Remember how I said I was expensive?

Thank you for all those who praised my altered clock. I do feel that it is a pretty decent job, as compared to my previous OTPs.

I had to do this trend challenge on a forum. Again something came over me... I decided to do use this inspiration..



I don't like all chandeliers. Just REALLY nice... and expensive ones. LOL.... And this is my produce....



Lots of rhinestone bling blings ... lol. I kinda don't like the title very much. I would have gone out and done some shopping for nice cursive alphas but time is running short, needed to submit it by Sunday. I would have preferred to use white fonts, bigger fonts, turf the 2 swirly things at the end.... used scrolls on top and bottom of photo instead of all the paisleys ..... would have... should have... the bottom line is, I can't be stuffed now! IT'S DONE!!! I'M DONE!!!! LOL

Edited to add - There are somewhere between 250-300 rhinestones on this half of chandelier. 90% of them are really tiny ones... 2mm ... 2 freakin' millimetres!!!

WHO DOES THIS ANYWAY?!?!

I was in a virtual crop last Friday and one of the challenges was a canvas. The deadline for submission is Wednesday 6pm. I sulked for a while because I felt that the challenge was given out too late and not everyone has a canvas lying at home all the time! So the organiser said we can do clipboards, frames... or anything flat.

Still stumped.

Reason: I'm not a fan of altering objects to begin with, maybe because I don't do it well. And I still don't have a single clipboard, or a frame that sucked for me to alter it. Tuesday morning, I was washing dishes at the sink - a rare occurence, haha....and I was looking at the clock sitting on my window sill, checking out the time. I realised that it had stopped .... flat battery. Then I had a lightbulb moment... seem to be happening quite a bit lately -- the clock is as flat as it comes, let's alter it!



It is a small clock ... 5.5" x 5.5". And after altering it, hubby said that we now have a nice clock to look at. I never realised that original thing looked that ghastly. It was a souvenir a friend bought for me and I've always had it on the kitchen window sill, and used it functionally like all clocks. I've always looked past its appearance. LOL....

But in hind sight.... who on earth alters a clock?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I must be on speed.

Too Much to Blog

I have so much to blog about, I had to split them up. Done 1 lot yesterday, doing something else today. Today I'm showing you some pics of my layouts and some pics.

OH! And The Lion King - the stage production
In January, friends of mine bought me a ticket to watch The Lion King as a birthday present. I was so thrilled and excited because I've been dying to see it, but quite broke actually. So when I knew I was going, together with them, I was really really looking forward to it. Well, last night was the night. It was soooooooo GREAT! I've been to quite a few stage shows - Mamma Mia, The Boy From Oz, Il Divo Concert, ... etc I've always come home completely mesmerised and hyped up and loving it. This one.... this one is OUT OF THIS WORLD. I've never bought a programme when I see these shows, but this one got me at hello. The costume, the stage design, the props design, the crazy and clever ideas they have to showcase the animals in the wild ..... you would never believe how creative these people are. It was jaw-dropping splendid. I was in awe everytime they had animals on stage, which is throughout the show... DUH! And the stampede scene where Mufasa was killed, and the Hyenas, and Timone and Pumbaa .... they are word for word, scene for scene to the most minute detail. Breathtaking, mind-blowing, intelligent, ... I swear, if this show ever comes to your town, save up for it and go see it. You will not regret it. It's unfortunate my kids are too young for it now. And I know that if they EVER make this again in another decade or two, it will NEVER be the same. If this ever comes out on DVD.... although not likely ..... they can count me in to buy several copies for gifts!

Ellen's first cooking lesson
Lately, I've been letting the kids get involved in the kitchen. They are 3.5 and 2.5 when I cook. Only because if I let them do something very small, they'll be very happy and probably (hopefully) avoid fights and arguments. And I mean something very small, like just stirring the pasta cooking in water.

Yesterday, I decided to make a snake bean omelette. It's one of our favourite dish. Just thinly sliced snake beans, fried into an omelette. It was one of my first cooking lesson from Mom too when I used to hang around in Mom's kitchen when she cooked. So I decided to get crazy and let Ellen do this. So I sliced the beans and beat the eggs. I got the oil going in the wok, garlic frying, and threw in the beans. She was a natural in the kitchen, like I was. Won't stop tossing the beans, LOL. Got hubby to stand behind her to supervise while I took these shots.



She had such a ball and I am soooo proud of her.


My Layouts

If you must know, the cheesy grin girl was me. Don't even know how old I was when that photo was taken. And the purple LO photo was a self portrait.

