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Told you that blog hopping is addicted. And will spark your mind so gooood. I visited Roben Marie 's blog last night and found those cute little bird cages are really irresistible. Arrgh. So I doodle some bird cages while the kids did their home work.
Then after they felt asleep ( I referring to the kids, of course), I put gesso, acrylic paint and do a little bit of this and that to them ( to the bird cages....not to the kids, of course....LOL). See what I got here? A bunch of cute things......
And of course, after got to this phase so far, I cannot just stop.......I sticked the bird cages to left over tags, quote papers, anything I can find near by my desk.
Even to a clothing label that I save from a shirt (Oh, yes, I can't stand clothing label on my back and I save everything cute......)

Tadaaaa........these are cute, don't you think?

The finished bird cages on 2 a.m last night (yes, that late) :

They will pop up anywhere between my art journals, scrapbooking pages, paintings, diary, cover albums....yeah, that kinda need lots of things to stick, eh? LOL.

Happy creating to you, buddies!

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This is my biggest Life Project ever.

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I just finished adding many new links of woooonderful artist's blog from Artful Blogging magazines. Their blogs and their works really brought tears to my eyes when I saw them. My jaw just opened wide the whole time...and made sound,"Ooooh......." or "Waowww...." and "My gosh!"

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This layout is not recently made. But I just get the chance to share it now.

Hope you have fun too today!

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Adam is into card games right now.

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When I saw one of Ali Edwards LO' on Creating Keepsakes last month (sorry, I am not sure it was Oct or Nov edition since all my mags already packed in boxes, I can't check), I love the simplicity on that page and feel I have to make that kind of LO right away. The only tool you need is your corner punch....and voila....done. (I didn't glue the LO on white cardstock, it's only for the base when I took the pics) I carefully chose pictures that showing the essence of boyhood, and yet, because I want the blue color remains as the main color with a little bit red essence, the pics should be in that tone too. Simple in technique must match with simple in colors.

And, yes, yes, yes....I wish this boy doesn't have to grow up.....(at least, not too soon...)

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Starbuck Journal for 2010 needs 26 stamps.(Yes, 26.)

Glue one cardboard to the front cover and one more to the back cover with gel medium. Then cover the whole paper with gel medium one more time to seal it. A quick timing in working with gel medium and the right pressure will give you the 'no bubble trapped' result. However, you also need to be patient. Sometimes, when you leave the work overnight, the result will be crisp and flat in the morning.

After the cover and the back were done, I cut light brown suede fabric slightly smaller than 18x25cm, then glue it to the inside cover, again with the gel medium. But this time, to make the softness of the suede remain, I didn't cover it again with gel medium, I left it just as it is.

After that, cut 9x24,5 cm cardstock and glue the sides motif from the paper bag to it. Make the cardstock get covered both sides with the paper.

Right now, all I can think of is... this could be a good cover for my December Daily 2009 album. Although I still get no clue what will I put inside. But as always, a journey of thousand miles begins with a single step, right? And tonight I make that single step. Later, the album probably looks like this:

Hope you can find this idea useful.

And, of course, wish me luck on getting that Starbuck Journal soon. *wink*

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My honey bee scissor worked very hard on this layout..but I think it's worth it. Do you agree? It warms my heart when I see the finished piece....recording my son natural reaction to mom's too much camera shoots. Such a precious moment. Then, in the end, I treasure my story more than all the work that my honey bee did....(sorry, 'honey'...LOL...)

What is your story, today?

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In a week, this place will be clean and crisp to be decorated. Yup. Our new home is almost ready! Next week, I'll move the stuff that we don't use daily such toys, books, etc...then hopely in early December we can truly move in. Oh, we are soooo excited.. Above is soon to be our dining table, and the yellow (yes, yellow) wall will lead you to our kitchen.
This is the play room for the kids to go crazy....that connect with my scrap room.
What? Scrap room? Shhh.

My husband also have his own room side by side with mine, to do all his agenda...All of those rooms open to the inner garden with a pond.
And this will be our library and cozy room upstair. I am thinking to combine the Starbuck and Aksara book store's feel in this room. You know what I mean. Aha. All the cozyness, without the cashier.

And from that window, this is the view.

Starbuck+Aksara+nice view = not bad at all, right, buddies?(wink) But right now, Audy and I still get headache from time to time to finish all the detail. Like this morning activity that became his daily routine.

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I am not a big fans of yellow, unfortunately.

I made the blue background using acrylic paint and lots of water. Then put a little bit modeling paste for the background of my title and at the bottom of the page. Made the fishes from fabric scraps (my Textures of Life's class attendances will know where this scrap came from...) and dig my stash of Thickers to make the title with a touch of fun.

Of course, the second page will naturally had a splash of yellow, since yellow was the subject of the day.
I still used the basic theory for visual triangle happily until today cause it gave my page a strong impact every time.

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