CUTE enough to Eat

This is the title for my latest layout using Mikki Livanos’ template at Hooked on Template Challenge Week 8 in Scrapbook-Elements.

Cute enough to Eat:

Hui Xian has always love big, cute, cuddly toys, the bigger the better. She never fails to stop us at the mall begging us with her puppy dog frowns to please buy her another one. The layout above showed us walking by this all pink accessories shop and she went inside immediately without telling anyone. Luckily I was behind her because the rest of the troops were already way ahead of us. Found her cuddling a very cute gingerbread man and of course the begging started which included puppy dog frowns and battling of eye lashes! o_0 When every effort failed to get me to buy her that or at least talk to her dad (chances are high da-da will buy it for her!) she tried to eat the toy. Said, ‘It’s CUTE enough to eat!’ hence the title. And nope… she begged her dad later on but he didn’t approved. 🙂

Hui Xian has just too many toys in her collection. The photo on the left is just a small portion of them. There are a 12 foot long snake and a huge sized tiger her dad bought her which are still in Germany. These two are kept in a storage facilities which include other toys as well. We only consented to the collection she has currently because we can packed into 2 giant boxes when we move. Each toy has a story to tell, some as old as she is and they have been picked up from different parts of the world. For instance the Garfield is from Seoul, S. Korea, Mickey Mouse was one of her first toy she carried along when she was a toddler, Sylvester came from Australia, there’s this pink bunny at the top left which was given to her by a Qatari boy who liked her a lot and was following her everywhere like a puppy, purple birdie from a friend in San Francisco, and there is Winnie the Pooh in pyjama. This friend actually sewed Hui Xian’s name on it. There is a Papa Bear and Mama Bear ~ 2 huge bears and heavy too. Papa bear sleeps in her bed at night including Crocky the green crocodile and a lot more. Curl, our cat included! LOL

There are many more stories to tell and these toys carry a lot of precious memory for our girl. Every now and then a small parcel arrive with another cute toy for her and soon the 2 boxes for storage won’t be enough anymore because surely Hui Xian won’t let anyone of them go. The cute Gingerbread man is adorable. I might just get that for her Christmas… 😉

Layout Credits:
– I used Mikki Livanos template. You can download it from Hooked On Templates Week 8. When you send in your layout, you will received another fabulous template from her. Hurry if you haven’t participate because this challenge ends on Sunday.
– This layout is also for September Featured Challenge using Everyday Ghost. Send in your layout using this font and get a awesome peek-a-book notepaper cutout fonts from Rina Kroes. This challenge ends September 30th.
– I used my Sweetest Gal Page Set and
– title is from Cardboard Alphas Set.

Thanks for reading. 🙂
Alice

September Template Challenge

Greetings Ladies…
This month Template Challenge at Scrapbook-Elements is sponsored by me. Come and participate with us and receive a gift from me when you post your layout in our gallery.

Template can be downloaded in PSD or PNG file:

Gift Preview:
This set ‘Danesa’ is dedicated to my online friend I met when I started designing for Scrapbook-Elements. She has been my dedicated customer and it was always a pleasure to see her work in the gallery using my designs. This friendly and cheerful woman never fails to comment on my work and leave loves on others. It was a great honor when she accepted my invitation to be on my creative team and I have been blessed to have her coming up with many layouts using my work.

Danesa’s gallery at Scrapbook-Elements is here. Her enthusiasm and love for digital scrapbooking recently got her an invitation to become one of the Creative Team members for Scrapbook-Elements. If you are a member in this site, I am sure you already know the great presence this woman has in the gallery section and lives of many scrappers there.

Dear Danesa…. this is for you and for everything that you have done for me and others. May you always be as friendly, cheerful and as crazy as you are today! I still have the crazy picture in my mind of you trying to pose for me! Good wishes to you as always. 🙂

Ladies, if you wish to participate in this challenge, please visit Scrapbook-Elements forum for September Template Challenge and download your template there. The challenge started Sept 01 and will continue till end of the month. Below is a slide show of some of the layouts that have been posted:

Come join us!
Alice

Labor Day Sales

Store Wide Labor Day Sales at Scrapbook-Elements.com with 20% off all items from my designs. Sales starts Saturday September 01 – Tuesday, September 04 (US EST). Visit my store today!

Have a grand weekend.
Alice

Baby Brag Book

Okay…. so it is 13 years later that I started to make a baby brag book album for Hui Xian. 😉 I have just a few precious collection as most of them were lost in our years of travels =( and some in corrupted hard discs. We were given an estimated of US$1000-1500 to repair each hard disc and we have 2! I’ll have to work doubly hard to sell my designs in order to do that! 😛

I’ve been busy working on several albums; a baby brag book for Hui Xian, a travel album and a wedding. Below are 3 layouts of Hui Xian. These are in 6″x4″, easy to print with your home printer but I am sending them over to Shutterfly to get a hard cover album done.

This was Hui Xian barely a month old. She has a full head of hair and slept through the night. Taking care of her was a breeze but of course we had our traditional confinement lady who took care of her bathing and cleaning up during the day. Hui Xian was a good baby. Our Hong Kong neighbors didn’t realized we had a baby in the house until they saw her months later.

Journaling reads,
“You were barely a year old when we visited my grandmother. The flight from Singapore with Pelangi Air in a small Fokker 28 was an unnerving experience for me but you took it like a pro. Everyone was so happy to see you but you were more interested to pull the curtain down. You were such a cutie then and even your dress matched my aunt’s bedroom.”

