Merry-go-Round: Summer

It's time for another ride on the merry-go-round! Jump on and join a group of 10 artists/crafts-women as they link around the world and tell you a little about their lives in art and craft.

This month topic is: Summer

I am living in a tropical small island country of Singapore. It is always summer through out the year. The tree is green all the year and it is hot and sunny all the time.

I remember when I was in China, summer is the season that I like very much. I can wear pretty dresses and feel so flexible with my arms that they are not inhibited by heavy jackets.

But in Singapore, all these surprises and different feelings brought by seasons are lost. I feel the same all the time. It is good and bad. The good is that it is so simple, we just wear the same set of clothes all the time. The bad is that we lack the experiences of seeing snow, ice and falling leaves of trees. But, nothing is perfect in life anyway.

For those who love summer, I brought you my laptop skin "Late Summer Collection".




Please do visit others to find more about the topic:
Jenny at Jenny Karlsson design
Wendren at Wren
Sara at Sara's Texture Crafts
Charlotte at Fancy Picnic
Marian, Florcita's Art
Agathe at Le Bar du Vent
Fabienne at Easterya
Ruth at Birdland Creation

In the Flower Mountain Girl and Deer Laptop Skin

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I was just reminded by one of my customers that I forgort to list this laptop skin in my store. Now here it is. It's lovley.

Some of my customers bought this as a birthday gift. It is nice for a girl.

Orchid and Mirror Original Watercolor Painting

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I like the gray and red color combination when I saw a picture from a newspaper. As I love to paint orchid, I put a setting of orchid for this painting witht the same color scheme.

The framed view:

Size: 9" x 11"/22 x 27cm

Summer Time Still Life Original Watercolor Painting

(SOLD)

I had this beautiful watercolor paper I bought from China. It is very cheap comparing to the ones that I bought from Singapore that are made in England or US. But I love it, it allows me to paint with sutle and beautiful gray colors.

This painting can be made a due with my "Harvest Time" painting.

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You can see how the painting is framed as the follow:

Size: 11.4" x 14.5"/30 x 37cm, watercolor on paper of 200gsm.

House for Rent - Bright and Spacious House Near Park and Beach

This is nothing to do with my art. It is about the house that I am living now.

I am planning to move back to an apartment near a child care center that I am planning for my baby to attend to. Thus, I need to rent out the current house.

The details about the house is as the follows:

1. 3 Year Old Straits Garden Inter-Terrrace among the newly developed sea village estate in the Northern part of Singapore
2. 5 + 1 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms
3. 2 storage rooms
4. High ceiling living room with two story ceiling, Excellent Feng Shui
5. Spacious and bright kitchen
   
6. Near beautiful Sembawang Park and beach
7. Near Sembawang MRT, 10 minutes bus 882 from and to Sembawang MRT
8. Close to American School with a school bus
9. Near shopping mall Sun Plaza and Sembawang Shopping Center with banks, post offices, etc
10. Lots of eating places around such as "Buckroo" and "Bottle Tree Village" or at shopping malls and nearby HDB estates
11. Quiet, relax and greenery neighborhood
12. SGD$5600 negotiable

Please contact me at lilypangpl@gmail.com if you are interested in it.

Flower Night and Flower Mountain Prints

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It's Friday again and a relaxing day. I am planning to attend a eBay seminar tonight and haven't done anything except printing these two 8 x 10.5 size prints today.

The prints are from "Flower and Moon Night" and "In the Flower Mountain" paintings.

If you are interested in the laptop skins of the same design, you can order them here:

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I feel that it is time consuming to sell things in eBay and haven't try eBay harder. I would like to explore a little bit to see if it is viable for me to sell on eBay as well.

Secrete Garden ans Singing Bird Magnet Set

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Just made these lovely magnet for customer order. They are from my "Secrete Garden" and "Singing Bird" prints.

Size: 2 x 2"/5 x 5cm, 1 cm thick

Lavender Field Original Watercolor Painting

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Another purple painting with lavenders. It is a bigger one of 11.4" x 14"/30 x 37cm.
I like the overwhelming feeling of the purple and the blue sky. You can see how it looks with a frame below:

Lavender Flower Garden Original Watercolor Painting

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Levender has most beautiful purple hue. If you like purple and would like to decorate your house with some purple, levander is the one of the good choices.

