Simply loving it

Patterened paper from Sassafras Lass are here (New "Life is beautiful - Fawnd of you,too/ Woodland Whimsy", & "Serendipity - Hog Heaven" and available at Made with Love. I've been waiting for them to be here and you just cannot imagine how much of these i have at the moment and awaiting for me to scrap with them. Just one word to describe me now - Estatic.



We are also back home now with Kaylen already feeling loads better and medication has stopped as well. A few days at my parents was really doing him good and recovering, and my mom really took good care of him while Kay's down with being sick for the 1 week and I cannot be more than grateful for having her around me. Nothing beats being at home now, back to me having the time to scrap (just finished a LO which i did when Kaylen was sick - titled " I wish for you to be happy & healthy" which i will post tomorrow), to organising my scrap supplies again (how happy to be back home with my scrap supplies) cause i really have to get down to sorting out my patterened paper and planning a RAK give away again. Loads of lovely stuff looking for the rightful owner, and this time round, my RAK would be involving - alterable milk cartons from Art Blanche.

So for those who are interested, come back again on Sunday for my post of the upcoming RAK giveaway & my take this time for this lovely RAK to be given out - simply tell me which brands of scrapbooking products do you love best & why and the RAK could be yours.

Till then, have a good weekend ahead!!

Hello Sunday!!

Weather was slightly cloudy and dull this morning, but generally good weather indeed and for all whose celebrating Mid's Autumn Festival today, have a great gathering with your family cause it's usually at such festivals that we have gatherings. This is what i see outside my window at the moment....

And as i blog, i have this plate of yummy chocolate fudge cake keeping me company and they are from Lana Cakes. For those who are into chocolate fudge cake would know about Lana Cakes, homemade yummy creations by Mrs Violet Kwan whose been baking from her shop at Greenwood Avenue along Bukit Timah. Just walking into her shop would just sent me going crazy with all the deep chocolate scent. It's my family's fave and we would always have this at birthdays (this was a gift from Jayce for my birthday), and a must have at X'mas. Goes really well with cold fresh milk, at least that's how i must have my Lana cake with.
Yes, my lil one is fast asleep usually at this time of the day and an update on how Kaylen is doing? He is recovering day by day from his cough which evolved to tons of phlegm, blocking his airways and a trip to the doc yesterday got him additional medication, sigh, he has now 4 different kinds of medication to take and it would take another 1 week/10 days to get well. Just seems so long. We are all praying that he will get better soon. Then today my mom came over to my place and when she walked through our door, she says she's getting kaylen an air purifier. Hmmmm, does it really work this air purifier??? Would Kaylen be able to sleep better at night??? Looks like i know nuts about this thing and would need to read up in the trusty internet for information. For those who have an air purifier, please tell me how useful this would be?? Jayce says certain ones can kill germs. We'll see when our air purifer comes. oh yes, my mom heard this from her therapist this morning. She says highly recommended. Oh enough of purifier's at the moment.

This afternoon, managed to squeeze sometime to complete a card ( i need it for a certain purpose) and this is only my 2nd time attempting a card, finished it in half an hour, and all using my left over scraps (even the lace cardstock was left over from previous projects), no fresh sheet of patterened paper was used for making this card. I always have a bad habit, for every of my project, I'll be always using new patterened paper to the maximum i can, unless i really thought that the scraps would match well. So after looking at the amount of scraps accumulated almost close to a year now that i started this hobby, i'm now more than determined to always look through the scraps i have and USE THEM. So here is the card i made and recently, i seem to love stickles (although you can't really see it very clearly from the photo, i added to vines of the butterfly's wings). Just love it.

Will not be able to blog for the next few days cause we will all be at my parent's place. It's going to be easier for not having to always rush up and down, dropping and picking Kaylen up everyday to and from work since our lil guy is still not totally well yet. And on my part, i need not be knocking off work on time, both of us need not be rushing. It's just such a common word for both me & jayce.

So enjoy your mooncake with lovely chinese tea for this wonderful festival.

Just a quick post today

Finally finished my 2nd layout for my 5th wedding anniversary - titled "Your Shoulder to Lean on"

Journalling reads:-

Always know that no matter how my day went, bad or good

i will always have your shoulder to lean on.

