tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66936238366247026322024-03-14T14:16:52.096+02:00Rowaboat DoodleArt, craft, handmade, drawing and personal blogRowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609725536789533406noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693623836624702632.post-76832496140056865932014-01-27T22:06:00.002+02:002014-01-27T22:10:39.477+02:00Australia! Land of...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I indulged my wanderlust and was in Australia this past Christmas holiday :) I was mainly there for my friend's wedding, so I took the opportunity to travel the land...here's some snap shots of what I got up to, I'll try keep it concise. Oh, and I was solo tripping (being brave!), hence it's all scenery.</div>
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Beautiful sunset and the Opera House (from every angle! In Sydney there's no getting away from it!)</div>
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Weird flavour combo... I was curious about what this would taste like, and also it was fun to say!</div>
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Kookaburra! They are stocky little birds that made monkey noises! What's there not to like?!</div>
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Hehehehe. Some one must be making a joke. There's also a place called Woollomooloo and a suburb called Manly because apparently when the sailors fist landed there they found a tribe living there who were manly. I kid you not.</div>
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Koala, they look quite strange in real life. Seeing koalas and kangaroos up close made me realize that they really evolved separate from the rest of the world. Their faces are quite unlike any other mammals I've seen. Did you know koalas have 2 thumbs?</div>
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Birds that looked like tree bark!</div>
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I went for a walk in Canberra and encountered wild kangaroos! See them all looking at me intently? I was scared of some form of kangaroo stampede!</div>
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I totally geeked out and went to tons of museums, these are some of my favorites...</div>
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Eeeeee! (insert much excited arm waving*) Their collection is amazing! Total dream for art students, works by famous artists ranging from impressionism, surrealism to abstract expressionism. There was Monet, Duchamp and Jackson Pollock! All the artists I studied and love! Erm, I sneaked some photos...</div>
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Miro! I am such a fan!</div>
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This is so playful! Lichtenstein also made a series of hay stacks at different times of the day in his comic style based on the haystack studies Monet made. I love the cross pollination of art :)</div>
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Holy crapamo! Its Chuck Close! This painting was huge, those railings come up to my thigh. When you are up close you can see every single pore and hair. I stand in open mouthed awe.</div>
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There was a sculpture garden outside - this is Rodin's Burghers of Calais!</div>
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Mysterious chrome cone things in the forest glade?</div>
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Heads in a pond :D oh modern art, you are so eccentric.</div>
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I also went to Melbourne, this was the forest on Mt Dandenong Sky High. It was beautiful, I have never been amongst such immense trees before.</div>
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I was with a family friend, we went cherry picking! The sweetest cherries ever! I totally stuffed my face.</div>
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On my last day I went to the Australia museum in Sydney. This place is so amazing it needs it's own post, but I'll show you some funny photos for now :)</div>
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Behold! The Demon Duck of Doom! Oh dear lord, I die of laughter ^_^ This is apparently some giant prehistoric duck that once roamed the land.</div>
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I also went up the tower eye, you can see it's shadow here. This is Hyde park in town. Sydney has the best parks and botanical gardens.</div>
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So that concludes my Aus trip. All in all I really enjoyed Australia and traveling alone has been a refreshingly new experience. oh hey, I also went by China before returning home, so more travel photo spamming in the upcoming post!</div>
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Super useful site for Sydney public transport: <a href="http://www.transportnsw.info/">http://www.transportnsw.info/</a></div>
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Wonderful website for affordable accommodation: <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/">https://www.airbnb.com/</a></div>
