Too caught up with the everyday life

Life has just gotten busier for me and i can't believe that it's already the 2nd month of a brand new year....where did January disappear to? Did this month just fly by me just that quickly. I guess when i'm so caught up with the everyday life that i fail to just stop for awhile. January has been a great month for me, and indeed a very special one cause I started class at The Scrapbook Carton, meet new faces, and enjoyed myself. Thank you all for being great company, and i surely hope that each of liked your LO as much as how much i enjoyed myself creating the work for you.

Life at work has just doubled for me, and with all the new directions for the company, it's both exciting and challenging as we go about making new changes. It's not going to be easy but at least i know i'm putting in every effort i have. There will bond to be differences but working in a community that is like one big family, I tend to put the differences aside, and just concentrate on working to my best.

Indeed for the past weeks, not only is the immense hot weather creating havoc in our lifes by rendering my lil guy with flu, high fever, and now past 3 days of diarrhoea sort of stools and a lost of appetite, and totally very little energy, I've been worried sick, and only a trip to the doctor to ensure that Kay's gotten the proper medication to stop the nasty runs. I hope he will get well real soon, and for me to have him bouncing up and down the sofa, or driving crazy around the house in his mobile car, anything to see him smile & laugh again. We've been giving him extra loving care, loads of hugs & kisses, and being just that much more patient with his whines & cries.

So with the everyday busy life and trying to catch up watching on my now favourite show - "Hi my Sweetheart" (yes stacy it is super addictive), I've taken a break from scrapping for the last week (yes i have a to-do list for scrapping, and it looks like it's starting to collect dust). Working on each of my project at the slowest possible pace, so it's looking like i need some catching up very soon.

Here's my latest peek at the canvas piece i did for my brother's upcoming Feb wedding....

I'm signing off for now, but be back soon for more scrapping V-day projects & layouts for sure!!!

Have a happy Tuesday!

I am...

* totally tired out today from not getting to sleep much since 2 nights ago cause Kay is down with slight flu, and a high fever throughout last night (my poor baby)

* totally loving this Taiwan show "Hi my sweetheart" which my brother gotten me to watch, and it's gotten me and Jayce laughing away. We're having to watch really slow and into the late nights


* going through a very slow process of packing my scrap desk, and having to go through our household stuff to see what needs to be given or thrown away (we always seem to only have the time after Kay's gone to bed to work on this, and seriously we're moving like the tortise argggghhhhh!!!)

* working on my Valentine's album for Kay, and it's already 50% completed

* totally in love with punches now especially Martha Stewart ones, i've lost count to the number of punches i've gotten, and latest in my collection - their sweetest eyelet heart punch, just in time for my V-Day album

* half way there working on V-Day gifts for my colleagues, but very far from working on V-Day cards for my best pals.

Hope your day has been well!!

Make it your own....

If you like what we're have created for the class at The Scrapbook Carton, then come join me & G for our very own distinct class with each of our own signature style.

Come join me in creating a 2 12"x12" LO with Cosmo Cricket's whimsical series- Nutmeg, and have that much more fun making your own simple embellishments for this LO. Play with Glimmer mist , and get your hands all crafty with me. Inclusive in the class kit would be a full 12"x12" Nutmeg chipboard.

Class : Nuts about you

For those who's thinking of what to get for your special Valentine this year, why not try out making your very own mini album using Maya Road's 2 ring heart chipboard album and get to play with Jenni Bowlin's range of patterened papers, pearl flowers, rhinstone buttons & those hard to resist vintage tickets. It's going to be that much more special for that someone special when it's all handmade by you.

Class: Happiness is Handmade

Write to : classevents@thescrapbookcarton.com for more details.

Also look out in early Feb 2010 on The Scrapbook Carton's social scrapping event too!!

It's Everyday...

* that i find comfort knowing that he is safe & sound

* that he is healthy

* that he lets you know how he feels be it happy or sad, or even in a terrible bad mood

* that his lil face lights up instantly when i walk through the door after coming home from work

* that i will plant zillion amount of kisses on that lil face of his, and letting him know just how much i love him

* that i find myself talking him through matters to make him understand why he shouldn't be doing certain things, and have him to reply me "sorry mummy, ok"

* that he makes me laugh and forget how tough sometimes my days can be

* that i would at least be doing 1 silly dance or song infront of him, just to see him giggle that much more

* that he wants to be independent, and be doing things on his own, and for me to hear him say "no mummy, kay kay myself...."

* that he lets us know that he likes everyone to be doing things together, and going everywhere as one big family

* that even if speaking with him over the phone in the afternoon before his nap time for a mere 3 seconds is enough to make me smile through his many words to describe what he's doing at that time

I'm love my everyday and as long as i have him, and knowing that he's growing up to be someone who's so full of emotions, a fierce mind of independence, one who picks himself up each time he falls down with no tears and just "it's ok mummy", one who loves to help out. All these are just good enough for me, and it doesn't matter how tired out physically & mentally i can be at the end of each day , knowing of all these everyday lil things of him is blessed to me.

Hope your everyday is as special as it can be!!