As i enjoy my birthday today, i would like to thanks all my lovely friends whom has been leaving me since early morning great birthday wishes and it just made my day. To my dear friend in KK, hey pal thanks for calling me all the way from work. Talking about friends, got to work on LO for tribute to all my close friends whom had been always so dear to me, been there at different points of my life, getting me through the life cycle cause i'm just one person who does not have alot of friends to begin with. So watch for this in the next few weeks cause this really has me thinking on how i can create such a tribute to these very special people. Hmmm...

Have a happy friday to all.

Has it been that long

It's been awhile since i last posted, and i'm just glad to be home, to know that Kaylen is now sleeping soundly in his bed feeling loads better since his fever episode last week. Glad that fever is now gone since a few days, but nursing a very dreadful cough which would take a few more days before he totally gets well. He did lose weight once again, but we believe he will be back in the next couple of weeks, feeling like his usual self. For the past 1 week, Kaylen like any other kid when sick, would feel lethargic, more laying around in his playpen, droopy eyes due to too much medication, but still he would roam around the entire house like his usual routine. Like all parents, i wish i was the one whose sick and not him. It hurts to see him sick, and all listless. Anyway, that's all behind us now, most importantly is for him to get well very soon and be that chirpy lil one.

Onto the scrapping front, as i finish the last few touches on my 5th wedding anniversary LO (i hope to have it posted by tomorrow), here is a quick glimpse of it. As it is meant to be a series of wedding anniversary LO, i repeatedly used Anna Griffin patterened paper (oh how i regret that i only bought just 1 sheet of it, so i'm really scrimping as i use for each LO).


Got drifted away for awhile when completing my LO, went to tidy up my ribbons cause i'm just running out of space. Store them in these lovely Ikea clear jars ( i used them to store my rubber stamps as well), and as my stash of ribbons keeps growing, i'm just not very sure if i'm still going to store them in these jars. Till it gets out of hand, i will think again, but for now, it will do and stay pretty in them. Don't they just look yummy...

And not to mentioned these new lot of ribbons i got recently MWL today, i'm still looking for a home for them.
Just today, Jayce said to me that i'm not scrapping fast enough. My scrap supplies are way too much and at the rate i'm buying them, i will never ever finish my supplies or go anywhere near to finishing using them. I believe i will never ever finish using my scrap supplies (my family just got me vouchers from MWL for my birthday + a friend of mine as well), so you know what i mean and jayce knows very well that this hobby is just addictive. Just looking at my scrap supplies DOES NOT give me a headache, but instead i feel good looking at them and i love sorting them out. Would i call this a form of stress relief. Guess very much so for me.

Alright as i count down to my birthday in another hour of so, i'm just feeling good and happy that I'm been blessed with a happy & great life for the past 33 years, to have a loving family whose been there for me, great friends who mean the world to me and most importantly, 2 great guys in my life whom i love so deeply and would do anything for them. And lastly to my dear mum who shares the same birthday as me, Have a great birthday mummy, and loads of hugs & kisses. Thanks for everything!!!!

Till then, have a happy thursday!!

You can't imagine...

Our lil one is sick again. It's only been 2 weeks since he got well from the earlier episode that once again he fell ill on friday afternoon. The day where weather has turned better in the evening time (no more dreadful rain), all ready and packed to go to the lantern festival at the Chinese Garden, and poor barney below has to await longer for his lil owner to be well enough to carry him. Heard from my lil brother that this year's lantern festival was really nicer than the year before and was also better than the ealier Hello Kitty Themed one. So when our lil guy is well again, we will definitely visit.

