One-o- a-kind handmade

The weekend's over so quickly! it was great to just hang out with friends, esp the ones that you have not seen for months due to the great distance that is between us! Always great to catch up with one another and to know what one another is up too!

Maad was another great event! Cousin J did not managed to sell much but there was lots of interested people who appreciated SB and took her card for future reference for SB customisation? The interesting stuff that people sold were all handmade and really inspired us to want to set up a stall in future selling the bags that we sew.

And yes! i am very proud of myself that I did not buy anything from MAAD although i was really tempted by this necklace sold by Cousin J's stallmate, V. it was simply gorgeous.. but i CONTROLled! rather i can thinking - contemplating - and seriously evaulating if i will wear the necklace often enough to warrant me to buy it. It's an equvilent thing if i spent that amount on the necklace.. i could have bought at least 15 pieces of pattern paper, 5 7G 97% stickers, or another AB fabric.. well you get the idea!! hehe... well i am still thinking cos the necklace really is simply stunning, nothin outlandish, understated and of cos one-of-a-kind (which i am a sucker for)..

oh! and the pretty fabric wrapped journals, handmade i must add, by the other stallmate, D were just fabulous!!! Bright and pretty colours, it's really great for people who wanna write stuff or draw stuff to keep for memories! I think my X'mas shopping list is extending cos all these handmade stuff are so pretty that you just want to buy and give away!!

Of course, i sewed a bag too! it's the AB chelsea look-alike bag, with the handles. The method to sew the handles have been buffling Cousin J so I experimented it out. I have to say it's not easy cos it require more hand, handiwork and precision, but it was all worth it! See!!!

What's next? I've got pics so i'm going to SB soon!! yeah yeah!

erm.. no monday blues today!! hehe.. must have been the wonderful weekend and the holiday that's coming up! woohoo...

it's on the way!!!

Yeah! I just had an email from Kim telling me that my waitlist for SOMO kit is here! That means I am going to be receiving a kit for the next three months starting June! Can't wait. It is a bit pricy cos of the shipping all the way from States - for people who knows me I've started to be more 'conservative' with my money and I am trying to CONTROL *to the little ounces of my ability* my spending!

But when I see the kit every month, I just told myself I have to have it!!! even for the stamps it's so worth it!! So can't wait for my kit to arrive!! Woohoo...

Enjoy ur weekend! It's packed for me..
1) teaching
2) catching up with friend who's in town
3) seminar at NUH
4) MAAD event!!! - go if you can!!

even though i'm not feeling too good n my whole body's, I guess i've to get better to attend to my packed weekend!

Sew-Along project and bag update..

Pictures of the bag finally up! :D Road tested it the other day... pretty spacious and all only thing is that even though there is the heavy stabilizer, the bag is kinda floppy maybe i need even heavier kind of stabilizer???

The huge flower has a use!!!

My sew-along project completed: pretty proud of myself that i could round the corners!

Apologises for the similar kind of fabric.. i'm that kind who must use up 1 kind of thing before i start using new stuff!! hehe..

Foodie

I'm a foodie.. hence my increasing size! hehe.. I have had comments from my dear friends that in 1 of my previous postings, the wonderful way that I described food made them drool too! hehe.. well it did make me drool as well! lol!

I've added couple of links... 1stly of cos it's a food link... and secondly SEW MUCH FUN... check it out and have look you will understand! :D

so check both out!

Scrapbooking is on a low currently as I've run out of pictures and I didn't like any of the old pictures. So hang in there! more SB LO will follow soon! *fingers crossed*

but i finished up some sewing projects! :D pictures coming right up real soon!

Have a great week ahead everyone... Monday blues is making my 'work engine' extremely slow to warm up!

good deeds

My Fabric!!! and Pattern... not easy to sew the bag! but i'm going to try! 1st i need to get interfacing... and get over the feeling that using the fabric is so 'sa-yang' read: can't bear to use it!

This is the flower using the pattern from AM's Madison bag! how can 1 resist a pattern that has 2 designs of the same bag and 1 fabric flower too! I used the bigger petals so the flower turned out rather huge! but nonetheless it's very pretty!

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I must praise the good kind hearted souls I saw on the roads!

