Angel In Disguise

A long two hours service in a church. My mom kept asking me about the time. Marvin was completely lost outside his e-world (Sleep Over Rule #3 No iPad when we go out). He was shocked to see a 15 page long service rundown booklet. He kept asking me about which page we were on through out the entire service. Even I complained about the long closing speech from a church officials after the service. Maureen sat quietly next to my mom, reading the booklet, singing hymns she probably never heard, listening to whoever using a mike to talk ; she actually enjoyed the service! No whining, no pouting, no complaining, no evil plan. I was completely in awe! We should do church date more often Maureen!

Color My World

My first color pencil set had only six colors: red, orange, yellow, blue, green and purple. Dena's first color pencil set had sixty four colors: vermillion, ocher, emerald, azure, magenta, lilac and more. I remember she loved playing with the pencils when she was small. She would take out all pencils from the box, mixed them all up, and sorted them by colors. She would be absorbed in the hues of the colors and forgot the rest of the world. 
I'm naming my handmade journals after those beautiful colors.

Cadmium Orange

Red Blue

Sea Green

Baby Pink

See You Letter

My friend lent me her precious letter paper & envelope so I can up-cycle them into a journal. Last month when I had a once in a life time chance to write a letter, I couldn't find any letter paper in any book store. The sale girls looked at me with a puzzled look like I'm some kind of a weirdo from another planet when I asked for letter paper. Who has the time to write letter in an e-world these days? In a fast world patience is such a lonely word.

One

One friend with amazing collection of cute & whimsical letter paper/stationary + One artbin full of art tools + One cassette = One sunny afternoon filled with cutting, gluing, measuring, binding, sewing & giggling. I love letter paper. I used to collect them when I was small.  I love getting letters; they always put a smile on my face and brighten any day. I'm such an old soul lost in the e-world and i-world :-)

Super Card Sale

Ingredients:

Kids with colorful imagination :-)

Kid Pix

Color papers

Photo papers

Store bought regular envelopes

A color printer (any brand will do, I use Epson)

Directions:

1. Let the kids explore & draw with Kid Pix (so far I've never met a kid who despise Kid Pix)
2. Format drawings to JPEG (File>>Export>>Save as type: JPEG)
3. Print on glossy photo paper & cut.
4. Lightly coat white glue on the back and stick it on a folded color paper.
5. Jazz up envelopes with clipart or stickers, or ribbons, or cut outs magazine pictures or...anything goes, the sky is the limit. :)

Kid Pix drawings by Special Needs students

Giving heart

Bitterballen, speculaas, klompen, windmolen, oliebollen, Sinterklaas & Zwarte Piet... off we went to Christmas Around the World by IES Orphanage  to represent Netherlands. Who could've thought you can go around 9 countries (Japan, China, India, Slovakia, Netherlands, USA, South Africa, Italy & Phillipine)  in less than 3 hours? 200 kids from 3 orphanages did on a cloudy Sunday. Thank goodness for a windy day otherwise the windmill will not work. 

My self portrait by Little Angle ~(")~

It was a great day. Everybody had a great time even baby Zoe! I thought we were the blessing for the orphanage kids, but turned out that it was the kids who gave us joy &  happiness. Now I understand the true meaning of the phrase "It is in the giving that you will receive". Happy giving!