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Rowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609725536789533406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693623836624702632.post-19608221528163865082013-09-26T07:00:00.000+02:002013-09-26T07:00:09.272+02:00The mighty pomelo!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I first discovered this fruit on the streets of Cyrildene (China town in Johannesburg). Their massive size intrigued me, so I bought one even though the man tasked to sell it wouldn't tell me what they were. After describing it to my parents over the phone I have a name! We call it "you zi".</div>
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More recently I have seen pomelos (thanks for the name shop signage!) popping up in all my local grocery shops - I like them, though I can only eat about a quarter at one time. It's wonderfully aromatic, a good balance between refreshingly tart and sweet citrus flavours! You can use them in salads and savory dishes too (kind of like your pomegranates, mangoes and peaches - hooray fruit!).</div>
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Rowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609725536789533406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693623836624702632.post-48646841068827404622013-09-19T12:22:00.000+02:002013-09-19T12:22:17.031+02:00Beard love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Weee I'm baaaaack! I went through some not so great times and temporarily abandoned my blog. But now I'm better and filled with springy positivity! I'm looking forward to early morning runs (without freezing my lungs), refreshing homemade smoothies, seeing sprouting greenery and mulberry season! I also love the longer hours of sunlight, my internal clock is strictly set to diurnal - travelling to and from work in darkness is not cool! My only trepidation with the warmer weather is the increase in the mosquito population - but upon discovering this nifty mosquito trap (<a href="http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/homemade-mosquito-trap/" style="text-align: left;">http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/homemade-mosquito-trap/</a>) I feel like the odds have tipped in my favor! (I'll let you know how that goes...).</div>
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Anyway, I made this beard related comic recently. I'm totally envious of beards, if I could grow one I would rock a fu manchu beard for it's satisfactory stroking length whilst pondering (the primary use of a beard in my opinion).</div>
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Rowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609725536789533406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693623836624702632.post-5266350250085169642013-04-22T21:22:00.000+02:002013-04-22T21:22:11.828+02:00Cake cake cake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Tis the theme of my 26th birthday, I reveled in cup cakes for the whole week, every where I went I was confronted by this delectable treat, I had cup cakes for breakfast, it was great!<br />
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I dragged Alex to <a href="http://www.chateaugateaux.co.za/patisserie.html" target="_blank">Patisserie</a> in Illovo last Sunday, go there! Its wonderful!<br />
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So many options...I have to go back and sample some more...</div>
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Hmm cheese cake...my favorite!</div>
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I went with the granadilla cheese cake, it did not disappoint! The best cheese cake I've had. I was happy because their cakes are frozen and then thawed, which made me skeptical, but the cheese cake was good in both consistency and taste. Alex ordered the cookies and cream cake and that was unfortunately a bit dry, but I must eat more cakes from there to make a proper judgement :D</div>
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What's this? My boss' wife made me cupcakes for my birthday! What a treat ^_^ and she blinged it up with all these sprinkles and edible glitter! They know me so well.</div>
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A cupcake smorgasboard! Tarryn also gave me cupcakes, these awesome rich chocolate and mint ones with a gooey caramel centers omnomnonmnom... I also made cupcakes (the yellow one in the back) they are lemon poppy seed with cream cheese icing. My first time! I think they came out nicely, and the<a href="http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/470636/lemon-and-poppyseed-cupcakes" target="_blank"> recipe (here)</a> was quick and easy. Personally I would use less sugar next time and maybe more lemon zest, because I like a super intense lemon flavour. I used a standard cream cheese icing, but I think I will try the icing with the recipe next time (it uses lemon juice! More lemony-ness! raaa!)</div>
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During the holiday season last year we took a trip to <a href="http://www.maropeng.co.za/" target="_blank">Maropeng and the Sterkfontein caves</a>! It's one of the places I've been wanting to check out, they've really vamped it up since my last visit on a primary school trip :) Ahhh the nostalgia...</div>
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How awesome is this building? It's like a giant burial mound from Lord of the Rings! Hehe.</div>
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They've really gone to lengths convey the history of evolution/beginning of the world - this is the entrance to the ice age! And you go on a boat ride! and get to touch real icicles and stuff!</div>
