Back to the routine

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I’m back from China, “YAY”!

First “YAY” is for those time that I can spend to do my scrapbooking, ‘cos I can’t bring all my stuff over there. Going to share more about this in my next posting.

Second “YAY” is I can start wearing my working clothes again. Being a stay at home mom doesn’t give me the opportunity to do that.. dress myself up. Furthermore I’m just lazz around with my jeans and T-shirts. I don’t even need to think about what to wear and what accessories to put on, I’m basically just wear my only accessories: my watch.

Talking about fashion, there is this site that is offering search to fashion schools including fashion schools in California or fashion schools in Los Angeles. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to use this, but hey, for those people who are interested in doing their degree or further their knowledge in a more professional environment should give it a try to study in fashion school in California.

Giving up?

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I’m really thinking, since I’ve a new domain that is using the same name with this blog, should I just delete this one? Since I’ve moved all those relevant posts into the new domain, should I just give this one up? Since it is much easier for me to update a domain instead of blogspot which has been blocked by China firewall, should I just forget about this one? Since this one is still consider new (less than 3 months) and I can’t get any pay post here, there shouldn’t be any loss to delete this one.

Ya.. with all this reasons, I might just forget about this blog and concentrate on my new domain.

As for the other blog which talk more about scrapbooking.. hmm.. what should I do with it? It has been getting pay post but seems harder to get now a days, so it is not really earning as much as I hope it would be.

Maybe, just maybe I should just concentrate on one site.

Having new domain soon

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Yupe.. am in the middle of building up my site in a new domain which is solely own my me!! Yay!
I’m actually in the middle of doing the setting for the new site. Will announce soon.
Since I’ll be away to China for a week, and they have this firewall that blocking a lot of sites, so finger cross that I still can access it in China for a week.
I had been having trouble assessing to blogspot there before and those post that I’ve uploaded doesn’t contain a title, ‘cos I’ve been using Google doc to post. I even had to ask a friend’s help to edit them for me so that I can get my post up in 3P or smorty.
Hopefully this time all went well and hey, no flu please!

Chances to increase page rank?

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Told you I’ve been surfing and maybe got addicted to this blogging thing, so I’m searching for ways to increase the page rank of my site. Read somewhere that saying in order to have a higher rank, I’ll need to have better traffic both in and out from my site. As for the “out” part, I can easily do that by linking others from my blog, but as for the “in” part, I’ll need to registered with search engines, or get people to link back to me which is quite limited on my resources.
Then stumble upon this site that is offering the service: Buzzfuse.com. It allows you to sign up for free!
This site will then be able to increase the traffic on my blog and hopefully raise my google ranking.
So, why not? Try it, I did!

Morning look

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This morning I woke up early and what I did? Crop and arrange photos!
Yupe, that’s what I did manage to do in that half an hour. I found those photos that we took during a trip to the Lok Kawi zoo during Chinese New Year, crop them so that I can fit more photos into my 2 page LO, then even managed to arrange them in orders that I might be able to use later.
It was a rush, but hey, not bad a result either, and I’m not talking about finishing the page straight. I’ll have some time alone again tonight to really go through it again and finish the 2 page LO. I might just be using the PP from my March Personal Shopper kit, yay!!
So, this is how it looks like this morning on my desk:

All these photos taken during that day are actually over-expose. I guess either me or my hubby had accidentally press on the exposure button when we were using the camera. :o(

The fashion world

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Do you know that Coco Chanel based her success on number from the visions of psychic? Yes, that is why Chanel #5 was born.

I found this information in a website which featured Coco Chanel as one of the fashion designers, i.e. “Fashion Schools”. This site also featured available fashion school in New York. It gives some information for all those fashion schools feature in their site.

I know the STPM result has just came out, so it is also the time for our fellow students to do their choice in what career that they will opt for. I know fashion world isn’t a big hit in Malaysia, but why not? Try out New York fashion schools? New York is the happening place for latest fashion trend. If you love to design and create like me, and financially have no problem to further study, is it good to put fashion designing as one of your options. Under fashion schools New York, you’ll be able to find some featured schools and thus get more information from there by just filling up their forms.

I always belief that the fashion trends affect the scrapbook trends. When you see checks style appear in the fashion, we see the similar pattern paper comes out. So keeping in mind on what’s going on in the fashion world will actually help me to get to know what is the trend now or in the future. It also gives me inspiration on how to do my pages I suppose.

