Emila Yusof

While I am busy struggling to meet deadline for bigbook 3, my husband and son is having a great time at the kitchen this morning. They are making bahulu. Yassin is so happy to make his first kuih!

As suggested by Fawzan, I am putting up free blog banners especially for hari raya. Basically the size is 25o x 250 pixels but if you want a smaller size, just adjust the width and height value.

Source code:

<a href="http://emilayusof.com"><img src="http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq205/emilayusof/eybg250a.jpg" alt="get your free blog banner at emilayusof.com" width="250" height="250"></a>

Source code:

<a href="http://emilayusof.com"><img src="http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq205/emilayusof/eybg250b.jpg" alt="get your free blog banner at emilayusof.com" width="250" height="250"></a>

Source code:

<a href="http://emilayusof.com"><img src="http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq205/emilayusof/eybg250c.jpg" alt="get your free blog banner at emilayusof.com" width="250" height="250"></a>

Source code:

<a href="http://emilayusof.com"><img src="http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq205/emilayusof/eybg250d.jpg" alt="get your free blog banner at emilayusof.com" width="250" height="250"></a>

Source code:

<a href="http://emilayusof.com"><img src="http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq205/emilayusof/eybg250e.jpg" alt="get your free blog banner at emilayusof.com" width="250" height="250"></a>

Another two money packets with  Boy & Girl theme to download.

Download here: Hari Raya Money Packet: Boy & Girl Theme
(Size: 1.3MB | Resolution: 300dpi | Format: jpg)

How to:

• Print on two-sheet (120gm) cards. Print as many as you like! (I’ve set two packets in one page).
• Cut along the grey line.
• Fold the flaps.
• Mount the glue area to the back side of the packet.

I have freebies for you to print for Hari Raya. If you have a color printer, feel free to print it! Will make more if I have the time.

Enjoy!

Download here: Hari Raya Money packet: KL Theme

(Size: 2.2MB | Resolution: 300dpi | Format: jpg)

How to:

• Print on two-sheet (120gm) cards. Print as many as you like! (I’ve set two packets in one page).
• Cut along the grey line.
• Fold the flaps.
• Mount the glue area to the back side of the packet.

This was last year’s one. You can still download it if you want. Just follow the link.

Download here: Hari Raya Money Packet

(Size: 1.81MB | Resolution: 300dpi | Format: jpg)

How often can you get a chance collecting postcards, catalogs and books at the famous Bologna Children’s Bookfair in Italy? And how often can you buy an additional bag at a Sunday Market in Bologna to accommodate your collection of postcards and catalogs and made yourself look like a fool carrying the stone heavy bag up the stairs at the Stazione Centrale (Train Station)?

Such was great experience although my wrists still hurt from carrying that particular bag.

I display my postcards collection at my little working corner and from time to time, I flip through colorful catalogs while sipping coffee. They never fail to amaze me each time. And the experience of bringing them back home never fail to make me smile.

Mi tesoro dell’esperienza per sempre.

The challenge over at Illustration Friday is to draw Atmosphere. I just finished illustrating bigbook 2 (out of 6) for a publisher and thought that a page from the book is suitable for the theme.

Digital using Painter Essential 3

It was RM25.47 last week and when I check today, it’s RM42.45!

How cool! Faster, if you haven’t already done so, you better register for ChurpChurp now. This is much more better than the pay per click ads which you can get only about RM10 per 3 – 6 months!

Go to ChurpChurp now and start receiving tweet assignments! You can read my previous post about how to join and what’s the benefit.

Technically, there’s one and a half page left to illustrate for this book. Below is page 11 out of 12. Will submit to the editor by late today.

Do you have any questions regarding how I do my work? Do leave your questions in the comment box and I will answer them happily. Thanks!

Yay! Bigbook 2 almost finished! Bigbook 3 is waiting!

HIDUP SEORANG BLOGGER or Life as a blogger is a contest hosted by Denaihati and sponsored by eQurban.com.

Here’s my story as a blogger:

When I first started blogging, it was on rememory.com early 2002 (or was it late 2001? I kinda forgot but it was circa those two years). That time it was just known as online journal. I had more than 50 entries. One of it has won me a USD100 amazon.com voucher. I was estatic! I spent the voucher on Encarta Encylopaedia, an Einstein book for my hubby who was my boyfriend back then, a few good novels including Home is Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts; my favourite of all time.

I made news friends from Malaysia not to mention a buddy also on rememory.com, Khemy, as well as friends across the universe. But I was not really satisfied with it as I cannot adjust the look of my page. And so I abandoned the journal. I visited the site once in a while but came to know that it was closed down back in 2008. If it is still there, I certainly will give my link and let you read all the nonsense that I wrote. Lol.

It was in middle 2005 when I registered for Friendster. I had few posts as well and my only friends were Marzie my colleague (yes, Marzie is my longtime blogging buddy) and Helmy. Comments only came from them, not leaving behind Daliza, another colleague of mine, also Helmy’s wife.

Being a person who likes to change things and have it my way, I was not satisfied with my Friendster’s look. I could not do what I want to do and so I registered for Blogspot late 2006. I was so happy because I finally found a platform where I can change the look to suit my liking. It stayed on for a year before I decided to change to WordPress. And so I got myself my own domain and hosting and transferred all posts from Blogspot to WordPress. I lost over 1000 comments as I did not know how to transfer them. Boy! It was sure tough to learn WordPress but over time, I managed to get acquainted with the platform. A basic webmaster course sponsored by the company I was working with back in 2003 really did helped me in understanding html, javascript and php better.

Well, here I am today, still using WordPress. Have been using it for three years now and don’t think I will jump to another platform in the near future. Buy hey, who knows, I might change to Joomla tomorrow. Haha, kidding!

Being a blogger is not always easy. I mean as a freelancer like me, I depend a lot on blogging. I have so many stories to share but as for now, it is sufficient to tell you how I started blogging, when I started and what platform did I used.

I am certainly not a pioneer but my blogging life started some eight years ago. I will share more aspects on my Life as a Blogger or HIDUP SEORANG BLOGGER on my second post on 29th August. Stay tune.

Related Posts:
HIDUP SEORANG BLOGGER
HIDUP SEORANG BLOGGER I
HIDUP SEORANG BLOGGER II

This contest is hosted by Denaihati and sponsored by eQurban.com.