What an October it is!!

October came and went as quickly as I expected it to be, and I keep reminding myself to document as much as I can of my lil guy's growing up journey.....So here is October for him, and his very 1st Halloween....this year he's dressed up as a wizard, and a good one i must add. In Singapore we never celebrate much of this western tradition and the most we would see would be at my parent's estate where you have some foreigners staying there, that you are greeted with pretty much the usual Halloween decors at the front of their home, and this round we manage to see groups of lil ones all dressed up, and making their way with lil pumpkin treat baskets or bags, and attending such party celebration , and not forgetting their mummies and daddies too....

Kayl comes to love this festival cause he loves pumpkins....so this year we decided to add some of the Halloween stuff into our home.....our gate's stuck with orange and white cobwebs, and tons of creepy spiders that he added on, Halloween banners at the front area of our home, a family of daddy, mommy and Kaylen Jack O' lanterns (unfortunately I was too afraid to crave any of them cause it might look even more gruesome if i get my hands on them, but instead he bought some weeks back a pack of Martha Stewart pumpkin transfers while I was scrapbook shopping.....). Just too bad there wasn't anyone to trick a treat with, but he's already too excited about the spooky gate we have that got the attention of a few of my neighbours.

So here's some pictures I've taken of him and his very 1st Halloween.....

And back to something less creepy, my LO which finally I've completed but haven't got time earlier to post about, using latest October Afternoon's Side Walk. Love this range so much that I'm guilty of hoarding the papers and the chipboards that I'm planning to use them for this year's scrap pressie for my office colleagues....slowly but surely I'm starting my Christmas gift project soon.

Title: A Day in the Sunshine

It's the 1st day of November today.....is this going to be yet another fast month??

Have a great start of November you all!!

Great to just be back blogging......

You just have no idea how much i miss this space of mine, miss catching up with my favourite blogs, scrapbooking, capturing moments of the ever growing Kay, and can't believe that September's gone just like this, and so is October in another weeks time.

So much had happened for us in September, and a month that I will always remember. Our dear 17 year old furry friend - Bubbles passed away 3 days after my birthday due a bad fall he had, and it was so painful to just make that decision to just let him go.....i miss him.....and will remember the good ol' days....I've a photo of him taken by my sis in law in the earlier days waiting for me to scrap, and in my phone i had the very last photo i took of him at the vet and that i would not show cause it will only break our hearts even more....To Kay, he doesn't understand that much of what death is.....and he simply thinks that Bubbles would be okay after taking medication (just like how he takes his every time he is sick), so I tell him Bubbles gone to the stars, and now whenever i asked him where Bubbles would be, he says in the stars, and even calls it "Bubbles Star" and says "it's okay mummy, I go get a chihuahua.......

September is also a super busy month for me given the amount of travels i had to do for work to Italy and in the midst of spending some time with Kaylen during his one week school break at Marina Bay Sands over a weekend, quality time at dinner with my family at Melts, Mid's Autumn Festival with a trip down to Chinese Garden for the very 1st time with his Uncle Yixi & Aunt Jianxi.

Then came October....this is him...going to be 4 1/2 years soon in November...can't believe that 6 months would just go past so quickly and seriously I'm not taking as much photos as I would like of him each month, and he is really growing way way too fast for me.....

Looking cool with his Aunt's sunglasses......



This is what he's been up to lately and so much more of this in October......


& this is what I completed too.....my 1st mini album for my instax photos.....and proud to say that Kay's taken some nice shots of me and Jayce.....love the woodgrain paper i used for this mini, although not acid or lignin free for scrapping purposes, still love this paper texture besides I want all these to last my lifetime to pass it on to Kay so i always like to mix the stuff i use when i scrap. Here's the pages....mainly used Crate Paper's latest Random & Farmhouse series and did i ever mention....i'm starting to love chipboard pieces. Realise I've been buying more chipboard embellishments as compared to before.

Hope to catch up with some scrapping this weekend with layouts, miss working on layouts for the longest time, and can't wait to play with October Afternoon's latest - Sidewalk which i hoarded on some of their papers this time round....ooppps did i say "hoard"....bad habit.

Till the next time, have a beautiful weekend ahead.

My Little IPhone Surprises.....

Checked my phone photos today while upkeeping my photos taken, these were what I found....someone's been taking photos of himself at the back seat of the car. It must be on his way to school last week that he had taken his own photos....and not bad for a start. Yesterday, I found another 30 over self photos on my dad's IPhone too....so many that grandpa asked for me to help delete some away...sneaky lil fellow going around leaving his photos in other people's phone.

See that smile.....it's so Kaylen....lol

He always surprises me in so many ways. From the stuff he says, to what's going on in his mind just amazes me that at 4 years of age, he is already so much a lil adult. I'm the one who's having to fight with time cause I'm not ready yet to see him grow up so quickly. Yes there are still baby Kaylen times now, but slowly these are giving way to "mummy i can do it myself" or "mummy look at me, I'm big boy now"....awww those words were non existence since 1 year ago. I fuss alot about him, and just because of how much I love this boy that I worry more then I'm supposed to.

I do my best to spend whatever available time i have after work even if it's car ride times from places, or just before bedtime, or in the shower when he bathes to just talk to him. Work week usually leaves me with about 2 hours of time when we get home till his 9ish bedtime to just catch up on his day....usually he is more keen as to "who is playing with me"...while I'll be like "how's your day Kaylen" and weekends are usually just the both of us, and i totally wished weekends are longer (best that they don't end). So with whatever energy that I'm left with, I would always try to squeeze some scrapping time to just document some of his photos be it in layouts or minis. So those self photos above, I'm sure they will be documented for the very reason that he loves so much to take photos of himself just as long as he has the camera (he's already going after my Instax and we manage to take a bunch of us just freshly yesterday. Time would have pass me by, but surely I will make the time to remember these precious moments of him, of us 3 in a very special way.

