As you know, I’ve been trying to stay on this strict diet. It’s hard for me to be around people who eat every hour, well, just like my daughter.

So last night, when she asked for a snack (this was 2 hours after dinner), I had to think of something to give her that if in case I got tempted to get some for myself, it wouldn’t ruin my diet.

Not a bad idea, huh?

Just 10 days before December, and I haven’t finished my photobooks. Argh! I noticed that it takes so long for me to finish just one spread. And sometimes, I re-design an entire spread when I suddenly think that it isn’t good enough.

But today and tomorrow, I will take time off scrapping. I need to review on something work-related. And this weekend, I should start reading Twilight. I’ll start scrapping again on Monday.

I’ve been figuring out my personal style. I see different LOs that appeal to me but they differ from each other. One technique to know what your style is, is to look at all your previous LOs and list down all common things among them.

I noticed the following (even with my paper scrap attempts):

• colors: pink or orange (no surprise here)
• embellishments: flowers, ribbons, buttons. I’m not so much into brads.
• i like texture. I’d prefer die-cuts over stamping. (digital or paper)
• “white space”. I feel tired with busy LOs.

Weee…. Now, I got it all figured out. Time to scrap.

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. The yaya got back this morning. Got my ME time again. Will start twittering, bloghopping (and hopefully scrapping) again tomorrow.

Last Saturday, we went to Manila Ocean Park. Since flash was not allowed inside, I had no good shots inside. But sharing some anyway.

thanks for looking.

Those who are wondering why I have not been updating…Here’s why.

I now have galleries at Shabby Shoppe, Sweet Shoppe and DST.

Nothing much there yet though. I badly want to scrap more. But the more I browse for inspiration, the more I want to shop for kits. U-oh! Good thing I saw something (a collection of 6 kits!) on sale plus a discount coupon. I plan not to shop anymore till I used the last 7 kits I’ve purchased. Yes 8 kits in a week.

I was about to buy a kit (priced at a dollar) but backed off. Just a “confirm order” button away.

These were my reasons:

1. I’m not really sure if this kit would go fine with the pics I wanted to scrap.

2. The kit belongs to a class/genre/type that I think I’d be challenged to scrap with.

3. Although I was attracted to the kit, the sample LOs in their gallery and LOs I’ve googled didn’t quite match the new look that I want.

Note: Yes I’ve finally decided what I want for my LOs. I was supposed to TRY scrapping towards that *direction* tonight. You may notice that all my previous LOs didn’t seem to have a specific class/genre/type. Yeah, call me scatter-brain.

Ok, ok, some may argue, “it’s just a dollar…duh?!” Honestly, I don’t know why I can’t bring myself to buy it even just for a dollar. Geez! Argggg! Tsk, tsk.

I am an avid fan of the Shabby Princess. I use her freebies (and planning to buy 2 kits). So I decided to be a member of her forum/gallery. So after uploading some of my layouts (using her free kits) to my gallery, I browsed the forums. Then I just found out that the forum has been closed.

I am now on the hunt of another digiscrapping forum. But I want a forum, products of which I actually use. Hmm, so I guess, I should start shopping.

As per Joy’s advice, my blogroll isn’t site-wide anymore. I have put it on a separate page.

For those using my themes, just ‘Write Page’ then on the ‘Page Template’ drop-down list, choose Links. This will automatically create you a page with your blogroll on it. (You may want to download version 1.02 for smaller fonts for your links and archive pages) Hope that helps.