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• not very keen on being at the zoo which i believe any lil one would love. Not much of smiles (i wonder why?) throughout the whole of Sunday morning at the zoo

• likes the red wagon at the zoo more than anything else found there (hmmm?? and that's my lil guy for you). He was fighting with Jayce over the pulling of this red wagon, and yes i've gotten myself a very strong lil guy

• doesn't like anything that moves especially this carousel. He was tense ,quiet, and the only kid on the carousel. You should see me asking him when we approached the carousel, as to which animal he wanted to be sitting on, i practically went one full circle, from the eagle, to the lion, to the zebra, to the ostrich, and for each of the question i asked, he said "No", till we came down to the REINDEER. He just learnt of the reindeer just 1 day ago while putting up the X'mas tree, and he just got extremely attached to our brush like looking Reindeer (i'll tell you about this story the next time when we've gotten back our reindeer cause Kay brought him for a ride in the car, and left it at gram's place, and take a photo of his new found friend)

• doesn't really like taking photos much these days, and you can tell from this photo that mommy's the only person dying to have our family photo taken by suddenly appearing in photos...my brother hates me for this...
  

• likes putting up decorations on the X'mas tree, and almost everything at the bottom 2 layers of the tree was decorated by Kay (with daddy's supervision cause most of the decorations are made with glass). He went "Hmmm, maybe......" everytime he took on 1 decoration be it a glass globe, or glass droplet, and throughout the whole hour with me & jayce, all we could hear was just these words, and once he found the right spot, we got an YES from him. He loves Christmas as much as i do, i guess, and this is Kay's 3rd Christmas, and got to get to scrapping something about him this Christmas for sure.
  
  

• looked at this LO when it was half finished on my desk, and said "kay kay". This LO is for Made with Love, and it's just pretty things you get from American Craft's latest LetterBox series, and i just love their range of chipboards, and with this i made my own simple metal embellishment
  

materials used:

paper/chipboards/brads/letters - American Craft

All available at Made with Love

• reminded me when he said "mommy, kay kay pack....and proceeded to my scrap desk to literally re-arrange my stuff on the scrap desk, and yes i had on my desk the items picked out for a RAK giveaway. I've got 2 RAKS ready, so just leave me a comment by this 13th Friday. Here's my 2 RAKS....
  
  RAK 1 - Basic Grey's Lemonade papers + Making Memories Brad Set + American Craft Elements set + 1 diecut chipboard

• RAK 2 - Making Memories Papers + Jillbean Alpha stickers + Epoxy Stickers + Jenni Bowlin Note Book + Hambly's rub ons
  

I'm looking forward to seeing Kay again cause he's not feeling too good (the attack of the ugly ulcers again, and he's one lil one which keeps getting these mouth ulcers, and the fact that he just recovered from one nasty episode last week, to now having another, and the fact that we have always been giving him loads of water and juices to keep him hydrated. It's going to be a good few days of whinning which starts already since last night till this morning , and he's letting me know that he's clearly in pain. My poor baby.....lots of cuddles & hugs, and yes more more water.

Have a good Monday you all!!

It's been enriching....

My blog journey has been enriching, and never would I guessed that for someone like myself would ever own a blog, and much less be faithful to keeping regular post since past diary keeping efforts seems to always fail me. My blog is like a santury to me when i need an outlet to express my thoughts, or share with you (yes to each and everyone out there who visits my blog, i'm truly thankful) my life, my family, and my passion for scrapbooking.

I must say that i see myself blogging for the longest time, and i like how the blog is just "ME".

I'm back to having some time to scrap, and this i did at 2plus this morning with the rain beating hard at my windows (i love the rain!!!), and just totally having my time quietly by myself when the boys are fast asleep, and i could go on till about 4am usually, but Kay decided to just cry out for me an hour after i started off. So here's my piece with Basic Grey's latest - "Nook & Pantry" series, and I love Bo Bunny's latest wordy rub ons's (ain't them cute, i regretted that i only bought 1 sheet cause i actually intended to use it on my brother's wedding LO's, but too hard to resist, and had to snip some for Kay's LO).

Title" Sweet Oct"

Materials used:

pp - basic grey

rub ons: hambly's, bo bunny, pink paislee

chipboard words: K&Co

paper whimsies: sassfrass lass

paper posies: doodlebug designs

stickers: 7 gypsies, K&Co

letter: cosmo cricket

Up next on my scrap desk, a 1st ever canvas project after seeing Aida, Irene, Sharon having a go at it, and makes a really good gift, and my 1st ever will go to my bro, Herng & Cheryl lovely wedding photos. Hope to have it finished during this weekend since i've already prepared the base colour & glimmer mist it too!!

