Happy National Blogger Day!

I know I'm such a bad blogger (if I still may use that word to describe myself - blogger) since I haven't posted anything for quite a long time, but today is National Blogger Day here in Indonesia and I feel the urge to write something here. So now I'm gonna write down some things (I think) only bloggers could ever get. If I'm a good blogger I wouldn't talk about anything but the topic I've chosen right? But since we all know I'm so good at being out to topic....... well, let's just see.

First of all, since I become a blogger, I've been getting some lovely new friends. It might sound cheesy and stuffs but you guys have been here through all these crazy things in my life that I share here. You've been giving me your support through the hard times, some advices when I get cluless, and hope when I feel like giving up. You make me feel strong, like I can conquer anything. Thank you so much.

Next, I've been watching some of you bloggers get better and better at blogging. The ones who used to only post pictures, now can finally express theirself through writing. The ones who used to post pointless things can now write a tremendous essay. The ones who knew nothing about HTML can now make a beautiful web design. And so on.

I might not be improving as much as some of you do, but I believe I've slightly changed. I didn't realize blogging has quite a big effect until I stopped. The longer time I spend without writing anything at all here, the harder it gets for me to start writing. Yes it's true that if we write often, even though we don't have any blogs, our writing skills would be improved. But the big question is, will you finish your writing when you don't even know what to do with it after you write it? Well the answers may vary but for me, it's a no.

After that, blogging has been helping me increase my knowledge. Reading the blogs of people who have the same interest with me does really broaden my horizon. For example, through blogs I now know some awesome songs I would never hear on the radio, recipes I'd been trying to find on my recipe books but I couldn't find, some tear dropping movies that would never be played on the cinemas, and so on.

When you get so many infos from other bloggers, it makes you feel like you have to give them something back. Sharing some infos with other bloggers has always been fun. That's what will make you a better researcher. That way you'll get more informations that you can share and once again, it will broaden your horizon.

And the most important thing is, you can just be yourself. No matter what, there's always someone out there who's just like you and will relate to your writings. You might have to try to fit in at school that you end up not being like yourself, but here you'll be appreciated for who you are.

There they are, some things people can get through blogging. I know there are a lot of other benefits from blogging, maybe you can share me your own thoughts here. Good bye people! Have a nice day!

Learn Something Everyday

I love to learn something new everyday. Not the kind of thing that everyone talks about, but the ones that most people have never heard before. The unique and maybe stupid ones. That's why I got very happy when I first discovered this website called Learn Something Everyday. You can find some of the most weird stuffs there. Here are some of them

 

What do you think? Like it? Come on hop on to Learn Something Everyday nooow!!

P.S : I know this isn't a post you'd expect to have from a blogger who hasn't posted anything for more than two weeks, but I'm very busy right now. I hope I can have a break from all these crazy things and be able to catch up with you guys soon.

Design Milk

Thank you for all of the concern and supports you've gave on my last post. It means a lot. Really. Things have finally become better. And I can laugh so hard again :D

Anyway, do you remember when I told you about this superb website about art and design named Behance? Now, I wanna tell you about another website that's just as cool as it. It is.... Design Milk. It's run by Jaime Derringer. This website provides the things you'll love in Architecture, Art, Home Furnishings, Interior Design, Style & Fashion and Technology world. Well, words can't express art and design as good as seeing the art and design itself (especially because I'm so not good in it), so, let me show you some of the the awesome things from that website.

Harry Potter and Sleeping Beauty from Lissy Laricchia's Get Back in Your Books set. For more info, click here

Frontyard Art Mailboxes. Click here for details.

The Whole Story by Debra Folz. For details click here

Debbie Tea's artworks. Ssst, she is from Bali, Indonesia :D for more info, click here.

STRESSSSSS by Annie Kim, a student at Otis College of Art and Design. If you like it, click here or just go straight to her society6 profile.

