My Celebrity Look-A-Likes

Hmm...who ever thought I'd look like Beyonce or Madonna haha

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

Updates...

It's been ages since I last updated my blog, SO SAD... My dial-up internet connection is so crappy nowadays... Hmm, I need to apply for a broadband connection ASAP!

On the happy side, I got to visit Lasting Impression last weekend. Yay!

Here are my purchases, all at 20% off!!! Sale is extended until Dec 1 2007 so go shop now! =D

Vivian also gave me my gift for being an 'early bird' in Lasting Impression's Piggy Tales challenge - a set of Piggy tales pps and taglets =D

I also got to visit Rekindled Moments.

Here's what I got from Jane:

Tinkering Ink Prize

This email from Candice of Memory Box just made my day:

Hi Gaye,

Congratulations again on your entry to our Tinkering Ink entry held afew months ago. Anyway, I would like to inform you that your prize hasarrived and is available for pick up on our Binondo office. Hope youcan visit soon because we have new stocks that arrived and in case youhave forgotten, you are also entitled to go "shopping" in our Binondo office up to Php1,000 as part of your prize.

I'll be visiting Memory box this Saturday. Will post pictures when I get my prize. =)


Here it is: TI-Botanical bliss collection pack; BW Chipboard letters & Fiskars replacement blades
I simply love the Brenda Walton chipboards! =D

Rant and Rave

Rave:
1. I won in Scrapbook-Exchange's RAK#5. Prize sposored by Nette of My Little Attic. Yay!
2. I was able to finish 3 LOs this week. Talk about being productive. lolz! All the 3 LOs are my entries to this month's challenge from Lasting Impression and Scrappin' Moms.

Rant:
1. Of all the days, this is the worst when it comes to my internet connection. Uploading a file that is less than 300kb took ages!
2. I wasn't able to make the deadline for the challenges due to Rant#1. =(

Oh well, s**t happens... I might as well share them haha!

Entry to Scrappin' Moms: Sept Design a Sketch Challenge
Title: Best Friends

Materials used:
- Bazzill Cardstock
- Urban Lily pps – Happy Everything-Friends; May Ella-Impish
- Rub ons – Craft Express, We R Memory Keepers
- MM Shimmer
- Colorbox Ink
- Pens - Sakura Gelly Roll, Pioneer Archival pen
- Crafters Workshop Template
- Brads, Ribbons, Bling, Metal charm

Journal reads:
Dear Cley and Yang,

When you both have grown into beautiful ladies, remember the moments…
- when the first thing you do in the morning is visit each other and play with your dolls
- when you’re both having fun you even forget mealtime or bathtime..lolz
- when another kid bullies one of you, the other one will always be there to defend you.

And though time may come when both of you go on separate paths, remember that you will always be best of friends.
Love always,
Tita Gaye

Lasting Impression's Piggy Tales Challenge:

Entry#1

Title: Sugar Spice and Everything Nice

Materials used:
- Piggy Tales Gretel Collection - Bread Crumbs, Miss Gretel, Chocolate Shingles, Candy Cottage, Taglets
- Cardstock
- AM Thickers
- MM Gold Glaze
- Pioneer Archival pen
- Colorbox Ink
- Prima Flowers
- Rhonna Farrer Big Swirls stamps
- Crafters Workshop Template
- Brads, Ribbons, Lace, Bling, Stickers

Journal reads:
Dear Sofie,

May you always be a little girl ready to play. Growing and learning and changing each day. You’re the extra special ray of sunshine who warms our hearts and brightens our world.

Love,
Daddy & Mommy

Entry#2
Title: Hush Little Baby

Materials used:
- Piggy Tales Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs – Prince Charming, 7 Dwarfs, Poisoned Apple, Taglets
- Bazzill Cardstock
- Rub ons – We R Memory Keepers
- Colorbox Ink
- Pens - Sakura Gelly Roll, Pioneer Archival pen
- Crafters Workshop Template
- Brads, Ribbons, Bling, Metal charm, Metal hinge
- Provo Craft Alphabiggies sticker

Journal reads:
Hush little baby; mama's near,
To brush your hair and calm your fears.
To kiss your cheek and hold your hand,
'Til you drift off to sleepyland.
To help you count those little white sheeps,
And sing you songs 'til you're asleep.
To tell you tales of kings and queens,
of Jack and Jill and wonderful things.
So snuggle up and hold me tight,
And dream sweet dreams all through the night.
And every night when the sun goes down,
You'll still be the sweetest little baby in town.

Dearest Sofie,

Singing a lullaby for you is a gift. We thank God for giving us this opportunity, for the joy of watching you while you’re sleeping. Remember that Daddy and Mommy will always be here by your side.

And when you find it difficult to fall asleep, know that we’ll never get tired of singing a lullaby for you.

Love,
Mommy and Daddy

I won in a Tinkering Ink challenge

This post is long overdue. I should have posted this last week. Anyway, better late than never. =)

Last week, I got an email from Candice of Memory Box informing me that I was one of the winners of Tinkering Ink Challenge. Wow! I had to read her email a few times before the message could sink in. Haha This is my first time to win in any scrapbook layout challenge. Now I know how it feels and I'm loving it! You can check my layout here and Tinkering Ink's announcement here. Too bad they said we were from Singapore.

Paper Roses from Coffee filters

Yup! You got it! From coffee filters.

I was watching Martha Stewart Show when this project was featured. I felt it was difficult to make one when I saw the finished product. But when Martha and her guest, Cassie Chappell, started making the roses, I changed my mind. Hey! I can do that too!

