Awards from friends and for me

Thanks to my blogger friends for your continual friendship and support to make these awards possible.
Special thanks to Denesa from Parentimes for the Best Blog Award.

Thank you to June Zach from Fledgling Blogger for awarding Greener Pastures these awards: the Best Blog Award and A Loyalty Blog Award.My warmest thank you to Monica from Ilustraciones Infantiles for presenting me the Sunshine Award.
So thank you to Deepa from Deepaz World of Artz for the Butterfly Award.

Now, Yoon See is honour to present these awards to their winners:

Best Blog Award

Anh off the record

Ben's Slice of Life

Bain Cardin

Bella Sinclair

Cally Jane of Cally Jane Studio

The Cherry Blossom Girl

Dwelyn of Hazy Moon

Emila Yusof

Emily of Art of the Masses

Adi Bahari of Kusut

Ojni

Parisa Mahmoudi

Restnrileks

Stanley Liew's Me and The World

A Loyalty Blog Award

Amy C

Anny

Bella Sinclair

Ben

Caroline

June Zach

Lisa Bowman

MizzyN

Monica

Nickey Linzey

Owl Eng

Poetic Shutterbug

Sarah Flood

Sunshine Award

Deepa

Denesa

Diane

Evelyn Howard

Julie Creswell

Lisa Bowman

Lisa Rivas

Margaret Ann

Marianne

Teri Casper

Soulbrush

Studio Lolo

Butterfly Award

Anny

Coco

Diana Evan

Katherine L. white

May C

MizzyN

Messy Fish

Monica

Nessa

Sarah Flood

TH

Shirley

Vanessa Brantley Newton

Bella Sinclair Award

Thank you Ces, Vanessa Brantley Newton and Kay Ayer to surprise me with this special Bella Sinclair award. Sorry, I haven't put it up for long but I really treasure it.

The Bella Sinclair award has been created in remembrance the lost of her loving husband. Even she is a strong woman.....but she too needs our love and inspiration for her. I hope that we all are here to support, love and inspire one another. I pray that she will continue living as a positive purpose-driven life. She is so good at inspiring her friends and bring joy & humours through her lovely and creative blog.

These four incredible talented artists Ces, Vanessa Brantley Newton, Kay Ayer and Bella Sinclair have inspired me to continue my creative challenge as an artist.

Please drop by and visit them and you will find their blogs are truly beautiful from inside out and inside out.

In turn, I am going to pass on this beautiful award to all my Cactus Monday friends, Kak Emila Yusof, Parisa Mahmoudi, Sarah, mizzyN, Mariuca, Nessa and Anny!

International Bloggers Community Award

Thank you so much for this award Caroline Soer.

She is a very talented watercolour artist.

Please visit her blog Caroline's studio for more details!

I am honoured and I would like to pass it on to a few talented International blogger friends as follow.

Yeo Kee Hui of Mutual Love
Kruel of Legal Cat
Denessa of Parent Times
June Zach of Fledgling Blogger
Kristi of Kikolani

Awards from Blogger friends

Talented KJ and James Oh for this Stroke of the Brush award. Thanks friends and I am honoured to do so. The special thing about this award, It's created and inspired by two creative bloggers Soulbrush and Snowbrush.

I would love to pass this award to all my blogger friends.

I love you and have a happy time visiting to all your blogs.

Please forgive me if I drop by to your blog late.

Sometimes, I drop by and never give any comment. This doesn't mean I don't care.

From now on, I need to spend more quality time for my self development too. For instance, I set goal and willing to follow the route for completion. I need to have ample of time to practise on my piano rectical and art project too.........Don't worry, I still will drop by for commenting but you must be patient to wait OK!

Hope you all understand, I am not superwoman but previously and currently I am still struggling to give my best on blogging and commenting!

Thanks for your comments and friendship!

Awards for You and Yoon See

Here, my heartfelt gratitude over the many awards that I received from blogger friends.
Thank you again friends, thank you for your company, love, care & support to me.