Enjoy your Thursday cause tonight I'll be working on my DT assignment too at Made with Love ,did you check out today's latest arrival from American Craft, cute range!!! They're also celebrating their 6th Birthday this month, and i'll be at their birthday bash this 15th November, so be catching all of you there!!

Hugs to all!!! and stay tune cause i've some giveaways coming up!!

Wish List

Can't believe that it's going to be Christmas soon in a another months time, and there is so much things to be doing around the home as we get closer my most favourite time of the year.

This week has been super tiring with the fact that there's been late night entertainment of the overseas supplier, and been staying over at my mom's, not having much time to spent with Kaylen, so these few stuff that i've picked for my wish list does perk me up at the end of the day.

*these lovely vintage music sheet tealight candles would look so lovely for Christmas (done our Christmas shopping of the X'mas decorations last weekend at Ikea, and we've picked up just some X'mas star lights for Kaylen's room this year, 2 felted red hanging star light which would go somewhere in our living room (you won't imagine the price i got them for since it's from their last year's series - at just $2.90 per star felted light where before they were going at $25.00 each...just had to grab them), X'mas napkins & table covers for the party, rolls of wrapping papers)


* love the pleats on this simple cushion cover, being toying at the idea of having my cusion covers changed after having them for the past 4 years, and they're still looking good & their hand sewn by my mother-in-law, but the thought of having new stuff for X'mas just perks me up. Looks like i'm finding a reason to visit the newly renovated Spotlight at Plaza Singapura soon for new fabrics or either their large range of pretty cusion covers.

*love this vintage necklace , and lately i've been eyeing at everything turquoise in colour. Strange..

* I need a clutch bag for the upcoming weddings next year, and i'm hunting around and i don't need anything too classy, but just modern looking is good enough for me. Drools....

I'm off to be planning as to how i want to be decorating the home this year for X'mas, we're having them earlier this year (the tree would be up this coming weekend cause Jayce is off from work), and we need all the time this year to put things up around the house, and to pack up my scrap desk with minimal things since our dinning table is usually decorated for X'mas , and surely i'll be gathering more X'mas decoration stuff since Robinson's a great place for such stuff, and planning Kay's x'mas gift (grandpa has already booked to get him a good sized motorcycle that he can ride on & moves...hmmmm)

Have a good Tuesday!!

Today

* i have a LO to show, using latest October's Afternoon series - "Report Card" & "Farm Fresh" papers, and love how happy this series looked, and it matches Kay's recent photos with Mickey so well. Did i say that I've fallen in love with Maya Road's range of kraft envelopes and this is my 2nd layout so far using this cutesy product.

Title: Pals

Materials used:

pp/stickers/letter stickers: October afternoon

letter stickers: scenic route

chipboard letters for "PALS": Cosmo Cricket

kraft envelope: Maya Road

Flower centre: Prima

other flower embellishment: evalicious

*he is starting to drink his milk, and managed to finish all 180ml , slowly but he managed. This is him in his latest PJ's from Australia, you should just see the mountain of clothes (from underpants to PJ's, to board shorts, to T-shirts, to socks, shoes, and 1 cement mixer toy from Bob the Builder) that my mom bought him when she was holidaying in Melbourne. And all the designs she's gotten on the clothes are just his fave, from ambulances, to rescue cars, to Thomas the train, to tools, to even cutesy excavators (see below, his gotten 2 of the same PJ's in different colour...that's my mom for you)

* He's waking up to a brand new toy - Handy Manny's tools...Gong gong gotten them for him yesterday, and he has been having his tools repair anything he can find...He actually prefers real life tools when he visits Gong Gong's tool box at the office, but i guess he loves these equally much. Thanks dad!!!

* i had the time to snap some photos of another mini wedding album i completed last weekend for a good friend of mine, KY, and i love how it turned out. A hint of purple here & there as i didn't want to overdo the purple element, but having it subtuly added. Some snippets of certain pages while keeping the photo pages private for this lovely couple. Enjoy!

I'm looking forward to a creative weekend ahead, and spending some good quality time with Kay, and a good clean up of my scrap area as it's becoming a war zone despite me not even using it much over this week.

Have a great weekend!

I'm still around.....

Just took some time off my blog cause for the past 1 week, not only am I super busy at work leaving me totally poofed out when i get home, and just wanting to spend the evening time playing with the lil one, my lil one happen to also not be feeling too well since Monday.