Thanks for being patient with my lengthy blog, thanks for looking.

I'm IQ-challenged

Remember I posted a layout the other day, and part of the journaling said "I'm not domestically challenged" ? That is very true... but I'm beginning to think that I'm IQ-challenged, and my husband is my saviour.

Incident 1 - I got a sewing machine as a Mother's Day gift in 2003. My husband bought it for me cos I asked for it, but I really was hormonally unbalanced then (after the birth of my daughter and pregnant with 2nd one), and I don't know why I asked for it cos I don't sew! I'd much prefer to buy ready-made curtains, clothes from stores, etc. Anyway, I now use it very often - for scrapbooking, of course. Months ago, I tried sewing the zigzags and for some reason, it kept doing the zigzags at the bottom, and straight stitches on top! I struggled for a long time and all he said was, " Sew it right side down!"... grrr... does he have to be this clever?

Incident 2 - I have been suffering from blunt blades on my Excel cutting knife for days!!!! I tried soooo many ways to unscrew the thing to get the blade changed. Even nudged Ruey on MSN for help. I grumbled to him that this is a stupid knife if they made the blade changing so hard! And I said he will be saving my life if he can manage that (thinking he wouldn't have a clue how to loosen the blade). He unscrewed it, and gave it an extra twist and push .... voila!

Incident 3 - I bought one of those Rob & Bob Studio metal clip dispensers. It came with 3 pictorial "instructions" that explained nothing about how it worked. I am ashamed to tell you all, that I've been a secretary/admin for eons and I've never used one of these things. I was just trying my luck to see if my husband would know how to use one, thinking he CAN'T be admin savvy. He was.

Incident 4 - This one is not SB related, doesn't show how clever he is... just how out of it I was. I have this bad habit of letting my hot cuppa tea turn cold, then zapping it in the microwave to warm it up to drink it. I did the same last night. Now, my microwave is nested in the cabinets just above my oven. Both of these appliances have digital clocks on them. I glanced at the clock and it read 2359... and I didn't think much about it. I put my mug in the microwave, zapped it for 45 secs, it beeped, I removed it. All of a sudden both my oven clocks turned to 00:00. Straight away, I thought... power surge! I asked him if he notice the power surge, and he said no. Darn it, need to reset the clock. And while I was adjusting the clock on the microwave, I looked at the oven clock, and it went from 00:00 to 00:01. It was like a light bulb moment -- OF COURSE IT WAS 00:00!! THE FUCKING CLOCK TICKED! WHAT ELSE IS IT BECOMING AFTER 23:59???!!!!! CINDERELLA?!?!?!

He pissed his pants laughing at me.... and I'm sure you are pissing your pants by now.

It's 5pm I'm still in my PJs

How slack is that??!! I was so engrossed in finishing up a LO... I didn't even have lunch. PJs and skipped lunch!!!!! Actually, scrapping is no excuse.... this happens quite often even when I'm not scrapping..hehehehe ...Gawd!!! I'm so hungry now.

These are 2 LOs I did yesterday and today.

This is a photo of the Scrapbooking Gang I met up with when I was in Singapore. They are all soooo lovely people. Some even took half day leave from work to make food! I had to use the Mambi Chester papers in this cos at that time, we were all MAD about the MAMBI Chesters.

This is the simplest of all my LOs. I've never kept it this simple before! LOL.... And A4!!! First time I did it on A4 size! Felt very caustrophobic... lol... Journaling on the hidden purple tag reads ....

This was Kids Campus Christmas Party 2005. Every kid received a goodie bag. And Mommy forgot to register you for this party, you had to wait for the spare goodie bag which they gave out last. But you patiently waited & waited. When you finally got your bag, you didn't open any of the presents in the bag, you just went straight for the bubbles. That's all you wanted - the BUBBLES!

That's all for today... no drama stories today... hehehe.... I apologise if I have disappointed you. :) :)

Posting a layout... finally...

It has been a long time since I posted a layout. I did this for the challenge I set for my other sb buddies, the one that was supposed to be easy but turned out quite difficult. Not because it was difficult to do the layout, but the topic was just.... tough! I wanted them to do a layout about themselves... something they are not, something we don't know about them. I guess, when we all have to sit down to tell others about ourselves, something we are NOT, we are all stuck for words. Anyway... this is all I could come up with....

I think a lot of them are not taking this LO very well... LOL. I had to giggle when I posted it too.... cos it's sooooo not like a conventional layout! I know they must still be struggling to digest it. bwahahaha....

