A Great Find.

After the scrapbook party at Scrappingville today, I had a bit of time to spare before heading to the hairdresser's. I decided to shop around at the Marketplace, BSC and I found this. I have always wanted a charm bracelet. A real charm bracelet. This stall is so interesting, you can pick from the range of big/small bracelet/necklaces and my gawd .. and all kinds of charms.

The owner? She sources for the charms from her travels around the world.. so you can only imagine how long I spent picking my very own charms!!

The story of my charm bracelet? I decided to have a story that represents my children..so I have a baby crib, a baby giraffe, a milk bottle, a rocking chair, a fairy, a bumble bee, and a pail and spade.. all the beautiful things that reminds me of my children.

You have to pay this stall a visit.. its called Nicay...http://nicaycharmingstories.com/

Edzwan's Big Day!

Nikah. Rushed back from my very short Brunei trip to attend Edzwan's Nikah today. It was such a beautiful event. Short and nice. Congratulations Edzwan..

Mel's Berbedak

Mel you've finally did it! Ok so we're all finally taken and married! Congratulations Mel..

Baby Mohammad..

Baby Mohammad. Precious.. Glad to have finally met Mohammad at 3 weeks

30!

Yes!! It has finally HIT me! the Big 3-0! I took a minute to myself and sat with my current favourite, banana muffin and a cup of mocha, in Scrappingville.. enjoying my little moment.. This was my little moment..

Scrappingville Window Displays

You can now visit us at www.scrappingville.blogspot.com. We should be posting the everyday activities in store, just so you know what we've been up to. We have finally got our June Workshop Schedules out too! We hope to do different projects every month. This month we focus more on the Getting Started Workshops and Mini Albums. We will be having alot more altered art workshops in the next few months. Come and check us out!

Great Day.

We are now open ..

My first customers were my close Japanese friends, my ever so loyal customers, Michiko & Yuki ..

Thank you all for the flowers, they were lovely..

Scrappingville workstation.. this is table where we will have our upcoming workshops ..

Thank you all for the great support. We truly appreciate it. We are thrilled to know there are many more scrappers out there. Thank you all for a truly great day..

Check out Scrappingville..

Scrappingville Opens.

SCRAPPINGVILLE OPENS ON 15 MAY 2007!!

We're at BANGSAR SHOPPING CENTRE, Lot S7, on 2nd Floor.

(by the escalators.. you won't miss it.. we're the brightest shop in that row. Lots of display by the windows with 2 big shadow boxes filled with layouts! You won't miss us. Come check us out on Tuesday, 15 May.

As for my blogger friends, Scrappingville will have a blog containing supplies that are available in store, the kits of the month, the classes for the month so on and so forth. You'll also be able to see what our scrapbook artists been cooking up . I will let everybody know once that blog is ready.

Come check us out!!

Assistant Monitor.

Our dearest kakak has been elected as the Assistant Monitor of the class.. Now her daily uniform is this, long sleeve shirt with tie. We are so proud of her and she knows it. Dada made sure he went with her to buy the right fitting sized shirt! Boy..it was a huge thing..but again we are so proud of our little girl to take on such a responsibility. To Mama Ning, kakak is the Tita..hehehe

Every Monday its assembly day, kakak will be called onto the stage, along with the rest of the Monitors and Assistant Monitors, to receive her Assistant Monitor badge given by the principal, Mr Roderick. Big Day for her! And yet she claims its no big deal mama! We"ll see about that!!

Cupcakes.

Another long weekend has gone by and the kids and I managed to do some baking. We made cupcakes this time! I made sure they were the ones to pour the flour, pour the sugar, measure them, stir them, scoop them.. they both made 7 cupcakes each. Kakak made sure she made more than 6 because 6 are for her classmates, thought that is so thoughtful.. Nadira made 7 and ate icing on all 5!

I am always on the look out for easy simple baking recipes especially for kids. The recipe for these cupcakes are real simple and yummy too except it could be softer though..

The recipe for cupcakes~ 200g sugar, 115g butter, 200g flour, 2 eggs, vanilla essence, 1.5 tsp baking powder and 2 tsp milk. Bake for 20 minutes at 190c.

Like i said, cupcakes turned abit dryer than i thought, do you know why mama ning?