It's so typical whenever Kay has a little too much fun in the sun, he just gets heaty with not sufficient fluid on his day out (yes bad mummy which daddy keeps on getting at me for this), and true enough he's just not feeling that good. Nothing serious, we're guessing ulcers in the mouth which since Monday doesn't want to be having milk from his bottle, but thankfully no fever, and he's eating well, just doesn't want to have milk from bottle. Hmmm, i get cries, whines, resistance, tantrums, you name it, i've seen it!!! So we've been extra careful with brushing of his teeth, more coaxing when it comes to having his milk (resorting to having to feed him milk by the spoon from a cup), more story telling during bedtime (he seems to like more story time now at night, and it can be the same story night after night...it's either "Minnie's Rainbow" or "Mickey's missing muffins", and more of daddy & mummy goofiest faces to just make him take milk, and last night, milk time was accompanied with a good session of crayon drawing of cars, trucks, cement mixers, motorcycles, anything that has wheels, and you know how Kay drew them, all his vehicles are just random circle doodles, and i added the "WHEELS", he loves wheels, and is always so drawn to them, be it small or big, he loves them. I find him sometimes playing by himself, not just rolling his toy cars or trucks up and down, and bend down to just look at wheels alone for quite some time. That's Kay for you.

Hope to have him feeling much better next week, and to get scrappy soon!!

Have a beautiful Thursday!!

I love....

* that it's already mid week already

* that when i get home in 1/2 hrs time, i would be seeing this cute lil one....how can i ever feel tired after a day at work when i just see this face.


* that lately I've been working on mini wedding albums, and to see all the lovely happy wedding photos of my dear friends, and here's one completed album for my dear friend Yilin who's getting married this Saturday being a totally pink person, you'll see already how pink i made the cover to be. I'm keeping the rest of the inner pages private for this lovely couple. All the best & many blissful years to come my dear pal.

* that next on my scrap desk is another mini wedding album for my sweet pal, KY and with already all the pages covered with patterned paper & photos, i'm up for just filling them with loads of sweet elements for this cute couple. & the challenge to work with her favourite colour - purple. One colour which i've never used before in my 2 years+ of scrapping, but certainly i'm already liking what i see on the cover page of this mini.

* that i'll be able to work real soon on another massive wedding album & layouts for these 2 very special people in my life cause it's my brother Herng who's just completed his wedding photography just last week, and here's a snap shot of Herng & Cheryl at Botanical Gardens (thank goodness for cooler weather last week) taken my little brother - Yixi (yup he tagged along the whole day just waiting to snap these outdoor shoots. It never beats having the chance to scrap for these special people in my life, and i'm sure i'm going to enjoy this. & after this brother of mine, i'll be waiting to scrap for my youngest brother Yixi who's photoshoot is in Jan 2010. (I'm certainly having weddings of the year next year for sure!!!)

What are your "i love" for today?

Have a good Wednesday evening you all!!

Not as what we planned.....

What i've always dreaded....whenever we plan to go somewhere with Kay, we happen to not go anywhere. Thanks you all for the lovely wishes that we would be having a great time today at the Zoo, but nope we didn't get to go anywhere. Kay started last evening to be very quiet, and only wanted to be carried, and shortly after he vomitted out his dinner, looked a little pale, and broke out in cold sweat, and looked super tired. So we decided that we'll give the Zoo a miss today to just be doubly sure that he'll get the rest he needs. So next time i guess.

Anyway it's just good to see him feeling so much better last night when we got home, and this morning back to his super active self, so it's a load off my mind.

I have been sort of scrappy lately, and for Made with Love this week, I was able to work with the latest Creative Imagination's papers, and so fitted for Kaylen's 1st trip out of Singapore (no where far, just Johor). Tons of blue shades suitable for his photos by the pool...simply fun to play with...check it out...

Materials used:

pp - creative imaginations

stickers - creative imaginations

chipboard words "little" - Me & My Big Ideas

Flowers - sassafrass lass

All available at Made with Love

Been working on misting too lately, and i prefer the colours of Tattered Angel's Glimmer mist and slowly i see my collection of my mist growing....fun!!

Here's one with Glimmer mist in Tattered Leather (thanks Avina, love it) & creating with papers from Anna Griffin., and this piece is by far one which i created with the least of its embellishment, just though that the photo speaks too much to me, and i don't need for much embellishment.

Materials used:

pp: anna griffin

rub on: jenni bowlin

metal piece: tim holtz

letters: american craft, jenni bowlin

The next piece has a much more fun fun element to just go with that giggly smile Kay has on his face. I enjoyed this photo as much as i had creating this LO.

Materials used:-

pp: jenni bowlin, the bird on cloud paper (i totally forgot the brand)

rub on: cosmo cricket

stamps: technique tuesday, octoer afternoon

sliver foil & button: making memories vintage findings

bingo card: jenni bowlin

letter: american craft, scenic route

Till my next LO, have a great week ahead while i go spent the rest of today with Kay as it would be the last of the 12 days with him before i go back to work tomorrow. Missing already everything about being with Kaylen but i'm glad that i get all the time with him.