tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-299238952024-03-17T17:03:53.061-07:00simply yinYinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12411403555604850149noreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29923895.post-8965869709542596022017-08-13T07:59:00.001-07:002017-08-13T07:59:22.775-07:00Japan Layouts (Vol V)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
It's been a while, but I am back to share my Japan layouts (volume V)! I have certainly been distracted with all manner of memory keeping lately, but definitely still come back to digital double page layouts for all our travel memories! </div>
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I have reached the last few days of our Japan trip (it was 2015) and a lot of those days was spent wandering and just exploring Tokyo. Walking through streets and smaller towns, thrifting and shopping, without an agenda and not quite knowing what to expect. I actually enjoy these parts of our trips more and more. The adventure and surprise, the discovering and wonder, of a different place and culture and way of life, totally makes the journey worth it!</div>
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The theme for these layouts came naturally - these lines that take us all over the layout, showing where we wandered and what we saw and experienced. So fun and full of movement!</div>
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Oh and it was perfect that Ali Edwards is giving away these free Travel word art on her <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/aliedwards/aed-pinterest-passport-2017/">AEPinterestPassport board </a>. Got them onto three of these layouts and they were perfect sentiment! Love them!! Check it out you even stand a chance to win 6 months' storykits - I'm trying for it too :)</div>
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So the men in my family had to visit Akhihabara to shop for gadgets and anime and geeky stuff all day (twice) and I decided I'll do a day by myself of thrifting and stationery shopping. Did you know Tokyo is wonderful for thrifting? You'd be hard pressed to know they were pre-loved shops - they are so lovingly curated and displayed! Unfortunately it was all winter clothes but I did score a few great buys. But stationery and craft shops in Japan are to die for! Unbelievable endless varieties and supplies, and that was when I bought my first Midori Travelers' Notebook, in which I have recorded four trips and still loving it!</div>
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So I also asked the men to take photos of their day of geek shopping and yes, they did mom proud and made her happy by taking all these photos, before I joined them at the Nakano Broadway - another haunt of anime and comic goodies!</div>
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It was saturday morning and we heard that the locals like to go to Yanaka alley for their weekend breakfast and shopping so off we went too. Lots to see and do and taste and try! </div>
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This second layout was also of exploring the streets around Yanaka Alley - we passed homes and neighbourhood shops, back streets, an old cemetery, and even an art museum. More fascinating of all, I saw the second Hawaiian Hula Dance School in Tokyo here - the Japanese really love all things Hawaiian :) I was doing hula dance at my gym class as well, so I was really stoked about it!</div>
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My husband has an eye for spotting local scenes and takes photos of local people going about their life, flower shops, and so on, so here's one more layout showing the street scenes of Japan as we travelled through them. We just love visiting Japan so much, and it will not be long before we are back! </div>
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Yinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12411403555604850149noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29923895.post-89826231822341202462017-05-28T08:14:00.000-07:002017-05-30T08:07:32.160-07:00UK Photobook and Japan Layouts (Vol IV)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Hello everyone, it's been a while since my last post! Life is really full and I have sacrificed blogging for actual memory keeping and if you follow me on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yin_dgs/?hl=en">instagram</a> you will agree :)</div>
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I'm working full time now, so I have time most evenings to be creative (my kids are grown - oh when did that happen!) and capture all our memories and record life in this phase where they are not often at home anymore (yikes). Sometimes in my PL you can see that there are more stories than actual photos, and that's why!</div>
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In fact I spend all my free time creating and scrapping and have ventured into art and bible journaling too, and one night asked my husband, "Am I wasting my life away?" to which he answered, "then I think it is a great waste of life." I guess I can carry on! :)</div>
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Today I am very excited to share my UK trip photobook, that arrived last week from Shutterfly. It has been more than 3 years since the trip! Although I had all the pages done, somehow didn't complete the covers and first and last pages till recently. What was I waiting for?</div>
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You may remember this <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2014/11/artsy-and-quirky-london.html">post, 'Artsy and Quirky London</a>' when planning for this album, where I decided to make it quirky and interesting like how we found London and the British, and went for eclectic, hipster, artsy as the theme. And so I paired artsy drawings and elements with black/white/grey geometric backgrounds. Really fun approach and this is the result. (To read about the trip and see those layouts, check out these posts from <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/01/our-travel-journals-how-we-record-and.html">Jan 2015</a> , <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/02/birthday-prayers.html">Feb 2015</a>, <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/03/my-photo-wall-and-half-yearly-sale.html">Mar 2015</a>, <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/04/around-here.html">Apr 2015</a>, <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/07/week-in-life-vacation-edition.html">July 2015</a>, <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/08/i-love-lists.html">Aug 2015</a>, <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/09/what-i-would-do-if-i-knew-i-couldnt-fail.html">Sep 2015</a>, and <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/10/sponsor-in-october-digi-files.html">Nov 2015</a>) </div>
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It turned out to be 106 pages and as usual I printed through Shutterfly (as I did my 16 other photobooks), and the book is everything I hoped it would be!</div>
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I managed to video a flip through! But the quality that blogger allows me to upload here is rather low, I am going to try to upload a higher quality version to instagram if you want to check out there :)</div>
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I actually had great fun creating this, and even managed to add a cute music clip 'Tuesday Afternoon' by Izzy Hyman! </div>
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And here are more close-ups.</div>
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May I also share this last page - words from the PL pages I did right after the trip. Top 55 things we did in London and more.</div>
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See those <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2014/01/a-new-year-and-trip-highlights.html">PL pages here. </a> They are some of my favourites!</div>
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<b>Some technical pointers in making the book.</b></div>
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I still do my books in non lay-flat pages to save costs as there are so many pages! I love how they look and feel and they are thin (this one was about 1/2 " or 1.5 cm thick) and I can fit a lot of the books on my shelves. </div>
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These are some things to keep in mind if you want to do it the way I did:</div>
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My layouts (and <a href="http://yindesigns.blogspot.sg/">templates</a>) are all in 24x12 sizes. For uploading to Shutterfly I save the left sides and right sides as separate jpegs (12x12 each). (I believe Shutterfly has a new service that allows you to load up 24x12 jpegs directly but I have not tried it). My tried and tested way to is make sure you save the left and right images with a bit of overlap in the centre of the double page, as a small margin is bound into the book and will not be visible. See my old posts <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2009/02/printing-double-pages-on-shutterfly.html">here</a> and <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2010/02/blessed-chinese-new-year.html">here</a> on more information how to do this. I also avoid putting faces or journaling that goes across the middle of the double page. Generally I am not fussy if some part of the image is 'hidden' and just greatly enjoy the panaromic spread of double pages in 24x12 glory!</div>
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And now onto the new layouts from our Japan trip - from back in Dec 2015, lol! I am super updated on my daily scrapbooking aka Project Life, but my travel layouts, well I take my time, and enjoy re-living the trips. This is volume IV, (see vol <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2016/09/japan-trip-layouts.html">I</a>, and <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2016/11/japan-layouts-volume-ii.html">II</a>, and <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2017/03/japan-layouts-vol-iii.html">III</a> here). There's only about two more volumes to go to complete it, so yay!</div>
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My approach to this album has been changing, because I took such a long time and I was inspired by different things all the time! But I kept the backgrounds constant - all white. In these next four layouts I have gone back to the same style as the UK album, with scattered and skewed photos across the page, and added only paint to the white backgrounds.</div>
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So here is the day we took a trip to these tiny post towns in the Japan alps region. In days long past when people had to walk to travel anywhere and to send word/mail, these post towns were dotted in these parts for rest between towns. They remain small and quaint save for some tourist shops and are really pretty and a wonderful insight into life in those days!</div>
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The main objective of coming here is to attempt the 7.8km trek from Tsumago to Magome, two of the towns, and that is along the Nakasendo trail. It would have been prettier if it had snowed, but somehow that year snow was delayed, though it was below freezing point, but we had a wonderful walk anyway! It was a little unnerving though that there were numerous warnings of bears and bells to ring to fend them off!</div>
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The next stop in the Alps area was to Kairuzaiwa - our one night in an fairly upmarket Ski Resort with its own factory outlets! Alas there was no snow! But never fear, man-made to the rescue. Nothing like the real deal, but we shall not complain. :) The men had learnt to ski in Beijing so they were good, but I struggled and simply could not get those old legs coordinated enough - it was great fun while it lasted though!</div>
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Then we are back in Tokyo again and visited the Imperial Palace grounds (you aren't actually allowed in the palace because the Emperor and Empress live there!) on a free guided walk by local volunteers. Love guided walks! So informative and the guides shared so many stories about the royal family, their line, their love story, history, the 47 Ronins, and so much more. Not to mention it was so beautiful! If you ever go to Tokyo, make sure you take this free walk!</div>
