The red door and the reversible blazer

I painted my front door in red. We will build our outdoor kitchen soon. It is so good to be able to spend more time outside of the house!

I am also able to take some pictures outside now! The weather is great!

I got this reversible blazer from my dear friend Sissy. What a beautiful gift! The flower print  is made for spring. It always make me smile.

I love spring!

 

 

We declare the world as our canvas

This weekend, at our Art Club, we discussed about street art.

Street art is a kind of visual art practiced on the street. Our presenter showed us some street art pictures that he took from different places. We had an interesting discussion about street artists' motivation, locations and techniques as well as government's point view and restrictions. The presenter also showed us some work from the most famous street artists.

Whereas traditional graffiti artists have primarily used free-hand aerosol paints to produce their works, "street art" encompasses many other media and techniques, including: LED art, mosaic tiling, murals, stencil art, sticker art, street installations, wheat pasting, wood blocking, video projection, and yarn bombing.

Here are some pieces that I found amazing from the street art utopia. http://www.streetartutopia.com/

We can also apply this technique to indoor decoration and make our home a more interesting place to be.

If you are interested in street art,  a documentary film called "Exit Through the Gift Shop" is good to watch.
Enjoy!

GREEN Spring cleaning!

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.

                                                                        -Proverb

Today is 16 degrees. Flowers are blooming and birds are singing. Spring is finally here! I've got all my summer clothes out!

I've been thinking of a spring cleaning this week. My house and I need to get out of the winter blues! I already bought a mop with a squeeze mechanism.

This year's theme is GREEN CLEANING.

Here is my to-do list (how exciting this is!):

- Hang dry my laundry: install a clothesline in my backyard and enjoy the sunshine; 

- Add more house plants as living air filters;

-Use unpaired socks fill with cinnamon sticks or cloves for my wardrobe;

- Cut and tear old cotton T-shirts into washable cleaning cloths and reduce paper towels;

- Use baking soda, white vinegar, oliver oil and lemon as my cleaning supplies;

- Sort my wardrobe and take out items that did not wear for more than one year;

-Organize a garage sale in my church for fund raising for our mission trip to PEI in June.

 

My Hawaiian Easter experience

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead ... 1 Peter 1:3

I always remember my Easter experience when I lived in Hawaii with my dearest Da Ma Linda. She invited almost 50 guests to her beach house for a whole day's party in 2005!

On that Good Friday, we went to shopping. She bought a lot food, Easter decorations, eggs, brushes and paint. -  She made sure that everybody have fun and have a chance to paint his/her own eggs. Saturday, my task was to greet guests and serve them food. The music was on!  We were chatting, eating, drinking, singing, playing Ukulele and Hula dancing . We also went hiking and kayaking. I made so many friends... How I miss those wonderful days with my Da Ma!

This year, my church will organize a Good Friday worship. On Saturday, the youth group will have their 30 hour famine at my place for fundraising. I am going to prepare some fun activities.

Hopefully, we will have some good time together.

Happy Easter!

Busy weekend

My weekends are usually fully booked, busier than my weekdays. 

Saturday, we went to the Clay class in the morning. - We've been doing Clay Play for two months now, every Saturday morning. We met some interesting families, and had tons of fun!

This is the original clay "Bird Feeder" we made in February.

This is the one we colored last month.

This is the glazed one we finally got!

Sunday afternoon, we went to say goodbye to a friend. She sold her house and her pet horse here, and moved to Cusco, Peru, the amazing ancient Inca Empire capital. We made a plan to visit her, Machu Picchu,  and even La Paz, Bolivia in the future.

In the evening, we went to see Stephen Massicotte's play "Mary's Wedding" at the Martha Cohen theatre. This is a most widely performed Canadian play for the past decade. Two people illustrated a dream, a poem, a beautiful love story during the First World War. Very impressive professional actors, sound system and light, smoke and stage design!

We never missed going to our church every week. Sunday morning, we are always there meeting people, singing and worshiping God. After, I usually play Squash, Pingpong or badminton. Later this Sunday afternoon, we went volunteering in the kitchen at the Drop in Centre with the church's youth group.



This is why I don't have time for my laundry and house cleaning.
Would you please forgive me? :)