Monday, April 23, 2012

Lily Bee Sketch Challenge #7 winner!

I am absolutely thrilled to be picked winner for Lily Bee Design's Sketch Challenge #7! Thank you Lisa, the news totally made my day!

Looking forward to receiving Lily Bee goodies! (:

Other than that, my weekends went pretty well. Spent a Saturday at the Jurong Bird Park with dear and some friends. I found out, much to the amusement of the rest, that I have a thing for free roaming birds. I get excited when I see some "exotic" looking bird walking pass me. Disclaimer: any bird that doesn't look like sparrows, mynahs or crows are exotic to me. :p


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Feasted at this pretty famous thai food joint called Tom Yum Kung Fu, had a cup of iced mocha, a slice of warm chocolate cake after that and chilled out at this jetty near the Singapore Flyer until it was time to head home.


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And so it was our 3 years 10 months on Sunday! We caught the movie "The Lucky One". (: It was a good movie, extra bonus: Zac Efron. Hah!

4 more days to the land of smiles; Thailand, Bangkok! Here's to a good week! Cheers!

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Coptic Bookbinding.

As promised, I am here to share a little about a book binding class that I attended on Sat. It is organized by a very lovely store called The Little Happy Shop. You can check out their site, they have several other classes going on and I think you will like them!

Coptic bookbinding is on my list of things to do in 2012 and I am so glad to have the chance to check it off! I am looking forward to a class on kettle binding as I missed the last run. Okay so back to the class. Joey (another SBM-er) joined me. I was really nice to be able to get to know friends on facebook in real life. Other SBM-ers who were there includes Jesslyn and Stephanie.

Our teacher, CY, came from KL just to teach us. His humour brings about a different atmosphere and we all enjoyed the process of bookbinding even though it was a bit of a challenge initially. I definitely struggled with the first 2 sets of papers but got the hang of it after I reached the third set. The feeling of exhilaration to finally complete a book of my own was great. I was telling Ruth, owner of The Little Happy Shop, that it was really a miracle to complete it! haha!



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This was my first attempt. A little loose at the bindings, need to work on the tightening. Overall, am please with my finished handmade book. (: I practiced again last night and binded a second book, complete with fabric covers and all. This time round, my sister commented also that the bindings were much much tighter than the first one. Yay! Practice makes perfect. I will keep practicing!

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Join the next available class if you're keen. (: Support handmade!

Friday, April 13, 2012

Smashing!

Rather productive this week in the scrap department. Managed to finish up 9 distressed artist trading cards for a swap, finished a DT LO assignment and I finally completed my smash book cover page! The weekends will really just be lots of rest & fun stuff to recharge.

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Learning to bookbind- coptic stitch this sat, might just throw in a vintage hunting trip with boyfriend and I need to pick up some typwriter ribbons too. So here's to a full filled weekend yeah? I need it so bad.

So here's a sneak of what I have been up to this week. For Scrap with V's May Sketch Challenge! I finally broke into my dear lizzy neopolitan stash and I am so digging it!

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God bless!

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Mister Underwood

I finally finally am an owner of a manual typewriter! I'm still reeling from the fact that I own one and a pretty blue one nonetheless! Its an underwood 315, still in working condition, little scratches and basically nothing much to be serviced or maintained. Thank God for it! He provides the best. I almost succumbed to purchasing one online which cost alot since manual typewriters are really vintage now and in demand haha.

And presenting to you... Mister Underwood!

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I just need to get some new ink ribbons and I'm good to go! yay (:

Jan SBM ATC Swap!

As promised, here are the full set of artist trading cards (ATC) from the SBM ATC Swap! They are loving created by different talented scrappers!

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My card's the second one on the first row. (: Thanks for looking! Looking forward to receiving my Mar ATCs this Sat (: God bless!

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Catching up!

It has been a whirlwind of two weeks at work, mountains of paperwork, neverending clients to see. But still, thank God for daily grace. Scrapbooking has become so much of a solace for me, away from the clutter and daily grind. Being able to spend time with my papers, to create, and to see the finished product gives me so much satisfaction. Am always amazed some much of a pleasure art can give as compared to our so called "passion" for the work we are in. Maybe I had it in me, but perhaps I have lost a bit of it as I am confronted by disappointments in people, the place and in systems. All I can say is that I need time. Time to think, reflect, process, whatever it needs to understand what went wrong and what to do about it next.

On a lighter note, here are some layouts for DT's challenges as well as kit samples from Mar & Apr 2012:

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March Kit

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March Kit

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April Kit

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April Kit

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April Sketch Challenge

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April Inspiration Challenge/ For Lily Bee's Sketch Challenge

Do visit www.scrapwithv.blogspot.com to check out some of the latest April Challenges. Take care & God bless! (: