Moving forward

I'm so terribly excited, I don't know what to do and where to start. 

The Mr and I have decided to go ahead with our idea to produce stickers/vinyls/decals for decoration purposes and just plain fun. We haven't yet gotten a good enough portfolio of designs to show but I have so many ideas in my head (and sketchbook) already. 

It's just so exciting and then nerve-wracking. 

Exciting because I can already imagine the designs I want to put out and how we're going to package our products. Nerve-wracking because (again) I'm thinking about how I'm going to spend my time wisely ahead of caring for our cub and keeping house (fairly) well.

On another note, I'm currently working on a mini mail project and a major mail project. The goal is to get the mini one sent out by the end of the week and the major one by the end of the month, or first week of March. Hopefully no later than that. 

The cub is sleeping more in the mornings so I am treating my mornings as a sacred time for myself, to do whatever I want. Which means I'll be having my breakfast and catching up on my personal projects or work while doing laundry. Basically just taking advantage of my free time. 

Sidenote: I have new-found respect for free time. I know I shouldn't regret anything but I do regret not using my free time more wisely before our little cub arrived.

Anyway, here's a sneak-peek of our new exciting venture!

x,

D

Music Monday: episode one

Good Morning, Monday.

I've been swamped these few days, with the little cub and the mister's business work, I just didn't have time to post anything till now. Still haven't gotten the hang of juggling everything. Hopefully I get good soon.

Anyways, I've come up with a few weekly posts for a few days of the week. Hope it will get me to be more regular here. 

So Mondays are music days. Only because I believe it can help chase away the terrible blues it tends to bring right after a relaxing Sunday. Sometimes I think it's just all in the mind. And some good marketing skills. Who came up with "Monday Blues" anyway? Whoever it was, they're good. 

My plan is to share some happy music for a Monday to help you get through the day and start looking forward to midweek. Before you know it, it's Friday again!

Okay, ignore Marc Cohn's sad face. The melody and harmony just makes me feel good and ready to seize the day, honestly. I haven't really studied the lyrics, though. Something about men playing the piano. They're just really good, huh.

Happy Monday!

x,

D

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