My Angel...

My lil boy is already 2 years old. Can't believe how fast time has flown by. It feels that only yesterday I heard him say his first word (which is 'mamam' by the way - not 'ma' or 'pa' or seangkatan dengannya :) , and today he can construct 4-5 word sentences quite easily. Yesterday he said 'tak nak ikut ayah' with ease, no stumble, no need to think of the next words to say. And a few days ago, when he saw the Bank Negara words written in Jawi at the back of an RM1 note, he quickly said 'azan', associating the Jawi writing with the Arabic words accompanying the 'azan' on TV. I'm very proud of his intelligence and how alert he is to the world around him. He'll be 3 next year, and soon he'll be in school. He'll go to college, get a job, find a beautiful wife, live a very successful life, and get on with his life. But no matter how far he'll go, he'll always be my angel... my cute & sweet lil angel...

"You lose them after a certain age and they never come back. They start out as a part of you, indistinguishable from yourself for years and years, and they end up as people that you hardly recognize." ~ George Bailey in Starting Over by Tony Parson

Scrapbook community in Malaysia

Some cool scrapbook community (suppliers, online stores, scrapbook enthusiasts, etc.) in Malaysia:

• Scrap n Crop - bought scrapbooking papers from this online store once. Service is very good :)
  
• Smidapaper - supplies, ideas, tips, inspiration, everything :) Based in Penang.
• Papier Love - physical store in the Curve, Mutiara Damansara
• Scrappingville - the first scrapbooking store I visited, located in Bangsar Shopping Complex
• Scrapping Glitz - personally love its cute website
• Craft Haven - I always make sure that I visit this store whenever I go to One Utama. Not much info on the website though. Physical store is much better.
• ShabbyPrincess - not a Malaysian website but is easily accessible though :) I downloaded most of the digital scrapbooking kits that I used to design my personal scrapbook pages from this website. Really cool collection!
  

Gotta go now. Will keep updating this list.

Baby Bop Hop

I've been quite busy lately. Anyway I'm hoping to start an online directory which will list all scrapbook suppliers in Malaysia (online or offline). Also any personal scrapbookers who would like to submit their blogs or websites to be listed in the directory. Will start soon... InsyaAllah.

In the meantime, this is the latest scrapbook design of my dear boy, in a very cute Baby Gap overall bought online from HaiBiBi. You can visit http://haibibi.blogspot.com for more selections of branded clothes for babies and toddlers :)

It's been a while...

It's been quite some time since I last updated this blog. In fact, quite a long time ago! Been busy with work, my son, my newly set-up online biz and life, in general. I'll try to update this blog as often as possible from now on.

Anyway, here are some of the scrapbook pages that I've designed so far...




A BIG thank to ShabbyPrincess for the great selection of scrapbook papers, embellishments, alphabets, etc. All can be downloaded FOC.

Having trouble coming up with ideas to start your own scrapbook?

I was one them too, until i started with my first page. Then everything came quite naturally after that. The point to remember is... every single thing that is happening in your life can be used as an idea to design your scrapbook pages. Especially if what you're going through is a new experience for you, e.g. your first pregnancy, your first child, etc. As for me, a simple move of my unborn child in my tummy is like a wonderful new experience to me. For example, when I was reading the last book of Harry Potter series, I used my tummy to hold it. Then my baby started kicking real hard until I removed the book. Then I put it back there, to tease him, and he started kicking, punching and pushing. I found it really funny, as if he was jealous that I was so focused on my reading and didn't pay attention to him. An idea struck me to create a page to record that incidence and here it is.

Photoshop & Scrapbook Max

Here is a sample scrapbook page that I've designed using a combination of Photoshop & Scrapbook Max. The page title, text, pictures of outfits were designed, cropped, laid out in Photoshop. Then each bit was imported as a picture into Scrapbook Max to be decorated with butterfly embellishments provided by the software.

Craft Haven

For those scrapbook enthusiasts out there, I've found another store that supplies scrapbook albums, kits, papers, tools, embellishments, stickers, and other items. The store is called Craft Haven and is located in One Utama. Most of the items are imported from US so you can expect that the price of each item is a bit high. But personally, I could spend more than an hour there looking at the items and imagining how I would design my next scrapbook page. It's definitely worth a visit.