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About This Website - Snippets of Life
Snippets of Life is a website about women’s lifestyle, fashion and living a balanced and fulfilling life.
It also covers topics on family, parenting, children, food, art, design, photography, and online shopping.
It focuses on being inspiring, positive, humourous, optimistic, passionate, fashionable, motivated, productive, creative, and to live a happy, fulfilled and balanced life.
Press and Awards
Over the years Snippets of Life has won numerous awards, been featured on broadcast television, and featured in both online and print publications all over the world – including The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Straits Times (Singapore), Today (Singapore), HWM (Malaysia), DotNet Magazine (UK), About.com (International), SHIFT Magazine (International).
This site has also being ranked as 15th in “Top 100 Australian Blogs” and
2nd in the “Top 50 Australian Women’s Blogs”.
I’ve been very fortunate to enjoy the following awards and nominations for my site.
Finalist for The 2006 Bloggie Awards for Best Designed Weblog.
Finalist for The 2006 Bloggie Awards for Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog.
Finalist for The 2005 Bloggie Awards for the Best Designed Weblog.
Finalist for 2005 Australia’s Best Blog (Smartyhost)
Winner of 2006 Best Designed Australian Blog
3rd Place for 2006 Best Overall Australian Blog
Winner of 2005 Western Australian Weblog Awards, for Wisdom and Beauty.
Nominated for the 1999 Telstra/AFR Australian Internet Awards - Personal Site category.
How This Website Began
This site started in 1999 as a “Personal Website” - before the days of “Blogs” and “Weblogs”.
Looking for a job as a web designer, Karen geared her site towards “selling herself” to prospective employers as a whole person - her work, her personality, her quirks, her interests, stories, talents and her own personal style.
Over the years it evolved from an online journal, to what it is now – an adored website read by thousands from all over the world each day.
About The Author - Karen Cheng
Karen Cheng has a BA Design / Advertising. She has worked as an art director, web designer and graphic designer, in Singapore and Australia.
She currently lives in Perth, Western Australia, with her husband and her two sons.
Karen is passionate about her family, art & design, writing, fashion, cooking, reading, keeping active, shopping, and living a balanced and fulfilled life.
Stuff About Karen
I love beautiful things. Art, design, photography, rocks, flowers, landscapes, pottery, jewellery, textures, colours, buildings, people.
I love reading. I think life is too short to read crap books, so I only read books that come highly recommended. I like reading from all genres. Trashy chick lit, hard-core sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, crime, classics. I have a soft spot for Australian and Asian literature.
I enjoy keeping healthy and active. I like taking walks, jogging, swimming and being outdoors. I’d like to do a bit more scuba diving, snorkeling, kick boxing, and Latin dancing. I also like the occasional game of squash, netball, soccer, tennis and beach cricket.
I love cooking! And eating. I love entertaining and throwing parties too. I get such a buzz from experimenting with food and recipes. I prefer fresh, healthy, low-fat, low-sugar foods. But I can’t live without dim sum, pizza, hamburgers, chocolate and KFC.
I enjoy crafty designy things. Ceramics, pottery, knitting, sewing, paper crafts, painting, printing, illustrating, drawing.
I love hanging out with my kids. One of the hardest decisions my husband and I made, was to choose to live on one income so that I could stay home to look after our kids. I can’t describe how amazing it is to watch these little people grow up before my eyes.
I really love the idea of natural living. Growing my own veges and herbs. Cooking with natural and organic products. Recycling. Composting. Supporting local businesses and produce. Buying products that are made to last. However, sometimes it just isn’t practical, so I swallow my guilt and happily live with the contradictions in my life that make me ME. (For example - Give up my car for a bike?!? Uh, yeah right.)
I’m a bit obsessed about shopping. Clothes, shoes, jewellery, underwear, anything girly. I’m not into brands or teeny fashion trends. I’m a careful shopper, I’m always on the look out for a bargain. And I like to think that I’m careful with my money.
I love going out. Sitting in cafes, dancing in clubs, talking in bars, dining out, house gatherings, parties, barbecues, weddings, picnics! I also love an occasional trip to watch movies, theatre, musicals, symphonies, stand up comedy, rock concerts and live bands.
At the same time, I can’t think of anything more satisfying than sitting in front of TV, eating take-away, lights down low, in my pyjamas and watching crap on TV. I’m a home girl at heart.
Basically, I strive to live a balanced life. Fun. Serious. Fast. Slow. Brainy. Bimbotic. Intense. Lazy. You get the drift.
