Puppy Steps, Jumbo Leaps

Something Pretty Came In The Mail Today!

 

I've been waiting for this for the longest time! It's a commissioned painting of Fluffie and
me, by Elsie Flannigan. It's super cute! And now it's hanging pretty in my scrapbooking area :)

 

THANKS Elsie :) I love it!

Fruit Day At SLA!

Once a month (or once in every two months...i'm not sure, heh), SLA gives out fruit to
all employees to encourage us to eat healthily. Today, we had juicy Korean pears :)

Guess who ate mine!

 

And guess what...i already have the perfect papers to scrap this shot :) :) :) Me Likey!

Some Grumpiness In The House Today...

This poor girl just had a wisdom tooth extracted and her gum infection cleared.
Little Fluffie tried to make ah-yi feel better...

 

Send some love her way ya!

Album! Album!

I've been holding off work on this album to complete all my layouts over the past few
weeks, but today i finally managed to sit down and get this done!

The Making Memories Passport collection is SO PERFECT for this 12x6 album, and i
didn't have to add much in order to give it a 'complete' feel. I really like this! :) :) :)

 

All the inner pages...

 

 

The left-most page shown in this next picture is one of my favourites - it was an easy
page, no frills, just white cardstock brushed over with light blue acrylic paint before the
photo and stickers went on.

 

More pages...

 

I {HEART} the die-cut page that i placed the metal clip on! Another of my favourites!

 

I also added the A3-sized map that we used in Phuket to the album :)

 

And the first and last pages contain my boarding passes!

 

The process of completing this album was extremely therapeutic. I didn't feel stressed or hurried, and i truly felt that i was working on something very 'me'...just for myself.

Makes sense? Hehe. Goodnight!

It's Fluffie-Time!

I've been wanting to share these pictures of Fluffie that were taken in the past few weeks...

Here, she was playing with Pooi when we were away in Phuket :) I love the way Fluffie looks in this photo! This is what she does every time she wants to invite someone to play!

This was taken one night using my phone's camera. Love quiet moments like these when Fluffie gets all cuddly with me and i can just hug her and go to sleep...

This next one is a classic! We were in the bathroom, where i was preparing to bathe her, and Fluffie simply clung on to me. She was hugging me with her little paws and her entire body stiffened up. My sister snapped this shot. Poor little girl looked terrified :)

I like this one! Fluffie looks like she's filming a commercial for the hair-dryer :)
She always looks so pissed off when i dry her after her baths...

 

In the photo below, Fluffie and i had just taken our baths, and i made my mum take a
shot of us :) Fluffie looks all girly and fluffy here, doesn't she?

 

Last but not least, Guess what Fluffie is doing in this final picture! Anyone who gets it right wins the chance to have a photo taken with her :) :) :)

 

Thanks for dropping by, have a great weekend!

He Was My First Love!

This is for Pooi's first challenge at MWL :) :) :)

  

I really tried to glam this up so that it would be a layout fit for a king!

Lots of Maya mist, stickles, Swarovski crystals, mirrors, pearls and glitter alpha stickers.
I love the colour combination as well! Is it nice? Please please tell me you like it too!

So Yay!!!

I used up my last QTea kit!

 

I know i promised to post pictures of Fluffie, but it's been a crazy week at work, and
when i got home every night, i simply wanted to crash! Will be back soon to share my
very glam layout for Pooi's first challenge, as well as all those photos of Fluffie :)

Lovin' The Adrenalin Rush...

...of a scrapping high!

I've finally used up all my QTea kits (okay, all but one), half a year after getting them :)
I've had enough of kits for the moment, i think i really prefer to match my embellishments
to papers at the store myself. So here're my three layouts to share for this week:

She's A Little Dear...

She really is! Don't you think? I'm missing this little girl right now :) :) :)

The next one's for Fluffie...My Superstar! This little darling was innocently lying on the
floor one night, almost falling asleep, when my sister plonked her most flashy Jolin-Tsai-styled cap onto her. I couldn't resist snapping these shots with my mobile phone!

And last but not least, one for the girls...Of Girls & Spice...and all things nice! My
favourite part of this layout is the rainbow base that i painted with my huge collection
of under-used acrylic paints :)

So, i scrapped a grand total of FIVE layouts over the past two days, including the ones i
did in Aida's class today. So proud of myself! Yay! I can't quite decide which of the above
ones is my favourite - they are all so different and i just love them all :) :) :)

I have some work to complete before turning in for the night...expecting a hectic week ahead in the office...sigh. Will pop in to share some recent photos of Fluffie tomorrow or
the day after! Thanks for coming by, and have a terrific week ahead!

This Moment.

It's 1:30 a.m. on a Sunday and i'm supposed to be asleep, but i feel i should document
this moment before i go to bed.

I was watching a documentary on Mongolian culture just a while ago, and the film had footage of a Mongolian tribesman killing a sheep and proceeding to stuff boiling hard
rocks into its still-wriggling body so that it would be thoroughly cooked on the inside.
Deeply traumatised (partly because the white furry thing reminds me of Fluffie), i took
some short and sharp gasps and whispered 'oh-my-gosh' a few times in a row.

Fluffie immediately woke up, ran over and looked at me puzzledly with a slightly tilted
head. I pat her head and kissed her, expecting her to run back to sleep in her little
corner. But instead, she sat next to me, placed her little right paw on my knee, and
leaned her head against my thigh. So now, here we are, just sitting together quietly
while i type. Her head is now on my lap and i can feel her slowly dozing off...

If hearts could melt, mine would be a pool of water now. Goodnight :)

When Events Hit Close To Home...

It's always hard not to feel a little uneasy when you read or hear about acts of terror.
I was slightly unnerved by the Jakarta bombings, not only because they'd occurred in
five-star chain hotels with branches all over the world (including Singapore), but also because for a long time, i'd wondered when something like that would happen (again).

It's tough to survive in a world like ours. How does one balance a sense of security with
enough skepticism such that one will neither be unduly paranoid nor paralysed with shock when such reckless acts occur?

We need to constantly remind ourselves to keep our conscience and good sense at all
times, and to act in faith. It's not easy. But let's try.