Month: January 2008

Promise LO

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Have been drag on to this this LO too. It is a promise that I’ve made for Cal, well.. it happens that one day he said to me that I don’t love him, that is after I’ve punished him for doing something wrong… it strucks me and it hurts me too.. so I’ve been asking myself “am I really that bad as a mom?”

So here.. this is for Cal.

Pattern paper is from Dream Street Papers, flowers from Prima, photo corner from Heidi Swapp, brads from Hot off the press, alphabets from Basic Grey.
Initially I wasn’t sure what embellishment to put on this page. The first flower is the one on the bottom right corner of the photo and it is right at the end of the swirl. After I done that one, I figure maybe I can put flowers on all the swirl’s end, so I did. I’ve use a little heart brad from Queen & Co. too.
The journalling:
Cal, One day when you were only over 4 years old, you have been told not to do certain things but you still carry on, thus I’ve spank your hand and punished you to stand on the corner, suddenly out of nowhere and out of my expectation you said: ”You don’t love me… you really don’t love your child!”
It really hurts me and hurt me deep. It made me ponder if I have done anything wrong in the way in disciplining you, if I haven’t been hugging you more enough, if I haven’t been giving you enough attention everyday, if there is anyone that have been telling you some dreadful lie about me.
Later I start telling you how I love you, why I discipline you and find out why you don’t listen to me. Every night before sleeping, I gave you a big hug and you always demand me to whisper something on your ear like “Be a good boy, don’t be naughty, don’t push your little brother..” Then only you are satisfied and fall into your dreamland.
I may not be a perfect mom to you, but all I want to tell you is: “I do love you, you are still my precious one and I promise that I’ll love you all through my life.”Mummy, Dec 2007

split.. shall I?

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I’m moving.. emm.. not exactly.. I should say I’m splitting.. emm.. is this the right word? I mean I’m having another blog .. splitting from this one, so that this will entirely be my scrapbooking blog.. probably not entirely.. probably the mix of two … but this blog has been more about scrapbooking than about life.. about reminding myself how gladeful I should be with my life.. having 2 boys.. having a family and friends.. but then again.. scrapbooking is doing that too. When I scrap, I constantly reminded about how gladful I am on my life, on my daily living.
However.. above all these, I still think I should have a blog entirely talking about scrapbooking. Maybe I’ll just start another blog now.. and decide later, see how it turns out later.. what do you think? Shall I?

Sweet 16

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Did a page that has been long overdue.. well.. no due date actually.. but the photos have sat in my closet for a month after I’ve crop them. They are my niece’s 16th birthday pictures. She keep on complaining that she doesn’t like those photos and said that they are so ugly (I hope she doesn’t mean herself, ‘cos she is lack of confident on her look), well.. to me, they are precious, ‘cos you’ll never get a 2nd sweet 16 again, so no matter how bad the photos have been taken, they are still part of the memory.
I’ve used lots of different flowers for this page, I thought to myself since I may not have lots of other chances to use those flowers that I bought from Prima, they are in black, grey and white. I’ve used flower from Heidi and mini flower brads from Making Memories. Love to use all those pretty flower and they are pretty easy to lighten up a plain page.
Another thought was that I’m thinking to submit this page for the “We love flower” challenge in srapbook.com. Will see if I can make another page that I like more.
I didn’t poke any hole in this page too, I used zots to adhere all flowers which already got brads on.
Since the page colour is greyish, I tried something new, I used white gel pen to do the journalling, but it still doesn’t pop up.. so I’ve to layer my writing. I’ve cut up some pattern paper and stick up as the line for my journalling. Got this idea from one of the challenge in scrapbook magazine.
Since I don’t wanna poke any hole in the paper, so using flower embellishment is a good way to hide away the zot and it secure my ribbon even more.
So here it is.. happy belated birthday, Qin..
Photo shooting technique of this page is not so right ‘cos the page tilted.. I miss the digicam

I’m curious…

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I’m curious.. I get email about gambling online, about online casino.. but do people really gamble online? I mean how? Can you just flee like that if you loose? Would they be able to track you down? Would they be able to get the police to catch you if you flee? hmm… there is this casino site, pro360, which not only offer online gambling, they even listed out all the other sites that you can go! OMG.. there are so many of them. It got me thinking, what if the credit card fraud group gamble there? haha..

More LO

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Done a page last nite from a photo taken just last weekend in my in-law’s. Photo taken by my sis-in-law who were trying out her digicam.

This LO is inspired by a member in Two Peas.
I’ve used all American Craft paper again.. and also Apricot Bazzil Cardstock bought from SoCalScrap, those that were offer 😀 (USD.44 each)
I just love those American Craft papers that I bought from TwoPeas. The stars are just very nice to make boy’s page. Oh and the vinyl too.. they are just so fun to just stick up as title.

I haven’t pun any journaling in yet.. Just don’t wanna spoil the page with wrong words..

