A week in the life – Saturday

July 31, 2011Leave a comment

A day that I’ve learnt so much!

First is that boys love Ice Lemon Tea and leaning the Abacus.

The hidden message from the boys: Even though Mervin said he doesn’t want to have noodle, but still he took it after I’ve ordered it. Same goes to Calvin.

I think they are glad that they can be out from the house for a while in learning new things – doing fun calculation with their abacus.

As for me, I was glad that I’ve got some time for myself to replenish my hair in the hand of the professionals.

And buoy am I glad that hubby is back from his trip and we get to listen to a professor talk about personality and get to do a personality test for ourselves, which turn out to be so true on whom we are! I’m so glad that I’ve enrolled ourselves in that talk.

While we were in the talk, the boys were with Aunty Lucy and her lovely girls. Am so thankful for this friend who can babysit the boys while we attend the talk. Furthermore, the boys had a great time over there, no fighting as all! Hope to do that more actually – let them be with girls instead of boys who may play rough. I had some catching up time with Lucy too.

Evening time, the boys are glad to meet up with their cousin for some games of PSP, what more they get to see some fireworks from the neighbor.

A week in the life – Friday

July 31, 2011Leave a comment

A day that the boys are looking forward to as they can see their cousins while their parents are away and I had to fetch them over to my mom’s place. Calvin and Mervin were super excited about playing BayBlade with their cousins.

After a night of play in grandma’s house, it was time to rest. I’m glade that they had a tired night, thus falling into bed without much hassle.

I even get myself some time in doing some honey corn flakes minis.

I even thought to myself I can handle the 4 boys when I have to.

A week in the life – Thursday

July 31, 2011Leave a comment

I lost what happened on Thursday. All I could remember is I was so tired at the end of the day and Calvin was still struggling with his homework.

Had an early night for Mervin while Calvin tried to finished off his homework. Then was story time for Mervin. They still love story time before bed, no matter what. No matter how late. No matter how tired they are. Sometime though, they’ll forget about story time and went straight to bed after their bottle of milk. Which to me is a great news, means I can rest early.

Calvin keep on trying to blow dry his hair in a way that he wanted it to stay in place. But.. well, since it is too short, he can’t do much about it. He even tried to use my hair clip!

A week in the life – Wednesday

July 27, 2011Leave a comment

Thanks to Ali, that I get the idea in positioning my camera in certain position while I was doing certain things in the morning. Not so attractive photos, but at least it let me know how is things like when I was doing my daily routine.

Brushing time for myself.

Preparing breakfast snack for the boys to bring to school (Yes, we actually using the small stove instead of the nicely installed electrical stove which already broken down.):

The boys having a few games of BayBlade in the car while on the way to school, look how much fun they are having!:

Yup, wearing my Hush Puppies sandal for the first time:

Calvin enjoyed some time of sewing up beads, look how concentrated he is:

As for Mer, he enjoyed some TV time of Merlin:

That’s all about what I’ve taken today.

A week in the life – Tuesday

July 26, 2011Leave a comment

Just wanted to record down those photos that I’ve taken today for the Week in life project.

Had an early day:

One is off to school and the other one fast asleep in the car, while hubby sent the other boy.

Activity of the day: Learning to sew beats and learning simple patterns and can combine into nice design.

This is the work of art from our Gurus:

My course work:

Week in the life 2011

July 25, 2011Leave a comment

Yes! I’m trying to follow this project through with Ali Edwards and today is the first day for this project. It will continue till this Sunday. Hopefully I am able to record whatever that I wanted to and hopefully through this I’ll get to know myself and my family more.
Ali is already started giving out gifts through her blog, so you don’t want to miss this, so do check out her blog everyday to get those chances in winning some thing from her blog.
For today itself, I’ve already taken a few photos. But since I’m making it a very personal record of my life, I will not share the details here. Probably just some photos.

Lunch with hubby in Fatty Chef:

The lego kid who has done his homework without much pushing.

His work of art!

Happy memory keeping!

Sketch challenges.

July 14, 20118 Comments

Hello people, how are you all doing? Have you joined in the fun challenge over at Scrap-it-lah? Have you also been trying out other challenges in the net? Where do you normally go? And do you find it challenging at all? Or do you find it helpful for you to try out new techniques or do your layout faster with challenges?

I’ve been joining challenges here and there, especially sketches. I love sketches, especially when it also comes with some twist on the sketch. Over at Sketchy Thursday, they have this sketch challenge which also include:

• A summer topic
• The colors red, orange and/or yellow
• A journaling spot

This is the sketch:

I know I’ve used the colors part and the journal spot which is there on top of my doily. But not so sure if I’ve done the summer topic part. What do you think?

Here are some close-up of the layout, which I tried on embossing and stamping. I love Ali Edwards stamp in Technique Tuesday. Love those sentiments that reminded me on how I should be grateful on small little things, that I should appreciate my day to day life.

I’ve also used my Making Memories Slice to create that swirl and layered them into a thick and sturdy swirl that I can mist and embossed.

This layout is so not the usual kind of my-style. It is an experiment in using new technique. Even that sort of paper background is not my kind of pattern that I would normally go for. So what do you think? Would you also be inspired to join Sketchy Thursday challenges? Don’t forget to head on over to SIL for the July challenge.

Those cute faces

July 5, 201115 Comments

Hi there! Have you tried the challenge over in Scrap-it-lah yet!? Tell you what, there were only 4 people put their links in the Mister Linky for last month challenge! It means it is pretty high chances that you’ll get chosen for the RAK if you put your creativity into good use and have fun!!

For now, I wanted to share a layout that I did for a challenge that I joined for the first time over in Once Upon A Sketch!

The challenge is to use the sketch below plus:

Journalling Criteria: Who is in the photo? Name the person in the photo and at least 1 fact about them. This can be personality, character, talent , achievement etc. but it must be at least 2 sentences long.

I’ve used a photo that I found in my stash that I haven’t put into any layout. This photo was taken in 2005!!

Just love to have found it and look at those cute little faces of my niece and nephew and my son and their friends! So cute and indeed I can’t find those cuteness in them anymore for now, ‘cos they’ve all grown out of those cute faces.

Here are some close-up:

Am using Happy Go Lucky line from Pebbles.

Happy scrapping! And I hope you all are having a great week!

SIL July challenge

July 2, 20113 Comments

Hello, how are you all doing? It is already July! Half the year has already gone!!! So fast huh!? It seems that this year I haven’t scrap that much compare to last year. I kind of slowing down and the question keeps prompting me is: “How I want to preserve my photos and memories.”

I’ve been joining lots of challenges last year and that is still one of the way for me to get my photos scrap in a layout.

This month, over at Scrap-it-lah, we have a challenge for you,The challenge is:

Use at least 5 photos in one layout which means the layout must be multi-pics. There must be 5 visible photos in it
Photos must be a mixture of black and white and coloured photos please
There should be visible journalling on the layout.

It is pretty challenging for me consider that I haven’t been taking photos recently and I’ve developed all my photos in colors!

So, what I did this time is to gather 5 photos from 5 different time and places for this layout:

I’ve made more folded flowers, other than using those ready made ones.

Also, I’ve used doilies in the layout, which is really cheap if you get it from shops selling bakery stuff. It is also a great way to soften the look of the page.