Addicted

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I think I’m getting addicted to the online world of blogging.
Since I’ve registered with some online pay post thing which gave me opportunity to earn by posting reviews on their products and sites, I’ve been using the money online also through pay pals. It is pretty simple, with a few clicks and it is totally safe. If I’ve got enough in my account, then I dont’ even need to use my money in the bank. So it is all like online money which I only see the amount online. Haven’t even try withdrawal from my credit card and it is already gone.
So surfing online has been a daily thing for me. Sometimes repeatedly clicking the refresh button hoping to get new opportunity.
It has been slow lately, not many post that I can get, sometimes even none. If no opportunity at all, that means no online income, on online income, means I can hardly get any scrapbooking material online without affecting the size of my wallet.
That is a bit worrying to me, since like I’ve said, I got addicted, both online and scrapbooking.

Bright and dull colour LO

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Yay! I’m so glad that my Personal Shopper monthly kit for March is here! Didn’t expect it to arrive so soon!
That means more papers for me, more new ideas on how to do that pages and new embellishment from HOTP for me to try out, yay!! The theme is Citrus UEFE. I’m truely so happy.

Over the weekend, I managed to finished two LO. One happy and one not so happy. Thus one is in bright colours and the other one in a dull colour, or more settle colour tone.

The first one is an LO showing how my kids love KFC, yupe, KFC-Kentucky Fried Chicken. When my sis saw the LO, she said: “Wah, you are doing commercial for KFC ah?” heheh.. well.. I just thought I have to include the word “KFC” in title and I’ve used “KFC moment” as the title and I just had to copied the fonts.

I used red felt beneath the wording ‘cos I just can’t find the suitable red colour paper for it. Adhere the “KFC” wording then secure the felt with Making Memories mini copper brads in silver.

I’ve used 2 different PP from American Craft, I knew I just had to use them ‘cos they to be are the happy colours, the bright colours that I wanted.

I’ve used the die-cut and tag from HOTP from its monthly kit and use the 3D zot to pop them up.

To pull the colour out from the boy’s shirts, I’ve used HOTP’s PP as the mating papers for the two main photos.

The film strip overlay is also from it’s monthly kit(February), and the brads buddy of mug from last year kit. The heart shape brad is from Queen & Co. Then finally doodle along the bottom left corner just to balance out the LO. Oh ya.. the card stock is Bazzill Basic.

After I’ve got this LO done, I got a not so obedient respond from Cal for not picking up all his toys that he left in the scraproom, and it sure wasn’t a suitable place for him to play there cos the floor is not carpeted, another thing is there got so many things inside that room that he can’t play with. So after that incident I thought I got to do this LO about the characters of the two boys and what I hope from them.
I’ve used things from Personal Shopper February kit again. The Cardstock is from My Mind’s eye – son, ribbon also from MME – bohemian.
The pattern PP with the “one of a kind” phrase is from boy collection (not sure which company now.)
Brads is from HOTP.

Journal: “You two get on my nerves almost everyday. You two get on each other nerve everyday, every hour, and sometimes even every minute. I don’t understand it, and I surely hope these are good sings saying that you have a strong bond. ‘cos after that you two are good friends again, you are sweet again. Sometimes I feel so frustrated for having you two around. but other times I feel blessed to have you two. There are times that I hope you’ll fight less, love more. Compare less, share more. Argue less, listen more. Shout less and be quiet more. Luv, mom”

It’s ok

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Yupe..I’m already half way through Ali’s book (that i’ve mentioned here). I know some of you might ask, “What? only half?” yayaya.. I’m slow in reading, I don’t have speed reading skill.
Well.. I’m already learning from it like it says “It’s ok”. Ya.. I’ve been having trouble deciding on what to do with my photos and on what to use on my LO. I also have this tendency to safe certain pattern paper or embellishment for “better” photos. I also worried how others thought of my pages.
Well.. this is sort of like a confession from me. So now.. I would love to think that it’s ok.
I can even apply this to my other aspect in life.
Let’s just be kind to ourselves.

About the other book “We dare you”, it is giving me so many options to do things that I just might not be doing for my scrapbook. To me, lots of it are a real challenge for me.

Happy scrapping!