My moleskine: 33 pages more to go.

I have people asking me what is Moleskine. I have compiled information from Moleskine website and basically copied, edited and paste it in here for your reading convenience.

This little black notebook, with its typical rounded corners, elastic closure, and expandable inner pocket, was originally a nameless object. It was produced by a small French bookbinder, that supplied Parisian stationery shops frequented by the international literary and artistic avant-garde for more than a century. Moleskine is the heir of the legendary notebook used for the past two centuries by great artists and thinkers, including Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Bruce Chatwin.

In the mid-1980s, however, it no longer became available. In his book “Songlines”, Bruce Chatwin tells us the whole story of his favourite notebook, which he nicknamed “Moleskine”. In 1986, the original manufacturer - a family operating in Tours - closed down forever: “Le vrai moleskine n’est plus” are the lapidary words he puts into the mouth of the owner of the stationery shop in Rue de l’Ancienne Comédie – also a legendary spot - where Chatwin stocked up on the notebooks. The English writer-traveller bought up all the “Moleskines” that he could find, but they were not enough.

Then in 1998, a small Milanese publisher brought the legendary notebook back to life under the name “Moleskine”.

You can view types of Moleskine here: Moleskine Catalogue

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Yohanis! click on above image to see her illustrations!

What do you get for the person who has everything?

Yes, you guessed it right, chocolate!

I think chocolate makes the ideal Christmas gift for those who are hard to shop for. Gertrude Hawk Chocolates might has few delicious options available in the most festive, presentable packaging. Gertrude Hawk Chocolates has the most delicious gourmet chocolates including Fudge, Assorted Chocolates, Smidgen Packs & Tubs, Classic Candy Bars, Premium Chocolate, Caramel Dipped Apples, Gourmet Snacks, Candy Dish Classics and many more.

Below are my suggestions from Gertrude Hawk Chocolates:

Silver Holiday Gift Tower
($21.99)

This shimmering gift tower will impress everyone on your list! Included in this beautiful gift tower are:
* 2oz Oversized Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup
* 4oz Chocolate Fudge
* 6oz Dark Chocolate Raspberry Santa Pack
* 8oz Milk Chocolate Pretzel Petite Bag

Santa’s Sleigh ($24.99)

Goodies included in this Sleigh are Peanut Butter Smidgens and Peppermint Ribbon Candy.

Amaryllis Gift Box ($24.99)

This pretty box is filled with Milk Chocolate covered Peanuts, Popcorn and Roasted Almonds. You can reuse this box as a beautiful holiday decoration.

Milkberry awarded me with “I Love your Blog” Award on 16 November! Yay! Thank you so much Milkberry! This award comes with rules:
1. The nominated is allowed to put the picture on their blogs.
2. Link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate seven other people and link to them.
4. Leave a message on those people’s blog to make them aware that they’re nominated.

I’m not going to just nominate seven people but I am nominating…all of you in my blogroll! Yay!

Here’s a loose award without the illustration for your blog:

On 18 November, Yoon See awarded me with this Arte y Pico Award! Thank you so much Yoon See! “Arte y Pico” is a phrase that roughly translates as,”The Maximum, The Peak!” Here are ‘the rules’ for The ARTE y PICO Award:
1. Show the award.
2. The name of the person who gave it to you and a link back to their blog.
3. Pick 5 blogs you think deserve this award for: creativity, design, interesting material and their contribution/participation to the blog community.
4. List the author’s name and link to their blog.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of those you’ve selected.Link back to the original Arte y Pico BLOG, so all will know the origin of the award.

I am passing this award to Bem69, Milkberry, Sarah Joan Mokhtar, Ken Ong and Anna! Below is a loose one you can put up in your blog:

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Fandi!

It has been so long since I last did a tag! I am so sorry if I missed all the tags before this. Can I start afresh?

Marzie tagged me on the A to Z tag. Below are my answers.

A. Attached or single? Happily married.

B. Best friend? Countless.

C. Cake or pie? Pie.

D. Day of choice? Sunday.

E. Essential item? Banyak.

F. Favorite color? All colors.

G. Gummy bears or worms? Gummy bears.

H. Hometown? Pahang.

I. Favorite indulgence? Sleep.

J. January or July? October.

K. Kids? One

L. Life isn’t complete without? my husband, son, family and friends.

M. Marriage date? 11-02-02.

N. Number of magazine subscriptions? None.

O. Oranges or apples? Apples.

P. Phobias? Acrophobia, Arachnophobia and many more.

Q. Quotes? “Art is literacy of the heart”  ~ Elliot Eisner

R. Reasons to smile? Everything.

S. Season of choice? Raining season.

T. Tag 5 people. Diya, Nessa, Yoon See, Anny and TH.

U. Unknown fact about me? Unknown.

V. Vegetable? All.

W. Worst habit? BIG Procrastinator.

X. X-ray or ultrasound? Ultrasound.

Y. Your favorite foods? Claypot Chicken Rice with lotsa salted fish.

Z. Zodiac sign? Libra

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Yoon See!

I have few unfinished drawings in my moleskine so I thought I finish them and post them up bit by bit. Here’s one, drawn early this year, colored yesterday.

Yassin’s Tee | Soft pastel and colored pencil

My moleskine: 35 pages more.

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Sarah Joan Mokhtar! Click her picture to see her cartoons & illustrations!

You probably have read my ‘More gift ideas’ post and in the post I wrote about Stylehive, my latest find of online retailers and designers. Guess what? I’ve joined Stylehive and became Stylehiver today! I practically look for more gift ideas and am quite amazed with Stylehive’s jewelry items and I just got to hive them all! There are all types of Jewelry, Fashion Jewelry, Costume Jewelry, Silver Jewelry, Gold Jewelry, Bridal Jewelry, Diamond Jewelry, you name it, they got it.

Besides perfume, I think jewelry makes the best Christmas gifts for your loved ones! Here are snapshot of jewelries that I hived today! Totally loads of awesome choice and oh, I just can’t stop hiving! I am having fun here! Haha!

If your wife or girlfriend collects jewelries, these are the perfect gifts for them:

Garden Flower Jewelry Holder by Pbteen | Fat Bird Jewelry Stand by Charminglychic

And I totally dig Filigree Jeweled Dragonfly Amulet Art Necklace by Etsy and Berry Branch Bracelet by Sandra Noble from MakersGallery for myself!

Ok, hope you have fun looking at my suggestions and please, please, please, if jewelry items is on your list as Christmas gift, look no further, Stylehive is the place to look for.