Let's Celebrate.....

We started early with the celebration of Kay's birthday at school which we held last Friday, and this is the 1st time that I've ever seen a lil one who's not keen or pleased with birthdays.....I really got a very special lil one here where you can see from the photos that all his friends are super thrilled except for the birthday boy himself....

The Cake.....His favourite Lightning Mcqueen...



The Hat......love the colours....& the polka dots..

His birthday goody bags....

Just look at my lil guy's expression...the most tensed birthday boy ever....

Kay with his best buddy, Isaiah (the lil guy with the yellow hat)

We concluded that Kay just doesn't like the attention after all, and after all it's mommy and daddy who had fun watching him at class, nothing like being a home. He is a totally different kid at school.

2nd round of birthday celebrations would be on his birthday itself, just some alone time with me & Jayce since it so happens that there is no school on his special day. Got him a surprise....and I'm wondering what his facial expressions will be like.

Thanks bro for the lovely photos of Kay at school, i can imagine just how depressing it can get if your object of the photo is just looking so unhappy......

Till then, have a good week ahead....

Thank you my lil one......

To my wonderful lil guy who gave me this chance at motherhood, i love you to bits. There is a side of you not many will see, the sweetness, the words, and the actions that only I get to see from time to time that makes you such a sweet child to have. Thanks for being you Kay, and i hope i will be a better mommy then i am now. I enjoyed our every moment together even this morning where i let you do my make up (what was i even thinking?).





What more can i ask for this Mother's Day? Got my very 1st Mother's Day card & a purple fuzzy heart you made at school (yup but instead you wished me "Happy Valentine's Day Mommy" when you flashed out the card from your school bag cause you always thought a card with hearts are for V-Day hmmm..but what the heck! I love it) and I'm always reminded that I've got you to be filling happy and blessed with my life. Thanks my lil one for everything.





Growing up so quickly right before my eyes.......





We made lil scrap gifts for 2 of the grandmas for Mother's Day too. For my mom, this cool drawing Kay made of her.....(grandma was asking where are my EYES!!!).....but i know she loved it, and thanks Mom cause you're been taking care of him since he was born and it means alot to me so that i can have peace of mind at work.



I'm so into everything butterflies.....got 2 packs of Pink Paislee's Butterfly pops....i should have gotten more.....

And for my mother-in-law, a photo taken during this year's Chinese New Year by my brother-in-law.... and i'm glad she loves it....i love IKEA frames especially the white ones....

And for myself, i worked on this LO using my most favourite series from Pink Paislee ever....Butterfly Garden (bought almost every single thing they have from this series.....& started to use my mist again.....

Title: A Mother's Wish

And coming soon.....someone is going to turn 4 in about 2 weeks time.....busy busy me....simple tags for Kay's birthday treat bags for his classmates. My scrap pieces came in handy to making these tags.

Busy clearing up my scrap MESS (as Jayce calls it) cause we're having my cousin from Australia visiting us at the end of this month, so we went out to Ikea during the long weekend a week ago to buy myself a nice white shelf and now I have no reason to not start to organise my beloved scappy supplies....& time to give out some stuff as well. Look out for my RAK!

Have yourself a good week ahead!!!

We are Potato Heads

That's what I call of Kay's drawing of each and everyone of us....see for yourself, and we truly look like a variety of potato shapes....also we resemble almost like each other and only he can tell us apart. Guess which one is me:) the largest one of course, and if you want to know which is daddy, he is the very small one in the top right hand side, and worst of without any hair (you should have seen Jayce's face....truly not a very pretty sight).


Kay has drawn himself right next to me( the one on the left), and the rest are grandma, and grandpa + there is even a rock with a face he says. His drawings has been like this since he started drawing, and gradually i see from the beginning of no smiles, to now some smiles on our potato faces from to time, and sometimes we even have ears (his ears are drawn as straight lines to the side). So when i saw this drawing he has done just recently, I had to scrap it......

