We're going to have a new neighbour

Yes, Yes, Yes!!!! My lil brother is going to be our good old neighbour in Punggol. At the yet to be built "Punggol Breeze", we are going to see lots more of Yixi & Jianxi after year 2012. Still quite sometime more to go, but definitely good news cause we're just staying opposite of some distance from each other. We will all be closer. By the way, my other brother has also gotten his flat couple of months back, and it's also within Punggol area. I can't ask for anything more than having my love ones close to me. Here's what Yixi's flat going to look like when it's completed.

Punggol Breeze

Hope you are having a cheery day so far.

A regular Monday

Recovering from a fun filled weekend, and onto what i called a regular monday where life pretty much goes back to normal. Do you sometimes feel that week after week, it's just always about work? After spending the weekends with Kay, i sometimes find myself having a problem switching back to work mode and remember where i left of on Friday. I find myself pausing for awhile when my colleague asked me stuff, and i have to think for awhile. It's so unlike me before Kay came into my life. Before all these, i would have this great memory ( i know what they say about lost of memory after child birth), and i would be on top of things when it comes to work. Not that i'm slacking, but i just need time to re-collect on what i did last week. Hmmm...i don't really like this part, and am trying to work out how best to remember. Got to have my work mind back.

Great news from Wen, she re-visited MWL, and bought somemore. And i asked Jayce this morning if i should be blame for this. He said "I'm not answering you". For scrappers out there who has husbands like mine, i know what that feels like. And Wen says we would meet once a month to scrap together (more good news for me when i saw her sms).

Worked and completed on 2 LO this last weekend, and here they are.

Title - Blessed

Materials Used

PP : Crate Paper, OA (Weathervane)

Rub on: OA

Dots : Kaiser Craft

Letters : OA

Stickers : KI Memories

Stamps: G Studio (alpha stamps), Catslife Press

Frame : MM

Title : Love being with You

Materials Used

Cardstock : Brazzils Swiss Dots

PP: Crate Paper

Rub ons: KI Memories, Jenni Bowlin

Chipboard: Scenic Route

Ghost Heart: Heidi Swapp

Letters: Thickers, MM

Journaling Reads:-

"I would never miss not spending one day with you."

Hope your day went well for you all.

Crop for 2

Just a post on how my crop for 2 went yesterday afternoon with my best pal - Wendy. We started at Made with Love for some scrap supplies , and what started out as a pretty normal shopping for scrap supplies, ended us being spending up to more than 2 hours at MWL, and a very full basket!! That's Wen's basket (mind you, i only held on to my purchases, and no basket was involved). And what i did not expect from this supplies shopping was that she went totally into a mode i called - "Help, i love everything", and as a scrapper, i just love watching how she shopped. That was me 1 year+ ago, when i came to know and found this shop at Plaza Singapura, and my 1st shopping trip was close to what Wendy had yesterday. Scrapbooking is definitely not a cheap hobby, and what Wen said to me yesterday made me think harder at how much of the scrap supplies do we actually need. Her statement was "you won't want to re-use the same stuff on every of your LO right?" hmmmm, it seems right, and that's why i ended up with my endless stash of stuff. We can always re-invent our old supplies, but can it be possible that we keep using similar stuff in every LO that comes our way? When we gotten to paying, you should have seen the amount. Hefty sum, and i've been there before as well.

Back to my our crop session which only started close to 3pm (can you imagine, we meet at 11.30am at MWL, and we managed to only get to my place close to 3pm to start), and that's not the exciting part. The task was to create 10 LO's (a baby album for her sis in law) all before 6pm. Arrrggggghh, how are we possibly going to do all these??? At the end of the day, she completed 8 LO's (and you can see that closer to LO no. 5 onwards, we are already physically drained out of creative juices, and Wen with a neckache above it all. Oh boy, i was just so dried up of any possible ideas to help her complete her album. I just wished we have more time. So to summarise our crop session in one word, it would be "INTENSE". I was even asking jayce when Wen left, if i possibly had any ideas left at night to continue my own LO's, and apparently not cause i was as tired as ever, and went to bed at 9plus.

I'm welcoming her anytime should she wishes to start on this new hobby of scrapbooking cause i'm not sure that admidst her limited time from her work and family commitments, will she continue? Through this scrapping time with Wen, i also discovered how different we both are, given the fact that we are best friends from school. I guess from day one when we knew each other, we are already very different, and there are times that we would like similar stuff , but generally we are opposites of each other. From our character, to our dress sense, to now even scrapping style, we are opposites. Her style is - as cluttered as possible, bright colurs, and my style is that empty spaces are alright with me, and i go for more nude, muted colours. Scrapping is free style, everyone has their likes & dislikes, so it's fine by me just as long as i enjoy my time spending with her, talking, laughing with her is all i ask for. Gotten some photos (of the scrap stuff Wen bought, but not of my scrap pal, and will post it in the days to come cause i will be without my digi cam for the next 10 days. It's been on loan to my cuz whose away in Adelaide at the moment for an exchange student program).

