1st thing on my mind!

The moment I woke up this morning at 7.30am (!!!) , the word "SCRAP" was on my mind! Probably very excited to use some of the new goodies I bought from yesterday's TVC CNY OH! So before I headed out to do some more CNY visiting! This is what I did :D Quite pleased with the results, especially when I found it quite difficult to use the SR pps (although I love it to bits!)
Have a great week ahead! 7 more days left to celebrate CNY!

Wait no more!

Okie i took a picture so all have to pardon the bad lighting.. I thought it was best not to let anyone wait too long! I myself am quite proud of it.. I think the bad lighting just do not do justice to the great photographs of G!

Cousin J said she liked these AC pp from the a la crate series so I thought I should use it. :D
Hope you like it, cousin J!

TFL!

big THANX

A big thanx to Cousin J for this wonderful LO. She took the 5 minus 1 family portrait of my family. Think will have to superimpose my younger bro's pic somewhere! He was sadly missed at all the family CNY gatherings!

Mom absolutely adores this LO.. she went around to unsuspecting aunts and cousins being the BIGGEST salesperson for cousin J's lesson! Saying how much she loves this LO (she never says that about mine!) and if you want to create such a beautiful masterpiece, can go to Cousin J as she conducts lessons! wahaha... i have an adorable Mom!

Made an LO for Cousin V, J & little G as gratitude. Haven't taken the picture yet. I've gotta wait till tomorrow morning till I get better lighting! Patience is a virtue!

{ Scrapping High }

I Wish everyone GONG Xi FA CAI!!! Time really flies, it's the year of the pig already! Soaked up the CNY atmosphere yesterday at Chinatown after midnight! I was really lucky but then I always have good carpark karma as I can always get a parking lot at the most difficult place! *fingers crossed* It was just mom and myself who went down to Chinatown, the two other males at home were sound asleep already! Came home with loads of things! Stalls clearing bottles of loveletters, cookies, melon seeds and decorations! Usual haunt is at Hong Lim Community Club (where the Speaker's Corner is).. where a floral nursery will bring all their unsold plants there to sell at bargain prices. Mom and I came home with 2 pots of orange flowers and the 'kum' plant! all for the price of $26!!! Can you beat that? So happy...

Reunion dinner was great! This time, my family ordered this 1 dish thingy with all the delicacies that cost us $200 but it was all worth it! For the 1st time in many years, we had an early dinner and I even managed to scrap in between after dinner and before going to Chinatown!! I am so happy!


Look what I did today! After the usual rounds to New House and to Fort Road, my family came home to rest.... while the rest were sound asleep, i created :

in the theme of an LO a year! so far I've done 3 of a "LO a year" - 2005, 2006 and 2007! Search for more photos begin again!

kai1 hua1 fu4 gui4

Felt Flower 1, originally uploaded by fiona woo.

Here's to all the people around me... A beautiful (!) handmade flower in the spirit of the Lunar New Year! (thanx cousin J for the inspiration)
I wish every one good luck, good health and may the year of the pig be a prosperous one. For everyone to have 'smooth' journeys in everything that you emback on.

To my beloved younger bro who is far far away... I promise I will help you to collect angbaos too! We miss you alot esp now that it's the year of the Pig and this is the 1st time that 1 of us in the family is not here for CNY... Take care and love you lots!

To those who are single .. collect lots of angbaos!
To those who are married.. be generous! (hehe)

Sorry! Had to post this early as I foresee that I will not have time tmr (eve) or on the 1st few days. Chinese New Year for my family comes with ritual and routine of who's who to visit and bai nian to. On the eve's midnight will be the usual rounds to Chinatown to pick up whatever bargains that we can get and to soak up the atmosphere! 1st day and 2nd day will be the usual fanfare of grandparents, relative and close friends! Hopefully I will get to scrap on the 3rd day! :)

15 days will go by so fast! Days filled with Yu Sheng and cookies, pineapple tarts and bak kwa.. and finally at the end of the 15 days will be Chinese Valentine's Day which will coincidentally be MY BIRTHDAY!!!

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! Enjoy the festivities!
Gong Xi Fa Cai!!

Precious Love

Precious Love, originally uploaded by fiona woo.

Wishing all love birds out there a happy valentines day!

To my younger bro n his gf who are separated by sea n a 18 hr plane ride!

To my elder bro and his gf...

and to all those whom i love so dearly around me...
Although I might not show it often enough, I do love you lots!

forgive me but I'm just direct

just me luck today but I met with a few incidents where I had to make my peace.

1) i had a fall at NTUC all because the floor was wet and visibly had a layer of water .. which i later found out was oil! after my fall.. luckily I did not sprain anything but I had a bruise on my feet as i hit one of the racks.. i walked straight out to look for the manager. She had gone home for the day so lucky her I did not vent my anger on her. THen I told the lady who was answering my questions that I had a fall and if the floor was wet / OILY please put a sign there. Luckily I was the one who fell, my mom was right behind me. I would have leashed out at any poor soul if my mom was the victim and she hurt herself again.

2) some clever fella can't park at my area. He / She ( i shall be politically correct) parked in a slanted manner taking up the next lot. I didn't realise and parked in the next lot. Really pissed from my fall I took out a piece of paper and wrote a very courteous note ( i swear i really am there were all the magic words in it!) to tell him / her if he / her cannot park please don't drive around. Even though he / her is only a 'P' plate driver, it is simply not an excuse.