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But Kyoto is still our favourite city and like many will say, we call it the 'real Japan' :)</div>
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Although we visited at the end of November, that year Autumn arrived late and we got to see the fantastic Autumn colours on display! Well as you can see, it is not possible to take a bad photo that day.</div>
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Then we also took an entire afternoon just walking and wandering along what is called the Philosophers' walk - which is actually a canal really, that is beautiful. We can imagine philosophers of old walking here and sprouting philosophical truths. We came up with some of our own too!</div>
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On one of the days we were in Osaka we took a day to visit Mount Koya, or Koya San. It is a quiet mountain with many templates and monks and pilgrims. The best part is the visit to Okunoin cemetery, set deep in the woods, that is something like four hundred years old, and is just a moving experience, with hundreds of preserved tombstones - that told of amazing stories.</div>
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After Osaka we took the train north and landed at Matsumoto, a mountain town with a superb castle. It is always magical to visit and climb a Japanese castle. The men enjoyed looking at all the military installations and weaponry and the like.</div>
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these were the feelings welling up inside of me as I looked back at our 2016. Indeed God has blessed us and carried us through twists and turns, and gave us much, much to be thankful for. We give all thanks and praise to Him. I wish I can share more, but these days I have to be more private on the blog, especially at the request of my teens :)</div>
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I don't know how non-scrapbookers do it, but I reviewed our year by looking through our project life album :) and picked out anything significant or memorable or just note-worthy for this layout. It took some time narrowing them down, but finally I have 18 highlights selected.</div>
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Following Ali Edwards' prompt in her <a href="http://aliedwards.com/themes/review">December 'Review' Storykit</a>, I completed statements starting with 'This is the year .......' and here is our 2016 in review:</div>
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<b>Highlights of our year include many firsts:</b></div>
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Me 'coming-out' from my semi-wig after 1.5 years suffering from alopecia (yay!)</div>
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First I did all the photos and journaling in photoshop (psd template download link below). Then printed it out on A4 Canon Pixma photo paper. Finally added the giant numbers (from Ali's store) and the acrylic 'review' and 'life in review' chipboard piece from the storykit. You might notice this year I've caught onto the hybrid train and love that I can still have the ease of digital scrapbooking plus some of the lovely touch and feel of physical embellishments. Most of my physical stuff are from Ali Edwards because I just get so inspired by her and the ladies in her facebook group, and most of my little stash are from her store :)<br />
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This year I have scaled down my posting on this blog due to my now full time work, and to respect the greater privacy my kids want. I do miss sharing and chatting in this space! But this has allowed me time to enjoy and complete a lot of memory keeping of my own. So at this end of year season, let me share a bit more of my pages and projects, like a scrapbooking year in review!</div>
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</b> <b>Project Life Layouts</b><br />
I still love documenting our lives through PL and these are some of my favorite layouts this year that I've not posted before: (I do post more on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yin_dgs/?hl=en">instagram</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yin_dgs/?hl=en">@yin_dgs</a>)<br />
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May and June Stories - as you can see I have gotten into the habit of writing a lot of stories down that I do not have photos for - love capturing stories!<br />
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Another story focused layout for our short island resort trip<br />
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Trip to London in June<br />
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October staycation to celebrate hubby's big birthday<br />
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From our trip to New Zealand in December (not much journaling as those were captured in my travelers' notebook)<br />
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And finally New Year's Eve!<br />
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In July I joined in with everyone to document a Saturday in our life (<a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2016/09/midori-travelers-notebook-london-travel.html">blog post here</a>)<br />
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This is getting the lowest priority this year but I will continue to document our trips digitally and get some templates out of them :)<br />
As you can see I'm venturing away and trying new styles - to satisfy my creative curiosity - might go back - or who knows where my fancy will lead!<br />
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London layouts (various posts see <a href="http://yindesigns.blogspot.sg/2016/05/celebrating-500-templates-templates-493.html">here</a> )<br />
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Krabi layouts (<a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2016/07/mini-beach-photo-book-my-krabi-album.html">link to post here</a>)<br />
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Japan layouts (various posts <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2016/09/japan-trip-layouts.html">here</a> and <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2016/11/japan-layouts-volume-ii.html">here</a>)<br />
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<b>Mini Albums/ Projects</b><br />
Of course I couldn't stop at just PL and trip layouts! LOL<br />
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<u>30 Days of Lists 1</u><br />
Printed my digital lists from last few years into a minibook (<a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2016/06/mini-5x5-book-review.html">link to post here</a>)<br />
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<u>30 Days of Lists 2</u><br />
Did my 2016 list in physical format (posted more on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yin_dgs/?hl=en">instagram @yin_dgs)</a><br />
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<u>London Travelers' Notebook (<a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2016/09/midori-travelers-notebook-london-travel.html">link to post here</a>)</u><br />
Nowadays I always bring the notebook to journal on the trip and add photos when I'm home - really love this way of documenting my trips!<br />
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<u>New Zealand Travelers' Notebook (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BOO9pjDgjM8/?taken-by=yin_dgs&hl=en">link to instagram here</a>)</u><br />
In our most recent trip I journaled and added memorabilia on the trip - you can see the <b>video flip through</b> of it on<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BOO9pjDgjM8/?taken-by=yin_dgs&hl=en"> instagram here</a><br />
Am in progress of adding photos to the notebook and will make a post of that some time soon :)<br />
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<u>MILK moleskin photobook</u><br />
I made this photobook of our June trip as a gift for my mom. The quality is amazing! I will have to find time to share this is a post soon!<br />
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<b>Scrapbook Layouts <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2016/11/things-currently-sparking-joy.html">(see post here)</a></b><br />
Also quite a few layouts like this one inspired by Ali Edwards' hybrid class<br />
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Now isn't that quite a shocking amount of scrapbooking in one year? I am actually quite shocked, I must be spending too much time on this! But definitely enjoyed every minute of it. But best of all, just the other day, I left my PL album on the table and when I came back, found my nearly twenty year old laughing and reading the album - I'd say this proves it is all worth it!</div>
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I'm back with four more layouts for my Japan album! After a long stretch of stressful long days at work, things have finally settled down and I have been putting in a lot of time doing my favourtie thing! So lots of layouts recently to share :)</div>
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I've decided to call these posts Japan layouts - vol xx. <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2016/09/japan-trip-layouts.html">Here's vol I</a>. and this is vol II. Let's see how many volumes I'll need to complete the album of our awesome trip!</div>
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Yes on this afternoon we visited a Rabbit Cafe. Did you know Japan has dog, cat, rabbit and even owl cafes? We thought we have to visit at least one - and since Jared has wanted to keep rabbits since he was very young, we went for it! He had to don a mask due to his allergies but that did not stop us from having a fabulous time!</div>
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On the right side of the layout above, I digi-stamped Ali Edwards' word art using photoshop - an idea I got from her Hybrid class - easy technique for great effect!</div>
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It's a cafe, so you have to purchase their cake and coffee/tea set meals, and you get to have an hour with the rabbits! They were so cute and adorable. We bought some 'veggy' snacks for them, and they practically pranced at us to get their snacks!</div>
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Next day we visited the Ghibli Museum. Totally whimsical and quirky just like the movies by Mr Miyazaki. Enjoyed it tremondously though if you have young children they will be even more enchanted! We can't take pictures inside the museum, so we made up for it by taking pictures of the outside :)</div>
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The afternoon is spent wondering this beautiful town and shops - 'Loved this day'!</div>
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Next day we spent a day at another outskirt of Tokyo town - Shiimokitazawa. As this is our 3rd trip to Tokyo over the years we wanted to venture beyond the usual tourist zones and this was reported as the latest hip and happening towns especially for thrifting so off we went!</div>
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There were indeed cool and hip cafes and shops all around, but in terms of thrifting it was all winter clothes and boots so really not suitable for us. But we do enjoy the strolling, window-shopping a lot. I'll be back in summer one day!</div>
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The next day we had taken the train to Osaka and in the first evening decided to visit the world famous Kaiyukan Aquarium. It totally lived up to its fame. We thought we had seen a lot of world=class aquarium, but this mesmorized us. Maybe because it was freezing and dark outside, we were completely absorbed into this underwater world.</div>
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You wind through four floors around this giant four storey tank and it looks different and fascinating from every angle. We still talk about it now and then, what a memory!</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">On the left side of the layout I again used multiples of Ali Edwards' word art. I've discovered I love the look of using word art as embellishments as it is more grown-up less cutesy look I now like. I also find that for this Japan album I wanted a linear flat look, so I try to have my elements look 'flat' and not 3D. Not sure if you get my drift, or why I'm so particular about this, I can never explain myself in terms of design very well. I'm more of a 'wing it' till I like it - kind of scrapper! </span></div>
