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A Visit from the Aunt
My 2nd sister, Gabby visited last month. See how Josiah has grown since her last visit! At 1 Month At 9 months My sis stayed over for 3 days, and mainly visited the art galleries and exhibitions. My sis loves chocolate, so the first shop she went from Airport to, is a chocolate cafe called Theobrama Chocolate Lounge. I didn’t even know a place like this exist, for choc crazy people! I had the famous fair lady chocolate blended drink and Chocolate affair. The Chocolate affair is basically a chocolate fondue with four fruits, Kiwi, strawberries, orange and bananas. It is really heavenly! The Chocolate is like non other I…
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Add a dark edge of vignette to a photo
Dark Edges or Vignettes are often used to direct the focus to the centre of the photo and away from the clutter of the background. It’s good for portraits where the character is in the centre. First off, you need to have Adobe Photoshop. I am using Adobe Photoshop CS2. 1) First open up your photo in Adobe photoshop. Go to Create New Layer. Shift+Ctrl+N in windows. 2) Use the Paint Bucket tool to Paint the layer White. 3) Open up Layer Style by double clicking the white layer in the layer window at the right corner. 4) This brings up the Layer Style window. Tick Inner Shadow and Set…
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Facetoon Christmas Giveaway!
This Christmas, Facetoon is feeling generous in the spirit of giving, so Facetoon will be giving 7 special people a free cartoon portrait of your choice! It’s so simple, this is what you have to do: 1) Write a blog about this giveaway, with links to Facetoon http://www.facetoon.me and this blog. http://leonalim.com. You can write anything you want even a review… 2) In your blog post, put up the photo that you want to be facetooned. 3) Come back here to publish the link to your blogpost in the comments area, and also tweet about your blog post with a link to facetoon’s twitter, @facetoon. Feel free to also follow…
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A Day Out to Port Dickson
Have you ever wanted to do something without making plans? That’s exactly what we did. During the Haji hols, we made an impromptu decision to go Port Dickson, Klang Valley’s nearest beach with many resorts. The last time I went there was sooo many years ago, when I remembered the sea was teh tarik colour and sand was black. Until I read this blog that talked about their holiday there and showed how white and clean the sand was. So we started out early, by going Tesco at 8am! I really wanted to get some sand toys for Josiah, and some snacks, which turned out unnecessary, coz these were available…
