My scrapbooks !!!

The following are digiscrapping of my own...The remaining scraps I do which I won't post here, are a re-production of layouts or scrapping I found and liked...
These ones are exclusively my own design (+ the Hala scrapping I posted before).
I know I still need a lot of practising but I am already proud of what I am doing...

The first one is a gift I sent to my friend in Canada, who sent Joey the "Sleep in progress" pjs he's wearing... Actually Joey asked for a friend by that time, now she's pregnant !!! I think it's a pic of Joey at 3 months...




This one is a recent pic of Joe...it was taken on September... I just love watching him sleep peacefully, and actually yes i do feel tempted to steal a kiss but I don't... I wouldn't dare wake him up !!!

This is a layout of Joe, cousin and uncle (my bro)... Joey is 2 months old, already holding his cousin's hand who's 4 months older than him !!!

The following is a layout I just finished and I really liked... the journaling is in French, it's in fact a poem of our very famous writer Gibran Khalil Gibran,



This is the translation :

On Children
Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.They come through you but not from you,And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts.You may house their bodies but not their souls,For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your childrenas living arrows are sent forth.The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

My very first designs...

So I don't know why this post got deleted and now I am re-posting it... I don;t know why i ma having all this trouble uploading, posting, modifying and working with the posts !!!

Anyway, so that's my first ever made necklace...quiet simple I know, but back then i was very proud of it !!!


That's my very first earings design !!! I made also 3 other in smaller and simpler versions which I gave to my nieces.

My "accessoires beauté"

The crochet flowers are not my own Diys, they're rather my mother's ...I learnt to crochet when I was little, but I forgot...My mom herself even fogot, she didn't have time lately to do crocheting, until I asked her to make some flowers for me...well she remembers beautifully !!! I only added the crystal sparkling dots which I think added a modern look to the crocheted flowers.

Found those metal parts at an accessory store, so I made a set of earings and necklace... very nice, no ?

Now that required some combination skills :) Those r beads I have from my engagement bou-k, which my DH sent me back then ... I added string, knots and other parts and came up with this ...voila :

Not really proud of these, but I made them anyway...I think i should remove one pearl out of each..buti liked the combination as is !!! well, I am still puttign them from time to time ...

Cute quizz site !!!

http://www.brainfall.com/

What kind of car? I ended up as Hummer stretch...it's the car I hate the most :) Ummm, I wonder if people do the test for checking the rsults or just time-killer !!!

Baby's Bedroom DIYs

Our baby's room was completely decorated, designed and done by me and my DH. DH painted the room, i made the carpets, the wall drawings, the growth-chart, the door-signs, the curtains, etc... Here are my inspirations versus my DIY projects (whenever inspiration pics available) :


Door signs :


Curtains :
Bought plain white fabric and added coloured ribbons

Door signs :

- created on photoshop printed and glued to cardboard

Wall Decor :

Hand painted

Growth Chart :

Inspiration :

Versus reality :

- wall painted

- Measurements hand drawn with a black marker pen

- Animals and numbers are clipart/fonts printed on paper and glued to the wall

Inspiration :



Versus reality :

Different views !

Baby's tooth chart !

Found that interesting tooth chart which I will print and hang on one of Joey's room walls :

My kitchen recipes !

Found these on the hp website, I used them to create my kitchen recipes...added photos for each food category : chicken, salad, meat, rice, desserts, etc....

The cookbook : http://h10050.www1.hp.com/activitycenter/us/en/maker/heirloom_cookbook.html

The holiday recipe sampler :
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/acProject?lc=en&cc=us&extcat=holidaygiftsdecorations&dlc=en&project=worldholidayphotorecipecards

The everyday recipe sampler :
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/acProject?dlc=en&project=kitchendecorphotorecipecards&lc=en&extcat=invitationsstationery&cc=us&extsubcat=alloccasion&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Addicted to it?

Am I just getting addicted to looking for crafts, scrapbooking, recycling, netting and everything else related or is it normal and happens to anyone else? well I guess not... I actually have zillions of project ideas and stuff to make which I might need 30 years to afinish, and yet I still look more, and don't get enough time to actually put into action. Well actually I do craft a bot in the evening, when my husband sits in front of the Tv, and after I give my babay his shower, his meal and tuck him to bed, I just sit and work !!! I like it ! It feels good...at least for me...
Well as for the digi-scrapping, I can work one or 2 during my lunch break....

So anyway, here a link to a very cute site, which i'll try to draft a pic of me and post it on my blog...

What a coincidence !!!

A week ago, I was looking for themed food ideas to serve for my baby's first tooth gathering. Among others I remembered the cocoa-and-co. 's designs. It's a very unique cookies/cake design shop which I ran through during several exhibitions and shows I've been to. I looked for the business card, I browse the website and call the number... A lady answers, saying Hala is not available, got transfered to a guy, to whom I explained what I want, and he proposed to look for the designs on the website to get inspired of what I really want. I hang up... continue my search... well, to cut it short, about the themed food I decide, I'll pass on the cookies designs.

So anyway today while I was checking one fo my favorite website recyclethis, I came across a comment from a lady who said she lived in Lebanon !!! Being a Lebanese myself, I felt proud and curious, and went to her blog, there I saw a card entitled Hala...Hala is an arabic name...again curious as usual from link to link, from blog to blog, I realised Hala the cocoa-and-co creative cookie maker is the same halakemia whose friends are eagerly trying to cheer her up...


Hala I don't know u, I just took a glance at what u make, it's so beautiful ... Oh how life is unfair ! for someone bringing so much beauty and joy to people's special occasions does not deserve pain and sadness but more beauty and joy from people she even doesn't know...

So that's all I could think of doing (being a digi-scarpper addict myself) ...

Here's a card for u and ur friends, I know they're doing their best to cheer u up and u can always count of them...
I hope I did cheer u too :-)

I do need a CODIR !!!

How easy is it to choose a template for your blogspot...Well yes it is easy...However it took me almost half an hour to decide !!!
OK so I am a bouncer when it comes to decision-taking, and yes I do like to hear other opinions...and yes I need a CODIR for every small and tiny decision I make ... CODIR is my husband sarcastic answer to my zillion questions of "what do u think i should do ?"...

CODIR used to be the COMITE de DIRECTION, the highest level management meeting in the company we used to work for... so critical decisions needed CODIR...
and that's what my Husband thinks of me... So what's wrong with me taking my time to choose ... Better think ahead, then regret it bad :-) (I just came up with this, I guess there's a quote about this, I should look it on the web)