I'm all blogged out lol

I'm the type of person who really finds no joy in blogging or those types of things. I'm on a few forums and some days I don't even feel like posting on them (kinda bad when you're admin on 1 forum, and mod on another lol). I even do things like join facebook then don't go back.

Anyway Edleen tagged me so I thought I'd better be nice and post. I've actually never been tagged before (well from what I can remember lol).

1. Link to the person (or in my case person(s) that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself (on your blog, we all want to know them).
3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

So 7 random facts about me

1. I always wish I was 18. Not to say it was the best year of my life, more that I don't like how fast time is going by.
2. I always want to be somewhere else.
3. I'm always forgetting things.
4. I don't know how to swim, even though I grew up right next to the beach.
5. I like to eat apple sauce with custard.
6. I'm a lazy friend (yes I'm the type who won't call you for months lol).
7. Whilst IVF is stressful to go through, it's never been particularly stressful to go through for me, I always find thinking about it, and having spent so long TTC more stressful.

So that's my random 7 facts. I won't tag anyone, wait I'll tag Julianna hehe sorry Julianna. But I won't tag 6 other people lol, I don't think 6 other people read this blog.

Oh I made another card for Hari Raya, this one was for my MIL.




At the moment I'm not at home. We're up at Sarina, just south of Mackay (in north Queensland). My parents moved up here almost 4 years ago. We've been here for a week now, and are going home on Monday. I always miss my parents when I'm away from them, but it's great that they're only a short plane ride away (or a long 12 hour car drive). I'm grateful that this time we caught the plane lol. I do think though I would be fine if we moved overseas, which we hope one day to do (to Singapore).

Anyway we surprised my mum with our visit, dad knew we were coming (we needed a lift from the airport lol). So to get my mum to go into Mackay my dad told her he had to go to the Dr, and would drop her at the shops, then pick her up when he'd finished at the Dr's and take her for lunch (Zaly and I had to tell her we were shouting them lunch to make her go). So dad dropped her at the shopping centre and came and picked us up from the airport. I found out she was in Big W and called her and told her that dad said she was there and could she please check if they sell inks in their scrapbooking section. So we hid in the isle and she went to the scrapping section and then Zaly asked her if he could help her lol. She was almost in tears she was so happy. So we took them for lunch at the marina, was nice, we went to a tappas bar.

Have since spent the time lazing around, we went for a drive up Sarina range, and also to Cape Hillsborough. And on Friday we will be going to Arlie Beach.

Will try to share photos soon, am not in the photo sharing mood anymore lol.

Oh today I got my hair cut for the first time in 2 years, hair was getting sooooo long, but I retained most of the length, took about 2 inches off it. And got new layers done. It looks so much better now and more healthy.

ok well that's it from me.

I am still here ...

I'm here, but as you can all tell by now I'm still very slack hehe.

So no scrapping from me, I've made some cards though which I'll share in a minute.

Today I went back to TAFE after a 2 week break, I also did a test (lovely first days back), for manual payroll. All I can say is I'm glad it's over, payroll is the kind of thing where when you make 1 mistake it has a domino effect. And well I do said domino effect way to well. Thankfully though I did pass, so I'm happy with that. It leaves me now with 4 more units to complete then I've finished my course.

Though I'm going to have to start deciding what I want from life, and heading that way. I've been thinking to ge a part time job as a receptionist or secretary whilst I continue studying, but I don't know what I want to study! I have been toying with the idea of getting my qualifications to become a personal trainer, as I love working out and all that (and bossing people around), but it's 2 very expensive courses and the pay rates aren't that great. My other thought is to get into either accounting or HR, but then I don't know if I want to be stuck in front of a computer all day. *sigh* why is it that at 23 I have NO direction in life??? Kinda sad really.

So these cards I made are for close family for hari raya, I only made 4, though I make make another one tonight I'm not sure yet.

This first one is for my FIL and Step MIL.









These 2 were sent to my husbands 2 sisters and family last week.






Oh and I made this birthday card.



OK well that's all from me today hehe hopefully I'll remember to come back again :p

Still here...

Must be some record right, blogging this many times in the span of 9 days lol.

