Midweek

Yay! So it's TGIT this week. Love 4-day work weeks. Somehow it seems so much shorter. And the vibe in the office seems happier. So maybe they should follow the American law firms and impose a shorter work week. Cut costs you know.

I'm waiting (with bated breath and impatience) to see how the swine flu brouhaha will play out. How inconvenient to have it now when I'm planning my trip to the States in less than a month! And I wonder how Gillian is doing in San Fran. Don't think she's one to freak out though.

Another scrapbook for my collection but pardon the grammatical errors :)

I found another source for ELF!

Remember the cheap and good cosmetic label - E.L.F (eyes.lips.face) - that I was so crazy about a couple of years back? Which led to me carting home tons of it from NYC? Well, I just discovered a much nearer source back home!

Apparently the SINMA chain stores carry a range of it. Hopefully they have my favourite Cherrytart liquid lipstick with the convenient twist applicator. I know my mom likes their brightening eye shadow which comes in 4 handy colours per compact. Idiot proof makeup for people like me who don''t know how to blend different shades!

Scrapbooking weekend

I've caught the scrapbooking bug! Hence the sudden flurry of activities relating to scrapbooking at the expense of everything else.

And I finally got down to making a scrapbook for MYSELF. Usually, my motivation to complete one comes from the anticipation of giving it to others so my personal collection till now was naught.

First up is a digital scrapbook which I'm thrilled to say it's easier than it sounds despite my lack of any form of digital editing software. My current outdated edition of MS Word works wonders and I discovered many surprisingly useful functions that turned out as well as an Adobe-created effect like this:

I scanned in a patterned paper...


And turned it into the title of my scrapbook!


I was undecided whether to change the colour of the main picture - it looks so pretty with the muted reds and blues - but decided in favour of black-and-white to bring out a "timeless" effect.


Below are some of my favourite pictures we took randomly while walking along a little path in Potsdam. It must be dandelion season cos we saw fields of them! I was overly excited as usual but that's cos the only experience I have with dandelions is in Enid Blyton books.

I think the dandelions I sketched are pretty accurate :)