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I've had a great weekend scrapbooking! Lots to share.</div>
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Here is a layout I made from a template by <a href="http://aliedwards.com/shop/classes">Ali Edwards from her hybrid class.</a> It's such a versatile template that I can see myself using for any number of topics. </div>
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But first, these are the things currently sparking Joy for me.</div>
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1. Our scrapbooks, from 2007 to 2016, where our stories are told, where our lives are captured, where hundreds of wonderful hours have been poured, proof that we have lived!</div>
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2. Gim got this for our 14th anniversary in NYC and I’ve collected charms from our travels and it tells of our adventures and love and it brings me joy every time I wear it!</div>
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3. These were an early birthday gift and I use them everyday! At the gym to watch scrapbook videos and on the bus for podcasts - they don’t fall out of my ears - a definite plus!</div>
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4.The Raskog trolley! Now there’s no need to go back and forth to get my supplies out, then keep everything after. So easy now to find everything - it swivels! Love!</div>
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Today I want to share these Day in the Life pages I just did which means so much to me!</div>
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I love documenting. Love recording our lives so as to remember, to savour it, to know we have lived, and how we've lived! So I've always loved the Day in the Life project (by Ali Edwards) but most days in our family are spent apart now that the boys are grown up. Thanks to a magazine page posted by someone in the AE Craft the Story facebook group, I thought how nice if I could do a page for each of our days!</div>
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I showed the page to the hubs and the older son, and both said "yes"! Hey, I was honestly surprised, some of me has rubbed off on them! But then younger one said "no" flat out :( I will find a way!</div>
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Each of us set out on different days to capture our day - I asked for at least 12 to 15 photos, and simply made a grid template on 8.5x11 which I will print on photo paper at home. Also added journaling and a section called 'Fun Facts'</div>
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Now for the younger Jared, because I knew he had a day spent setting up an art exhibition at school, we simply inserted photos we took at said exhibition to fill up his DITL. I also journaled about how he won't take pictures at this time :) Considered done!</div>
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After pulling the photos into the template, I color-coordinated and printed some digital elements from Ali Edwards'Hybrid class and Up digital kit, cut and adhered them together with a wood veneer each. Totally loved how they turned out, but best of all, I'm so happy our individual days now are recorded, at work, at college and at University. Isn't that great?</div>
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It's been a while, but I am finally completed some double pages of our last year's trip to Japan!</div>
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For some reason, I've been playing with physical scrapbooking recently, isn't that interesting? It's probably direct result of being in the Ali Edwards' Craft your Story facebook group, and the 30Days of Lists group. So much inspiration!</div>
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So for this trip album, I decided to approach it differently, in a more linear, grid style, with highlights, title and journaling on the left page, and more photos on the right. And embellishments as desired :)</div>
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I'm very happy with how they turned out!</div>
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Here's a close look at each of the pages and the first days of our trip :)</div>
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This was the first evening upon our arrival in Tokyo. It was such a thrill! We went straight for a genuine bowl of ramen in a tiny joint and then to the Evangelion store the boys had been looking forward to. We are in Japan!</div>
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The next morning we made our way to Yokohama. We had never been here before. The morning was just spent walking around this lovely city on a bright and lovely day. The pier area was amazing. I do love the start of a holiday with my family!</div>
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My impression of this coastal city is the wide expanse and broad sidewalks, so good to wander around, checked out the chinatown, the museum of technology, and we also went to the Cosmo World!</div>
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The Cup Noodles museum is a must-do as the boys love cup noodles! It was so much fun 'making' our own custom cup of noodles!</div>
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All that on the first day in Japan! I am always so happy to scrap and relive our trips. Each day an adventure. Stay tuned for Day 2 soon!</div>
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We traveled in June to London and I brought along a new blank Midori Travelers' Notebook insert to journal on the go. We've always journaled on each trip, I have many notebooks from many trips. I will then make Project Life pages and Digital Photobooks to record the trips. I talked about all of these in two posts which you can find here:</div>
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<a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2014/10/our-travel-journals-how-we-record-and.html">Our Travel Journals Part 1</a></div>
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Since last December, I have fallen for the MTN trend and I loved that the same notebook I used to journal on the trip is going to be my memory keeping minibook! The fun is coming home and adding photos and bits and pieces collected on the trip plus embellishments to make it a fantastic journal of the trip!</div>
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<b>The Process</b></div>
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I had journaled on the trip intentionally leaving blank spaces here and there where I will be adding photos, brochures, memorabilia, etc. </div>
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Once we are home I selected photos (about 3 to 5 photos for each double page spread), depending on the space I had, using the templates I made for our last trip. (<a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/12/my-midori-travelers-notebook-japan.html">get to the templates in this post</a>). They are for printing on A4 size paper. Because I use a kraft paper notebook, the white border for each photo helps to give defition</div>
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For the Cover, I kept it simple and to the same theme as my Japan notebook. Just strips of paper and washi with simple wooden alpha stamp that I have had for ages. </div>
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I am excited imagining many of these notebooks in the years to come!!</div>
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Then I used some of Ali Edwards' digital stamps (<a href="http://aliedwards.com/shop/summer-passport-stamps">Summer passport stamps</a> and <a href="http://aliedwards.com/shop/travel-messy-circles-filled">Travel Messy circles</a>), recolored them in photoshop, added pattern overlay to get the gold foil effect), printed and cut them out.</div>
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And then got going with sticker, glue tape and stapler! Here's the first page</div>
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I had kept the first few pages blank, so here's where I wrote highlights of the trip</div>
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And added an itinerary</div>
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And here's Day 1</div>
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Love how the Ali Edwards' digital stamps added color and a pop to the pages. I re-colored the stamps to match the colors on each page.</div>
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Also added maps and pieces cut from brochures </div>
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The Henry VIII card is our Historic Palaces Membership card</div>
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Yinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12411403555604850149noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29923895.post-58694273019520455212016-07-31T05:27:00.003-07:002016-08-02T07:24:16.236-07:00Day in the Life - From where I stand edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I jumped into <a href="http://aliedwards.com/2016/07/day-in-the-life-this-saturday-july-30th">Ali Edwards' Day In The Life</a> party on 30 July. I wasn't planning to, but you just can't help it if you're in her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/aliedwardscraftthestory/">Craft The Story facebook group</a> - it was so infectious, and really fun to participate with everyone on the same day! Though the Australians and me in Singapore got to start a lot earlier than those in Europe and North America :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was inspired by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCAzovV5NIU">Julie Love Gagen's 'From Where I Stand</a>' album - Loved this angle (all photos taken looking down) and perspective for recording my day! Never tried this before, and since my teenagers do not like their photos taken this was perfect, lol!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As everyone else did, I set my phone alarm to ring every hour, to remind myself to take a photo,in case I forgot. I found that if I added my photos to my Momento app, it shows clearly the time the photos was taken - really neat!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Today was different because we don't have youth ministry at church, one son had to go to school, and the other had friends (7 teenagers!) over to our home, so the hubs and I had chance to do our own thing. We took a cycling trip so had more outdoor photos than I normally would!</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">I was so excited I designed the template on Friday night, so that by Saturday evening I could just 'slot' my photos in and type out the journaling! <a href="http://aliedwards.com/shop/everyday-boxes">Ali Edwards' Digital Brushes - Everyday Boxes</a> were just perfect for these layouts!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These pages are 8.5 x 11 so that I can print them on my home printer (Canon MG5670) on A4 photo paper (I use Hp glossy paper). Then I simply added two <a href="https://www.februarydesign.com/products/tiny-shapes-puffy-sticker-seven-paper-baxter-puffy-stickers">puffy stickers from Seven Paper</a> and call it done. So easy and so pleased to have a day in our life recorded!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Yinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12411403555604850149noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29923895.post-78758606494100802582016-07-05T07:24:00.000-07:002016-11-04T20:22:50.415-07:00Mini Beach Photo Book - My Krabi Album<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Happy Weekend! I just completed a mini (12 layout) Beach trip album that I'm excited to share! You know, I really do love this hobby. The memory keeping part is the most important for me, but the creative part is such fun and so satisfying! Sometimes I wonder if I will become bored or lose the joy, but each time I pick up a new project and start creating I find it so enjoyable.</div>
