Soooo COLD!!

It's been 2 days I didnt post here. Just a little bit update on the weather, it was bad... really bad on 25.06.09. The day temperature was only 6 °C and during the night it's about 9 °C (Hmm... it sounded abit exaggerate, but the day temperature was really unbearable). I never felt that cold in the 4 years I lived here. Wearing glove dont even help me in warming up my hand, eventually I stop painting on that day.

I started my soft toy project, intended to make a goose but the end product looks more like a swan. Still have alot more to do on it. Looked into the woven label maker in SA and other countries. Hopefully will get some replies soon.

Sunny today and chatting with the birdies in the garden. They had some bad times during the past few days, too windy for them too. Hopefully they ate enough today.




Sunny, 8.5 °C - 14 °C

Yeah! Yeah!

Hooray! hooray!!! I finished 3 of my prints--- my Gold edition. And had a brief start on the 4th one...

But the not very nice thing is the weather. It's extremely windy today and rain. Extremely cold, the house is under construction, so there are windows and doors open all the time. By the way, houses in SA do not have central-heating, mainly fire place or portable heater. Some fancy houses have floor heating. But I think it's not very good for the environment.

I wore glove to paint today, never imagine that I will need to wear glove in Africa ;) and had a cup of hot tea, made with love by someone special... ^__^ V

It's getting late and the wind is still blowing hard, sometimes I felt that the roof will be blow down by the wind. Can you imagine the wind blow through the roof tiles and make alot of noise like what you see on cartoon. Tiles fly up and goes down every time the wind blows. Hmm... not that dramatic, I supposed!! Just enough to make my imagination runs wild.

Rain, windy 10 °C - 14.5 °C

Good Day

Today is quite a productive day for me because I managed to finish quite abit of my print. My goal is to finish 2 sets of 3 prints by next week... It's abit ambitious, i know. But it has to be done. All the best to me ;)

Cloudy and drizzly 12.5 °C - 19 °C

Official Introduction

My name is Jen Leigh, originally from Malaysia and lived in South Africa for 4 years. Live in Hoekwil, a rural setting village with friendly people. There are a few interesting things in SA that I love, the sky, the nature and animals. I never thought that I would have the chance to see animals in such a close distance. Like today, I found 2 little sparrows/petronia (we guess) picking seeds that we prepared for them. Just calmly picking while I walked close and let me took their pictures...

Later at night we saw a small deer at the side of the road, the bokkie just stood still and let us look at it. What a wonderful feelings! By the way, deer is called bokkie here in SA.

Cloudy, 17 °C / Thunder, 14 °C

Hello there!!

Finally, the time is here to do something right for myself. Dreamed of having my own blog for quite some time, but always have excuses. Today, I am officially greeting everybody here and welcome to my blog.

This is my new friend -- Xim, I finished the last stich 2 days back. Yesterday we went for a photoshoot, and he was supposed to meet u guys by then. But I accidently deleted all the photos :( . Anyway we had fun today by taking another photo session with other friends as well. He is the funky one among the rest of the group because of his orange retro print.

Sunny, 22 °C, North warm wind