The Pursuit of Happiness

Since I'm not in my creative mood these days.. I'm actually catching up with my movies.. and downloading my Desperate Housewives episodes 17 and 18.

Tonight I watched The Pursuit of Happiness by Will Smith. Absolutely loved the movie, a very sad movie but very very good! An Absolutely MUST watch! The movie is about the struggles of poverty suffered by many every minute of everyday.

The movie reminds us of how we have to appreciate what we have, treasure and be happy, as compared to people who has nothing. Pursue our dreams and don't let anybody stop you in pursuing something you believe you can do.

Its an eye opener for a lot. For me, it was a reminder.

I got alot done today, yesterday and tomorrow.. in fact just everyday.. Lots of work on tap for me. Piles of stories I want to tell. Piles of photos. Piles of everything. Maybe I should do a layout on this, my everyday activities. I have been trying to keep a list of stories I want to tell/pages I want to do. I have to write stuff like that down or I will never remember. Right now I have about six mini albums ongoing which I have not touched for a few weeks now + piles/list of what pages/LO I want to do..hehehe.. blame the getaway..

I have been doing so much running around to get Scrappingville going asap, I think I am starting to tire myself down. Comes night time, my scrap time, I am left with merely any energy nor any creativity for my pages. I hope when Scrappingville's ready, I get my scrap time, during the day hours, to scrap and regain my creativity juices.

Maybe it's time for me to take an inspirational trip to the craft store soon.. Sometimes I get my inspirations from all the blogs I visit everyday but my favourite now is http://michellehill.typepad.com//

Langkawi Weekend

It was such a good get-a-way! Refreshing! Although we had to let kids off school for 2 days (they didn't complain, ofcourse). We checked into Pelangi Resort and Spa on Thursday right thru to Sunday. We did alot of swimming at the pool, mummies chillin' at the poolside, collecting shells at the beach, mostly kids stuff. Pelangi is old but I think they have maintained it well. I love the idea of kampung houses. Here was our "kampung house" for the family. We occupied two whole houses, playground as our frontview and beach as our balcony view.. absolutely refreshing..

and by night...

We enjoyed every bit of it.. I wonder where we'll go next family trip..

Finding Nemo on Ice

Took kids to watch the talk of the town.. Finding Nemo on Ice.. We enjoyed it so much.. (maybe not as much as the kids). I thought the whole show was pretty good, very colourful, so vibrant. My favourite was the "superdude" turtle crush...TOTALLY...!! The only thing was that the sound system could have been better. Apparently, some people complained about the sound system and they got free tickets to see the next show!! If only I knew, I would have made a complain..sigh.. but otherwise the show was good.. characters were so adorable..

Hubby thought the fishies looks weird.. head on chest?..eewww.. he says.. I thought they were so cute and colourful..

Dira: "Mama, why are they not wet?". She was wondering why they were not in the ocean!

At the end of the show.. I was seeing Nemos, Nemos and more Nemos.. more than 1 anyway!

Altered Cigar Box

Altered Cigar Box
For A Special Friend Forever..

I only included our scrapping pictures which were taken by Hubby at grandpa's house.. pictures are not great (although I think the Hubby can use abit of help with his photography skills from the TC)

We were making the starbook.. you're a fast learner I must say.. don't think you'll be needing the step-by-step photos we took now huh...


Just somethings to remind you of our days .. crazy things we did + say + sang ..

I wished we took more photos back then.. in fact we do have some..its a matter of locating them thats all...eh ms lo?

Happy Birthday to you..

(Applied cigar box with gesso, then covered with Wild Asparagus patterned paper, Pixie Press Sheer Additions Expressions Quote, Alphabet Brads, Bohemia Rub-Ons, Making Memories Foam Stamps and Ribbons, Prima Flowers, Bazzill Cardstock)

Voila!

Nadia and Nadira finally finished their castles! It took us exactly a week to finish. 2 days to dry.. 1 day to paint, another day we added windows, this morning we started with glitter for the top and finally decorated the garden! Nadia's the pink castle and Nadira's the purple. I absolutely left Nadia to do the decorating.. she thought of the scrubs (supposedly "little trees", the bridge, the twigs) I am really happy with how both the castles turned out.

Now I have to think of how to keep the castles as long as possible... hmm.. any ideas? Shadow box? hahaha