Catching Up again ... Instagram and Project Life Week 2

It's been a busy couple of days for me so it's great to get the chance to do some catch up tonight.

On Monday I did a bit of catching up of another sort. I've always enjoyed Instragram and love all the photos people from around the world take and put up. I chanced upon an Instragramer (is that a proper word??) through my Aussie cousin. Fatmumslim has a monthly Photo A Day challenge up and for February it's #febphotoaday (if you want to have a go). So off I went in search of photos to catch up on the first 13 days of the month.

Been fun as it challenges you to take photos of things I guess you'd not really think to take pictures of. Even got my sister to take up the challenge too! Hopefully at the end of the month I'll have a nice eclectic collection of photos to print off to put into my Project Life as an insert. Shall update here when that happens! :D

Right, now onto catch up of my Project Life. We're already into week 7 and I'm only just updating the blog on week 2 ... must get a move on!

Week 2 started out with our Silat team - the Woodlands Zone 2 Cheetahs - doing a performance during a wedding. One of our student's sisters were getting married and her mum had asked if our team could perform during the wedding. In total, the kids performed 4 times - 2 Silat Pengantin {pengantin = bride/groom} performances and then 2 demo performances. The kids and their parents spent a great day together and I think everyone had a lot of fun ... well I enjoyed myself ... {btw, Silat is a form of martial arts originating from the Indonesian/Malaysian region}.

The left hand side has my week 2 title page and 2 group photos of the team. The bottom left photo was taken of a shop window along Orchard Road. With Chinese New Year just around the corner, this was a different approach to decorating the window. Usually you only ever see red lanterns (as on the right hand side photo) or deco in red.

There's also a small photo of Ismon's birthday cake from the Carousel restaurant team. It's one of our favourite restaurants to dine at and we've been going there since Adam was in a pram. All the staff there have been there for ages so they've seen Adam grow up and are always so tinkled to see how tall he's become. {He always gets free coca-cola from Sylvester, one of the servers!} We'd wanted to go on Ismon's birthday but it was booked out solid because of the holiday period. Note to self: next year book super early!

On the right hand side of the 2 page spread are another 2 photos of the team. There were so many good photos of them! And I just love how they all get along so well together despite their different ages!

The bottom left photo is a picture I took of work ... that's where I spend most of my week ... sat in front of my computer!

Then on the bottom right is a collection of photos of our dinner at the Pizza Hut in Jurong Point as well as the Chinese New Year deco they had up there (red lanterns!!).

For the 4x3 slots I put in the invitation card for the wedding (it was a long card so I had to fold it up but made sure one of the main designs was visible). I've also go a picture of my new iPhone 4S! Had to wait quite a bit for this coz they'd run out of stock! Horrors!

Some of the products that I used for these 2 pages apart from the Project Life Core Kit items include my Shiny Date Stamp, Versafine Onyx Black ink cube, Typo Alpha stamps, Typo Frankie Alpha sticker, miscellaneous silk flowers, AC Precision and Sharpie pens and 7 Gypsies stickers (Congrats).

Till next post ... Take Care & Peace!

Catch Up ... Week 1 of Project Life 2012

Back with catch up ... Just finished with my PL week 6 but will post that a little later on once I've done the catch ups on weeks 1 to 5. Hopefully will get these up this week.

Alright ... week 1 was pretty eventful for us. Apart from the usual excitement of the New Year, our nephew Didi got engaged. Big do and lots of photos taken so week 1 had to have an insert.

Quick aside: as I'm doing 2 pages per week, I've decided that any inserts into a week will be smaller in width than the actual photo pocket pages. I'm using Design A for each 2 week spread. There are other configurations available but I'm going with this one. I'm thinking of using other configurations for other projects ... hmmmm ... crossing fingers that I shall be able to get round to everything I have planned.

Right back to week 1.

Each week will have a "title page". These come as part of the core kit for you to identify the week if you want to (PL is designed to be totally flexible to be what you want it to be ... so experiment and enjoy ... I am!). On my title pages, I've decided to stamp the dates of the week - my weeks run from Sundays (which happened to be 1 Jan 2012) through to Saturdays. I've also decided to indicate the week number and will be using a Typo alpha stamp to stamp "wk" (I guess that'll be some sort of continuity through the entire year though honestly, I'm just really going with the flow as to what makes me happy at that moment ... I'm guessing that should really be the whole point right?).

This page also shows some fireworks we watched while ringing in the New Year with our friends. We also attended a Misteri Jam 12 concert - Jangan Takut Hantu (Don't be scared of ghosts) - which was held on 1 Jan in the evening at Fort Canning Park (yes, our 1 Jan was a very very busy day!). A first for me attending this kind of event and I actually had a really good time. Thank goodness it didn't rain!! I saved the ticket stub and put that in one of the 3x4 slots (note to self ... must keep more bits and bobs to put into the pockets).