My Scraproom

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This morning my handphone is coordinating with me, it lets me upload photos into my PC.. buoy it was so hard to get it work huh… I wonder what is wrong with it..
anyway, I just wanna show some pictures of the scraproom that I have been talking about. Don’t expect very nice picture with nice decoration of the whole room, it is just a table that I’m working on, so basically nothing much to show.. but I’m excited cos I can treat that room as my own scraproom!! 😀
Just remember, it is a very old house (more than 30 year), so don’t expect to see cement wall here.. 😀

You can see my Creative Memories cutter (the blue one) and also CM’s album which is being open up. The other colourful album is my magnetic album which I need to pull out all the photos from. I kept all my ribbons inside the little food container stack up at the back there. Maybe I’ll move my ribbons into a box later..
Here is another photo showing the little box that I got from Signature which is meant for putting medicine, I’ve used it to put all my little brads.

What is not showing here are those papers that I’ve, not many so far, not even an inch thick. Another things is the cutting made (covered by the CM album).
Those are my little things that I’m having now.. hope to build up the collection especially stamps.

Online Shopping

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I think I’m addicted to online shopping. I like to see what is in my cart, calculated it before I check out and checking back with my credit card to see if they have charged and then waiting for it to come in my mail box.
I like browsing using my PC especially when the connection is fast, I save the hassle of queuing in line when doing payment, I save the hassle of asking about things that I want, I just need to do a quick search in the site concern and wuala!
Remember I’ve mentioned that I got special offer to be the first online customer of a shop in Brunei? (posted in Dec 2007) I paid through TT and it actually cost a lot for doing, the bank charge RM25 just because it is a foreign bank account!
Yupe, the site that I went to doesn’t accept credit card for payment on their website so it actually shows down the payment process and also choosing process when I’m shopping, however, mainly it is because their site is not meant for online shopping. So, how nice if they have a Merchant account with this company call A + merchant services who is a provider of merchant account and also provide Visa & MasterCard payment solutions.
Other than that, I would look for sites that are secure which doesn’t provide my personal information to any other people.
Well… let me see what is in my cart now…

Only 3 to 4 hours a day

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That is how much time I have each day with my kids. Let’s see.. in the morning I need to get them ready to school, after getting them up from bed, brushing, eating, changing and up into the car.. that is within an hour job, no time to realy look at them and say I love them sometimes.. how sad. Maybe I should make it a point and habit to hug them and tell them I love them every morning. Then I’m off to work, 9 hours gone without them. Then when I got home, I’ll need to make sure one of them do their homework, another one take his dinner and then bath, then story time, then off to sleep. That only give me less than 4 hours. I only quiet time which is not so quiet with them cos they always got lots of questions to ask during story time, and after that is lots of request before bed time.
So, out from the 24 hours, I only got maybe up to 4 hours with my kids.. I wish I can have more, but I wish those hours are quality one instead of keep on pushing them to do this and that…

Again back to square one

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Why? Because my phone is not working again. I mean I can’t get it connected to my PC to upload photos, again! What the heck! I can do that yesterday, that’s why I’ve gone home happily snapping away photos with it thinking that I can share it here, but now it is all back to square one, I’ll still have to wait for my digital camera to come back during CNY :((

Guess what I found?

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Ya.. can u imagine that I get a very old insurance cover note in my late-grandpa’s drawer last Saturday when I was clearing up his room.. I wanted to have a scrap-room space for myself, so what I can do is to convert that room into one that I can work with without the mosquito disturbing me. While I run through those left over things that my Aunts didn’t throw away, I found a cover note dated back to 1971! Sum assured, RM5K. I’m sure at that time, it was a very big amount and I thought to myself.. wow.. grandpa was really modern, ‘cos at those time, there weren’t many that would buy insurance or even know about insurance . And the nominee was my late grandma. It wasn’t the kind of cover note we see now a days, it is folded up into a long slip of maybe 10″x4″. I was also surprise to find that it was in English… now.. my grandpa doesn’t know English, so who could be the one who introduce insurance to him? I think that will be the mystery for my life.
During those time, not only that my grandpa doesn’t know how to read English, there wasn’t even computer available for him. Now we can just go online to get our insurance quotes and get ourselves an online insurance policy! I know one that offer such a service: Advantage term life.
Another mystery for me (maybe will solve it later) is that it is a life insurance that my grandpa bought.. so who could be the one who have claimed it?
Talking about insurance, I myself got my first one ‘cos I’m fed up with the insurance agent who was so persistent for me to get a life insurance from her, and I didn’t regret it and am glad that she persisted that time. I think we all need at least one life insurance just so that when we passed away, our love ones won’t need to worry about funeral money .. ya.. I know.. some people doesn’t like to talk about this. But what about properties, you’ll definitely need insurance cover for that.. just imagine if you are half way paying the property and something happen, if you don’t have insurance cover for it.. non of ur love ones get to inherit that property that you might have been paying for over 20 years!