Ngoo Status Updates

School has started and...

we have new haircuts.... (check out hubby's freaky evil eye)
Extremely wiggly teeth...
and a new layout for Purple Onion Designs:

Layout Title: "Princess" (Or maybe should be Peranakan Princess? Check out my mum's beautiful kebaya!)This is one seriously girly layout....but I quite like how it seems to have a 'fairy tale' book feel to it. (at least it does to me...haha).

Maybe its because of the "Royal Proclamation sign" (from POD Antique Fair set)? The little 'brick' is also from the Antique fair set and is my nod to Peranakan tiles
And those flowers from the Ornamentals Set help finish the fairy tale look.
My status = Grateful and happy.

Happy Birthday!!!

A very very happy happy birthday to Let's Get Shabby - a super yummy and cool challenge blog featuring all things shabby and vintage! (I like!)

I am very very honoured to be invited to be their guest this month as part of their Birthday Challenge!

And Michelle of Purple Onion Designs is offering a seriously SUPER DUPER PRIZE for this month's challenge!!! (won't give away the secret here)

So hop on over and check out the lovely inspiration from the talented "Let's Get Shabby" design team (some of their work is shown here) and join in!!!

And here's what I designed for the birthday challenge!
Look out for more "Let's Get Shabby" fun soon - there'll be more yummy goodies and birthday celebrations!

July Sneaks are Out

July class sneaks are out on the laines blog. Go sign up!!! I'm really looking forward to seeing all of you again in class - this long holiday is turning me into something of a slug...

And here's something I made in my pre-slug days (aka last month):

Mini Album: "Free Spirit"


We played with the Melody Ross chip art tool from g.c.d. in class (its used on the brown semi-circle chipboard piece) and it was good fun hammering on the classroom floor!

The kids are making the most of the last few holi-days and I think I will join them. Tomorrow....back to work!

At Last.....

It was like squeezing blood from a stone this month....but I....AM....DONE!!!!

Mini Album No. 1: went totally stamp crazy trying to catalog some of my favourite stamping techniques past and present (I tried to show you a bit of everything below). I still haven't put the photos in yet and it needs some journaling to really 'finish' it but at least it is 'done'. This one was very painful.....but very satisfying - so of course its my favourite.


Mini Album No. 2: Lots of Jenni Bowlin papers and happy heartwarming colours. I really like how the tree turned out and I am very pleased with how chunky this feels.Aaaahhhhh.....feels good.