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It’s been a busy time here with the girls visiting. They are now officially teenagers! Woohooo…! This is their 6th time visiting Hong Kong now - and they’re itching to do something different. One of the things that they still enjoy doing is of course: shopping! Another thing that we can do now that I have a proper studio is to make things together! They want to get a CIAK sketch book with black cover to customize with stamps etc. as I did mine. We’ll do it this weekend!

Today they went to Ocean Park with their cousins. I stayed home to get some work done - and I got a terrible headache too! Ugh! I’ve got the report from their father via SMS that they’re having fun with the scary rides! Yeehaaa…!

Now, I’d like to share more pictures from the CIAK event taken by the CIAK people themselves: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=5187&l=ddb75&id=611087724

There you can see other designers’ beautiful and interesting work ranging from action-figure designs to handbags to dolls, etc. Check it out! It’s quite inspiring!

It was Mid-Autumn Festival on the 25th. It’s been raining, cloudy and hazy for days… Fortunately, the sky cleared up by late afternoon as if by magic and the majestic moon climbed up the sky beautifully! We went down to the Plaza and the beach where people were celebrating the festival. Everyone had Glo-in-the-dark sticks - it was quite a pretty sight! Too bad I didn’t bring my tripod with me so the photos are not so great.

Moon Rising…

At the Beach…

At the Plaza…

Disneyland Fireworks…

Oooh… and there’s another thing I’d like to share here! T baked a traditional Irish brown bread for the first time! Well, this was the first time he ever bake anything! Look… itsn’t lovely? It tasted good too! Next he’ll have to learn how to make the perfect merengue for me ;). Cripsy on the outside and chewy-soft in the inside!

24 Sep. 2007 - TEO’s Bread

Many thanks to everyone how has participated - I hope you all enjoyed the challenge. There are so many gorgeous entries, it’s been tough to pick just 3. So we end up having an extra winner. Congratulations to all the Winners!

They are:
2 Dream, Wonder, Believe by Kygirl
2 In Love by Sternrakete
2 Medals - 1 Hero by Lilysmom

Each of the 3 winners above will receive:
• a Ztampf! $135 Gift Certificate
• a KOLO Cortina CD Album shipped to your address - cool and perfect to keep your backup cds!
• a KOLO 10% Off Discount Coupon to be used at http://mykoloalbum.com - a gorgeous and flexible alternative for printing your digital layouts. Read more…

All KOLO prizes will start shipping on Oct. 15th.

And… the extra winner is:
2 Eyes by Zwyck
She will receive a Ztampf! $135 Gift Certificate and a little surprise gift from Hong Kong.

All the winners please email me their complete postal address. Thank you!

The Week 2 Challenge is now ON! Remember, we will have 1 Grand Prize Winner chosen from all the winners during the 4 weeks of challenge. So keep those gorgeous layouts coming!

What is CIAK?

CIAK is a brand of handmade notebooks from Italy. They have nice leather cover with practical elastic closure. You can see their range of wonderful products at their website.

I was among the 19 artists/designers invited to participate in the CIAK Asia Tour Exhibition: ‘Create’ - Ideas Are Meant To Be Realized. Each artist/designer is given a CIAK notebook of their choice to use to sketch ideas. This notebook is then displayed in the exhibition along with a sample of the artist/designer’s finished work/products. The opening was on the 20th of September at LOG ON, Festival Walk in Kowloon and I attended it. It was fun and interesting to see how others used their CIAK notebooks.

I customized mine by adding a handle that I made using a thick gross-grained ribbon. I then stamped and heat-embossed the cover with Ztampf! ClearStamps images. I rubbed stamping ink in several different colors directly on the leather to create a nuance of colors and I really like the way it turned out. Inside, I drew some sketches to show how the ideas for some of Ztampf! products were formed and developed. Print out of some Ztampf! products are displayed alongside my CIAK notebook.

There are artists/designers from Japan, US, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. I got to talk to 2 of them, both are from Hong Kong. One is Carrie Chau, a famous illustrator and the other is May King, a fashion/bag designer. There are quite a lot of action-figure designers too!

I will post some more pictures later!