relishing on relations

I am considered quite lucky? That for most of my life... though not long... I've had the joy to experience being taken care of by 3 of my grandparents. They brought my cousins and I out, took care of us.

My maternal grandma stayed with my brothers and I as we grew up as my parents were often overseas... now at 90+ her memory's failing and whenever we visit her, she will ask, who we are and how we got to her place? & somehow she has the fascination to know if we can drive or not ... she approves of driving though... and will always remind us to drive carefully. anyhows... taking pictures with grandma was so cute.. she kept saying it was pointless to take the photos, but because she keeps shaking, she always appeared blurry! so ended up taking so many pictures together! well.. good memories to treasure anyway!

FULL!!!!!!!

oh my! Just got back from a scrumptious dinner with Grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousin! What a spread of selection of food for steamboat! And yes you can see the pot-full of ingredients and the soup that is "oh-so delicious" hehe... even the colour is milky which gives the indication that has a full bodied flavour! A great dinner is never complete without dessert! According to my aunt, there's a pineapple plant in the garden and we ate the pineapple and it so so sweeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!! probably the sweetest that I tasted! Yum... and I am oh still so full!!!!
heh! making anyone hungry??? look just look at the soup!!

Also managed to do a couple of layouts last night and I am totally pleased with this one! My new found love is glossy accents, JBS little birdie rubons and the transparent sheets!

I really love how the flowers and hambly screens turnout! so pretty!!
love the 3-D effect that the flowers make!
big smiles from me when I complete the LO.
it's kinda like a new level for a novice scrapper like me....

off to complete another LO... i need time to digest the food!

paitently waiting....

Still paitently waiting for SOMO kits to arrive :( With the CHA coming and all, the shipment has been delayed. According to the site, it will only start shipping on 16th July! and that will be 17th July in Singapore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! arghhh.. why must there be this nonsensical saying that 'all goods things come later'???? I just wanna get my hands started on them to get scrapping again!!!!! arghh.... well, the only good thing that's coming out of this whole waiting game is to find out that i have PATIENCE!!!!! hehe...

I don't care! Going to start scrapping with my 'not-so-old' supplies! Erm... Which product should I use? And I have photos!!!! Truly a scrapper's nightmare to be without subjects to scrap about! Found some fab old photos at Grandma's place 2 weekends ago! hehe.. they are so vintage! I scanned them, just can't bear to use the actual ones anyway. Going again tomorrow for steamboat dinner, as my younger bro is back for the month for a short vacation, a family dinner is called for! can't wait for steamboat and can't wait to see what other goodies grandma has at home! & of course more photo opps at the dinner rite??? yippeee!!!!!! seems that I've got a couple of 'meal' events that my family has planned since younger bro is back now!

here's 1 pic of something I wanna scrap about? erm.. still contemplating about it whether I should scrap or not.. it's for a purpose that I shall keep hush hush now... ;P






Tomorrow's TVC Junkyard July event... can't wait but then I'm wondering if I should just go without cash! hehe... should really stop buying things! haha


TGIF!!!! have a good weekend everyone!

nothing much...

actually i've nothing much to say, but just felt that i've neglected my blog a bit the past week!

Feeling horrible yesterday (sunday) so i just literally slept in the whole day feeling totally lethargic and nursing my bad cough. Imagine being up in the middle of the night coughing your lungs out! It's getting better but I just hope that this bugging cough and irritable tingle in my throat will just go away!

Haven't been scrapping or sewing that much. In fact, i'm waiting anxiously for my SOMO kit to arrive! Waiting for both June and July kits. Woohoo.. I''ll be scrapping then!

hope everyone's feeling much better than I am...

Giving thanx

Am totally really grateful that I have wonderful friends. Friends that I've made recently from SB are a real GEM! A priceless friendship that have been fostered through the common love of SB and of cos the love to shop! keke... It's so cute when we keep edging each other to shop and spend money but also at the lookout for each other to remember to CONTROL the spending!


& of course friends that I've known since Secondary. It's been 13 years since we've known one another. We've all grown in our own different ways, from the type of education we went through, the experiences we have, working in different industries, experiencing one another relationships... but we stuck together, bitched about things together, lunched, shopped, travelled and just hung out together... Such wonderful friendships that I am so grateful of.

Yeps! I enjoy my work!! hehe seldom heard from someone who has quite miserable pay but I enjoy cos it's for the greater good of mankind! lol!!!!

i have to praise myself as I played with the alphas and the black ones read ASD - autism spectrum disorder... that's the kids i mainly deal with trying to help teachers include them into school ! so clever rite??? keke

been nursing a bad cough since I came back from BKK. well it started before I went but having all the yummy curry and tom yum kung didn't help of course, although i am still dreaming of the scrumptious taste... :P

Bangkok here I come again!

One can never reject a nice relaxing trips with full of great food and massages!!! hehe shopping was not too bad.. not as fantastic as I envisioned but that was because the exchange rate is a bit low at this point in time and I had SELF CONTROL!!!! hehe....

my favourite purchase! doesn't it look like the nunn design SB embellishments??

absolutely HEART it!!!

feeding a very hungry baby elephant bamboo shoots.