This layout brought back a lot of memories of her playing ‘masak-masak’ with her teapot set. She would play for hours and love serving us. However it had to be either apple or orange juice and sometimes for da-da, cold coffee. She wouldn’t want just plain water! I miss this toddler stage but then again I wouldn’t want to be stuck changing diapers ever! That is another story to be told…..

Layouts from Sweetest Gal Brag Book at Scrapbook-Elements.com.
Thanks for reading.

ABC Alphas Set & Quick Pages

Greetings ladies,
Introducing 2 news sets added to the store since Sunday.

ABC Alphas Set:

and

In My Garden-Blue Series 12″x12″ Quick Page Set B:

Below are sample layouts using the newest kits:
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For more layouts using In My Garden- Blue Series, please visit my gallery here.
Thanks for looking. 🙂

Sweetest Gal Collection

Greetings Ladies,
Introducing my latest Sweetest Gal Collection for your girly pages or albums.

Below are direct links to each product with information and prices:
Sweetest Gal Page Set
Sweetest Gal Elements Pack
Sweetest Gal Paper Pack

Sweetest Gal 12″x12″ Quick Page Set
Sweetest Gal Album Set
Sweetest Gal Brag Book

My Cardboard Alphas Set is perfect to use with this collection.

Sample Layouts:
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For more layouts using this collection, please visit Sweetest Gal Gallery.

Thanks for reading.
Alice 🙂

Around the World in 80 Days

Simone, Hui Xian’s friend invited us to her school play titled ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ in Sri Pinang Auditorium in Penang last Wednesday. Hui Xian has been excited to see her friends (Simone, the Hensons, Scott, Ross, Aaron, Ben, Yosa, etc… Hui Xian is trying to give me the list of names she knows!) in the school play because she had heard so much about it. What choice has we, as parents got? Saving us from further ear ache, I joined her that evening and met the Hensons (thanks Ida for the parcel) and Nani with her beautiful kids.

I think the kids were better behaved then Hui Xian! She was so excited, she pointed to me everyone she knew on stage! Grrr…. I had to tell her to shush when Jenny sang the opening song, ‘The Prayer’. She was GOOD. Aside from some hiccups getting the show up and running, I think Hui Xian’s friends were very talented. The Henson’s played lead roles and Simone seemed to glide into the stage and filled it with her beautiful presence. My brat sitting next to me were ooh-ooohh-aaahhh at how pretty Simone and Jenny were. LOL I swear I heard her telling me that Simone was doing a kissing scene with Jon (the lead actor)! Duh… either we had a wire crossed somewhere or it was Hui Xian’s way to make me join her, I don’t know … BUT there wasn’t any such act. Certainly not in any Malaysian school play! Another actor to contend with was Scott. His exaggerated accent and comical acting had the audiences laughing till the end. Kudos to all these talented actors and thanks for the invite.

Not forgetting the two girls who were watching the play from the front pew.

Layout:
I used Sweetest Gal 12″x12″ Quick Page Set and the title from my Cardboard Alphas Set.

I hope to create more layouts with photos I took of the play soon.
Thanks for reading. 🙂

Back to School Sales!

Now that school is beginning, it’s time for more scrapping! Scrapbook-Elements.com is having a 25% off almost all items in store.

Come check out my STORE and enjoy the 25% off items on sales there.
Sales starts Saturday, August 18th through Wednesday, August 22nd USA Central Time.
See you there!

Alice 🙂

Sweetest Gal Page Set & Cardboard Alphas

Greetings Ladies….. I’m so behind on my new products updates because we had guests for the past 3 weeks and had been bringing them all over Malaysia and neighboring countries. Went to a school play of Hui Xian’s friends, had more meetings with friends and only manage to sit down and trying to get everything in gear today.

The products below have been added to Scrapbook-Elements store last Sunday.
Sweetest Gal Page Set:

A separate set for Sweetest Gal Paper Set can be found here.

Cardboard Alphas Set:

Here are some layouts done using these two kits above:
Sweetheart by Alice Koh:

Makeup Fun by Kirstiegai:

For more layouts using my latest Sweetest Gal Page Set, please visit my Gallery.
Thanks for looking.

Fashion No-No!

Just because the US dollar is bigger than the Malaysian Ringgit, doesn’t mean that you are going to buy everything you feast your eyes on! 🙂 This is true in the case of Lian who came to visit us from San Francisco! The guys ran away when they spotted you eyeing on the clothes stalls. So we got stuck with you but it didn’t mean that we are going to let you buy just about everything! 0_o

The prices of clothes are so cheap. You only pay less than USD1.50 for a nice pair of shorts, USD3.00 for a spaghetti strap T… the piles get higher but the sooner we saw you picked on a gaudy piece, Hui Xian will immediately pull it away! LOL Then we started picking the ‘right’ style for you and it was hilarious because we were so loud and persuasive!

Hui Xian was so worried you were going to buy her clothes after she saw your choices! She loudly said, “…and you said you are going to buy me clothes!” with the funny look of horror on her face. At the end, I picked the clothes for Hui Xian and even managed to convince you to buy two dresses which you normally wouldn’t wear.

It was a really fun day. We took all our shopping bags to the house and had a little fashion show. More shopping to come when we head to Kuala Lumpur this Sunday.

Layout credits:
I used Surviving Teenagehood Page Set and So Chic Alphas Set.

Thanks for reading. Have a good weekend. 🙂