The Non-Existent Side of Me

The creative, make-things-with-your-very-own-hands part of me.

But I decided to venture into unknown grounds to try out some things for gabe.

After more than a year since his birth, the mother finally got down to select his photos (0-12 months) and got them printed out. But to slot everything (about 900 of them, in case you're interested) into big fat albums seems like such a shame. So after much thinking and "consultation sessions" with my creative friends, I decided to do up a scrapbook in addition to the big fat album. About three photos a month for the first year of his life to document his growth and to kinda leave him a little something to look back at when he grows up. Upon shian's recommendation, I signed up for a basic scrapbooking workshop with Made With Love. It was fun, and something refreshing as I got to sit among a class of strangers and learn something new. It was there that I was reminded how I managed to fail art class in secondary school. In any case, with my new found skills, I'm about to launch Project Gabe Scrapbook soon. But it'll probably make a church mouse out of me; these things aren't cheap!

So that's one. The other project saw me wandering into Spotlight to grab some textiles and in-fills for a pillow for gabe. As a testament to how un-cheoklet this move is, a friend whom I bumped into at Spotlight exclaimed, "what are YOU doing here?" Point taken. So begins the project to replace gabe's pillow, which is too small to accommodate all his rolling about. And since I don't own a sewing machine, nor do I know how to use one (my classmate had to discreetly help me set up the machine at my home-ec exam!), I stitched the entire thing up with needle and thread.

Well, I think he likes it. *beam*