A Wonderful Award from a Lovely Lady

Although I said I would not have another post I wanted to do a quik one to say a big MAHALO to the lovely Cami for bestowing on me my very first blog award. I am so very touched that she would bestow this awesome award on me and in turn make my day. Mahalo Cami for giving me this wonderful and very cherished blog award. I am so touched by your kind words and your friendship. Please make sure to visit Cami's wonderful blog, she's an amazing crafter and a great inspiration to me.

So now I have to do the following:
1. Thank and link back to the person(s) who gave me the award,
2. Share 8 things about myself,
3. Forward it to 8 bloggers, and
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their award

So, here goes,
1. THANK YOU CAMI FOR THIS AWESOME AWARD!! I love it!!

Some things you may not have known about me:
1. I LOVE sports, especially volleyball
2. Born and raised in Los Angeles, but my heart is in Hawaii!
3. I love surfing & surfers but don't know how to surf and my swimming skills are kinda junk.
4. I am a closet otaku (anime lover) who loves turtles, and most things Hawaiian or Japanese
5. I work for a Chinese fast food company who's trademarks are two Panda bears named Eddie & Tom Tom
6. I have a hard time saying no and sometimes it gets me into trouble
7. I "hoard" so I can "always see the pretty papers, etc." so I must learn to use them from this year on! - Me too Cami!! I love paper and hate sharing them
8. I am not related to Edgar Allen Poe
I'm throwing this one in just cause:
9. I love anything chocolate (dark) and peanut butter! - No wonder we get a long Cami, I love dark chocolate and peanut butter!! :)

Now the hard part, trying to pass this on to only 8 talented people out of thousands, but here goes:

Maribeth
Kathy & Elise
Angela
Amy
Rachel
Melanie
Kim
Kris

I want to thank each of you for your wonderful inspirations, please enjoy this award:


Please visit these ladies and send them some love. Mahalo for stopping by and hope you have a wonderful crafting weekend!

Hello! O how I've missed you all...

Happy New Year everyone! Isn't that the cutest image from The Greeting Farm? I hope 2011 has started off with a good feeling for you all. It's been 2 months since my last post and boy have I missed you all. I hope to get back to posting, catching up and visiting you all real soon. Hopefully you haven't forgotten me but if you have that's ok, I'll just have to visit, visit, visit till you remember. >.< I want to say a special thank you to those of you who have kept in touch with me while I was temporarily away from blogland. It touches my heart tremendously to know that you are thinking of me as I often think of you. :')
Below are a few projects that I was working on, yes I wasn't being idle, only on blogging. 30 baby carriages for my co-worker, 25 softball memorabilia books for another co-worker, a wedding frame for another co-worker and a birthday card for my supervisor. Yes, my co-workers certainly kept me very busy. :)

The softball memorabilia books were primarily what kept me away from blogging as well as work itself. The project took exactly a total of 1-month (but over a 2-month period) to complete and I am happy to say that all parties that received their surprise trip back to our first softball season at work were extremely touched and rained wonderful praise on everyone that participated in creating the books. I still tear up when I remember what some of them wrote. It's an awesome feeling to receive such wonderful comments from a group of really awesome people. :)
Ok, as I'm feeling under the weather I think I'll stop for now. Mahalo for stopping by and hope you all have a wonderful weekend! :)

Happy Birthday Kat!

Yesterday we celebrated Kat's birthday with good food, lots of drinks, and tons of laughter. We went to a Korean BBQ restaurant in Cerritos, CA called The Corner Place. Although we came out smelling like Korean BBQ, it was worth it, the food was so ono, yummy!
The card I made for Kat was based on the TGF Wed toot background masking by Anna Maria. Instead of using a TGF stamp tho, I used a Sweet November stamp, the beautiful Fidget Goblinspider, in honor of Sweet November's 1st Birthday/Anniversary. I hope I did the stamp justice. I colored her up with blacks, grays and greens. I used a couple other stamps for the sakuras and the background. I also sparkled up Fidget's green polka dots, and her wings. I didn't stamp the bottom of the card like in the picture above, but if I had a stamp I would have stamped that saying. :)
I think I'll enter this card in the ATS challenge, hey why not! Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, either happily crafting or relaxing. Mahalo for stopping by.
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Supplies:
Papers: Black cs-Recollections; white cs-Neenah
Stamps: Fidget Goblinspider-Sweet November; background stamp-Inkadinkado; sakura flower-Inkdinkado clear stamp Asian by design series
Inks: Black tuxedo; cottage ivy-Memento; Fresh green-colorbox
Embossing powder: clear
Stickles: Crystal clear
Copic markers: various

What I picked up at the RSC-Carson CA

Happy Sunday! This is the first post of two, and it's going to be a pretty quick one as I have tons of crafting to get started on. Had a good time yesterday at the RSC in Carson. Purchased some awesome origami paper from my favorite place, Hanko Designs, and the two biggest purchases of the day was the Sizzix Grand Caliber and some awesome stamps and frames from Darcie's and of course I stopped at the Tim Holtz booth where he was giving a small tutorial, sorry no picture, I forgot! But I picked up some distress inks, distressing tool and some clear plastic fragment charms. All in all a really fun day with my bestie, her boo and our other bestie. I wanted to share the make & take I did for a donation of $1.
Isn't that image just the cutest? Thanks for stopping by, I'll post the card I made for my friend Kat next. Hope you're having a wonderful day! Mahalo for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Tuan!

Before I start my post I just wanted to share that Sweet November is celebrating their 1st birthday/anniversary with a special blog hop. You can start the hop at the ATS website which has a list of all the players. Make sure to go over and wish Sweet November a Happy Birthday! I did and it was soo much fun! Mahalo!
Happy Saturday blogland friends. Hope you had a good week and are now enjoying this well deserved weekend. I've got a busy day ahead. Going to head to the Carson Rubber stamp convention with my bestie Renate and her boo Zach. Then later we are meeting up with some friends in Cerritos for some Korean Bar-b-Q. Yumm! It's our friend's (Kat) bday, so it should be good fun. Today's share is a card I made for my co-worker's (Tuan) birthday. He turned 30 yesterday, but believe me he doesn't look a day over 21! Must be his asian genes. :)
I used Toxic (or is he sweet) for his card, cause he sort of resembles Tuan. I wiped off his wings and I added a little something something to the image. Can you see what it is? Look closely at his mouth. Yes, unfortunately he's a smoker. It's funny that my other co-workers totally recognized who I was trying to portray once I added the cigarette to the image. Too funny! Since this is a guy card, I went simple and mounted the white cs on dark brown paper, then onto a craft card which I sponged. I like the clean lines which is perfect for any guy card.
Okie dokie, gotta get cranking on a card for Kat before I leave for my busy day. Hope you are all getting crafty this weekend and if you have time, stop on over at the ATS website for the Sweet November birthday blog hop.
Mahalo for stopping by!
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Supplies:
Paper: White, chocolate & kraft cs-Neenah
Image: Sweet & Toxic - The Greeting Farm
Copic markers: Various
White gel pen-Sakura