Tagged by Mai

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1. Copy the graphics designed by Cathy and then tell us your story about how you came to start designing. It doesn’t matter if it’s “for your eyes only” or you are designing for somebody.
2. Come back here and leave your link where you posted the story. I will add your blogs to the master list. If you have more than 1 blog you need to post the tag to your other blogs as well.
3. Passed it to people you know who makes beautiful crafts.
4. Make sure that you come back here to get the updated list of bloggers who joined the tag. This is a good way to increase our rankings on Technorati at the same time we get to read great stories.

So let’s start spreading those creativity.

1. Anything and Everything in Between
2. Designs By Vhiel
3. Vhiel’s Corner
4. Can of Thoughts
5. Digital Scrapbooking Creations
6. Me and My World
7. Big Money List
8. Simple Life, Simply Me
9. Digital Life Scraps
10. The Livy Updater
11. Pinay Mommy Online
12. Blessings and Beyond
13. The Artist in Mitch
14. InkBabyStudios
15. Aggie Scraps
16. Enchanted Play
17. Just My Scrap
18. The Scrapaholic Me
19. daftology

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Honestly, I don’t consider myself crafty or creative at all.  When I was in school, my notebook will be filled with drawings and doodles.  That explains why I wasn’t absorbing lectures in class. *LOL*  I took 3 college entrance exams and 2 of them were major in Fine Arts.  The other one was Computer Science simply because the university doesn’t offer art courses.  After some rounds of cat fight with my mom, I eventually chose CS which was out of my heart’s will but deemed to have a brighter future (pertaining to job market in the Philippines).  Well, mom was right and I can consider myself blessed for having a profession that allows me to travel.  Since then, I’ve dropped any creativity outlet altogether.  I knew about digital scrapbooking around 2005 when I was lurking around the web for some wedding ideas.  First digiscrap layout I saw was from Mrs. Schmuck, then from Aggie and Angie.   The bug bit me really hard, I was hooked ever since.  My first project was to scrap guest sheets for our wedding.  With the help of bebot friends, we had beautiful guest sheets that were  constantly raved by suppliers and friends.  That was my first encounter with digital scrapbooking.  What’s yours?

Please feel free to snag this if you haven’t answered it yet.

I can’t believe I didn’t post this!

Check out my FPPF winning photos here - Still Life and Portrait

I’m on early shift this week. Work starts at 630am and by 4pm, I’m already at home.  I’m feeling sleepy already at 430pm but I decided to stay away from the bed.  I need to be awake so I can sleep early tonight.  Blog and scrap galore to..

Here’s a tag from Aggie. Thanks Mare!

A) Four places I go over and over:
1. Loblaws - Grocery near our place.  It’s a big supermarket where you could almost get anything.  Meat, vegetables, fruits, seafoods, freshly baked breads, canned goods, almost anything.  Prices are a little higher than most superstores but their products are a lot fresher.
2. Tim Horton’s - Eto na ang kapalit ng starbucks dito sa Canada.
3. Chinatown - for cheap finds and to satisfy craving for authentic chinese food.
4. Malls - kahit saang mall… this is where we get our regular walking exercise.

B) Four people who e-mail me regularly:
1. Tickets - it means work work work.
2. Wordpress - for comment notification and blog back-ups
3. Digiscrap Store newsletters - enablers but I still keep my subscriptions active to keep myself up to date with sales and cheap finds.
4. Spam - annoying but there’s just no way to get rid of it!

C) Four of my favorite places to eat?
1. hotdog stand at Dundas Square
2. korean restos at North York
3. again, Chinatown
4. Now my mouth is watering for Mangan and Aristo.

D) Four places you’d rather be?
Manila… I miss everyone.

E) Four people I think will respond:
1. Litzie
2. Mai
3. Alexis
4. Ate Jen

F) Four TV shows I could watch over and over:
1. Nanny 911
2. Food Network
3. Full House
4. Hana Kimi

Snagged this from Mai and Jacq.

You are PAPER!

You are an all natural basic person who likes to act as a foundation to others. You are willing to take a backseat in most of your relationships and let others take the spotlight, while you show your support and help them shine! Underneath it all, you are the one who makes it all happen. You are the focus and stability in any group, even if you are not the leader. Others look to you to set the pace and provide ideas for ways to get things done. But Paper Beware - sometimes you get a little edgy with the people who look to you for support and can give them some papercut remarks that can hurt their feelings. Remember to watch what you say, because you are best when leading by example.

The players: THE SCRAPAHOLIC ME - Stickers | JUST MY SCRAP - Stickers | DAFTOLOGY - Paper | Your Site

That is me!  Why Queen of the Week?  Well, I have a house husband cooking and serving me dinner for the past 5 days.  He also cleans the house, do the laundry, wash the dishes… just about anything a stay-at-home wife does.  Don’t you just love it??? I’m chore-free!!!

