Lots of lo's

This is what happens when you don't update your blog regularly, you have to much to post at once. So here it all is, over a weeks worth of creativeness all in one shot.

Soo first up is my lo for the UYS (use your stash) challene at m4m, I was challenged by tigger to make a lo with no pp, only using my "build-a-flower" stamps from AL and buttons as the pattern for the lo. I came up with this lovely lo of my niece Amelia:
The lovely miss Amelia

Now I've done a lo, I think I'll put another list of things up to get challenged again. It was good fun creating this, and it's definately different from the usual work i do.

So number 2 was for the asian dares blog, (scrap a lo in another language) but I was about 2 mins late with posting it, but alls well, cause I love this lo anyway. Orang tengah means middle person, I was kinda trying to focus on the odd one out in these photos -> my husband lol.
Orang Tengah

So this card I did for a card sketch at Groovie Ed's kits. I gave it to DH he liked it, though the whole love theme is a bit mushy for some men.

Love card

I made this altered board the other night, when I was not having any creativness to do any lo's, I ended up passing it onto MIL I hope she likes it.
Altered board

Another Singapore zoo LO, this one is dh sizing up his foot to Komali's foot print. I've seen Komali in the flesh and she's a big elephant, funny to, i caught her swaying to music, when mum and I toddled through the elephant area on our way to go see the water show (where I got to be kissed by the sea lion for $5 lol.
Big foot

And last but not least a gift tag I made from papers I got from Ed's kit club. First pic is the front 2nd pic is the back.
Gift tag side 1
Gift tag side 2

So now that the lo's are posted. I went out today, to the shops "fun" anyways I went nuts on buttons again, I don't know why, I spent $6 on such a small amount of buttons just because they were half price, when I could've gotten 3 times the amount if I'd have bought a buetron "bag of buttons". Another thing that peeved me (and I didn't realise till I got home) was they over charged me for the gutermenn cotton threads I bought, they're 25% off, and they charged me full price. So if we go there on Tuesday I'll bring it up with them, see if I can get the difference back insha'allah. Not that $1.50 is much, but then again i don't have lots of money to start with, plus they should pay attention when they're ringing the orders up.

I've decided to get back on the meal planing wagon, and I've planned meals for tonight, sat and sun. We're having some arabian dish I got the recipe from my friend but I'm lazy to cook the tomato sauce part (it's pita bread made into "chips" <- cut them up and make them hard by baking them with oil in the oven, with a minced meat and tomato and eggplant sauce (this is where I cheat and buy pre-made) with yoghurt with tahini and garlic on top, and mint sprinkled over it). Should be yum, tomorrow night is Lemon chicken I can't wait, and sunday I'm making arias, it's a minced meat mix spread thinly on pita bread and cooked through.

Anyways thats all for now, I want to get back to scrapping.

Tired tired tired

Today I am tired, I really don't know why, probably my poor diet lol. But yesterday I felt great! Not only did I feel great yesterday I also had some creativness flowwing in that head of mine woo. So Edleen and I were chatting on yahoo as you do, and I was feeling lazy to do anything. So she decided to have a scrap and chat. Turned out when I'm not being lazy creativness comes into force. I made this lovely LO, with a nice lovey dovey theme.

We share

DH however hates the pic of him, but since I have the majority choice it stays cause I like the pic lol.

I also completed this lo (I started it over a week ago) of my nephew Kaleb he's just turned 2 this last december. Absolute sweet heart he is, this was the first time I had met him, and he was such a placid baby, just lay there no expression, till you tickled him and then that was it all smiles. Great baby he was, good little boy to, my mum gives me lots of updates. I'm hoping to go see him in July since I haven't seen him in a year.

At 7 weeks

Oh and i got to use out my new sewing machine DH bought me. Sews so well. One day I'll graduate from sewing cardstock to making clothes.