Delwyn of A Hazy Moon a super positive lady awarded me with International Reach Out Award. I am going to give this award to Kristi of Kikolani, she has touched my heart with her art of blogging!

Jia of Jia's Life a friendly lady had showered me with I love your blog award. I have selected seven new friends from Bloggerunited for this award. They are Cavin, Chien, Coco, Kimberly, Kenwooi, JulieKing and Stephynie.

Sweet Pea of PeazCreationz and SquirrelGirl of SquirrelGirl Illustrates had awarded me with One Lovely Blog Award. I am going to pass it on to Yunus Ismail, mizzyN, catherine and deepa.
Humourous Karen Jasper of Options Associates: For A Better World had given me the Biggest Heart Award. I am proud to give it to Anny of Piper Kingdom , Renee of Circling My Head, Delwyn of A Hazy Moon, Ruzzlan of Ruzzlan 2312 , Barbara of Reading the Sky and Emila Yusof at Emila Yusof's Illustration.
Barbara of Reading the Sky had awarded me the Kreativ Blogger Award. I am going to share it with Ruzzlan, Yunus Ismail, Kenwooi , Chien, Nabil Fikri and Caroline Soer.

The "Uplifting Blogger Award"

Thank you Lolo and Deepaz for awarding me the "Uplifting Blogger" award.
I feel so blessed and thank you once again Lolo and Deepaz..
This cool award had been created and designed by Lolo herself.


This award goes to fellow bloggers who visit frequently and raise my spirits with their kind words of encouragement, their beautiful images and their wonderful outlook on life. They make blogging a positive experience and continue to make my life richer.

Please feel free to pass this award along to your friends. I ask that you do name them but you don't have to link to them. Just stop by their blogs and let them know you've given them this award. Here are my recipients in no particular order. Thanks to all of you who raise me up! xoxo

Anh

Amy C
Anny
BainCardin
Bella Sinclair
Cindy
Delwyn
Diya
Emila Yusof
Indigene
Isay
James Oh
Ken Ong
Lisa at Greenbow
Lisa Rivas
Lynn
Nessa
Ojni
Owl Eng
Parisa Mahmoudi
Savvy Mode
Shiva
TH
Teri C
The girl from Cherry Blossom Street
Soulbrush
Songy
Vanessa Brantley Newton

Yoon See 10 Must-Read Art Blogs for 2009

After reading 8 Must-read Art Blogs for 2008 - a Few of the Best Art Blogs Online, I immediately find the urge to post my list of 10 Must-read Art Blogs for 2009-a Few of the Best Art Blogs Online. ( I really have a hard time presenting the list. Definitely there are a lot more great blogs that deserving this best blog title but I can only accommodate 10.)

Please check out their blogs and you will totally agree with me.

1 Emila Yusof of Emila's Illustrated Blog
She is one of a kind "Malaysia Boleh" multi-talented artist.

2 Alina Chau of Ice-Cream Monster Toon Cafe
Her illustration style is breath-taking and awesome!!!

3 Bella Sinclair of Bella Sinclair Doodlespot
Her whimsical and adorable flower girls' project.

4 Vanessa Brantley Newton of oohlaladesignstudio
Both her computer and watercolour styles are A+++++!

5 Soulbrush of soulbrush
Her life sharing through her spectacular art interpretation & illustrations.

6 Tei Casper of Teri's Painted Daisies
Her beautiful watercolour paintings on a special theme each day.

7 Parisa Mahmoudi of parisa mahmoudi
Her cool and abstract style of papercuts illustrations and photographies.

8 Asja of Three Little Camera
A must read of her extra-ordinary 365 project on flickr!

9 Ojni of ojni
Her work is vivid and colourful, an accomplished young illustrator making waves with her cool style!

10 Amy Catwright of Amy Catwright
Her illustrations are sweet & cute, cool write-out and inspiring sharing on her Nanibird project.

Sisterhood Award for "YOU" and "ME"

Thank you Soulbrush for this cool sisterhood award.