I made my peace.

is it just my luck that I meet such 'smart' souls everywhere?

Please help me...

Goodies!

Goodies!, originally uploaded by fiona woo.

After spending the "required" amount - I shan't say how much.. but judging by what others paid, I'm just half of what they spent! (althought I did hear other HAPPY whinings about how much they had spent!) - I lucky-dipped a CHA souvenior! I chose this AC Lanyard! Think it'll be ended up being used as ribbons! wahaha..

Love Swatch books! my 2nd collection of it. 1st was Quotes which I found really useful! Latest collection is of flowers! pretty rubon flowers! Yeah!!

SR stickers 4

SR stickers 4, originally uploaded by fiona woo.

SR Stickers 1

SR Stickers 1, originally uploaded by fiona woo.

{ hole in my pocket! }

Love these Scenic Route Stickers with a mixture of alphas and titles!
Love the background of the stickers too!

Love the patterns on the stickers! so cool!

Lurveee these AC thickers so much! How i wished I could buy one of every colour???
ermm.. Maybe I should?? wahaha

Lovely sisters came back from CHA to share all the yummy goodies they picked out! & looked what I reaped at yesterday's Open House! I think everyone went crazy over Technique Tuesday (so did I but I was 1. too late to grab the good stuff! 2. I'm over my budget, despite the fact that I have a 15% discount at TVC)

Time to dig out more photos!

1st Reunion meal today with the Woos!! Yum Yum!!

pardon the bad skills

my apologises for my horrible photo taking skills! I don't blame the bad lighting! seriously!

while on the bus home today, I took out a piece of paper and started sketching how I wanted the LO to look like! in the end, it did not look anything like the few sketches! This was done in quick time - probably one of the fastest I've done.

Thought I had better use up some of the pp i bought at the last few TVC OH before i stock up during sat's OH! hehe.. if not I won't have the excuse to buy more things!

old picts done up

A post before I'm out for the day!

When I started to run out of 'recent' scrapworthy photos, I went through the cupboard which my mom stored all the old photos! And these were some that I found:

Photo of me swimming! My very 1st swimming lesson???


I love to swim, even now... I remembered going for swimming lessons at the public pools of AMK (inflating a pair of PJ pants to act as a float - think they still do it now!) and swimming at Tanglin Club on the weekends, ending with a good meal of fish and chips after.
Oh... how i miss my childhood days!

As I search through the numerous albums, I found pictures of me constantly carrying a bag! I tried to find photos of me even younger carrying a bag and I did but sorry they are "jian bu de guang" kind of pictures! hehe.. Anyway, I think this is why I have such an addiction to buying bags all year round - one to suit every occasion.

Happy sunday everyone! 2 more weekends to CNY! ooo.. so fast

{ naughty student }

Part 2 of today's lesson was to make a mini album... but I decided that I wanted to do little G instead. Cousin J was so accomodating.. trying to help both Jo and myself with our different LOs. It's amazing how fast Couin J comes up with the sketch of the LO in her HEAD! I completed half of the LO at her place and brought the rest home to do! It took me such a long time just to add in the embellishments! Trying to decide does this go with that, is this appropriate? Does this match? should I put this here? Is it balance? I've heard of the "triangle"-rule and I try to adhere to Cousin J's tip - try to create only 1 focal point! Hope I did a good job of her lovely DD.. well, how bad can I go when half of it was with her help? But then again, I could have made a mess of the embellishments!

But I really LOVE this LO of G! Trick was to use the word "LOVE" throughout the LO: so i thought of Love forever, Sweet Love, Love grows, and Love is pure. Cousin J with her fantastic range of stamps and stash had a stamp with the definition of Love which I used on top!

I thought - okie, so I've attended my very 1st formal lesson. Maybe I should be getting better at creating a LO. With the lesson in mind, I started off with things that match - same range of BG papers - that's always easy! Next comes the difficult part! Arghh... where to put what! or what to put where??

Okie okie.. FOCUS point focus point. So i thought the empty space next to the pict - one way only is my focal point? or I guess looking at it is the bottom half of the LO? Well... -cher;-cher J, how? did I follow the tips given? Am I on the right track? Did I create a balanced LO?

wahaha.. maybe I should have paid more attention at the other half of the lesson instead of playing with the irresistably adorable G! who kept calling me in her cute little voice >_<

Off to create some V day cards? Erm.. who to give to? wahaha.. can't wait for next sat for TVC OH! oh-la-la.. new stuff from CHA! I think I just enjoy buying and collecting stash because I think I'm quite bad at creating LO.

{ Lesson no 1 }

Had my very 1st lesson conducted by cousin-turned-teacher J today!

It was fun! Cousin J has been planning a lesson for some time and due to different schedule of some of the interested parties, the lesson has yet to materialise. However, Jo mentioned that she wanted to create a little keepsake album for the coming V-day pressie for darlin BF. So hence, the lesson that both of us attended today!

What I learnt :- Elements of a good LO

1) good picture taken in good lighting (often found at the weirdest places)
2) a nice title to suit your LO
3) a journalling spot
4) 1 FOCAL point, where you start to put all the embellishments and rubons
5) choice of colours is important, make sure they match (usually can be found in the same range)

did I miss out any pointers??

Our LOs are the same because we must be good and listen to Teacher's instructions on how to do the LO.. but subsequently.. I became the ______.

Poor dearie was not feeling well but she still came long trying her best to absorb all the info and trying her best to make a nice LO. Well, BF better appreciate man! wahaha...