Today, we went out to a shopping centre to do some shopping and lunch. At the food court, we were looking for a table. As Peter was pushing the double stroller, he had to stay on the side while I look out for people finishing and leaving. Very quickly, there was a table that became available, and it was not far from me. So I walked up quickly to occupy the table. As I took occupancy of the table, there was this other lady who walked up to the table, and plonked herself into a seat, and said "I have to take this table".

Gobsmacked, I just stared at her. Then she realised I haven't left the table, and came up with the world's lamest excuse, "I've been waiting for a very long time. I'm sick of people taking up a table I spotted."

My, oh my, oh my..... I was totally speechless. What a cow!! When I was complaining to Ruey, she asked, "did her hungry kids follow right behind her and sat down?" SHE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE YOUNG KIDS!!!!! 3 adults came and occupied the table. Not a word of apology.

You know, if she was the slightest bit apologetic and A LOT NICER, that she has really been waiting for a long time, and starving to death, I would have willingly given it up for her. But she said it like I had offended her, and therefore I should pay for her losing her seats. If there was a queue, you can call me a bitch for jumping queue. But it's a freakin' food court, if you wait at this section, and no one leaves soon enough, you can't blame another person for taking up a table that is located in another section. Just like at a car park, if you drive around and kept missing parking spots, you can't blame another person for finding a parking spot you missed!

But like any nice samaritan, I walked away. Surprisingly, I wasn't fuming. Just a bit upset over a badly behaved person. I told myself, literally, I will not stoop down to her level and argue with her.

And I said to Ruey, if I was a Christian, I would pray for her. To that lady who snatched my table right under my nose, "SHAME ON YOU!! And may your children, if you have any, grow up to be better human beings than you are."

I found a table about 10 steps away from that table anyway, within seconds.

Music is Life

I've just done another LO yesterday. AGAIN, I CAN'T POST IT!!! AARRRGGGHH.... cos it's for another challenge and I can only post after the 17th. Hmm... sorry....

Today is Good Friday. I'm not a Christian, so all these holidays are just public holidays and a long weekend to me. Kids are eating their cereal and watching the Nick Junior channel. The Aussie version has this creature called Ollie. He is an Aussie member of America's Sesame Street. So he's furry, big egg-shaped, pink nose, large mouth that's made up of 2 semi-circles.... you get the drift. Anyway, my kids LOVE Ollie. And Ollie sings this "Day of the Week" song everyday. It asks 'Do you know what day it is today?' and goes on to sing the 7 days of the week, and blah blah blah.... then finally tells the kids the actual day of the week for today. So Ellen goes,

"Mom, do you know what day it is today?"
"It's Friday today."
"No. Let Ollie say what day it is today."
"....."

Oh, so now an orange fur ball knows the day of the week and Mommy doesn't?!?!?! Reminds me of a conversation Nemo had with Marlin. I love that movie.

Oh, I tried Ruey's 123 Magic quite a few times with Ellen yesterday. Most times she knew to stop misbehaving. Once she copped the time out. Just a few minutes ago, she picked up a handful of cereal from her bowl. I told her not to do that, and she said, "But I want to...." . I yielded my secret weapon - "That's 1." AND SHE KEPT QUIET and put the cereal back in her bowl!! It's truly 123 Magic!!! LOL

My son loves Thomas the Tank Engine. So much so I had to start visiting the website to educate myself, so I can tell him the right things, like which train is who. The things we do to entertain our kids.

Which brings me to this topic. Do you sing and dance with your kids? I do. We do Wiggles and Hi-5. I do it because my kids are TV addicts. I figured, since I can't peel them from the TV, I might as well do something together with them while watching TV. My kids love it and get super excited when I sing and dance together with them. It's like the whole show just got better when Mommy starts getting silly.

And also because I love to dance. I've always got rhythm, from young. My mother never did any singing or dancing with me, not a Chinese mother in that generation anyway. But she always has the Chinese radio on and sings along with it. Evergreens in Mandarin. I don't know who I got my rhythm and groove from. I've never danced in public until I went to my first disco party which was a school disco night when I was 19. But I've always grooved to music. I still do now. I will always have my radio on in the car, so I will groove and move with the music. I get looks from other drivers but I really don't care. At home, I'll dance a few moves whilst preparing food or cooking. :)

I also played the clarinet in the school band since 8, all they way to 17. That was another quintessential part of my life that I will never forget. That curriculum activity sculpted a big part of my personality.