Yes, that very piece of friendship

I won't say that I'm always making friends as i walk through my life journey. I'm not one who talks alot or find it easy opening up to someone, and it's actually only when i discovered scrapbooking that i found that not only do i enjoy this creative process that it allows me to feel, but also making new friends along this scrap journey, and for good old friends to bond even deeper because of this shared passion.

I'm totally for Social Scrapping which The Scrapbook Carton has organised and it's where we can all get together with people we're meeting for the very 1st time, sharing our stories of the photos we bring, sharing that personal style of each scrapper, and most importantly make new friends. Do check out this upcoming event!!

I have a story to tell with each of my friends, adventures we've gone through in life be it at school or at work, or in my everyday life. And now as we each have our family & work, it is always that much more harder to meet them all. Yes we gather for crops at my place whenever time permits, or even for lunch & shopping, it's not what we do that matters whenever we meet up, but so much more of having them with me during our meets up, seeing their smiley faces, hearing their life stories are just good enough for me. I love them, and they all know that.

At the end of the day, I'm glad that scrapbooking has let me found new friends like G, and like how she always put it and very much of my same thoughts, we never though we would find such friendships at such age (not that we're super old), but friends like her who's loyal, doing that extra mile and putting the same amount of love we have for this friendship, and to this day, I'm counting my lucky stars that we bond because of our love for this hobby and also the chance i get out of having to walk this scrap journey with her is more than what i can ask for.

To all my friends out there, and also to those who constantly read my blog even though for some i have yet to get a chance to meet in person, i hope someday our path would meet, and that a piece of frienship would be born.

Love ya guys!!!

There's always time in his world for everything....

While I would always go about saying how little time i have in a day to do stuff and still ensuring that i have time to keep my dear lil guy company whenever we're home on Sundays, time has recently for me gotten even more precious cause we're all busy getting ready for my brother's (2 weddings in a month difference of each other..arrrggghhhh!!!) wedding which will start in a months time and weekends are the time i have to help in any way i can for my brother's.

Sundays are precious to me cause it's usually a full day i have with Kay, not interrupted in any way, both of us just have each other as company even though it means staying put at home while Jayce is at work. While i'm being contented with the time i have with him, Kay would always have something to do, and not wasting any of his own time.

*He has a time to get rested & just laze on the couch in his most comfortable combi - t-shirt & underpants


* He has the time to lay on his tummy to enjoy his cartoon shows



* He has time to play cooking with me, and he was just making coffee for me

* He has time to colour away.....but it lasted only 5 minutes and off he went to do other stuff

* He has time to just stop and look right at me and thank goodness i manage to take

this no expression shot of him

* He has time to play awhile with his 1st artpiece which he calls "Itsy Spider" which was made on his 1st day on his own at GUG, and i'm so proud of this work that we have it displayed it on the wall right next to his table.

* He has time for his gang of wheelie toys (yes i call them this cause he's totally in love with anything that has wheels), and with this Spring Cleaning coming up in our house, we're thinking of leaving a box of wheelie's at Jayce's parent's place so that he can have stuff to play with whenever we're there. He has that much wheelie's that they're hard to keep now cause of their size (yes yes, the result of having one too many pressie's over X'mas, and also his own parent's weakness whenever we see the cars thinking he might like this one or that one)

He definitely finds things to do around the house whenever we're at home, but when it comes to me, i wish i had always that little bit more time to getting things done especially in the scrappy sense of things & that constant to do list of mine.....

* a semi finished ang bao box for my brother whose wedding is in end Feb 2010, still more work needed before i finish.

* worked on 2 LO's as my new assisgnment for The Art Republic which is located at Velocity. Yes another source of scrapping supplies here in Singapore. Don't we scrappers just love this!!! At least i know i do with open welcoming arms!! So every month you'll see my creations for them. Exciting!

Got to go, loads of new changes at work, challenging and straining at times but i believe with my word of the year - DRIVE, it's going to get me through.

Have a good tuesday!!

It doesn't matter....

* that my sewing skills still sucks even with the help of the singer machine
* that i encountered several boos boos when trying to sew the pages together
* that Jayce tells me "why does your page look like a pillow", and literally Kay though i made him a pillow??
* that i was working till 3am+ this morning to complete putting everything together
* that i have loose threads coming out from here or there
* that i was just figuring out so hard as to how i want to be binding this huge lumpy album
* that my 1st ever fabric album inspired by Irene looks like a huge multi-coloured hamgurger
* that all my pleating were all irregular, and that i had to pleat for each of the 12 months of the year

This fabric album (made from scratch, using Sandi Hendersen's fabric for Kaylen to remember year 2009 is still very much loved by me despite me having to pull my hair out at some point of time, still very much looked at despite me wanting to just give up cause i hate sewing, but looking at each page which I painstakeningly put together according to the photos taken in that particular month. I love the end product more than everything, and Kaylen loves it too when i showed him the finished album this morning. I got a big YES from him when i asked if he likes it, so that's enough for me!!!

I'm all good, i just love this new album cause i had a great time when i looked at each photo when i create of this special guy in my life, and that's just enough for me.

Have a beautiful evening!!