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Having a fantastic, one of a kind weekend....

*Meeting New Friend....
I've finally had the chance to meet up with Kim from Miri after such a long time of exchanging scrap tips to mommy tips since both Jon & Kay are only 3 months apart from each other, and so alike in many ways, and you should just see the both of us at the LSS, we just chatted, chatted & chatted somemore, and i wished we just had more time.

*Scrap Crop...a group of great friends from old & new, family & a passion for scrapping...thanks you all for such a great time. Will post the photos later today once it's all freshly edited.

*Scrapping for Made with Love , and working with one of my favourite products from Prima, you've got to love it & if you've haven't heard - the store's having a 40% discount of $60.00 purchase on Prima, and today's the last day!!!

Here's my turn this week, and of course working with Kay's latest X'mas at Ion photos!!! Got to love his November photos... and my brother's a darling to have them taken for me....

Title: His Christmas

Materials used:

patterned paper: collage press "joyride"

blings/flowers/clear stamps : prima

All available at Made with Love

* knowing that very soon i'll be teaching my very own scrapbook classes and this experience is totally a new one for me and with only that little time i have spare, i'm glad that i managed to squeeze in some time to teach the classes by "The Scrapbook Carton" , and you can't imagine how thrilled I am when G's in it too. She's totally a very fun person to be with, and always open with teaching you so much she knows about this hobby, and i'm thankful that i've gotten to know her through scrapbooking, and i'm liking that we're in it together for the classes.

Most of you would know of my scrapping style, and here's a peak at what's coming in Jan 2010 - "Nuts about U" using Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg series, and a chance playing with Glimmer Mist, and making your own embellishments. I hope you'll enjoy them as much as i did putting it together for you.

For more details, please check out on the class mailer which G's ultra sweet Valentine's Day layout classes are simply hard to resist.

I'll be back soon with more photos to share....

Certainly helps....

when my day hasn't gone that well, and I feel sucky, and instantly looking at these freshly edited photos by my brother of us at Ion yesterday , and seeing all that X'mas lights sure made one lil boy very happy and excited as well. Can't be any happier that my brother takes cute photos of him, and this time Kaylen's co-operative and even says cheese (yes to some extend till he thinks we're over doing it, yes it's pesky mommy at work).

Kay squatting at the front of the Japanese Teppanyaki Restaurant where we had dinner


His "say cheese" pose infront of the Mango store, and i love what they have this year on their window showcase...

Kay with his fave Aunt Jianxi, and kay just loves calling her "kim kim" and follows her around the mall, and yes his "say cheese" pose again

Break dancing away on the ever changing light box in front of Ion, and Kay had on a new pair of track shoes that has lights whenever he walks, and he loves it. A pressie from daddy!!

A rare photo in which i don't look goofy like my brother says it, and my dear Kay was about to shuff that lil finger into "you know where"..

I'm happy to just see these happy faces and photos, and i hope i get to see these everyday, and there are my source of what makes me truly happy. I sometimes feel that i've loads bottled up somewhere inside me, and would it one day burst out, maybe? or maybe not?, sometimes i just like to be left alone to just think about it, and some other times i wish to be just somewhere else. Whatever it is, i know i've got loads of love from my family to be fighting through my thoughts, and still be okay. Life is too short to be bogged down with all these stuff, and i'm telling myself this all the time.

I guess it's just one of those Monday blues getting to me. Too much already!!

Thanks you all for dropping all that love and concern for Kaylen, he's up & running as you can see from yesterday's photos, and just left with slight flu, and a nasal voice, and those sticky mucus that crust up all the time and you'll see him rubbing his little nose non stop cause it bothers him. Giving him as much love as possible, but i've discovered just the past 2 weeks, Kay's like into another growing phase where he would whine even more than before, and get into very nasty tantrums and insist on things. I'm trying to be as patient as ever with him.

I'm off work soon, so i'm just going to complete some loose ends and head home!!

This is happening soon!!

I definitely missed it out again this time round, but i'm sure many of you have already signed up for this one of a kind adventure whenever Celine Navarro visits, and she's teaching again with Karine at Made with Love.

I'm just feeling bumped & drained, and just hoping that today will just go by quickly enough for me to just go back home. Kay's down with flu, slightly sore throat, and fever since yesterday, and with me being busy with dinner with our overseas supplier, I've my mom and Jayce watching him, and by the time I got home, he's already asleep, but not for long cause from 1am to this morning, he was waking up every hour crying, feverish, and it goes the same for me, trying my best to make him feel better. So you can just imagine the night we had, so i'm just wanting to be going back home to our home, for Kay to be more relaxed, and hopefully tonight would be better.

Looks like to be squeezing some scrap time would be tough these few nights unless i regain my energy level, i'll just take it slow tonight, and see how it goes.

Have a beautiful Tuesday!

This is how much fun i had.....

even if it means having only 20mins at Made with Love for their 6th Birthday Bash. With all that girl power going on, you can just imagine. For me, it's the 1st of meeting these fabulous & super talented ladies and being on the team is like a dream come true as I started out this journey idolising their work, and at awe at how some of them creates their master piece, and each of these ladies are as unique as the layouts they churn out each time, and i'm glad i have the chance to just say hello.

I glad i'm part of this team, and given the chance to create and share, and to learn from these more experienced scrappers whom had started out their journey way way before me.

I like this photo of us.

Yes to the upcoming DT crop, i'm so looking forward to this, and and definitely a much longer time chatting with them. Till then.....

How have your Monday been?

Drum roll please.....

Here's the winners to my recent RAK giveaway:-

RAK 1 - Chong


RAK 2 - Eva

Ladies, kindly drop me your mailing address at :- tanyinwen@gmail.com, and i will have the RAKs sent out to you very soon. Hope you will have a great time scrapping with these materials.

Thanks you all for dropping by with all that love, and all the well wishes to Kay, he's feeling much better already but still with occasionally whines (guess with all that pain going on in that lil mouth of his, it's hard to smile at times), and i appreciate each & everyone of you but fret not, there are still RAKS coming your way from me, so stay tune!!

Till then, have a great weekend ahead!!!

In the mood....

For scrapping of course, and my very 1st canvas done , and yes it turned out super sweet, and i like how my brother's wedding photo had all that nature background, and it goes so well with Basic Grey's "Nook & Pantry" paper i choose to match. This is definitely not the only canvas project i would do, definitely creating one for Kaylen soon. This project is just all things pretty from laces, to swirls, to Prima's fabric bloom.

Had the time to also work on another LO for Kay where i had these series of photographs taken when i'm with him at home in October, and they're just all super smiley faces. Love them!! I happen to notice that recently my LO's are getting simpler, don't ask me why but i just scrap with the mood i'm in lately, and i like how that sometimes with little embellishments, it still looks great!!!

Materials used:

pp: american craft, my mind eye, bo bunny

letter: american craft

overlay: hambly's

paper clip: making memories

brad: american craft

Glimmer mist

Thanks for all that concern for Kay & his episode of the ugly ulcers, he's getting better, feeling better in mood, sleeping slightly better, and hopefully by this weekend, the ulcers would have already be gone. Up next for me, are still the X'mas gifts i'm trying to complete, and Kay's mini album "12 days in Oct" whereby i'll be documenting my 12 days with him. Fun!!!

Have a good Wednesday!!!

He

• 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!!