City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 440 and New Craft Room Reveal

This week at City Crafter Challenge Blog, the theme is P-P-Pick up a Penguin, here's my very first penguin stamp from Avery Elle....

the background paper is from Jillibean Soup....

the snowflakes on the background are from Papertrey Ink, a mini stamp set called "places, please"

the frame die is from Papertrey Ink as well, and I used a die from My Creative Time to create the snow hill and them filled it with Martha Stewart Tinsel Glitters.

I hope you could join in the fun this week at City Crafter Challenge Blog

Before I go, a peek into my craft room in our new house.

we only have two extra bedrooms in the main house of this new house, they are the Jack and Jill room, which means, both room has their own vanity sink attached but they are connected with one bathroom/toilet, we make the room looking out the backyard the guest room and I used this one facing the south side of the yard as my craft room/office space, I leave lots of space for a futon just in case we need an extra guest room, so I limit my storage unit to only one side of the wall....

I got myself only one Ikea Alex unit and reuse all the storage units I have at the old house....

keeping the old wall unit near the door to the bathroom, I do have an extra storage near the vanity sink.....

this room also has a walk in closet, so I get more storage for my crafting stuff, except I really haven't find time to organize them yet....

since this is not just craft room but also my office where I prepare my class work as well as browsing the Internet, so I spend a lot of time in here and really need a TV...... an old one we used to have in our old guest room but sitting on a new Ikea storage unit.

Right now, I still have tons of boxes sitting in the Casita as well as the walk in closet of the other bedroom, therefore, I am trying to sell as much as I could, check them out HERE!!!!

LOVE is all we need!

Today is my final post for...

Our Beautiful World

I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all my team mate, past and present, thanks for your beautiful work every week for the past three and a half years.

Since Valentine's day is coming and we really really need LOVE in this beautiful world we live in right now, the prompt is....

LOVE

I picked one of the old photo from my folders, my Valentine's day decoration at home.

as much as I love taking photographs and share them at OBW, I find it hard to cope with too many things in life lately, as a result, something has to go, so farewell OBW, I hope you could stop by and join in the final week of fun.

Goodbye 2016, Hello 2017!

Happy New Year to all my blog friends here....

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Wishing all a wonderful 2017!

We have something sparkling to share with you at Our Beautiful World.

hop over to check out the beautiful photos of the OBW team!

Our Beautiful World 177 ~ Tis the Season

Today I had an unhappy episode at school, it makes me so upset that I feel like stop teaching at the Saturday school, it is a semi-volunteer job, we get paid very little because Tsu Chi Buddist Foundation is a Charity organization, therefore teacher don't get pay much, it is almost like transportation allowances. 

So the story started a few weeks ago, Moli is a 5 year old girl in my class, she didn't complete her home assignment, so I didn't give her a sticker for that week, and then the next week, she didn't do homework again, so she didn't get the sticker once again, that evening, my principle called me, to check with me if Moli has any problem in class, she claimed that Moli's mom, who is our new teacher this year told her that she is not going to teach at our school because her daughter Moli refused to go to school on Saturday, so I told principle the story, it seems like she understood, she told me that it's ok, since she needs teacher badly, she really hope that Moli would enjoy school so her mom Nancy will continue teaching at our school. The following week when I went to school, first thing Moli told me was "Principle Maggie is going to give me sticker today!" Oh well, at that point, I decided that I can't do much about that since Principle is afraid to lose a teacher.

When we had the assembly in the hall today, I saw Moli standing in line with another class, with older kids, I had a bad feeling but I just keep my cool because no one tells me anything, during recess, I asked principle when I met her on the hall way, she then told me that Nancy (Moli's mom) insisted that Moli switch class, to join the older kids (8-9 years old), so..... I was a little upset that I wasn't even informed, and that all started because Moli didn't do her homework and didn't get a sticker, really? Is that how we teach our children these days? 

 It is fine with me that Moli is not in my class, and if that is the way Nancy and our principle teach the kids, I got nothing to say, what did the kid learn here? Moli learn that she can get the way she wants by just telling the mom she doesn't want to go to school because she doesn't get a sticker from the teacher, and that she doesn't need to do her homework, well, be it, to me, I am teaching a class of 22 children, I need to let the kids know that a one page home assignment a week is not too much to ask for, you do it, you'll get a sticker, if you didn't, you don't get one, simple as that. 

I do feel like giving up, I don't need that money, I teach simply because I enjoy teaching, now that this teaching is eating up my weekends, DH complains a few times that we could hardly get away because of that, I really just want to quit right away, sigh......

Anyway, enough of venting, let's get something festive to cheer me up! : )

Tis the Season

I love this time of the year.....

when my home is in a festive mood....

every corner is dressed up and ready for the holiday....

Dolce will be home next Tuesday, and then followed by Lione the following week...

my girlfriend Amy will also be here, Amy, Ann and I grew up together, we knew each other for more than 40 years.... I am excited to have her here.

I really love this time of the year, do you?

Come share with us at

Our Beautiful World

Our Beautiful World 167 ~ Autumn

If you haven't know yet, AUTUMN is my favorite season of the year.......

not just because my Chinese name is 秋， which means AUTUMN....

it is also because AUTUMN is always beautiful no matter which part of the world you are.....

 the above are part of my AUTUMN decoration at home, what about you? Do you change your decor at home according to the season? Or do you have a AUTUMN picture to share? Come join in the fun at......

Our Beautiful World

 

Project Life 2016 ~ March 1 to 4

Today is my turn to post my project for.....

Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style

We are using Sketch #24 by Emma Pescott

 Here's my March 2016 Project Life title card....

March is all about Spring things....

Spring things includes the beautiful bloom in my backyard....

Spring things also includes Easter Eggs as center piece on the dining table...

 

Spring decoration at home as well as the very first tulip I planted....

 

Project Life 2016

March 2 

Taking Papi to the dog park is always fun.....

March 4

I baked some banana bread this morning because I am meeting up with my friends Nancy and Bee Lee for lunch.....

I have more of March PL to share......

maybe another day!

Don't forget to stop by Sketches in Thyme to cheer me up!