{Quick Update}

So the Japan trip is getting nearer. Met up with the planner, we're quite excited about the trip right now.

Just received an email from R and found out she's going to spend 3 days with us!!!!! woo hoo!!!! So excited!!!!!! Can't wait to meet her! I'm sure there'll be so much catching up to do. And meeting her in Tokyo is like going on a holiday with her ha ha ha ha...

Before all these, next week will be our regular Life in the Spirit seminar. It's going to be busy, busy for me...

If you're interested, do find out more about what this Life in the Spirit seminar is about:) No registration is required. Seat availability is on a first-come-first-served basis.

On a different note, I'm slowly getting adjusted to the iphone. Tons of apps downloaded, haven't really started using them. Exhausted a few free lite games, wondering if I should purchase the full version. Other than that, I would say in terms of SMS, Nokia is still MUCH easier :) Now I cannot not look at my phone when I SMS like I did with the Nokia. In fact, I have to stop what I'm doing just to type one SMS.. hai....

{Another Goodbye}

Another xiao mei is leaving CG for an overseas attachment tomorrow. She'll be gone for 4 months. This little girl is precious, because she has been such an inspiration to our CG. Her simple faith in God. Her discipline to read and do what His Word says and the journey she has travelled to be where she is.

Even though she'll be away from us, I know she's grounded in His Word and will take that with her wherever she goes!

Made a little display for her from the new items that I bought on Friday.

Love the transparent dollies, very pretty! Can you see the transparent stand at the bottom? That's from Daiso, only S$2 and it's transparent! I like it!!!

I was rather surprised when I opened the packet of envelopes that I bought. It's just 'for show', 'pretend' envelopes. It doesn't even hold things ha ha ha... felt a lil cheated ha ha ha... in the end just pasted the note over it, since there's no 'storage' capability.

Commit to the Lord whatever you do,

and your plans will succeed

Proverbs 16:3 (NIV)

Check out the new butterflies, so pretty right! Finally got to use the prima flowers too!

Love those 'crystal' alphas that I got during the GSS sale! Should have bought more!

I find these name tags/ clear holders really handy for putting multiple photos. On top of that I love it that the photos are protected and best of all, the photos can be replaced easily! Excellent!

Spent about 3 hours on this, slow right ha ha ha...

{$2 Daiso Box}

Bought this box at Daiso to put the mini-album and display stand that I made for my mum. The box is so pretty and it's only S$2. I did think of embelishing more on the ribbons but, ahya, mum will just pull it out and return it to me ha ha ha... Plan to give it to her some time this week or next. Hope she likes it!

{Day Out w Yin}

Met up with Yin last friday for a shopping session.

I never meant to buy anything when we stepped into Laines. In fact, I told myself, "W, don't waste money, finish what you have."

Then... came Y... with her very sincere smile and excellent choice of selection..."G bought this the other day, she loves it" I took a look at the butterflies and flowers... wah... it's really quite nice. So I took some.

Then.... she came again.... "these are the new paper. alice in wonderland...i bought this and i bought that..." I took a look... wah... is nice lor... so I took some.

And then after that, I picked out slightly more things...., I took a basket.

Everything broke loose, when Y came and said... "ay use my vouchers..." and she gave me this 40% off 5 products voucher and another 30% one time payment voucher... oh my oh my....

You can imagine what happend after that.... 

After scrap shopping with me being the winner of the day, we (actually I) did some more shopping at Mango.

Whenever we go shopping, we always see who would be the winning shopper for the day. Looks like this trip, it's me...

When I was in her car, I was trying hide the clothes in my bag so I started stuffing them in. There's no need to do that actually, but I just feel bad going back with bags of shopping stash every time I go out ha ha ha ha....

We had a great time! On my way out I dropped my phone in her. Panic for a night. Thank God it was in her car :) Got it back the next day. Saw K for a while and I went, "K K, shake your backside" ha ha ha... I can see why Y enjoys her time with him. When he broke out in laughter...so cute!

To my wonderful friend who has shared her life with me throughout time....

When we were younger, it was her who started me on our fairy collection.

It was her who introduced me to paper toles.

We also tried knitting and cross-stictching, which I absolutely hate ha ha ha...

Now that we've grown up, she has once again introduced me to a hobby I really enjoy: scrapbooking.

Y, thanks for always sharing your life with me. You're a precious, precious friend!!!

{To Mummy With Love}

Finally took some pictures...

