first kiss

this was a surprise from our good friend, mareng yoyin. she created it using Scrapbooks Hawaii debut kit 'First Kiss'. she actually made this layout while she and Marisa were enjoying the recent CHA.

if you want to see what the Scrapbooks Hawaii 'First Kiss' kit is about, visit Marisa. and you'll see more projects done with this kit at her site.

and another lovely page from this kit by a very talented Pinay scrapper, bjay.

{i know, this is a wake up call for me to create more pages about me'love heehee}.

a wonderful {un-stressful} week ahead to everyone. :-D

my take

got bjay's permission to lift her 'bjay decoded' page because i knew it would be apt for these photos i had laying around from last year for scrapstars november challenge (which i didn't get to do).

i hope i did justice to it. shemps, ibang level ang powers nya. hihihi. i am glad that others (like her) are so generous to allow lifting of their pages, it helps a lot when you are stucked in a uncreative mood. ;-)

here's my page.

journaling: dubbed tnapay by college barkada simply because TNA was too short (for them) as my nickname...it stuck and I {kinda} love it... =)

{ thanks again bjay :-D }

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been so engrossed with my project 365. have only this output to present since the new year started. i promised myself that i will put all my scrapstuff to good use this year. we'll see. {heehee}

materials: BG granola line PP, kraft cardstock, AC thickers, Heidi Swapp rhinestones, green & brown posies, AC chipbard, string {heehee, it's been a long time since i've taken note of the materials i've used in a layout}

title: my new 'baby'
journal: daddy's birthday present to me...december 24, 2008

thanks for looking! everyone, have a wonderful day. :-D

distressed.

...not me, but my layouts.

it seemed that i got hooked with distressing that the pages i made during my off were full of it. ;)

take a look...

...these layouts were full of it. heehee. TFL! :-D

buttons, buttons, buttons

i made this layout last summer and i think it applies to method playground's challenge. i just love buttons and i just have to use buttons in an already button-filled paper. :-D


i remember doing this layout to document how i felt [my body felt] when hubby and i helped a friend look for wedding rings in Manila [an hour drive from our city]. the exhausting part is that my friend and i came from a night shift, left work at 6:00 am and went straight to where we were going to look for nice rings [and i still laugh at that picture everytime cause i can just feel the exhaustion in it]. :-)

joaquin express

i enjoyed doing this layout because of the straight simple lines. [as you don't know, i am a geometric person - i cannot {for the love of God} draw] but that is all right. i guess this hobby does not really call for that talent and i am grateful for that because i can simply express myself even if my people drawings are all in sticks. ;-)





journaling: before cars, your fascination was with trains ... you fell in love with locomotives when you first saw Thomas ... and your ultimate dream is to ride a real life train ... someday my son ... in the meantime, i have for you - your own little train ... mommy sept 4, 2008 ... joaquin express

car pe diem

i remember my religion teacher in high school. she is one Benedictine nun who really has a great sense of humor. her class was so full of life that i look forward to each day we would meet her.

she'd give us exciting activities, would ask us to do our own plays, lets us watch movies to convey the lessons she wants us to learn as youngsters.

there is this movie that never really left my memory [until now, it has a great positive effect on me].

dead poets society. it stars robin williams, ethan hawke and robert sean leonard. what i really remember about this movie was what robin williams (an english professor) told his students. car pe diem. seize the day. live in each moment as if it were the last.

up to this day, i try to remember the lesson Sister Berna wanted us to learn when she had us watch dead poets society. it is one life advice that i will never forget. and i made a layout of it to remind me every day to simply savor THE moment.

and i just love how my son can always make me smile with such slick moves. you'll see him below cheering me on with his thumbs up to my layout. [we both love the color green, so anything that is in that color - we love]. TFL. :-)