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For this project I decided I will play with repetitive shapes and see if I can make layouts out of them. These are photos from our trip to Krabi, Thailand last year and I'd say I really like how they turned out :)</div>
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You can see my journaling for this trip done in the <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/07/week-in-life-vacation-edition.html">Week in the Life (Vacation Edition)</a> - in <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/07/week-in-life-vacation-edition.html">my project life album here</a></div>
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Repeating shapes is really pleasing to the eyes don't you think?</div>
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Not forgetting a striking large title</div>
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When Persnickety Prints ran a special for their <a href="https://www.persnicketyprints.com/mini-book/">5x5 Instagram Mini book</a>, I had just completed my fourth round of <a href="http://30daysoflists.com/">30 Days of Lists</a> and thought it would be great way to give this size a try!</div>
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The books specs are: as detailed on their website <a href="https://www.persnicketyprints.com/mini-book/">(here)</a></div>
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What's not to love about that? I do like the feel and texture of the actual book. The cover and inside pages are all smooth creamy matte paper, and of good weight. My only worry is that we might leave finger prints or smudges since my cover is all white, Matte is beautiful but it does seem more 'fragile' than the hardcover glossy covers of my other shutterfly books. But at the $10 I paid for them, I'd say they are a great deal!</div>
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As for the 48 hour turnaround, I'm afraid my book went into some blackhole and it was nearly two months later when I received it in Singapore. I'm not sure what happened but I only checked in almost a month after my order and the status was still 'sent for printing'. After several emails that took more than a week, I'm relieved that the Persnickety team offered to send another copy to print, and I duly received it last week! </div>
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I have printed lots of 12x12 layouts with Persnickety and they were always easy to upload and order, this was my first time trying out their photobook software.</div>
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I had first resized my images to 5x5, Uploading was easy as usual, </div>
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The photobook software was quite easy to understand, there were about ten layout options per page and you just drag your images onto the page. There are some basic text,background and photo editing options, but you should best edit your photos/images with photoshop or other software before loading it on.</div>
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Now let's take a look inside my book!</div>
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About the binding, as the book is small, and the pages do not open flat, after I flip them open for too many times, when I lay the book down like above, the cover will not lie flat anymore, that's why I used a clip for this photo. Not a problem at all, but just thought you might want to know :)</div>
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The colors are true to what I see on my screen and very pretty, as can be expected from Persnickety Prints. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">I chose the full page image layout which adds a white border to your images throughout the book. I think instagram photos will look very pretty in this format, with the white border.</span><br />
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I have to clip the book to a board to take these picture, as the book really does not open flat, but is fine for flipping through.</div>
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For the pages above, I had made my lists on my phone with apps like Over or Wordswag, and the words are perfectly sized in the 5x5 book.</div>
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For these pages where I had made my lists into layouts on my computer, because they were meant to be 8x8 layouts, I found that the words were a tad too small for my aging eyes to read comfortably! Point to note!</div>
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Because my layouts already had white backgrounds, these pages look seamless as the white border does not show up at all.</div>
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I had many different formats of lists as these were made at different times over a few years, but it didn't matter, I added divider pages indicating which month/year they were from, so in future I will be able to know the time context in which I made these lists/</div>
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The book is a fun size, would be great for a casual book of maybe selfies, or instagrams or a book abuot me for a child, makes a fun gift!</div>
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Even the black page below turned out beautifully</div>
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You have an option to add a picture to the back cover too, but I did not want to. The logo can't be removed from the back page as far as I can tell.</div>
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Here's a closer look at the binding and how the book opens.</div>
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Of course I must give a shout out for <a href="http://30daysoflists.com/">30 days of lists</a>, a journalling challenge organized by Kam and Amy a few times a year. I love their list prompts and the community, and have found them a wonderful way to capture some 'stories' about me. </div>
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Hi everyone! I have given myself the permission not to post regularly so I can live more and scrap more. And I have! I have a new approach to Project life that I want to share today.</div>
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Having been so inspired by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/aliedwardscraftthestory/">Ali Edwards' Craft The Story Facebook group</a>, I went completely with the <b>Story</b> as my Project Life approach these last months. </div>
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So instead of looking at my photos first when planning my monthly spreads, this time I whipped out my stash of journaling cards, checked my Evernote where I had been capturing the months' stories, and wrote away! This produced 18 cards for March:</div>
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I used a combination of script pens, sharpie, and gel pens to get the titling and stories down. Look! It was so satisfying, I kept counting the stack as I went along (smile)!</div>
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Then I looked for pictures and filler cards to lay the page out. Noticeably less photos but who cares! With teenage sons it's hard to get many photos, but I had a lot of conversations, anecdotes, shared jokes, STORIES worth capturing!</div>
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Notice how I'm calling it March Stories!</div>
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Stories of night out with my son, pep talk by their dad, text messages with one son who was out too late (!)</div>
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Chance meeting with old friends, Funny 'bickering' between brothers,</div>
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Ryan's treat fro his first paycheck, parents-in-law attending church service for the first time since dad's need for dialysis,...</div>
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Life is full around here. So full, in fact, that some changes and choices need to be made. You may have noticed that I've not produced many layouts or templates recently. One of the main changes is that since last January, I have moved back to full time work after 11 hours on part-time basis. Those 11 years are a great blessing, allowing me to keep up my career, bring in some income, yet have time with the boys as they were growing up. The last few years my work responsibilities had increased greatly and the boys need me around less, so I agreed to switch back. It is stressful, but so far so good. He has sustained me.</div>
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Also, my word for 2016 is Deeper. I decided prayerfully that I want to devote more time towards deepening relationships. Deeper relationship with my God, with my family, my mom, my parents-in-laws, and friends and people I meet too. I am glad to report that so far I'm pretty on track. Been accepting more social engagements, and intentionally planning my lunch breaks to catch up with folks. Also am back attending BSF (bible study fellowship) and being really blessed. </div>
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Thirdly, for many years I found it so fun and rewarding sharing about our family's adventures, the cute things the boys were up to, and so on. But as they have grown up, it became important to respect their wish for privacy. </div>
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So I have decided I will cut down on blogging, and will not be keeping up any schedule of putting out templates in the store. Whatever I do get done will be up on the store whenever! </div>
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Be sure I will still be scrapbooking my life and travels, so some of it will still make it here! I'm in my tenth year of blogging, and I do love it, my own space on the world wide web to share and say what I want. I guess I won't completely go away, I am just giving myself permission to not be obligated to keep posting regularly. </div>
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I greatly appreciate anyone who is still reading here, and to all of you wonderful readers who have been following me, thank you so much! I hope to still come back here with interesting stuff now and then. Like when I get my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yin_dgs/">30 Lists</a> printed as 5x5 Persnickety books (wink) (in the works!)</div>
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I always like to add fun stories - like how we set up our family group chat :)</div>
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And family means a lot to me!</div>
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A date night outing to our National Gallery that was so wonderful, and had so many photos I decided to make into a layout. Played with lots of paints and art journaling suplies!</div>
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And these are photos from our recent staycation, it was a great excuse to get the boys out with us for a bit, again too many photos so a layout it is, with plenty of messy art embellishing. Seems I'm in for this style lately!</div>
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We are just back from a staycation in Sentosa. I remembered I had photos and layouts from the same Luge ride years ago and when I found them I had to share!</div>
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Jared was seven!</div>
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You can read my<a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2006/11/finding-time-to-scrap-again-ive-been.html"> blog post from 2006</a> where I posted these layouts!</div>
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Amazing! How much my family has grown! How cool we still get to do this together as a family (once in a while - this time courtesy or with the excuse of a free staycation). And how wonderful that I have those layouts from ten years ago! </div>
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Valentines' Date Night at our National Gallery - nearly done!</div>
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Yesterday's Staycation - yep, I couldn't wait to get it scrapped!</div>
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This is just one of the many started but still hanging on there. Less priority than scrapping my current life and PL, but I will get back to them. Only about 10 more layouts to completing the entire album!!</div>