I take this golden opportunity to pass it on to all the sisters in bloggyland.

The Renee Award

Thanks to super humorous and talented friend Bella Sinclair for giving me this special Renee award. I really love it. This award was created in honouring Renee, a kind loving person in nature.
I am most honoured to be chosen among a few blogger friends here, they are Linda Cardina, Ces, Bjornik, Aimee, Indigene, TattingChic and Vanessa Brantley Newton.
It's my pleasure to get to know the rest of the recepients more closer now too.
This time, I am going to pass the award to a few friends:
Emila Yusof is always there for me.
Anny for her heartfelt stories on dogs, art and many more.
Delwyn for her powerful words, life motto and inspirations on everyday matters.
Diana Evans for her positivness and inspiration of making art the bold, creative and fearless way.
Isay for her extra special weekly messages on IF challenge.
soulbrush for being my friend and her zest of making everyday arts so beautiful and meaningful.

(Sorry friends, I really treasure your friendship but I could only pass it on to a few because it is very special)

Queen of Blogs

My best buddy and talented artist friend Emila awarded me the Queen of the blog award. I am very very happy and thank you Emila for the poise award!

I would like to share this award with many beautiful queens out there:)

amy c

art of the masses

Bella Sinclair Doodlespot

Cindy's Crafty Bites

friendsinglove

get zen

justZHM

Ice-Cream Monster Toon Cafe

Indigene Fine Art & Illustration

Kathleen Rietz

Kay Aker

milkberryland

My Closet Diary

nickey linzey

ojni

oohlaladesignstudio

Owleng

parisa mahmoudi

thegirlfromcherryblossomstreet.

Savvy Mode SG

Style Discovery

sketchout

Valerie Walsh

and not forgetting all my cactus monday fellow cactuteers:

Crooked Beak Workshop
Deb
Deepa
Diane C
Greg
Jessica
Julie
Lisa B
Lisa R
Lolo
Lynn
Margaret
Marianne
messy fish
Pea
Soulbrush
Sue
Susan
TeriC

Awards from "Cindy" and "Ken" & for "You"

Thank you Cindy and Ken Ong for awarding me these cool awards. I am honoured and would like to pass on to all my friends. Please don't feel shy. Just grab the one that you feel you like and deserve. (Please leave me a comment if you need to save the picture of the award individually!)

Awards from "Anny" and for "You"

Dog lover Anny from all i wanna do is p.....has honoured me with these three awards namely "Arte Y Pico Award", "I love your blog award" and "friendship badge award".

Trillion thank you Anny.

She has a special blog just on dogs. She is most humorous with her writing. Her art and photographies are great too.

I would like to pass on these awards to:

My beloved cactuteer team members, you know who you are.

IF challenge friends as follow:

amy c

art & observationsart of the masses

artsyville

Back to The Drawing Board

Bella Sinclair Doodlespot

Bobo's Fun Place cabana digital

Carli corner

Cata's illustration & craft

Connie Martin

Dabbled

Dani Torrent

Deb's Art Blog

Emila's Illustrated Blog

ERIC BARCLAY

faruffando

feeling cartoonistic

Flying Colors

friendsinglove

get zen

go solo art

Ice-Cream Monster Toon Cafe

INDIGENE

Isay

life in the pink box

llapis

Indigene

Joseph's Art

justZHM

Kathleen Rietz

Kathy Hare illustration

Kris-tea illustration

masporquerias

mocando

May Chan

mid-life zhenmocando

Nessa Dee

nickey linzey

ojnioohlaladesignstudio

Owleng

paola

parisa mahmoudi

PeazCreationz

piccolini

ruisousaartworks

rainbowmagic

randomyork

static pencil

sketchedout

soulbrush

studio lolo

Teri's Painted Daisies

Valerie Walshwaldowalkiriaworld

Also to all that have inspired me, just to name a few:

Anh

baincardin

Beatrice

catherine

cindy

diYadeaRY

Gerald

JeanChia

Kay Aker

Ken Ong

Mariuca

Marvic

Milly

Nessa

ria

rei

rizal

tattingchic

tp

Tiffany

thegirlfromcherryblossomstreet.

savvy mode

style discovery

silence

T.H

Last but not least, to those I have missed your name but have visited and commented on my blog.

