Today

Thirty six years ago, I arrived as a 7month old premature baby.

By looking at the height of my parents, most of the people would think I should end up over 170com. My dad is 182com and my mum was 168cm, but I concluded my current height was due to the early arrival to this world, lol.

My dad called me two days ago to wish me a early Happy Birthday, he always remembers the date even we are thousands miles apart. I miss you, dad. This was a layout I did 2years ago, to me, he's a forever hero.

He had the hardest time 6 years when my mother was having the cancer treatment, bearing all the pain by himself as he wouldn't want me to know, for me was 7 months pregnant at that time. If I would know ...

She was always there for me if I needed her as long as I can remember. Though there were times that she was not able to, she's still with me in my heart. I miss her terribly every year on my birthday.

I know she is somewhere around and she is with me.

My sweetest Rafeeqa wrote me a letter as the birthday present which I will load in another post later. She was born one week after my mother passed away. I always think she was sent by my mother... I don't know, just have this feeling for all these years.

Today, I looked through all the album and found this:

I am truly grateful for what I have today.

A crazy weekend!

and I don't have enough sleep! 

But it was so fun!!! 

Lia makes pretty stuff which we all agree and the butterfly album is so gorgeous, with all the pretty ribbon, lace, flower, leaves and Pink Paislee papers. I haven't completely finish the pages yet as I think I have still quite some things to add in, it's such a beauty! 

I went home around 10pm on Saturday and dose off to my dreamland... 

My class on Sunday morning turned out to be a measurement and calculation assessment! Many of us were completely lost in the number land, with 1/8", 6/8", 7/8"... haha! 

Jackie is always a great help! Look, she's helping new scrapper Jenny to do the cutting.

These two seemed fine with the numbers although Sharon did complain that I should not give them too much measurement in the early morning! LOL.

Our new scrapper was very pleased after she finished the lesson.

Thank you all who came to my class! 

The afternoon were filled with food, snack, shopping so by the time for Sharon's class, I was half way out.  But I didn't miss anything that she taught, well, I THINK I didn't miss anything!  It's called "Get messy with paint" so we suppose to get very messy and it did the best Messy I have ever done! Therefore, no pictures on my camera, we were try to hide all our things away from the table! But I am sure you can check out some here.

I will head to SC later to finish the remaining layout, yes, though I still feel sleepy!

Artz de Scrap - altered storybook

My first assignment from Art de Scrap is to alter a storybook. I love books, my girls do too, after they finish reading some books, we normally give to their cousins or donate to whoever needs them. I couldn't find anything in the house that I can alter ( or I should say that I want to alter ).

Well, making a book is always a fun thing to do especially when I have all those lovely picture of Rafeeqa featuring Goldilocks!  Two years back when she was still in kindy, they played out the story: Goldilocks and the 3 bears. I saved all the pictures and resized all of them to 2R to fit on the pages. I had this idea of making a personalized storybook for her, so this fits perfectly in my July's assignment!

The tree stamp I got from my last trip to Shanghai, just love it! Renee helped to draw Goldilocks and the three bears which were hiding among the trees, I used UTEE for the girl and like the 3D effect.

The book is about 4 * 6" in size, to fit the color "blue and green", I used a lot of paper with this tone and stickers, felt bird from Maya Road, rub ons from Yellow Bicycles and most fun part, I hand cut lots of houses and window. The two girls read it over and over at night which make me smile from bottom of the heart!

So are you ready for this fun project? Gather your stash and set to go!! Do upload your project and send to Artz de Scrap.

Designer's class in Shabby Chic

I can hardly believe that 7 months has gone since our last designer's class in Shabby Chic! The month long celebration of SC's 2nd birthday was full of fun, discounts, special offer, appreciation presents and games for scrappers and of course, the highlight --- designer's class!

This was the class I taught

You must be wondering what were we doing, cutting, glueing, stamping even some ironing! Yeh, it was a lot of fun, having spent time with these lovely ladies, I missed it!  

So here we are again, bring you back Shabby Chic's designer class! Next week, Sharon and Lia will fly in and three of us will teach some classes in the weekend.  Mark your calendar and if you haven't decided yet, click on Shabby Chic's link and find out more about the amazing classes.

I will be doing a special little book about "Me", yes, all about yourself. I will show you step by step on how to make a book and it fits perfectly in a box! I was so excited when I finished working on it, it's something very different. I am sure after you attend the class, you might be able to make a lot of different books base on the idea. Sorry, no sneaks, I forgot to take any picture before handed to Shabby! lol.

My dear fellow scrappers, See you next week in Shabby Chic:

Saturday 11th July 6-9pm 

Lia Abdullah

Thankful for my blessings

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Sunday 12th July 9-12noon

Emily Zhang

Celebrate my life

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Sunday 12th July 6-9pm

Sharon Chan

Get messy with paint

Before I log off, I would like to show you something I altered using MME's paper and Maya Road's tin: 

Till then!

Something exciting for the coming month: July

July - it is the 7th month of the year and it is also the month of my birthday.

So it should be a lot of exciting things in the coming month, but first, I need to share with you that I will start to design for Artz de Scrap from this July!!! Follow the link here or click on the blink on the right side of this blog, you will be able to see a place where you can get hands on with a lot of altered projects. If you are with me, someone likes to make stuff, then this is the place you should drop by.

Then, have a look at this:

My Renee's art work which is displayed in the Empire Hotel at the moment. It's a very simple paper art but I am just so proud of her.

As for the little one, I only managed to snap a few of her pictures during the celebration evening, she's out of patient when I took my 5th shot...

Anyway, she is still the cutest doll I have ever seen!

Happy Tuesday!

I know it's just the beginning of the week, but I sure have many things to celebrate this week!

(1) Celebration of Achievement for kindy and reception in school will happen tomorrow afternoon, guess who will be the little MC?...........Yes! My little Rafeeqa! She will be one of the little MCs, we went through all the words in the car this morning, she appears to be ready! And she will also be dancing tomorrow afternoon, I am so happy for her!

(2) Anual JIS students Art Exhibition's openning will also happen tomorrow night at Empire Hotel. My Renee gave me an invitation Sunday night, as one of her art work will be in the show! Oh, I am so proud of these two little girls and can't wait for tomorrow!

(3) This is for me! I am the plum pick this week over at Vintage Plum website, you can read more follow this link. I am very honored to be part of it, this is a very friendly community, you have to check it out!

Snapped these in the morning:

How about a "Got Orange" look?

Enjoy your Tuesday!

A quick update

Just 3 weeks more for the summer holiday, yet these three weeks look like the longest 3 weeks in my life, lol.

A few things arrived this week, my prize from Inspired Blueprints for my layout in April, the kit from Gauche Alchemy is so yummy: a lot of vintage magazine pages, bits of this and that buttons, lace, fabric, chipboard, I have been thinking what I am going to do with these pretty stuff:


I made a quick lo Monday night with my JB's May kit, the new line of JB paper based on IB's sketch #23:


other materials used: vintage buttons from JB, milk cap from JB, fabric letter sticker from AC.

Have you heard the exciting news from Shabby Chic? The design team will teach on 12th and 13th July! We have some beautiful stuff to share with you, do remember to book a seat now!