albums and organising

the weather here in singapore has been sweltering. its been really really warm, and i cant seem to stay in my room to create without breaking into perspiration. i think i prefer creating on rainy days. anyhow, weather talk aside, last saturday i went for a mini album class with netta and janice. we made this:

the main reason why i wanted to go for the class was because i wanted to try using a varied range of materials to distress. so far, my scrapbooking know-how has been mostly self-taught - reading books and magazines, reading blogs and websites. but i guess the good thing about going for classes is that i ensure i finish an album in a stipulated time. plus, i learn new techniques and perspectives - and i suppose learning it the proper way.

so then it kinda inspired a album swap. decided to try doing the swap with netta. it would be mostly a 6 x 6 album. thats the raw pages and cover there. but so far, i've been drawing a blank. i'm not sure how to go about designing the album and i'm not even sure what the album is going to be used for. i'm thinking something along the lines of "growth" and "self-actualisation". maybe using maslow's hierarchy of needs - physiological, safety, belonging, self-esteem, self-actualisation. i'm thinking either a documentation of the satisfaction of these needs or how i might want to pursue them or something just along that line. basically how to become a better person - in fact how does one become better? the criteria? the goals or aims or methods to go about it.

on another note, i tweaked my paper organisation again. put the scraps into smaller resealable bags, made sure the papers were where they meant to be. and...

a CLEAR STAMPS FOLDER! (:
yupp! very happy with this. i made my own pockets with resealable packets and reinforced them with eyelets. then i realised the folder i used for the stamps was just enough for the number of clear stamps i had. so i might have to find a larger folder in the future. but for now, i'm very pleased with it. i labelled the stamps as well-the brand and series. so if you're tight on budget but need a clear stamps folder, don't buy it, make it. its just as nice if not better. (:
♥sheryl

bauble hair pins

updated squiggletown. made these bauble hairpins. i guess inspiration came from thinking out of the box. normally people would use these to make magnets or embellies, but as a hairpin? another quirky creation from squiggletown. (:

more to come soon!!
♥sheryl

Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

yoghurt

breakfast today: aloe vera yoghut with tonnes of strawberries!

started to get a small blister while wearing my birks, not too used to madrid you see. i usually wear gizeh. anyhow, this called for a macro shot!

the fountain pen nib was a macro shot too. the picture above didn't have a shadow but the bottom one did. and the bottom pic was clearer. so i'm guessing its got something to do with the lighting.

and hazel droppped by mwl! so we took some pics...

and i decided to mod podge. something. what it is i will share soon hopefully. still trying to come up with a project that would require mod podege. (:

and school is starting soon. would you believe it but i miss studying a little. so preping myself by buying stationery! (:

and i got my beading groove back, so check out squiggletown!
and i'm SO late for work. laters!
♥sheryl

spams and comments

heyy, i just realised that there was a lot of spamming on site. i removed all of it. was thinking also if maybe comments could be at the post instead of the tagboard. its easier to answer because at once i'd know what the context is about? hmm. just a thought. okay, good nights!
♥xo, sheryl

and the macro challenge ensues...

(yesterday) dinch at cavana - dinch is the phrase andrew and i coined for a dinner-lunch meal. kinda like brunch? and i realise cavana reminds me of havanas. cavana was pretty decent considering the price. but its just chicken rice. not to-die-for but as a quick meal its easy on the pockets.

MACRO CHALLENGE: 19/30
decided to try a night shot. this is from a pot of bougainvilleas just outside my house.

onion rings? was preparing dinner for andrew and i. realised the onion had nice concentric patterns. this is the close-up.

this one shows the onion in its entirety.

so this was the dinner! garlic-cheddar-bacon-egg mash with mushroom pasta and ritzy chicken cutlets.

then today after class we went to coffeebean at millennia walk. liked the pattern on the coffee cup holder so another marco shot!
and then the fabric on the couch. its patterned coffebeans!
brief collage...
andrew was surfing the net with his iTouch so i busied myself with the camera. haha.