Title : Potato Heads

Used latest Pink Paislee's Daily Junque papers, and Epherma packs, and a mix

of Hometown summer chipboards...

Here is a drawing of yours truly with no hair this time round....and this round Kay has started giving us matching potato bodies as well.....and he says that extra line drawn at the eyes was BLOOD....i've one very creepy kid...

I've kept most of his art work either drawn with crayons, paint or pencils, and I'm going to put together one mini with all his art work. Think it's the best way to create memories of what art is to him at this age. I bet it's going to be so cool when he looks back when he's lots older.

I have been trying to be scrappy too lately, working through a mini album for a colleague who's left us to embark on her journey of married life back in Indonesia, and she'll be coming back again in May before her marriage to send us invites, so this would make an ideal gift of photos of us taken with her before she left. It will make good memory keepsake. Here's a peek.....using my much hoarded October Afternoon papers.....

I miss scrapping more, but at this point of time, I'm just happy with scrapping whenever the creative juices come by, and definitely when I'm not too poofed out with the everyday life.

Just look at him....

I'm always in awe as I watch just how much he has grown. My days of waiting for his birth is still fresh in my mind, it's so much of the thoughts and feelings that have gone into his growing up days that i still can't believe it that in another month, he will be 4. I've survived mommyhood so far, still keeping myself sane despite the trials of a soon to be 4 year old, and i'm still loving every moment of this journey.

He is the love of my life, no doubt, my 1st born, my lil guy.......all in one....never is there a day that is dull when he's around me, and i would only hold tight to the memories of us he grows up finding himself, and me being a parent, and doing our best to build strong foundation of family ties, love, gratefulness and discipline. We see mini versions of me, and daddy within him, and this makes him uniquely ours.

I love looking through the many photos we've taken of him since his birth, the filled to the brim albums of my layouts (talk about this i've got to start to look for another new 12"x12" album), and the baskets filled of minis. Scrapbooking has taken me this far telling his story, and I'm sure it's staying with me.

Just look at how much he has grown the last few years, and i sure miss his little baby days even though it's the most tiring days i ever been through my whole life but we both think it's totally worth it. We totally love sniffing your hair cause it still smells like a baby to me.....and as much as i hate facing it that he's gradually not going to need mommy that much now, I want him to know just how proud I am.

I love looking back.....all these photos of him only brings back stories of that time.....thanks for all these memories Kay.....

This is him now......my soon to be 4 year old......

Love you lil guy!!

Weekend with my Boys....

Weekends always fly by that quickly because they are always so much fun, and when you are spending them with the people you love, you tend to want to hold on to these days more tightly and wishes that they would just last that much longer...... No fancy photos, just regular iphone photos which i snapped really quickly cause with him around, the iphone just doesn't allow me to take proper photos of him not looking too blur.....he doesn't like having his photos taken, and normally i will always have a photo of him with a plate covering over his little face. I'm lucky this time.... At Canton-i with his darling Piggy buns (for your information, he hated them, he refused to eat them, or even have them this close to him....i made him take a photo so you can tell by his facial expression that he is not one bit excited.....horrible mommy). He is born in the year of the Pig, so i thought i would ordered them and surprise him with it, but nope, i failed!!! Kay took over, and took this shot of Jayce which we thought, hey not too bad for a beginner.....as long as daddy says the photo is NICE and pleased with it, it is NICE!!! and you know he took a zillion shots of Jayce, and most of them he looks okay, and Kay only took 2 photos of me, and it's never of my face.....he only took me from my nose to my chin....wahhhhhhhaaaa. That's my son!!

I wish for more time with them. With both of us working on the weekdays, we don't have much time together as 3 cause daddy works over the weekends, so we try to squeeze in as much trio times as possible even at meals. We are even planning to go for at least 1 holiday this year. Both of us talked about it, and we are giving it a serious thought that we should actually GO for a holiday in the 2nd half of the year, and we'll go to Melbourne. We both liked it there, we've been there for our honeymoon, and now we would like Kay to share this place with us, we're sure he will like it as much as we do. We're keeping our fingers crossed that we will get to planning this holiday for us.