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Now you know how much of a multi-tasker I am!</div>
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Finally, just a reminder that the March 30 Days of Lists Challenge is starting on 1 March! I'm not a sponsor this time, (so no affiliate links), just a happy participant, my 5th round I believe. It's fun! </div>
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You can sign up <a href="http://30daysoflists.com/">here at 30 Days of Lists</a></div>
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Hope you join me, if you do, do join in the Facebook group, I like to hangout there and the ladies are wonderful there.</div>
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You can also follow me on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yin_dgs/?hl=en">Instagram at yin_dgs</a> I will usually post my lists daily.</div>
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Oh and you might like to know I have set up digital backgrounds from my supplies just for this challenge! I am ready to list!</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I am a Current Scrapbooker</span></b></div>
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Yep, that's what I'm calling myself. Recently I was prompted to ask myself if the fuss and worry about being 'caught up' affects me. The answer is no.(Yay!) So please don't let my being 'caught up' affect you too. Because fact is, everyone is different, and we must know our own objectives in Scrapbooking. </div>
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Though I scrapbook chronologically, that's not really my objective. The fact that I have completed scrapbooks from 2007 when I started to now (2008 to 2011 were digital books, 2012 to 2015 are PL format) - SUPER YAY!! - is just the outcome of being a <b>Current Scrapbooker.</b></div>
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My scrapbooks are my Journals of life. Through them I reflect and savor life so I scrapbook currently. I capture my life as it happens, fill in my thoughts, record daily as well as bigger moments. As I scrapbook I plan and think about our lives, pray and give thanks. <b>So I Scrapbook Currently</b>. </div>
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I don't bother much about going back if I missed something. I just keep going on with whatever captures me, that I feel like talking about in my books. There isn't any fixed format, or must-have no of pages, sometimes a month came up to only 1 page in the PL, sometimes 8. I also don't bother too much about how it looks, if I have more time to play, then I can be more creative. Mostly, it goes by how much a memory or thought or worry or prayer gets me, By <b>capturing the 'Currently' currently</b>, I capture what I want to remember in my books. And it brings me joy! </div>
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Having said all that, I constantly reevaluate my objective and process, to make sure that even as I enjoy and capture our lives I also keep an eye on the memories and books I'm gifting to myself and my family in the future. </div>
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My life and priorities and stories are changing, so the objectives of my scrapbooking must evolve too. When I have clear objectives I am motivated and can scrapbook clearly and swiftly, without wasting time on unimportant 'details'.</div>
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Our family travel books get special place in our home. These are our amazing shared memories and very precious to us! But I do think travel memories are mainly of value to those of us on the trip together, so I'm glad my travel albums are digital books that take up little place :)</div>
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Actually much of my scrapbooking is for myself, memories I want to keep so in my own older years, they will be a joy to look back and to be shared with my husband, children, and maybe grandchildren(!). But I am wary of ending up with books and books that will be an information overload for future generations. So I am getting selective, bearing in mind to capture the glimpses of us and our lives now that will be interesting and memory-rich for ourselves and future people. Anyone out there having thoughts like this?</div>
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For 2016, I have decided to continue with the Physical PL format, because I have one more previously bought album, But I'm running out of space for them in our small apartment (and I'm a minilist-wannabe) so in 2017 I will have a chance to re-think a reduced format if I want! At the moment <a href="http://www.ksharonk.com/">KsharonK's</a> and <a href="http://www.cathyzielske.com/project-life">Cathy Zielske's </a> super sleek and simple photobook formats are calling me. We'll see!</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">A New Year of Memories</span></b></div>
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Is it already February? Are we already 1/12th into our new year?!</div>
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I'm glad I took time in early January to reflect, pray and think about this new year, as I created my 2016 Project Life cover page. </div>
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This is the verse we chose (along with our church) for our family for 2016. We want to commit to seek and submit to the Lord, and can't wait to see what He will unfold for us this year. It may not be what we have expected, but by faith we know it will be a great and marvelous year!</div>
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We are facing a lot of changes mainly on the education front for our kids. A lot of options and choices also mean opportunities and uncertainty.</div>
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That's how I scrapbook 'currently', currently. :)</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">January Project Life</span></b></div>
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Here are the stories I captured of January. Jared is at a crossroad - choosing between staying in a more academic course in junior college or pursuing his love of game art & design in polytechnic. On this page his graduation party photos, our visits to the polytechnic open houses, and also a record of his allergies and the Doctors' orders on restricted foods. What have you chosen to capture in your scrapbooks?</div>
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January is also the boys' seventeenth and nineteenth birthdays! Two day's of friends over at our home for their birthdays are compiled into one PL spread.</div>
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And that's it for January! Not over-thinking it. The rest of the month are captured in my half monthly in reviews, with a summary review of the month, so January has been scrapbooked as we lived it!</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Birthdays, spring-cleaning, family game-times, visiting Open Houses made up most of the first half of January...</span></div>
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And the second half was filled with School Orientations, another birthday, two new grand nephews, 3 of us taking turns to fall sick, and old friend get-togethers. All good!</div>
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Happy Valentine's! My hubby and I had a wonderful date night last night visiting our new National Gallery - it was so special and I will scrapbook it in February album maybe using one of these Love-Themed templates. The XOXO template was included as part of January's Digi Files. The other three are original new templates and they can be found in the<a href="http://yindesigns.blogspot.sg/"> store here</a></div>
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My Mom's birthday is on the 11th February and I adapted this layout and printed it into a card for her. Can you spot the photo of me when I was young? </div>
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She really loved it!</div>
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Back to my album labels. Because I bought the albums at various times during half price and other sales, they are all colors, haha! So I made the 'numerical' years in black, and added colored wording below. The numericals are from the free font : <a href="http://www.dafont.com/return-to-sender.font">Return to Sender</a>. If you like them, you an download my photoshop file here. Change the color or font, or add backgrounds to customize your own! The file is 4x6 and I print them out on 4x6 photo paper at home before cutting them out.</div>
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I love this period when we move from the previous into the new year. Both the looking back, remembering, reflecting and giving thanks for the year past; as well as the looking forward, planning for, prayers and hope for the new year. Of course, for me these are all done through scrapbooking!</div>
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As I looked back through 2015, I see my title page and this verse:</div>
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Indeed the Lord's faithfulness are new every morning!</div>
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In 2015 I lost a very dear friend, mentor and sister to cancer, had to deal with an auto-immune disorder amongst other stresses, while my sons both graduated from their respective schools and we are thrown into the exciting and bewildering state of changes, choices, decisions! What a year of walking with our God, seeing His guidance, feeling His love, understanding His Truths, strengthened for the journey, and blessed by all counts. Some of this is private, and I no longer share as freely on the blog, but really want to praise our God for all He led us through in 2015.</div>
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Reviewing the year as I looked back through my project life album, I journalled these highlights of 2015, and welled up in thankfulness for His faithfulness. It is so important for myself and our family that all of this is recorded and here it goes into one the last page protector of my album (below)</div>
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(The highlights of this year also include the arrival of our two grand nephews!)</div>
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<b>Have you journalled and reviewed your year and included the testimony in your scrapbooks?</b></div>
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Completing my 2015 album is the best feeling ever! I did a bit of catch up with Nov and Dec month-in-reviews</div>
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I also caught up on the pocket pages by only completing a couple of spreads for each month</div>
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One of the highlights was my sons' high school graduation - congratulations Ryan!</div>
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And our two new grand nephews! I am feeling a tad old, haha!</div>
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Lots of journaling added to record stories, moments, laughs that we shared as a family included too</div>
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The scoop on Jared's stint teaching primary school girls the basics of 3D modelling!</div>
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And in some sort of tradition (3rd time now) I recorded the 'Favorites' of our family circa 2015.</div>
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The empty nest will very soon be upon us and I want to remember simple things like this! See the past years' versions<a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2011/05/election-fever.html"> here</a> and <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015_01_01_archive.html">here</a>.</div>
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My monthly in review pages have been printed (by Persnickety) and have taken their awesome place in my Project Life album! </div>
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The monthly reviews show daily photos of our day-to-day occupations and pre-occupations, doings and happenings, while the pocket pages tell stories - special, funny, traditions, once-off, insider jokes, anything I fancy we will love to read and remember one day!</div>