I was travelling on CTE on Tuesday and along came an ambulance with its siren blaring away. The 1st thought that came to mind was... "good luck getting your way through" but hold and behold! For the very 1st time that i've witnessed with my own eyes, the taxi driver whose cab i was in gave way, followed by the rest of the vehicles in front! Soon after I couldn't catch a glimpse of the ambulance anymore!

Somehow in my heart, i felt really great seeing that whole scene being played out... it was great and truly wonderful to know that Singaporeans are really not as bad as how some ppl will condemn them *us* to be!

What a happy week for me.. even though i am so tired out by all my appointments and presentations!

:P

worse

i played around with the functions of my camera and i think i made the quality of the photos worse!! argghhh...

more....

another LO from Apr SOMO kit... gotta love everything about it...

Love how the petal circle stamp fits snugly to the centre of the flower! such a perfect match :D

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Raves...

Friendships flourish best over a great meal!

1st Friendship:

Over last weekend, I visited a friend who had just taken over a quaint cafe. The moment i entered, I was dumbstuck by the bright flora wall paper that was so welcoming... Walking in, there was a great 'outdoor', pebbled lined floors with wooden benches to enjoy a drink, snack and desserts with great pals! And for vain gals (not me!) the back wall is lined from ceiling to floor and wall to wall with large mirrors! So no worries about having your makeup ruined if you had a drop too much! You can always touch up without having to go to the bathroom. Oh! The BEST part was this hide-away right at the top of the spiral stairs for a small group (read:-lovers). No one can disturb you at all! Unless you want food... Order some snack, a bottle of wine and you are set for the night! to my guy friends out there! if you are planning a proposal I seriously recommend this spot!

2nd Friendship:
Yes! I'm a teacher... and many great friends that I've made along the way are parents (mom's only okie??? I am no home-wrecker!) of the kids that I have taught.

Met up with 2 corporate high-fliers turned wonderful stay-at-home moms. Anyway it's about the food here! FOOD WAS GREAT! lunch was at NARA, a japanese restaurant at Thomson Road, opposite United Square. Best quality sashimi - tuna belly that melts in your mouth, crunch jelly fish, huge ebi... *drool* Delicious fresh salad with an addictive miso sauce, HUGE (as big as the soup bowl that was used) fresh oysters in a light vinegrette sauce (we didn't waste the sauce and used it to dip the shred of veg that bed the sashimi), thinly fried crispy sardines and grilled fugu dipped with jap mayo and roe! Yum.... *i just licked my lip.. haha* We had the special maki and it was freshly made! The fried fish inside was hot!!! oh my... can you beat that? As you put the maki in your mouth, the 1st intense that hits your mouth was the mayo sauce, followed by the freshness of the fish... ooo so good...

oh course, how can we not end the meal with wonderful desert? We had sesame ice-cream (taste like the sesame paste! real deal here!) and pomelo ice-cream sorbet (a nice refreshing tangy taste) and on the hose was grill japanese sweet potatoes that were oh-so sweeeeeeet!!!! saviour every bit of it!!

*lick* did i make anyone drool?

Ok the pricing is not very cheap, but truthfully speaking it's not good it's GREAT food that's worth paying for!! They even have a private room for those intimate moments!

Chief Executive Chef is called Ben.. so you know what to do!! go "gao-sua, gao-sua" a bit, but he's married already... heh... even i didn't have a chance *sobz*


Thank you, K for the wonderful meal!! Call me anytime you need a lunch or meal ka-ki! I'll fly down instantly!!! hehe...

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Yippe! mailman delivered Amy Butler Pattern and fabric and I'm collecting it tomorrow! Can't wait to sew this wonderful bag...

Matching fabrics! hehe.... i think the flora print is not the hue that i ordered bit that's the pattern! :D

Wait patiently for the end product! kekeke...

I found it!

Found my MOJO today! managed to do a quick LO today.