Lemonade award

Thank you soulbrush for giving me this fabadabadoo lemonade award.
She is so kind and always give me many awards. Again, I am so honour to receive it from a talented friend like her. Making lemonade sounds easy but to make a good one requires lots of techniques, creativities...........this is related to creating art too.......

I would like to pass on this special award to my talented artist friends that love to employ lemon green colour and natures in their illustration.

They are Aimee, Faruffa, get zen, Kathleen Rietz, kris-tea, Lisa Rivas, nicky linzey, ojni, parisa mahmoudi, Valerie Walsh and Vanessa Brantley Newton.
Hope you all will continue to quench our thirst with more"lemonade art".

Creative Blogger Award

Thanks to my talented artist friend Michael O'Connell of Mocando. He has just given me this creative blogger award. I am so honoured and feel there is a creative group should more deserve this.
There are my Creative Monday Cactuteer team members that constantly strike for their best in search of new ideas and techniques to capture the beauty of miracle cactus plant.
Deb
Jessica
Julie
Lisa B
Lisa Rivas
Studio Lolo
Margaret
Marianne
Mark
messyfish
Sioux
Soulbrush
TeriC
Please visit our gallery and have a look. Hope that you have find some inspirations that in turn you have the urge to join us too in the near future:)

Best Blog 2008

Thanks soulbrush for this special great award, it means a lot to me!
You deserve it because all your posts are very creative and encouraging.
I am so surprise so many awards that you have given to me. Thanks soulbrush as a dearest friend and remembering me in a kind way.
I just want to proclaim to the world, “Joy to the World”. Thanks again soulbrush.
And congrats to all others that have won. I have just checked out those blogs that I have not visited before.

Your blogs are incredibly beautiful and unique in your way. Keep up your goodwork!

In turn, I would like to pass this award to these creative bloggers that I have met and became good friends:
Anh of My Closet Diary for all her beautiful posts in the fashion arena. She is a pretty and talented lady that have an eye for pretty stuff.
Anny of All i wanna do is p.... for all her great posts on pets. She is a dog lover, sending her love and care to pets. Write, illustrates and compose beautiful poems just for these categories.
Bella Sinclair of Bella Sinclair Doodlespot for her whimsical children art that inspire me to continue my journey in this same pursue. She is very friendly and thoughtful person. Her comments are very humourous and uplifting!
Cindy of Cindy's Crafty Bites for her extreme positiveness in art that shown in all her works especially her special handmade cards. A soft spoken, pretty young girl that nice to chat with, she makes me feel treasured & relax!!!
Dani Torrent of Dani Torrent for his incredibly beautiful and excellent artworks that remind me the beauty of nature & legendary stories. He has also recently become one of my good friends.
Emila Yusof of Emila's Illustrated Blog for her high spirited passion & pursue in art. She had recently held a children art exhibition and moving towards children illustration. She is a great buddy that I can count on.
Emily of art of the masses for her great distinctive black & white architectural style illustration that makes me amaze and become close friend.
Jean Chia of Listen With Your Heart for her spiritual & uplifting sharings in Christianity. A young dedicated lady who is very persistent stand on her faith to Jesus. I look up to her.
Joseph of Joseph's Art for his insightful pursue on his Moleskin seires. He has recently run a very successful art exhibition. His details of his “Ladies”and “Peace & War” seies in Moleskin are just perfect. Please don’t miss checking out!!!
Ken Ong of Tapestry for his seriousness in blogging. His heartfelt stories warm everyone heart.
Kris-Tea of Kris-Tea for her marvelous style in illustration. She is a very talented artist and well verse with all mediums in illustration and I love her pencil sketches the most. She has just open a new shop, please drop by to support her when you feel convenient.
Mariuca of Mariuca for her humourous style in writing. A charming sweet lady who is blessed with words and she writes well and meaningful entries.
Nessa of Mumblings for her passion on her daily life. She is a Amazing Race mania that always share her joy and updates with us.
Ojni of Cserháti Hajnalka, Ojni for her simple and very soothing illustration that make me feel calm and easy. I love her playfulness in monotonous colour scheme. She is a bright artist that shines and speaks sunny words. She also got a fine print bountique that not to be missed!!!
Owl Eng of Owleng for her remarkably handsome style in daily motivation. Her watercolour pieces are truly spectacular and moving. I call her a mover & shaker:)
Rizal of restnrelak for his creative approach on Malaysian Art & Craft. He is a well trained artist honing his skill and preparing his first ever craft book now.
Parisa Mahmoudi of parisa mahmoudi for her emotional provoking pieces in both illustration and photography that challenge one for further meditation. She is a kind hearted young lady, creative and sensitive to the use of colours and various mixed medias.
TH of alsomommy is a happy mum that shares her unique stay home life about her baby Sean and family. She loves to accept new challenges to come and enjoy her life to the fullest!!!
thegirlfromcherryblossomstreet. is a cheerful girl living in New York, she is very good and consisitent with her goals and she writes beautiful posts.
Savvy Mode of Savvy Mode SG for her savvy treats in sharing the insights of fashion world. She is a fashion editor that travels extensively and also updates her blog very frequently. All her post are so interesting!
Shiva of friendsinglove for her passion to art. She is a beautiful young lady that keeps her dream real and shares great joy in illustration!
Songy of Style Discovery for her unique sense in fashion and special training in Fine Art. She shares her thoughts in a beautiful artistic way. I love reading her write out on the new comer in the fashion runaway!