Zella Brown's artwork. Click here for more info or here to go to her/his (sorry, i don't know) website

Like what you see? Don't forget to check out Design Milk for more cool art and design things. Or, if you want to find some cool modern designs for the modern dogs just click its sister website, Dog Milk :)

Gifts

Yoohoo I'm 17 now!!! :D

Yep, I turned 17 yesterday. On Thursday, March 31st 2011. It's so exciting to read all the birthday wishes started from text messages, tweets, on my facebook wall, but it's even better when I hear people sing Happy Birthday to me and congratulate me in person. Yes it should be one of the best days of my life, but since I had a chemistry test the day after (which means today) I spent my day by studying and studying. And it turned out, the test was difficult. Gaah I'm so exhausted by this whole mid term thing.

Anyway, just like any other birthday girls, I'm craving for some birthday presents. So, today I've been browsing and I found these websites offering some giveaways. You might want to check these out too. Well, if you win while I'm not, don't worry, I won't be upset. You just need to give me something that costs at least 20% of the gift you get. Haha I was just kidding. Anyway, here are some lovely giveaways I found :)

3 $100 tobi.com gift cards from Runway Rundown. This giveaway ends on April 8th.

2 winners of Original signed and numbered artwork on handmade cotton paper from Aimee Johnson illustration.

Crystalyn Kae Recycled Leather Handbags and Clutch Giveaway on Momma Told Me. This giveaway will end on April 15th.

Birthday Giveaway on Sunny Days & Starry Night. This will end on April 18th.

Ash 'Camy' Bag from Candid Couture and farfetch.com

$50.00 Anthropologie Gift Card on The Colorful Living Project. Don't forget to say that you know the giveaway from me, that way we can both get an extra entry :)

The little photographer necklace at pastor's girl's pondering. This ends on April 6th.


Modalu London Kiera Bag made out of leather (retailing at £115- £140) from All Swamped in Flowers.

Food, Fashion, Friends. A book by Fleur Wood (an Australian designer) from A Casa da Va

An original abstract painting worth $119 from Carmen Guedez.

Don't forget to enter these giveaways! You might be the winner! :)

Wednesday Wishes (1)

Had you ever feel so happy when you were in school and the bell rang telling you that it was time for you to go home? And not just some other go-homes, because you'd have days off for the next eight days. Yes it happened to me just yesterday. My friends and I felt so happy then we went to buy some dvds and grabbed lunch. After that, we went to one of my friends' house and watch two dvds in a row, go 'eew' on the first movie and 'aaw' on the second one (well, the first movie we watched was I Love You, Philip Morris which is a story about a gay couple, while the second movie was Crazy Little Thing Called Love, a sweet romantic comedy Thailand movie) until it was late and we all went home.

Yes, as I mentioned above, I'm having eight days off, starting from this day, because my senior are having their final exams. Best of luck for them. Anyway, what would you do if you were me? Go on a vacation with your friends, hang out at some cool and new places in town, shop like there's no tomorrow? I might as well say that usually, but not this time. I've been spending this day doing some simple stuffs. This morning, I read this book titled Pretties, which is the second book of Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld. Then, after that, I watched How I Met Your Mother. It's only 1 pm when I started writing this, but I've already watched 12 episodes today, isn't that crazy, and you might say, boring?

Well it's not for me. You see, I go to this school which is the best public school in town, even in my country, and it drives me crazy. It makes me busy all the time with all of the things inside it. I barely have enough time to just have a lazy day, watch tons of dvds in a day, and relax like I don't have any problem at all. So when it comes to holiday, one thing I really want to do is just relax, watch dvds, read some magazines, and sleep. Well of course doing some crazy and fun things all teenagers do will be fun too. I'm actually thinking about doing it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or...

Okay, I think it's best if we just move on to another topic. You might be bored about that whole relaxing at home thing. You might as well skipped some parts. So, to stop you from leaving this page, I will share with you one of my newest obsession right now that's becoming the point of my Wednesday Wishes post (which is a series created by Brooke at Bright Wishes), which is.....