Saw it at Patpong (Silom Road) the red-light district in BKK

my favourite dessert from Thailand. like Ang Ku Kueh with the tau sa filling!
looks totally plastic but absolutely delicious!! yum
eh... i still can't figure out the actual name! ;)

one of the best meals I had in BKK was at Chatuchek weekend Market!
Rice with chicken green curry, deep fried chicken, mix veg and green mango salad..

all for 210 baht, which is SG$ 10!!!

I was so full by the end of the meal!!! it was just delicious..... drool ;P

planning my next trip already... haha.. anyone wanna come along???

set

oh and i played with the settings on my camera AGAIN... and I think the pictures turned out better now? esp the one with the close up of the yellow ribbon n the AC flower ribbon?? yeah!!
I'm a happy gal

Happy Father's Day

Well.. glad to announce that out of the 2 'parent's day' I managed to celebrate Father's Day today with Dad. Predictably, we went to a Japanese Restaurant at Turf City (it's a combination of his 2 fave things... Jap food n somehow Dad likes Turf City??? I think it's Giant). Food was not bad overall although veg was pretty salty... Er.. present for Dad? On it's way... :D

Happy Father's Day, Dad!


Common knowledge that we take after genes from our parents right?? (read we're kinda screwed man!!)... so I have to say the organisational part of me is from my dad! I like to make sure stuff is organised and packed exactly nicely together! An area for SB, an area for sewing, a box for all the beads for jewellery making... and today I added a box for my make up!!! kekeke... it's something that I've wanted for a long long time but I could not bear to part with the obsence amount of money for the box from Shu Umeura (my fav makeup brand) but the lady at the counter made me an offer I could not refuse.. hence... adding to my collection of limited edition stuff and to my addiction for organisation.... I have myself a new makeup box with a pretty bright pink graphic design on it.....

Price is still kinda high but I had a good offer.... hands are trembling, heart is pumping from the knowledge that I actually bought the box... you know it's kinda like a love-hate relationship now... love the box, hate the fact that I spent again!! argh...


well to cheer myself up and to stop feeling guilty, I've finally fully made use of my AB purchases...

Another album cover for my other AC album...

a yellow ribbon to break the monotony of the fabric

Maybe I should start selling custom-made album covers???
anyone interested??? let me know!


WIP for an UPtown Madison Bag

The base totally bugs me! I cannot get it right... but after several times of trying I finally made it look somewhat reasonable. Bit tired after trying so hard on the base, I've decided to hang on a while to recuperate, give myself a breather before I start to do the top stitching and time to pack for my BKK trip this Wed.

woohoo!! i'm going on a H-O-L-I-D-A-Y!!! can't wait! and there's where Dad's pressie's gonna be from, or rather from DFS. Dad's pretty happy that I'm going for a holiday. NO, not because it's GOOD RIDDANCE (aka nagging from me) but we always get alcohol from him at DFS that's he's only request... cute dad i have, no need to buy anything from holiday trips, only bring back the good stuff from DFS a bottle of red, a bottle of liquor and 3 cans of beer!

oh and my 'chelsea' bag has been going on shopping trips with me.. so far so good.. it's a sturdy bag alright! Cool!!!

Protected!

My completed album cover....

Thought the black fabric should be jazzed up with some ribbons...

I detached a lanyard given by TVC during one of their OH and sewed it onto the cover! An AC label for an AC album :D

Another 1 more cover to go!

I gritted my teeth....

and i finally used the Amy Butler fabric that I ordered previously! hehe.. although my heart broke a little.. just a little when I cut the fabric but i love how the whole bag turned out. I used those super-hard kind of interfacing for the bag and now it can 'stand' by itself. Oh and i used the black/white striped bag as the lining. Now this bag is super-strong.. *fingers crossed*


Matching light brown fabric for the binding. : D it was so darn hard to sew it on as the fabrics all became thick even after trimming off the excess interfacing n fabric!

Mom exclaimed after I showed her the completed bag! The fabric is nice (refering to the AB fabric) but the binding stitching is bad (as the different thickness of the bag caused tension on the stitching, but overall it's still a presentable bag that I can carry around :D

Off to next project.. so many which one?? And what to sew for Sew Much Fun??

Oh! and I wanna thank M for giving me the lovely kit that I used to do for JT's birthday card :D Big Thanks n Kisses going your way!

gifts from the heart

Since I'm 'into' scrapbooking what better gift can i possibly give my dear friends than a 1 of a kind SB LO done especially for them.


This is a card I made for a dear friend in Australia... hehe I mentioned making it in a previous post but i couldn't post it until I'm very sure that she has received it :) so here it is! I'm glad that she loves it ... It becomes 'scary' when your inner circle of friends, those that you know for many years start to get hitched! Anyway, the 'guinea pig' of my lot from secondary school had her ROM end of may and here is her belated ROM pressie! Another SB made with exceptional love! just for her ...


glad that she likes it too.

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!