Sorry, to all others if I miss your name here, please remember your blogs are equally important to me. And they mean gems to me. Please continue your good effort in blogging. My sincere thanks for those that drop by and give lovely and constructive comments. I salute you all.
Happy New Year 2009. May all you wishes come true!
Gear up!

Awards

Thanks Ken for these special award specially designed for me!
I am most honoured and will always treasure it forever.
Rules:
1. Show the award in your blog.
2. Link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate three(3) other artistic people and link to them.
4. Leave a message on their blog to make them aware that they’ve being nominated.
So now, I will pass this "Artistic Blog Award" on to Parisa Mahmoudi, Teri C and Nickey Linzey;
whereas the "Knock Out Blog Award" to Dani Torrent, Lisa Rivas and Soulbrush.

Thanks Cindy for her lovely designed award for me! I am indeed honoured and touched. I denifitely cherish it forever too.
Rules:1.
Show the award in your blog.
2. Link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate three(3) other artistic people and link to them.
4. Leave a message on their blog to make them aware that they’ve being nominated.
So now, I will pass this "You Inspire Most Award" on to Bella Sinclair, Anh and the girl from the cherry blossom street.

Pinnacles and crowns...

"Arte y Pico" Award"Arte y Pico" is a phrase that roughly translates as,"The Maximum, The Peak!"I would like to thank Lisa Rivas and Indigene for giving me this priceless award!
Here are 'the rules' for The ARTE y PICO Award:
1. Show the award.
2. The name of the person who gave it to you and a link back to their blog.
3. Pick 5 blogs you think deserve this award for: creativity, design, interesting material and their contribution/participation to the blog community.
4. List the author's name and link to their blog.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of those you've selected.Link back to the original Arte y Pico BLOG, so all will know the origin of the award.
So, I got awards from the above two friends, that's mean I got to pass on to at least 10 persons :
AWARD CROWNING TO THE FOLLOWING BLOGS:
1. Maria Catalina Alvarez of Cata's Illustrations & Crafts for her wonderful creation of crafts and cute illustrations.
2. Cindy of Cindy's Crafty Bites for her talented art & craft skills and great passion making many cute crafts.
3 Ellis Nadler of Ellis Nadler's Sketchbook for his amazing extraordinary concepts, ideas and styles that amaze me always.
4. Emila Yusof of Emila's Illustrated blog for her big heart cheering all her friends and she is a hardworking smart lady that inspires me to draw more often.
5.Josh(musarter) of Josh Billings Art & Observations for his great passion & humorous style at work and as a friend.
6. Joseph of Joseph's Art for his great art observation & incredible well themed moleskins challenge.
5. Ken of Tapestry for his never-ending heartfelt stories to share almost everyday.....
7. Owl Eng of Owl Eng for her miracles watercolour style and inspirational positive verses as always.
8. Parisa Mahmoudi of Parisa Mahmoudi for her passion in pursuing spectacular photographies and conceptual illustrations that make me really stop & ponder for good.
9. Senta of As I was Saying for her light & easy illustration style and always makes me not just smile but laught.
