kindwords: do good

"Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In every place you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can."
- JOHN WESLEY (1703-1791)

If you like you can click on the image, save and print it.

{Terri Conrad Designs giveaway}

Ow, serendipity!

I was just admiring one particular scrapbook paper I purchased in a little scrapbooking shop in a newly opened shopping mal in Jakarta, I looked for the info and I saw at the bottom the title Sweet Charity Collections 'serendipity' - Terri Conrad Designs. I was going to google Terri Conrad when I stumbled upon Decorology and read about the giveaway! I'm double happy! First, I found a link to Terri's gorgeous shop and blog, and second, there's still time to participate in the giveaway! Of course I don't want to miss it :-)

Here's how to enter, play, and hopefully win:

1. leave a comment on Terri's blog, with your blog link (no blog? be sure to include your email addy in your comment)
2. post the above pic on your blog with link back to Terri's blog, inviting your readers to play and win (kindly use image for this express purpose only)
3. visit Terri Conrad Designs to find something lovely for your heart & home (no purchase required)

On June 10 one winner will be randomly selected and given the choice of any "My Print & Pattern Canvas Wall Decor" to be customized in a 16x16 format.

Isn't that lovely?

{blogging tuesday: new blogger backgrounds}

Yesterday I started experimenting with various filters on Photoshop, and whohoo, suddenly I got a background tile that reminds me of the wall in our old home. Experiment number 2 was to create a blog background to share - so I decided to use the newly invented background tile :-)

Then tonight the experiment continued: looking for tutorials on how to post HTML codes / scripts in blogpost. Trial and error..ow I love this part! ;-) Finally found one that looks nice. Follow this link if you're interested.

The experiments took me sometime and I didn't realize it's already past midnight, which means already Wednesday here...but well, the blog backgrounds were intended for 'blogging tuesday' so I thought to post them anyway now.

I couldn't choose which color I would use for the ribbon to go with the tile, then you know why both are posted here :-D I also tried to experiment with photobucket to host the files, but I don't understand why the blog background didn't turn up nicely. So they are at the moment hosted in my server. But that's okay, I think, as long as the amretasgraphics label stays intact with the set, I don't mind direct linking in this case.

And here's a little instruction on how to install the background (the background works best with Minima template):

1. Copy the code from one of the boxes below


2. Log in to your blogger account, open the dashbord and click on LAYOUT


3. Click on PAGE ELEMENT, the "Add and Arrange Page Elements" will open


4. Click on ADD A GADGET


5. When a window with list of gadgets opens, choose 'HTML/JavaScript'


6. Paste the HTML code into the box and click save


7. Enjoy! (and let me know what you think if you use them :-))

 <style type="text/css">body {background-image: url("http://www.amretasgraphics.com/blog/bloghost/090601_rustyhome/bg_rustyhome1.jpg

"); background-position: center;}</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; width:140px; height:50px;"><a href="http://www.amretasgraphics.com" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://www.amretasgraphics.com/blog/bloghost/090601_rustyhome/amretasgraphicslabel.gif" /><br /></a></div>

 <style type="text/css">body {background-image: url("http://www.amretasgraphics.com/blog/bloghost/090601_rustyhome/bg_rustyhome2.jpg

"); background-position: center;}</style><div id="tag" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:30px; width:140px; height:50px;"><a href="http://www.amretasgraphics.com" target="_blank"><img border="0" src=" http://www.amretasgraphics.com/blog/bloghost/090601_rustyhome/amretasgraphicslabel.gif" /><br /></a></div>

I also made simple blank header 660pixels wide and blank buttons 200x150 px and 200x100 px. You can add your own text/pictures to them. They can be downloaded from here.

To give you an idea how the set may look like when put together, see this blog.

Enjoy!

Wallpaper: sharing happiness

1280 x 1024 pixels
Click on the image to open it in the original size, then save it to your own hard disk.

1280 x 800 pixels
Click on the image to open it in the original size, then save it to your own hard disk.

1028 x 768 pixels
Click on the image to open it in the original size, then save it to your own hard disk.

{wallpaper monday: sharing happiness}

1280x1024

Sharing the same theme with the latest kindwords friday. I love this saying so much I hope you enjoy it on desktop wallpapers as well :-)

To download you can click on the picture and save it to your own computer.

Have a great week everyone!


1280x800 px (widescreen)


1024x768 px

{envie: janet hill}

Omygoodness!! They are the prettiest! Read about Janet Hill on Daisy Pink Cupcake just now and I just had to post something about this! Then I followed the link to Janet's blog and I felt like having the prettiest web-wandering :-) Janet also has her shop on Etsy. If you're like me, you're just gonna fall in love with Janet's work, beware....

{weekend wandering: Batavia 09.05.30}

I'm all about Victoria's sfgirlbybay Sunday in the City series at the moment...so if I am inspired to create 'weekend wandering' series in my blog now, I think the credit should go to her. Huge thanks, Victoria!

So here's my own story: I live in Jakarta since 1992, I love it, it's a vibrant city with lots of possibilities, but except you are really into modern buildings and shopping malls (which often have fantastic decorations, somehow, great work!) I find it quite challenging to find interesting spots in the city, ones which have natural, authentic feel. A girl with a lust for history I am, I often found my refuge in historical parts of the city. The old town, at the first glance, may look ugly with lots of unmaintained buildings. But it has a magnetic character that I'm unable to explain. It's striving. And I'm only one of thousands who have a special fondness to this place. There's a community who's all into the history of Jakarta, and there's a special council whose grand task is to revitalize this once in the old days the lovely city of Batavia.

Yay! I think I should divide the story now for my future weekend wandering posts :-) Anyway during these past few years, I've been involved in some amazing projects which, at first, 'forced' me to go deeper into the history of Jakarta, and who knew that it now becomes somekind of obsession :-)

Now to the first snaps...(I use Kodak Z650 to have fun with, and all the pictures are intended only for my own heart's content :-)) Hope you enjoy them too.

{kindwords friday: sharing happiness}

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
- The Buddha (c.563-c.483 BC)

If you like you can click on the image, save and print it.

Happy Friday!

kindwords: sharing happiness

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
- The Buddha (c.563-c.483 BC)

If you like you can click on the image, save and print it.

{junkstyle me: my desk 09.05.28}

Remember the happy bears prints? Think they look nice with the white frame that I found at a junkyard sale. And, don't you think those jars and bottles are perfect to put flowers, colored pens and pencils? It makes me very happy just to look at them. Uh huh, junkstyle me!