Have I said this before? but here goes! I love crops... they give me lots of ideas! When my crop pals saw this pic, it was a very blurred picture as itchy hand me when to edit the picture until it's so horrible, so they advised me to use the wonderful hambly checked screens - and I was wondering how to use it - to mask the blurry effect and here is it..

tada! my LO.. pretty happy with the result considering I spent slightly less than an hour on it! :D

Happy Mum's Day

It's Mum's Day... I wanted to bring Mom out for dinner last night, but she wanted to meet up some friends! Wanted to bring Mom for dim sum lunch today, but again she decided she wanted to go out!! lol.. my mom's pretty happening... even more than her own daughter!

So i ended up scrapping.. somehow it just feels like I've not been scrapping much these couple of weeks!

Completed this using pps from the April SOMO kit! I love the October Afternoon stamps but I didn't use them here - kinda dun bare to use them!! hehe...

Also finally used the fontwerks kit that TVC gals gave me :D
I thought the colours are just nice for a guys LO! So I did one for each of my bros! talk about being fair... had inspiration from I 's LO for Elder Bro's LO - the placement of her flowers :) hope you don't mind! kekeke...

Younger Bro's had an element from the fontwerks "the firm" workshop by TVC - the note journalling using brads to secure! I did 2 mini note pages.



I need a new album desperately... the current one that I'm using is bursting to its seams! I guess I should be proud that I keep up with scrapping!

Celebrate...

Couple of things to celebrate this week... Mother's day & a dear friend's birthday. Mother's Day was made with a request from a friend! I've not done one for my mom yet!!! Gotta wait for the birthday card as I don't want it to be a spoiler for the birthday gal! hehe...

Oh! Must tell this!

Was at Northpoint yesterday, in between appointments and for lunch. After a scrumptious meal of Nasi with chicken and loads of sambal belachan, I went to the Esprit outlet. I bought a pair of black work pants for $29.90! Original price was

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$129.90!

Had to grab it rite?? It's esprit collection okie?? the 'more expensive' Esprit range! Best part, the material is those non-iron kind!

Jealous rite??? I saved $100... I can buy other stuff now... let's see!! :D haha

Going circles!

Did this a while ago... forgot where I found the tutorial from.. but to whoever who posted the tutorial for this pretty fabric flower! thanx a bunch!


love the vintage buttons!

And how great it is to be bringing around something that no one else have?? hehe... and I call this the circles flower!

time flies

It's been a while since I've posted. Work has been starting to get bit crazier, with more report, trainings coming up in the next month or so! Didn't manage to get much scrapping done! but managed to go for a crop and completed another LO at home..

these are the same pics that I did an album as a gift. Thought I should scrap it too as a memory for my own SB album...

The ONLY LO i managed to complete at the crop, while others managed to complete at least 2! I took a long while to cut out the flowers meticulously!


Went to watch Phathom of the Opera and of course it was great! What really caught my eye was the exhibit at the landing/steps area! Show this pic and i thought I had to take it! hehe.. it's drawn with 1 single line??? anyway, it's the sewing machine i have a home.. if you didn't already know my pathetic state!

Hope it's going to be a great week. & I truly hope that I get my mojo back to scrap again!

Part 2...

and this is when I was accused to be egoistic... that I only scrap pictures about myself.. oh so sad!! sobz!!


to prove that I am not EGOISTIC, i had printed out pictures of my family members and of other stuff... just waiting to be scrapped! so hang in there! i'm looking for my mojo!

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yeah! Friday tmr! TGIF...

been contemplating whether to take leave on monday for a long weekend (Tuesday is Labour Day in case anyone forgets!) but I took leave last Monday, so kinda embarassed to be constantly taking leave! hehe..

get tissue ready..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYeA6bM3odo


have a BOX of tissue ready...

side track

younger bro called telling us that he had his fair and reasonably good share of local delights at Singapore Day in NY..

bro: what u doing? scrapping??

erm.. am I that obvious???

part 1...

yepz.. so this is what I half completed at sat's FwFW's workshop...

As I had to teach in the morning, I had to drastically reduce the amount of things I could bring to the w/s so i only brought 'tools' and 1 set of black alphas.. but guess what? i found / saw / bought pretty pps! I just love the bright and vibrant colours and of cos the owl with a crown to boot! How can anyone resist it? Took me a while to think of the title, but when M & L saw the pic.. she immediately asked who took the pic?? so i said.. cousin J.. and reply was.. "yepz.. this is taken with a DSLR... only a DSLR can take a bit with the background blurry (right term?)"

so thinking hard again, & finally i decided just to name it....

