Oh yay.. I made this for seasonal_spuffy

Lyrics in this piece was taken from one of my favorite songs for my Spuffy muse... "Anywhere But Here" by Safetysuit.

Spuffy >> {The Moment}

I've been busy everyday working on resources for my site. I have no current project at the moment so I'm taking my site full time.

Can you believe my eldest daughter has a job at the local supermarket, now? *blinks* She earns an income!! I tell ya, they grow up so fast.. a few years ago they were still acting like a baby.. then suddenly  BAM! They're off to work! OMG! She's the youngest at work, though.. I believe she's not supposed to be able to work just yet.. not until when she's almost fourteen, I think. But we're a regular at this shop and they've seen Abby growing up so they took her in straight away :P

Ok off to make more goodies!

xoxoxo
~Thia

I CAN NOT WAIT FOR MORE TVD EPISODES, damn it! :P

I'm on massive withdrawals, here... *sighs*

Yeah, no more losing stuff for this girl. I haven't done anything at all on the computer in regards to graphic work, but I've spent all night backing up my stuff - I even downloaded my website, now all zipped and burned on to a shiny disc!! :P

I even re-burned some old backups from old discs to new ones just to be sure they're all gonna be in perfect condition in the next few years. LOL! I'm just so tired of it.. too much I've lost in the past few years. And I keep thinking, hoping every-time I'm backing up that my HD won't suddenly crash from all the backing up that I'm doing. LOL. That would just kill me!!

So.. A NEW START! Yes, I'm going to do just that. Even my daughter told me this morning that it's a good time for me to have a fresh start in everything. This year is a completely new year for me since I don't have anyone at home during the day.. yeah, my kids all growing up tooo fast that I have no more excuses to slack off. And it's scaring me so much because I don't know if this is going to work well, you know? The goals that I've had for the last few years finally here for me to fulfill and I don't know if I could do it... I'm scared!

Finding jobs... paid projects. But before that I have to start creating things for fun just to get my muse back. Without it I'm just going to resent the work.

Thank you to all of you who commented on my last posts.. Without you all I would've been so depressed yesterday. But you guys lifted my spirits and I'm all better. You guys helped a lot just by being there. I feel that now I can do this with you guys in the back of my mind. So, thank you so much for your kind thoughts, or just by talking to me. I don't feel so lost and alone anymore!!

xoxoxo
~Thia

You know what makes it even more depressing this time around?
All my children are at school. I have no distractions and it's killing me to not know what to do.

:(

I've been sitting here on my computer trying to get myself do what it is I'm supposed to be doing. But I'm completely lost. I'm so out of touch, from online world and everything. The story went like this...

A few months ago... I was busy working my site, making a lot of really awesome brushes, a lot more pretty textures and so on. I felt like, wow, I'm back. I had my muse back and I was so happy. I managed to bring my site back online again, started posting updates every other week... I was in a happy place when it came to my work. That was a few months ago. Then not long... maybe a week which in that I didn't think to back up all that stuff I was working on - my HD died! I lost everything! I got a new HD but until today, I have nothing! I lost them...... *sobs* even my PHOTOS!!

Again for the how many times, again... I'm trying so hard to start again. But it's getting harder and harder. I lost contact with my friends... followers of my work, etc. I don't know where to start.. So I'm here on LJ hoping to find a place that I can feel at home again. But then, I'm also a stranger around here now.

1. My name is Thia... What's your name and where are you from?
2. Do you know me, what can you remember about me from LJ or around the web?
3. If you know me or heard of me, do we have the same interests? What are they?
4. Are you older or younger than me? I was born around the 70s... :P
5. What do you do on LJ other than journaling your days?