Everytime when Kaylen falls ill, there are just so many reasons to why he would fall ill. This time, it's because he is growing teeth. Swollen gums, irritated mood, grump & feverish, but i don't seem to remember flu being part of the symptons of teeth growing. We had terrible nights just as long as our guy is not well. So, i spent 2 nights sleepless worrying away, checking on him....this is just very frustrating cause i never know how to prevent him from falling ill so often. His 1st was when he was 7mths old with virul fever (caused by very nasty ulcers at the back of the month) , then when he is 12mths old, it's again fever caused by ulcers inside his lips, then 2 weeks+ back with sore throat & flu which the sore throat caused his fever, and now this. I know kids will fall ill from time to time, but for one like kaylen who has a well balanced diet with lots of liquid, enough sleeping hours....what else is still missing? We are now just hoping that now into day 2 of his fever, he will show signs of getting better cause his yo-yo like fever is still there.

A very alone barney.

This whole week has been busy for us all, especially for me at work. Back at home, other than only having Kay fall ill on friday, I was just scrapping away slowly at my pace. Worked on one of my wedding photo as can you imagine, both me & hubby had forgotten our wedding anniversary day. It's on the 29th Aug, and this day just came & went and by the time i remembered, it was the 30th. I guess with 2 working people like us, and have a bundle of joy like kaylen, we only think about everything that has got to do with Kaylen and nothing else. Kaylen to us is ever so precious, and i must say that we do overly protect him from outside and we have ourselves to blame if this is part of the reason why he fell ill. He is just to clean (we just keep wiping his hands & things around him when we are out) cause with the number of growing viruses now, we just cannot be too sure. See what i mean, I'm back on a Kaylen related topic again instead of my wedding anniversary...goodness grief.

So i decided to work on a series of our wedding pics in celebration of our 5th year wedding anniversary and here is the 1st one (titled "Remember this day, Celebrate 5 good years & more) i completed with the following journalling.

Journalling Reads:-

This day i became Mrs Jayce Lim.

The day that i no longer think as one, but as us.

The day i know that we will be as one and grow old together.

Alrighty, got to go prepare lunch for lil one, and packing to stay at my parents tonight. Thank goodness for parents cause i was totally drained out in energy with this lil one whom despite is sick, has still tons of energy to be running about the whole house.

Oh bother...what sort of weather is this

It's practically raining each evening for the past few nights, and although i love rainy nights especially, i'm sort of hoping it won't rain this coming Friday cause we are bringing Kaylen down to Chinese Garden for the lantern festival. Cross my fingers and pray that it can rain all it want now, but do stop by Friday.

Sort of taking a break from scrapping tonight and watching "Constantine" with my dear hubby. It's a good feeling cause it's been a long time since we watch movie together. So while i enjoy the rest of the night, hope you all will have a good night's sleep on this cold rainy night.

Oh yes, as you can see already ,my dear sweet lil brother created a blog banner especially for me with Kaylen's face on it. It's so cute (both kay & the banner). Anyway i love it to bits and thanks a million Yixi...

A cold, wet & lazy Sunday....

And completed just 1 LO (it was sitting on the table for the past 2 days, cause i didn't want to rush into completing it so soon), and am loving the outcome of it all. When i started scrapping, always thought that i should be finishing the LO the very day i started. Now i come to realise that if i have it half completed, i would always go back to look at it and add bits here and there, and i enjoy this slow process. Sometime, before i sleep, i would think about the LO that i just done, and how i can add to it making it special, and personal and making it sort of "my style". So here it is, title - "Why this Face baby?"

As Sunday afternoon slowly slips by with rain pouring ever so heavy, it's just gloomy, but a look at Kaylen today (he was in a HAPPY mood cause looked right at the camera since a long time), I'm feeling nice & warm. It's good enough for me at least to see him all cheery up and yes, he knows what a cold & dull weather today is cause he got up from his morning nap, just wanting only to laze even more. Take a look at him...

He is now taking his afternoon nap , yes for a 15 mth old lil one, Kaylen is still taking naps twice a day and a total of at least 3 to 4 hrs, and still goes to bed on time by 9.30/10pm and sleeps through till 6plus7 in the morning. So once he is up later, we'll be heading down to Ikea for dinner and of course getting storage stuff for my ever growing scrap stuff. And guess would be starting on a new LO of my wedding pics, and yes i just dug up an unfinished mini album which was my 1st for Kaylen and only did a couple of pages, and so i thought that i should really finish it.

Alright then, i'm going to enjoy what's left of my sunday!!!! Hope you have fun!!