Finally a new physio found...

Our previous beloved physiotherapist  for my boy J.R has to go on a medical leave and we'd been waiting and waiting for the Children Treatment Network to find us another children physio specialist to work on J.R's feet. Finally we got one that hopefully will fit into J.R's schedule and will work out for him... Last week he was going to get a Botox shot on his leg again (we thought) but instead the doctor said to wait till spring time because he has to do another serial casting to stretch his leg/foot muscle right after he get the needle shot. If we do it now in the winter, he won't be able to wear his boots and the cast might get wet because of the snow... Not a good idea since he has some eczema problem with the skin. If the cast gets wet, the skin will get soft and itchy... *sign* Anyway, we'll visit out new physio lady tomorrow~ Wish  J.R luck! Cheers!

New homepage look

Haha... I just made a new flash for my homepage before entering the store part. It's fun =)
Check this out http://www.patriciastudio.com/
It will directly load to the store part. This is the first time I'd open the Zen-cart store. And gradually I'll have to move my original paintings to my zen-cart store since it's easier and cheaper to manage... Economical concern... XD **save$**
Anyway, hope the new website is easier to manage and will have lots of updates with new graphics and new comics!

Recently the place I work was super busy... @o@... Hopefully I'll have more energy left when the busy season is over... maybe in Mid December... Right now my right arm is so sore~ partly from the mouse I used at work... There was a pain spot that I really want to have acupuncture on... ouch!

Winter is getting closer, and I really want to get a 2nd hand car for driving to work... Really tired of having no freedom... **sign**

Moving on...

Just got an offer from my existing working company about being a full time artist which is pertty happy. Hopefully it will be a longer stay and everything will work out. At least I don't have to run 2 jobs XD
Good for the winter time, less to travel, don't have to spend too much on gas. Life must go on... No one cannot stop it. Wish the best =)

Got Sick...

It's not fun to get sick... My whole body is like jello and ozzy... Aching everywhere. No matter what medicine I took, it felt the same. Water just leaks automatically without me noticing XD I better go rest but tomorrow still got lots of pre-planned event going on with the family... I rather rest at bed... seriously... so sick... Not fun to be ill in the hot summer time...
This morning we took the kids to Honda Indy. It was fun and not fun at the same time. Fun part is about the racing and motorcycle shows; the not so fun part is the heat wave. We all felt like melting when we walked around the CNE area. It just too hot. We want some rain please...

Turning point?

Life is always an adventure. Along the way, there are many different changes and surprises. Sometimes things happens all at the same time that you have to decide which way to go. My husband made his decision already. He decided to work for a company that is far away with better pay. However, he has to separate from his family since he cannot always come home due to his assignments. That is his turning point. However, it's my kids' and my turning point too. We all hope for the best but sometimes things just won't go in our way. We just have to "go with the flow". I'm currently working on Pam and Cathy's book. At the meantime, I also have to carry on my day job as an administrator in a small firm. And Pam encouraged me to go full-time on the illustration career. It remind me the time when I took Andrew Hamilton's painting lessons back in 2002 or 2003. He asked me why I took his course. And I said I want to be an illustrator one day. Will it be my turning point? We will see...

24 hours a day is not enough...

It will be nice to have more thank 24 hours a day... 6-8 hours sleep, 8 hours day work, 1 hour travel back and forth to work, 2-3 hours for eating/showering/watching some TV, 3 hours to get my kids all shower/bath/feed, 2-3 hours for my art porject.... I really need more than 24 hours... XD

Cannot wait to see the movie Alice in Wonderland

Recently everything is kind of "stuck" again... *sign*
I'll have to say, "Be Patient..." in a lot of things in my life. Things cannot always go in the way we want, and we have to be very very patient. But sometimes the "waiting" is just making my anxiety even worse. And sometimes I'm not sure what I'm waiting for anymore. But, hope God can help me and family pass the difficult period because we do need it.