And we will start our conversations from there :P
Now I'm off trying to see what I can find that I can use from my old back up discs!


xoxoxo
~Thia

Uh oh, Walking Dead is back! I'm excited! :D

HELLO! I'm alive. Just not posting. But I've been around my flist and read some every now and then.. not everyday, but whenever I get the chance to, I'm here. *waves*

What have I been up to? Well I've been busy with kids, as always. School holiday just ended and today was the first day back. I have a baby (my nephew) to take care of from Monday to Wednesday every week - it was everyday, but now he goes to the daycare every Thursdays and Fridays. Yay for some free time from a baby. :P

Have I shared any photos? You can see some of my newest photography stuff on my HG facebook page .. They're mostly my random shots of my kids and pets, of course.

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to listen to...  anyone has any recs for great new music?

At the moment, I'm looking for any catchy songs, with nice beat and tunes so I can stay awake and work on my sites.. A little upbeat would be nice for now. I have so much to do but I keep falling asleep. My eyes are all droopy.. (~..~)
Asian music is also good. I'm currently listening to Ayumi Hamasaki - one of my favs! So if you have anything like Ayumi's stuff, I would love it! :D

I'm so tired. My little Zoey just turned four a few days ago and tonight was a big dinner with the family. I've been cooking all day and my feet are sore. I want to just sleep but I know I have to stay up and work on designing stuff while everyone asleep. I'm trying really hard to get back into the old habit of being a true night owl. I want it back, damn it! Why do I have to get older and just feel tired all the time?

*sighs*

Oh dear, my eyes are so heavy... someone, wake me up, pls!?

*yawns*

About time I posted something here. Hello, all! I'm alive.

I've been busy with my kids as always - my eldest daughter (Abby) has been elected as this year's Head Girl in her school. Yes, I'm a very proud momma! She'll be 13 this year and going into middle/high school next year. I've been busy applying for different schools and enrolling her on special art programs in those special art schools around the city. Next week she has to do a few exams and interviews to be eligible to get a spot in a few different schools. Whoa so much to do.

I took these photos of her  with my iphone a few weeks ago and I kept thinking, omg how she's grown! I still remember when she was a baby!

What's funny is that I have kids who totally look Japanese or Korean - I'm not Japanese nor Korean. But when people see them, they'd ask if I was Korean/Japanese. I guess the Japanese genes from my husband is quite strong in all of our kids. Abby is almost as tall as me now. She's so LONG. LOL. I'm not tall, but she's only 12 and she's almost my height.


Last week my dearest, loving dad - my hero, bought me a new toy! He bought me a new Wacom Intuos4! Yeah, it's shiny and awesome. He wanted to get me a Cintiq because he knew how I dream of getting one of those... but I thought, no way, it's way too expensive and I still don't have the space to have that kind of stuff. Kids are still young and I don't want to risk it getting damaged since they do use my computer a lot! Including their friends when they're over. Besides, I don't think I'd be using it a lot... not now, anyway. Don't have time to play around with art that much these days. So we'll wait till later in the future.

So I played around with my new tablet, trying to get a feel of it and made this little painting (click to enlarge>>). It's rough and not perfect, but hey, not bad for a first time, me thinks?! :D I know, need more shading around the face.. It looks flat right now. Need to practice to do perfect strokes for hair... I know I'm not that good with freehand drawing.. I can draw, but I haven't used my hands to actually draw for years, everything I do comes out wonky and my hand keeps shaking! UGH! So I really need to spend time in drawing freehand again. This pic was drawn and painted in photoshop, without any references.. so if something looks funny, you know why. :P

I'll be doing just that whenever I get the chance, now. Making brushes and textures again. School holiday is on, kids will be at home around me constantly for the next 2.5 weeks. *eeek* Wish me luck that I'd get plenty of alone time!! *rolls eyes*

Almost forgot, but I posted this new artwork a few days ago...

Dreamscape

::hearts::
~Thia

Hello!  Well, what do you know?! A new flowery theme artwork.

Off topic, I have a tooth that needs to be extracted so badly, but I hate going to the dentist.. :( Do I really have to? Sucks!


BlackVeil


Great to be back creating again! *bounces around*

~Thia