{ Just love a great pic }

PM leave is over.. went to collect my passport... as efficient as the people at ICA was it took me an hour and a half to collect my passport(when I took the queue number, there were 132 people ahead of me, since i had to wait one and half hour for collection, it worked out that a queue number is called approx every minute)... followed by lunch with Cousin M (she's on leave too!).. after which we adjourned for a quick pop by to LP. Also I finally went to picked up a long overdue present for a great pal! and finishing off with my dental appt... and I had the best of " luck " (HUGE open inverted commas!!) to get the same dentist the past 3 times! My gums bled and my teeth hurt after the whole experience.. I've always liked going to the dentist.. but recently the dentists that I've met are totally giving me negative vibes!

It's back to work tmr! hope the week ends fast! hehe ... looking forward to next week... there's a holiday in between... and I'm going to watch Phantom of the Opera!

by the way.. there's part 2 for the LO.. hehe but basically using same pp and similar pics with slightly different expressions!

order pls!

1st of...

I was just looking at the previous post of my LO {Woo Family Tradition} and I don't like it 1 bit! Clarify --> I like every element of it, from the pattern paper, to the CI swirls that I painstakingly cut out, to the alpha, stamp, and tag + journalling. But somehow the combination is just off! I guess it's the problem that I have? Finding my style?? I pour through online galleries looking at different LO, looking at them for reference... sometimes a scraplift... but it turns out totlly different entirely! I guess that i my style? - Looking for inspiration and when I have a pattern paper to work with I start from there and slowly build up the layout creating my very own style? Sometimes, I find that I like things nice, simple and not overly complicated.. and I guess that is probably what I work best with? erm... *ponder*


2nd-ly...

Yesterday's Font With Fontwerks was great! I didn't join but I had little treats at the end too for helping! Thanx M and L! hehe... Seeing them I really saw the hard work that they had gone through just to pull through a 1 day event! Totally not easy! and I must say it really is a great experience to see 1st hand *personal view* how such an event is planned and the thoughts/efforts they had put in. Pity, I didn't take pict with KM but nice seeing her in real person anyway!

and yes! I spent again... well what to do? with such pretty stuff and working in the morning to earn $$ I can spend baby!!

Oh! and i managed to half-complete an LO too! posting it soon!


3rd ...

Elder Bro stopped by my scrap area today... and commented "Mom, your daughter is very egoistic, she's always scrapping pictures of herself!" er.... how do i answer that? I just kept on scrapping... lol

for the record, i do scrap pictures of my family members! and other stuff too!


Last but not least...

just a thought.. a wondering thought..

--> how did i spend my weekends before I started scrapping??? lol i noticed that I've been spending most weekends at home to scrap so what did i do on the weekends say 6 months ago???

something to remember

added a little recipe tag at the side together with the journalling.. thought it's nice to be remember good old family traditions that my grandparents have!

wahaha and i didn't know what to do with the empty space at the bottom right corner so i just put a nice stamp!

Tomorrow is fun with fontwerks workshop! although i didn't sign up (need to teach to earn more $$ to fund more SB purchases) I'll be going down to help in the later part of the afternoon! hehe... can't wait... excited too!

1 for the road...

can only squeeze in a pictorial post... hehe... not enough time to write more!



TFL!!

not so Safari Album

Finally completed that album! My 1st attempt at altering one. Used Delish Biscuit board which I just bought from TVC for a steal! So happy... after all I only used 3 of the 7 boards and I have 4 more left for another album! :D

This took me 4, almost 5 hours to complete! and the moment I completed it , Cousin M came along with kids, parents, sis and my aunt to my place just in time to receive her little handmade gift!





Truly glad that Cousin M likes it :D

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and i've got my hands on the new crate papers at TVC! can't wait to use them.... so yummy! and it's double sided!

Purple addiction

Yeah! it's the weekend! Time to scrap! :D

Finally a chance to use the wonderful MF pp ... Just love the pretty flower patterns and the soothing colours! They look just great against the black cardstock!


TFL!

Priorities !!

I have pictures!!! lots of pictures to scrap...

