Wrestling with Mr. Bolster

I've noticed this for quite sometime now....when given the bolster, Ms. Elise will, for some reason, definitely "wrestle" with it....sometimes, even her pants came off...hehee.....maybe is her teething?....I don't know..but it sure was fun looking at her wrestling session...so, even with the blurry photos, I needed to put it down in my scrapbook...

I used a Sketchy Thursday sketch and played with stitching again....this time with the help of the Seweasy stitch piercer....it really was faster, rather than poking the holes one by one with my safety pin, which I borrowed from Elise (for her nappy)...

Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico June's Kit and some floss...
Sketch: Sketchy Thursday 6.16 Sketch

A post that is 2 weeks late...

Yeap....Elise's monthly update is late for 2 whole weeks....sigh..where has all my time go??!?

Oh well, Elise is growing up fast...time really flies...next month we will be celebrating her 1st first birthday and we're celebrating it BIG time....

We don't have doctor's appointment this month, so there's no formal weighing and measuring...but I guess she's just around 7kg, or may be less.....but she's eating fine, sleeping fine (except for waking quite often for nursing), playing fine, exploring fine, teething fine, baby talking fine.....everything is fine....

As Elise is quite a shy girl...she don't really shows the real cheeky girl she is when she's around our friends...she sometimes don't even want to smile...sigh...so I thought it would be fun to post some of those cheeky photos of her, that our friends don't usually get to see....enjoy...

"Qing ni gen wo zhe yang zuo"

...the title is the Mandarin "pinyin"...meaning please follow what I do....(direct translation...hehehe)

I've blogged about this before and had been wanting for a long time to put it down on scrapbook layout....I finally got to do it, using a Get Picky sketch...

Scrapbook materials: Studio Calico June's kit
Sketch: Get Picky June Sketch Challenge #9

Read me stories

As Elise is growing...she begins to appreciate a lot of things...one of which is us reading her stories, especially from this little cloth book (maybe it was because we had started reading this to her when she was a little little baby), "I Love...."...it's a very colourful book with images and simple words....it goes like this
"I love.... my elephant; I love.... my sheep; I love... my duckie; I love... my pig; I love... my monkey; I love... my pony; I love.... baby. I will usually read each page to her and make the animal sound, when I reach the last page, I will give her a hug.

Of course, the big sister has to have a go (in fact many go) reading to her little sister, and good as she is....she will add in all the sound effect and the hugging at the end.

I wanted to document down this very sweet moment...so I used almost all of the photos I captured....I want to show every expression of them both....(I'm sharing the photos at the end of the post)

I played along with Scrappin Studio weekly challenge, which is to use stamps....I have many stamps and it is time to use it...I just love the film strip stamp that comes with Studio Calico June's kit....and it is just perfect for the multiple photos...so, I embossed it with black embossing powder (something I have not done for a long long time)...before which I used some of my favourite stamps to make the background...
I'm not sure of how to use the smash pockets (from the June kit)..so I cut it open and journalled inside...I'm happy with how the layout turns out....

Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico June's kit, blue brads from my stash and twine from my stash

And since the photos are so small in the layout....I'm sharing it here again....

Nature lover

My family is kind of a nature lover....when we were young, our house (back in our hometown) will always be surrounded with plants, vegetables and animals (yeap...animals, like dogs, chickens, ducks, geese)....we just love it..especially my brother....

Well, now here where my parents live, the house is also surrounded with plants and vegetables....the below layout is about the magnificent sunflower that my mother grows....



Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico May's Kit with some butterflies punched out of left over papers from previous kits, with Martha Steward punch, and some gems from my stash
Sketch: None

Being such nature lover, of course we have to visit the beach numerous times...(and of course to satisfy the kids)...here's our 2nd take on making Sandcastles....



Scrapbooking materials: Studio Calico May's kit
Sketch: None

Missed me?!?

Went MIA for a few days......school holidays...sigh, always makes me even busier....plus, brother-in-law and family from Singapore visited us last week (and so some extra activities), plus church children camp during end of last week....

Yeap.....we went to the beach twice with Grace's cousins...once during the evening and the second time it was like 11am when we reach the beach...so you can imagine how Grace look like after the outing....

Then I was busy preparing kits after kits (crafting kits that is), booklets after booklets (with my Zutter binding machine) for the children camp. We had a blast during the camp.....children loves their craft materials and I even let my class play with some of my wood mounted stamps....love those stamps....I don't have to worry about the kids being too rough.....

Here's some photos of the kids enjoying their stamping session and the very messy table....




I will be back with layouts that I made way before the school holiday starts and Elise 11 month old updates (yes...I am way way too late)

Travel

Just came back from a short trip to Genting Highlands....is not a relaxing trip though..having to haul two kids between the outdoor and indoor theme park is really very tiring....plus I was not well...having a bad headache (after a ride on the "tea cup" with Grace), too full with milk (and only breastfeeding mothers know the pain) and then ended up having fever...sigh....

The kids enjoyed it though......yes kids, even little Elise was having fun with the rides.....and keep on demanding for more....

Well, today I quickly quench my thirst to scrap with a really simple page...it's the cover for my Vacation album....I used to create mini albums for each of my vacation...but since I was so stressed with mini albums, I decided to make a real big album to house all of my vacation pages....and so i bought a D-ring album and make 12 x 12 pages for my vacation photos...

This page has lots of white spaces....but it will soon filled up (like our passport pages) with stamping of the names of place that we visited.....



Scrapbook materials: Studio Calico May kit (bits and pieces), Teresa Collins patterned paper, Little Yellow Bicycle sticker, Pink Paislee Ephemera (left over from April kit)
Sketch: By Jessy Christopher for Scrappin Studio Sketch Challenge