The page also has a picture of Didi's cake for Mariam (overflow from the insert ... there were too many yummy photos!) and a photo of another nephew, Yusri with his girlfriend Farah. Just love this photo of the 2 of them!

The right hand page has some photos of Ismon's birthday celebrations. It was his birthday on the 7th. We also went to Arab Street on the 6th to get his birthday pressie (I got him fishing gear so we had to go shopping together otherwise I would have undoubtably bought the wrong stuff!). We stopped in at Fika - a halal Swedish restaurant/cafe - and had some of their yummy cakes!

The last photo is of our Silat kids (Adam's silat team). We had a performance on the 8th for one of our Silat team member's sisters' weddings (sorry about the mouth-full ... both her elder sisters got married on the same day and we were invited to perform). So on the 7th we spent the afternoon and evening rehersing for the performance.

Each week, I'll also be doing a week at a glance slot basically to summerize what's happened during the week. I read it being recommended by another Project Lifer on her blog ... will update here if I can find where I saw that.

Then the insert ... both sides of the insert are basically photos of Didi, Mariam and their various gifts to one another. The insert is a Design G from the Project Life selection. It's a 10x12 size and the photo configuration allows for vertical 4x6 photos too.

Some of the products that I've used in the 4 pages include my Shiny Date Stamper, Versafine Onyx Black ink cube, Typo alpha stamps, AC Thickers (Lullaby), 7 Gypsies label stickers (Romantique), 7 Gypsies Fill in the Blank stickers, Uniball Signo pens (white & gold), AC Precision pens and Sharpie markers. I love the white star and heart clips that I've put on Didi and Mariam's photos but for the life of me, I can't remember where they're from.

That's about it for today. Will hopefully get to do catch up again tomorrow. Till text time ... Peace!





Catch up ... Project Life 2012 Title Page

Back today with a catch-up post on my Project Life 2012 so far. Today I thought I'd share how I did my title page.

I wanted something simple to kick the whole thing off so I picked some favourite photos taken of us during last year's Hari Raya celebrations.

Top left is a Hambly overlay (Camera collection in pink) with some K&Company Eco Modern Words & Icons Die-Cut cardstock. I love the "It's All About Family" tag ... :D

Top right is one of the 4x6 cards that comes in the Project Life Cobalt edition core kit. I stamped the words "52 weeks of our lives" using my Typo Alpha/Number stamp set and Versa Color cube in white. Didn't quite turn out the way I had hoped ... oh well ... life isn't perfect but I'm still happy ... :D

Center left to right is our photos ... I cut up the journalling card boxes from the core kit and used them to mat the photos. Seemed like such a waste of the boxes otherwise and I love the front of them with the words Love, Live, Document and Laugh. There are 4 so will slot those in where appropriate during the year.

The last slot in the center is also a card from the core kit - I wrote our names down and put a brad with a flower through it. Can't remember where the brad comes from but I thought it was cute!

For the bottom left corner I cut a 4x6 piece from a Flair Design Family paper that I had. Emphasised the word "Family" that's in orange by outlining it with a black American Crafts Precision Pen (most of the journalling will be done with these pens - Christmas pressie from my lil sis).

The bottom right corner is a family photo of the 3 of us. I used a Uniball Signo pen in white to just do a bit of outlining.

And that's about it for the title page. Back again another day to do more catching up ... Peace!

My First Post ... Why??

I've been wanting to do this for an extremely long time ... I'm an excellent procrastinator though so it's taken me forever to get my "finger out". This is totally new to me so I guess anyone who's kind enough to read this has to be a tad bit patient with me ... I'm guessing I'll get the hang of things as I move along.

Why the blog? Well I've always wanted a way to share photos, thoughts and interests in some way and this seems like a good way to do that.

PLUSSSS ... this year I embarked on Project Life ... For those not in the know, it's a memory keeping system developed by Becky Higgins that is very addictive and so much fun! I've decided to do it a week at a go and have got myself the Cobalt kit ...




In part, this blog has evolved from reading all the other Project Lifers' blogs and being inspired by their ideas and tips. So ... I shall try and play catch-up to show everyone the last 5 weeks of my PL effort as I go along.


Here's how I'm storing my Project Life


Anyone interested in finding out more about Project Life, please visit Becky Higgins' website at http://beckyhiggins.com/ . There's a link on the site that will tell you where you can get a set (plus all the bits and bobs) for yourself anywhere in the world.

Okay so that's about it from me for my first post ... I haven't a clue how often I will be posting ... I imagine at least once a week if not more ... depends what's interesting enough to share I'm guessing.

Have a fantastic week ahead and much Peace!