Please, if you have not yet participated in my little competition, please do so. I am not trying to garner extra visitors to my blog or extra page clicks. It is simply that I had no ideas for naming Tee’s many faces and came up with the idea of a competition. Just for fun, that’s all! So go! Go! (if you are blur like me and don’t know where to go, click on the highlighted link above within this paragraph which says ‘my little competition’.)

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Ever since she was 14 months old, Tee had painted her first ever painting entirely by herself. We framed it up and gave it to Nana. It was a work of art that was worthy of being framed. Later, amongst her hundreds of pieces of art, there would be a good number that really warranted some recognition. You could not tell that it was done by a 2 year old.

Now at almost 5, she is getting better and better at articulating her ideas onto paper and I felt it was time to encourage her artistic talents whilst silently praying that she wouldn’t pursue it as a career because well, I am still Asian at heart!

Good art is a subjective matter but coming from a school of architecture and having some insight into the history of art, one does have some experience in being somewhat qualified to critique art. What many, many Moms make the mistake of doing is expecting their children to come up with perfect pieces of art work. For example, a teapot really needs to look like a teapot, in order for it to be considered good art. Well, who the f*ck said so? These Moms who stifle their children’s creativity will eventually kill a small creative section of their child’s brain entirely. There is no right or wrong way of doing art. There is only the artist’s way.

And for goodness sake, please allow your child to draw whatever the hell he wants in whatever medium or material he wants. He is the artist here, not you. Once he has finished his art, you can ask him all you want about his masterpiece. It may give you insight into how his mind works or even if something is troubling him. Thank goodness, Tee has never once had a ‘dark’ piece of art…..

So today, I hopped into the new Czip Lee’s in Bangsar beside 7-11 to buy Tee a real easel. OK, truth be told, I wanted something that would occupy her whilst I worked. I contemplated on a few easels and decided on one that could stand on her desk and could hold up to an A2 sized canvas. I also decided that I wasn’t going to let her paint on real canvas (too expensive!) but on A2 art blocks instead that I would mask down onto the canvas. The people at Czip Lee’s were very helpful seeing that I was pregnant and struggling to carry all the artists tools, did everything in their power to make my trip to the car a pleasant one. Thumbs up to Czip Lees.

It worked like a charm. Tee LOVED it…..She couldn’t wait to get her hands on her first real painting on a real easel. I’d even gotten her an artist’s pallete. She was real chuffed. And so, this is her first masterpiece on a real easel…….

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

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