We had fun....

& i know he enjoyed himself truly being there, and trying stuff for the very 1st time. From the look of the photo, you know just how happy he is. He's been on the Skyride 3 times in 2 days(he loves, 2 Luge rides (one with daddy & one with me), 1 ride on bought the new revamped cable car with us & grams, visit to the Butterfly & Insect Park, & his ever so favourite sand castle building at the Hard Rock hotel beach. We're intending to make this a yearly thingy. We needed such short getaway as a family, and Jayce needs his time with his lil guy & all the entry tickets to places he's visited at Sentosa will all go into my 2010 journal for the month of December.

I'm just happy that for the past 2 weeks, it's so precious cause i'm with him almost every minute, and you can say that coming back to work is hard today cause I've got him telling me last night that he will miss me, and again this morning looking very reluctant to let go of my hand when i have to drop him off at my mom's, and him acting up in his naughty behaviour of not wanting grandma or grandpa around him. I understand at his age, it's naturally and he will take a few days for everything to just get back to its usual.

So everything is back to the usual hectic life of work, and you can imagine the amount of paperwork surrounding me being away all these while, and at home, a list of to-dos (X'mas cards to be finished & sent out , I'm so late!!!, gift tags to scrap for my gifts for my colleagues at work(this year they're getting a Christmas Treat Box packed with Christmas Fruit Cake I ordered through G at her school + a bag filled with chocolates), a well needed sorting out of my scrap desk, & 23pcs of my Friendship swap pieces (yipeee i sort of started FINALLY!!!) & not forgetting a major X'mas party to prepare for (ok 2 X'mas party in 1 day, one at the office & 1 at my grams place....it's major eating!!!)

So from now till then I'm still trying to squeeze in time to go for a stroll down Orchard Road with all that Christmas lights going on & an evening dinner treat to Universal Studios with Kay.

Till then, it's counting down to Christmas!!!!

It's that busy.....

Oh gosh how much i miss you all, blogging & updating myself with what's been going on....I've been juggling the role of taking care of Kaylen since late last week, making trips to the office in the morning session lagging Kay along with me (it's hard to work with him appearing at my office every few minutes), Christmas shopping (even harder when it's just me & him, and best part of it is when we reach a certain destination, before i start to shop, he would say " i want to go home"...arrrrggghhhh. That's so much to do, but just so little time....but we just had so much of "our time".

Here's my week so far....just some shots from my digi to just record my past week...

*spending time at home, goofing around, playing, and for mommy dearest it's loads of packing & sorting of both his stuff & my scrapping stuff....look how much he has grown from last year standing next to the tree....& not very happy though...

Some presents wrapped during his nap time in the afternoons....and you should see the mess after this....this time all created by me...

Kay's latest art piece.....his snowman which now sits proudly on the wall.....

Getting ready to start my next Friendship swap pieces again....just say that after cutting out 96 puny pieces of the word "birthday" i'm now nursing a sore, very sore neck but enjoying every minute of the creation process....

& the only LO which i've created in the past week...

Title: A Part of Us

I love how my very 1st artwork piece done

with Kay is part of my LO

I've to sign off now....hope to be back soon....next on our holiday activity list next week- Resort World, here we come!!

This photo to love...

I love this photo so much that it's on my computer desktop at work, and i have to scrap it. Even when i close my eyes, i can still see clearly that face, those bright eyes looking back at me. I love him to bits, and he knows that. I'm enjoying everything about him being at this age of 3 1/2 of years, so much talking, so much mischief, so much innocence, & so much fun. He just brings me ounces & ounces of joy each day.

Scrapping with Basic Grey's lastest range - "Curio", i love this range, so much flowers, so much of my type of colours, and so soothing to its feel. I've used "Dear LIzzy" enchanted series of lacecut papers, a little of that fantastic washi tape....