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We also went down to the caves, which is in a separate location to the Maropeng museum. That part of the tour hasn't changed much, but it was nice to go see the real thing after learning about archaeology and fossils and such. Its not a very long tour, and there are some exciting areas where you climb through narrow spaces. It's not the most awesome or beautiful cave, because it been open for so long, plus miners used to harvest the limestone by cutting into and blasting away the cave walls. Still cool to be able to get so deep under ground though! My favorite part is the under ground lake, so mysterious and creepy...it really fires up the imagination!</div>
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Kapow! Higher knowledge level achieved!</div>
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Rowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609725536789533406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693623836624702632.post-16819196801364421032013-03-10T19:15:00.000+02:002013-03-10T19:15:31.754+02:00organic lace painting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is the second painting of this series I'm doing. I'm quite happy with how it turned out, discovering accidentally that I could sort of shade with the blue ink that I was using. Yes, still pandering to my obsession with lace, this time from a more cellular, organic angle.</div>
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This is both pictures living on my wall. You can find the older purple painting <a href="http://rowaboatdoodle.blogspot.com/2012/06/painting.html" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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This is my entry for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FestivalInternationalDuCinemaEtLaMer?ref=stream" target="_blank">Festival International du cinema et la mer</a>. I found that what I learnt from working at <a href="http://www.thedeli.co.za/cms/" target="_blank">The Deli </a>really helped me pull my project together, so I'm going to go through my process abit - it's pretty standard.</div>
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Firstly, after deciding on the story line, I made a story board. This helped me visualize how the action will play out as well as offering reference for how my scene will be framed once I start making elements.</div>
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And have a look at my<a href="https://vimeo.com/60808833" target="_blank"> final animation on vimeo</a>!<br />
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I took on this project as an exercise to see just how productive I can be when I really push myself to find time for my personal projects. So no excuses now! It's the first animation I've made that's not work related since graduating, so I'm quite happy with it :)<br />
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Rowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609725536789533406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693623836624702632.post-45116776115383445432013-02-14T11:40:00.000+02:002013-02-14T11:40:30.602+02:00Love is...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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...waking up at 5am to make cookies for Alex. I was too <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gatvol" target="_blank">gatvol</a> last night to make them, plus we were meant to have a scheduled power outage sometime after 10 pm so the possibility of the oven dying with half baked cookies inside just stressed me out (the power ended up staying on for all the hours I was awake though, curse you! I procrastinated for no reason!)</div>
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I found the recipe for these cookies <a href="http://southernfood.about.com/od/chocolatecookies/r/bl21218b.htm" target="_blank">here</a>. They are indeed easy to make! Just take them out after 10 mins (unlike me) even if they feel spongy in the middle - they will harden as they cool. They hold their shape quite well, just don't make any indented patterns on them (hearts in my case) because those will disappear. But the raised little hearts I made with left over pastry came out really nicely :) Next time I would make it with less sugar, especially if you are going to use icing as well. You could probably add all sorts of awesome things to the basic chocolate cookie dough - almond flakes, coconut, orange rind?! Nonetheless, these cookies are much better than <a href="http://rowaboatdoodle.blogspot.com/2012/02/lurv-day.html" target="_blank">the ones I made last year</a>, heehee I'm improving!</div>
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Happy love day :) I totally ate 4 "reject" ones for breakfast, and showering everything with colourful sprinkles made me very happy :) bake these cookies! They make everything better!</div>
