Paperific. Zutter. Sizzle. Sale.

Back in under 2 weeks???? I'm getting better at this! LOL.... It's been a crazy busy fortnight, full of ups and downs.

I was working at Paperific two Fridays ago, at Scrapware's trade stand. The stand looked amazing with all the new products displayed, as well as the projects contributed by various DT members and Guest DT. These are the projects I did for Angela....

TULIPS Layout - used Karen Day Designs Clouds (KD02), Stems (KD03), Tulip Heads (CH92), Straight Up Lowercase letters.


Spidey layout - using Teen lowercase letters (AZ01), small spider (CH74), small web (CH72), mini bracket frame (CH56)


KINDER album - using Kinder Album, Teen lowercase alphabets (AZ01), Penny 4Ur Thoughts (KD15), Boy Talk (KD13, the spiky hair boy), Circle Strip (KD12) for the page tabs, Zoo Load monkey (CH34), who/what/when/where (JB03)


Blossom canvas - Blossom stem (CH67) and blossom flowers (CH68)

On the following day, it was THE day to meet with the girls from Scrap Therapy. This has been planned for MONTHS!! Lee-Anne, the store owner came down from Cairns for Paperific. So the Melbourne girls decided to make a day out of it. We drove up to Geelong, to visit the new Kaisercraft Discount Retail outlet that stocks deleted and seconds scrapbooking stock. The proceeds from the sale of samples/seconds/discontinued lines go towards the ongoing support of a boy's home in Sri Lanka, 3 Kindergartens in Fiji and a children's home in Philippines. More details here.... The products are all colour-coded and the more you buy from one colour code (regardless of the type of product), the more discount you get. I spotted foam brushes and plain C6 envelopes (perfect for cardmaking) for 9c each if I bought over 100. That wasn't hard at all!!! LOL... I rang a couple of the girls from the Motley Crue and they each wanted some envelopes, so I got 150 envelopes and a dozen foam brushes, all at 9c each. BARGAIN! Next, we proceeded to Paperific. There was some shopping done and I placed a pre-order for the new version of the Zutter Bind-It-All, after much deliberation. Now I can't wait for it to arrive!

On the same day, I also said something mean to a very dear friend that was very uncalled for. Totally inexcusable, and unforgivable. It made her very upset, needless to say. And I felt very gutted, ashamed and disgraced. She accepted my apology, but I still can't forgive myself. I don't know how I can ever make it right again.

But on the other hand, I also found some long lost friends on Facebook. Friends from my secondary school, whom I've not seen for over 20 years. So that felt good.

I had a fundraising Sausage Sizzle at Bunnings (Sunshine) this past Saturday for the kinder. Being in the kinder committee for 2 years in a row, has made me realise how ugly some people are, people who just keep reaping the benefits of others' fundraising efforts. There just isn't any balance between give and take. Not even when we begged for help. If it wasn't for the benefit of the kinder, the teacher, and other more deserving kids, I would have quit this nonsense. We raised over $1000 for the kinder, so that was a very rewarding experience, no doubt I was completely wrecked by the end of the day.

I scrapped on Sunday... made some Christmas cards together with Ruey. She kinda changed my mind about heat embossing.... after a loooong loooong time. I guess I'm looking at buying a heat gun after all! After that, I'll be playing with more Christmas cards this week. :D

FOR SALE: I have 3 paper trimmers for sale on eBay. Pick-up is preferred, but I'm willing to post. Postage is $15 (within Australia). I will refund any change if it costs less. Tell any of your friends who are interested.

1. Making Memories Precision Trimmer - Rarely used... excellent condition. Link
   
2. Cutter Bee Cutterpede Trimmer (HOT PINK!) - Great condition, still fairly new. Comes with straight edge blade AND scallop blade. Link
   
3. Creative Memories 30" trimmer - very good condition. Comes with NEW blade. Link
   

Kids Party. SG Day. Teselaar.