If you use dried levender flowers, even after many many years, it still has the wonderful smell.

Baby also wants to paint. She grabs everything that I use and only wants what I use. I gave her different tubes of colors, she refuses and wants to have mine. Haha..

Original Watercolor on Paper

Size: 6.5" x 9.5"/17 x 25cm

Poppy Field Original Watercolor Paintings

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Poppies are beautiful with birlliant colors. I almost use the colors straight from tubes for painting this watercolor. It is so fresh when you don't mixed up colors with others with watercolor painting.

I love the details:

Size: 6.5" x 9.5" /17 x 25cm

Owl Design Round Brass Earrings

Earring length: 1.6"/4cm, image: 0.7"/18mm, earring base: 1.1"/ 28mm

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Earring length: 1.3"/3.2 cm, image: 0.7"/18mm, earring base: 1.1"/ 28mm
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I just got these new brass charm bases while I was walking around. They are round with image of 0.7"/18mm in diameter. The earring measures 1.1"/ 28mm in diameter.

They are really lovely. I made several earings with the baby owl design. The images are covered with thick layer of resin to give durability and crystal clear beauty.

Blue Bird Laptop Skin

This is the blue bird laptop skin that I just made. It has very stuble blue, brown and sparking white colors. It s really beautiful.

It just need to be sent out to the cusomter.

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The Kiss Very Large Laminated Print

I just sold one Large Laminated Print (LLP) of "The Kiss". It measures 27 x 35"/70 x 90cm. You can see how small the 8.5 x 11.5"/21 x 30 cm Spring print is comparing to the LLP.

Please see the smaple image to visualize how it looks.

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The print has a sticky side that you can stick it to a hard-board such as gatorboard. You peel off the paper attached to the sticky side. If you leave the paper on, you can frame it as a normal print. Better than normal print, it is laminated which means it has a protection layer to allow you to clean the print with a wet towel.

Yellow Flower and Bird Original Watercolor Painting

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Picking up my watercolor again today. I used to use very bright colors and now I try to use soft and delicate ones. The problem with soft colors is that when you paint the background, the contrast is gone and it is difficult to get an attractive painting.

But I like the whimsical effect of soft colors and would like to explore more.

I haven't put all my watercolor paintings in my store yet. But this one is there. I try to put them gradually.

Size: 9.5" x 6.5" / 24.5 x 17cm

Summer Flower Prints and Laptop Skins

If you are familar with great Chinese painter Wu Guangzhong's painting, you would be familiar with the beautiful black lines he draw with Chinese ink. I like black lines.

This is a simplified version with less flower from the previous Summer Flower. The lines are more dominate in this painting and they are really beautiful.

I made a print mounted on canvas.

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If you like it to be in laptop skin, you can order from below.

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Orchid Near Window Laptop Skin and Wrist Skin

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I just go these laptop skin done for a set of laptop skin and wrist skin from my original painting "Orchid Near Window". The prints are fantastic and very rich in colors. I love them very much! I think I should try to do more laptop skins from my original paintings.

LET Life be Beautiful Like Summer Flowers Laptop Skins and Prints

LET life be beautiful like summer flowers

and death like autumn leaves.

Guess who's poem is it? It is by my fariorte poet Robionathan Tagore. I was thinking of paint something for summer for quite a while. Although it is summer all the time in Singapore and I don't feel the heat (because I am used to it), I try to recall the feeling of the summer when I was somewhere else. I looked out of my windows and there is a huge tall tree full of pink flowers. The beautiful poem "LET life be beautiful like summer flowers" jumped into my mind.

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It's so wonderful to live as beautiful as summer flowers, at least once in your lifetime.

Baby Owl Brown Glass Pendant

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Just made this lovely owl pendant based on my Baby Owl Brown design for a customer order. It sits in a pretty box and ready to be sent out tomorrow.

It is made with high quality crystal clear hand-made glass tile. The glass tile has beautiful round edges.

I have other colored owl designs for glass pendant as well. Please browse through my store if you are interested in them.

Flower Tree in Black and White Art Glass Pendant

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I ask my daughter to choose some glass pendants that she likes as gifts for her. The Flower Tree one is one of the pendants that she picked. It is clearn and abstract and nice with white or colored clothes.