Happy Hearts' Day!

It was a work day for me! But it was okay, at least I was out of the house, breathe a different kind of air and used the other side of me. It was okay, I didn't have a dinner date or flowers and chocolate gifts. But instead I treated myself for something I really LOVE... a pair of new shoes and some scrap stuff! Hubby was away from home and my boys doesn't care about the day, so in short it was just an ordinary day in my life. But with these goodies to lift up my spirits!



I broke my cutting pad last Saturday! I normally spend my mornings cutting my titles, good thing I can still use it slowly, but of course it needs replacement at once. I ordered at once and was delivered on Valentine's day.

I'm on my 108th page for my assignment update! It feels great to know that I only have 11 pockets or approximately 20 pages left to play with. Will take a little rest after this first assignment for the year. We are planning to celebrate little Chuy's birthday elsewhere. School is roughly 6 weeks to go, I don't know if I will be happy for that because I'm sure I'm gonna miss teaching for the whole summer. Just taking things easy for now...

Have to go, tomorrow is another race! Thanks for looking as always!

I have a WINNER!

... Good Monday morning to the other side of the world! I'm extactly 12 hours ahead over the East Coast part of America and Canada, so by now it's about 10:00 in the morning there and its 10:00 in the evening here and its my bed time already! I was able to recieve 119 comments on my blog. I wish to
THANK each and everyone who patiently viewed and left me a message. And THANK YOU also for joining us over a weekend of bouncing at Creative Scrappers' Birthday Bash!

Okay! Okay... let's draw my blog bounce winner! I asked Lorenzo,
my youngest son to pick one and show me the name.

CONGRATULATIONS Kim!

Please email me your mailing address at mfavirtucio_l@yahoo.com, I'm just so excited to send you your RAK.

Tata for now...

... Welcome to my BLOG!

Join the Creative Scrappers' BLOG BOUNCE! Its "free-style", meaning there is no correct order to bounce from blog to blog. You have the entire weekend to bounce around and once you're done bouncing or hopping the Creative Scrappers DT blogs, please bounce back to the Creative Scrappers site to leave a final comment. Hope you bounce around each of the DT's blogs and leave a little comment because there are lot of RAKs waiting for you, ssooooo.... go on!

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Here's a sketch and page to share... thanks to Ann Katrin for this wonderful inspiration! Oh, you don't actually have to complete a page, but if you do, please share it to us...




Perfect Joy... These 3 men are the perfect joys of my life! I may not have a perfect life a woman can ask for, but they give me the joy I always look for. I used here Basic Grey Aged and Confused "Vagabond" papers and Wilma chipboard letters, Prima flowers, AAS gromets, A2Z Scraplets chipboard swirls, silk leaves, Tattered Angels glimmer mist, metal frames, Marcellas metal charms and flower buds.

And here's a little something for the lucky bouncer! Will have my three boys draw the winner on Sunday night, so please come back by Monday morning for some great news... Thank you so much for joining Creative Scrappers' Blog Bounce!


Happy Bouncing, TFL!

... This is going to be EXCITING so don't miss the BOUNCE!

CELEBRATE with US...

... YES! Creative Scrappers is turning TWO and we are going to have a Birthday Bash for the whole month of April and it's gonna start tomorrow... We have lots of reveals, games, prizes and guests! Please visit our blog for the daily happenings and partying.

TTFN!

Stashhhh....

Scrapbooks Hawaii's farewell sale was a blast! I got these all for more than 50% off! With this, I would like to THANK ate Marisa for having me as one of her Design Team member for a year, its an honor to be part of the Scrapbooks Hawaii!

SCRAPJAM in Manila, Philippines

... finally, natuloy na rin ang JAM! Ate Marisa and Ate Nette had to postponed last minute because of Typhoon Pepeng. Since I will be coming from the south and it will take us more than an hour to travel, the LB Scrapaholics opted to start early yesterday morning. Yup, we have to be up by 4 in the morning, so we can gather up and start moving by 5:30... waaahhh, so early! We arrived at Alexandra a little pass 7, then the work and fun begun!






At this point, I want to THANK ate Marisa and ate Nette for coming up with another successful SCRAPJAM! I am so thankful to be part of the Organizing Committee and to be a Design Team Member of Scrapbooks Hawaii. To my Co-DTs Yoyin Malig and Alby Laran, and to Cookie and Donna whom I miss so much. It was a blast! and I really had FUN !

... Happiness!

... is getting a yuMMY RAK from Gracie, for joining her Kaya Challenge over at Pinoy Scrapbookers. Thanks Gracie!!!

... is having a goodie bag! Loaded with Fancy Pants' big board chipboards, Provo Craft's Silent Setter and a looootttt of papers and papers pa rin!

... is getting a complete Jam class kits... 4 classes all in all! Lots of distressing, stamping, spraying and water techniques, all very interesting and fun to make. Thanks to Ate Marisa for teaching the minibook of techniques and the blooms and butterflies mini album, Yoyin for teaching the use of glossy paper and more of TH's distressing ink pads tech(grabe ang galing galing nito!) and of course, Jian for sharing her star lantern.

... is having a good catch... hahaha!