oOohh! and then outdoor shots. i saw some really really pretty orange flowers. no idea what they're called though.
and then decided i needed macro shots of those flowers...
the colours are stunning isn't it? its times like these when i see God's creation that i feel especially awed. i mean he created and pre-planned each and every one of it. beautiful ain't it?

and i got very pretty new birks!!! french garden. how apt. its so lovely and reminicient of vintage english gardens. need to create. more likely need to bead. i haven't done anything for squiggletown lately. but i have loads of stuff i want to do. its a good thing i have a notebook handy for times like these. so new works are in the planning. hopefully would be out within the week! (: okay getting late. need to sleep soon.
♥sheryl

milk bubbles

more macro pictures. milk and butterscotch-pecan-choc chip cookies. you reckon that be breakfast or supper?

sherwin painting. i painted that box you see in front of him, with the heart. he saw it and wanted to paint too. little brothers are sometimes cute that way.

finally decided to sort out my ribbons today! (:
feast your eyes on colours galore!


made this sign today for the bathroom san and i use. was looking for an excuse to use my new people icon stamps!

this is how it looks like on the door...

yupp. didn't create as much as i wanted. was pretty much lazing around and watching tv. but its alright. sometimes one just needs some time to just be bummy. i think. tomorrow shall be more productive.

♥sheryl

paint, splash, colour!

i got a day off today! not sure why but i'm embracing it! loving the time i can finally have to just create. i don't usually start the day off with a blog post, but when i saw my little tubers of paint just sitting there, i knew that it would be for today's marco challenge entry.

been trying to take pictures in perspectives. looking at things in a macro view-the big picture, before zooming in on the smaller details.




so these shoots were the ones i tried taking - i originally wanted to take marco shoots of the acrylic paint, but it didn't turn out too well. i couldn't figure from which angle it'd be best to take the shoots. then i saw the bunch of scissors i had sitting next to the paints and tried the macro on that instead...and guess what?



i looooove these colours. got lots of ideas swimming around, will try to translate them to paper or canvas or beads soon. (:
♥sheryl

marco challenge

i came across this macro challenge on flickr and decided to join in. so here's my first post-some gerberas swee ching gave us.



this picture is my entry for the macro challenge. take time to smell the flowers! (:
♥sheryl

stamps and a card

made this card today for netta. theme: oranges and pinks. very happy, bright and clean feel...i definitely need to find time to do a piece that encapsulates lots of vintagey and collage elements soon.

i finally got my foam stamps!! (: last week i was given the wrong set, and when they brought in more stock from the warehouse yesterday, i was told this was the last set of this particular font. THANK GOD. haha, i'm elated! played with them straightaway (yes, i used the foam stamps for the word "netta").

also, been making my own stamps again. (: the last time i did this was in sec 2...i think from then, my carving skills have improved. well, hopefully, or at least i think so...haha. okay, this has to be a quick post cos i need to rush off to work. laters!
♥sheryl

mwl staff crop

on friday, 11th april, we had a mini staff crop. it was actually to show us the different ways we could use the products they had and how to promote it. but it was so fun. there were products there that theoretically i knew how to use, but either never got a chance to or wasn't that intrigued by it. but it was such great fun. andrew was really sweet, he actually stayed with me throughout the crop just to be with me, even tho he isn't that interested in scrapbooking. thanks babe! (:

made this journal i titled "reel life". its meant for me to journal stuff about exercising, food and generally just being healthy. need to lose weight, as usual.

random picture of some of my acrylics...

a small painting i did just for fun. i realise that most people dread mondays because its the start of the work week again. but i'm starting to feel that mondays are great for the reason that its the start of the week. nevermind the start of the work week. the start of the week. and i love the feeling that i'm starting over and that i get to try and make this a better week than the last. so have an enjoyable week. don't forget to take time to create! (:

p/s: i haven't finished sense and sensibility yet. but i definitely would try to do so by this week!
♥sheryl