my parents are more cool than i give them credit for

last night at approx 1.50am, the whole family went to macs for supper. haha. it was weird, we were all awake doing work, and i had a craving for cappuccino and cheesecake, so i asked if they wanted to go to macs for supper. i fully expected a "no", but they were game! and yesterday, sherwin and i made luggage tags for our upcoming holiday. the last time i just used a marker on name cards. this time, i upped it and printed on grid paper before adhering to the name cards and laminating them. i also found some pre-made luggage tags, the red one is part of an Esprit travel set (passport holder + luggage tag). so you know me, i had to alter it, even if just a little. and i used a slot punch so the luggage tags would look more professional, compared to using a regular one-hole punch. pretty, no? anyhow, gotta get back to studying, impending professional communication test at 2pm...

ttfn!

*sheryl

black friday and thanksgiving

here in Singapore we don't really celebrate thanksgiving or black friday. i know that thanksgiving is something to do with early English settlers and all. but i forgot what black friday was about. i vaguely remember it in history. anyhow, i did a quick search and found this from here:

1. A day of stock market catastrophe. Originally, Sept 24, 1869 was deemed Black Friday. The crash was sparked by gold speculators, including Jay Gould and James Fist, who attempted to corner the gold market. The attempt failed and the gold market collapsed, causing the stock market to plummet. 

2. The day after Thanksgiving in the United States. Retailers generally see an upward spike in sales and consider this to be the start of the holiday shopping season. It's common for retailers to offer special promotions and to open early to draw in customers.

i need to dunk myself in a vat of emollient

(toadstool from chasingfireflies)

i've been a mad-hatter the past few days.

i feel like my life has been an oxymoron the past few days:-

accomplished-truckloads of work undone; messy-neat; on target-lost.

its all quite ironic really. 

anyhow, i'm telling myself to hang in there. i'm looking forward to my whole day with andrew on friday, test on saturday (its weird i know, to be looking forward to a test. its not because i'm super prepared, but because its the last test of my sem!), lysa's birthday on sunday, last min-prep on monday, conference on tuesday, korea on tuesday. (:

rewind back to reality, vetting the camper for the youth camp and conference prep.

i need to dunk myself in a vat of emollient (did i mention that?)

lego fashion show

this is so cool!
imagine the amount of work!


JCDC Versus LEGO from Four H on Vimeo.

via craftzine.

conversation in Elvish

sheryl: hi my name is Melda (Mehl-dah)

andrew: and mine is Suiadan (Soo-ee-ah-dahn)

(so apparently my name means beloved and andrew's means manly - in Elvish of course. haha)

for the love of ancient history...

here's an interesting article i found from here...

magazines i've been reading...

scrapbooking mags and shape are like my staple. haha. its what i look forward to the beginning of each month. anyhow, my dad just got me this - teen virtue. its kinda funny, cos its for teens. so for awhile i thought it was for sandra. anyhow, will pass it to her when i'm done reading. its not too bad, but i think its really more appropriate for san, i just haven't really thought of myself as a teen for awhile now. its a book thats published like a magazine.

but what i especially like about it is the graphics! i love the fact that the typeface looks like doodles. (:

*sheryl

its starting to smell like Christmas

i love Christmas, strings of lights, tinkling bells, fresh baked cookies, 

peppermint candies, striped leggings, red & green, 

holly & ivy, candy canes, sugarplum fairies, nutcracker ballet.

eggnog apple cider and pine trees.

gingerbread house with white icing & gumdrops.

presents, holly wreathe and bright red birds.

(from a justjohanna stamp

-i only wrote the parts i liked)

made soba today for the first time. kept craving for soba and jean convinced me it was easy to make! i'll admit i was kinda afraid of the soba when it was boiling, cos it stuck together a little. i wasn't sure if i should treat it like pasta when you boil it? ahwells. turns out, its was simple. and yummy. (:

(andrew i made loads so you can have some tonight if you'd like.)

i improvised, i realised i didn't have spring onions. and the soba would be quite plain without that extra pep, so i added minced raw garlic instead. and i had some mushrooms to go with the noodles.

and yesterday we had kenny rogers - gotta love that corn muffin! (its the highlight of the meal). i do believe i found a corn muffin recipe recently. will have to try it out before Christmas, maybe i could do a bunch for Christmas dinner! haven't been baking. i want to, but the oven has been rather wonky and dad is loathe to get a new one, so we'll see. 

found some gorgeous cupcakes from this lady's flickr. i would like that cupcake stand please!

this is from alicia's blog from her new book. i love the culmination of crafty materials. speaking of which, my craft area (and room) is in a mess. i feel that urge to pack again. i know its crazy, but i do love packing and tidying up. (i'm so domesticated. HAHA. right) anyhow, the family is trying to decide if we should have a holiday this year or do some minor renovations. i'm okay with both. but i wanna do-up my room now. but i know that if i get anymore shelving or boxes, my room is not going to have any walking space. think i shall go pack after this post. (:

found this on the hambly blog. can you believe that bouquet was a wedding bouquet?! ingenious isn't it? but this is definitely not a bouquet i would wanna throw to the crowd. would make a lovely centrepiece. the middles of the flowers are apparently vintage buttons!

i used to keep my seed beads by colour in individual mini zip-locks. but over time, the zip-lock tends to have holes. so i gave up and just poured them by colour into bottles. kinda looks like that coloured sand art thinga-ma-jig, doesn't it?

more beads and super lovely suede leaf garlands. i'm saving them for a special project. :D

this is my favourite craft punch at the moment. 

poster from the poster list.

prints from backbone. 

print from print a day.
print from lab partners.

ceramic tree trunk bowls from domino mag.

this tree is so stunningly red! from donna's blog.

more prints from the poster list.

print from is photo.

tutorial to make a cassette tape wallet here!

tutorial to make lego gummy candy here!

print from wolfie the sneak.

and more prints from the poster list.

have a great day! i'm off to pack! (:
*sheryl

For Josiah

Hello Josiah,

this is Andrew, stop reading our blog in class and focus on your teacher!

anyway, some rants.

