Awards, Thank You, Design Sketch, Rattan Swing and Illo

This is going to be a long post with lots of pics. Thanks for being patient with restnrileks : )


AWARDS


It has been a busy week for restnrileks, at least as a blogger.
First, i received this awesome award from Mariuca, awesomely named as the Uber award.

Uber (synonym to Super) Amazing Blog Award is a blog award given to sites who:

~ inspires you
~ makes you smile and laugh
~ or maybe gives amazing information
~ a great read
~ has an amazing design
~ and any other reasons you can think of that makes them uber amazing!

The rules of this award are:

* Put the logo on your blog or post.
* Nominate at least 5 blogs (can be more) that for you are Uber Amazing!
* Let them know that they have received this Uber Amazing award by commenting on their blog.
* Share the love and link to this post and to the person you received your award from.

Thank you Marzie. So, in keeping up with the spirit, i like to pass this award to these uber bloggers too :) (Oh, Marzie, I am passing this uber award back to you too : )

Pak bOno - for his amazing support to restnrileks, and consistently produces great thoughtful posts

Kak Emila - for her amazing inspiring creatilicious works

Manggo - for her persistence, inspiring artsy crafty thoughts

Antown - for his tremendous efforts on arts and ideas

Ida - for being my great friend and keep supporting each other

Blue - for his witty, fun, pleasant and great posts

Shinade - for her wonderful, warm, welcoming feelings that i get from her comments and visiting too.

Fliffy - for her amazing digital scrapping works : )

Debbie - for her restless craft pursue and funny ramblings.

Oh, please inform me should i miss anyone here too.




Second, i also received these two awards from Debbie, the owner of Phat Ramblings and Craft Swap. Thank you debbie for being thoughtful. I like to pass these two awards to all my readers too, especially if you are addicted to coffee. Hehe.

On another point, i would like to say thanks to all who had wished me "Happy Birthday" - Thank you and much appreciated. It was a blast receiving all these birthday and well wishes. Great thanks to Pak bOno who came up with a special dedication to me, on his post. I would like to say thanks too to Shinade for having a special birthday wish on her blog. Terima Kasih Shinade. Marzie, thanks to you and your great awesome mariucans who had taken some time to send me wishes. At the end, i think i ve made myself some new blogger friends in the midst of this on-going birthday wishes that were flying here and there during that time.

I really had a great time and still am having. : ) Whoaho!!


DESIGN SKETCH





In addition to Mango's request, somebody was asking to see some of my design sketches. I had a second thought about this, since I am sure there are lots of other great designers out there. Frankly, i dont see myself as designers or am not much comfortable with the title itself. I just like to see myself as someone who likes to create - and of course, at the end, the products created might not be as expected, but that is a great learning experience.

Thru the advent of technology, designing has become somewhat easy. But, the importance of making drawings, as a mean of communication, is still required - my 2 cents. I believe that designers should be able to draw and convey the ideas and concepts intended. The degree of sketches in designing varies, depending on which level and to whom are you presenting them. Preliminary ideas, Idea Development, and Refining would still require you to draw. At the end, 3D softwares would make your design looks cool, but ahhh.. you can always find somebody else to do this for you. But to come up with a concept and communicate it on paper thru drawings, you must have that skill. Though i ve seen some people ( designers) who draw poorly, but manage to execute the ideas well, I just like it better if they can draw well.

Well, sketches do come in various styles - the quirk and murky, the jagged, the rough and quick or the clean cut rigid - still with one thing shared similiar - should be able to communicate to the intended readers.

So, pics above are my sketches - the clean cut rigid style.
While below, are sketches that fall on the rough and quick, with a sense of final design in my preliminary sketches - hence, no development of ideas. I just post few sketches and the final products.





Happy browsing : )


RATTAN CRAFT - Rattan Swing

Another rattan craft is making its way out of restnrileks. This is a rattan swing made by my third year students. There are 9 of these. IKN (Institut Kraf Negara) is going to have its Convo-Day somewhere on November, and i might release (sell actually - cheap) few rattan items - from basketry to furniture. I havent decided yet which products will be on sale. Every year, we are on sale as to clear some spaces, giving way to new semester products - (IKN staffs are eagerly waiting) - cash and carry - prices are fixed or you might be able to bargain, if you can get a hold of me. Haha. On Convo-Day, not only rattan's are on sale, but 5 others too - Batik, Fine Metal, Ceramics, Weaving, and Wood Carvings. Last year, we did our stock clearance selling rattan products ranging from rm10 (normal price would be rm 60 above) to rm30 for a piece of furniture. Restnrileks would put a post of items for sale when the time comes. I really like this rattan swing, but thinking of transporting it, errr has made my interest quickly vaporated. Hehe.

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY - String

I did this last saturday but having a second thought of submitting it to IF. I ve been postponing it up to this post. Like design sketch, this is just a rough outline work, so I am hesitating to submit. Well, at least i manage to do at least an illo for this week. : )

String - have you ver come across something that says "No Strings Attached?" Poor My Imaginary Rizallians, being caught up and hung as prizes. Hihi.

Alrighty then, I just like to wish Happy Friday. Whoaho!! Happy Blogging and Have a great day.

p/s : i ll put a linky love at the end of this post for my 1st commentator :)

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And the lucky commentator is Mariuca. Do check her awesome blog ya. Please Click the Pix. : )
Congrats Mariuca.

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