1st Challenge is UP!

Hello dear SCRAPPERS! Join me and my groupmates for the first challenge over at the Filipino Scrapbookers Challenge Blog and win exciting prizes! All you need to do is create a page using our 1st sketch and link it here. Here's a little inspiration for this sketch...

Family Time... We finally got a more descent family photo! This was taken during my brother's wedding in April. Weddings are a great time to bond and celebrate life, and we never missed a moment of happiness and making memories. I used here Dream Street pps, Scenic Route pps, MME Follow your Heart pps, corrugated board, Prima flowers, silk leaves, baker's twine, Sandylion transparent border stickers, Dusty Attic chipboard, Ranger distress inks, Maya Road glimmer mist, AC foam stickers, epoxy sticker, blings and Crate Paper chipboard sticker.

Let's all unwind with a little scrapping this weekend. Hope to see your wonderful creations soon. Thanks for looking as always!

I'm back...

... Yup, it has been more than 2 weeks! I was not away, I was always in front of my laptop but just don't have the time to blog and hop around. The kids are still sleeping, done with my handout for my lectures, and just sitting here... finally got the chance to look at my lonely blog and share some of my pages again.

Together... Just Lorenzo and Me, makes me happy! We may argue on a lot of things, but on the end of everything, we're still together no matter what! I used here Basic Grey pps, Crate pps,  Brilliance ink, native twine and metal charm.

Mommyla and Me... The photo was take during our last trip to Baguio City. My cam finally got the chance of a good and memorable shot. I used here cardstock, assorted Crate pps, Brilliance ink, AAS stickers, Jillibean journaling sprout and Maya Road glimmer mist.

Life is quite different this past two weeks. Eversince school has started, things are kinda hectic and stressful. Maybe I'm still adjusting to this new phase of life and that I miss my good old scrapping days! I have been coping up with my lectures in teaching and at the same time, been so busy making reports on the grad. school, plus the Research subject is giving me pounding headache. I would just like to believe that this will pass and I will pass my subjects, hahaha! I thought I learned the art of managing time? Now, I sleep most of my free time. But I promise myself to get back to my scrapping schedule the soonest,  because I have a deadline for a dear client by August. I wanna blame my tired body and mind for messing up my daily routine, hahaha! 

School is moving up quite fast, June is almost over and 1st long test is up for little Lorenzo. Our little Pia is slowly loving her pre-school time. While Kuya Luigi is getting used to his new schedule at night. I wish there will be more time to hang out and just relax AGAIN!

Its Saturday again tomorrow and its a school day for me! Please watch out for the first challenge at Filipino Scrapbookers Challenge Blog, you can find it here. Happy a great weekend everyone!

TFL!

I'm PROUD!

                     

... to be one of the first batch of designers of the Filipino Scrapbookers Challenge Blog! We'll be giving sketches and different versions of them twice a month, and just be ready for some awesome scrappiness! I wish to thank Kath for this wonderful opportunity to be designing once again and to my co-designers, I am so proud to be scrapping with you guys.

Scrapbooking will always be my stress buster and I just can't imagine myself without it. Tomorrow, I will be officially back to work. It excites me because I have 2 new subjects to teach and I have 9 units regular load. This coming week also marks the start of my 14 Saturdays, well this makes me nervous! Lorenzo was back to school since last week and Luigi will be enrolling tomorrow. So this means Mommy, teacher and student mode will be on a ramble! And scrapping will always be to the rescue.

That's it for now, please do watch out for more happenings at the FSBC blog. Thanks for looking as always!

Project Life: 1st Four Months of 2012

I am joining the Project Life mania too! I got my Cobalt kit in March and had the chance to play with it this summer. I am bit confuse on what photos to use and still adjusting on the working area of each pockets. Its something new and exciting to try on...

    

Summer just ended and school is back this week. This week is my last week before life finally goes back to reality! So just making the most out of my vacay, I literally spent my last 2 weeks scrapbooking, catching up with service, doing designer's assignments and simply editing tons of photos. I will be occupied by next week with new lectures on 3 courses and 3 subjects on MBA. Crossing my fingers for the countdown!

Lorenzo is finally back to school! Brought him to his classroom yesterday and waited for him for 2 1/2 hours in the canteen. Glad I survived the idle time with my hands doing nothing at all. Luigi is enjoying his 2 weeks off, he's taking things easy and forgetting the enrollment. Weather here is getting cooler but rainy. During the summer, I don't want to leave the house because of the extreme hot touch of the sun, now I'm afraid to get my toes and shoes all wet. Oh well, what can ever be so right!

