Another Digital L/O

Aver is sick and hence I am home with her.

Other than trying to get some rest along with Aver, I decided to do a quick layout.

I kept it real simple by using item from mostly one collection - Valentine 2009 from Scrapbook Flair. (I think... I am lousy, mostly hopeless at keeping records of those scrapbooking kits I downloaded.)

Back to Aver being sick...

Well, if you had been following this blog, you will have known that she has sensitive skin and hence her eczema attacks. For the past year, the eczema raches came and went and along with it she started to have this cough. The cough is prolonged and it usually appears when her rashes appear.

It was finally confirmed that her cough is largely due to her eczema... she developed sensitive airways too. In the recent two months, this cough started to develop into wheezing. She had that last month and I had to be away from work for 4 days to look after her. She got the wheezing again on Saturday and went to see the doctor on Sunday. Today she is kept at home to recuperate. Her wheezing has stopped and now she is nursing the cough and the phelgm.

On top of that, her fingers are badly infected and that is also due to eczema! I would have shown you a picture of her badly infected thumb but it will definitely make you upset.

Let's just pray that she will get better by tonight and we can all go back to our normal routine tomorrow.

Digital Scrapbook Layout

It has been a long time since I last did a digital scrapbooking layout.
I am getting dusty.
Hope I can find some time to do at least one layout a week.

Recipe Cards

I made these cards for Superpig's colleague who was transferred to another department earlier in July and had not managed to post it here.

I had gotten a recipes (with permission) from a very talented lady who cooks mouthwatering dishes and prepares beautiful bentos.

My Culinary Journal

And I had promised her that I will show her the end result and so here they are.

There were so many that I wanted to do but I had to select those that does not involve any carbohydrates (as his colleague is on diet).

I tried to keep the layouts simple as I do not want the embellishments to overshadow the wonderful dishes.

A digital scrap page

Finally after a long long break from scrapbooking digitally, I completed this in the afternoon.

This is Ash when she was 8 months old... so chubby.

And see how cheerful she is.

Can you see a little of Aver in her too?

We always feel that Aver looks like her, just smaller in size.

Something for Sperpig at his office...

Did this so that he can put it up on his board at his desk.

Hopefully those cheeky smiles will brighten up his busy day.

As my baby grows...

Looking at Aver, I realised that Ash is no longer a baby but a little girl.

Looking at Aver, I realised that Ash has grown from cute to pretty.
Looking at Aver, I realised that I miss Ash at that age.
Looking at Aver, I realised that I cannot turn back the clock.
Looking at both girls, I realised that I can hold on to the memories of them growing.
So I decided on having a photo wall which shows them growing.
I started with Ash and after every layout, I cannot help but want to hug Ash and tell her how much I love her.

If you noticed, first and second months are missing as we did not have our digital camera then and now that our scanner is throwing a tantrum, I cannot get the hardcopies scanned.

What do you think? Isn't Ash a chubby cutie pie?

My Crafting Till Now

I thought I should do a list of all the crafty things that I had done since years ago.

I started with cross stitches but have been neglecting it.
I had tried some Precious Moments designs but I have no idea where they went.
And for those projects that I had completed, I did not frame them up as there was no place for them to be hung up.
These were done some seven to ten years ago.

Then I tried my hands on sewing and started with quilting.
I made a blanket for Aver and then I planned another for Ash.
Although all the blocks had been cut I have yet to sew them yet.
It has been coming to a year.

I moved on to appliques... I did a few bibs for Aver and a few more for friends' babies last Christmas.

After that I started to learn to sew for my two little girls.

I think I did sew a few more but I just do not have any photos to show...

Mental note to myself...take more photos!

Next I tried to sew a blouse for myself but it did not work out.

So there is definitely no photos to show at all.

Then there is the halter top I sewed for Pam.

There are other bits and pieces of things I have done.

Hair clips... or barrettes.

I am starting on another batch and this time I used ribbon embroidery and thread embroidery as designs.

There were also grocery bags.

Tissue cozies...

Diaper bags

There are crocheting too.

And of course, there is the digital scrapbooking.

There... I have lsited down those that I have done in the past few years.

I have a lot of craft supplies sitting in my storeroom waiting for me to turn them into something nice.

Soon... my friends... soon.

Three of a kind

Here's another digital scrapbook layout.

There are three female in this house... actually four, if we consider out pet chinchilla too.

Three of us enjoy "bullying" our super hero just because we love him very much.

Three of us have the same kind of temperment that drives our super hero up the wall.

Three of us simply love to be pampered by super hero and he does spoil us rotten.

"Lub" you Superpig!

Still loving each other to bits...

In a rather lousy mood today with no idea why.

So I decided to do something nice that does not require me to bring out any tools that may cause harm to the little princess.

So I finally did a digital scrapbook layout ... after a super long holiday from it.

Note to self...

Seriously, need to organise the digital stuff so that can give credits.

A little present for a little baby girl

A friend's baby just turned a month old and we have no idea what to give her.

Clothes? Well, think she will have quite a bit of clothes already.
Red packet? That is already in the plan but somehow it does not seems enough.
Toys? What kind of toys will be suitable and will she already have it?

So I decided that the best is to give her something that I made by myself.

I did a digital scrapbook album for her.