How has your weekend been?

As I work......

My dearest most beloved lil guy who happens to not be in school today because of some sniffles.....he is enjoying his life....doing his most favourite thing.....eating 2 half boiled eggs.... To be extremely busy the last few days at work having overseas suppliers over, it can make me feel really good to just open my e-mails (and thanks to my brother and sis in law who happens to be on leave at this moment) and see these photos of Kay popping in...makes me smile for sure, and all of the sudden i don't feel that tired anymore. My son has a certain effect on me whenever i see him....and in rare occasions he does pop a surprise by visiting me at the office when i least expect.... So here he is....when i'm at my busiest time of the day.....

I miss scrapping to a certain extend, and since being away from our home for the past 2 nights (been staying with my parents so that at least they can watch over Kay for me when i have late nights with my suppliers), so definitely hope to work on new layouts when I'm totally done feeling this tired.....yes yin wen one more supplier to go next week and you'll be back to normal.....till another 2 more weeks....

Completed my latest LO using Sassfrass Lass "foldies", a random mix of Crate Paper's chipboards....& so much more pink for a lil guy's LO. So far my son has yet to ask why i always use so much more flowers, and softer colours for his LO, so i'm scrapping according to how the photos make me feel, and to the scrap materials that i pick and choose to match his photos...

Title" He's turning 4

Have a great Tuesday you all and for me one more dinner with my suppliers tonight where i surely will be stuffing my face.

With all my time......

I'm looking at some spent planning for Kaylen's 4th birthday coming up in May. it's surely going to be a"Lightning Mcqueen" birthday themed birthday at school with the cake, all that yummy birthday treat bags that we're going to fill mostly with (decided not to have the usual birthday treat bags filled to the brim with snacks and sweets) little sticker books, erasers, pencils, crayons, party blowers, and yes a some lolly's from Sticky's and once i get my hand on those Lightning Mcqueen treat bags that i've been searching high and low for since 2 weeks back, Kay will start putting his treat bags together. I even have the treat bags catered for boys and girls in his class. The boys gets Lightning Mcqueen pinball games, and girls get a pack of Hello Kitty silly bandz (i so much prefer the girls treat bags for sure) besides all the other shared common items. This will be his 1st time celebrating his birthday at school and having friends celebrate it with him so i know he is looking forward to this and i have already plans to have this made into a mini album for sure. So much plans for May since it's Kay's birthday month, i'm booking our tickets online soon for Universal Studio (our birthday present to him this year cause he's got enough of trucks, trains, cars so we though he would like an experience and time spent just with mommy and daddy, and just the 3 of us), our stay at this boutique hotel- Studio M (kay has this thing for staying at hotels, it's one of his favourite places to be) since this was a price I won some months back given by one of my suppliers. I'm looking forward to also having some time to just scrap away, drown myself with all that latest products from my favourite brands, and just not think about anything other then scrapping. I will be lucky if in the next 2 weeks, i can even scrap 1 layout cause we've got overseas guest in town again, new business systems being implemented at work, so if i'm left with whatever ounces of energy left, I will steal away even if it's for that few minutes to just scrap a little. So bear with me if you don't see much of me......it will get better i know. Here's my latest play with Crate Paper....a mix between some products from both Portraite & Emma's Shoppe....hard to resist ranges...

Title: My Love

I hope i hope to see G soon cause i didn't get the chance to see her this week again....I certainly do miss chatting and updating each other with our busy lives.....& did i mention i haven't touched the camera for more than 1 month now, i hope by next weekend i will have the chance to just take Kaylen's photos cause he has grown so much, and i don't want to miss this for anything.

This weekend, it's just back to only me & him time, so even how tired i am from this week at work, i know all i need to perk up is just some Kaylen time, it's good enough for me.

Till then, my dear friends, thanks for still coming by....love you all!!