Sunway, KL

We have not been here for awhile. To my surprise, Sunway is quite a place for the kids. They enjoyed hopping from one pool to another. We headed for the little pool for the little people, shallow water, water slide everywhere, water guns on the side, water fountain in every corner, more and more. The kids had a blast here from arriving at 10.30am right up to 4pm! Ariff was very happy being in the little pool but we decided to hop over to the beach surfing area. Definitely again!

p.s. Ning: We have to take the kids here when you are here next ok? they play we sit and have coffee in the corner..hehehe..open air, coffee ... what more could we want? Just to sit and chat.

Times Square, KL

This is probably the easiest Time Square visit ever! The kids are old and tall enough to go on all the rides by themselves. Ariff was brave enough to go on his first bumper car all by himself come the second round. Hubby and I relaxed sat on the side and watched them play, both thinking the same, that our kids are finally going on the rides all on their own. Times Square seems alot smaller this time or are we getting bigger each time we visit. Its not a big place, but the kids had fun, they could go on all rides, as many times as they wanted. There were the bumper cars (the most popular), carousel, bumble bee ride, train ride, jeep ride, pirate ship ride, many more. More than the kids could handle. It was a fun day out.

Have yourself a very Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve! Last minute shopping to do, all those chocolates I'll be running out to buy for stuffing the children's stockings! Those little gifts santa promised. Let's see what the kids say when they get up on Christmas Day this year. Last year, Nadia woke up and she started walking around and paying so much attention looking for tracks of santa's footsteps.. i smiled
and smiled..couldnt help myself.. I love Christmas. Here's a little something I made for Christmas.. Merry Christmas to all who are celebrating, from my family to yours..

Photography Classes

One of the very few things I did in the past month is attending a photography class. After every lesson, we are to go home with homework to complete. I want to share some of my favourite shots.

First Day of School

Ariff finally joined Dira in school. He is so enjoying himself. I must admit, I kept him home as long as I could but Hubby insisted. To my surprise, he was excited and very brave with the teachers. I remembered with both the girls, we had to be in school for a whole month! with Ariff it was merely 2 whole days! He's settled in now and have friends, I am so lucky.

Tip: Hubby's idea to make sure Ariff's got the full uniform together with the bag and shoes, so he feels he belong and are very much part of the whole school thing.

Cuppacakes or nothing else

This was mine. Royal Vanilla. Especially for myself, my little treat for the day.

The box for Class Party containing 35 beautiful colourful cupcakes.

This was for our little home cupcake celebration.

It all started when Kakak Nadia wanted cupcakes for their end of year class party. "Mama, please get cuppacakes and ONLY cuppacakes so no other cupcakes from anywhere else ok, mama?"

They are truly yummy, cute to look at, might have gone more pricey-er now. But they are worth every bite. [Even the kids knows that]When we first started buying them they were still making them from home, now they have a Cafe.. (Inspiration~Ning)

p.s. Ning, this is for you too.

Christmas ATCs

I have been very slow with blogging, I know. But I'm just not getting any blogging mojo at the moment, just creating and creating, believe it or not. I made some Christmas Cards, same colour and theme as my ATCs, thats on Scrappingville's blog.

I'm now slowly discovering more about embossing and layering, embossing and then more layering. Its been fun and never ending! Just cannot wait for new arrivals from Ranger (more mediums to play with), more unmounted rubber stamps (stamp stamp away) from Sunday International, etc etc. Why haven't they arrived? Sigh..

Classes for Scrappingville

Here are some of the projects I've been busy with since I got back from Perth. I have been so hooked into making ATCs, now I get how some are so addictive to create, collect, swap them. Above is a picture of a mini album class coming. I'm so excited for this class. I'm focusing on textures now. Adding textures into everything I do. There are absolutely so many ways in adding textures into your art. I'm still playing and still discovering. All inspired by my Aussie trip.

Here are also more ATCs I created over the weekend. Absolutely love the results of these. Also I have to make as many of these for the folder in Scrappingville for swaps. If you are interested, drop by into the shop to go thru the folder, pick your choice and swap with me. There will also be a few designers in Scrappingville's team who will also participate in this.

Collections Elements

My take for Collections Elements. Totally inspired by my visit to Scraptivate, here is what I created with the Collections Elements Ozzie Owls. All this while I have only been painting chipboards with acrylic paints or the most I'll do is cover with patterned paper or UTEE chipboard but hey now my chipboards are covered with ribbons, buttons, little cut out words, I love the details that's going into them now. These are the houses I made for classes in Scrappingville if you've not already seen it in Scrappingville.

Scrapbook Store Visit

Ofcourse, I had to visit a scrapbook store. A scrapper will always be a scrapper. Wonderful wonderful place to shop or to get inspirations.

Scraptivate

Maxine Hazebroek
Maxine, Julie, myself and Audrey Underwood.
My Inspiration. Even though I had little time at the store, we shared alot of tips and ideas. These ladies are very talented. Look at the stuff they've created, they are absolutely brilliant! Julie Van Oosten of Collections Elements, I'm absolutely loving her stuff now. Adore you ladies.

Perth in Spring 2008

Perth City.
Kings Park.
Dira and a big tree.
Mounts Bay Apartment with a city view. Perth's Royal Show. Dad's Go at it.

First Go at the game, Lucky girl!
Then there was the fishing game.
Ariff's Spiderman Goody Bag.
Dira's face painting.
Then there was the carousel ride.

At Scarborough Park.

Ariff doing the Chickety-run.
Hillary's Boat Harbour.

Fremantle Markets.
On Sunday, its Harbour Town.
Afternoon walks to the park.