I had fun at my very own crop sessions, and i hope i will be able to have more of my other friends join me. It does mean time away from Kaylen cause my mom was so nice to help me look after him on a Saturday where usually is her rest day, and for me to be away from Kaylen is not very easy cause i always wanted him to be around me. At this age, scrapping is not very possible yet although the other day i tried for him to do a rub on for me, and results was not very ideal cause he was sort of rough, and was not easy keeping his fingers at the right places. So no scrapping yet for my little guy.

How have your weekend been so far?

Remember him...

I take this morning to sit back and remember my grandfather as 12 years on this day, he left us. Memories of that day are still fresh in my mind, and i did not get to say goodbye. I was school and when i got that paged that morning, i knew it had to be about my grandfather. I'm grateful that my teacher gave me a lift home, but still all too late to say my goodbye. He passed away peacefully which after all the months of battling stomach cancer, and for this illness to eat him away slowly, watching him grow thinner by the day, and till he is no longer able to get around by himself. He was in no pain when he left us.

I want to be able to tell Kaylen when he is to ask me one day "what is great grand father like?", I want to be able to tell him this :-

- he is a man of few words, but a person with a very big and good heart.
- he is always teaching us about doing right and not harm to people.
- he is a one who puts everyone before himself
- he has a great big smile who would always warm us up

I miss seeing my grand father sitting at his favourite chair at the front porch of the old house everytime when i get back from school. The times when he was able to drive us around to get our fix of snacks from the "MAMA" shop. The must have steamboat reunion dinners on Chinese New Year's Eve at home year after year. Having him in each year's family portraits of the big family on Chinese New Year's day. All these, i will remember and tell Kay what we use to do when his great grand father was still around. If he was still with us today, he would be 97 years old this year.

I'm just glad that i have memories of me & my grandfather, and i truly respect and love this person whom i'm proud to be his grand daughter.

Just getting better!!

It's how November is now for me. Loads of scrap book brands i have been awaiting for has now arrived (as in today at Made with Love), and looking through all these lovely stuff, my knees are going weak. Took lunch time to visit Trendy Thursday today, and you cannot imagine the amount of things i came back with. You can say that i'm just one happy gal for the moment. It's October Afternoon, K&Co, and Webster Page that i got my hands on, and from the amount of stuff i got, i better be scrapping at a much faster pace.

Just look at some of the pretty things from these lovely brands.

October Afternoon

K&Co.

K&Co (Amy Butler)

So it's off to listing out my scrap to do, and working towards giving justice to all the scrap supplies that i have got.

Jayce will be back home tonight from camp, and from today onwards, he would be home every other night. So i'm just glad no long stay in camp this time round.

It's just going to be a peaceful night with me completing my earlier LO.

We are gonna miss him

Jayce is going reservist mid of this week, and for the next 2 weeks, we'll see lesser of him, and certainly missing him being around with us. So over last weekend, we spent quality time together, with Kay's regular playgroud trips with Jayce & myself.

Worked on a new LO size - 8 1/2" x 11" for my new Making Memories album, and from now would be a mix of such sizes and the regular 12"x12" ones which i'm still looking for another album of this size. Loved the new swiss dots cardstocks that i got my hands on of several different shades & they do have the cut size of 8 1/2" x 11". Guess i will be stocking more of such lovely textured cardstock which is available at Laine's Paperterie at the moment. Am only 40% completed , so here is the sneak peek of it.

Am progressing well on my lil brother's ROM acrylic album, another 3 more pages to go and i will be almost done. Here are some peeks of it too below.

Whatever you will be heading out to do today, wishing you a great day ahead & thanks for dropping by.

It's November!!

Already??? It's time to think back about how i've spent my year, and decide what's in store for me all in the new year to come. It's time soon also to get that X'mas tree out in the next couple of weeks, and me getting ready for my favourite month to come - December. November is indeed one great month to come, that's to me at least & also, November is when Kay turns 18 months (a great age to be) + my dad's celebrating his 63rd birthday. So what's not to like about this month.

Kay had fun this morning at the playground. All he wanted was just to hang around this particular play station that comes with a steering wheel, and managed to take some great pics of him playing endlessly with it. To me, just a plain steering wheel, but to him, it's super fun. Will have the photos uploaded later today.

Am now at my dad's place, with the weather pouring like mad outside, kay taking his nap. I'm just going to lay & read some latest copies of scrap magazines i bought last week, and get some inspiration on my upcoming LO. Been concentrating on my lil bro's ROM album that for the past 1 week, i haven't been doing any LO, so i might be working on one tonight. I'll see how it goes.

Looking forward to a nice warm home cooked dinner later tonight at my parent's (that's why i'm here early with Kay today), it's deep friend spring chicken (my dad marinated it) with Italian spicy sausages. It's going to be western, and i love western...

Have a good & wet November afternoon guys!!!