L-O-V-E

"When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black &White, you photograph their souls! " ~Ted Grant

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It's going to be our third anniversary this tuesday! And almost a year to our LDR...

I know it's early to post this... but i couldn't help it! hehe...I always made something, well I like to make something, for birthday, anniversaries, and valentine's day. Something that you made feels more personal.

Since I have been hooked up on digital scrap booking ( I prefer the digital one to the 'real' one cause I always can't bear to use the whole nice looking papers...) I have been making digital scrapbook pages a lot these days.

I can't really remember where I got the phrase (i better start remembering the sources) but it's so apt for LDR, no?

What turns my frown upside down

A tear of fear, and anxiety turned into a tear of joy when I saw this text. He's not a very romantic person and I always complained about this. But, he still have an inkling of romanticism in him. I just have to let him 'surprise' me in his own way, his own timing. Thank you for turning my frown upside down! This totally made my day! ^^

bye...California

Just when I thought the weather in OK will be as nice as that in CA (it's March already after all), another snow storm hit oklahoma again! I'm glad i'm home and not stuck at the airport!

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I made the match box for easter goodies using this template

Mirkwood Designs

I actually used the "card template" on Mojo Monday challenge and then made it into a box.

And I decided to make her a headband for her bday.

A trip to hobby lobby for my very first fabric shopping left struggling in choosing which type of fabric I should use. In the end, I managed to buy 3 types of fabrics in 3 different shades of pink. I have to say I'm really pleased with my first try!

I followed the tutorial from life's little embellishment to make the roses.
I bought a headband from Wal-Mart and wrapped it with pink ribbon. I urged Celeste to open the presents despite her mom's initial disapproval. I forgot how rough 6 yrs old (girl) can be when opening presents. Anyway, she seemed to like it and wore it right away ^.^

birthday!

I haven't been blogging lately. Nothing much has been happening except that I was buried in homework, exams, and searching for data. School...

I just turned a year older on Friday... Unlike the previous 2 years, my best buddy- my bf- was not by my side. He suggested this idea. Each of us will have a cake and we will use the video call function on msn to celebrate! (i know some people will suggest Skype. For some reason, we haven't gotten around opening Skype account. I guess we're satisfied with msn messenger). I wanted a chocolate cake. My fav! I thought of buying a piece from walmart or food pyramid but ended up making my own cake. I saw a Ferrero rocher cake and wanted something like that. I don't think I can find that here. So, I decided to make my own bday cake. Sad huh? haha... . Although the cake looked terrible, I actually had some fun making it. It has destressing effect.

I made my very first dark chocolate nutella ganache and bought a cake mix to make the cake (picture below).


That's what you do when ur bf was not here and all your friends were busy. But, my "busy" friends decided to pay me a "last minute" surprise visit. I was immersing myself in data and a few minutes before my birthday ended, someone rang the bell. My first thought was who could that be, but after a few rings, I had a pretty good guess on who he- THEY- could be. The first person I saw when I opened the door was DoongEe (he's actually a Yorkie, not really a person). He was sitting there looking at the door and ran into the apt once I opened the door. And the rest just showed up from their hiding place. haha...

My cousins haven't sent me the photos yet.

Mojo Monday 124

It's February! My favorite month! It's not just because it's the month of my birthday, but it's also the "month of love",and this year, Chinese New Year falls on February too, exactly the same day as Valentine's Day. How cool is that!

Anyway, my hands are itching to make something. So, I visited Mojo Monday blog to get some inspiration and my mojo's kicking once I say this week's sketch (below). This will be my second Mojo Monday card.


I decided to make a Valentine's day card with Penny Black stamp of 2 cute hedgehogs... Love is in the air... Ta da... Here's what I came up with.

weekend getaways

For the past three weekends, I have been driving out of town... For me, weekend starts on Friday as I don't have class and since I have to work on Saturday morning, Friday becomes my Saturday.