Music is very important to kids. Give them music, and you'll give them a whole new dimension to life. I have a girlfriend who simply doesn't have rhythm. She's like the guy in Footloose who doesn't have a rhythmic cell in him, and when Kevin Bacon tried teaching him to bop to rhythm, he would be bopping to the odd beat? She's him, except she still can't get it right. I feel sorry for her. I can't imagine my life if I can't bop to music.

What is life without music?

I want Super Nanny

Oh...I haven't scrapped for over a week? The last few canvasses totally hit me for a six. I managed to do one 2 nights ago.... with fabric and lots of machine stitching to enter a scrapbook mag challenge as well as a forum challenge. I am dying to post it but I can't till end of the month. Sorry for the teaser... (or maybe no one is interested to see your LO, you silly!)

I also challenged my forum buddies to do a challenge within a week... to add another page to their BOM. The theme is "I am not...". I want them to reveal their inner selves... sort of like Shrek, the ogre, who said "Ogres are like onions, we have layers".... I want them to peel off their outer layers.. and tell their audience... about their true selves. Initially, I wanted to make this an easy challenge, and I did think this was not hard. After posting the challenge, I realised... it's really not that easy. Sorry guys... I guess it is a "true challenge" after all... hehehe...

I told myself that today, I'm not going to lose my patience at my kids. The truth of the matter is, I love them to death. They are my children, how can I not love them to death? But the other hard fact is.... you've got to be someone up there to have THAT MUCH tolerance for the things my children put me through, or I'm just not good enough.

Today is another typical "drive Mommy crazy" day. Lately, with Ellen, we are going through a phase, where she will take 2 hours to finish her ONE slice of bread, for breakfast. And that is with coaxing every few minutes, "Ellen, eat your bread", "Ellen are you eating?", "Ellen, have you finished your bread?". Lunch time.... I served sausage rolls - MY FIRST EVER ATTEMPT in making them, and she took a few bites, really enjoyed it... and then she decided to go play. So I said to her, "if you don't finish your lunch, you won't be getting your milk before your nap", cos I really don't want her to have this habit of skipping lunch but fall back on milk to fill up...know what I mean? Milk before nap is a big thing for her, so she quickly scurried back to her lunch. Instead of eating it, she did everything else but. She played with it, tore it into pieces, played with Phaedon sitting next to her, sang songs, danced.... so I'm like, "Ellen, you won't be getting your milk." This went on for like, another hour. I finally said, "OK, it's nap time." and lo and behold, she asked for milk and I wouldn't let her. She then went back to her lunch.... and did another 2 rounds of that "ritual" with me screaming the house down...cos by now, I've lost it. Two hours of coaxing to finish a slice of bread, one and a half hours of coaxing her to finish her lunch... oh, and last night, we (hubby and I) had to do the same to both kids for their dinner. I told hubby, "That's it!!! I think from now on, I should just let them starve. I would serve the meal. And if they won't finish it, so be it. Please give me the strength to waste food, and let them starve." I mean, seriously, this has gone too far. Right now, as I type, I am actually starving Phaedon. He has refused his breakfast and lunch, and I will not give him his milk. Is this child cruelty? And Ellen, has finally had her milk but that was 2 hours of begging for her to finish her lunch and threatening! If I keep giving in, when does this stop?

For those who will be reading this blog, I don't want hugs. Really. That's not what I want or need. I need to fix my children up. I want to be a nice and loving and doting and smiling SAHM 24/7, but it is just humanly impossible with their behaviour. So hugs for me just don't cut it.

I need Super Nanny.

I need to scrap... get these frustrations out of my system.

EDITED TO ADD
Soon after I made this post, Phaedon got out of bed when he was supposed to be napping. He came up to me and my laptop, tugged and tugged, so I offered him a small piece of the sausage roll for him to try. He ended up polishing 2 whole pieces and probably more.

Do you get that? I don't.

He then asked for his milk... and I obliged, I had to. That was my promise... finish lunch = get milk.

So why couldn't it be done in the first place? Why do we have to fight? sigh....

My weekends are usually boring

Unlike many people, my weekends are usually boring. I dread cooking during weekdays, and on weekends... forget about entering the kitchen. I only have a kitchen because it came with the house (another one from funny signs for women). This is the internal conversation I have with myself ......

