Celebrate Life

Yesterday night, I got a little creative mood and started to make a mini album for a friend
which I promised to her sometime back.

this is the mess that I made while making it.

The album was mainly done during a crop lesson years ago in LSS.
We were having a Peranankan theme so even the album does have something related to it.
Papers are very oriential and chinese.

the second page, we were introduced to use some alcohol ink and adding metal embellishment

For the third page, using chipboard from Frontwek and a chinese coin.

I used a little Studio Calico- Mr Huey-white to spray on the background and adding a ribbon

and embellishment.

fourth page using tape, ribbon and chipboard.

The baby looked so cute, so I just used one of the Cosmo Cricket wording paper to decorate this simple page.

Recently I bought this bampop frame from the LSS at a discount.

Immediately I find this family photo goes well with this frame. Loving the detail from the frame.

Bright and beautiful.

It's my first time to placed just a large photo on the album.

normally I will print it to a smaller size but this time I decided to try something new

and I love it.

One of my favourite page from the album. The picture is well taken and Sassfrasslass banner

with American craft alpha make it so much cuter!

The last page of the album.

For this page, I used 7 gypsies gaffer tape, a chipboard and a diecut.

I got inspired by Celine's idea so I used a double side tape added some Zing

and tada I created a rainbow.

Hope my friend will like the album like I do and show it to her babies when they grow up.

a walk in chinatown

I met up with my friend J and she suggested we should take a walk at the Chinatown during the Chinese New Year period which might bring us some good luck.

So yesterday I brought my camera along ,took some pictures and shop around.
Each path is crowded with tourists and local. Lots of stalls sellig all sort of stuff.
New Year decoration, snacks, cakes, painting, drinks and also some interesting
non-related new year stuff.

tons and tons of people and red lanterns hanging across the shops.
Everywhere is so red and vibrant.

This is one of the common decoration that was seen in almost every stall.
'zhao cai' means attracting or getting wealth. I should get one to hang in my house.


The imported taiwan sweets. Some sell 100gram at a SGD1 or SGD1.50.
Very colourful and lots of varieties to pick from.

I need to get the Melon seed. This is one of my all time favourite snack during the new year.

Love eating this crunchy thinly slice taste like nuts.

spotted a few of these lion for sale in many stalls. Just so cute but there is no room for me to put this at home. Probably I can add this in my scrap page.

Hope you enjoy this pictures taken by Nikon camera and edit using picasa.

a baby album

January is a month full of challenge for me.
I decided to take up the task to make a baby album for my cousin.
It was pretty tough as I need to make a total of 20 layouts.
No idea what is the name of the child and no pictures in the intial stage.
So this is what I done using the American Craft baby value set.

I decided not to decorate the cover otherwise it might be a little bulky so simple will be good enough.


In no particular order, these are 4 of the layouts that I had made for the baby.
Love the 'Our family' layout, pink and blue are my favourite combination.

Another 6 layouts shown here. Other than American Craft prodcuts,
I also used October Afternoon paper, die cut and chipboard. I find it so diffcult
just using AC products, so with a bit of colours from the OA, I find the layouts
more lively and cute.



These layouts below are done much earlier in January. Using the grids as layouts and the
masking tapes. A mixture of pink and blue and it is my first time trying out grey as a base.
Hope my cousin doesn't mind the pink layout for boy.



The last 4 layouts with baby photos which was taken 2 weeks back when I visited the little baby.
I kept taking pictures that I forgot to ask about the baby name. In total 20 layouts, it made me smile while flipping through the pages. Hope my cousin will journal on each page about the process of the baby and show it to me with cute photos of the baby.

first birthday party

Yesterday was Kelly's birthday. MM and WW was invited to her 9th years old celebration.
It was mainly Kelly's classmates so MM did not get a chance to hang out with Kelly nor Emily.


Lovely MM dressed in pink hanging around the pool and picking flowers.

This is one of the presents that we gave to the birthday girl. The cover is decorated by MM.

Noticed the little rabbit? It was coloured using copic marker by MM.

beautiful handmade flower made by MM. The colours are picked by MM and folded by her.

Here is WW with another present wrapped with stamps and ribbon.

Alice in wonderland.

just popping by to share a new frame that I had made for a little girl.

Very pink , sweet and cute. I would like to have one too!

a sad story

It all started with this lovely pink shoes. Both WW and K love to wear it.
The unfortunate event happen today which K was wearing this shoes to school.
On the way , grandpa was cycling K who was seated in front of the bicycle.
She was swinging her legs to and fro and all of a sudden her legs got stuck . I still can't figure
out how that happen despite questioning K a few times.

Here is the badly injured leg. A little swollen with blue black around her legs.

Some parts of her skin was peel off. K told us that she can't walk.

Here is K talking to her mother emotionally. Tears started to flow down upon hearing

her mother's voice. She was groaning how painful her leg is and she can't walk.

I told her that we need to send her to a doctor, she refused and insisted that a plaster

is good enough for her. Hope she can recover before the Chinese New Year.

A series of blur pictures

This is another long due mini album that has been in my room for a long time.
It is very very green and create by Fontwerk Kai Mei.

It took me almost a year to finish making this album.
The title is 'happy thing' so it document mainly pictures that I took in Japan 2009
and some of the things that make me happy.

I took the pictures without flash and realised there are pretty blur so
I did a little edit to make it brighter. Hope you enjoy viewing it.