1. album of night safari.. cool picts there... and lots of ideas flowing
2. thanx cousin J, I've loads of pictures to scrap from the CNY pics! more than what I wanted initially!!

I've even printed them out!!

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I NEED TO IRON THE CLOTHES!!!!!
no scrapping tonite :(

@ work

A little start for the working days ahead... many people who know me knows that my job is pretty different from the conventional kind.. well I still get a desk of my own! hehe.. My very 1st one okie??? must remember! and a namecard to boot! (which is the little hidden tag) can you make out the logo?? lol.. Oh! and i double-used SR stickers... i cut out the frame for the 'never ever give up' sticker and used it for the frame of the smaller photo! :D

somehow I don't feel rejunvenated after the long weekend.... i need a longer break!!!!!

great week ahead everyone!!!

Bag Lady.. NOT!!!

So ta-da! So this is the sewing machine that I've been mentioning about! I finally mastered the art of spinning the wheel, and the co-ordination of paddling so that stitches can be sewn!!! Ok to give my mom some justice, it's a really good machine and it can even do embroidery but since I was in sec school this machines stood so offensively in the guest room that I've never ever used it for any of my home econs project! So i thought, ok let's give it a try again!

with mom getting pissed at me... screaming her lungs off.. "so easy, why can't you do it???" "practice 1st" '"see very easy right??"



I finally got the hang of it and this are the products... I thought since I'm running of beginner's luck, I'd better exhaust my ability to paddle before suddenly lose that ability to co-ordinate my skills again!


1) a nice tote bag that I'll be bringing everywhere for crops or TVC OH... It's my SCRAP BOOKING SHOPPING BAG!! It comes reversible! I can use it on the pink side with the flowers decoration, or turn it over with 2 compartments - one big enough to put 12x12 pp and a smaller one to put little knick knacks!


took me quite a long time to figure out how to make the base of the bag look like this with a triangle.. even with my mom's help it was pretty difficult to understand the instructions ! After a few trials I got it! yeah!


2) Shoulder sling bag
(Courtesy of Mel! - Thanx babez!)


and...

3) a fabric box that I can use to keep alphas, stickers, ribbons etc..



Excuse the same cloth! I feel in love with these 3 fabric when I went to spotlight last week! so i made everything in them.. and also i'm too lazy to dig out my mom's old cloth! keke...


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Long weekends are the time for me to catch up with the family... went to the Night Safari with my eldest aunt's family. Been missing the two little fella a bit... especially now that I don't get to see K1 everyday in school! He grew so much and was as inquisitive as ever...

K: Fiona ah-ye, why is night safari so dark?
F: It's dark because, it's at night and the animals are nocturnal?
K: Why so dark????

Thanx cousin M for the treat!

How can i resist?

another photo to remember the times when I was in perth. This is Araluen - Tulip Farm, somewhere south of WA. It's absolutely beautiful in Spring, when the weather has just turned slightly cooler and when the flowers are all in bloom! It is just that at Araluen where the tulips are in bloom! Pity I've only been there once! Will definitely go back again!

Love how the picture is taken with the flowers being in focus! You can't see it, but in fact my hair has that wind blown effect! talk about beauty! hehe..

Have a great easter everyone!

TFL

my DNA

Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™

Part 2..

Using the remainder of the beautiful JBS pp, i made a border for another LO..

Reads: Marron Meal

Marron is a species of crustacean, smaller than a lobster but bigger than a yabbie. It was one of the best meal I had (in fact one of many! I do enjoy my food very much! How to lose weight like this???) . The farm had it own farm and the marrrons were so fresh. It was cooked simply with just garlic and butter... Can you beat this combination??

YUM!!! i can just taste it...
TFL!!!

1 more day to long weekend! yeah!!! lucky to those ppl i know who are having an even longer weekend with no work tomorrow!

I love...

i LOVE my job.. i LOVE the challenges it give me and the places it brings me too.. and most of all, i LOVE the FLEXIBILITY that i can have in my job!! wooohooo.. talk about job satisfaction.

Good Morning!!!!

I think i'm finally over the blues... it's midweek and only 2 days to a long weekend yeah!!!

Have a great Wednesday everyone!
Enjoy!

TFL!!

