Time really flies and it’s been 5 years since I started blogging. Even though I’ve been around the past few years, Amour Chaleur was only launched last December. To commemorate Amour Chaleur’s upcoming first birthday on the 8th of December and in conjunction with Christmas, I am holding a Christmas giveaway. Panda Santa will be giving away a panda notebook from Artbox.
To participate in this giveaway, you must have a Twitter account. Tweet the following message once or come up with your own creative tweets (which must be relevant to the giveaway). All tweets must contain the hashtag #amourxmasbook and the link to this post http://bit.ly/8pYc6R .
The giveaway has ended. Congratulations to @jadoreivy for winning the giveaway! Thank you everyone for participating. Stay tune for the next giveaway in December.
The giveaway will start on Monday, 30th November at 12 PM (GMT+8) and ends on Wednesday, 2nd December at 12 PM (GMT+8). It will last for 48 hours. A random winner will be chosen when the giveaway ends. I may hold another giveaway again in December to spread some Christmas love. Good luck and have fun! 
To celebrate Christmas this season, I have launched a new layout – Zoo Mania. I wasn’t lazy this time and drew the illustration from scratch in Photoshop. Perhaps this is to make up for the previous layout where I dump everything from my old layouts together. Zoo Mania took me around 4 hours to draw the illustration and another 4 hours to code it. Did I mention how much I dislike coding layouts? Drawing is a really enjoyable process but coding is totally the opposite. The debugging process is a headache as well.
Even though you can’t see major changes in the style, I did changed the header styles. I left the comments, page navigation and footer untouched because I like it as it is now. I swear I wasn’t trying to be lazy. :P Before I introduce the main characters of this layout, I would like to thank Scholar for giving me constructive criticism and advice on how to improve this illustration.
Edit on 24 November: I ended up editing the minor style details like the page navigation, read more links, comments navigation and the footer etc because I feel that the previous styles didn’t really match the new theme. It’s more colourful now and looks like a new theme.
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Christmas is my favourite festival season and hence I decided to share photographs of how Christmas is like in Singapore. It’s pretty easy to spot the arrival of Christmas in Singapore. The trees, trim shops, sales and special Christmas catalogues will start popping up. Everywhere screams “It’s Christmas!”.
This is a “How do you know Christmas is coming?” meme and I’m tagging everyone who’s reading this post to blog about your personal experiences. I’ll love to know how you spot the Christmas season. Is it the beautifully decorated trees? Turkeys on sale? Trim shops or…?
Christmas in Singapore
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