I've not done much in the way of scrapping since my last post, though I did make a lo of my neice Terese for a sketch challenge by Ed.

XOXO



I've also made a card, I started another two tonight to. I'm going to send maybe 4 or 5 over to Edleen. I need to start making some cards for Eid soon as well, as we need to get them sent soon to reach Singapore in time. hehe.





On other things fasting is going ok. Though it's messing up my sleeping patterns grr. I'm glad though that I am managing to get through the day. This week though I'm going to focus on the sleep, I need to get back to being able to go to bed at 10pm and actually sleep, and not be up till all hours of the night and being so tired in the day time.

My diet hasn't been the best these last few weeks, and since ramadan started it's gotten worse, there's another thing to focus on this week to lol. But somehow I managed to loose another kilo this past week yay. So I'm going to try to be very very good with the eating and see how much I can loose till the end of ramadan ;))

I brought the new expansion pack for the sims 2 last week, and I've been playing it heaps, I love it, all sending my sims on holidays. Can't wait for the new stuff pack to come out "teen stuff".

Anyway that's it, nothing much else is happening here. :p

Some things ...

I thought I would be good and post more regular (well at least try to) Ed should be happy with me :D hehe.

Anyway my fasting this last 3 days has been good, I'm glad that I am lasting the days, though by 1pm I get so hungry. The good thing about fasting is that when you break fast you cannot eat much at all, you fill up so fast. So I guess as long as you don't go overboard on the sweets and fried foods, can loose some more weight hehe.

Oh so I took up knitting, I'm in my early early stanges, and I just completed a tension square (which became a rectangle), now I got all confused and I counted my rows wrong, I was wondering why it was taking me so long to complete. Then the other day I counted that I had 4 rows to go, so I knitted 4 rows, then I counted again but it had only advanced 2 rows. Turns out I was missing half the rows, so my 30 rows was actually 60 lol.

Anyway here is the pics of it:




Oh over at farflung craft they had a thing to name one of their new papers from the Maharaja Paper range (Go check out the sneak peaks on their blog the new papers are gorgeous). I was very shocked today to find out that I won the rak prize, as they chose my name "Indian Sweets" for the paper. Oh the blog is http://blog.farflungcraft.com/

Tonight we were to meet up with a friend of my husbands at another friends Thai restaurant in the Valley. The friend had to pull out (we'll be visiting with him next week now), so we decided since we were in the mood to eat there we would still go. The food is devine, and I'm not just saying this because we know the owner. And i can't wait till next week to go all over again hehe. Tonight we ate Chicken Satays, Prawn Rolls, Gai Yang (they make the best gai yang ever), Beef Panang Curry, and Deep Fried Fish in Spicy Sauce (forgot it's thai name) with coconut rice.

I started today at tafe "Payroll" it seems interesting enough, so I'm going to try to complete it over the next 2 weeks (we have holidays till the 8th oct). Well I'm going to try to do as much as possible of my last 5 units over the holidays so I can rest and relax for the rest of the year, and decide what I'm going to do next year (work or more study etc etc).

Anyway that's it from me, hopefully I'll have some LO's or something in the next few days hehe.

I really should update this thing

So yes I forgot about this place, my little area on the net lol. I'm slack, though Edleen reminds me often to post here.

So what have I been up to since I last posted in April?

1. I joined the gym ... I've been going there 6 days a week since I joined, I've already gotten a gift voucher off them for reaching 100 visits (committed much?). I've lost 17kg so far, and I want to loose another 13 at least, maybe more. I've made some really wonderful friends there, including my personal trainer, whom I should say I pay to be my friend :p but she tells me she loves me lol, so maybe it's not
cause I pay her money. I've also discovered this love for boxing, my PT teaches it (this is how I first spoke to her), and since then I've become addicted, I box 2-3 times a week, and I've become so much stronger, and I've learnt how to punch and kick properly *would be muggers watch out*.

2. I went back to school, well TAFE actually, I'm studying certificate 3 in Business Administration. I'm almost finished ahead of schedule, I have less than 5 units left to complete out of the 13. I've been going since July, and the course runs till December. I'm hoping to get a job after that, whilst I decide what I want to do with my life (cause as fun as it would be I can't sit at home all my life and just expect my DH to keep me lol).