Did very little distressing in this project, because mummy likes her stuff neat and clean. I distressed where I could, but other than that I literally had to stop my hands from reaching out the the ink pad. There could be so much more distressing added to it!!!

I'm having problems adjusting the pictures.... some turned out bigger than the others and it wouldn't allow me to resize them...

{Desaru Trip with Mummy & Us!}

I was a lil' too ambitious with this. Made it like door opening, pasted the bicycle chipboard, then I went o O! Cannot open! Duh!!! Had to carefully cut the chip board into 3 parts.

That door opens to this mini photo page that I inserted from a regular namecard holder. There's 8 more mini photos within showing that yucky, dirty wanton mee place that we ate from.

This wanton mee was meanigful because clean freaks like mum & I actually ate it despite the fact that it was really unhygenic ha ha ha... bravo to the mother-daughter team!

This lil' journal will forever remind of this meal. This was a great opportunity for distressing, because that will remind mum of how dirty that place was ha ha ha..excuses, excuses.

Wrote a lil' love letter to mum. It fits nicely into the pocket just beneath the photo, where the branch is.

This is like a mini-passport book that opens up to...

Yeah... more photos.

M is her A+ son.

But... I'm her No. 1 daugher wah ha ha ha ha (evil laughter)

Added some "note" facts that we learnt from this trip.

Another page that flips open to more photos...

This was one of the last few pages I did and I ran out of patience. I simply took whateversticker that was left and started pasting it together. I kinda liked it after it was put together actually.

Ping Piang Bing Bong

{Sneak Peek}

Here's a peek to the mini-album that I made for mum on our Desaru Fruit Farm trip :)

{Chinatown Rocks!}

I was suppose to go to Chinatown to run some errands, and then, I got stopped at a little shop that sells ribbons and buttons!

It's soooo cheap!!! (really?)

So I went, I want 1 yard of this, two yards of that, 10 buttons, this and that...

The final sum came up to about $65.

Why would I spend $65 in a ribbon/button shop when I hardly use them in my projects and LO?

Rare occasion where I spend $65 and
I get plastic bags and products wrapped in magazine pages ha ha ha...

$65 worth of buttons and ribbons? Why did I spend that money?!?!?!

Gorgeous 3D Sewing Kit - 1st Packet

Gorgeous 3D Sewing Kit - 2nd Packet
I'm hoping to use these 3D sewing kits for something that I plan to make.

I really don't know why I bought these. 3D tool kits. Cute but...

The buttons are so pretty right?

Love the black and pokka dotted ribbons! So pretty!

{My New Best Friend!}

Let me introduce my latest best friend in the land of craft products! This is so good! Say goodbye to expensive glue dots and insecure glue tapes!

This works like magic and it dries so quickly! Thanks Yin for introducing this to me. G was the first founder of this marvelous product!

I was a lil' hesitant to use it at first, even though I bought this ages ago, until i ran out of glue dots and had no choice.

Oh my oh my! Should have started using earlier! So easy and so effective at sticking on all sorts of surfaces. Ribbons, sparkles, paper, acrylic, plastic, stickers... you name it, it sticks on it!

{Scrappy weekend!}

Did quite a bit scrapbooking this weekend. Finally completed the mini-album for my mum. Haven't got a chance to take pictures of it yet. I was stuck with this project for a long time... it's almost a relief to have actually completed it... Took a total of 28 hours... I'm such a slow scrapper ha ha ha...

Also did a canvas piece for M's uncle. M took pictures a his 70th birthday celebration. Hope he likes this. My first canvas project done on my own... I sure did have fun with all that painting and splattering... although I was really careful not to splatter on the floor. I was also trying not to make it look too girly. Not sure if it's a little too "youngish" for him ha ha ha...

Bought the paint palatte and "Chinese" brushes from Daiso. Oh, and this wonderful canvas too, so cheap!! Only $2 each!! They came in different sizes, even bought some nice-shaped cutting boards that could be used as a background for these projects... I like shopping in Daiso!

So, here's a canvas project, ready to be given out today...

Wonderful Family Celebration

Yeah! I sewed on a button ha ha ha ha!
You have no idea what an achivement that is!

The little tag reads:
Other things may change us, but we start and end with Family.

Printed a little message for uncle T.
That spot was actually a "mistake" spot and
I had to find something to fill out that mistake ha ha ha.
It worked well eventually.
That's the good thing about scrapbooking,
there's alwasy a way to cover up a flaw or
make it work in the design!