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Happy Chinese new year! Because this festival (like all other Chinese festivals) is very food centric, I thought I'd do a small doodle about food symbolism during Chinese new years. The main meal happens on new year's eve, where the whole family gets together and watch the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCTV_New_Year's_Gala" target="_blank">Spring festival concert/party</a> - I swear the whole of China watches this, it's become a part of our new year's tradition. We ate so much food! For new year's eve supper there is usually an excess of 10 dishes served (normally everyday meals have about 3 dishes). We also got tons of fruit and a giant cake as presents from my parents' friends (Chinese people like giving fruit as house presents, fruit is quite expensive in China so greatly valued -how awesome!) So I've been totally stuffing my face, starting out quite healthy in the mornings with giant bowls of fruit salad, but ending up shoveling mouthfuls of cream laden cake late at night - heehee!<br />
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Ooh I did forget to list the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nian_gao" target="_blank">traditional year cake (nian gao)</a> that we eat too - wikipedia will help me here. Its for success and good luck with achieving your goals (especially important for young people and students to eat this!) We slice ours up and fry it like haloumi, so it's crunchy on the outside and gooey and sticky sweet in the middle. But this year my parents got the cake as a present and when my Mom tried to fry it it melted! It was grey too, instead of the usual red beany maroon colour we are used to - it was so sticky and stuck to the roof of my mouth and it looked like gloopy snot wahahahaha! So turns out there another type of nain gao that you are not meant to fry :) I prefer the haloumi one, it tastes better - beware the grey snot cake!<br />
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Urh, well I originally wrote this whole blab about struggling to understand social perceptions of vegetarianism and veganism and my personal experience (somewhat horrible) of unseen pitfalls once I tried labeling myself as vegetarian when I first started having kind of an identity crisis about what I eat. Anyways, I guess it was a clumsy distressed ramble that went nowhere and I'm not ready to discuss it with friends who may have read this post, because I don't know what the heck I'm doing yet. So I've deleted it. Suffice to say that I discovered <a href="http://aliensdayout.com/" target="_blank">this blog</a> (http://aliensdayout.com/), that really opened my eyes to a different lifestyle which appeals to me, so I've been dabbling in it.<br />
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Now look at some food I've been stuffing my face with :)<br />
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My new found love of oats :) I like making it with soy milk, I'm not a big fan of that warm milky taste. Sprinkled with toasted flax seeds, sesame and wheatgerm (new nutritious things I learnt about recently)</div>
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A super huge tasty sandwich I had for lunch a few weeks back :) Its filled with: Chinese greens, tomatoes, garlic mushrooms, olives, brinjal, tofu and Greek yogurt. I really get too excited and pack too much so my sandwich can hardly close (its even worse with wraps)</div>
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I found these nommy glutinous rice balls at the Chinese supermarket. They are really tasty! It has a little chocolate filling with peanuts in the center :) I will definitely buy them again.</div>
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Potato pumpkin gnocchi with mushroom parsley sauce. I bought ready made gnocchi - the best gnocchi I've had so far. I always find gnocchi to doughy and it sticks to the roof of my mouth. This was alright, it's got a really strong potato taste which bothered me though. The sauce was tasty.<br />
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So far I've been enjoying myself, I have this thing about having colourful food, its pretty awesome.</div>
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I'm finally done with my picture! It was such an old sketch - feels good to tie up some loose ends and see an idea through to completion. I tried to keep the shapes quite simple, with some hand drawn elements so it doesn't look too clinical/clean. I most liked making the expressions on the local flora :D Yay for environmentally minded monsters!<br />
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For day 2's mission, we decided to join Daniel (one of the friends we made on the trip!) to walk to Zambia and look at Vic Falls from that side. I was super paranoid upon discovering how close we were to Zambia that I made us get yellow fever vaccines before we left, even though its not mandatory for Zimbabwe. Anywho, this just meant we were safe to go to Zambia, so away we went!<br />
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This is no man's land...It was quite a walk, but not without rewards!</div>
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On the other side of the bridge they did bungee, gorge swing, zip line stuff - amazing view!</div>
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This was very tasty. Though my judgement may have been affected by the heat.</div>
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Yay <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmi4svN7_0s" target="_blank">Jeremy Loops</a>! He was in the truck convoy with us, Alex actually heard about this whole trip through his facebook...</div>