Weekend Getaway 1,


Zhi and I went to Oklahoma State Fair. I've never been to a state fair before and I have been wanting to go to one in US with my bf- the product of watching American dramas which the boy and girl will go to a fair for a date. Well, the fair was alright. It was not as grand as the ones I saw on tv but what can u expect from Oklahoma... Anyway, we walked around. Spend the longest time in an automobile fair where I checked out the Toyota and Honda. I was planning to buy a car and thinking of buying either toyota or honda and I preferred Honda's interior! So Honda it is!!! Besides, Honda has a higher resale value. Then, we decided to buy tickets to take the ride. We rode the cable car that bring us from one end to the other end of the fair. It wasn't that high, but it was pretty scary for me. I don't have acrophobia, but looking down at our seat, feet dangling in the air... it freaked me out. I was afraid my flats will fall off and the wind was blowing which shook our seats and freaked me out even more. It was pretty embarrassing to be so scared when looking at the opposite directions, the little kids looked like they were having a blast!


We took the Ferris Wheel not as romantic as it seemed on tv... then we ate Funnel Cakes (which not as nice as the one I ate last year at Homecoming). Then we headed home. While eating the funnel cake, Zhi mentioned, "ini baru namanya pacaran yah"... This seemed to be the first real date we have. Well, our previous date mostly consist of shopping in the mall and walmart, watching movies and eating dinner together. haha...

Weekend getaway 2:
Philsbrook Museum, Tulsa



I've been wanting to go there ever since I chanced upon the photos of its beautiful garden on the net. It was like a mansion turned into art museum and there's a huge garden. The garden was as beautiful, if no more, as the pictures I saw. Zhi was rather impatient while I looked around at the paintings.
Thereafter, we bought Krispy Kreme :)


Weekend getaways 3:
Fall break.


The university gave us Friday off for Fall break. It didn't make any difference to me since I've been having my Friday off. 9 of us decided to go to Eureka Spring, Arkansas and last minute trip to Branson, MO. Actually, I planned to go to Branson, MO at first but the suggestion of going to Eureka Spring sounded better. Both are 4 hours away from Stillwater.

The weather was real gloomy, dampening my spirits a little... I don't like cold weather. It was raining and cold :(
Anyway, when we reached ES, we checked in to the hotel first. There were more of us than the number of people we said when we checked in. So, this creepy owner spied on us and saw that there were more people than we said and kicked us out. We booked 2 rooms. We just entered into one of the room to use the toilets when the owner confronted us and accused us of lying and cheating him. He wanted us to leave right away and refused to give us refund. We told him the extra people were going somewhere else, but he didn't believe us. He had no proof that we were lying and unreasonably kicked us out of the hotel without giving us our money back. We just used the toilet! And it cost us $100 +++... We refused to leave unless he gave us a refund. He threatened to call the police and we were unfazed. We moved our things back to the cars and went to the lobby. Another guy was talking to the creepy, unreasonable owner. At first we thought they were in the same gang. But he was the neutral third party that we needed. A few minutes later, the police came. The guy explained that it was a misunderstanding... The police officer knew what happened very well. Apparently, it was not the first time this had happened. The owner did this to many people before and the police kinna tired to have to be called. This was not a crime case after all. In the end, the officer was on our side. We didn't have to argue much. We just watched the police "telling off" the owner. The guy told us that the only thing we could do was to call the credit card company and cancelled the transaction.

No wonder the hotel was cheap. There wasn't anybody else staying there! When we arrived we only saw 2 cars. One was the owner's and the other car might be his too.


We had lunch, went to see the christ of ozark statue and walked around the downtown area. It was cold, and most of the shops had closed. With no hotel to stay, we decided to go to other city near ES and stayed there. There wasn't much left to see or do in ES. I suggested we go to Branson, MO. It was just about an hour away and the hotels were much cheaper there. I knew this because when i was searching hotels to stay, the website suggested branson... So, we drove to branson and booked a hotel on our way. The beauty of having iPhone- not so bad internet access.

Branson was more fun. More things to see and visit. We went to Titanic museum and then went shopping before heading home.




We decided to eat dinner at Tulsa and meet up with Farrell who was in tulsa, too.

3 consecutive getaways from stillwater was enough... the next weekend was Homecoming so there's no need to escape. haha...

Winter is coming >.<