Weekends all about....

Not thinking that I've only another 1 more weekend with Kay before leaving for Italy, but just enjoying the time i have with him at home, and we manage to get sometime at the bookshop looking for dinosaurs related books for Kay, and we didn't expect that on top of that, he came home with a truck as well adding to his one so many number of cars & trucks.

I've got to enjoy these lovely surprise flowers G's gotten for me for my birthday last week, and seriously i was speechless when they came into my office when i was still having a meeting....and now these sit lovely on my TV console, and when Kay saw them he said "ohhh flowers...."

And not to forget this special handmade mini G made that came along with the flowers, and this vintage purse.

I've also the time to put on the finishing touches to Kay's 3rd birthday album, using Maya Road's latest banner style chipboard album that fits perfectly with this birthday album for him...and i love how happy the latest series of Cosmo "Togetherness" range of chipboards, stickers & papers.

And this little guy likes what I've done, so what is there not to be super happy about!! He knows it's for him, and i think he's use to having mommy be cutting, sticking, and making endless layouts & projects for him to remember, and the word "scrapbooking" & "scrapbooking shops" are definitely not new to him...wahahaha....

It's off to the Mooncake Festival by the Singapore River tonight, and it's a date i have with my lil guy & my dear beloved family.

Have a good week ahead!!

& just like that....

I turned 35, and had spent the last 4 days totally with Kaylen. The best gift ever for me, and we did spent every waking moment together, and i'm the happiest. It's simple things that we do at home like playing cars, watching TV, doing laundry (yes my lil guy loves putting his own laudry in the machine, and loves pressing all those buttons to make the machine start washing), going to the supermarket, and all that laughing makes my birthday over the weekend the best ever.

Not forgetting, we've both our lil outing to the scrap shop, just me & him driving down to town, just us having lunch, and he was certainly well behaved during those couple of hours, so it's definitely more of such times in future cause Jayce was worried that he's just going to be handful like always when we go out.

I certainly feel well rested during the long weekend, and had some time to be scrapping again after stopping for such a long time. Playing with My Mind's Eye's latest cutesy series - Alphabet Soup, here's the piece with one of my favourite photo's of Kay's all time mischief...

Title: Mischief

My dear colleague is back now, all at work is falling back to its usual pace, & i can breathe a little better now, and it's another 2 more weeks before i leave for Italy, so lots of stuff to work on before i go....

Have a great start of the week, and thanks so much to my family & friends, for all the dear birthday wishes that will be with me...

With you....

Title: With You

(Sassfrass Lass Indie Girl)

- i've never ever looked back on motherhood
- i feel so blessed
- i've always someone to look forward to at the end of the day
- it has been the best journey ever for both mother & son
- i've done things i've never done before
- i can see parts of daddy
- i have my fair share of "hair pulling days"
- we've created so many stories to tell

Thanks son for all these beautiful memories, and i can't have walked this journey without you.

Truly....

It's not going to be easy, or never have been for me to travel for work ever since Kay came into my life, and even though i don't travel as much to be away from him, i know when the time comes for me to leave, it's me with a heavy heart. It's always the hardest for me when i have to travel, and for him, he's not going to like it either cause it's no mommy for bedtime, no mommy for company & no mommy for 1 week. I'm counting down to the time i have to travel which is the end of Sept, and going to places as beautiful as Italy & the tons of shopping(oh yes Gucci here i come) i will get done, and tons of ME time, i'm still going to miss him terribly, and i remembered when i left for 2 weeks 2 years ago to Italy & Portugal, i came home to a 14 month old lil one who started walking. Missed out on his very 1st walk on his own( i had to view it through a video Jayce had recorded for me to just see him take his 1st big step when i came back), and i still remembered clearly that even at that age, he doesn't know where on earth i disappeared too, but when he saw my face again, that lil smile & excitement of seeing me once again was the best ever as he walked towards me. I remembered being on the verge of tearing cause it's 2 whole weeks away from my baby & my handphone bill went up as high as close to 1K (yikes!!) just so that he knows mommy is still around somewhere.