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We were really active this holiday (compared to our other holidays that mainly consisted of drinking and fishing - which is synonymous with drinking anyways). We booked to go river rafting on the Zambezi the very next day of our arrival. Starting at 7am! Yep we were late night partying, drinking and extreme activity maniacs! (Here follows my snort of derision : pffft!) Now for many pictures of us fooling about in boats... </div>
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It was so much fun! We paddled for about 2 hours! So it was well worth the money. The views were spectacular, and in some quiet patches our guide let us jump out to swim in the river :D The only thing is that you have to be quite fit to climb back up out of the gorge at the end of your journey. I almost died! It was so hot and a very steep climb (for maybe 30mins?) It felt like an eternity! A guide even asked if I was having an asthma attack I was so unfit :p That aside, I highly recommend river rafting, its awesome!</div>
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That afternoon, we were taken by train to a party in the bush. Alex and I were so pooped that by about 9pm we were glumly trying to sleep on the train carriage floor. But here's a pretty picture...</div>
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Aha! Tis the new year! I must say I have seriously fallen by the wayside with this blogging business. I guess I burned out a bit, felt a little unsure of what this blog should be. The pressure of making regular posts had become quite stressful (urh, not that I posted all that regularly), but in the new year, I hope to gain better perspective with this blog thingy (which means I still haven't really figured it out yet), and make well thought out, meaningful artwork and occasional ramblings!<br />
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Right ho! as you may have gathered from the title, we (Alex & I) went to Victoria Falls for 7 days over new years. We went in this-<br />
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Pretty hardcore right? This is Africa we're talking about! We drove in a convoy of trucks for 4 days there and back, it was quite a journey... most of which I slept through...<br />
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Aah the open road (behind us...)</div>
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We finally got to the Botswana border in the afternoon, it was blazingly hot, I felt like I was being slowly roasted...<br />
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We set up tents in the gathering gloom, and proceeded to cover ourselves with tabard... <a href="http://www.campitumela.com/" target="_blank">Camp Itumela</a> (where we stayed in Botswana) was a bug haven to mainly 3 kinds of creepy crawlies - <a href="http://goafrica.about.com/od/botswana/ss/Mopane-Worm.htm" target="_blank">mopane worms</a> (thicker than my finger), these small worms that dangle from the trees at an annoying face/head height and <a href="http://www.zandvleitrust.org.za/art-ZIMP%20biotic%20-%20insects%20-%20red%20romans.html" target="_blank">red romans</a> - a very creepy spider that runs towards light. I don't know if it was bug season or it's normal for that place, but the trees were full of mopane worms - eeek! That's too much nature for me...</div>
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As we got closer to the Zimbabwean border, we passed herds of elephants grazing on the side of the road!</div>
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This one was quite unperturbed by our truck stopping quite close to him/her. What a wonderful creature ^_^ He's scratching his leg with his other foot :D</div>
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We have arrived at our <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g293761-d1201717-Reviews-Adventure_Lodge-Victoria_Falls_Matabeleland_North_Province.html" target="_blank">destination</a>! Its to be our home for the next 3 days. Aah camping on grass, what luxury! Our shenanigans to follow in part 2 :)</div>
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...and the eye of terror!<br />
Been awhile since I posted...<br />
Work has been/is still/will be till the end of my life crazy... (really should be getting ready for work now instead of doing this blog thing)<br />
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It took me SO long to get those goddamned sucker things to look right, I became a bit mad (obsessively painting every minute detail in every single sucker - which you can't see unless you're zoomed in like 300%) Hai... I really struggled colouring this drawing... I kind of had this new stylized vision in my head, but when I started painting it all became mush and I fell back into my old style...</div>
Rowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609725536789533406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693623836624702632.post-13316752876793640332012-09-28T10:01:00.001+02:002013-01-14T14:50:16.755+02:00Illustration Friday : Crooked<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm still on my ink blob phase inspired by Gabrielle Rose (<a href="http://drawgabbydraw.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">draw, Gabby, draw!</a> and <a href="http://gabcollab.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Gabcollab</a>) - she made a <a href="http://drawgabbydraw.tumblr.com/post/32307127877/here-is-an-ink-blob-how-to-video-not-because-ink" target="_blank">video</a> on how to make paint blobs! Urh, disarmingly simple, but I've always been afraid to put so much water on my paper so this gave me the courage to try something new!<br />
