Finally back in touch

Yes, her phone was finally ringing after 3 days. Everyone is fine. The house cracked but they managed to leave and stay in the safe place now. There is water and electricity in certain part of the city in Sichuan, so now the whole family moved to Mianyang city. She said the situation is baaaaad...

But I am so happy to hear her voice and to learn that they are safe. Thank you, everyone, who prayed for her, god will bless you too.

Sichuan...

As we all awared that the deadly earthquake attached China on Monday, resulting nearly 14000 dead so far...

Sichuan, is a place, I shall say means a lot to my parents. They left Shanghai in early twenties to work in Sichuan as the government called out to them, they served over 20 years there to contribute in the development for southwest of China. They married in Sichuan, I was born there. I was sent back to my grandma when I was 3 years old for better living environment in Shanghai. My parents left in 1992. My father went back two years ago to settle everything and drew an end in Sichuan.

I frankly do not know that much about the place, but I have a close friend who still lives there. I have been calling her for 2 days now, but... no answer. The communication is still down... She lives in Jiangyou while her husband works in Mianyang, where is very close to Wenchuan, and the two county in Mianyang, the death roll draws nearly 8000, I hope she is fine, last December 15th, she just gave birth to her first boy! Let's pray... The last time I met her was in 1995, before I left to Brunei. We were best friends in high school, we stayed in the same boarding house: we used to eat together, study together, kind of do everything together. We talked on the phone in December when I was in Shanghai, we even planned a gathering next year... I hope, we will meet soon.

I am relieved ...

... after completed my first very important interview for my course. And very happy when I arrived home seeing this: 

My dear Rafeeqa even made me covered my eyes before she presented it to me! She's sweet, for now...

Received JB's April project kit, turned it into this: 

I haven't decided where it should go yet, it stays in my scrap corner now. 

SIC is running May's challenge, create a mother's day LO, please check it out. As for me, I did a look with me and my mother as you can see from my previous blog entry. Really miss her...

New haircut

Some nights, Rafeeqa couldn't sleep well, frenz suggested for a hair cut. 

It's very hard to get a hair cut done with my girls, I don't know about yours, but mine...... All of them want super long wavy hair like princess. But finally we agreed for one and she sort of likes it too! Good for me too, new photo to scrap...

Had a chat with frenz at Shabby this afternoon and guess what, I bought "DIRT", thought I am very busy but this could be a treat for the weekend, right?

Another catch up...

I finally managed to complete first few assignments for my course, yes, now I have time to scrap ... but just till this Sunday -- another one is due next Friday!  I didn't get to develop any photo , there are many in the camera from beach trips and school book week, so actually a lot of new photo yet to be scrapped, but when???

Here is a few I did : 

(1) Do you still remember the movie: Jerry Maguire by Tom Cruise and Renee Zellweger , he said: "You completed me" which made me cry over and over and now you may discovered where my eldest's name came from... "sh..." I did this LO coz I feel that sentence now, present.

pp from MM, CI and BB, the flowers are from last year mother's day special kit from Scrapping Angel, can you believe it?

(2) "Sweet face": this one actually did few months back when AC arrived in Shabby and I forgot all about it! 

(3) "She"-- a LO for my mother, the subject which I do not dare to think too much about. May is the month of mother... I really miss her...  the photo I chose came with special meaning to me, we took in the different places where we lived: Sichuan, Shanghai and Brunei. Also, different special moment in our lives: a young me before mummy left me with grandma; another young me went to visit mummy; me and mummy in my teens; before my wedding and when I was pregnant with Renee.  We shared these memory together and I am very sure she is still with us ... Renee once told me seriously:" Mummy, don't worry, grandma ma is watching us, she will pray for us!" Ya, she would be so proud that her granddaughters are such sweet.

 

(4) The recycle flower tin to the flower pot: this is something I wanted to do but didn't manage early on. When I went thru old stash of pp and discovered some Elsie's, you know, I love her but I don't know how to use them! Gave a try to cover the container and it turned out to be cool! The next day, I returned to Shabby to hunt more tins and guess what, all gone!  Just show you some pics: 

Time for sleep loh, see ya soon!

Green Project

I just uploaded this to the Creative Imagination Gallery. 

I thought for other LOs but ended up with this project. The reason: I really got so many pizza box at home. For those who also have a few kits coming in every month, I know you understand me! I use them to put all the kits then all the kits will just stay there, so I took them out and did not want to throw the box. 

When I was making this, my dad was in my head all the time. The creative imagination paper, the music notes, remind me of my dad, he loves music. We didn't spend that much time together when I was a little girl, but his collection of record, used to be the old big black type, and now, the CD and DVDs, he has this huge cabinet in his room, full of music records. If I can think about any present for him, will be music record. Maybe this recycle project could be his present too!

If you have any recycle idea , do join the creative imagination go green project www.creativeimagination.us.

Time flies

Just don't know how this happened, today is 26th of April!!! Only 4 days to May!

So many things in my head but just a few have been completed, here is a peak of one of the LO for SIC:

Be sure to come back on the 1st, you will know by then.