Wallpaper: bloom where you are planted

1280 x 1024 pixels
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1280 x 800 pixels
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1028 x 768 pixels
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Amretasgraphics Blogzine issue 02 - July 2010

Open publication - Free publishing - More prints

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{Amretasgraphics Blogzine Issue 02}

Hello again everybody!

Welcome to the second issue of Amretasgraphics Blogzine! :-))

Open publication - Free publishing - More prints

The downloadable pdf file is available on issuu.com.

As mentioned in the blogzine, below are the blog backgrounds and desktop wallpapers - based on my Decoflora webset. Unfortunately the instruction for installing the blog background is not yet ready and I will include it in the next blogzine. So, stay tune!


2 columns blog backgrounds






3 columns blog backgrounds






1280 x 1024 px desktop wallpapers








1280 x 800 px desktop wallpapers








1024 x 768 px desktop wallpapers

{pretty prints freebies :-)}

All right...I know...it's should be under "prints thursday" :-D and it's part of my upcoming Blogzine, issue 02. It just happens that it takes sometime to finish editing the blogzine. I changed the size from A5 to A4. And so you can take this as another sneakpeek...but you can download these prints right away! (click to open on the same page, or right click and choose "open in new tab" or "open in new window").

Feel free to add your own text to the "blank" print if you want. Just for your reference, I use Adobe Photoshop - and added shadow (50% opacity, 5 px distance, 0 spread, 25 px size) to the text layer.

Hope you enjoy them! :-)))

Prints: happy little girl

These prints are part of Amretasgraphics Blogzine, issue 02. To download, click to open on the same page, or right click and choose "open in new tab" or "open in new window", then save it to your computer.

Feel free to add your own text to the "blank" print if you want. Just for your reference, I use Adobe Photoshop - and added shadow (50% opacity, 5 px distance, 0 spread, 25 px size) to the text layer.

Hope you enjoy them! :-)))

{weekend blog talk}

Hello everybody!

Thank you so much for those who have taken a look at my first Blogzine :-) I'm preparing now the 2nd issue with summary of my creation during the week - back to the themes I used before in this blog: Wallpaper Monday, Blogging Tuesday, Journaling Wednesday, Project Thursday, Kindwords Friday, and Weekend Wandering...

Anyway, perhaps since I have been away from blogging for sometime, I found that I have forgotten so many things :-D And somehow I noticed some functions didn't work anymore? Or is it only me? I have 'missed the train'?

Oh how exciting! I have to keep up actually with blogging if I don't want to be left out, hehe. Seems like I don't have any other choice.

So, well, another trial-and-error session tonight. I should be able to give the correct instruction for the blog blackground installation.

This time weekend-wandering includes finding a new coffee shop in town where my 3G wireless connection works really well! And they serve a super delicious caffe latte!

Another lesson I've learned is that I will change the size of the Blogzine into A4 - or letter size. Don't you think A5 is too small?

Okay everybody! The blogzine will be uploaded as soon as it is ready. In the meantime below is a sneakpeek of what you can find inside, some of them :-)

Print / Project Thursday


Wallpaper Monday


Blogging Tuesday

Amretasgraphics Blogzine issue 01 - June 2010

Open publication - Free publishing - More graphics

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{Amretasgraphics Blogzine Premiere Issue!}

Yuhuu! I just published my first blogzine!

Click on the embedded blogzine below to view it online.

I hope you enjoy it, and tell me what you think! :-)

Open publication - Free publishing - More graphics

You can go to its page on www.issuu.com to download the blogzine in pdf file (just sign-up to issuu.com first if you haven't ;-)). This is the link:

http://issuu.com/amreta/docs/blogzine001_june2010

{putting together pieces of life}

Oh yes, that's my life. After all the troubles with the computer and internet, then getting sick for almost 2 weeks, now it's time to put together all those little pieces of life into some really nice picture :-)

Looking back, it was probably a little reminder to live the dreams I had always been dreaming, not to be stuck in a life according to other people's expectation..

Everything's going to be allright!

See the picture above? Aha, yes, I started cooking at home again, which is so nice. Never thought happiness could come from smelling garlic in my fingers...can you believe it? :-D

For so many months now, I ate mostly from street food stalls. While the food is so delicious...my stomach seemed unable to bear it somehow. Combined with the stress at work, you can guess.

Then that's what best friends are for. They came to see me during my sickness and we had fun remembering the good times we had together when living in the same house. We collected recipes from magazines and cooked every single day while dreaming and reading books like Peter Mayle's and Frances Mayes'.

"And you never got sick" noticed Fina, who now lives quite far away in the suburb of Jakarta. "Yet you also worked day and night. Perhaps it's the food, you never know the quality and the hygiene of street food. And when you prepare the food yourself, it's also good for the soul"

Voila! I got what she meant. As I still have to eat "plain" food, I swear by spaghetti aglio e olio... I really really like the taste of it. Only garlic and olive oil over spaghetti..yummm!

And today I just realised no more spaghetti in the pantry! But I still had eggplants, and so I cooked eggplant instead of spaghetti...kind of..umm... "eggplant aglio et olio" :-D

You know what? it is so delicious!! (ah, an eggplant lover like moi..;-))

And in the meantime I'm sorting out my daily life right now. I will continue the "shop on my blog" series starting next week. I will continue re-arranging my websites. I'm reorganizing my daily schedule and my working space. Ah, sorry, it's not working space, it is playing space. I have fun doing what I do! :-D

Uh, I want to have a working space like Amy Butler's ... like here shown on Country Living:



Dreaming + planning + taking action = SO GOOD FOR THE BODY AND SOUL! :-)))

I wonder why this trial and error never stops! ;-)

I couldn't open blogger and many other picture-heavy websites this past week, I thought it was only temporary but then I found out from the internet provider that my 'unlimited' mobile internet subscription only has 1GB capacity per month and once I surpass 1GB of internet use, I can only open 'light-weight' sites, blogs are not included...ouwh!

Now I have to find another strategy for keep the business on. Thanks for (always) bearing with me..I'm looking for solution..