We've decided that when i leave for Italy, he's not going to send me off at the airport cause we know for sure he's not going to like seeing me go in without him, and to see him cry is not going to do both of us any good.

I'm surely missing all his mood swings, his voice, his smell, his everything and telling myself that it's going to be a quick 1 week since i'm going to be at the fair for 3 whole days, the travel time in between & that i'm going to be able to shop at H&M for Kaylen and the company of my dear brother, yes time will just fly by and he is in good hands, so it's just me coping with missing my heart out for him.

See the grumpy face above, i'm already missing him already!!!

Right Now...

He wants:-
- to be part of our everyday conversation
- to know everything you are saying, and if he doesn't understand, he will surely ask " what happened mommy?"
- to sing his heart out, even though if he's terribly out of tune
- to wear my shoes everyday in the morning & for me to wear his, and says he is mommy
- to be "Kaylen the Stegasauraus" , and for me to be "Mommy Stegasaraus", and when he sees me back from work every evening, he greets me "hellow mommy stegasauras"
- to drink chocolate milk


I want:-
- to spend as much time as i can with him cause he's growing up just too quickly
- to create special memories for both of us to remember for the rest of our lives
- to have some alone time to just scrap myself silly
- to get my hands on this toy - the Canon Ixus 130 before leaving for Italy to take ME photos when i'm there. Given away my Sony Cybershot, so i can't wait for this to come...

Thanks goodness it's already Thursday!!

Right now on my scrap desk...

it's covered & littered with Cosmo Cricket latest series "Togetherness" papers, chipboards & stickers, and i just can't help to squeeze sometime last night putting aside the Maya Rd album for awhile to work on my latest LO. Here's it, and i love how cute the chipboards are.....

Tite: I love you to the moon & back

Truly a piece that perks me up!!!

Have a great Wednesday!

It's going to be one of those week....

where everything seems to be flying really quickly past you, and the sort that you would not have much time to stop and take a breather, Monday came & just whiz past me.

With a fantastic week ending for me last week by having super good news at work after a long 2 months of negotiation with the other party, we're finally going to be getting somewhere, and meeting 2 good scrapping pals - G & Pooi over at the LSS is definitely one of the best things where all we talk about is scrapping, and looking at each other's basket picks of the latest scrap supplies. I really miss these times. Ending last week with meeting up with my best friend Wen for good ol' Coca steamboat for lunch, shopping at the scrap store's again with her (i made her load up her basket hehe...) & ending up with very full bellies of beverages after beverages.

This week will definitely be a super quick one for me....going through work being busier as ever because of the new development of brands, my dear "assistant" is also on long leave till after 1st week of Sept, so there's just loads to do for the next couple of weeks. I'm mostly beat by the time i get home, and just cannot find the energy & brain power to think of what i want to be scrapping just yet even though i have unfinished project laying now on the desk. Here's what is waiting for me.....only 10% done....

Using latest Cosmo Cricket's Togetherness range of patterened paper & those to die for chipboard....putting it together for Kay's 3rd Birthday album (i'm so behind time, i've still to remake his 2nd birthday album cause it went missing at the LSS store when it's on display, so this is also waiting for me to start). Thanks G for the valuable advice on painting the scallop sides of the flag banner maya road chipboard album. I hope to get this album finished within a week's time.






& this lovely Alice in Wonderland fabric which Pooi gotten for me...totally adorable, and waiting for me to use it at my next fabric album, i'm going to attempt another fabric album soon, and it'll be my 2nd one after the 1st horrendous sewing episode. Looking at how well Pooi sewed on her bag project, i just hope i have 1/4 of her skill, i'll be satisfied. Thanks Pooi for this lovely gift which i hope to have time to work on it soon.

Enjoy your week you all!!!