Today is the 29th of February. First of all, happy birthday to all the leap day babies out there The universe is often fulled with surprises and wonders that we can never finish exploring. To me, the 29th of February or the leap day, is one of the wonders that inspired me.

The 29th of February only occurs every four years and only in the years that are divisible by four but with the exception of century years such as 1900. 365 days and 6 hours is the time counted for a complete revolution round the sun. Therefore, in every four years time, an extra twenty-four hours have accumulated. And in order to keep the count coordinated with the sun’s apparent position, an extra day is added to the calendar.

February is already a unique month of the year itself even without the leap day because it has only got 28 days. With the leap day, I feel that February is even more special every four years.

Well, I’ve got no pictures on my post today but I hope that you’ll enjoy the rest of your day because the leap day only comes every four years.

This is how SiewPeng used the Crystal Ball. One is for Colin, and one is for SiewPeng.

Instead of using the crytal ball as a medium for plants, it can be used to make something that is decorative.

I have shown you the crystal soil in purple colour before, now I am going to show you the Tiger Tail Plants in yellow crystal soil. Please tell me which one you think looks better. Or do you think that they look nicer if you put the plants with yellow and purple crystal soil next to each other?

Yellow-purple is a set of colours that have 100% colour contrast with each other, just like Red-Green and Orange-Blue.

I still remember one of my art lessons in secondary school. We first learned to identify 3 basic colour (Red, Yellow, and Blue) and the product of their mixture (green, purple, and orange) using watercolour, next we have to know different sets of contrast colours. I used a method to memorize which colour is contrast with the other. “From the 3 basic colours, each of them is contrast with the mixture of another 2 bacis colours.” - this is the rule that I memorized. For example, red colour will contrast with the mixture of yellow and blue, which is green. It is even easier by looking at the colour chart. If you use watercolour to mix up a set of contrast colour, you actually mix up 3 basic colours, which will produce grey or black colour.

Do you know where did I get the tall container from? It is the container of Nescafé.

Close-up view of the plant in Yellow Crystal Soil.

Different colours of the crystal soil may give us different feeling. One of the most important factor is the container must be transparent.

More different colour of crystal soil is coming soon. I have prepared the red colour crystal soil.