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I wanted to include some photos of, to mark our Japan holiday in my 2015 album (since I've already journalled my <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/12/my-midori-travelers-notebook-japan.html">Midori-travelers-notebook</a> and will also be making a photo album for it), so I created this 12x12 page - I call it - Japan in review :)</div>
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At a glance, the highlights of this absolutely amazing trip! You can read more in my last post, but can you tell we visited and experienced a lot of different aspects of Japan!</div>
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Loved this format so I created a few more<a href="http://yindesigns.blogspot.sg/"> 'In Review' templates</a>. Am thinking of using it for other in review pages. Eg, Ryan's High school life, Beaches we have visited, Date night selfies, cool right?</div>
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You can find this set <a href="http://yindesigns.blogspot.sg/">in the store</a>. Thanks for looking and continually letting me create what I love, and supporting what I do for my favorite (and only) hobby!!</div>
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We are back from another epic trip! And this time I have recorded / journalled our trip in my new Midori Travelers' Notebook, bought right there in Tokyo. It wasn't planned, but once I saw how beautiful it is, I rationalized how we can use it! Besides it cost about half the price it is sold in Singapore! I figure I will re-use the cover for every trip we take, with 1 notebook to cover notes/research we always make on where and what to do each day, and a 2nd notebook to record and journal on the trip, and where all the bits and pieces we pick up can go! The notebooks can then be removed and stored in folders as completed records of our trips, while the cover will be used on future trips :)</div>
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To see highlights of how I did travel journals in the past, see these posts:</div>
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<a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2014/10/our-travel-journals-how-we-record-and.html">Our Travel Journals Part 1</a></div>
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<a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/01/our-travel-journals-how-we-record-and.html">Our Travel Journals Part II</a></div>
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also check my latest <span style="color: orange; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2016/09/midori-travelers-notebook-london-travel.html">LONDON TRAVELERS NOTEBOOK </a> </span>post </div>
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And so the moment I got back I got to work on my traveler's notebook. Really enjoyed the process! </div>
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I chose the 014 kraft paper refill notebook which has 64 pages or about 32 spreads, and planned out my pages to cover highlights of our trip. First I selected (about 3 to 5 photos for each spread), printed them out on my home printer, and cut them out. Then I got busy pasting and using all the stickers and washi tape in my rarely used paper scrapping supplies. I tried some stamping but my inks weer all old and didn't work well, so left that out. And finally hand-journalled. My handwriting is kind of messy and doesn't go straight even though I tried, but it feels authentic and me, how it should be in my opinion :)</div>
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The simple Cover Page</div>
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A Preface page </div>
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- as this is our 3rd time to Japan, our goals were to take it leisurely, go beyond the touristy spots, and try to taste and soak in and savour all that is Japan and Japanese.</div>
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Two spreads to cover the day to day itinerary for the 16 days trip</div>
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We visited Historical Sites </div>
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Hiked historical trails between preserved old towns</div>
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Went up to UNESCO Heritage site of Koyasan and the atmospheric centuries old Okunoin cemetery</div>
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Marveled at the beauty and elegance of Kyoto</div>
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We did the whimsical, quirky, cute and fun,</div>
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We experienced traditional towns, streets and traditional foods and ways of life</div>
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We made our own Cup Noodles</div>
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But mostly we stayed in Various AirB&Bs </div>
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We always play games on trips, but here in Japan we played Japanese games</div>
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Went on a walking tour led by volunteers</div>
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And of course we totally enjoyed the Japanese Food!</div>
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Mostly in hole-in-the-wall joints, and also in the very-happening Japanese Cafe scene!</div>
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They have the fanciest bakeries and confectioneries, and even their train station bento sets are incredibly delicious</div>
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Taking the public transport is a big way in how we get to know a country</div>
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We also got to visit some parks and take one of the many giant Ferris wheels</div>
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The 3 men went on anime/manga hunt</div>
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The completed notebook - just about an inch thick - I love it!</div>
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You might have noticed that on each page, I tied the theme together using these labels that said "we were here", "we did this", and so on. What I did was to repeat and arrange digital labels (I used these from 'SmartAleck by Sugarplum', and 'So Majoe by OneLittleBird) on a page in photoshop, typed out all the phrases I wanted to use, and printed them out on A4 (8.5x11) sticker or labelling paper. Once printed and cut, they easily went into my notebook.</div>
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For the photos, because I chose the kraft paper notebook, a white frame for the photos would look great, so that's what I went with most pages. I did some without frames to keep it interesting. Also did some in phonebooth strip style, and in varieties of square, landscape and portrait formats.</div>
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I did mine in A4 (8.5x11) photoshop files so I can print them on my printer, and sized them so they would fit the notebook nicely. If you want to try these, you can download the template by clicking on the link below. Once printed out, cut along the grey lines. Love to know if you are trying this too!</div>
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Also see my latest <b><a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/">Bali Travelers' Notebook here</a></b></div>
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Tonight is a rare occasion where I am all alone at home. Jared is staying at his school hostel, Ryan is at his High School Graduation Dinner, the hubby is playing tennis, and I'm pulling this blog post together while listening to one of the <a href="http://www.paperclipping.com/category/roundtable/">Paper Clipping Roundtable </a>podcasts. It's nice to have an uninterrupted evening to scrapbook and blog, but ugh! it's increasingly like an empty nest - and I'm not ready!!</div>
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I had several stories like this one tonight that I wanted to tell for September and October, and I was inspired to make 12x12 layouts for them. I hadn't done this in a while and it was so satisfying I made eight of them :)</div>
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Both our boys started their first jobs recently and there was such mixed emotions for me. I'm so happy and proud they are taking it in stride and learning the meaning of work. I got to meet them for lunch as they are working near me, take the bus to work together, all wonderful new experiences and new ways of engaging with them! But they are literally flying out of the nest!!</div>
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In September Marlyn, one of the readers of my blog turned friend and frequent contributor of the Inspiration layout pages visited Singapore. And we got to meet up for a meal and a fun time catching up in real life! Another wonderful story told!</div>
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And here is Marlyn's page of the same occassion! </div>
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My husband's birthday was full of surprises! Celebrated and remembered here....</div>
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...Including an outing to watch the WTA opening match featuring Sharapova! Did you notice in the layout that I made my own 'pattern' paper by typing out words related to WTA?</div>
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Our family love the 'escape' room challenge and I love the chance for a great family time! This layout will bring back lots of insider jokes, fun memories who solved what and who botched what, haha!</div>
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Here I told the story of my alopecia by recording the fun of figuring new ways to style my hair!</div>
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We are going to Japan! This is our first trip in eight years and we want to go to the less touristy places and experience more local neighborhoods. Planning has taken a good part of the last two months and it's a story in its own right!</div>
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What Stories are you telling? Have they made it into your memory books? Capture them in any way you feel like doing. Don't let formats or albums constraint you!</div>
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Of course I have the half monthly review pages for Sept and Oct capturing the daily stuff. Still love how quickly these come together and the snapshot of our days and months they provide!</div>
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You may recall I took the <a href="http://30daysoflists.com/register/">30 Days of List</a> challenge in September. Enjoyed it greatly and I'm signed up for the next round starting 1 December! I am going to add the Sept lists I made to my Project Life Album in 8.5 x 11 pages like this. </div>
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Now here are more lovely pages by Marlyn from her time in Singapore! You can find more of her beautiful layouts on her <a href="http://gratefulforlifeslittleblessings.blogspot.sg/">blog here.</a></div>
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I will be away from this Sunday for two weeks in Japan!!! Very excited indeed. Please note there be a delay in how quickly I can respond to your emails. Please bear with me I will definitely get back to you.</div>
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I will be posting trip photos as well as 30 Days lists on my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yin_dgs/">Instagram account: yin_dgs</a> if you want to follow me :)</div>
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I'm very honored and happy to be back as a Sponsor in October's The Digi Files! <a href="https://thedailydigi.com/">The Daily Digi</a> has been a great partner and also resource for me, Steph, Janet, Katie and Wendy are such wonderful ladies who have given me opportunities, taught me a lot, and do a great job there. I'm subscribed for years to <a href="https://thedailydigi.com/become-a-member">The Digi Files</a> myself - a great value to try out lots of different designers and styles! In fact, if you look closely, most of my monthly P365 layouts uses embellishments from that month's Digi Files - I tend to use the latest kits as soon as I get them :)</div>