Title: "3 & Half"

I've got little holiday plans & activties for the little one in December. Tickets to the "Walking with Dinosaurs" The Arena Spectacular is what we'll start our December with (Kaylen's counting down), 2 nights stay at Hard Rock Hotel at Resort World, and this time we'll have more time compared to the last stay we had at Resort World (Festive Hotel), tentative 5 days trip to Penang as a whole family & best part of it all, I will have at least 1 whole week to spend with Kaylen cause my mom will be going for a minor operation, and she needs rest, so to me, I'll gladly have this additional time with my lil guy.

I can't wait for December to be here, it's going to be a busy busy month since it's Christmas too. I've a long list of to-do's & with the X'mas pressie hunting.....oh gosh i need more time!!!

All 18 of them....

I enjoyed creating each & everyone of this for the recent Friendship Swap. It certainly has me-style written all over it, and a pity that i didn't get the chance to meet up with the rest of the lovely ladies who made their very own special piece (you can see from Pooi's post on all 18 of our swap pieces here) for the swap. Unfortunately due to my time schedule i didn't make it for the crop to meet them, and i've just collected my set. Each piece has a style signature of the creator, and i hope i will get a chance to meet them in person someday, they make really such beautiful & unique pieces.

Here's my very own 1st friendship swap piece....

& so with the above 18, i've signed up for the next round of Friendship Swap & it's 24pcs I'm creating next....ohhhhh & just the 1st thought that went in my mind after signing up for it was - "what am i getting myself into????!!!"" wahahahaha.......oh well, i know like my 1st friendship swap, i enjoyed the process of creating, i enjoyed that i had a piece of someone elses work with me to keep, and i enjoy that it's all about people passionate about the same hobby I'm crazy about since 3 years already. I can just say that this "Friendship Swap" thingy is just pure addictive.

School's out & holidays are in for the little one, which means mummy here has to do my best to fill up the upcoming months with something to do......

Enjoy your week ahead!!!

Mandarin Here we Come.....

He needs to start somewhere...somehow....this language of Mandarin scares me in the past when it's the schooling days, and now it seems to be passed on to my lil guy. We never spoke a word of Mandarin at home, and i somehow think that somewhere we have to start with this Mandarin speaking. He hates Mandarin, and most likely hate it that i call him by his chinese name - Yu Xuan. Whenever we call him Yu Xuan, he would "correct us" No, my name is KAYLEN. This is bad, right??? The only chinese thing he does is to sing parts of songs (i mean pop songs like from Show Luo, or his latest favourite, Nicky Lee) & to him it doesn't mean Mandarin. To him, it's just a song.

I want him to like Mandarin when he gets more of this exposure in school next year since they will teach Mandarin 3 times a week in N1, so that should do, and to get him started, I've signed him up at the start of next year - once a week at Mandarin Speech & Drama class at Hua Language Centre at United Square (thanks Pooi for the recommendation, i finally got to registering him for this). We're starting slow with the Mandarin thingy cause at Speech & Drama, there is going to be songs, story telling, puppetry, games, & sing along (Kay loves to sing), it's light and not daunting for a start. The school wanted to put him due to his age right into N2 (that's where they teach Han Yu Pin Yin, recognise chinese characters, and I was like asking the receptionist if it's going to just be a little too much for someone who doesn't even understand or speak a word of Mandarin), so i opted to just have his start out with speech & drama first and see how he goes. Crossing my fingers when the time comes to the new school term, that this will open his eyes and experience for himself that Mandarin is actually fun.

I believe we're going to have lots of stories from this new chapter of Mandarin when the time comes....to Kay when year 2011 comes, it means a brand new schooling environment as he moves up to N1, new teachers & a whole lot of new friends. He has fantastic schooling experience since April this year, his teachers has good remarks on his whole schooling journey for me to remember during my last week's teacher's & parents meeting, discovering his love for songs & storybooks at class, and how we can continue to influencing him in more positive ways. He learns with each experience, and there is no point in me forcing him to take up chinese just because how important it is our current times. I know of the importance of this language, & that's why i'm starting this very slowly. Let him enjoy the songs ,dances & stories first since he likes so much of this singing thingy, and go slow from there.

