double pager

i started scrapbooking with 8.5x11 pages. moved to 12x12. liked it. i now do pages on this format. tried mini albums. loved them. but a 2-page layout? i have a hard time putting together a layout with 2 pages. the first one i did was based on a becky higgin's sketch. i never did it again.

this month, got the courage to take on the KAYA November challenge. the last of the weeklies is a double pager. how will i ever do it?

checked my magazines. browsed the web. finally, in ali's book i found the perfect inspiration. i just love this girl.

and here is my ali edwards-inspired 2-page layout. tfl! :)

twilight

i have only these words to say. see the movie. and if you haven't read the book. try to grab a copy after seeing the movie. you'll appreciate the story, promise. :-)

now, i am off to re-reading the whole series. :-D

this pix was from yuletide '07

in a few more weeks, it'll be the most awaited time of the year {for young ones and the young once alike}. this time is really meant for our children and our parents (grandparents). we look forward to this time to make our children happy. to make their wishes come true (or at least some of them). and for our parents and grandparents, it is the time that they'll see us make our children happy.

{between the 2 of us, it's my favorite time of the year too} i just love shopping and wrapping gifts, preparing the decors and the Christmas menu and all the shenanigans we all do at Christmas time.

gift giving has always been a very important part of this season. it is also our way of sharing our blessings to those important to us. it is the time when we have {more } spare money to give to charities.

but i am worried this year. with the recession news all around. US economy affecting the world as well. big companies going bankrupt that no one can ever be secure with their jobs.

my wish is that we'll still be able to make a lot of people happy this Christmas.

thank you jiroken :-)

i haven't won any scrapping challenges but i guess this is very similar to how it feels when you get that notice from the mailman that you have a parcel to pick up.

got the notice on a thursday middle of november and was very, very excited. i wanted to dash out of the house and go to the post office that instant but i needed to wait another day for there seem to have a hundred errands each time you take your days off from work. but you won't be able to imagine the smile on my face and i owe that to Michelle. :-D

won this RAK from her birthday post. and i love all the items she sent me. i equally love the personal card she made for me. i now have an actual card from a very talented cardmaker that i can cardlift. ;-)

thanks so much Michelle for your lovely gift. :-D

and Sarah is having a RAK. so be sure to visit her blog to check it out. :-)

i wish it's wednesday already

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found a cool site twilightmoms.com

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and can't help but laugh out loud with this...oooh! lucky tyra...heehee...

{giggle, giggle, giggle all the way}

I {heart} Grey's

Seriously,

I was able to catch a few episodes of the reruns of Grey's Anatomy season 1. It's already on the part when Addison accepted the offer to stay at Seattle Grace. It was the part when Derek is torn between trying to make his marriage work and his feelings for Meredith but he chooses the relationship that was tested by time. Although I know what happens after that, I still cannot help but cry when I get to think that I am feeling what Mer is feeling {I didn't mean I can relate - I am just a cry baby ;) }. It sucks to be the abandoned one.

Mer was narrating and at the end of the episode, she asked how much is too much. I like the way Grey's episode are started and ended with one of the characters narrating. A common sentiment that most characters share. Mer was pertaining to her love for Derek. It also applies to Izzie's growing fondness for Alex and Burck's attraction to Cristina Yang.

Hopefully, I'll get to start watchin the 4th Season soon. I still have Heroes, Desperate Housewives and CSI waiting in line. And from the 2 episodes I saw of Private Practive, I am so very interested in the nice Addison character. {Oh, time. So much to do, so little time}.

our pride and joy

i simply am a quiet person. and i am so shy in letting other people know how i feel. as a mom, sometimes, the happiness you feel about your child's achievements is so intense that you just want to share it to the world.

a few weeks ago, i have finished a minibook about our son's first year in school. you can say that it was a months-in-the-making project because i really do not know how to document his first time school experiences. glad that i found the solution in a mini. will have to post the pictures of the album at a later time when i have printed the journaling (i still cannot love my own handwriting {sigh}).

meantime, while i am into the proud-of-his-achievements mode...i decided to use his kindergarten recognition pictures for the kaya challenge.

Journaling: it was your first experience of school...no daycare...no summer classes...we only had blue's clues, Dora and little Einstein for your training but you sailed through kindergarten with flying colors...top of your class...amazing for a first timer...and you made us very proud...

Materials Used: CS: brown ; PPs: office lingo Pink Paislee, Karen Foster; inks: versacolor white, versafine sepia, colorbox gray & brown; alphas: AC Thickers Gift Box, Pink Paislee holly doodle and EK Success stickers; Inque Boutique stamps; AAS corrugated board; Scenic Route chipboard; yellow string; button; edge scraper tool