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and more of them pleaseeeeeeee!! I just can’t get enough of them! :)

All the Made With Love DT have been showered with lots of Prima goodies and here is my layout for this week’s assignment.

This is going to be my last layout for a little while as I’ll be away from tomorrow. I’m hoping to come in if I have time but if I don’t, have a great week ahead!

See ya again real soon! :D

Like I said

I’ve been busy lately and will busier in the next few weeks until end March. My schedule for the month will be like this

- business travel to Bangkok for 4 days

- upon returning, the next day I’ll leave for Malaysia for a scrapbook teaching stint for 3 days (feeling excited about this!!)

- after the day I arrive home, I’ll be leaving for another business trip to Brunei for 3 days

- the week after I’ll be back in Bangkok again for another 4 days

- will be taking a few days break and I’ll be celebrating my Birthday at 37! Geez, time really flies………really NOT looking forward to 40!

There, these traveling will take up the month of March and I hope I’ll have a little breather in April but it really depends. New financial year starts in April and there’ll be lots of new programs taking place, so I don’t think I’ll be having any free time for at least another few months!

On the other hand, I’m in the midst of planning with the hub on our trip to somewhere to celebrate our 10th year wedding anniversary!! 10years already??!! It’s been that long? :D I’m truly excited about this one! And I can’t wait for the day we’ll be in the place, which we have not planned yet. *laugh*

We have a couple of places in mind.

Krabi, Thailand (Gorgeous beaches! I could do with more tan! lol….)

or

Cambodia (I want to see the amazing Angkor Wat!! Would love to take loads of pictures!)

or

Maldives (been there a couple of times but putting up in a nice island resort would be awesome! Thinking of Club Med Kani ;) )

What do you think? Which one should we pick?

If you’ve been to Cambodia or Krabi, please share your experience with us so it would help us decide which would be the best place for us to celebrate our anniversary. :)

Well, before I knock off, I’d like to share my layout which I made for the Pink Paislee’s Thursday Trend that I posted in their blog yesterday. My write out was about glimmer mist and here’s my page

I love the idea of spraying glimmer mist onto a mask and creates a background that looks like a patterned paper to me! Here’s how I do it

I sprayed mist over and across the punchouts negative

And then I outlined the misted background with a black pen.

And lastly, I added embellishments to finish the page!

Thanks again for popping by my blog and hope you’ll have a great weekend with your family!

This is what I do

when I’m feeling all sleepy in the afternoon at work.

- I would walk from my desk to the washroom and back to my desk again

- I would walk from my desk and pass by my colleagues table, maybe stop by to say hi and back to my desk

- I would walk out to the elevator and go down to the 1st level and go back up again to the 22nd level

- I chat up with my colleagues across my table

- I water my plant next to the window (it’s a wonder it didn’t die because of excess watering)

- I text the hub and asked him how is his day

I would pick one of the ‘activities’ above everyday and rotate them for a week. Hahahahahahaha!! I know this sounds crazy but you will know what I mean when the drowsiness kicks in especially after a heavy lunch.

And each of this action would take about 5mins. It really helps. Really really. :D

“Oh dear weather, I hope you are listening to me, please start raining soon or else we will all die of extreme heat!!”

Geez, it has NOT been raining for weeks and it’s going to kill every single soul in this country really soon. It’s not only hot, it’s humid too! I’m so wishing we have 4 season in Singapore, we could do with Spring, Autumn and Winter, not Summer throughout the year!! :(

Anyway, my dear friend Lia has started her classes again this March!! Have you seen the class sample yet? Here it is

Isn’t it gorgeous? :)

If you have not sign up for her class this Saturday 6th or the 20th March, please do it fast!! You’ll have a great time with Lia, trust me! :D

Tomorrow is Friday again! ;)

The RAK goes to........

April Yap!!

CONGRATS GIRL!! :D

Love your take on my sketch and what you did with your page, the sewing, colors, all the little details, are simply amazing!!

Please email me your addy at leenaloh73[at]gmail[dot]com and I’ll send the giveaway out to you soon!

Thanks again to the others for your pages and I just have to say they are equally amazing as well! I hope you had fun with my sketch.

And thanks to those of you who sent me some love. I’m about 80% to full recovery. I just need to put on back some weight which I’ve lost for the past few days. It still made me a little weak but I’m doing better each day. I’m saying a little prayer each day for myself that I’d get back to my old self again.

This month will be busy for me as I’ll start traveling again every week for the rest of the month. We’re closing the financial year by end of March, so me and my mates are running about like a headless chicken trying to meet our targets! *laugh* Targets are definitely NOT our favorite word but hey……… if we do well, we’ll be rewarded by the end of April! Bwahahahahaha………………..we know that it’s not going to be much, definitely not as much as we got last year but what the heck, it’s better than zero $$$, isn’t it? ;) I could use some $$$ to pamper my family for a nice holiday this year. We need more R&R time together.