Remembering

Life has been a bit crazy the last week... March whizzed by with lots of happenings in my life.. . of course there was my b-day , the end of CNY, reports to be done at work (to verify my payroll) , etc, etc...

I guess the tip of it was to see my dad in hospital after an op, however minor and common the operation that he had was, so everyone keeps telling me... But still, to see my VERY fit and healthy father in hospital with a tube in his left hand give me the chills. I could not help but have tears welling up in my eyes. Dad is always pottering around the house doing this or that never a moment sitting down... even if he does sit in front of a TV, he's off to la-la land pretty fast and the moment i switch the telly off he wakes up immediately and says "Hey, I'm watching!". Dad NEVER gets ill... hence, the past 2 weeks when he stayed at home (a very unusual occurrence) I was very worried! And he complained of having fever, sore throat, etc.. Over the weekends when I'm home the whole day, I even noticed that he napped a lot! something really unusual for my dad to do! Seriously worried about Dad's condition, I even proposed sending him to the hospital!

Now seeing Dad after the op and the way he is sitting down and getting up in pain really hurts... Even as he gets into the car, it's such a slow and laborious activity for him... Hope the pain goes away soon...

Just to cheer myself up, I managed to do an LO.. but that was all I could manage.. It's been a bit hard to get myself going... I guess mesmerising about the old times are always good.. so i thought i should do an LO of the different gowns I wore for the various balls I attended in Perth.

Found!

A lazy afternoon on Saturday gave me an opportunity to catch up on some scrapping in an attempt to find my MOJO...

Looking through all my pps, I found some that I bought during my very 1st TVC OH last Oct! hehe... I've never got a chance to really use it as all the wonderful scrapping materials were released fast and furious!

p/s I must add that this picture was not taken with MY camera... so it's not my camera's fault that the actual photo looks grainy!

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mid week lunch date with Cousin J brought me happy surprises!

Can you believe that I went to Haji Lane 3-4 times but each time the shop "Salad" is always closed! I was elated when I found it open and I walked in with a beaming smile. oh my gosh, such pretty things they have, although a bit pricey it was great finds nonetheless especially for people who are looking for unusual one-off knick knacks to decorate their humble abodes or even great house-warming gifts!! And I found this...
a nice electric blue n black striped elastic belt that matched my outfit on that day! I wore it straight away! How often can you do that? anyway really happy with my find as I've been looking for a nice elastic belt without being too retro or funky that was understated and matches with most of my work clothes as well!


oh yeah! sunday today.. (see i suffer from scatter brain syndrome) Off to Pauline's to get my nails fixed in the arvo! my poor little last toe broke (near the nail bed!) and it's just hanging onto 1/4 of the nail. Msged her on Fri nite to ask for rescue!!! I can't help but keep fiddling with it making sure that it does not break any further! ooo... what picture to draw this time??? erm... maybe I should choose a colour to match the fiery red dress I bought for my cousin's wedding next sun! oh Yes! Must remember to bring the LO that I made, hope she likes it! :D

Oh where, oh where is my M.O.J.O ??

Kinda lost my scrapping Mojo with this LO and the next one and didn't really want to think much so I just stuck with the similar colour combi.

Title: Run Rayner

Kor started runing for marathons the past couple of years! This was taken when UOB had it's 1st charity run 2 sundays ago --> Heart Run for the Very Special Association (VSA) and the Children's Society. The picture was taken with lots of backlight.. I can't control where he has to stand to start his run rite???

Title: Miss
{Woo n Khoo}

At 4 years old, kids pronounciation is of course not accurate, so sometimes, they will call me Ms Khoo (the pretty lady next to me in the pic). A wonderful teacher at AK, who taught my elder nephew and now teaching the younger one as well... and also E, the kids enjoy her lessons alot! Thanx Felicia for being a kind and caring teacher to my most active nephews!

Title: F 4
(Flower n Fiona}

Thanx Lisa for sending me the picture! :D

For this I really lost my Mojo! arghhh..
Please leave a comment about this.. I kinda lost my mojo with this LO.. Something is not right somewhere? Er.. comments? Let me know k? I found it rather difficult filling up the empty spaces between the journally card and the photos!

TFL!!!