In case you’re wondering why the sudden change of role, well, the house husband is on one week vacation before he starts his first day at his new company.  Well, I’m not snatching away his rest time.  I actually encouraged him to go out for a short trip so his vacation will be worth it.  But I guess the husband just can’t stand the days away from me. *LOL* Ok, I’m exaggerating.  Anyways, I’m the one who solely benefits from the change of role. Apart from getting away with chores, at least the man in the house gets first hand experience on the sweat of running a household.  Payback time!!! hahaha…

Since he’s the cook for the entire week, let me share with you some of his masterpiece.  Well, it’s mostly same recipe as I posted before with slight touch of his magic hands. *LOL*  It’s amazing to know that he actually has his own cooking style and his dishes tastes pretty good!  Sapokin ako ni Dex pag mabasa niya to… feeling niya binobola ko sya. haha… I was only able to take photos from first night’s candle light dinner and the superb beef stir fry for day 2.  And I call it - Cooking ni Mister collection!

(1) Toasted Bread (2) Candle Light (the husband’s surprise)

Tiger Shrimp Pasta. The husband cooked this by himself. I did the plating. Yumminess!

(1) Taste Test (2) Hm…..

High Score!!!

(1) Secret Ingredient Revealed! (2) Kusinero of the Week

Chili Beef Stir Fry - super hot! Tastes like Chinatown

I’m glad the husband has find some interest in cooking and actually wasn’t disastrous as I originally expected. hehe… 2 more days to enjoy being the queen… next week he becomes the king while I’ll be back as the wife again. *LOL*

So it’s tag payback time for Patoots. Haha Thanks girl for the award! I mweesh you guys!

Dahil ikaw ay isang sertipikadong blogger, itinuturing kitang matalik kong “KADAMO”
Maraming salamat…

Mga Kadamo:

1.)Janeth Vicy’s Life Journey

2.) My Precious Niche

3.) Just Me.. Eds

4.) Eds Mommy Life

5.) ISL Family

6.) Me and Mine

7.) Creative in Me

8.) Little Peanut

9.) For the LOVE of Food

10.) Pea in a Pod

11.) Quicke8

12.) Oinkster

13.) daFtology

I’m double tagging Aries (since he hasn’t answered the tag yet)…

and also tagging Glo, Diane, Mai, Litzie and YOU my blogger friends!

Enabling enabling… have you seen this new kit from Faith True?  As the name of the kit implies, the design really suits us Asians.  I especially love the textured papers and the realistic flowers. Grab it at SPD or LOLS while it’s hot! It’s 20% off at SPD!

And here’s what I came up with… my very first LO as part of the True Team. The kit is just perfect for the subject! And I’m so thrilled to see my LO used as sample of the kit in the store! yay!

Patience is definitely virtue.  I’ve been actively applying for CTs and guest CTs for the past few weeks.  Needless to say, I still get the smash of being turned down (no hard feelings though) but sometimes it just takes the right timing and a little bit of luck.

Lookie!  I was accepted as Dawn Inkship’s guest CT for December!  Yeah, I know it’s still far off but I can’t help but feel excited! I started to notice her products just a couple of weeks ago while browsing through the galleries. When I saw her guest CT call at DST, I knew I just had to try my luck. And I guess I’m lucky!

Talking about lucky, I have another guest stint this December with another favorite designer. And that’s not all, I’m joining another great designer as her permanent CT at one of my favorite digiscrap shop! Woot! I was so so happy this morning I had a big grin on my face almost the whole day! haha… I can’t spill the details just yet since I have to wait for the official announcement. Watch out girls

ETA: Ok, so the official announcement came out today.  I’m one of the girls in Faith’s True Team!!!  Faith’s selling primarily at Live Out Loud and Shabby Pickles. Oh my gosh! I feel so honored to be accepted!  Yey!!!

Appetizer

When was the last time you had your hair cut/trimmed?
I had my hair trimmed and curled for the second time last January before we left for Canada.  Visit to the salon has been an annual event since I had my hair curled!

Soup

Name one thing you miss about being a child.
School, friends, and of course christmas and summer vacation!

Salad

Pick one: butter, margarine, olive oil.
I’m trying to be health conscious here so I have to pick olive oil.

Main Course

If you could learn another language, which one would you pick, and why?
Japanese or Korean… so I can watch TV series even without subtitles

Dessert

Finish this sentence: In 5 years I expect to be…
Mom of two kids… a boy and a girl

Thanks Alexis for the tag.

Here’s the game: you have to answer the question with ONE WORD only and then you have to tag 4 people.

1. Where is your cell phone? BAG
2. Your significant other? OFFICE
3. Your hair? CURLY
4. Your mother? GREAT
5. Your father? DOGGIE (my pet name for him.  And I was his puppy)
6. Your favorite thing? GADGETS
7. Your dream last night? FORGOT
8. Your favorite drink? COKE!
9. Your dream/goal? SUCCESSFUL
10. The room you’re in? OFFICE
11. Your hobby? DIGISCRAP
12. Your fear? DEATH
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? MOMMY
14. What you’re not? PATIENT
15. Muffins? CHEESE
16. One of your wish list items? LENS
17. Where you grew up? PHILIPPINES
18. The last thing you did? WORK
19. What are you wearing? JEANS
20. Favorite gadget? DSLR
21. Your pets? NONE
22. Your computer? HP
23. Your mood? A-OK
24. Missing someone? FAMILY
25. Your car? NADA
26. Something you’re not wearing? BELT
27. Favorite store? OUTLET
28. Like someone? HUBBY
29. Your favorite color? NEUTRAL
30. When is the last time you laughed? TODAY
31. Last time you cried? FORGOT

Now I’m tagging Litzie, Suzanne, Mai, Glo