This is a VERY special week at Unity. Unity will be turning one come May and there are a host of activities and challenges all lined-up. We’ve even gotten some awesome prizes from really generous sponsors and it’ll be a birthday party like no other!! Here are the details:

It’s a Unity Birthday Celebration!!

But this is a very Special Invitation!

Come join us for fun as we celebrate one year!
The party is coming. The time is near!

The Unity forum is the place to see
all the fun that will be coming for you and for me.

Join us at the Unity Splitcoast Forum for all the fun.

April 27th – May 1st, don’t miss out!

Come join Unity as we Party all-about!

But WAIT!! That’s not all… There’s MY UNITY PLACE!!

The place to Gather, Create, Inspire, Share

and have some Unity FUN!

www.myunityplace.com

The coolest place to be!!

And I’m thrilled to start off today’s blog hop, and here’s a layout using April’s Kit of the Month. Hurry you still have a few days left to sign up for this awesome kit!!

I used the flower image stamped on ledger paper and punched out with a circle punch. I love them as accents. The supplies for this layout are from Noel Mignon’s Lovely Day kit.

It’s time to move along now to your next hop stop…

LAURA

I’m totally thrilled to be on the new team of reporters at Craft Critique. I thought it’d be something different from the regular design team stint and I really looking forward to this. If you’ve never visited their site, you need to coz there are reviews about cool and new products regularly. You can also follow Craft Critique on Twitter or join their Facebook page.

Celine Navarro is coming to Singapore!! Yup, you heard right… Celine will be in Singapore and teaching some awesome workshops at Made With Love.

More details here. Spaces are VERY limited and they are sure to sell out very fast. Call now to book your place. I’ve booked mine. Yay!!

and this…

Ok, so it isn’t a BOSE or a B&O but it’ll do for now.

I admit I haven’t been shooting as often as I would like to, and I REALLY SHOULD! But here are some random shots from the past week.

We celebrated my brother-in-law’s birthday last week with a treat to a nice Italian restaurant.

The beef carpaccio was YUMMY!!!

As was this risotto.

The kids had pizza and they looked happy…

These are some pictures taken on Sunday at church…

I had a happy mail day today  … look what the postman brought.

I LOVE opening brown packages. There are the new release stamps from Unity (in fact they were just released yesterday).  And all wood mounted stamps are now sold as singles and they come in the new packaging you see above.

The stamps I got are huge and perfect for scrapbooking. I can’t wait to get some of them on my scrapbook pages.

I also got some other new stuff recently and I’m loving them… I love the opportunity to experiment with new mediums especially on the awesome Riff Raff chipboard that I now design with.

I must say I’m steadily building up my collecting of stickles, paints and mists.

Oooh… and I’m over the moon today also because my blog makeover is finally complete. Amy Kant is a sweet girl and wonderful web designer and we worked on this together. I have a little something to give away to celebrate the new blog look so if you haven’t already left a comment below, you have till midnight Feb 14. You can post here or in the post below. Please remember to leave your email address so that I can contact you.

Have a great weekend!

Another layout for the GotSketch102 class. This time it’s for sketch #5. Way easier for me coz it’s a one-page layout. And I finally got down to using some older supplies I’ve had for some time now.

Oh and did you realise the stitching?? Heehee.. I just got myself a new sewing machine last week for an amazingly low price of 99CHF (or about US$88/S$125). It was on 50% sale.   How cool is that?!?!? I’ve had fun playing.

Supplies:

Papers – October Afternoon, Making Memories, Momento
Alphas – American Crafts, Jenni Bowlin, Making Memories
Stickers & ribbons – Making Memories
Stamp – Apple Blossom Studio

Are you having a good week so far? It’s Wednesday, at least we’re half-way through! LOL!!

J’s colleague, Hung and his wife, invited our family to a house-warming last night. A nice, cozy home about 5mins drive from where we are.

After we arrived, I soon found out the cook in the family was Hung. I am rather impressed with many husbands these days, who seem to be the one cooking… and they’re great at it too! So I couldn’t resist snooping around the kitchen for these…

The host had some help after awhile…Rob, Shankar and Shankar’s wife and of course, J.

Before long, the YUMMY food made it to the table. Check it out…

A variety of cheeses.

Heavenly shrimps sauteed with garlic, olive oil, parsley, lemon juice and white wine.

Jackie’s potato salad.

Roasted lamb leg with roasted veggies. And Vietnamese spring rolls (which I didn’t manage to get a picture of ). Hung’s Vietnamese, you see.

But what’s a party without good company right? Here are pictures of the guests (big and little ).

And I leave you with pictures of the host and his lovely wife… thanks for having us over!

Yup, we’ve been here in Switzerland 5 months now and we haven’t scaled any mountain yet. So last Saturday, we decided to go up Mount Pilatu.

We started out on a 2hr train ride to Luzern.

Luzern is a big city in Switzerland, much like Zurich.

and a city of cyclists, like many Switzerland towns and cities.

Once we exited from the train station, we saw a street market by the old bridge with peddlers selling fruit, flowers, breads and more…

After a short bus ride and a hike, we arrived at the cable car station to begin our ascent to Mount Pilatus.

As we began our ascent, we got a good view of the city of Luzern.

We saw a few hikers hiking up the mountain but check out this guy… it’s almost a 45degrees slope!!

Visibility was already getting poor by this stage and I could only manage a couple of shots… which was a pity because I think on a clear day, I would be able to take a picture of Lake Luzern below.

After the guys had their fun and we walked around a bit, it was time to get on the gondola to the peak.

And so, after another 5mins in the gondola, we arrived at the peak of Mount Pilatus.

Weird that there deck chairs… but here are the kids having some fun.

And Jon had his own fun too, a self-service beer tap for 3CHF per glass.

After lunch and a short walk around, it was time to leave. By the time we were at the peak, visibility was only about 3 metres and it started drizzling as well so I couldn’t capture any pictures of the view from the mountain.   We took the cog train down the mountain.. the world’s steepest cog railway train by the way.

And then on a boat across Lake Luzern back to the Luzern Bahnhof.

The boat ride took us 1.5hrs!! And by the time we got home, it was 8pm and we were all bushed. It was fun though… hopefully we get to visit a snow-capped mountain next. And as usual, I want to leave you with some favourite pictures of the day.

Hope you enjoyed this (picture-intensive) post. Have a great week ahead!

This is my layout for the new sketch over at Creative Scrappers. I loved playing with MM’s Passport on a non-travel layout… just shows how versatile it is!

Journalling:
Hannah, just look at how much you’ve grown. Hardly a baby anymore but a beautiful young lady. You’re also becoming more headstrong – wanting your way all the time. It’s getting harder to tell you what to do. We hope this phase passes… know we only want the best for you.

Supplies:
Patterned Paper – Making Memories
Alphas – American Crafts, Making Memories
Overlay – Hambly Studios
Rubons – 7 Gypsies
Brads, Lace & Canvas Flower – Making Memories