By the way, the new movie - Alice in Wonderland is showing soon! Cannot wait to see it. Johnny Depp is my all time favorite star since my teens. I'll see you in theater Johnny~~~

The New Cast

It's funny that I 'd just learned that there is "Glow in the Dark" Cast today... My little boy just got his botox shot last week since he has a bad left foot due to his medical condition that he has to wear AFO for most of this days. The doctor decided to try the cast method this time, which will stretch his muscle to the maximum day and night for the whole week. While at hospital, the doctor Leslie asked what color my boy wanted for this cast. My son cannot decide... (To many color to choose XD) And then the doctor offered "Glow in the Dark" material and it was sold!
It Did Glow in the Dark. And the new cast material only took few minutes to dry which is pretty cool. Thanks to the Bloorview Kids Rehab~ Hope it will help my boy a lot~

Top: My son's original AFO

2nd: Playing Wii with Daddy

3rd: His New Glow-in-the-Dark Cast and Blue cast-boot

Busy week(s)...

These few weeks will be very busy for me. First, we'll have to take my little boy for treatment for his leg at Bloorview, the next week will be putting the
cast on his leg and the following week will be removing it. At the meanwhile, it's Chinese New Year... More spending and running around.
After that, I'll have to work a full time job soon~~~ Got mortgage to pay XD
Life is pretty stressful for me know; but look at a bright side, everyone is all about the same too~ I'm not the only one. Cheer up everyone! We all got better future, just have to work hard and make it happen!

It's really annoying to know that your free email address was "un-authorized" used by someone that I have no clue as a Spam email account~ Everyday I logged in my email, I would see a big pile of Sent emails (that I didn't send) or Spam returned emails in the email folders. The time I spend trying to figure out who did this or how they did it or even call the tech support to the Internet/email supply company to change account information or password is all totally wasted~ I probably can paint a few more paintings from those wasted HOURS to resolve this problem. Really troubled... *Headache*
Technology creates the convenience for the man kind; but also gave us the same amount of headache... XD
*Where is my Peace?*

clay project for my daughter

My daughter needs to present a "box report" for her class about the story she read. And there are dragon and sea witch (mermaid maybe?) in the book. We tried the air-dry clay at first but they were all cracked after a day or two. Then we tried the polymer clay (shown in picture). The polymer clay is a better compound to make these little figures and so far they haven't cracked yet. We are going to bake them over the weekend once the stove is free... (from cooking?) Just for your eyes only ~

My son thought the dragons were Dinos... XD

New Year Resolution~

Happy New Year!!!!!

Wish everyone Happy Healthy and Dream Comes True!!!

Wish my art will sell!!! (hahahaha)

Wish my painting skill gets better~~~

And Wish my family have a healthy and happy year...

Cheers!!!

from Patty - January 01, 2010 - 00:11AM

Snow Snow Snow

It's another snowy storm day... on my birthday! Hahaha! I'm the snow child. Every birthday is a snowy day! I'd received my Mario Cart Wii game from Amazon.ca today which we placed the order 2 days ago. We'd tried to find this game at bestbuy and walmart but all sold out! Amazon is really good. Shipping is super fast even in this crazy shopping Christmas holiday! Anyway, my holiday for this winter break will be playing lots of Wii games and do Wii exercises!!! We also got the Wii my personal fitness couch and Wii Gold's Gym Cardio~~~ Burn the extra Body Oil!!! HAha! So Happy!

Last day from Retail

Today we got the first snow storm warning. Everything is frozen outside. The wind is blowing like crazy but I'm enjoying my day playing with my kids at home. It's almost Christmas, but my son just got a fever yesterday. I was suppose to work yesterday, but I had to call in sick (not me, but because my boy is sick). And Today I got a call from the store saying that my work schedule for tomorrow has been cancelled. My reaction from receiving this call was very happy! XD No kidding! Most people must have felt frustration because of work schedule being cancelled. However, I'd gave them my resignation since 2 weeks before, I'm much happier to leave the crazy retail store and leave the torture chamber due to crazy holiday hours. I'd been in retail business since my daughter was born (back in 11 years ago); and I'm totally DONE with it. Hope this will teach me a lesson that don't let me go back to my old road.
Got some free time to spend with my kiddos and hopefully I can catch up with some paintings that I'd always wanted to do but no time before~~~ Lots of time now! I mean we cannot always have the world. You lose some and you gain some~ Cheers! and Chills... (Cold Winter...)

