:) my kids

This is the first picture ever taken of Isabella Faith Simon. As the nurse and I walked her to the nusery she insted i run back and grab my camera.
Below her first bath at home.
Below, the best big sister and first born anyone could ask for. She helps bath the baby and is very protective. AND boy does she make me laugh.

Under the cot we have staff nurse Pepper. She sits with me for the night feeds and follows me throughout the night when I go and check on the girls. Sometimes she has a nap under the cot.

Burping baby, day one at home.

Poor baby, got a slight eye infection and a rash but she is such a good girl.

I have kids. yes kids. :)

testing...

sigh.

House Painters .

The eternal battle for the gamblers heart. ( i scaned the painting into the comp this time)

Waiting for a name.

This is a sketch i drew during my little stay in the hospital with Tlomy. I traced it suing the digi pen and made some modifications on adobe. Its waiting for a name and i shall ask Caitlin to give it one.

Home is where my family is.

We are all home, my children (including pepper) my wife and I. All is right with the world today.

nervous as hell. tomorrow is the big day the arrival of little isabella (we are still deciding). Tlomy has carried child for 9 months and she has suffered. Everything will go fine tomorrow i know that but i worry at this point i worry.....

Copper.

Today i tried to learn how to apply textures using the palette knife. s can by seen by the above i was not successful, but i do like this copper colour.

Then i photoshoped it

Metal works.

Tlomy painted the first 3 of paintings in this series, above is our fav, gold and copper on black.

White on Pink and Gold/Copper on Green

This is one of mine. Black on copper. I screwed it up by forgetting to dry the brush! dang. Plus i couldnt figure out how to use impasto, can u see the bit of texturing i tried on the background bah

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House Painters Pte. Ltd

Colours by Caitlin (its currently by desktop wallpaper)

":)" by Caitlin and Me

My first time painting on canvas, made an error while doing the background but hey i am learning as i go.

I like this one.

sometimes you can do the best you can and things still fall apart. hey thats life, well thats my life.

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V by Me
I am not artistic, I never was and i doubt i ever will be. I may have the ideas but i dont have the skills but i try. I find it relaxes me, painting, photography playing around with photoshop it calms me down and even though i doubt i will be any good, it is very good for me.

:)

My friends from italy got together and bought me this lovely gift, its a digital pen that i can draw with or even write with. Its not easy to use but i will get the hang of it! This is a tracing i did of myself.

House Painting- A family hobby

Rainbow by Caitlin Rose Simon

Blue and White by Mischa
Today was an all arts day for my family. Megan and I spent a couple of happy hours at the Singapore Art Museum. We have a private tour guide and she really did a great job, I think she was impressed with some of Megan's remarks and questions. They are having an exhibition on Philippino art, and generally its art with a message it was very interesting. Hit twitter http://twitter.com/doomedtroll for some of the stuff Megs and i did today. While Megan and i were at the museum, Toml and Caitlin were attending an art class by that famed artist, godma. Todays lesson was on Acrylics. I was so excited by this that i went and bought art supplies. So after dinner tloml and i sat outside and did some painting.

Above is one done by Tloml its my favourite next to Caitlin's Rainbow.
Some of them we did together, some we did on our own. We cut the special paper down to size so that we could try out different things. We need more supplies, bigger brushes and stuff.



sidebar- these pics may not be the right way up ;) and dont bother me about the angle or framing k?

neit.

untitled

Christmas Schedule.....past..

I have decided to list down all the events we had during Christmas 09 so I wont forget where and when we went.

19th Dec Dinner Laws House
23rd Dec Dinner Auds House
24th Dec Brunch SIG-Werners Oven
24th Dec Dinner Ems House
25th Dec Breakfast My House
25th Dec Dinner Bens House
26th Dec Dinner Dima's House AND Rogers House
27th Dec Dinner Ems House
28th Dec Glens House
29th Dec Home
30th Dec Moo and Doo's house AND Sherwins house
31st Dec My House
1st Jan Home
2nd Jan My House

:)

It really has been a great Christmas season, probably the best since well since my bil left us. Downside of course was my mum and baba being away but they came back just in time for Christmas celebrations at my house. Its been a long time since i had such a long break, OK so it was broken here and there with a couple of days of work but all in all Dec 2009 has been kind, with a couple of days of reservist and a couple of days in pain after the tooth extraction it all has worked out fine.

I loved being home. I love my house, i love my dog, i love my kid and i love my wife( i love my hamsters and fish as well). She has been as supportive as any wife can be and as we enter our 7Th year of marriage I am happier then i have ever been. Who thought it was possible. We have had our ups and downs like all couples do but on balance we have had more ups then downs. We have found strength and comfort in each other and love and support from each other. Sometimes we rant and rave, curse and ignore but we both know whats important is each other. Heavily pregnant she still insist on doing the daily rituals (chicken slaughter and chanting) of bathing Caitlin even though we have a helper to do stuff like that. The two of them in conversation is an example of 2 type A personalities both playing the same game and both thinking they are the Captain. I giggle silently daily as i eavesdrop on them. This Christmas really felt like it should, and us spending Christmas day at home to me was special. We have never done that before, we just relaxed and enjoyed our home and each other.

. Next year we will have another little female bundle in our midst, we will be stressed and tired I am sure from work and everything else but having tloml around makes it all much better. This year the lesson has been, Love really is a many splendid( splendored)thing.

Christmas at our house :)

Another year is over another Christmas passed and we held our annual party yet again. I really enjoyed myself and i hope everyone else did too. The last guest left at 5am this morning, there were a couple of casualties...due to some light drinking but all in all a great time. Special thanks to all those people who helped so much, the boys, Doo, Moo who gave up a night out to babysit, the Indonesian and Philippino contingent and to tlomy. i will write more later.
all pictures were taken by tlomy. there are more and i will post them soon!

Christmas Morning.

:)

Christmas morning, she came out of her room and saw her present from us.

lol its ridiculously big but i don't care.