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today we visited the Sun Yat Sen memorial in the morning, and then the 228 museum which remembers the 228 masacre incident in Taiwan’s past. So much to understand about this part of their history. Both haunting and touching, and leaves you wandering how it could have been different. In the afternoon we visited the SunHo paper museum where we got to try our hand at making paper taught by this sweetest young lady. Perfect day!</div>
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This day started with a thrilling ride over 4 km and up 300m in a clear bottom gondola. We scared each other silly and played our scenic taidi challenge all the way. At the hilltop is the tea plantation village with quaint tea houses and lots of walks. But first the boys were cold and craving for cup noodles which we had in the seven-eleven! We stopped for local goodies and later after our walk had another sumptious late lunch/tea at a beautiful teahouse, that’s what you do at Maokong! </div>
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Huashan park was an old factory converted to art park, the Taiwanese have loads of indie/independent creative talents and their designs are cool and interesting! We also visited SongShan part and it is full of the same. Later I found this exhibit in the Red House at XiMenDing which chronicled the history in which the RedHouse has gone through, from being a market, and community centre, factory, Japanese headquarters, to it’s present day gig as a artsy hangout, just what I love!</div>
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The boys did one for this mama by visiting this miniatures museum with me. It was delightful! Full of dollhouses that were historical, not to mention beautiful and amazing to detail! They represented various ages from 1800s to present, and depicted daily life of working class and the rich, street scene, and also historical homes! What a collector’s dream and so wonderfully preserved. Totally amazing !</div>
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We booked all our accomodations through <a href="https://www.airbnb.com.sg/"><b>AirBnB</b></a> this time, and it was great! Much cheaper than to check four of us into two hotel rooms, and we get to have more space, living area and sometimes being located in fantastic locations. We are Air-BnBing for all our trips from now on!</div>
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No matter how many times this has happened, I'm over the moon every time a new photo book arrive in the mail. My Taiwan Shutterfly photobook arrived this week!</div>
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Now I know some printers offer lay flat books, and Shutterfly offers a feature where you upload double pages as is and they do the splitting, but I have not tried them myself. So I just want to share how I prepare these double page layouts for printing. For more information you can also refer this post.<a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2009/02/printing-double-pages-on-shutterfly.html">Printing Double Pages on Shutterfly</a></div>
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I continue to chug on with my 'artsy quirky' themed London album. It's a great joy coming back to it every month. I had more time this month and spent longer playing with them. Especially the Churchill War Rooms page below:</div>
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<b>The Churchill War Rooms</b>: (Journaling reads:)This was a highlight of our trip for sure. </div>
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A massive underground office that was used for 6 years during the war. Heard interviews of old people who worked here then - wow war is real. There was the Map room - lots of maps all over the wall - many pin holes especially over the Atlantic Ocean where the naval ships were trying to avoid German Bombers. The phones, many typewriters, old ways of communicating - so tough! We loved the audio guides that included speeches and diary entries of Churchill and his commanders. At the CHurchill museum - we were fascinated - he was quite a man. We enjoyed a moving digital display of the Ups & Downs of his career - and one of the falls was the Fall of the fortress of Singapore! His quotes were awesome - what wit and foresight and wicked humour! I liked that he was devoted to his wife & family, saying the most brilliant thing he did was “to persuade my wife to marry me.” We bought a book of his quotes at the shop home. A most brilliant time getting to know this great man in this historical war rooms of the WWII. </div>
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<b>Wallace Collection:</b> This is a Museum of the collections (Biggest single family collection) from 5 generations of the Wallace family. We zoomed in on the amazing collection (one of the best in the world) of Armoury. Of course the boys especially Ryan was super impressed. There were so much armoury - from Indian, Chinese, Japanese, to lots of Medieval. They were huge and heavy and massive. How do they fight in them? There was even a complete horse armour! Even the chainmail was impressive up close (to me). Definitely worth the trip!</div>
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<b>The Monument:</b> It’s built by Sir Christopher Wren to remember the great fire. The height it lied down, is directly to the bakery shop from which the fire started! The view is almost completely taken over by newer buildings now. How did they build something like this? It’s the tallest pillar-like observation tower in the world it seems. We even got a certificate each for the climb!</div>
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<b>Covent Gardens:</b> What great atmosphere here - lots of buskers, music, especially loved the quintet, magic, jugglers, ... markets and shops were nearly closed, but still squeezed some shopping out of it - got a chopping board and some star wars weapons playing cards! </div>
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And these are the first and last pages in my album. First page includes a map with where we covered in Taiwan, photos or grandma sending us off in the airport.</div>
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Last page covers the photo of Daddy using his now lost camera (along with all the photos he took on the trip) - and <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/05/the-trip-we-lost-our-camera-and-3000.html">the accompanying story.</a></div>
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Lol. Confession: photo taken at Madam Tussaud's Singapore in August. </div>
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The whole of Sept I have been enjoying listing with the community doing the 30 Days of List Challenge. And the above is just one of them. You can see all my lists if you follow my <a href="https://instagram.com/yin_dgs/">Instagram account yin_dgs.</a> </div>
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It's just so enjoyable and wonderful to take a bit of time daily to jot down a list that represents journaling of a part of me. It's interesting asking my family to chip in too. Like for the prompt 'How I stand out from the crowd' - Jared commented that 'but mummy you live in the middle' (as opposed to living on the edge) - He reads me well! I do tend to try to blend in rather than stand out! </div>
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On a day to day basis, I have taken to using Word Swag app to document them. These will probably be added to the album I'm building. For which I'm using templates <a href="http://yindesigns.blogspot.sg/2011/09/yin-template-262-album-set.html">sets 262</a> and<a href="http://yindesigns.blogspot.sg/2015/09/yin-template-451-album-set.html"> 451</a> to turn into layouts like this:</div>
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Our Love Story</div>
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Raising our boys</div>
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The Lord is our Shepherd</div>
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Working part time for 11 year in my banking career</div>
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Long days at work until recently meant I have only just completed my August pages. August was a full month. It was Singapore's SG 50 Jubilee celebrations. And my birthday too :)</div>
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First I started the month by updating the August card digitally. Find the <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2015/08/my-lists.html">download here</a> if you are interested. </div>
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In August DH's school had a Family Day where we could go visit, check out their brand new facilities and get a 'window into his everyday!'</div>
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He took me around with a Polaroid camera. And when we were done we went to one of the planned activities - Scrapbooking!!I got to complete a physical page on the spot with our Polaroids! I can't describe what a great morning that was. Here's the layout. </div>
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Another highlight in August was the Singapore Symphony Orchestra concert we attended together, our first with the boys actually. It was one of their popular series playing music by Joe Hisaishi, mostly written for Ghibli films. </div>
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Sadly a very dear friend of mine went home to the Lord in August. I printed the eulogy I wrote for her, and inserted it behind one of the cards as part of the way I am remembering her in my PL.<br />
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On my birthday because we had two free tickets we decided to make it a family outing with my mom and brother to Madam Tussauds. It was a really fun couple of hours!</div>
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There were our political leaders, and local celebrities amongst the who's who. Even the boys who were grumbling before we went, admitted they enjoyed themselves.</div>
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And finally, two spreads that make up a photo a day for August. These are from my <a href="http://yindesigns.blogspot.sg/p/project-365.html">365 template sets</a>, <a href="http://yindesigns.blogspot.sg/2012/01/templates-290-album-set-p365.html">#290</a>. I'm still using graph paper as background, and have starting using borders to speed up the process. Black titles seem in vogue :)</div>
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Lots of everyday life here. Every bit makes me happy. And so thankful.</div>
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At this point in my life, with the looming empty nest, my list of What I would do if I knew I couldn't fail reads:</div>
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It was fun to think and dream! This was part of my 30 Days of Lists challenge that started on 1 September. I am really enjoying it, and this time I am posting and sharing on Facebook (private group) and Instagram, You can see my other lists on Instagram under user name <a href="https://instagram.com/yin_dgs/">yin_dgs</a></div>
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Each day I use the Wordswag app to do up my list like the one above. Gradually I am converting them (selected ones) into digital layouts like this one below, for printing into a book (!)</div>
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Last weekend I had some time and decided to adapt my<a href="http://yindesigns.blogspot.sg/2013/11/yin-templates-372-to-375-stacked-cards.html"> template 372</a> into a 12x12 layout for the List on My Pinterest Boards below. Cool right? You can follow me on Pinterest<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/yin100/"> (User name yin100) here</a></div>
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These four pages are some of my favorites yet! They are of the days we spent wandering the Southbank and the West End, Picadilly area - not to mention queuing for half price tickets and catching two west end shows! Guess which ones we caught?<br />
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And I have completed my Taiwan album!! Here's the cover which is done in the same style as all the pages in the book. Including the black background. </div>