I have a new scrapping assignment for the coming six months and I am sooo excited about it! Will be popping the news by the weekend... TFL!

Filipino Scrapbookers Challenge Blog - Design Team Call

Today, I decided to clear up my backlog and finish all my pending pages. Well, I'm happy for the 80% accomplishment for the day and this includes these two pages for the Filipino Scrapbookers DT Call. Inspired by this sketch, I made my pages with a little tilting. Here goes...

Fun... Here's one of the photos taken by my co-teacher Kat Pineda and they are my jolly co-teachers at STI. There are some moments that we forget that we are teachers and just be FUNNY-HAPPY people who cannot live without bursting to laughter and fun. I used here DCWV pps, cardstocks, Ranger distressing ink, Brillance black ink, paper flowers, buttons and native twine.

Together... Spending some gala moments with my two boys at Camp John Hay, Baguio City just before summer started this year. I used here DCWV pps, MME pps, Webster's Pages pps, cardstocks, Prima flowers and silk leaves.

Weather is so terrible even thou there are some showers within the day. Its officially rainy season here in our country but it is still warm and humid. Now leaving me more time in front of the net and facebook, and scrapbooking as usual! Lorenzo got only a week before his school starts, while Luigi is on vacation for the coming two weeks because he just finished summer school today. I don't want to say that I'm bored, but I don't want to rush each day as June comes nearer and nearer. Now I'm asking myself if I missed anything during the summer, YEAH the beach! We forgot to go to the beach!

Now I'm crossing my fingers for the DT call, please wish me luck! Thanks for looking as always!

Taking another STEP...

Finally took a deep breath and made a step forward... as entered Letran Campus last Monday, 21st of May. I don't know what will happen that day and I wasn't even sure of what I was doing. But I have a positive mind that this next step of life will be for a good cause and self fulfillment. I took the admission exam for graduate school for 4 hours and had an evaluation interview with the Dean. I had my share of ups and downs during the evaluation but the day ended with... "Congratulations, welcome to Letran Graduate School!"

At my age now, I hope its not yet too late to try. People say that life is a continuing study and that we should never stop learning each day. Crossing my fingers for another chapter of my life to unfold and I'm just happy to back HOME after 23 years.

Arriba and TFL!

Luigi's Pages are Next!

Posting some new pages of Kuya Luigi...

Macchiato... a taste of coffee after a hearty dinner at Terriyako Boy in Tagaytay. This just shows how his man loves to eat and eat! I used here some cardstocks, MME pps, Websters Pages pps, Jillibeans Soup pps, buttons, DMC thread, Brillance inks, silk leaves, Maya Road pin, and baker's twine.

Sumosam... We found this resto at Solenad, Nuvali in Sta. Rosa, Laguna and they have great food in big sizes, and Luigi just loves it! I used here MM pps, Dream Street pps, cardstock, wooden shopsticks, DMC thread, Memory Mist glimmer mist and Brillance inks.

High School Graduation... This layout was one year in the making and was stocked on my backlog envelope for quite some time. Included in this page were the graduation program and a letter from Luigi. I used here The Girls Paperie pps, Crate Paper, Jillibeans Soup Journaling Sprouts, October Afternoon and Basic Grey letter stickers, buttons, and native twine.  


Finally had the time to post some new pages after our school graduation activities. I'm back to scrap service and been hitting my table since last week. School is about to open in a few weeks and I'm afraid I will not have much time to play. I'm still waiting for my final teaching load and my application for grad school is still on progress. I'm anticipating this coming school year with a lot of surprises, adjustments and READING! and I want to face it with a positive perspective. Hopefully, scrapbooking will again balance my coming hectic life.

I think my summer escapades wraps up this soon. I had a happy summer get-away with family bonding during my brother's wedding, niece's swimming party, hopping on summer places and a taste of Bangkok, Thailand. The kids had their share of memories too and now it's time to slow down and bring them back to school mode again. There are still lots of things to do before school starts... get Chuy's textbooks, buy school supplies, cover his books and check up his old school uniform. Chuy is on his 2nd grade and Kuya Luigi just shifted to another course, Hotel and Restaurant Management from BS Tourism.

Slowing down for now and enjoying the rest of the summer. Going back to my table now, TFL!