[.i.heart.helen's.]

Ask me who my favorite illustrator is…and no doubt I will answer that it is a difficult question! I am a fan of many illustrators, especially children-book-style illustrators, but lately I’ve been letting my eyes feast on Helen Dardik’s artwork. I love everything about it. Her illustration, her patterned designs, her paintings…and especially her colours! Helen is also an avid blogger, and it’s just gorgeous. Orange-you-lucky, it’s called. Sounds like I can relate to it. I love orange, and I feel lucky to find her blog :-)

[.saved.from.the.flood.]

Yesterday after work I went to my house (at the moment I'm still staying at my aunt's) and I'm so glad the house is already repainted. Clean and fresh. But certainly needs a touch of redecoration. Plan for this coming weekend.

I went to my room and tried to rearrange some things I managed to save from the flood [two months ago] by putting and piling them on top of the tall cupboard when the water started to come into the house. Some ‘aaaawww’s and ‘youhuuuuu’s followed. I found some precious books I thought I had lost. And…my [until that flood in February] latest journal!

It’s the kind of journal I really like, actually. It’s not a ‘dear diary’ kind but I put ‘founds of the day’ which were mostly cuttings from magazines or the internet [articles, pictures, words] that caught my attention that day. Then I put some notes about what I experienced that particular moment I wrote, and my own drawings. Such a precious scrapbook from my bygone days.

[.flower.drawing.]

I love drawing flowers with colour pencils, it's my all time favorite.yay!. Yesterday evening I bought one set of water colour pencils to replace the one I lost in the flood in February. Now I can get back to my old habit: drawing flowers in my notebook :-) This one is from yesterday night [.why.did.i.draw.it.on.lined.paper.?.*sigh*.]