Chef Xpress 2

Hello, I'm back!

Been so busy with work (as usual!) and been thru a lot of emotional ride this past few days. And what a better way to unwind is to play and blog. 

Another academic year will be over in less than 2 weeks and everyone in the faculty room is rushing their last requirements, checking their exams and ELMs, and doing their grades. Graduation will be in 3 weeks and we are all moving for it. Wheew!

This second semester, STI held its Tagisan ng Talino for the students to showcase their skills and talents in their respective program interests. Lorenzo and his friends joined again this challenge for the second time. Chef Xpress is a cooking challenge where the ingredients are given on the spot and the challengers make an appetizer, main course and a dessert menu out of it. Here is their take for this year....

Chef Xpress 2... Lorenzo, Cynold and Kurt won the 1st Runner-Up for the year. The magic ingredients were porkchops and squash, and they created a salad appetizer, braised porkchop and a pannacotta dessert from it. I used here MM pps, Bazzil white cardstock, DMC threads, pps and cardstocks scraps, a Project Life card, assorted stickers, buttons, green baker's twine, and Rangers' distress inks. Colors make memory keeping more lively and worth remembering.

I am currently updating my 2024 Project Life which I'm 3 months delayed. I am STILL polishing my 2023 Project Life which needs a lot of embellishing. Backlogs can still be exciting as ever... but for now, got to do some self care again.

Happy SCRAPPING everyone and I hope you enjoy every minute of that cutting and pasting!

TFL.

Chuy turned 20!

I miss blogging! and scrapping!

Every year, I anticipate 2 major long vacations from school-- its the Holy Week and the Christmas Season. Last month was the Holy Week vacation for us Catholics. Unfortunately, I was not able to scrap much, I just updated my journals in my Project Life 2023. I have both traditional and digital scrapping assignments to be doing, I guess Mr. Mojo is not yet around!

Oh well, I have to look for that mood, this is my all time stress buster! So, I finally did Lorenzo's 20th Birthday celebration photo. My big idea again is to use scraps-- mix match paper colors, brands and patterns, use old embellishments and still paper sew, to give that Issa's signature touch. This is a simple layout, but a playful one.

Happy 20th Birthday Chuwee! My youngest Boy turned 20! I can't believe he is 20 and I am getting old. We celebrated it at Casa Rebecca's Resort in Los Banos, together with my cousin Chelle's Birthday too.

Wait, I am totally out of the brands that I used. I used DCWV metallic cardstock (this is silver, I do not know what happened in the picture?!), checkered and dotted pps, assorted embellishments like stickers, wooden buttons, staple wires, fibers, pps scraps, metals, cork arrows, and DMC threads.

I had FUN doing this page... this is soooo ME! 

Thanks for looking...'til the next page!