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Wooden
2008-02-23 04:19:00
Below is the sandpit at Clay's Elementary School. He always plays here after school and I have to pick him up here. Look at the slanting wooden play house... it's really fun to have this kind of playhouse at school isn't it? I choose this school because there are spacious space for kids to play, to run and to explore. Many schools in Bandung that only buildings, no space for play at all. Even the basketball court is used to park the teacher's car! Look at Clay & co. They are building something... just like architects building a drainage... :-) On the background is a wooden play house... with a sliding, bridge and tunnel... The students love to play here at school breaks. And this is Clay, in a wooden tree house.... we were searching for a place for family gathering and found this place... it's a great place for a retreat... children are having fun here... To see more photo hunt pictures, click here Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime t...
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Do you think I speak something wrong?
2008-02-22 09:13:00
On the way home from school, in the car, I was telling Clay something serious. I kept on talking about it with him while I was driving and I didn't even look at his face and expression hearing what I was saying to him. When we arrived home (around 30 minutes later-because we didn't go home straightly from school), I was surprised to see Clay's expression... so low, so tired, just like want to cry, and refused to go out of the car. Do you think I speak something wrong? Listen to our conversation: Me : Clay, I think from now on you have to work harder. Clay: What do you mean? work harder? Me : Auntie X (our relative) just called me that she is searching a new school for your cousin D. D wants to go to international school because she wants to speak English everyday. Clay: D said she wanted to go to my school because there are some subject taught in English at my school. Me : Right. But her mom doesn't allow Uti to go to your school. Auntie X said that you two are li...
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Cute Dove Spreads Peace...
2008-02-22 08:00:00
My Sweet Emila and my BF Lady Java pass this cute dove to spread peace and global unity. Zari who lives in Lebanon, a country in the midst of political turmoil and violence, created this beautiful dove icon to spread the message of love and peace to fellow bloggers around the world. The rules: 1. If you get tagged or not (and want to play along), take some minutes to meditate about love and peace, pray for countries that are facing troubles, for those people you love and those you don’t. 2. Write a post with links to blogs that you think would like to participate 3. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme. Now this little dove will soar further to spread peace to JenGi, BokJae and Jamy. Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime there's new post in this site for free right to your email...
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Have a great weekend, friends..
2008-02-22 01:11:00
Today is quite buzzzy... yay! I love being buzzzy... but not love being tired. We have a couple meeting at church this evening and there will be a short drama about Chinese New Year. I will become an auntie.. or ncim.. or pak meh... ha ha ha... just lend a chinese blouse from my mom in law... hi hi hi... haiya.... Being quite busy these past few weeks, I loose weight 1-2 kg without weight loss pills Yay!! Actually this is not a big deal because my weight has been up and down around this 2 kg only. Good news is when I manage to loose weight more than 'this' weight! *doh* Some of my high school girl friends will meet up this afternoon... I hope I can be there! Will try to take Cliff for a nap before 1 so I can sneak out and go to this small reunion... So today I will take Cliff a nap, go to reunion, pick Clay from school at 2, then be home again... at 4 I have a drama rehearsal, hopefully I finish feeding Cliff his lunch and take him to the church or let him stay at home with C...
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Message in the bottle
2008-02-22 00:54:00
Elaine from It's not a weekend, it's a lifestyle send me this Message In A Bottle .... Here are the rules: You are about to send a virtual Message In a Bottle across the Blog Ocean. Leave a message in the sand or on the bottle. Write anything you wish. Be a pirate or a poet. Serious or silly. Anonymous or not. What message would you like to send out to the universe? Message In A Bottle Meme 1. Compose a message to place in your virtual bottle. 2. Right click and SAVE the blank graphic 3. Use a graphics program of your choice to place the message on the picture. 4. Post the Message In a Bottle meme and your creation on your blog along with these rules. 5. Tag a minimum of 5 bloggers - or your entire blogroll - to do the same. Notify them of the tag.Your virtual bottle will remain afloat in the blogosphere ocean for all blogernity (That's a Mimism for blog + eternity.) So, if you are tagged by me, go over to Mimi's and ADD your site to her Mr. Linky list and place your blog's ...

Buy Unpeaceful Feeling?
