A Homemaker’s Diary

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places” – Ernest Hemingway

Despite the fact that I ended 2007 with fever and very bad PMS..huhu..yes, I’m over the melancholy mood, nothing beats a few good cries about nothing that important, I guess I should restart the year 2008 with a more positive note to myself.

Even though over the year nothing much shines on me in terms of achievement, business wise or personal life – well, not that it’s a major disappointment but for me all is well, not that very outstanding that should be engraved in my Guinness world of records sort of things, heh! Still I am happy to say that with what I’ve gone through I’m proud and amazed on how strong I endured it all.

It would be difficult without having those around you who love and support you all year through. To Hubby, to all the friends, I thank you all for being around, listening, understanding and encouraging especially during the gloomy and hard time.

May 2008 will bring more courage, endless strength and continuous love and support. We can only hope for the best after we have put our best effort. To the best of 2008 to come!

For those who wonder what I’ve been up to, well, since Hubby fell terribly sick with fever, cough and cold since Thursday so there is no such thing as new year celebration and whatnot. To make the matter worse I got the bug later and I spend the whole weekend at home nursing my health back to normal.

It started on Saturday afternoon and by night I was really, really sick. Went to see the doctor and she said my temperature was high. By night I felt really, really weak and decided to contact all the students who supposed to come for Sunday class and let them know that I was not up to conduct the class. Now I have to rearrange everything as some of them could not make it for the replacement date I proposed..huhu!

Well, I know it’s really a hassle for everybody but I for once didn’t like the fact that I fall sick like this.

I hope I will be well and have healthy life throughout 2008. And I still have fever at night that make it hard to fall asleep soundly..huhu! I miss my sleep.

“I learned about family tonight – They are not always the ones who love you the most, sometimes it’s the family that you make for yourself.”

I can’t say that I follow every episodes of Ugly Betty but those that I managed to watch, I think I like them. I wish I have a family like hers, one that accepts and loves her as she is, never expecting more than what she could be.

It doesn’t matter what the whole think about you, whether you look and dress up like a Pinata or not, or those bushy eyebrows make you look like a hideous girl next door. What matters is the unconditional love and support that a family should provide, regardless how disappointing you make them feel.

Maybe if I was born in a family with an illegal immigrant dad and a knocked out sister, my family will be proud of me.

To all parents out there, every night before you go to sleep, do you ever wonder how you make your children feel tonight – with your words, your act towards them?

And people ask me, why I hesitate to have kids..sigh!

After waiting for the Archival Mist from EK Success to arrive, I finally can start assembling the layout of the bungatelur.com newspaper cutting. With scrapping newspaper cutting what really important is I need to make it acid free so that it could be preserved and won’t turn yellow with the aging process.

The ribbon sample from Ribbon Boutique arrived together with the long awaited Tsukineko pigment ink – Brilliance Dew Drop in pearlescent Rust. In fact even the guy at the postal service has recognized me for collecting overseas parcel almost every week now..huhu! That particular day, I collected 5 parcels all sent by all the eBay sellers..heh! I was hoping that I have gold tone but rust would do for now. I matted the newspaper clippings and inked the edge of the mat papers with the Rust ink.

The thing is with the clip frame from IKEA, I need to have at least 3 pieces of patterned papers. And I only have two at most in my collection. So after a quick spree in Papier, The Curve last weekend, these Perhaps orangey tone from Basic Grey would go nicely with the Queen & Co orange felt fusion border.

Personally I prefer something more embellished than this layout style, but since I can’t make it budge under the glass top of the frame, I decided to save my ideas for some other pages later.

Now the frame is finely displayed on my art shelf. Maybe I should nail it to the wall because every time it’s getting very windy I get so scared that it will fall off from the shelf.

After reading the tutorial on creating digital layout using Photoshop, I thought it’s about time that I give it a try. I downloaded the kit from ShabbyPrincess and even though it looks intimidating at first, but actually the whole process is very simple. Just like the editing I do all the time with the pictures and logo for BungaTelur.com gallery..heh!

Honestly, I still prefer the old style scrapping process. But now I can tell that I have tried my hands in digital scrapbooking and here is my very first digital layout.