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!