"But it's a weekend! Most people don't cook on weekends."
"But, but, but..... you don't cook during weekdays either!!!"
"People go and eat out on weekends! They have picnics, they have BBQs, they eat at parents, they have lunch with friends...."
"Yah... only if you can be bothered MAKING SOMETHING to go out for a picnic! Or if you don't mind the crappy food my vision impaired father-in-law cooks! Or if you actually have friends! "

I'm a pathetic sad case, aren't I?

Most weekends, if we are invited to a kid's birthday party, that will be the only 'event' of the week. See, I don't have family here. So no mum's to go to for lunch/dinner, no aunties or uncles to visit, no cousins' to visit and therefore, no 376 birthday celebrations to go to. My husband is Greek. You'd think that Greeks love their gatherings so I'd have lots to go to. They do. Everything you see in the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is TRUE!! But my husband has a very small family AND extended family. It's just him, his brother, his father, and a very close maternal Aunty Julie whom we adore, but she's a Jehovah's Witness, so no Christmas or birthday celebrations for them, and a few cousins. All our friends are married, so no engagements or weddings. We don't have young friends who still celebrate their 21st or 30th, so no big birthday bashes either. We are always calling people on weekends to see if they are home so we can go visit, but never had any luck. Everyone has something happening.

So really, we are just 'not happening' people with 'not happening' lives!

My friend, Ruey on the other hand, has a busy family diary - week in week out. Every other weekend, she has some uncle or aunty's place to go to. And they have BIG gatherings. Her husband is Philipino and Philipinos know how to have BIG parties. They usually do pot luck dinners and they go on till dawn. I usually know not to buzz her on msn on Sundays cos chances are she didn't go to bed till 4am or 6am. And this is not just special occasions like Christmas or New Year's or birthdays. And almost everyone turns up - EVERYTIME!! There's always in excess of 40 people at any given gathering, 20 odd dishes on the table, booze to last, and enough game tables for everyone to play card games or gambling. They just love to gather for food, for company, for drinks, for games, even if it's for no one's birthday, it's still a celebration. You can celebrate anytime, so long as you are happy.

Isn't that nice? See, I wouldn't mind 'family social obligations' very much if we are doing it because we feel like it. Just come for dinner, or come for a party because we just feel like it today. Doesn't that mean more? It's like I like your company therefore I'd like you to come. I don't like to go to these 'gatherings' when it's for a purpose. I know, I'm really anti-social. I don't like going to family gatherings... PERIOD. From young, we always have to visit our grandparents weekly because it's like an obligation for my mum and dad to be there to visit them, we kids had to go along as well. As we grew older, we had to be at so-and-so's house for a party cos it's so-and-so's birthday, or so-and-so has struck lottery so they are happy and therefore they threw a party. Other days, no party, no gathering, no celebration.

I love meeting up friends because I want to, I enjoy their company. How nice if we can always casually organise lunch for no apparent reason. Just because! Some people like to ask "Sure, what's the occasion?" ........ Can't we just get together even if there is no 'occasion'?

"Oh! No occasion, really. Just because we are friends? Is that a good enough occasion?"

Are we losing it? We don't celebrate friendships or relations anymore? Am I just being melancholy because I have no life? Everyone is always so busy and there's always some place they have to be for a 'purpose'; and if there is no purpose, you are scheduled for later.

I must be miserable because of PMS. Oh another funny one from the funny signs for women ....
I have PMS and ESP.... that makes me a bitch who knows everything.

All right, signing off now. Better go do something around the house so I still qualify as a housewife.

My {pretty} blog

I spent a lot of time today "dolling up" my blog. Added a photo on the blog title, added the photobucket stamp at the bottom. What do you think?

Oh! Oh! Oh! My friend, Ruey suggested I name my blog Born Free... Now I'm Expensive. We got an email with a lot of "sayings for women".... and they were really funny. This was one of them. She said it suits me to a T.... LOL. I went, "I am expensive, aren't I?" I spend lots..... according to my husband although I beg to differ....kekeke (only on scrapbooking). I don't intentionally go out and buy brand name products. I really don't. When my eyes do the shopping, they somehow, just naturally pick out the nicest thing of the lot, and they happen to be expensive too. As I mature, I have mellowed down and let logic do some of the thinking. Just some.

Today, I met with a few friends from my Western suburbs Mothers' group at a playcentre. I like doing that cos I know my kids will go and play, and I can chat with my friends in peace. I don't really sound like I like being a mother, do I? First, I look forward to sending my kids to daycare twice a week, then on the days I do have them, I try to find things for them to do so they can leave me alone.

