Missed opportunity ...

Was in KL this week. The plan was when all more important priorites was settled and completed, I'd make a date with SnazzyJazzy (SJ - who got me scrapping in the first place) and we'd go scrapbooking shopping. With all careful planning set in place - where to meet, the time, the logistics ... I had to regretfully cancel.

Alas!! If not for this confounded cold that reduces one to snivelling putty - along with that horrid feelings of feeling ghastly, I would have been spending my Friday evening marvelling over the latest florishes, embellishments and papers in those lovely scrapbooking stores with SJ. Dinner was also part of the plans - but i reckon we'd probably spending less time savouring paper delicacies than the nourishing edible kind! I'd also be a heck lot poorer but alot happier ...

That was all part of my GRAND plan ... *heaves great sigh*

Instead, I had to get concierge get me a bottle of Actifed to stop running nose and Oral B to sooth out sore throat - while I spent my Friday evening in a sort of stoned out stupor, drifting in and out of sleep (thanks to Actifed that stops the nose running but knocks one out!).

Flight was early the following morning so there was no chance of rescheduling scrapbook shopping. Talk about a missed opportunity! Though have not exactly recovered ... (that sore throat has since blossomed into a hacking dry cough and nose is still blocked - gratefully no more uncomfortable sneezing)

I guess the alternative now is to get stuff from the local online scrapbook stores. I was so looking forward to be able to touch, feel and hold florishes, embellishments and papers in hands before deciding to buy 'em ... *SIGH*

Oh well, there's always next time ...

Non descript ramblings ...

I've been busy ... compiling a mini scrap album of trip to KK hence the lack of entry. So far my 8x8 inches album totals 23 page and there are still a few more photos to scrap. Once am down I'd take photos of all the mini pages i've done and the album i've put together (No fancy concertina stuff ... since there are LOTS of pages to compile!)

Apart from putting together album have been taking loads of pictures of nephew's and aodrably little puppies antics. Him and his mom have visited Kuching. As for puppies - its amazing how much they grow in mere weeks! (That should be a potential scrap project in the pipeline)

Which leaves me to my biggest lament - so much ambition, so little time!!

I suppose if I pushed myself to work faster to complete projects I could complete alot more with my given free time. But on the flipside, what use is there to stress oneself out over a pet hobby project? Hobbies are suppose to be fun. Scrapbooking absorbingly therapeutic to say the least. To churn out completed projects under a certain deadline would make scrapbooking more like work and less of an enjoyable hobby.

I really ought not to be complaining. Laying off actual scrapbooking for abit leaves me with opportunities to scan my environment for inspiration. Letting those ideas - stew and swirl for a bit before getting back to that present project of mine of putting together a mini album of trip to Sabah. The idea of album is to tell a tale from a 2.5 year old toddler ... :)

It's kind of like writing a non-ficitional story book ...