One plus one equals three

Happy New Year (a month later)! 

My son arrived safely and we have been very occupied with him since then. It's been a whirlwind of happenings surrounding our little cub. His christening, and monthly doctor's check-ups. Me getting used to having a baby to care for, breastfeed, clothe, bathe and change diapers for. Honestly, I thought it would be tougher but thank God I took to this new routine without to big a hiccup. The lack of sleep and waking up few times in the middle of the night was a shock, but luckily it only lasted for around 2 weeks. I got used to the cub's midnight wake-ups pretty quickly. I think most of this is due to our stay with my parents, they helped out - A LOT. 

The cub and I stayed with my parents for 2.5 months. Only once we moved back to live together with my Mister did I really get the feel of juggling a child and managing your house and yourself. For a while, I felt like I didn't have the time to do anything else - house work, creative time, cooking - on top of seeing my friends on facebook and instagram going places and and just plain going out for dinner/lunch/brunch/ice cream waffles.

I did feel like my life is on pause and our baby's life is on play full-time. Then I decided I couldn't just get stuck like this. For a while, yes. But not for too long. I think 4 months is enough. Time to bounce back, off from baby "holiday". Not forgetting, time to get my pre-baby body back. It might be impossible but it's hella worth the try. The side-effect of working out is keeping healthy, no loss there.

And so my new, new life begins. On top of my wife and mummy duties, I need to have a little outlet for myself. To be able to create something that's mine (besides my beautiful child, with the help of the husband). Even though I've decided to be a stay-at-home mum, I still want to be productive and resourceful. I still want to feel like I'm contributing something, that's why I'm assisting the husband with his business just doing simple admin stuff and also planning to resume piano classes from home. It's not so great to solely depend on your husband for everything, mainly expenditure. 

I'm terrible with new year's resolutions so I just set a motto for myself, for the whole year.

Whatever I want or plan to do, try not to half-ass it. For instance, my plan to revive this little blog.

Hope I do it well.

x, 

D

I Promise

It's been almost a year since I declared that I would be more active in posting here. Well, aren't I a big fat liar.

So many things have happened. My beloved grandfather passed away, I quit my pre-school job, and now I'm currently 39 weeks pregnant (!). 

I still love this little blog of mine and I still have high hopes (and dreams) that it will take off some day to be more significant and interesting to people other than myself.

Our baby boy Joel will be popping out any time soon and I know it won't be the best of times to keep up with a blog, but I am still determined to give this one more shot. I have been doodling and playing around with typography, though it's really super amateur.

I also just started sending mail again. So look out for some photos of that. In the mean time, here are a couple of simple stuff I did.

That's all I have to share for now, from the top of my head. Yes, another thing I need to work on is planning my posts a little better.

Okay, I'm off to wait for our son to pop out, or if I do get something good going on, I'll do another post before he decides to say hello to the world :)

peace & love

Hello, stranger

Wow, I have been the worst at keeping this little blog alive. I want to blame it on the fact that I've been working a full-time job but that wouldn't be fair to others who have blogs and full-time jobs.

For what it's worth, I'm back and I intend to stay and make this little fella into an awesome thing (again).

As much as I do daydream, I hope to post more of my doodles and typography experiments and simple crafty knick knacks here.

For now, I leave you with this.

I realize I didn't share our beautiful day on my "blog" (air-quotes because it's technically not a blog if it's being left alone for ages and ages with nothing interesting to redeem itself). Our videographer friends did an amazing out-of-this-world job, getting it done on the same day to be played for our guests at the dinner. They just captured all the crazy beautiful priceless moments. Just simply amazing. I can't get over it. It's been almost a year now.

peace+love

Lost and Maybe Found

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A little dash of pretty photos and words for a Monday. 

I've been at wit's end trying to think about what I have to do to earn a living. The phrase 'at the crossroads' is an understatement. 

While writing this post, I had a call for an interview. So who knows? Maybe something good is coming. Maybe my new year starts February 2013, so Happy New Year! I want to believe that these are happening because I decided to be serious about working out for health and to keep fit. I was sick for almost 3 weeks in January.

Here's to new beginnings, no matter the date.

peace+love

Type doodles

Just a few doodle writings I did, trying something new (for me). I kinda like it, quite fun. The middle one is taken from Perks of Being a Wallflower. Nice movie, surprisingly. Gave me a 90's vibe.

Anyway, hoping to do more of this soon. Maybe I should do this on postcards too. Kudos to doing random stuff for fun.

peace+love