Will be popping in again soon, I hope. So, stay happy and healthy!! Lots of love from me! :D

Darn bug

hit me from nowhere and I was down for 2 days!! I woke up 2am on Saturday with a sharp pain in my tummy and for the next 7 hours, I spent most of my time in the toilet, falling asleep in between the hours on the crown and I couldn’t control what came out (I’ll leave out the details). It was a serious bout of diarrhea and I thought I had food poisoning. And when the sun came out, vomitting followed and I was in between chills and my body was burning hot! The hub had to drag me out of the house to see our family doctor. I can’t walk and whatever strength I’ve left with, I had to cling on to the hub for dear life!

I’ve hardly ever fall sick and but this was the worst I’ve ever experienced! And I thought “Darn, I’ll take a week to fully recover at this age!!”. Surprisingly, I was wrong. I slept in for almost a day, waking up just to take my medicine and drank lots of water. I was dehydrated because of the diarrhea. All I could remember was the hubby covering me with blanket because I was shivering in cold (even the temperature outside was like 34-35 degrees celcius!!) and Ethan coming in ocassionally to check on me, giving me hugs and kisses and said “Are you feeling ok Mommy? Are you feeling much better? Don’t worry Mommy, I’ll take care of you”. I tell you, my boy is a rare gem!! He’s such an affectionate boy, with a good heart and very sentimental too. That’s how I recovered faster than I imagined because I was showered with lots of love and kisses from my hub and son! They’re the best remedy to my stomach flu. :D

I’ll be back soon for the giveaway for my sketch. Thanks April, Lydia and Stacy for your layouts! They’re gorgeous! :)

And thank you to all who have left your comments in my last post! I really appreciate you taking time to pop in and leave me with some lovely messages!

I can't help

but to share this! Eeekkkkkk!!!

Thanks so much 2Peas for featuring my work!! :D

Carefree

This will be my last layout for this week. Sorry I’ve been loading so many projects this week and I hope you won’t get too turned off by them. :)

I created this page for the Color Splash challenge at Scrapperie. My favorite colors would be yellow and green because they make me happy! See how carefree my friend Winky is? Perfect photo for this page! :D

Come join us and create a page with your favorite colors! We’d love to see them!

It has been a great week

with Lunar New Year celebration, went on a eating and sleeping marathon and spending lots and lots of lovely time with my dear Ethan. And tomorrow I’ll be back at work and I dread catching up with 10 days piles of work and emails! How I wish my leave would never end and I could stay home, say……… for at least a couple of months? Hahahahahaha!! Dream on Leena, wake up!! It’s back to your regular busy days again! Bah!

I seriously had a good break and besides doing all the things I mentioned earlier, I did lots of scrapping! What I mean is, I scrapped more than I usually did. And what I made for the past few days was amazing and I had a great time. Imagine I could churned out few pages in a week, quite a feat for someone like me, who has been slacking BIG time in the past year!! *laugh*

I guess I was too caught up with family life and work, so scrapping took a backseat last year. But this year, I came back with vengeance!! ;)

Anyway, I just posted a sketch and layout in the Pink Paislee’s blog today. It’s my turn for the Sunday Sketch and I hope you like them. Please feel free to use the sketch and share them with me. You can post a link of your work using the sketch in the comment box. I’d love to see them!

You know what? I think I’ll throw in some goodies as a GIVEAWAY, will randomly pick a layout and post it here on my blog! What do you think? :D

Here’s my sketch and layout.

*Update* – I used a little of Photoshop & MS PowerPoint to create this sketch

You can use any Pink Paislee’s products (it’s not a must but it helps you to clear your old stash and make room for the new collection! lol…lol…) or you can use any other stuff from your stash. You can create as many pages as you want, just link it to the comment box in this post. I just want to see how you have fun with my sketch. :)

I’ll pick a winner in a week’s time, which is next Saturday. This will give you enough time to come out with your layouts.

I’ll be busy in the next week, with some guests in town for a week of training at work. There’ll be late nights, dinners with our guests, so I may not be posting as often in the next couple days.

Have a great week ahead and thanks again for stopping by! :D

{EA} Issue #7

is finally out!!

This publication looks yummy and I can’t wait for my copy to arrive!! :)

And here’s my piece of work for this issue in the New Product section. Hope you like what you see.

I just love this Artist Painters Tray from 7 Gypsies!! Took me about 2 hours to complete this but the process was amazing! I used bits and pieces of my scrap supplies and when everything was finally in place, I just stare and stare at this tray the whole time! lol…lol… I love how I can put up the pictures of my family and there are still space for embellishments. Lots of them! This tray is now sitting on the wall in front of my scrap table.

This is such a wonderful wall or table display. I have another piece in fact, going to have another round of fun time!!

Thanks again for popping by and leaving your messages!

Have a great Sunday! :D

Can you be more perfect?

How I love my wonderful boy sooooooooooo much! He is every parents’ dream, perfectly wonderful in every way. He’s funny, passionate, adorable, cheerful and his laughter is contagious!!

Dear Ethan, Mommy and Daddy adore you very much and we wish for you to be always happy, carefree and please do stay just the way you are. We love you in every possible way you could imagine……..

This is for you baby,

*Note* – I used my new Canon 7D to capture these images. The sharpness, clarity and colors are beyond my imagination! Perfect investment in my whole lifetime. :D