“Hi! My name is Livia and I love design and photography which I've been doing for most of my life. I ♥ Canon cameras; Apple Macs; dabbling in Adobe Creative Suite software; and wrangling XHTML, CSS, basic PHP and Wordpress. Comic Sans and Papyrus fonts scare me. I ♥ eating out with friends. I really ♥ camels. Have you figured out what 'chamelle' means yet? According to some silly online quiz I am a 'hippie'. I believe in environmental sustainability, and like meditation and yoga (when I get around to doing it) so I guess it must be right ;) In October 2010 I moved to France to practise my French and nurture my love of foreign languages (and eat lots of yummy food!). Here, I found plenty of inspiration amongst all the beautiful places and things I see… In May 2011 I moved to Geneva, Switzerland and being a former Sydney beach girl, I am getting used to the beauty of the large lake and the mountains. This blog contains bits and pieces about my life and work. Hope you enjoy reading it, glad you made it this far. Please drop me a line, I'd love to hear from you!
Livia xxx
Copyrighting
This is a Wordpress site/blog. Chamelle Designs' Theme was proudly created FROM SCRATCH on an iMac and drawn with a Wacom tablet. It used the software Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Smultron and Firebug and was tested using MAMP and WAMP. All graphics here are original and created by Livia. Please do not steal or else you will be thrown into the sea as food for the hungry shark below. Please do not re-post any of these (copyrighted) blog images/photos/articles in part or full on your site without crediting and linking back here.
In the past two weeks…
I graduated from my web design course (May 18)
More qualifications for me… yay!
I got my hair cut (May 27) *
less hair for me… yay?
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My mother made sticky rice dumplings (’zongzi‘) for duanwu/dragon boat festival (May 28/May 5 on lunar calendar)
More food (that I didn’t have to cook) [...]
I just had another thought whilst watching Masterchef. I just had this sudden revelation that everything is better when it’s made from scratch!
Cooking
In an earlier episode the contestants were heavily criticized for using store-bought mayonnaise and not making their own from scratch. Cooking is definitely not my forte so I would have no idea [...]
Posted May 26, 2009 by Livia. Read related: my life, tv
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My parents come from Taiwan and most of my extended family live there so we’d fly there every few years. I have fond memories of my childhood going to stationery store after stationery store with my sister. Since we were the youngest (at [...]