Some new things

Here are the LO's I've done lately. The first is of Halimah, Nenek, Annie and myself a Neneks house during Hari Raya last October. It was such a good day, and Nenek is so sweet masha'allah. The title is just about us all being related.
Ties that bind

He sees beauty, I made this LO for my husband, this is his absolute favourite photo of me. He took this photo of me 4 years ago, as you can see I blinked when he took the photo lol.
He sees Beauty

I made this LO for my husbands cousin, she's just started a scrapping kit, so she sent me over some papers to make some things with. I've only done this one so far (made it yesterday). I'm going to try and make a card as well, and another LO. The papers are so nice.
Treasures of the heart

These 2 coasters I altered for my brothers 2 children. Destiny (8) and Kaleb (2). I'm going to glue a magnet on the back of them both so they can keep them on the fridge.
2 coasters for Destiny and Kaleb

I made these 2 LO's for an online crop. The 1st one (Sasha & Stef) I won a prize for. It's tough trying to meet the deadlines lol, when all you want to do is chat with everyone.
Sasha & Stef
Travel light

Well thats all for now. I've been really good with buying things, I went shopping on Wednesday for stuffs, the first time in a few weeks. I'm waiting for the new CHA things to come out then I'll probably be at the shops getting things everyday lol.

Better late than never I guess.

I'm so bad, I'm forever forgetting about updating here.

I haven't been up to much at all, my mums been down since the 1st, so we've been catching up, I probably won't see her again till december.

Anyways so some new LO's. And altered things.

BIG brother little SISTER

This Lo is of my husband and his sister.

Door hanger

A door hanger I made.

Welcome to our home

I made this welcome sign for my parents home.

And last but not least:
Sealed with a kiss

This Lo is of me at Singapore Zoo getting kissed by the sea lion, very cute but extremely wet and fishy experience lol.

Anyway that all from me, I can't be bothered to type anymore, way to lazy.

Be prepared for a picture flood lol.

First off today is a christmas decoration i made for my sister and her kids. Insha'Allah next year I'm going to make her a bunch hehe, cause I had fun with this, and it gives me a reason to buy the really christmasy papers at the lss.

Christmas decoration

Star 1

Star 2

Star 3

Next is my LO that bought my mojo back lol. Cantik - Senyum Manis (Beatiful - Sweet smiles in english lol) The 3 beautiful girls are my 2 sister in laws Annie (on the left) and Halmiah, and the lil one is Halimahs 5 yr old daughter Erika.

Cantik

And this LO is of my husband on the left and his brother at Singapore Zoo. It was funny, they wanted to se how they measured up to the polar bears being asian, I knew they wouldn't have a chance lol. It was a fun day for us. I really haven't done many lo's of men, so was very happy with what I did with it.

Tall enough?

And last but not least a birthday card i made for my nephew Kane, the cutie turned 7 today (christmas day boy he is). He really liked the card, pity his mum accidently spilt coke on it 10 mins later lol. But it's still intact yay.

Birthday Card.

TFL!

I keep forgetting

i'll insha'allah be on tomorrow (today since it's after midnight) to update my LO's and a card i made. I finally seem to be getting back into it these last 3 days yay.

I'm so lazy

I keep forgetting to update in here.

Anyways scrapping wise I'm also lazy, I've had the 1 LO sitting on my table ready to go for a week, I just can't bring myself to finish it bahhhh.

My nephew is visiting at the moment, he's 11, and since it's christmas holidays we thought we'd let him stay (plus his mums moving house, so much easier with less kids in tow). Should be here for a few weeks. I swear this boy is like the games king, and i stupidly introduced him to playing the sims 2 on the computer, he loves it so much that I only get a few mins a day on here. Though you'd think with less time on the computer I'd get more scrapping done. lol.

On Friday my dad is coming to stay for a few days (insha'allah) I just have to break the news to the husband that I have to pick him up from way over the other side of town (I mean way far about 1 and a half hours drive). Hopefully DH won't say anything even though the car isn't fixed yet, just cause my dads going to be doing a lot for us the few days he's here, plus he'll be coming to help us move when we finally find another place. So I'm all for just biting the tongue and picking him up. And well dad will also be picking up my other nephew (brother of the one who is already here) nephew #2 is arriving here on Wednesday, and staying here till my dad goes home, he'll be staying with my parents for the holidays.

All in all I think I'm going to have an interesting few weeks. And perhaps I should get back to my scrapping.