3. I lost my mojo big time. I didn't scrap for so long, maybe 2-3 months *sigh*, only now is it starting to slowly creep back. I'm hoping it'll come back full force very very soon. I think though I need some new photos.

Anyways that's the 3 main points of my life since April, not really exciting.

Ramadan has started this last couple of days, and it's put me in reminiscence mode. This time last year I was dearly anticipating our trip to Singapore. I was soooo nervous about meeting my Father in Law, and step Mother in law for the first time. But at the same time I was so excited to meet them, and some people I had met over theinternet (including my husbands cousin). Needless to say my being nervous to meet my in-laws was unfounded, my father and step mother in law are two of the nicest people I've ever had the pleasure to meet.

I had the most wonderful time there, visiting people, eating (just cause all the food is so good), going doing the tourist thing. I definitely loved going to the pasar malam, and going scrapbook shopping with Edleen (and visiting her so often that my husband wondered what we were up to). I miss the late night eating with my husbands brother and his wife, and our 2am visit to the mustafa centre (after a long day in Johor Bahru lol), we came home to my FIL's to find both my husband and my BIL had forgetten their house keys.

This last few days I've been looking over my photos from the trip (there's over 1000 of them eekk lol). And all the memories just make me want to be there right now. Insha'Allah we will be able to go back soon, we are hoping in September or October next year, though to me it feels like a lifetime away.

So I'd better share some crafts that I've done lately since this is my scrapping blog lol. These are in no real order (though the first 2 are my latest creations).

I made these first two LO's these last 2 weeks or so, one is for my mother (she's on the right in the pic), the other is for her best friend of 27 years Jane.
Forever type of friends

Forever type of friends

Anak Bapak

All of the flowers

My Girl

Good times Singapore

My Great Uncle passed away a few months back, I altered these K and G for my great Aunty Gwen.
Keith

Gwen

I altered this for my mum's friend Marion, she's like a mother to her.
Altered M

Well that's all for now, I'll *try* to come back soon lol.

Oh mine and Edleens little cosy scrapbooking forum is 6 months old tomorrow yay, I can't believe it's been 6 months already. the url is in my list of places, "scraps cafe, forum".

I'm so bad.

I haven't updated this in like forever.

To tell the truth i'm very scrapped out at the moment. i lost my mojo he returned for like 2 hours then ran off again and hasn't been seen in over 2 weeks. I'm so going to push myself to finish a lo by friday night. <- it's a long weekend so I'll be home all day friday so sad can't do my usual friday lunch out and shopping.

So not much news, only I'm joining a gym insha'Allah tomorrow, I'll see how I like it first, way before signing a thing, cause i don't want to be stuck in a 12 month contract paying so much for a gym I don't want to attend.

So other day to day news in the life of me, i went to the gold coast today, to go shopping!! Always so much fun, first stop was of course harbor town, who can pass up a shopping centre filled with factory outlets, cheap cheap cheap. We bought a new frying pan and saucepan (tefal brand), DH got some new shirts and ties for work, and we got some placemats to give to DH's macik. we also bought some royal albert coasters, pretty darn spiffy :p Then we picked up some oven mits and teatowels. After that we went off to pacific fair, we didn't end up buying anything from there but was fun anyways. We also looked at laptops, DH is toying with the idea of buying me one. we'll see what happens with that, will probably end up being later this year.

Oh and we've decided on this road to fitness that I'm hoping to stick to, to buy a bike!! For now we're just gonna buy 1 bike to share (can tell we don't plan on riding at the same time lol)then if we use it often we'll then invest in a second one. It'll hopefully be good, and will give me a small amount of freedom on the weekends (I'll at the least be able to bike it over to my sisters house and collapse on her couch, or move my butt to the gym if i sign up). So here's hoping we'll use it often cause then i can get my own spiffy bike, since this first bike will be a mans bike.

But the main thought with having a bike is...will it suit me with my hijb on lol. Yeah all for the getting fit and going places and all I can think of is how silly will i look with a helmet over my hijab and my fat butt on a bike?

well thats all my thought for now lol. hopefully i'll be back by thursday with some LO's i've forgotten to add here, and with a whole new LO to show, cross your fingers people that I get creative!!

