Reasons to Smile

1. Someone gave me flowers (green one's a sunflower bud) - (Incidentally, he never ever buys me flowers. I always get 'strange stuff' like this. I say its called being cheap, he says its called being unique - haha!)

2. Benny has a sense of humour (black part's the flush button)

3. I finally did this: I have been trying to scrap this photo for ages...finally got round to it and did some happy experiments along the way.

Journaling: "You said it would be fun.....You said, 'we'll be there before you know it'.....You said, "I don't think its very far off".......Yeah, Sure!!!"

Experiments to try again in future:
1. Ink with a dry paint brush (with a dabbing motion) - used it around the photo and along the bottom

2. Glimmer Mist over eyelets.

3. Folded 'y' shaped grass

(And yes, I used the same paper on the card in the previous post)

Smile! The weekend's here!

Back to Nature

Being married to a gardening man means having
- a giant compost heap in front of our house
- rhinoceros beetle grubs in said compost heap (they're gross!!! about the size of your thumb and you can see the insides.....ewww)
- worries whenever the mosquito check guy from the Ministry of the Environment comes by.
- moth pupae that you can watch as they hatch

But best of all, it means the kids learn about nature from nature - not just from books. (And as they've discovered, its much messier than in the books)

Beth's gardening Adventure:

Beth finds a potato
- for some reason, there is a lonely potato sitting along our corridor

"I will plant it!" she says (Cuteness almost wins over praticality)


Papa to the rescue (the cute pot is reluctantly given up)


Good to go! Now we wait!

Here's Mummy getting back to nature:

I think I overdid it with the ink a bit 'cos you can hardly see the bird in the cage, but...oh well.

Hey, if you're ever in Simei and you pass a house with a 'jungle' outside, wave hello! I'll let you have a rhinoceros beetle grub!

May 2010 Laines Sneaks

I indulged myself quite a bit this time around. Choosing my favourite colours....

I made:

one very 'bloody' looking clear page album with very little paper and a lot of ink and powder


Three chocolate coloured layouts with lots of paint - dark, milk and white chocolate


One teal and brown mini album (no sewing I promise) featuring the Chip Art tool from Melody Ross / g.c.d.

Schedule is out and all samples are at the store and ready for viewing!
I enjoyed designing these projects....hope you like them too!

M & M....and a PODcast

Hey hey! I finally finished the layout using the materials Merdrey picked for me:
I must say it was fun (Though I chickened out and used only a few of the sparkly pink roses (that's her favourite paper incidentally) and I'm quite liking how it turned out:

Layout Title: "Missing Squishy"
Me Parts:
1. The embossing and inking in the background
2. The sanded edge of the layout
3. The little piece of twill
4. The title which is a pun (She misses her Squishy 'cos Squishy has gone missing)
(I would say the black tape is me also if it didn't have pink polka dots on it!!!)

Merdrey Parts:
1. everything else!

Here's a little close up of my favourite part:I wrote about how to do this on this week's laines blog post.

POD-CAST:
The Purple Onion Sentiment Sale has been extended till Friday April 23! Remember its 50% off individual sentiments!

Click here to see the stamps

One of my all time favourites - "What's the Point?" (the one with all the different sized pointing fingers) is on sale!!! under the "Some other images I threw on sale" section. I have to tell you I have used these pointing fingers on sooooo many things.