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This other blog (see link below) was created to display my decorative items for sale. However as time passes by, the time to paint for sale just eluded me

No special reason as to why I still have this blog... maybe it's just to remind me..... that's where and how I started to be where I am now :)

All items shown are hand-painted personally by yours truly... but now I focus on commissioned jobs. So, I do take orders... but the queue is long... sorry :( .... but if you are willing to wait in the queue... I'm more than obliged to paint for you..... It would be an honour!!!!

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Happy B'day Aunty...


Every 19 March, aunty completes and starts a new cycle of life. Yesterday, she turned 65!!!...but she can easily pass off as a lady many years her junior..... *sigh* (of envy...hahaha)... Aunty, how do you ever manage to keep looking THAT good...very good! I think...I can count more wrinkles on my face than on hers...*sigh* and double *sigh*

Aunty Faridah is my most senior student...but this grand matriach is the most active,diligent and adventurous of the lot. She hardly misses her weekly classes...and she's game to try anything new. Her projects are quite diverse...consisting of various styles,techniques and media. She too...will paint on anything that does not move..hahaha...but hey...I am her teacher...am I not??? Muahahahaha.... Anyway, her favourite quote of the day would be..."What is there to worry? Nora is here!" hahahaha...I love this woman...hehehe. She's so full of live, not a minute spent with her is dull!

She's been with me since 3 years ago... and she's painted quite a fair bit, she's so full of ideas that it's a challenge to produce what she has in mind sometimes haha. I'm dedicating this post to her...feast your eyes on her painted pieces ya. The 2 projects on the right are her earlier pieces....simple lacework with daisies on a cake stand and a monotone medley of sceneries on a wall plaque. We had fun creating a story to the sceneries. Aunty loves sceneries, esp in the colours of autumn. She's painted more sceneries than stroke flowers...why? because she says...ummm...errr...can't remember what she said la...hahaha...




Aunty hates to see an empty space. Where possible she'll point it out to me and say..."hmm...let's see...now what can we have here in this corner, huh Nora?" And Nora would go...uh-oh...the brain's working on maximum gear again!!! Anyway... there's a book box that she had painted on both sides of the top cover...and if I'd not put my foot down she would have painted even the inside of base of the box...yup!yup!yup! That box is now on display perpetually ajar... just to show off the painting done on the inside too...hahaha






More scenery projects here...one done on canvas and the other on a 2-piece welcome plaque (that still needs to be hung..haha). Aunty has many many more pieces to show. I'm actually in the middle of compiling my students' works and will have them all displayed in an album....god willing...somewhere in the near (??) future...hehe.
To this... I wish Aunty a long and prosperous life filled with love and happiness and great health. May we have many more years together. I love you, Aunty Faridah....


4 comments:

tmimi said...

Dear Nora,
Not sure if you rem me. Yasmin T Ab Rahman (ex Assuntarian). Got yr blog add from Asriah Shaari. Wow you really crafty (excuse the pun).

Isnt it funny that we are all turning 50 this year? while the body has given more than ample warning that it is on the way to kaput, in the mind I really dont think of myself as Warga Tu. Apparently you dnt either.

BTW a few of us ex1975ers want to get together July 5th to celebrate turning 50 together. Interested?? Siew Bee, pamela Hendroff, Philomina Morris, Eng Phaik Leng, Kuldip Kaur and myself are organising a do at Tropicana.If you and any other ex Assuntarians from the class of 1975 are interested email me at yasmintr@streamyx.my and I'll send details. Tak intersted pun tak pe boleh keep in touch, k.

Good to see you keeping well, regards, yasmin

Nora's Touch said...

Dear Yasmin...Yeessss...I remember you...very well. Yup...Anis forwarded the email regarding the celebration gathering. Very keen but still contemplating hehe...

Gosh...great to hear from you...

anwardi said...

Dear Nora,
Salam Ramadhan. Thanks for putting a link to my blog. Nice of you to do that. Anis told me about the link.
Hope we will meet again soon after Raya (maybe our irregular Friday discourses in Mid Valley).
Keep in touch.

Nora's Touch said...

Hey Didi... would be good to be able to meet up again. Yeah... Friday would be good :) just give us a tinkle whenever u r in the neighbourhood

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