Anyways, I wished my bonsai had its own little caretaker...<br />
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Rowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609725536789533406noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693623836624702632.post-18317652713768201022012-09-18T16:14:00.000+02:002013-01-14T14:58:13.219+02:00Blob #4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609725536789533406noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693623836624702632.post-6930053950109683592012-09-18T12:47:00.000+02:002013-01-14T15:08:33.631+02:00New blog header!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The blog is getting a make over! I've realized its become quite messy looking with different drawing styles and weirdly shaped links... So slowly going through and standardizing everything to some form of theme/colour scheme...<br />
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I found quite a <a href="http://www.jsblogstop.com/" target="_blank">helpful website</a> for editing your HTML for customizing you blog (specifically on Blogger). It helped me make my header bigger! Though now it's not going to display properly on smaller screens - strictly speaking, your blog should be only 800 pixels wide, to accommodate the older screens with 800 x 600 aspect ratio - but 800 pixels is tiny! Its a bit of a headache, I'll probably fiddle with it more later... </div>
Rowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609725536789533406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693623836624702632.post-20517049071101524332012-09-17T10:56:00.001+02:002013-01-14T15:12:24.645+02:00Boomerang<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I spent an hour last weekend throwing a boomerang around (very unsuccessfully). I can't throw. My coordination is so bad that I'm still failing after Alex showed me how to do it multiple times. Um, I guess try, try again? I was never great at sports, but enthusiasm conquers all!</div>
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For <a href="http://gabcollab.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Gab Collab</a>!</div>
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Rowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609725536789533406noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693623836624702632.post-39873757277274348452012-09-07T12:35:00.000+02:002012-09-18T13:39:13.472+02:00So much for Spring/Sping time...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Urh, yes, recall how I was tooting on about the warmer weather <a href="http://rowaboatdoodle.blogspot.com/2012/09/sping-time.html" target="_blank">a few days ago</a>...Well, nature has since dealt us a harsh blow! The drama! The tragedy! First it rained... (and I thought, ok, it's making it gloomy and cold, but the plants will enjoy this!) Then it hailed! Massive giant hail balls that I thought might break a window! And of course this happened in the wee hours of the morning so I was in dream land and couldn't save my poor plants...Oh dear...</div>
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Monday trials! After an early morning of connecting with my higher self at yoga class, I desperately needed a caffiene boost to tackle my day. But after throwing some really gross burnt KCF coffee down the drain and possibly making myself sick obliviously drinking tea made with very questionable milk, I finally missioned across the road to buy milk. On the way back, this is what my crossed my caffiene deprived mind...</div>
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I finally cleaned up my balcony this past weekend! There is now space to walk! I also planted some carrots, radishes (a recent discovery and now firm favourite), lettuce and bright orange poppies. I find it very convenient to have vegetables growing so near at hand, and have greatly enjoyed my parsely and basil already established on the balcony. I've had varying success planting vegetables, but hopefully the warmer weather will help.</div>
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If you have a bit of a green thumb (or a wanna be green thumb like me), you'll enjoy <a href="http://mylittleplantlove.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">this</a>.</div>
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I drew this picture imagining <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDdMA0hfXg" target="_blank">this</a> playing in the background ^_^ I used to struggle with cooking aubergine, I like them, but couldn't find a vegetarian recipe that was...tasty enough? I always associated them with the taste of salty fish - that is what my Mom mostly made aubergines with - yes if you are a meat eater, try <a href="http://kenlui.multiply.com/recipes/item/2/Eggplant-Salted-Fish-Casserole?&show_interstitial=1&u=%2Frecipes%2Fitem" target="_blank">this</a> recipe! (I think you can potentially substitute salted fish with some fish sauce). But I have finally found a great vegetarian recipe! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onFER1xIKwg" target="_blank">Pasta a la Norma</a> is super delicious! I think the trick is lots of garlic and giant handfuls of basil. Yum...</div>
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