10. Mark Hanna of The Dripping Cactus for his wonderful awesome cute cactus character that makes me dripping my tears, tears of joy.
And extra one
11. For every blog I visit and leave a message, because your work touches me and keeps me going!
All these blogs above and the blogs that I visited before have inspired me to continue my great mission in blogging and upgrading my skill in my artworks.
Thanks a million.
Cheerioo!

Awards

My multitalented friend Emila Yusof had given me these awards. It’s a great pleasure to receive them from her. Once again, I salute her and pay my deepest gratitude to her because she is a very special lady that processes kind, humble ………and all the good characters. To her, friends are always first…

I also would like to share these awards to all my friends I knew in blogging through Kak Emila's blog.

They are:
Mariuca, T.H., Nessa, Jean Chia, Ken, bonoriau, resknrileks, Dookie, LadyJava, bluecrystaldude, spiff the space, annyboo, mangosteenskin, roxychick, shinade,
Grandy, Metz-Empty streets, debbie, Laketrees.

I am also her fan and I have collected her 3 promotional cards.
And guess what, I got them free from MPH without having to purchase anything…the secret is you must be daring to ask for more free stuff. I am one!

Award -"I wuv Your Blog"

This is an award from my dear friend soulbrush.
She is a very talented artist and she got the mission to post at least an entry per day!
Guess what? She is living up to her mission... ...
And she said:"
Each day is an adventure.I want to share my soul with all of you using art and words. Life is too short, got lots to do still! "
Now, it's my time to give heartfelt thanksgiving to her.
Thank you soulbrush for your lovely award "I Wuv Your Blog".
Again, I am so touched and honoured to have you as my friend soulbrush.
I feel so blessed and happy to receive this special gift from you.
I will treasure our friendship forever:::)

Thus, I take this golden opportunity to pass this award to my dearest friends:
Anny, Carli, Cata, Dani Torrent, faruffando, flower girl, Gaia, indigene, isay, jeanchia, joseph, Kathleen Rietz, kathy hare, Ken, Mariuca, Nessa, owl eng, paola, parisa mahmoudi, pea, savvy mode sg, senta, silence, tattingchic, TH and Vanessa Brantley Newton.

You lighten up my world

Billion thank you, Bella Sinclair, for this beautiful friendship award!
Bella Sinclair is a dear friend that processes the best personality that all friends are looking for.
She is very kind, friendly, loving, thoughtful and committed to all her friends. Her forever humorous style makes me smile and inspire me to go extra miles.
Thank you, you are my forever genuine friend!

I, in turn, would like to pass this award to several people whom I feel blessed to have become better friends with recently:

Alina Chau, Anh, Atomicvelvetsigh, beckasharpe, Bella Sinclair, dmystify, emila yusof, emily, flying colors, katie, lynn, mid-life zhen, Nessa Dee, paola, parisa mahmoudi, randomyork, rizal, Songie, soulbrush, studio lolo, TH and valgalart.

You lighten up my world with love and inspiration.

If you would like to participate:

1. Put the logo on your blog.

2.Link to the person who gave you the award.

3.Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4.Put links to those on your blog.

5. Leave a message on those blogs.