Long procastinated post

Guess what I'll post about today? Finally about my China trip back in April from the 20th all the way to 2nd May with my family.

Defintely not a good holidays. Not because the group is not nice, not because the scenary is lousy. Its just plainly DYNASTY TRAVEL SUCKS BIG TIME! Yet til now they refused to refund me 1 full day of my tour package. Can you imagine having to miss your intended itinerary but sit in the coach for 7 hours to reach another destination BUT...still ended up waiting for almost 3 hours walking around in strange and lousy shopping district, topped with waiting in KFC. All because? Because the dear tour guide wanted to earn extra pocket money when my family, we refuse to go. Spoilt my whole holiday mood... haiz..

Nevertheless, I still have some pleasant memories of the trip. Here are some photos to share

My handsome daddy candidly posed for me


My cute mummy asked me to take a pic of her practising taiji


The three sisters on the Yangtze cruise where we passed the dams


My hubby with his undersized straw hat


Me looking so orangie with that yellow tee and orange vest


Me again taking BIG steps on the not so big stones


Me taking pictures of mini stones in stream while hubby snapped this shot of me


Check out these 2 kiddos I met during the trip. Ain't kids' expressions just so natural?


This is what impressed me the most during the Yangtze cruise. The handpainted glass art. How fine are the works...


Mummy and my birthday cake given to us during the gala dinner. There are daily birthday celebrations on board.


My shy mummy and 30 year old me :)


Lastly... say CHEESE... picture of me and my silly hubby with his spastic eye mask

Back with photos

Finally here to update my blog with some photos.

First of all the long awaited family portraits...






I've finally stopped my procastination and proceed to make rubberstamp for my crafty site. Here's how it look like.


Did I mentioned that I handmade 60 photo tags for Amanda's first birthday?

Here's the cutting progress. Everything in 60s...very SIONG ar..


But the output is really good. I love all the colorful papers.


Here's the completed look of the photo tag.


And here's how it look when photo is pulled out. Isn't princess Amanda just so angelic?


I did some crafting for the fund raising event in office to aid the Japan Red Cross Society. Donated some of my handmade accessories, post-it pads, notebooks and photoframes. Here to name some of the many...

The post-it pads


The notebooks








The photoframes

Ops baby...

I'm so guilty that I have not post anything for close to 2 months! Seriously very, very, extremely busy. During my free days, I'll just want to be alone, doing my own stuffs, crafting, swimming, cycling, cooking.

Let's see what have I achieved these 2 months.

- Chinese new year celebrations
- my dear cute cousin's birthday (bring the 2 gals to Illuma, Empire State. Ordered the super big burger as her birthday cake. Her expression is beyond words can described when she saw the waitress serve her 'cake')
- my long awaited family portrait with 3 of us in graduation gowns
- my daddy's lunar 60th birthday
- started my 8 lessons of ceramic class
- went Bangkok with my elder sister and came back with 69.6kg check-in luggage
- started my 1st driving practical and really had fun. Definitely looking forward to more sessions (though sometimes I really feel my hands are like my legs and vice versa. hahaha)

What's coming up next for April? That's the long planned family trip to Zhang Jia Jie, Xiamen. Finally, we get to travel together, all 6 of us. I'm really looking forward... Meanwhile I'm trying hard to consolidate and update my PassionQuirks blog. Same as for this blog.

I'll be back with photos.

Gong Xi Fa Cai to all!

Hi folks,

Gong Xi Fa Cai to all reading my blog. Hope you had fun these 4 days and still counting. Let's do some quick summary about my few days of celebration.

Eve: half day of work and back home for some scrappy moments before steamboat reunion dinner. Nothing interesting also cos I went back crafting after dinner :D just so in crafting mood.

1st day: went hubby's uncle house for visiting then to my grandma house. As usual, tons of feasting going on.

2nd day: went my uncle's place for potluck lunch. Shiok!!! Then back home for BBQ session with hubby's relatives. Tiring day.

3rd day: no visiting, my adorable cousin treated lunch at EmpireState with her 1st parttime salary. So sweet of her. Meet up with my old pals at T2 Sakae. So nice catching up again.

4th day: I'm rotting at home!!! :D

1 more week to CNY~

We marched into 2011. Now? We're marching to Chinese New Year in another week's time. How fast time flies..

Done up some cards, albums, layouts lately but simply too lazy to take decent photos and upload them to my blog. This entry will be short with some photos which I finally got them up.

A layout done up for one of my many honeymoon photos


An album I pieced up for my dear pal


Some cards to share