It's school break now....and we'll be spending 2 nights at the Marina Bay Sands this coming Friday as part of his school holidays staycation and dinner at Melt at Oriental Hotel with our family.....so I'm charging the battery to my DSLR, bringing my Instax as well to capture all that memories we are making.

Have a beautiful Wednesday!!

For his teachers......

This would be my 2nd year making scrappy gifts for Kaylen for his Teacher's Day, and on top of this, his help comes only in the form of drawing cards for his teachers (at least he drew something this year). Last year for his form teacher, I made alpha monograms in white frames, and this year I still went back to the good ol IKea frames, and this time I manage to get a photo of Kay and his favourite teacher - Mrs Branson during his birthday party at school in May. She's been teaching Kay since his pre-nursery school days, and this is her 2nd year with Kaylen, and I'm hoping that she will be his form teacher all the way to Kindergarten. She's super with him, and he totally enjoys her classes, and even on weekends, he would ask if he would be going for Mrs Branson classes lol....

So here's this year's Teacher's Day gift for both his Form teacher, and his chinese teacher as well (didn't manage to have Kay take photo with her) which i scrapped a monogram on a frame for her....

For Mrs Branson......

& for Wu lao shi.......

A very Happy Teacher's Day to all teachers....and a Big thank you...

It's going to be sometime before i will be back blogging and scrapping.

See you all soon.....

To my very special friend.....G

Nothing makes me happier than knowing someone close to me is finally getting married.....& her wish when I knew her 2 years ago was to get married by 30 years old....now 2 years into this....although past 30 slighty.....she is getting married & totally madly in love with her other half!!!

To celebrate this beautiful union....i scrapped my brains out cause i don't have alot of time to work on it with Kay being sick on & off, me getting so bogged down with work and that it drains out all my energy and creative juices and just this past weekend, had a bad throat, sniffles....but still i managed to finish it just yesterday afternoon.

Won't reveal yet the whole album till after her wedding, and me returning from my overseas trip (boo hoo that's another story for September). So G, hope you and Mark will love this album filled with so much love for the both of you. Done with my most favourite colours - turquoise, my favourite elements - dollies (die cut ones, Maya Rd latest kraft dollies, dollies from Pink Paislee's previous ink resist papers....and butterflies, Prima blooms and blings to doll up this massive thick album when I was finished with it).

Title: Always

(since I saw her used acrylic pages for her wedding guest book, though i would just use acrylic album as well)

The Cover

Sneak of some pages.....what a darling couple.....

You deserve all the happiness G, and although i can't be there on your very special day, please know that i'm somewhere far wishing you and Mark all the best in your upcoming marriage.....Hugs!!

What's up.....

When will I ever say I'm not busy with this or that.....and it's not possible for me to feel the least tired at the end of each day. I'm feeling more drained then ever for the last few months, and hardly have the time to think what I would like to work on for my scrappy side of life. My very precious time after work, and my every weekends, I would dedicate it to spending it with my dear lil one. I can never get enough of him, and i really miss taking more photos of him with each month passing, and so far my Iphone has been doing that job cause just can't seem to find that energy to take out the DSLR to start snapping......

My scrap desk is highly neglected, messy and most likely collecting dust as well, so hoping this weekend I'll get some time to just sort, and complete and start some projects I have on hand.....

This was scrapped at the beginning of this month, a very simple LO.....

Title: Grow

Kaylen looks so grown up in this photo, sometimes when i just look at him,

i just can't believe it that 4 years has just gone by so quickly. Conversations are never like

before, so much more interesting and funny. I love this age of 4.

And having the chance last weekend to start off Kaylen's Teacher's day pressie.....really got to have it completed within this weekend to move on to my next highly exciting project......

I'm looking forward to the public holidays that are coming up, this can only mean more time with my boys.......what more can i ask for?

I'm hoping that i will be able to have more scrapping time to just sit and scrap to my hearts desire.....soon i hope...

Just when I thought.....

he is on his way to recovery, the horrid fever is back last night. It's my worst nightmare to see him having to go through it again, just when he is starting to feel better (coughing is already at its most minimal, and medication has also gradually come to a stop). It pains me to see him like this, but comforted to see his smile break through each time. My little warrior fighthing through this, and we're praying that this round, it's not going to get nasty like the previous episode which was only 3 weeks ago, and that he recovers in time for his school's National Day celebration which we know he is so looking forward to. He sings to National Day's song ever since he returned back to school, and from talking to his teacher this morning while collecting his homework, he was very into the singing the songs in class, and even swaying to the beat. So please get well in time my lil one......

It seems that I have more "sickie" photos of him in my iphone more than happier ones......and these past few months I really don't have the energy to take out the DSLR to record his moments....So iphone photos are the quickest....

Here's Kay last night with the cooling pad again...........


Photos of this morning.....no school, slight fever of 37.7 degree......and still in a mood of funny faces.......

& the need to look cool while having his milk......he says he needs his sunnies cause the morning sun is hurting his eyes.....wahahaha....

It's surely going to be a stay home weekend for both of us....lots of bonding time, resting as much as he can.....preparing some stay home creative fun....

Till then, have yourself a great weekend ahead!!