I'm so proud of him, and how much like the teacher said that Kaylen has grown since his 1st day at school. Confident & always willing to try out things & tasks. We're starting to see the areas which interest him most (my brother was commenting today "why on earth did you sign him up for speech & drama, when he is already such a drama king!!! wahahaha.......)

Have a good start of the week!!!

I enjoy....

Everyone who knows me would know that i just can't get enough of my son. I love him so dearly, and how much time i have free from work, i would just be spending it with him. He is my world, and he is the source of my strength, and sometimes i just can't believe it that i've got so much love for someone so little.


I enjoy all my time spent with him, i enjoy taking sniffs in his hair which he would say that it smells like strawberries, i enjoy scrapbooking because of him, I enjoy the memories we make together, simply i enjoy us!!


He is 3 1/2 this month, and he never fails to amaze me just how much he is talking & understanding at this age, I enjoy him being at this age, and how much i'm holding on to this precious time. I enjoy our conversations & questions.



I enjoy putting together our year 2010 journal, slowly the months are coming together even though i'm far from finishing it anytime soon, but will definitely before the end of this year. Within it i decided to document important events as this year marks many happy occasion for our family, 1 big travel to Szechuan, 2 weddings, the start of a new school & within it i also recorded our simple everyday life.

Here's snippets of some of the pages....

I enjoy how much scrapbooking has allowed for me to keep memories fresh in our minds whenever we re-visit the pages, and each photo tells so much of my little guy, his moods, and at times special moments. I see him growing up with each scrapbooking page i've done....Here's one which i did lately, and one which i enjoy using mist on the latest Pink Paislee's Parisian Anthropology resist patterned paper.

Title: Shine

Have a superb Thursday everyone!!

A Weekly Affair....

When we're at home, i do my best to find interesting things to do with Kay cause it's not always about watching his favourite movies or DVDs, or playing this or that....I try to fill up his time at home with crafty hands-on projects. He is one who will not sit for too long, and it better be exciting if i want him to be sitted for a good 1/2 hour. & the best way to getting around this is doing craft stuff. Daddy's the one who's really good at drawing or doing origami of some sort...so when he's not around....i turn to my scrap tools for help.



Kay loves Martha Stewart punches especially the apple & flower shaped punches, so we gave it a try over the weekend...he would create lil punch out shapes, then put them in a plastic box i got him to put these shapes in and so he can use them anytime to glue them down to coloured papers. He simply loves doing this, and he got most of his fun crafting time out of just punching....and even happier when he's got half punched out apple shapes.



Just look at his face....i can see just how much he is enjoying this process.....

and showing of his finished punched out apple...a full one for this....

It's also at the weekends that i've more time to be crafting cause work has increased for me over the last few weeks, and as much as i would love to de-stress by scrapping when Kay goes to bed, i just can't seem to find the energy left to be creative. So come the weekends, i have afternoons during Kay's nap time to work on stuff....started on my 6"x6" mini for my beloved car, and Pooi's always my inspiration when it comes to minis...she's like the goddess of all mini...so here a peek at my mini which the next would be to fill it up with photos (awaiting to be collected from the photo lab) & loads of journaling for this. Did this mini in an accordian style, loads of pages to work on....& my all time favourite - washi tape to hold all the pages together.

Title: Remember Swift

& remember my gift for my pal M, here's the full review....our favourite go to Ikea frames....a photo of M (she's the one on the left) with my cousin at my brother's wedding. Sweet young ladies...and both of them are of the same age. Love love how the latest Dear Lizzy Enchanted series of papers goes so well with this photo...This is one range of paper which I've yet to experiment using Kaylen's photo (it's a tough one cause i tried but it's just too girly so i gave up)

Title: GirlFriends

Have a great great Monday!!