2008-02-20 10:38:00
And this is the answer of my question.... ---taken from the first post of this blog!--- I almost spent some money to buy 'un peacefull' feeling! sorry about my vocab.. I don't know what is the word to explain my feeling.. have you experience... you pay but you don't feel peaceful? I subscribe tv cable yesterday.. and I joke with the technician.. I said I want to watch 'gold program' but pay 'silver program' instead.. ( you know what I mean?) silver program has only 26 channel while gold program has 46 channel.. We have to pay more to get all channels of course.. Suddenly the technician said to me, "You can pay silver program forever and watch gold program..You pay me 500.000 rupiah ( around 62 us dollar), and you can have it. This is one and only life chance..." I was tempted! I paid him 350.000 rupiah.. 44$ ! No one would knows.. At first, I felt happy.. felt lucky.. and my hubby didn't mind that as well, but deep in my heart I began to feel uneasy.. Th...
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Old and worn out...
2008-02-20 08:41:00
One day Clay asked me why our sofa's fabric can faded out. I answered because the color of it are sticked to our butt... ha ha ha... Look how ugly and worn out it has! Hm... see that I am not ashame to upload this ugly sofa picture in this beautiful blog? Ha ha ha.. that's okay, we have been together for more than 8 years anyway... sitting on the sofa without even say thank you to 'her' ha ha ha... I am not sure when I will mend and change the fabric with gorgeous one just like Kravet fabrics. I feel reluctant and lazy to do that... we rarely have guesses here, unless my blog buddy Juliana will visit my home if she comes to Bandung all the way from Netherland next month! Oh I should change this sofa first!! :-D Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime there's new post in this site for free right to your email...

My question and the winner announcement
2008-02-19 05:59:00
Several years ago, I share a cable tv subscription with my neighbor next to my house. We use a splitters like HDMI switches and put a long cable from their house to mine. I pay half of the bill to my neighbor. *grin* This went several months... my uncle kept saying that we were cheating that way. I thought it was clever, not cheat... but my uncle said it several times that I started to have no peace in mind. One day, I said to my neighbor that I will stop sharing the cable tv and use the antenna instead. Apparently, we were not satisfied with the picture quality... using cable tv was much smoother indeed! I have no choice but subscribe it again, but this time, not share with my neighbor and pay it full.. we chose silver package instead of gold package, so we got less channel options. When the technicians came to install it... I was kidding with them that I wanted to pay silver and got gold package.. ha ha ha... but the technicians gave me the chance! They offered me to pay them so...
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Gorgeous Italian People? Ha ha ha
2008-02-19 05:07:00
You Belong in Rome You're a big city soul with a small town heart Which is why you're attracted to the romance of Rome Strolling down picture perfect streets, cappuccino in hand And gorgeous Italian people - could life get any better? What City Do You Belong In? Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime there's new post in this site for free right to your email...
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There's always a way...
2008-02-19 01:29:00
We all can make a wrong choice in our life... I got some friends who was drug-addicted and now they have a good living and free from drugs by God's grace. Since I was in junior high school, I was 'called' to make friends with some friends who had this problems... many of my friends are 'naughty boys and girls' and if you have become my readers since a couple of months back, you know I was not too good as well when I was teenager. *grin* I am glad to share this to you, may be you have a friend or relatives who need information about drug rehab, you can try to visit Pacific Hills. They taught the addicted persons to depend on God instead of depend on their own strength. I believe that in God there's nothing impossible. Addiction is a serious problem that need a change mentally, spiritually as well as physically. God is our Creator so He can heal us and make us possible to break the addiction! Here's a testimony from Todd: ?The spiritual part of the program and of recovery, ...

My Valentine 2008
2008-02-18 02:41:00
Dear Big Daddy , Thank you so much for Your presence in my life for 35 years... All this time, Your love never fails, You always give me beautiful blessings to enjoy. Last Valentine , You have given me and my family health to enjoy the special day. You also have poured me with so much love by sending so many great friends who share their love and attention to this little me. I am so blessed by their phone calls, emails, sms, postings, comments and also prayers. Most of all thank you Lord for my hubby who loves me. He brought me a red rose, beautifully made by You special for me? Owww... thank you Big Daddy!! *hugssss* Thank you for my valentine man, thank you for my valentine children as well... they are as precious as red roses You've created for all in love people in this world! Flowers are most beautiful when they are given to someone we love, and I got one for me, the most beautiful flower this year from my hubby! Hubby took me (and Cliff) for lunch at a Malaysian Restaurant. ...
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Do you have a dream?
2008-02-18 01:29:00
My brother-in-law loves cars. When he built his house, he made a huge garage and spared a large space of parking lot. He prepared it for the cars even he only had 2-3 cars. Indeed, his house is an office as well. He lives on the 4th floor while the first to third floors are used for workplace and shop. I think it is a good thought to have a large parking lot for that purpose. Now I am not sure how many cars he has! One thing I know even my hubby's car can't park there for a night because there is no space left. Ha ha ha ha... of course some of the cars are owned by the office for business, including 3 trucks, completed by truck bed liner, to load a large printing stuff. What I want to say here is, it's good to have a big dream and make one step at a time to reach the dream... It is proven, dreams can come true especially when God thinks we are ready enough to reach the dream! Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime there's new post in this site ...
