I know.. I haven’t have this creative idea going on in my head, so I haven’t been productive this week. There are photos for me to scrap about, stories for me to tell. But I just couldn’t put my creative hat on and start doing new LO.
I’ve a good news actually, I’ve been selected as one of the Design Team for Scarp-N-Crop (Yes, I am the one with the name Fon Mee in her blog). I’m glad that I’m not starting so soon. Val, the owner actually put me forward to start on May next year, thanks Val.
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Technical schools
Just couldn’t believe that I’ve been working in the same company for over 10 years now. During those first few years, I always thought that I won’t stay for long, it always amazed me to find that some of my colleagues have been working there all their life!
I’ve got a very hard first year, being in a new environment right after university and had been faced with a lot of veteran who are much more experience than me and yet I have to supervise them as I have a higher rank then them. Now when I think back, I think I’ve got depression at that time. There is just too much responsibility I suppose and also discovering that I’m always “green” in their (veteran’s) view. When come Sunday night, I’ll feel so depress in knowing that I have to wake up the next day to go to work.
Then problem solved after I’ve been transferred to another department which I feel more in ease. Later on, I was involved with the website building for our company. Working as a team member and got the website up from scratch. I enjoyed creating, designing and planning for the website. Technically I wasn’t being train in university to do website, not a qualify webmaster at that time. But after going through lots of training and reading self-help sites, I did managed and can call myself a webmaster.
I suppose if I have the chance I would love to go into technical school and got myself enough it training. However during the year right after my graduation from high-school, I never have thought of tech schools, I can hardly support myself for study even. Thank Got that I’ve got full support from scholarship.
Yup.. it has been 13 years now, but now I’m no longer working as a webmaster ;0)
Craft time LO
I’ve just did a page about the boys helping out doing my 1st altered project and also using my newly arrived stamp set. I’ve used the stamp on the word “TIME” and the quotation mark on the journaling.
Journal: “both of you wanted to have a go in helping mommy paint 3 photo frames. Mommy ended up running away from Mer ‘cos he doesn’t want to stop.”
Alphabet from Basic Grey and PP from HOTP. I’ve used stamps from Hero Arts too.
Happy scrapping!
Stamp set from PW
I was so happy yesterday that I finally received my first set of stamp from Paperwishes Personal hopper “Stamps Only Club”.
Got my free gift as well, a 2″ x 6″ clear block.
This time they are sending out “Artsy ABC’s” together with a leftlet telling me how to use them, isn’t it great?
I just can’t wait to use them in my LO, so I’ve tried it out on scrap paper just to see how they are. Unfortunately there is one letter that has been crushed maybe by the block which is packed together through the mail :o(
To make it worse, among the 3 “N”, that is the one that I like most. [double :o( ]
I’m going to write to them and see if it is possible to change it, I’m not asking for more, I just need the N, a perfect N.
So, Paulette, if you are reading this, please please please, could I have a perfect “N”..
1st altered project
Just wanna show the first altered project that I did over the weekend. These photo frames had been sitting in our living room for ages ever since Cal was just over 1 year old, bought by my sis from IKEA. She thought they were cute and handy, most importantly they are cheap. I personally don’t like them due to the texture of the wood and it came with real glass.
I was clearing the table on Sunday and thought, hey, why not I paint them and maybe put something on the frame. So I did! I started off by painting them with my white acrylic paint. Got some help from my two boys. Let them dry and then decide what to do with them. I tried to stamp on them but it doesn’t look that nice, probably I haven’t got the right ink. So I’ve decided to use brads instead.
First, I mark on the frame where I wanted to put my brads with pencil, then nailing holes on the marked area so that I can insert the brads in. I nailed the nail 1/3 into the frame and pulled it out again.
After inserting the brad that I like, I then nail it but not straight on it, I use a wooden ruler as protector, then nail it down so that it is nicely secure on the frame.
Do it to all the rest of the brads and I get:
I don’t like the effect of stamp on these frames, but just too lazy to redo them again. Maybe next time I’ll repaint them and put some other kind of brads there.
Most brads are from Making Memories. Stamp from Hero Arts. Both can get from 2Peas.