I have a headache

And it's not the take some Panadol and it'll go away type either.

So yesterday my husband and I took the car to the mechanic (as it was servicing time). That’s all good, told the mechanic that we're hearing a whirring noise (also sometimes making funny noise when turning right), mechanic says maybe a ball bearing, not hard to change, nor expensive. So we wonder off to the shops for a spot of boredom filling shopping. On the way there, i convinced husband to stop off at the scrap booking store. 1st bugger for the day, it's closed, the owners are on holidays then they'll be renovating the store, will be open sometime in the new year. 2nd bugger, get a call about 2 hours after we left the mechanics, car has major problems. Bad news was the power steering high pressure hose was buggered, which is why it was making a whirring noise. Also the radiator , water pump and steering rack is leaking. We need to replace the air filter (thankfully that’s cheap), and the fan belt, front brakes <- knew that, a tyre, another cheapy is the wiper blades need replacing. All up including the service we had done yesterday it’s going to cost $2000 eek. So we got the service done, and the power steering hose. The good news though, is the ball bearing are fine lol.

The annoying thing is that my husband and myself were saving to have a embryo transfer end of next month (we’re doing IVF) and well that’s now going to be cancelled till another 4 months whilst we save to fix the car.L not happy at all.

On other news, I forgot to convince husband to stop at another scrapping store, so will just have to make do (bugger) till we go near another one. I think he’s still trying to get over the shock from the car.

I cleaned the table

I swear it was about 6 inches deep in scrapping things. I actually think there wasn't anything left in the area i store all the stuff.

All up took me about 30 minutes to complete. I decided to split up my chipboard alphas into different ziplock bags (5 letter groups in each bag), I also have put all my alpha stickers onto a ring binder. And sticker sheets are also on a ring binder. Makes it easier to access (and stops me from forgetting that I've bought them.)

Anyways so tomorrow we're getting our car serviced and will most likely be getting the brakes changed. We're trying to be really good with this car, we treated our last car so bad (no dingles, but mechanically wasn't good). So we're trying to make sure we drive good, and do all the schedualed services. Now the good thing is just down the road from where the service centre is, is a scrapbooking store lol. So all I have to do is convince DH to let us call in there when we walk to the shopping centre (cause of course there is nothing like shopping when waiting for your car to be serviced).

I want to try and get a mini album, because this months challenges for m4m includes a mini album. Now I know that cause I won last months rak I won't win this years, but i figure why not try the challenge anyway. The mini album is to celebrate 2006, the other challenge is inspired by an ad. So we have to use an ad to inspire our LO, the ad is a pic of a chandeller. (I might link it when/if I do the LO).

So today I've been doing not much, I slept till 1pm, (for a monday this is early lol, DH starts work at 4.30pm mondays so likes to sleep late, plus sundays he works all day -10.30am till after midnight). So after getting up, and dressed, I went into my mini cleaning frenzy, the table, kitchen, bits and pieces here and there. Eventually DH left for work, and I pottered around thinking what to do. Eventually I played the sims 2 for a bit, I'm getting my sims through UNI at the moment, and gee it takes forever. I have 4 active sims in the one house eek, trouble lol. I'm waiting for a sale to buy the sims 2 pets, and holiday fun stuff. That or DH said he'll get his brother to send them both over from Singapore (they're both cheaper there, esp the holiday fun stuff) So hopefully i can get them soon, cause i want pets, and some christmas holiday things going for my sims lol.

Anyways thats all from me, got to go find something else to do.

My first Door Hanger!!

I made my first door hanger today. I titled it Love, I'm not so sure if your actually supposed to have a title for altered things, but oh well. I'm still learning, so there.

Love.

Now that I've made one, I have to say I have no idea where to put it??? I realise as a door hanger it should go on the door, but what if it gets wrecked? Can you tell I'm a stress head?

Must say I'm loveing altering things.

Well Now I'd better get off to cleaning up the dining room table, my husband has mentioned to me about 5 times in the last few days that i really should clean up the scrapping things when I'm finished, since he would like to be able to eat there at least once in his life.