First Day at the New Store~

I think I'd been self-employed for too long that I'd forgotten how stressful to work for someone else... Anyway, as long as it pays the bills at the bottom line... First day at new place, I felt like it's Valentine's day or Mother's day for me. Customers lining up in front of me all needs to ask/pay something. Sometimes I asked myself that if I look more friendlier than other workers that why they all want to ask me but not others... >O< I even cut my finger by accident with the broken glass from the popped frame that I was going to put back to shelf. Luckily it was not major and other staff help me to clean up quickly and first aided me with something. Hope that today I made all the mistakes and next time I won't make them all..... hopefully... let's cross our finger. Why do I switch from self-employed florist to other people's employee? I guess the main concern is I don't have to worry about the business after the hours are done. I can be with my kids and family and not to kill my brain cells off with all the other stuffs I have to deal with related to business. Just work and get paid. easy and simple... hahaha for now... maybe I'll change my mind again; but at lease let me try this one first and see how long I can stand it for.

Need Time Off...

Sometimes you will feel that you are so tired of everything... Tired of work, tired of your lifestyle, tired of the things happening around us, tired of the same O same O... No motivation of doing anything... I really think that we all need some time off to do things we like to do... But when is my turn to have time off for myself? Good question... While we are making other people happy from what we do, who is going to make us happy? Hope my tiredness will go away somehow; otherwise, it's not healthy... *cranky mood*

In picture<-- a handtie bouquet for graduation that was requested to make it look like a bridal/presentation bouquet. Flowers include 1 doz red roses with baby's breath and some lily grasses.

Time is limited... Just be Happy~

有了小孩(s)生活起了很大的變化，我都覺得自己與世隔絕‧成天不是工作就是帶小孩，自己也沒私人時間去做其它事。朋友只能電郵，覺得少了聯絡太久就快失去聯絡‧大概也是跟自己不積極的性格有關…現實太多不成文的因素造就了許多無法實現夢想的理由，有時覺得身不由己啊…不過自己要學著在有限的環境中，創造自己的快樂

Create your own happiness in your limited environment~

Getting Moody...

Recently It was not smooth for me. After watching the movie "The Secret Life of Bees", it made me moody even more... (But I was surprised that the screaming little girl from "Wars of the World" had changed a lot since then. She did quite good as Lily in the Bees movie..." )

A lot of things didn't go the way it should be.

Life is always up and down as a cycle. Just like the orchid plants I brought home from store last year since we didn't had a chance to sell them out and the flowers were gone for a while. Now they are all start to bloom. After almost 4 months, I got 4 pots are branching out and flower buds are on the way~~~ Make me feel much better now. Patient is the key...

Got Bugged...

It's very inconvenient that I have to reformat my computer and reinstall it again...
Although I'd backup everything ie. files, pictures, programs to install, I still don't like to reinstall it unless it's really necessary... I'm not a super tech person. Usually the process will take me about 3-5 days to get my computer back to normal state. Thanks to my brother's ghost program so that I don't have to take a month to figure out how to reformat the computer... Soon after I reinstalled my computer, I finally got my anti-virus program in... Hope this will last me for a while before I bust it again... Thanks for all the troubles contributed from all the unknown bugged files downloaded from the universe of Internet... I feel that the matrix world is very similar to the universe we have in real... One is digital; and one is material... Once the two world connect together, it's hard to break it apart anymore. I cannot imagine how much people rely on digital; and one day if there's a big black out or end of the world kind of thing happens to mankind, people will be forced to live a simple life... No TV, no radio, no computer, no cellphone, no electricity, no nothing... Cook from the camp fire or stove with fire wood... No work, No banking... lol I'm just thinking too much... *Day Dreaming*

Grandpa's Funeral

It's strange that my first post on my new blog is about my grandfather. I just got a call from my mother this afternoon at the shop about my grandfather passed away on Monday night. When I heard the news, mixed feeling came up to me. Mom mentioned about the funeral flowers and visitation date and time... I was calm and wrote down all the things I need to do, and then told the news to my husband. This is the first time I'm going to make funeral flowers for my own family. I'd made so many sympathy arrangements for many other families before; and now it's my turn for mine. I missed my grandpa and wished I was there for him. Now he doesn't have to suffer anymore from his illness at the age of 83. After in and out of hospital emergency room for so long, finally the angel had took him to a better place with no pain and suffering. I love you Grandpa... In deepest sympathy...

Blue and White Arrangement Above:
White Snapdragons
White Stocks
Blue Delphiniums
Cream Color Alstromerias
White Dendrobium Orchids
Blue Irises
White Roses (Vendella)
Salal
Seeded Eucalyptus
Cylinder Glass Vase