I love my kids.... to death. I don't deny that they drive me crazy all the time, and I mean ALL THE TIME. But they are toddlers.... 1 year apart.... partners in crime.... BINGO! That's what they do best!! It's their profession!! If it's not the sister, it's the brother. Someone is always crying about something, fighting over something, hurt by the other one.... you name it. So I can't wait for those days to get them out of my hair.

I am also not the kind of mother who cries or feels bad when I have to leave them under someone's care - not the first time, not ever - but only by someone I trust. When I know they are in good hands, I know they will be happy. You can say it's an excuse, but I think they need their time with other children, and I need my me time. And at the end of the day, they are happy to see me, and I them.

The lady who won our stroller on eBay also came and picked up the stroller today. The starting bid for this very good condition stroller was $19.99 (RRP is $219). It is in excellent condition and perfect working order, nothing is broken, and if I had planned to have enough babies to form a soccer team, I would keep it and still be confident that it would last another 5 kids. There were just some scuff marks on some parts of the frame work. Before she bidded for it, she emailed and asked if the stroller had any scratches. I thought... are you serious??!! It is a used stroller in the best "used-stroller" condition you've ever seen. It is selling at an incredibly low price and I don't have an issue with that price but can you be pickier and fussier? She ended up winning the auction for $23.50. Congratulations for getting every dollar you paid for and more. Oh, I even helped carry the stroller into the boot of her car. Fancy that for service!

Sorry, Wrong Number

People are perceptive. They ALL are. They just didn't know they are being perceptive, or worse, won't admit they are because you are not nice when you judge. By writing this paragraph, I am being perceptive .... that people perceive.

I am children-free today because it's Thursday and they go to daycare. I admit that this is one of the days in the week that I like most because I don't have my children, so I don't have to listen to them fight, and scream, and cry... and I don't have to scream and cry myself. The other day of the week I like most is Monday... that's another day they go to daycare.

So on this children-free day, I went and did a lot of things. I went and shopped for 2 pairs of pants for the little one cos he has grown out of his.... and winter has come early this year. It's almost like we didn't even see autumn. We froze our butts off for the past few days. And this poor little sausage only has 2 pairs of denim that are considered warmish.

Then I went and did some grocery shopping in the Asian grocery shops in my neighbourhood. I live in an area where there is a large population of Vietnamese. So in this shopping strip where 9 out of 10 shops are Vietnamese grocerers, and 11 out of 10 shoppers are Vietnamese, they can't help but think I am Vietnamese too. Everytime I go up to pay, the cashier girls always tell me the total payable in Vietnamese. Sometimes, I reply in English "Sorry? How much?". Other times, I just look at the cash register display and pay the amount and walk off.

Perception. Because I am an Asian shopping in the area, I must be Vietnamese.

When I first came to Australia, I lived in with my now husband, then "friend". We used to go out together to meet his friends..... well, I didn't exactly have any, did I? Many of them have never met anyone from Singapore before, so they were very surprised that I spoke English!!! Fluently!!!! Some didn't even know where Singapore is.... in China? in Japan? in Taiwan? in Malaysia? (at least Malaysia is close enough... China? Japan? Taiwan?)

Perception. Because I came from a country mainly populated by non-Caucasians, therefore it's surprising that I speak English.

Oh... not that I'm offended, don't get me wrong. I'm just proving a point. People perceive .. all the time. Whether it's a good perception, or bad perception, ..... we all perceive. Some perceptions are accurate, some are not.

SO ... if you are on the perceiving end, don't be too sure; if you are on the perceived end, it's OK..... let it go. People only perceive base on what they see. And if they are wrong... ppfffttt... c'est la vie. Just tell them... Sorry, Wrong Number.

Let's start with my most recent works.....

Now, because I started scrapping since August 2005, and only started this blog now.... surely you wouldn't expect me to download all the LOs I've done. They are not that flash anyway... trust me.

I have recently done several layouts that I really like. Some are lifts... actually most are...hahaha and I'm not afraid to admit. I lift a lot. I don't think anyone should restrict themself to just one style. I just found myself a scrapping partner to participate in a scrapbooking version of Amazing Race. We were talking about us having different styles..... not sure if the partnership is going to work. This is what I feel - versatality is good, it is essential. Although it is good to have a "signature style", something that defines you, but you still need to be able to do heritage when the photo calls for it.... know what I mean? Well, I am still in search of that "signature style".

Anyway..... here they are....






See what I mean by no "signature style" ?? hehehe....


Thanks for looking.