Bai

arg it's all gone

I have noooo creative juices what so ever. I have CS all cut and ready to go, I have the nice paper (still intact though lol) and i have a nice photo matted. But i just have no creativeness past there, I'm surprised i even figured out what cardstock to use and which colour cardstock to matt with lol. hopefully tomorrow I'll get into it and something will come to me.

Also today I'm somewhat distracted, I have sitting on my desk the latest Sims 2 expansion pack -> Seasons. It's great fun. But one thing that's peeving me heaps is that I have only 1 screen size option! 800x 600 which is making the control bar huge, I can't have both my aspirations, and how the sims doing on at the same time. But the whole having proper gardens growing fruit and vegies, and going fishing is awesome. along with making snow men and snow angels fun fun.

Anyway till tomorrow maybe hehe my sims are calling me lol.

slack slack slack

^Thats me, with this blog. gah somedays I just can't get myself to write anything. i'm lucky though that I have a lovely cousin in law Edleen to remind me that this blog is here. Thanks Ed!! hehe.

So as always your gonna get a dump of pics lol.

This LO I did of my brothers and sisters and I, it took me ages to finish, even though it's so simple. Reason being is I wanted it to be nice, but the thing is my sisters and brothers don't talk to one another, sad really, I'm the only one who talks to everyone, my sis Jenny holds the record of only talking to me, and usually thats only when she wants something. So it's kinda sad to look at us here, so happy and young, and this was the times when we all got along, only 7 years after this photo was taken everything had changed. And has been changing since then.
We are family

OK so onto happier things. The photo is from January 16th, my mummies birthday, we took her to the park at Forest Lake (beautiful views of the lake). And had a picnic, with my sister Trisha, her other half Bobby and their kids. Then Zaly and Bobby played cricket with Terese and Kane, i eventually joined them, trust me it was a funny sight, me playing cricket. Kane played mostly as wicket keeper, I tell you now that boy has the stance perfected, he just forgets to try and catch the ball lol.
Stefanie

This is terese, I use her as my model, she doesn't care cause she loves to dress up in my tudungs, and she loves having her photo taken. I took these photos for a how to Tudung thing.l I like doing up instructions for stuff, so i wanted to show new muslims/new tudung wearers how to do different styles. I have the list up at muslimas oasis. So onto the LO, I knew the moment I had put the photos on the computer that I had to scrap them. So I had put up another list on the UYS thread at m4m, and Mich had challenged me to use AC paper and alpha stickers, 1 SEI journaling tage, 2 photos and K&Co glitter rub-ons. I saw these photos and I thought eh it'll go so well. So I made this only last night (ok I'll admit I was gonna do it another day as we had till the end of the month to complete, then I realised Feburary only has 28days and that there was 1 min left of feburary here, so i quickly whipped it up, and it worked so well). It may have been different if I'd have started it earlier.
Pose

These photos are from when we went to Sentosa island. I made this LO for the 2nd asian dare, I liked the way it turned out. It took me a week to come up with the title lol.
Love life

It was my sisters birthday on the 19th of February (Trisha is now 25!) So I made these 2 cards for her, 1 is from my parents, my mum requested I make a card from them. The 1st one is from my parents.
birthday card 1

This one is from Zaly and I.
birthday card 2

And last but not least I made these coasters. I'm gonna put a magnet on the back of each and slap them on the fridge. So I made these as part of an instruction i'm doing for an online magazine (I told ya I like doing these things). This is the link to the Mag http://www.todaysmuslimah.com/index.html <- go visit it, it's great full of information, Bedraya does a good job of putting it together each month or so.
Altered coasters

Well thats all for now, I'll try and update later, I want to get another LO done before i go pick Terese and Kane up from school (it's thursday I get to pretend i'm mum every thursday lol, the kids love it, all being picked up from school by me, and they love to say to people, this is my aunty she's muslim, whilst i try to hide lol).

Hope everyones having a good start to March! I still can't believe it's the 3rd month already.

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.