White Dresses

Well I know it's not a new trend or something, but isn't that a good thing? It's not new but many people still wear it. It means, white dress has never been out of date. It's so simple yet so sweet and lovely. You can wear it anytime, anywhere, with anything, in every occasion, and it will still look good. Here are some of the lovely white dresses I found on the internet

White Sheer Sleeve Shift Dress at Topshop



Retro Swing Dress at Forever21



Studio Tunic at Zara

Single Dazzle and Threesome at Tendencies

And that is how I do my first Wednesday Wishes post. :)

PS : I was thinking about doing a mix and match post, but I'm saving it for a Friday's Fancies post I will do this Friday. Yes it's a series that {av} from (long distance loving) has done and i want to participate in it.

PPS : Yes, that's a little spoiler about what I'll have on the next post. Just make sure you all will come back that time and see :)

Pencil vs Camera

I'm going to be 17 on the last day of this month. Yep, 17. You know in some country people say you turn into an adult when you're 16. Or maybe 18. But in my country, it happens when you turn 17. I'll get an ID card. So yes, it's kinda big for me. I don't think I'm ready yet. *sigh*

Anyway, let's move on. Do you know Ben Heine? I won't blame you if you don't. Me myself just happened to know him this afternoon when I was browsing deviantArt. He is an amazing artist. He has so many lovely artworks on his deviantArt gallery, but my favorite is on his Penvil vs Camera album. It's so cool I can't even describe it. So you might have to see it yourself. Here are some of the pictures in that album.

See? Those are amazing, right? So, come on. go to his deviantArt gallery. Or maybe to his website. It's worth it :)

These Websites Make My Bad Mood Goes

School's been driving me crazy. Not because of the subjects, assignments, teachers, and so on (even though those things do add my stress level), but it's because of the government had changed the system of the way to apply to university. They changed it a couple months ago actually, but now I'm freaking out because many teachers (in school and even in my course) are talking about it.

To make me feel better, I want to make something. So, when I got home this Friday (which means the last day of school this week, yaay!), I looked for great websites providing some recipes, DIY things, art stuffs, and so on. I found so many of it, but these two are my favorite.

1. Ming Makes Cupcakes

I really love this website. Ming gives us good pictures and simple how-to(s) that even people who were actually not interested on baking at the first place, would want to do it after seeing this website. There are 33 cupcake recipes and they all look so yummy. This website also provides 6 cookie recipes and 3 savoury recipes. And I'm pretty sure these numbers will keep on growing as soon as Ming finds another recipes.

2. Papercrave

Paper cravings. Yes I always love this thing. And one thing I really love about this website is because of its gift wrap ideas. These are the samples :

Father's Day Shirt & Bow Tie and Grocery Bag Gorgeous

So what do guys think? Do you have any favorite websites for recipes, DIY things or art stuffs? Tell me about it! :)

P.S : I just found this online store named Yozo Craft and I really love it, especially its charms. And the best of all is, the charms are cheap and free shipping!! For example, this cute and unique set of Lovely Little Scissors only costs US$1.60

Uuh if only I have a credit card, I'm pretty sure I would buy so many things there. You all have to check it out!

Behance

Sorry for the long gap between this post and the previous one. Well, it actually happens often but this time, I really feel bad because Elis Smirnoff from love me, Jaded said "you ought to blog more often woman!!!". So so sorry. But I promise, if I do have spare time, I will def post something here.

Anyway, yesterday me and my friends joined IDS (International Design School) High Year Book Competition #2.

Too bad we didn't win. But well, it's okay, it really got me to think about my school year book more. So while we were waiting for the relults, we went to Starbucks because we actually wanted to use its free wifi and searched for some cover ideas. We ended up finding so many cool graphic designs, and I want to share some of them with you guys here

Letterform for the Ephemeral by Amandine Alessandra. This is so cool right?

Write a Bike by Juri Zaech. Well I now, it is not year book cover material (mostly pictures I post here are not either), but it's still cute, right?



Type Treat by Alex Beltechi. This one looks so... um delicious hahahha



Super Happy Times by Jordan Metcalf. If only I can draw like these.

Well to be honest, there are still many many cool designs I found, but I think if I keep on posting it, it will take you too long to open my page. So, in case you are interested, you can find this kind of design here. Hope you like it :)

P.S : Thank you so much for your supports on my last post. I feel really glad :D