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This layout is from a list I made in March 2013 as part of the <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=1444461&c=ib&aff=299207&cl=178091">30 Days of List Challenge</a> using template set 262. I pulled out some older photos, used the beautiful papers from Kaye Winiecki's Base Jumpers - Watercolors, and I love it! Oh and don't get me started on these subjects unless you have all day :)</div>
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You may remember that I've participated in <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=1444461&c=ib&aff=299207&cl=178091">30 Days of Lists Challenge </a>several times in the last few years, I love that the prompts help me to quickly capture thoughts, happenings, current, past and even future things about me that I might otherwise never have a record of. It helps me tell my story! Besides, <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kam and Amy are lots of fun and inspiration. Everyone also shares their lists on the private blog, Instagram and Facebook groups and I love to see their takes on them!</span></div>
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So I enjoyed it so much I have signed up as a Sponsor for the coming September 30 Days of Lists Challenge! That means I will be sponsoring templates, hosting a giveaway and a list, and joining in the listing fun. I hope you will join me! <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=1444461&c=ib&aff=299207&cl=178091">Click here</a> or the image below to check it out!</div>
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Later on, I simply made my lists on my phone and left them there. Then <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">the idea came to me to make a Mini Book of my lists! I am scrapbooking them into layouts, adding photos, and am building pages from all my lists, to print into a book when I've collected enough. Let me show you some that I've done. </span></div>
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This is one of my all time favarites. You may have seen this list (+ explanations) in my <a href="http://simplyyin.blogspot.sg/2014/08/things-younger-me-would-like-about.html">blog post here</a></div>
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My dad passed away when I was fourteen and his story or at least what I remember or know about him is on my scrapbook bucket list. And although I have shared these stories with everyone I hope to collect in one place all that God has done in our family for our faith and encouragement, for future generations, to know His Faithfulness and Goodness. </div>
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When I was nineteen my dorm mate coaxed me into reading Gone with the Wind with her. We will laugh and cry through it together over the next few nights. We will discuss it to no end and loved it. When we finally saw the movie for the first time together at our local library, of course we cried but because the words have come alive. It wouldn't be the same if we hadn't read the book first.</div>
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And now, continuing on with the next few pages from my London album, we spent the best 3 days in Bath and loved it. Here are 5 layouts from Bath! I will let my journaling bring you along with us, if you are interested in my ramblings - I journal a lot! Oh and of course layout templates can be found in <a href="http://yindesigns.blogspot.sg/">the store here!</a></div>
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<b>Bath Abbey</b> - Journaling reads:<br />
Bath is literally a long time dream come true. It is as classically old and quaint and rich with history as I have always imagined. The moment our train pulled into the station and through the fog we can see the spire of the church, we were mesmorized, in a different world! We didn’t get to go inside the Abbey, but all around it is beautiful architecture and also a fantastic Christmas market. Later we would visit No 1 Royal Crescent which is one unit of the townhouse recreated in that time and age when Bath was the place to be seen and to see Society. Apparently Queen Anne bathed in the waters and bore an heir, and popularised Bath as a hip and chic destination. The who’s who were all here. So a lot of the units were built to rent to rich folks coming here for a stay. The house we saw had fake doors built in the Parlour that opens to nowhere so as to maintain symmetry with the real door(!) One guide told us in those days, the rich will bring their daughters to Bath (but not sons), so that they are introduced to Society to be married off well. But no sons as young men would be out on world tours with their tutors, or at army, or training as clergy. So who will the girls find to marry? Much older men, widowers and such, it seems! Fascinating. We were shown so much of their lifestyle. Best tour for me!<br />
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We took a fantastic free walking tour, and learnt histories, stories and even gossip! Like the Abbey was carved with angels climbing up to heaven and also some climbing down, lol! There was Ralph Alan, a messenger who helped stop the Jacobite rebellion and prevented the catholic prince James from taking back the throne. Alan went on to invent the postal system, buy the hills of Bath that produced all the bathstones, and built Prior Park, to be seen, and to see all of Bath! Then there was the amazing John Wood (elder) who built The Circus, and his son John Wood (junior) who built the Royal Crescent. The Circus is beautiful for it ony has 3 openings/roads such that anyone entering from one can only see the opposite building, instead of an opening/exit as you would in a cross road. Ingenious! Then the Royal Crescent was not a semi-circle, like you would draw with a compass, instead our guide demonstrated with a loop of string, poltting 2 ends, and by dragging the loop out a both ends you get the Crescent. Beautiful! He also showed us the back of the Crescent, no one is allowed to make changes to the front of the building as it is Heritage, but boy the alterations they have made to the back, especially for modern toilets! Not forgeting the house with the yellow door, the daughter of that household was taken to court, lost and fought all the way to the House of Lords where they allowed her to keep it yellow - British democracy! haha!<br />
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<b>Roman Baths</b> - Journaling reads:<br />
The most fascinating thing is that these were only found around 1900s after 1600 years or so of their last existence! The Romans used them for 400 years. They had such superb engineering and an elaborate system of rooms - for worship, bathing, healing, swimming and social gatherings! All of them have different purposes, size, plumbing, drainage. The water is greenish and quite hot and in 1970s a girl died of menigitis and they found the water had been poisoned so all bathing is suspende until very recently when they built the new baths & spa digging far below to get to clean thermal waters. I do love wandering around old places and wandering about the ancient people who used to sit here, walk there, bath in the pools.<br />
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Getting into our self-service B&B is like a maze hunt game! After all that fun we found a super exciting space, wrapped in enclaves, with so many little nooks and rooms! Later we would realise the basement of these town houses were kitchens and servants’ quarters- but still wonderful for us! We also had a feast everyday we were in Bath, with all sorts of cuisine, including Asian ones that we have missed since coming to London. At long last we had dinner in a Jamie Oliver’s restaurant - dad’s to-do list - it was cool. Maybe because it is Christmas, Bath is lit and busy all the way till late, beautiful and such great vibes for visitors!</div>
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We decided to make for Prior Park (as I had read a historical novel about a Palladian style home) by bus but the local people on the bus told us it is closed, and proceeded to give us to many suggestions! Eventually a lovely lady named Julia brought us to her village called ‘Combe Down’, and showed us around. The village was built by Ralph Allan to house his workers, with its own church and homes. (She lives in one of them now that was built in 1730s!). The insides of the hills were emptied (for the Bath Stone) and the homes were sinking and now we can see work going on to fill in the hills with something I can’t remember the name of. She showed us to her beautiful church, and the kind caretaker told us a way to trek down to Bath, we bought some picnic lunch and off we went. To an adventure!! We trekked through a pre school, past parents picking up kids, through back lanes and where boys were swinging off trees, getting lost, before turning into what turned to be Prior Park College. It was beautiful and we sat down on some benches for our picnic lunch, starved and looking terribly out of place, or may be not so much, since someone came up to ask us for directions, haha! Ryan was worried we are trespassing, instead people were kind and gave us further directions, but we chance upon a cab just waiting at the gates for us and before long were back in town. To more Christmas market shopping!</div>
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Yinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12411403555604850149noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29923895.post-83800560058557695082015-08-09T07:59:00.000-07:002015-08-14T09:28:15.581-07:00Celebrating Singapore's 50th National Birthday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Singapore gained independence 50 years ago today, and our whole nation is celebrating our <a href="https://www.singapore50.sg/">Jubilee Birthday</a> <a href="https://www.singapore50.sg/en/WhatsOn.aspx">this entire weekend</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Birthday Singapore!</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was surprised that today my Google page showed this image. (it probably only shows up if you are googling from Singapore?)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's titled "Next 50, our first world Singapore" by Moh Journ Hadyn, 8. Wow, awesome work, Hadyn!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As a memory keeper, I was delighted when we received a pack of stickers in the mail, titled</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> <b>'What make us, us?</b></span><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Although we are a young modern cosmopolitan society made up of different races and cultures, we have developed some uniquely Singaporean ways, foods, lingo, ways that gives us an identity! As the pack said it, we have countless quirks and peculiar ways all our own. No one else in the world does it like us. Very much worth scrapbooking! So I decided to give our own take on What Makes Us, Us? using the stickers in my Project Life Album.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I like sharing things Singaporean on my blog, as most of my readers are not from my part of the world. You may not understand what I'm talking about, or it may be fun to you. So here goes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have you scrapbooked your town, city, region, the way you do things that no one else in the world does? I'm glad I did!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you are interested in other uniquely Singaporean icons and trademarks, read this fun take: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/06/travel/singapore-50-reasons/">50 Reasons Singapore is the World's Greatest City (This Week)</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And a day later, we discovered he had made a stop-motion video with it - I think the Ministry of Education doesn't mind - the SG50 robot wins the battle and salutes Singapore with pride!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cool right? His own comments on the video: "<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SG-50 Mecha, built entirely with half the parts of one "Build my Singapore" set. Stop motion hastily done and cheap effects added in Photoshop" Well this proud mama won't call it that, I thought it was way cool :)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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