My last IPPT's coming which is good since it means i'm going to ORD soon!
Main problem is running i suppose since the last time i've ran is almost three months ago and the fact that i just bulked up to 82kg! Which is quite a waste since i have lose to some weight now so it doesn't feel like i'm carrying a few BK Quad Stacker while running.




This is BK's new burger, the Quad Stacker (actually the picture shows the triple stacker which is for babies, couldnt find the quad's picture..) And i have eaten two of those, so yes i am literally carrying them while running.

I found another inspiring picture of a potential future pro

Antoine Vaillant, i think thats a picture of him one week out or something. so its pretty inpressive. The old times of bodybuilding is coming back, with the mass monsters replaced by symmetry again.

Anyhow, its time to sleep if i want to remotely fulfil my plan of running early before breakfast tomorrow. Gotta pray that it'd really happen this time!

ballet

taken from this lady's flickr. 

makes me wish i had continued with ballet...

*sheryl

dinosale at SQUIGGLETOWN! (:

i'm having a sale at squiggletown! :D :D :D

click HERE for more details!

*sheryl

colours

this gorgeous print is from lab partners. i love the spin on the vintage telephone. (:

and yesterday i decided to pack my swarovskis, so i bought some new boxes and ended up organising most of my beads instead. :D

a deer named Rupert

found this via elsie! super adorable.

i want one too!

pink woodland room

i'm not usually a huge fan of pink, but this room has a woodsy theme! found this on one of the design blogs. i especially like the tree mural at the back with the birdies. (:

4 years and 6 months

it was our anniversary today! (:

andrew got me this bouquet of lilies...

it was so gorgeous! (i realise i've been using "gorgeous" alot. haha) there were so many different types of flowers along with the 3 lilies, i don't even know their names! so i decided to just take pictures, so that in the future, when i know the names, i can put the name to the flower. 

anyhow, i've decided to start trying to be healthy! I-NEED-TO-LOSE-WEIGHT! 

so i decided to start a food journal. in the past, when i tried, the "journal" was too big. so this time round, i decided to be eco-friendly and make these teensy journals from my scraps.

yea, i kinda have a thing for mini-pens/pencils....

i started yesterday. (: andrew and i ran too. so that was a good start. we didn't run today, but we didn't binge either. so thats good too. as you can see, yesterday i ate a lot of rubbish. 

so i've decided to start carrying almonds with me again. they help stave off hunger pangs. maybe an apple would be good too. hmm...

ohhHHhh! and speaking of mini stationery, lookie here! mini post-its dispenser. uber cute! and look, its in DUAL colours. i.e. the alternate pages are in 2 different colours. so its pink-turquoise-pink-turquoise (you get the idea)

and i was just thinking about what to make with my stack of felt. saw this while shopping today. shall try making softies, like that felt owl. (: i think i will name her Wrynn.

random note, after the facial today, i realise i need to stop being so lazy and start scrubbing and using my masks and so on. its all about being healthier i guess. skin and body. so we'll see. Christmas is such a challenging time for diets. what with all the candy, cupcakes, pudding, turkey, roast ham, gingerbread men, cakes, biscuits, salads, mash...oh my. i feel hungry just typing it. haha. 

everything in moderation i say!

is it tea time yet?

was just blog surfing and came across kara's blog. she's really inspiring. and honest. i don't know how people do that, be so brutally honest in their blog posts, knowing that the worldwideweb (including parents - and that is my constant worry, that my parents would read my blog. haha. i think they do...) can read it too. and i'd take that any day, compared to convoluted paragraphs that go nowhere. 

anyhow, in case you're wondering, i haven't exactly made a dent in my to-do list yet. but they day is still young. its only 3pm. haha. the weather was so lovely, sunny. then suddenly, thunder and storm clouds gathered. thats the tropical Singapore weather for you. but i won't have it any other way. i love it here. i may complain, and wish for holidays, but they are holidays nonetheless. its always such a great feeling to come back to "home" at the end of it. which is why i choose to be a Singaporean - a Singapore citizen. yea, i get to choose. now why is that? well, i was born in Perth, so i have both a Singaporean and Australian birth certificate. next year when i'm 21, i'm going to have to swear my allegiance to Singapore. i know lots of people are like "why choose to be a Singaporean?!!! are you crazy? go be Australian!!" well, i don't know. i've lived most of my 20 years here on this tiny island. and i must say that familiarity comes at a high priority. so yea. (:

have i ever told you that my favouritest snack is cheese almond rice crackers? i love it to bits. very very yummy. its a japanese snack. almond cheese with green tea makes a perfect tea. but of course cheesecake and a cappuccino would do great too!

i more or less tidied up my room yesterday. so there are neat piles of stuff on my table. i got my school notebook, the gorgeous birds&nests stamps that andrew got for me, my pencil case, ipod, samsung soul, my tea snack, planner and ohhh!! my oakleys. (the picture with the close-up of the snacks has my oakleys on the left) :D :D :D love it! its flawless polished chocolate. that sounds yummy too doesn't it? *grin. (thanks for helping me source for it andrew!)

listening to the wreckers. love that too. think its my favourite at the moment. i needed a new playlist so i passed the ipod to andrew to give me a surprise and he added them in. listening to it now. feeling super inspired. i like this feeling. (:

p/s: i just realised i've been blogging twice a day. i've got a week of holidays. (: and i'm really enjoying it.