City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 413 ~ Graduation

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The theme is Graduation

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Products used -

Neat and Tangled

Papertrey Ink

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 325 ~ Black and White Party

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We are having a BLACK and WHITE party, come join in the fun! (Check out challenge details HERE!)

 

My project is a gift all dressed up in Black and White....

 

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Project Life 2016 ~ May 20 to 22

Project Life 2016

May 20

Early morning today, I dropped Papi off at Doggie Oasis, the day care/boarding that he will stay for three days when we are gone. I am so so sad.....

I got to the airport at 7AM and on my way to New York City for Dolce's graduation, DH flew to Boston on Monday for work and we will meet in NYC.

 

Whenever I get a chance on my phone, I would look at the papi cam to see what is my baby boy doing...

 sometimes he is curious and want to make friends with others...

but a lot of the time, he would just stand there and stare at the gate, maybe he is thinking "when is mom coming to pick me up?" I feel so so sad leaving him there but I have no other choice since both DH and I, plus Clare will be all in NYC for Dolce's graduation.

I arrived in New York around 5, but got stuck in traffic for more than 2 hours, it is dinner time by the time I got to our friend's house. Imran is a vendor and friends who worked for DH, we knew Imran more than ten years, every time we come back to the city, he also invited us to stay with him, but we never did. This time because Dolce's campus is in Queens, so we finally agreed to stay with Imran.

Imran and his family are from Iran, they moved here for a better life, hard working and honest people, he works 18 hours a day just to provide for his family, it is sad for me to hear their kids talking about the election at dinner, that if Mr. T was elected, they will have to stop school, or even move out of America, how sick the country is that a 7 year old has to fear for his future just because they are immigrants, just because they are Muslim.

May 21

Graduation is tomorrow, we have a free day today, Imran assigned one of his driver to take care of us the whole day, so we go into the city. High Line has been one of the places I wanted to visit, it wasn't there when we lived in NYC, and every time I came back here, there is just too many things to do on the list, we finally made it to High Line this time. 

I have a post on High Line few days ago, you can check out more pictures of High Line if you are interested.

High Line is a piece of GREEN build in the hustle and bustle of NYC...

after High Line, we walked a big loop to Chelsea Market, we passed by Chelsea Piers....

I used to take Dolce to Chelsea Piers for her gymnastic training, 3 times a week, rain or shine, I still remember those days, especially in the cold winter nights, I just wish that I don't have to do that, but what do you do, a Mother supposed to provide whatever best for their kids, Dolce loves gymnastic when she was young, even when times were rough, she won't quit, so as mother, I just have to push myself to go on.

Chelsea Market was here when I lived in NYC, but I haven't been here...

I just love market places, but we don't have a lot of time because we want to go to China Town for our favorite soup dumplings...

soup dumplings and spicy cabbage from Joe's Shanghai is a MUST whenever we come back to NYC

 

it is such a luxury to have a driver taking you wherever you want.... after lunch we went to Freedom tower to see the reflection pool...

May 22

Today is Dolce's graduation day, it was raining so it took some of the fun away...

I am so proud of my baby girl, she just turn 21 in May, and she received her Bachelor degree with highest honor (Summa Cum Lande is what they announced it)

 

After graduation, we went out for lunch and then back to Imran's house to pick up our bags, we are on the way to Europe!!!

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 319 ~ The Book of Love

How do you measure LOVE? Especially LOVE for your children?

If you ask me, my answer would be.....

A parent's LOVE is Whole,

No matter how many times divded.

I only wish my children understand.

I made a BOOK of LOVE sometime ago for Clare, when she started a new page of her life.

this BOOK of LOVE is in the photo journal form....

 it started with a a few of her baby photos....

 and then Clare as a young lady....

the next few pages is her life in Singapore, New York and Las Vegas, and then the day I sent her to college, and photo of her graduation recital....

I leave some blank journal card for her to write down her thoughts......

and then the important day when she is officially on her own....

I do have a graduation speech by Bill Gates, meant for the graduate to read by somehow, a little doggie seems to be interested too (see his little foot on the top left corner?)
 

and then I filled up lots of pockets with journal card, she can continue with the journaling on her own
 

my daughter probably do not have a lot of art supply at home so this BOOK of LOVE comes with glue stick and other embellishment for her to get creative
 

here's my BOOK of LOVE for my kid...
 

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~ Kirsty

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 305 ~ You Are My Super Hero!

Are you a Super Hero fan? I am not, but somehow, I just love Spiderman movies, I know, every time they make a new one, the story line is always the same, but I guess is the NYC scene in the movies that I love, so I actually watched most of Spiderman movies.

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the theme is 

YOU ARE MY SUPER HERO

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Here's my card....

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