Thanks for looking
R is for reading
Yay! I did managed to do a page last night after the boys have asleep. It was a cool night last night after the rain, made it super comfortable to be in the scrap room without having the fan on.
I’ve struggled to use pattern papers and cardstock, to split the pages into 2 and 1. I ended up taken out some pattern paper that I wanted to use, start comparing them by laying my photos on them. I started with one page layout in mind, having thoughts of using certain things in my layout, then I changed my mind, then I changed back again and stick to the initial plan.
Things that I wanted to include on the page are a coaster from Nanny’s kitchen (SEI), the small photo of books and four pictures of my boys. This is a page about their love in reading. These are photos from two different time, one is on board to Hong Kong and the others were in a bookshop in Central Hong Kong.
I haven’t own any circle punch yet, so I’ve to cut the circles and also cut out the circle shape from the photos to make the effect shown on the layout, fun fun fun!
I’ve used: SEI From Granny’s kitchen coaster, Blackbird 12×12 Cardstock Pack (bazzill), photo turns from Basic Grey Matchbook kit, ribbon from Paperwishes March kit.
Thanks for looking.
Live TV
There is this interesting site which offers lots of live show. It is where people can upload their video and share it with others. As long as you have a connection to the net and a video cam in front of you.
It is some sort like a life TV where you can see all sorts of people posting their video online. You can connect it straight to those that are online at the moment for live broadcast and who are sharing their cam. It also allows you to watch recorded shows.
Check it out and have fun!
Evidence
I’ve found several photos showing my boys reading. Yup! They loves to read, they love it especially if Mommy is reading to them. They’ll request more after one book before bed. They go into a book shop and demanded to buy books, once they were there, they’ll drag my hand over to those shelves that displaying their favourite books, in most cases, “Thomas & Friends”. So I’m going to do scrapbook pages about this and I wanted to include a pictures of books somewhere in the page. So I snap a few last night then decided to just use one and I had it developed to small size (3.5″ x 2.5″). They call it 2up of 3R over here. It turns out very cute indeed.
Let’s see how I can do that page tonight. A page about reading and maybe another page about their love for Thomas & Friends.
Oh.. another one is for their love of Donut, especially little Mer.
Yesterday after getting him from babysitter, the first thing he said was:
Mommy.. the rain has stop
Me: Ya…? (suspecting something is in his mind)
Mer: Go to City Mall, buy donut (with a big grin)
Infact it was even raining, just because my reason last time for not going is it was raining. So he does love donut huh!?
So we did stoped by City Mall and he ate two without finishing them la.. he just make sure that he ate all the stuffing of blueberry in the middle.
I started to collect more evidence about donut right after the box is empty. How? By cutting out the label on the box! Yay!
Free and easy recipe?
Anyone? I mean anyone can provide me with a really simple 3 steps recipe that I can cook for my next trip to China? I need those that uses simple ingredients, those that I can find easily in the Chinese market.
I’ve been having trouble preparing meal sometimes, especially I’ve to cater for my two boys which taste buds are just too hard to satisfy. How I wish I’m a chef who graduated from chef school and have learnt all my cooking skills from the best culinary school. Well, you can actually get a degree as being a chef, just find yourself a suitable school from this site which provide that service in looking for one: Culinary schools.
So Close
“These were just some brief moment during a flight to Hong Kong, where the two of you were being so close. I wish to see more of this..”
It really was a very brief moment on board, after that was some quiet on-board magazine reading time, then argue and fighting time. LOL.
I mount 3 4×6″ photos on the side, mat the main photo (which doesn’t seems that prominent here) on red pattern paper and white cardstock, then adhere the ribbon below. Punched holes for my heart brads. Then used white cardstock to covered the hole of leaves of the felt before adhering it on top. Punch little holes for the mini round brads then stick the title on. Final touched was the stamping done on the photo itself.
I’m using Blackbird 12×12 Cardstock Pack (bazzill), Rust Fall 2.7 inch Felt Fusion and brads from Queen & Co., colourful mini round brads from HOTP, ribbon and thicker letter sticker from American Craft, “so” letter sticker from Basic Grey, Share Laughter Clear Design Stamp Sets from Hero Arts.
One final thought: Maybe I should have used B&W photos for those on the side.
Hannie Craft - Finding Joy 