For full instructions go to: MarthaStewart.com

By the way Cassie has an online store where you can order her gorgeous roses, Mommy Makes Roses

Romance

This was supposed to be an try to Lasting Impression's Scenic Route Challenge but I wasn't able to make it because I dillydallied with the journalling. In the end I just decided not to add any journalling, I felt that the photo is enough to convey the message.

Materials Used: Scenic Route Charlotte pps-Eastern Avenue Floral Aqua, Essex Stripe ; Bazzill cardstockScenic Route Cardstock Sticker - Charlotte Monogram; AmCrafts Thickers; K&Co chpboard; BG Undressed Chipboard Mini monograms; MM Shimmer/Acrylic paint; Prima flowers; WeR Pewter Press rubons; Ki Memories sticker; Carl puncher; Fiskars adhesive foam

Jessica Sprague

Wohoo! I just got an email from Jessica Sprague. I can't believe she replied! I'm definitely saving this. Haha

Her email:
Hi Gaye!It is so nice to meet you! Thank you so much for your very kind email! I hope that the tutorials will be of use to you, and if you have questions, feel free to send them over. Have a wonderful day!

Us

This is my first LO using a BG paper. I was intimated at first, the papers are so beautiful that I was afraid to cut it, I was worried it will be wasted if I won't be able to cut it properly.

Materials used: BG Stella Ruby papers-Drive in the Country, Morning in the Heath, Dining with the Daveys, Fitting at Penny's; BG Undressed Chipboard Letters/Hardware; Ki Memories stickers; MM Acrylic paints & eyelets; vellum; Misc. ribbon, gold thread; transparency with 'How do I love Thee' poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hidden Journalling reads:

Laughter ~ I love you never failing to make me laugh. For the silly little things you say or do. To the way you imitate haw I talk even if sometimes you would look ridiculous in other people's eyes. Laughter - that's something that will always be part of our lives. I hope we'll never run out of things to laugh about!!

Holding Hands ~ I love the way you hold my hand...felt secure and safe I like the feel of your hands in mine...felt that you would always keep me safe

Sweet Nothings ~ Honeybunch...That's how we call each other at first...Not 'Love', 'Sweetheart', 'Darling' or 'Honey'...As time goes on, you never run out of things to call me...Sometimes silly sometimes hilarious sometimes amusing...Sometimes out of sheer frustration when I don't listen to you...I prefer to call you 'Hon' or 'Pangeet'...But no matter what we think of to call each other...We will always be each other's 'Honeybee'... :)

House - Hate him or Love him?

Love him! I'm currently watching season 1 and 2 on DVD. =) Hugh Laurie deserved to win the Golden Globe — Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama and Screen Actors' Guild Awards — Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

Can't wait for season 3 (on AXN).

Here's an except from wikipedia:
"Dr. Gregory House is a maverick medical genius, who heads a team of young diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Most episodes start with a cold open somewhere outside the hospital, showing the events leading to the onset of symptoms for that week's main patient. The episode follows the team in their attempts to diagnose the illness.
The team arrives at diagnoses using the Socratic method and differential diagnosis, with House guiding the deliberations. House often discounts the information and opinions from his underlings, pointing out that their contributions have missed various relevant factors. The patient is usually misdiagnosed two or three times over the course of each episode, often with sarcoidosis, and treated with medications appropriate to those diagnoses that cause further complications. Often the ailment cannot be easily deduced because the patient has lied about symptoms and circumstances. House frequently mutters, "Everybody lies," or proclaims during the team's deliberations: "The patient is lying," or "The symptoms never lie." Even when not stated explicitly, this assumption guides House's decisions and diagnoses.
House's begrudging fulfillment of his mandatory walk-in clinic duty is a recurring subplot on the show. During clinic duty, House confounds patients with an eccentric bedside manner and unorthodox treatments, but impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses after seemingly not paying attention. He often plays video games on his portable game console while patients talk to him, and in one episode House diagnoses five patients in the waiting room in under a minute on his way out of the clinic. Realizations made during some of the simple problems House faces in the clinic often help him solve the main case of the episode—ironic, because he claims to hate working in the clinic.
Episodes frequently feature the unusual practice of entering a patient's house with or without the owner's permission in order to search for clues that might suggest a certain pathology. The creator, David Shore, originally intended for the show to be a CSI-type show where the "germs were the suspects,"[6] but has since shifted much of the focus to the characters rather than concentrating solely on the environment.
A running joke in the series is that Lupus is suggested as a cause of the patient's symptoms in many episodes, although invariably this is quickly dismissed. In one episode, House produces some of his secret Vicodin stash from inside a hollowed-out Lupus textbook; by way of explanation, he says, "It's never lupus." Lupus is one of the medical conditions known as The Great Imitator, because it can present with a wide variety of symptoms.
Another large portion of the plot centers around House's abuse of Vicodin and other drugs to manage pain stemming from an infarction in his quadriceps muscle some years prior which causes him to walk with a cane. The pain and drug abuse act to increase many of his more objectionable character traits while not impairing his medical acumen, which leads him to often self-medicate himself. Overall, House is thus presented as a classic flawed hero."

So Cute

This is my entry to MLA-Valerie Salmon's Sketch Challenge.

Materials: FP Key Lime Delightful, Desert; Cardstock, Vellum, Colorbox Pigment Ink, Tech.Tuesday Whispy gigs clear stamp, BG chipboard alpha, AmCrafts thickers, Prima Flowers, Misc. ribbon, eyelets, beads, bling

Hidden journalling reads:

Our dearest Sofie, When you saw mommy’s camera, you immediately gave us a pose and smile. Not more than 3 months and you already know how to ‘project’ for the camera.

This is just the start of you’re career as daddy and mommy’s little princess.

We love you!!

Daddy & Mommmy

Finally!

I have my own blog! haha

Now...if only I can organize my LOs....