art-spired

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it's nice seeing creativity and positivity being melded together. sometimes the simplest things can really be the turning point. amongst the rush of our busy busy lives, in an intricately complicated world, we often forget...things.

i love the thoughtfully clever post-it notes by thingsweforget, they always put a smile on my face and in my heart ♥ hope it does the same for you too!

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adventure #3 - rainbow pasta

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balance is having a bit of everything, and for a for a nice balance of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants - rainbow eating is the answer! apparently eating one fruit or vegie from each of the five colour groups (red, orange, yellow, green, purple/blue) is a simple way to ensure you get a good variety of nutrients in your diet.

so on thurs, while i took a break from staring at several confusingly similar oral pathology histo slides, i had a bit of a cooking adventure ...and i cooked up some rainbow pasta ^^...didn't have proper pasta sauce at home so i just made-do with tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, garlic, dried basil and a hint of chilli flakes :P then i cooked some corn, peas and carrots to go with the wholemeal fusilli pasta...i was just missing some beetroot or red cabbage for the purple/blue category...which probably would've turned my entire bowl of pasta a rather odd colour...

anyhoos, i ended up eating a very satisfying healthy lunch :)

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adventure # 2 - weekend collage

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i'm feeling a bit guilty...this adventure project was originally intended to be a ten day thing...though i think at this rate i may need to amend it to a thirty day project >< ...

my computer decided to very kindly go on a strike on wednesday and i've had to format it, so i'm still busy trying to reinstall all my programs back in which is taking a painstakingly long time! there's always a silver lining to everything, and amongst all the program cd's, i found my rather ancient adobe photoshop elements installation cd...yay :)

and here's where photoshop brought me...

[p.s. it's a collage of my weekend :

L to R : (1) colour the world; (2) rainy day saturday; (3) best ever nando's ad from the sunday age; (4) costume designing for my lil bro's book character parade; (5) stamps, stamps and more stamps; (6) green tea; (7) note-it post-it; (8) an apple a day; (9) textbooks which sadly i only managed to read 0.01% of during what was supposed to be a productive sunday]

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adventure # 1 - once upon a time

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maybe monday wasn't exactly the best day to start an adventure, considering i left the house before the sun rose properly, and came back home after the sun set...nevertheless, i did manage to squeeze in twenty or so minutes for a little adventure...

books are one of those amazing things that despite being only made from paper and ink, can take you to places without you having to move at all.

imagination is beautiful.

and just to add to the experimentalness of this project, i decided to read something i wouldn't normally read...and what's better than entering the wonderful world of fairytales. that's right, thinking cinderella, rapunzel, snow white, rumpelstiltskin...and who can forget the frog prince? but reading those classic fairytales would just contradict the whole point of trying something new...thankfully there were tales like fred & kate, the little peasant and doctor know-all from grimm's fairytales to kindly shed a new light on once-upon-a-time stories for me. simple tales, simple humour and simply clever storytelling...

...a bedtime story was the perfect end to a long and exhausting day *yawns*...


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ten day adventure project

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a quarter of the semester has rushed by, and rather surreptitiously in fact - so much so that i'm looking in my diary a bit taken aback by how much i've already forgotten about what has happened in the past three weeks. is it that when we keep doing, and hearing, the same things again and again that things become a bit blurred together - like the monotone lecturer hyponotising you to sleep before you're even halfway through the lecture slides?

maybe it's just this uni-work-weekend cycle that keeps rolling by endlessly...or perhaps the laziness seeping into me quite deeply, too deeply...i guess it's still the midst of winter...so, brain in hibernation mode? possibly.

no matter how, what or why...like a lightbulb flashing, something somewhere in the back of my mind is jumping up and down and shouting out, 'time for an adventure!' indeed, it may be.

i think adventure often has some sort of large-scale epic-journey-in-a-foreign-place notion to it, like trekking through the amazon jungle or sailing across the atlantic ocean...but i'd like to take 'adventure' from a different perspective today...

adventure is discovery, it's taking that step beyond the usual boundaries, trying something new - exhilaration brewed with joy, and a few leaves of mint for freshness.

i'm going to embark on a ten day adventure, startin from tomorrow. yups, that's right, tomorrow. but nope, i'm not hopping on plane, nor jumping into a boat and neither will i be going on a roadtrip...i'm heading to unfamiliar avenue, discovery city, somewhere amongst the hustle bustle of this universe...

a ten day - ten new things project. dedicating a slice of my day to something different, and out of the ordinary from my usual.

this will be a one of a kind adventure, just wait and see :)


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c is for cupcake

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i have this recent obsession with cupcakes, not that i've baked any (yet!) or even eaten any in the past so many months...

there's something sweet and rather fairytale-ish about cupcakes. perhaps, deep down inside i'm just keen to go crazy over decorating mini cakes with icing, choc chips, sprinkles, raspberries...you name it. i haven't yet found a good enough excuse to bake and embellish a batch of cupcakes though >_< and i really should be eating healthy food instead of rich lusciously delicious cupcakes brimming with sweet sugar, creamy butter and a load of other high GI ingredients...in the meantime, (while i gather motivation to exercise and think of a convincing excuse to create some cupcakes) i figured i'd just doodle it out onto my sketchbook instead - 100% fun and 0% calories :]

...and voila, a petit gateaux, from blueberrymint's sketchbook bakery.....




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cute creativity

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some cute handmade items that caught my eye while i was window shopping on the net:

...a scrumptious looking chocolate parfait necklace

....super adorable panda buttons

....a quirky little 'life with tea' handpainted wooden brooch

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