... is having a little shopping escapade! My eyes were drolling over the Prima flowers and blings. I instantly fell in love with Tim Holtz's Distress Inks, I was a bit late in shopping these, but at least I got 2 ink pads.

Hay... kelan kaya ako makakalaro? I promise, right after finals! Thanks for looking...

Speak...

... that was the theme during the layout challenge last Scrapfest 7. Challenge required 3 photos of you and used up all the stash on the challenge kit. It was about 3 in the afternoon that Friday before the Scrapfest when I shoot these photos, I had to set my cam on timer since there was nobody to take pictures of me. You can just imagine me running back and forth in setting the timer and giving a pose, hahaha! I wanted to show the different faces of me but I ended up making fun of myself, para akong sira just to have some decent photos. And so, here's the output...



Speak Your Heart... Patterned papers (which I forgot the name of the manufacturer!), Bazill cardstock, foam diecut letters, AC Thickers foam letters, MM acrylic paint, glittered glue, chipboard wings, 7 Gypsies journaling card, brads, buttons, ricrac, DMC thread, Prima flower and Colorbox fluid chalk ink. Thanks for my title, Timi!

My Shopping Treat! I spent more than a thousand for papers, PAPERS and papers like Scenic Route, Webster Pages, DCWV and October Afternoon, just 1 pack of AC Thickers letters, a Tattered Angel Glimmer Mist and Glimmer Glass, and an A2Z Scraplets chipboard swirl. Yan lang and lots of FUN digging them! I haven't unpack them yet until now, hoping to play with them soon!

Thanks for looking!

Super Sale!

The garage sale yesterday was really overwhelming! I really dont have plans on shopping, just want to go out with the Scrapaholics, pero napariwara ako! Got over 60pieces of cardstocks and patterned papers, and a good deal on chipboards, a few flowers and brads! Look!

I'm itching to scrap right now... hmmm, hope I can do something today! I would like to THANK also the ladies behind Pile It On, SP Color Combo and One Little Word for dropping by my blog and leaving me some encouraging words, I really appreciate it. Thanks for looking!

rush! RUSH! rush!

Just finished these invites this morning! Its so simple I guess, I just used here some pps, calling card board sheets, dv flowers, chalk inks and pigment inks, buttons and DMC thread which I used to sew each of the buttons... whew! Its finally done... I'm sure, Mom will be happy to give them to her dancing guests. I was looking for a high-heeled shoe pattern instead of the flower, but she said her guests might not come if they will know that there's dancing, they might get shy huh!? Well, whatever... basta I'm done with my first assignment!

TFL as always!

Habol pa sa summmer... I went to Bohol last June 2-4 with my Tita Elsa, cousins Gale and Angelo, Arlen and my boy Luigi. The first day was spent travelling from Manila to Tagbilaran and then a whole day tour around the province of Bohol. We visited several landmarks like the Blood Compact statues, Baclayon Church, the Tarsiers, lunch at Loboc River and the famous Chocolate Hills.



Then, the last stop was the Dumaluan Beach Resort where we checked in for 2 nights. It was surprising to meet Cesar Montano, Sunshine Cruz and Bayani Agbayani early Wednesday morning. Buboy was so nice and friendly, oh well he is running for Governor of Bohol this coming election that's why he was there attending seminars and campaigns.



I'm not so much of a beach person... but I fell in love with Bohol's beach! White, smooth and clean sand, fresh air and warm people. Take a look...






Best of all.. I was connected! My favorite spot at the beach front had a free wifi connection, so Gale and I spent so much time laying there until lights turned off at night...hehehe! Look here, I was laying 4 steps away from Buboy while he was having breakfast.


And then, its was time to say goodbye to Bohol! We took the 11:35am ferry going back to Cebu via Ocean Jet, nice trip unlike the first one. Then our flight, PR850 going back to Manila was super delayed. It was a rough flight because of heavy rains, the plane went around Metro Manila before it took its final landing. Luigi had a great time I guess, it was his first plane ride kaya di nya alam na nakakatakot yung landing.





My special thanks to my Tita Elsa and Arlen, it was such a wonderful experience! Hmmm... I think I will start saving up for next year's visit to Bohol, I promise to be back when Buboy becomes the next Governor! Hehehe...joke! Byahe na kayo, its worth spending for!

Thanks for looking peeps!

She's leaving today!

We had a date with Joanne Yap yesterday! Ate Liezl, Cors and I met her at Starbucks, Ayala Town Center in Alabang... umaatikabong girls and scrappy talks, a lot of catching up for not seeing each other for almost a year, I guess. Then we went to her house in Pilar to see little Jorell, watch Pacquiao's short fight and had lunch, of course! Bye-bye time was so hard, no more crying ha... because I'm sure I'm gonna miss this lady, my friend, my critic and my boss. Thanks for the wonderful time yesterday... have a safe trip Joanne!

Happy Easter Everyone...

I am sooo happy today! Hehehehe.... Hallelujah! The LB Scrapaholics family celebrated the 3rd annual Easter Egg Hunt this afternoon infront of the Humanities building where you can find the Oblation statue. As usual we had the annual family shoot, too bad hubby wasn't able to come, but that's okay... we enjoyed the shoot anyway! I want to thank BILL for the pictorial, patience and time. Let me share some photos of the fun event...







More photos here. Thanks for looking!