Category: Just Life

Where the name came from

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Read this post this morning from another blog. Love the picture there:

It really puts a smile on my face seeing this picture, it also reminds that this is how my son’s name came about. I adore Calvin and Hope that time, so I name after that little boy and hopefully my son also gets a bit of his characters, ha! True enough, he is funny, he loves to make his little brother laugh and he is sure curious, however he doesn’t have a tiger with him all the time. Probably is there, but I couldn’t see it.

Well, the read is actually started with the Art Journal thing, which I’ve no clue about and all the while I thought about my friend who has studied interior design in art school before, so maybe she’ll be interested and re-live her artsy self again, ‘cos she is not in children clothing and supply job. Well, Spidy, this post is for you.

Happy Monday to you all.

What I have learned

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I love what Ali wrote in her blog post today. I love how I can relate to her, totally and am glad that she put all those thoughts and wonders that I've been having into words.

I am glad that after reading her post, I don't feel that much of feeling alone, for there are doubts in me thinking that I might be the only person that is facing such difficulties right now. Now I know that it is totally normal and okay for where I am and who I am. Even on how I handle things. IT IS OK.
I'm also inspired to have a clear core value on which things that are important to me. I love all those quotes that she has in her post. There are also prompts for me to think, action for me to do and ponder, I am glad that I am a follower of her blog.
Hopefully I can also do those things like "reading less about it and doing more about simply living that way", as she has put it in her blog.

2011

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New year.. new year..  January started without me preparing and soon the first week will be gone. 

I'm trying to find myself a little word for this year, but am not sure how to go about it. 
Then I discovered that there is this life project that is going on in Big Picture, which I would love to do, and what more the kit looks gorgeous. I've missed the Project 365 last year, so I wanted so much to own that kit, unfortunately Amazon don't send the kit to Malaysia. *sigh* Then I figure probably I can make my own version of the kit with the right 12 x 12" protector, but found out that Scrap-n-crop run out of stock for that kind of protector. *sigh*
Maybe I'll just stick to those challenges over in Scrapbooks Daisies. I'm getting their kit plus the Basic Grey monthly kit.
I've been saving and saving my kits, I mean I haven't been able to use them actually. Very wasteful?
Well, eventually I'll come to use them. I've already been using the BG December kit to do my December Daily. Ya.. 2011 and yet still doing the 2010 December Daily.
Well, I gather myself and start creating again. I've been lacking behind so much.

Shutterfly Giveaway Winner

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Remember this post about Shutterfly giveaway?
Strangely though I’ve 40 over followers, only one that responded to the give-away, that is Uncle Lee!

So, Uncle Lee, do contact me to get your code for the Shutterfly photobook. The rest of you, do let me know if you are interested to have this give-away again, ‘cos the code is until end of December.

Recently I’m really  not up the par for writing blog post, just couldn’t get myself to write anything. I didn’t even do a single layout for the past weeks too. Gosh! I thought I couldn’t live without scrapbooking, but eventually I did survive due to the heavy work schedule. And I do still have one more assignment to finished up which is already overdue. That is to get this thesis citation done for publication.

Finger crossed that everything will soon be over and I can come back to my creative self again. So, does anyone of you been not doing any scrapbooking recently? Tell me.. I would love to hear from you all.

I felt like…

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I felt like I have lost something that I didn’t scrap as often as I could recently, probably just too tire to do so.

I saw lots of great pages over the Net, I wanted to scrap-lift them, I wanted to make it my own and record down stories of the day to day life. I wanted to use all those distressing technique, those mist, those chipboard, those fuzzy cutting and just have fun.

When I do scrap, I felt that I will pay more attention on things around me, on what my kids said, how they behave and how I respond, so that I can jot them down and put them all in my scrapbook page.

I wanted to do a mini-album about me and hubby, or simply a mini-album about things around the house, I definitely going to do this challenge.

I wanted to make more cards, cards just to say hello and I need to post out those cards that I’ve made.
So many things to do on a Friday morning. Maybe I’ll start tonight.

 

Shutterfly Giveaway: Holiday Cards

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I have heard of Shutterfly and seen its advertisement in Scrapbook magazine and had since noticed Ali Edwards mentioned about it and even seen her Shutterfly book of Daily You.

Shutterfly is not only about Photo Book, you can also custom made your Christmas Photo Cards, holiday photo cards, Halloween photo cards, Thank You Cards and even party invitations or Birthday Invitations. Isn’t it great?
All you need to do is to upload your favorite photos, choose a design that you like and you’ve cards that is custom designed for you. You can even get them to post it for you, if however you don’t want them to send over to you! It save up all that hassles in making them and posting them. It also making sure that your friends and family get your greeting cards on time, but make sure you do that earlier.

Shutterfly is doing a promotion right now that they will email me promo code and I can use them for a give-away. Please note: “each code is for 10 free 5×7 flat stationery cards! Offer ends 12/31/2010.  Please note, only 1 set of 10 cards is redeemable per Shutterfly account.”

How to enter for the give-away? Just leave a comments here by telling me if you’ve started preparing for the Christmas or simply comments on anything at all.

Happy weekend!

Edited: So sorry.. I forgot to mention till when is this give-away, right? Bummer.
Okay, here is how it goes, I’ll have this post open for comments till end of October and draw a winner on 1 of November. Any question, please contact me at fonmee at gmail dot com.
TQ!

Why don’t we all try it out?

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I’m not sure what will happen to this ‘cos I’ve seen that my member list gone from zero to 40 over just within an hour.
I got this email from a total stranger, that’s why I said I’m not sure what will happened, but I’m seeing that people around the world is joining the network.

Try to understand it yourself here.
If really, it is just a scam, well, at least now I’m not paying anything to be a member. So think there is no harm joining in.
Maybe you all will join me? And we’ll see what will happen next.

Can’t get myself

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I mean I can’t get myself up for something crafty recently. No creativity juice flowing. I wanted to do something, just something but can’t get it started.

I wanted to do a mini CD case album. I wanted to follow a sketch and challenge to do layouts, but still nothing came out. I’ve even bought a CD case.

The other day I tried to design a stamp for my Raya card, but it came out different from the font that I’ve chosen, ‘cos along the way, the person who printed out the design doesn’t have the same font in my PC. Well, I still accept it and they still look okay to me, just that I’m really going to do another stamp with my original font.

I wanted to start making some Raya cards for my Muslim friends and am thinking about Christmas card even. Well, see if anything come out later.

Still hoping to be able to create something…