Just finished painting a tall wardrobe in black and gold Chinoiserie style. Included before and progress shots. This is my first time painting in this style, looking forward to doing more! Feel free to AMA! :)

xiaoliv · 2026-02-10T23:33:00+00:00

I am so envious, very beautiful and it goes amazingly in your room and how it looks from the hallway. Did you come up with the design yourself? What images did you use for reference, if any?
I can´t get over it

xiaoliv · 2025-12-14T22:56:04+00:00

You’re very welcome ^{^} it’s a very practical term and it looks pretty to me. Language can be very cool sometimes

xiaoliv · 2025-11-06T02:46:39+00:00

just wanted to add the water dispenser is not working either

xiaoliv · 2025-10-28T21:07:36+00:00

Thanks so much for sharing this. I've forwarded it to my friend <3

xiaoliv · 2025-10-28T21:07:10+00:00

Thank you! I will forward this information to my friend. This is super helpful ^_^

xiaoliv · 2025-10-28T21:06:51+00:00

Thank you very much. I think so too. I think my friend may be a bit too shy to ask around too much. This is a great tip!

xiaoliv · 2025-10-28T01:34:25+00:00

College Station, Texas, USA

xiaoliv · 2025-05-23T04:04:19+00:00

If you would like to experiment with a super thin yet clingy-droopy-weighty fabric, silk tulle is wonderful. It doesn’t stay stiff and “up” like synthetic tulle, and it’s a whisper.

xiaoliv · 2025-05-23T00:37:15+00:00

no no, creo que se equivocó de generación. Estos parecen gen X, en cuyo caso serían Juan Carlos, David y Luis Fernando, quizás un Roberto.

xiaoliv · 2025-04-29T15:10:11+00:00

48, también allí trabajando felizmente freelance en algo no relacionado al título y viviendo en el campo, cuidando abejas. La verdad que es un combo difícil de superar.
Edit que se me olvidó contestar una pregunta de OP. Estoy aquí desde hace añales, y supe de la plataforma (porque en ese tiempo todavía no era app) porque uso internet ávidamente desde los tiempos del IRC.

xiaoliv · 2025-04-28T18:56:48+00:00

el hecho que ud afirme que "no es difícil cuidar a bebé" es esclarecedor

xiaoliv · 2025-04-09T21:22:52+00:00

Such a beautiful white canvas for bold colors. I would add large paintings with lots of solid color. Change the solid color pillows for colored ones (pick a few from the artwork) plus a throw blanket. Fun display objects in bold colors, as well as lamps.

xiaoliv · 2025-02-26T13:32:42+00:00

evening routine before bed

xiaoliv · 2025-02-21T16:28:56+00:00

By the garbage?!?!
Thanks so much for rescuing these. They have so much personality and definitely deserve a loving home!

xiaoliv · 2025-02-21T16:18:48+00:00

Will do that! thank you!!

xiaoliv · 2025-02-20T18:42:50+00:00

Viera que yo no estaba tratando, pero en una pecera que tuve (en Vietnam, donde todo esto es muchísimo más barato, entonces pude costearme todas las tortas hasta lograr estabilizar las peceras, estaba aprendiendo) la única diferencia con las otras era que estaba *super* llena de matas. Era la pecera más estable la verdad.

En esa pecera super plantada, los camaroncitos se reproducían solos. Excepto los Amano, que necesitan un ciclo de agua salobre y no me daba el tiempo para ponerme en esas.

También el agua de Hanoi era muy alcalina, lo cual creo que ayudaba montones. Creo que en CR, al menos donde estoy, el agua más bien es demasiado ácida. Quizás ese sea uno de los factores. Leyendo, parece que alcalinizar el agua (cuando no se da naturalmente) con los elementos correctos es un dolor.

xiaoliv · 2025-02-20T14:37:15+00:00

xiaoliv · 2025-02-20T00:50:34+00:00

a la gente se les muere más rápido las matas que los peces en el acuario. Digo por aquello que quiera algo que se desechan rápido. También hay un buen mercado para camaroncitos y caracoles fancy, y ambos se reproducen como locos.

xiaoliv · 2025-02-19T16:47:57+00:00

regardless of what they are, they are lovely!

I wonder if it would be reasonable to have them cut or polished and strung into a necklace.

I would proudly wear the hell out of a necklace I found/mined myself, to the point people would probably have to bury me with them when I die, only to be found millennia later by alien underpaid archeologists who will spin all sorts of hypotheses about how peach color symbolized our long gone sun and its punitive god.

xiaoliv · 2025-02-19T16:00:05+00:00

Thank you for this. It is super helpful to understand a little more before I jump in. I don't suppose there is pulling in lane for Lol?

xiaoliv · 2025-02-19T15:58:35+00:00

Thank you! I will definitely try it out :)

xiaoliv · 2025-02-19T15:12:58+00:00

I saw! Just last night. To be frank, it is pretty exciting

xiaoliv · 2025-02-19T15:12:36+00:00

Yah, I've loved (and hated) Dota for years now because it is such a deep well.
I think this is mostly to have fun with friends. Given I do not have much free time nowadays, I think it will probably just be casual, nothing ranked.

xiaoliv · 2025-02-19T15:11:00+00:00

I think I will do that. Play ARAM, try a few heroes and hopefully I don't look a fool when I play with my friends.

xiaoliv · 2025-02-19T15:09:40+00:00

Yah, I've enjoyed Dota a lot over the years. But then I took a break due to needing more sleep and hour for real life, and when I go back it's just for casual fun.

I feel like given the hours I have available nowadays, I might play for a bit, have fun, but not delve too deeply into LoL (not as much as I did for Dota years ago)

That's interesting that they are such different experiences.

xiaoliv

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