Our Beautiful world - Signage

It's been three months since I viewed my blog and update my feed. I was totally out and my creativity was temporarily blocked. Since photography is the only way for me to be reconnected with the world, here I am. The best way to refresh is with photography.
At Beautiful World, the theme for Week 60 (wow! is that how long ago I was there?) is Signage. To all photographic enthusiasts, please visit this blog. You will not be disappointed.
On the Go is the latest eating venue by Traders Hotel. As the name suggests, we will stop by to buy our breakfast or lunch here and walk back to office or occasionally we will stop by and eat-in here. A very convenient stop center, as I will call it.
Here's my take for the Theme:

On The Go - the latest eating Venue by Traders Hotel.

By the way, I now have Instagram. Please feel free to view my photos over there. Find me at Lili_Sulastri. Thank you in advance.

Upgrade Quality of Life Part 1

This is the first my Upgrade Quality of Life series.

For days on end my DH has been talking about upgrading the quality of life. I don't know what action he is going to take. Rather than argue or say anything, I decided to take a cold hard look at my Financial situation first. All I can say is, it sucks.
With great determination, I made a concrete decision to close all my Credit card accounts, except one because it is tied to the Insurance payment. Without any doubt, I went to the respective banks and paid up all that was due to them. I walked out a Free person and after 2 months, it feels so great not to receive calls from banks to remind me to make payments. Unfortunately, I still receive calls from unexpected bank representatives trying to sell me their ideas on the goodness of having personal loans as well as having credit cards. It's absolutely wonderful to be free of debts. Needless to say, I am going to work around my housing loans. Hmm.....
At least for now, I can smile broadly and at the same time I can buy Miss Z some pretty clothes and hopefully put aside that extra money for travelling. Shall I say, Japan, here I come!
I decided to create an art journal and this is the first in the series. I must admit, I am a hoarder. The base for this journal started it's life as a hanging office file. My college wanted to throw away the whole lot. These files are still new and I decided to recycle them. After cutting them all up to size and file then in a recycled hard cover file, I conveniently put them aside. That was three years ago. Finally, it gets to be used.

Art Journal
Supplies - recycled hanging file
Dry Wall Tape
Acrylic paints
White Gesso
Bazzil cardstock
Paper Boutique sentiment
Micia Stamps
Micia Inks
Scraps of papers
Sharpie pen

Clarence Samuel Farewell Album

I would like to say thank you to my friends who gave me the task of preparing this Album as a Memento to my retiring Supervisor, Clarence Shantakumar Samuel. We are going to miss him, that's for sure, especially his humor and his ability to be a stand-up comedian at the eleventh hour.
The theme for this layout is Facilities Management staffs. Unfortunately, I was only given a week to complete the task and budget was also very minimal. Still I try my best to create attractive layouts even though in general they are extremely Clean and Simple. During my earlier preparation, I was able to participate in challenges. As time goes by, the challenge to get the layouts done was too much for me to consider submission for challenges.  Anyway, I am happy with the result and I feel honoured that a few of my friends liked what I did. I just have to grin and bear with the remarks of one staff, who not only annoyed me but the rest of the staffs, too. I can't please one unhappy person, can I.
Here's the result of my work :

What I enjoyed during the process of creating these layouts is that I was able to use up my hoarded stuff, bits and pieces of scraps and there was minimal purchase.

Cherish The Day

I am not a stripy person. For the Southerngirlschallenge challenge 89, the criteria is to use STRIPES. The more the merrier. Good enough excuse for me to pull out those stripy papers and put them to good use. Here's the layout.

Razali and Arjuna
Supplies: Paper Boutique, Pop Artz
Bazzil Cardstock for Journaling
Washi Tape
Decorative Scissors

Shoba

I created this layout using the Scrapourstash (SOUS) Sketch Challenge #13. It's been a long time since I used Brenda's sketch.


On top of that we have to:

Create a layout inspired by the sketch below and you must include the following stash items: 

a) 3 or more patterned papers from 3 or more different collections and/or manufacturers.

b) 3 or more embellishments from 3 different collections and/or manufacturers. 

c) Include one or more of the following items on your layout:

Corkboard, Chalkboard, or Corrugated board.
(This item does not count as one of your embellishments)

Here's the layout:

(1) The pattern papers used - Kaisercraft, Paper Boutique and The Crafters Paper Library
(2) Embellishments - Kaiser Flowers, Momoyo Brads, Washi Tape, Paper Boutique Stickers, Bling from Stash
(3) Corrugated Board
Momoyo Mixed Alphas

Say Cheese

This is my fourth layout for the day. But I can't call it quits yet. This is another first for Sodaliciousshop using this sketch:

This photo of Sulaiman Bian and Julie Law was taken in November 2011 during the FM Teambuilding. I did not attend this event because it coincided with the demise of my father. The location was at Port Dickson. 

Here's the layout:

Location : Port Dickson
Supplies: Paper Boutique pp
Kaiser Flowers
Micia Stamp and Ink
Paper boutique Tag
Paper boutique Sentiment
Bling from Stash

Together Forever

This is my first layout for Umwowstudio using the April sketch.

This photo was taken during the Gref-FM Teambuilding event at Putrajaya.

Here's the layout:

Team Building at Putrajaya
Supplies: Pp - Paper Boutique
Sentiments - Paper Boutique
Washi tape
Stars from Stash