WOW! I made it back here in 2 weeks!!!!! That must mean something!! But seriously, is anyone still reading my blog? I'm feeling a bit lonely here... talking to myself. If you still read my blog, just leave me a short comment, doesn't have to be praise, I'll take anything! lol... But it's a long one with lots of photos! Get ready...

Kids are back at school / kinder now (read: HUGE RELIEF!!). Many moms look forward to school holidays, at least 9 out of 10 mums do. They say they get to sleep in, there's no rush. Unfortunately for me, my children don't sleep in, not on weekends, not in holidays. They still wake up at about the same time. I don't get to sleep past 7.30am. So for me, holidays are like any given day, except I have more squabbling and bickering to listen to. I doubt anyone would look forward to that, would you?

Anyways, the last few days of school holidays (week and a half ago) was a blur. We went to the cinemas and watched Wall-E which the kids loved (not so much the adults). We brought the kids and our nephew to Peter's office for the Kids' Party. They had an absolute ball. Kids computer games, clown who multi-tasked to be the creative balloon man, face painting, tattoos, food and goodie bags. Then the party was adjourned to the bowling alley and the kids had more fun!

The Balloon Sword Boys...
Flower and swan for the Butterfly-face girl ...Goodie bags always make kids happy!
Hi-fiving after a STRIKE!And another....Ellen's concentration ...

Following day, we went to Sidney Myer Music Bowl for Singapore Day - an event for Singaporeans living overseas. I was really hanging out for this event - can't wait for the food, can't wait to feel like a Singaporean again without having to spend thousands and thousands of dollars! When we got there, I immediately felt like one again, because there was a line to get in. If there's one thing you need to know about Singaporeans, we will queue for anything that is worth getting. If there is a good restaurant, we will queue to get in. It didn't matter if there was another restaurant 2 doors down selling the same kind of food. If this one is the talk of the town, we will queue - no matter how long the line is. If there is something fantastic on offer, we will queue. Years back, McDonald's had these fabulous collection of Hello Kitty plush toys as their weekly toy giveaways. They were decent-sized plush toys, and really good ones and they came in couples. Everytime there was a new release, every outlet will have massive lines of people buying their meals just to get those limited edition toys to complete their collection. Anyway, you get my point. This is the line to get in....
And the line goes on...and on....

We finally got in 1 hour later... yay!

And then there's more lining up inside... FOR FOOD!! FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD ... is Singaporeans' 2nd favourite past time. We love our food... we love eating. So we wait in line again..
Some people are even eating while in queue for other foods! Basically, food to Singaporeans is like honey to bees (or booze to Aussies). When you are at an event like this, and you see swarms of human beings (and in queues), you can be quite sure there's food.
Kids made these cute little bunnies using a face washer, an elastic band, 2 pins and a ribbon.
And our goodie bag which consists of a picnic mat, a cap, a packet of instant noodles (REALLY reminds me of home), Tshirt, bottle of NEWater, wet wipes, a jar of kaya (coconut jam), a jar of cooking sauce and a few other tiny little toys (eg. chatek).
And best of all... we paid nothing. NOTHING!!! We didn't have to pay to get in, all food were free, all entertainment was free, and so were goodie bags! IT'S FWEE! ALL FWEE!!!! Sounds NOTHING like an event happening in Australia! LOL...

Then on Sunday... we went to the Teselaar's Tulips Festival. I've never seen tulips on a scale like this. Here are some photos...
OK... must say I got a bit bored half way through it. There's only so much you can ooh and aah over tulips. It was these little works of art that were displayed alongside the tulips that kept me going ooh and aah! I particularly like these three.....
They are for sale too... but I didn't check out the figures. I really should... cos I would like them in my new house! :D :D

Ok... that's enough bombarding of photos. I have lots more, but will leave them for scrapping. :) I will be at Paperific this weekend. I'm helping Angela at Scrapware's trade stand. A few of us went scrapping at Angela's factory last Saturday. We made quite a few projects to be used at the trade event. I can't show photos of those works yet until the show opens. Will share with you in another post.

Cheers!
mich