a student's prayer

the Lord is my Shepherd, i shall not flunk!

He keepeth me from lying down when i should be studying.

He leadeth me beside the water cooler for a study break.

He restoreth my faith in study guides,

He leads me to better study habits for my grade sake.

Yea, though i walk through the valley of borderline grades,

i will not have a nervous breakdown, for Thou art with me.

my prayers and my friends, they comfort me.

Thou givest me an answer in moments of blankness,

Thou anointest my head with understanding.

my test paper runneth over with questions i recognise.

surely passing grades with flying colours shall follow me all the days of my examinations

and i shall not have to dwell in this school forever. Amen!

***aunty v sent this is us some years back. its an adaptation of the Psalm 23. i quite like it. (: stressing out cos my media law and ethics exam is tonight, not fully prepared and i think i've got a slight fever/headache. praying that i would just get through this week. i want to do well, but at the same time i'm sooooooo looking forward to my month of holidays! going back to skps to relief teach. looking forward to seeing the kids - especially those who were in my form class last year. (: but RIGHT now, i need to just buckle down and study. so Lord, i pray You'll grant me the discipline and determination Lord. Amen!

*sheryl

orange*purple sunsets

captured these beautiful sunsets just outside my house. it was amazing. around 7.30pm. it stayed there for a mere few minutes and then disappeared. reminds me of God's handiwork - magnificent. (:

somehow, it seems that as i grow older, and further attached from the school system, i start to cherish what i had before. so when my mom gave me her set of housekeys (mine got stolen, long story), and i found this keychain they gave us when we graduated, thought it was apt.

found my old set of lit flashcards. got an exam on wednesday. really need to just sit down and study. but as you can see from this post, i'm finding it quite hard to do so. *bah.

ohhh!! and my parents FINALLY trust me with the car. i drove alone last night. yesssss! and i must say, thank God, but my parking is improving! manage to park like i could when i was learning with the poles? now even without the poles, i'm starting to be able to gauge. (:

okay. crunch time.

 *sheryl

scrap stuff

mom bought a new dymo!! haha. its the one that prints not embosses. its not too bad, i love the croc border (speaking of crocs, i finally got my crocs! (: coral orange.) and the other two smaller non-dymo tape label makers, (the pink is around the block), i didn't like the middle. so i used epoxy stickers to spruce it up. (:

bought another storage bin! (: so my alphas, cutterpede, scraps (colour co-ordinated in zip-lock baggies) and other scrap papers. neater. instead of hanging the bits and dumping it in bags.

and my mom found this whole lot of gorgeous blue fabric from australia. it looks really vintage and sweet. so i'm thinking of making a whole bunch of notebook covers. i'm hoping to do MAAD, so maybe i'll launch it at MAAD (:

okay, need to study and finish up one last crappy assignment. but friday, come friday, i'll be FREE! freeeeeeeee i tell you, free! :D

*sheryl

i want this...

very badly. haha. keep looking at it. and its just calling my name. there's this orangey-red shade that i want. its not on the website tho, no idea why. its just gorgeous! (:

*sheryl

yearbook pictures

there's a rush of adrenalin and my mind's in a whirl. i just took myself down a memory lane stretching sixteen years! i used to dread yearbook pictures. not quite the drama seen in sitcoms, but bad enough. but now, looking back, it may not be picture perfect, but it really isn't thaaat bad. in fact, its really quite interesting seeing how i've grown. i was quite upset to find that i seemed to have misplaced my primary 1 and primary 4 pictures, and thus decided to resort to facebook. friends will know that i'm totally not the facebook-friendster-msn type of person. my accounts on all 3 probably lie dormant, if not for the resurrection today. so out of desperation, i sought to see if anyone who was in my primary school classes would be so kind as to pass me a scanned copy of our class photo. then after i posted it on facebook, i suddenly realised that i do have a p1 photo, but its really small. like 4R or something. but that would do. so the only year missing now is p4. i reaaaaaaally hope i can find it. and there before digital photos, all those developed photographs - i forgot all about them! they make very good scrap sources! cant wait for the last bit of school to be over. then i'm going to try to seriously do some scrapping. like a mini album with yearbook pictures.cant wait!

*sheryl

sketchbooks and some

the mascots are up for sale at squiggletown! (: 4 left!

sketchbooks that i currently have/am using/going to use/forgot about...

 sketchbooks and journals! haha. the purple swirly paperchase is my daily organiser. then there's the birdie paperchase which is my daily journal - noting down what has happened that day, so when and if i scrapbook pictures from that day i'll know the context. recipe book, exercise book...more sketchbooks. hmm...

ohh. found this on jessica's website?!! its the silliest thing ever. press THIS if you are bored. 

okay, wanna watch batman with andrew!!! laters! (:

*sheryl

hodgepodge of photos!!! :D

yf - cg day at caleb's place. plus we celebrated the birthdays of the july babies! namely lianne and benji. i know this is way waaaaay overdue, but here's the link to the shutterfly album. i've yet to get the rest of the pictures from caleb.fyi, i only realised how intense ryan's love for chocolate cake was that day. he practically ate half the cake on his own!!! *envious of his superb metabolic rate.*

some custom bookmarks (set of 20) and some gorgeous paperchase goodies! (: went on a splurge the other day and got two tin pencil cases. went home and decided i needed to take a picture of the collection of the pencil tins i've had so far. my fav is the first from the left. (:

was inspired by heidi swapp's calendar scrapbook, so i tried one for july. and did up my pr journal file. pictures below!

and andrew and i finally took snapshots of our watches and phones! we hadn't got the same phone since secondary 4. and that was not even planned. and soon after i got it he happened to change it. so it was brief. but this time we got it around the same time. 

okay, a walk down memory lane. met up with mich last thursday for lunch. so as i was thinking of how to post the pictures we took together, i saw these! the neoprints that we took last time and other photos we took in secondary school. so us then...
us now!!! (:

and i've got a new limited edition beijing olympic mascot handphone charms coming up at squiggletown. check there for more details. okay, off to bead now. (:

*sheryl

blanket stich tutorial

okay, i'm supposed to be writing my essay so i'll make this quick! got this blanket stich tutorial from here. really clear instructions! (:
*sheryl