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Clay got highfever
2008-02-17 20:52:00
How viruses can spread so easily! It's 3.30 am now. I am awakened by Clay ,he got a fever 38.3 C. Cough (tx God, means not dengue!) Yesterday we had a lunch at my sis house. I brought 7 kinds of chinese food (forget to take some shots!) There were my uncle's fam, my grandma n mom, n my sis family. Melody, their daughter, was flu. At first I felt hesitate to hold that feast, worried my sons would be infected. But I hv promised to make a treat. So I told Clay n Cliff not to be too close with Melody. Kids are kids. They love to play. Clay didnt listen to me. He said he forgot but I saw he just didnt care as Melody seemed to be healthy. Soon after we were home Clay started to cough. I know he was not feeling well as he looked for a thermometer. And now he got high fever n cough. Please pray for him dear friends, for a speedy recovery and for Cliff to be strong and not be infected. They sleep in y bedroom now. *doh* Clay had a pee in his sleep at 9 pm last nite, he thought he ...

Still searching? Anyone?
2008-02-15 14:37:00
For some people, find a compatible soul mate or even a date is not too easy. Many factors that can make them difficult to find a date. May be they are too introvert and don't know how to have a long conversation with somebody, or they are shy and don't dare to approach their opposite sex to be their friends. May be they don't have a community that make it possible for them to have many friends. Or even they do have some communities, they go to church or they still study at university for instance; they still are not used to make friends with the opposite sex. Their hearts beat so fast even just to think to get to know of someone. There are men who feel so nervous when they sit next to a woman that they even can't start a conversation at all! I bet you know a person like that around you... I have! I am glad there still some solutions for those who has that problems. Internet! Yes, we do can meet people who may share similar values and faith from internet! We can use Internet mat...
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Thank you for all the gifts....
2008-02-15 02:02:00
Dear friends, thank you so much for coming here and thank you for celebrating LOVE with me. I am sorry I still can't catch up with all comments, I was 'busy' enjoying my day yesterday... ha ha ha ha... but I am sure you'll understand, that is all your wish for me, right? Had a great birthday? :-) Before I tell you about my birthday story, I would like to thank these special bloggers I found who has special post for me... so far this is what I've found, I am sorry if I miss somebody...(aaarrgh, too much self confidence of me... *bang my head*) it's just because I haven't hop to your blog... LadyJava, your special post started my birthday very early in the morning! Thank you so much for this beautiful scrap... I love it! Keep up the good work LJ, I know you are so skillful in doing something on your computer.. :-D LB thank you for your special post and I am glad I can be your second commentator! LOL... This is from a great designer in Italy, special for me.... thanks! Joa...
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Roses are red, Violets are blue...
2008-02-15 01:00:00
So, what is after that? Hi hi hi... and why violets are blue? not purple? :-D How was your Valentine? Did you buy something for your partner? Flowers? No? My friend Karen from Waterleaner bought a mouse for her beloved hubby... I wonder if you buy something special for your pet as well.. hahaha.. why not? You love them as well I am sure! I have some friends who often buy quality gifts at cheap prices with Internet coupons for RedEnvelope.com, Things Remembered and Hammacher Schlemmer. Don't you love living in this internet era? We can get anything easily we want right in front of our door! Yes, we are not supposed to want everything instantly because that's not good at all. We have to be wise to manage our time, money and life. Agree with me? Yeah! Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime there's new post in this site for free right to your email...
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Love Celebration
2008-02-14 02:00:00
Hey ya!!! Thanks for coming to this party... we will celebrate LOVE.... !!! First of all this post has lots of sponsors... I thank you for all sponsors who has made this post unbelievable! All sponsored badges (the awards I mean) can be found here. Because of L.O.V.E, this little girl was born to this world on 1973... now you know the answer of the QUIZ! For those who has the right answer can ask me to make something for you! Michelle Dawn thought she was born to be encouraging and always giving positive feedback to other bloggers! She felt so honored to receive this from Nyumix and Mariuca as well...thank you very much! I would pass this award to other cute babies: Chin Nee who is conceiving twins! Yay!! Ooowww this little girl felt really honored to receive this award from LivingSword! ?for being ?an all around inspirational blog? LivingSword said that she inspires love of family awash in faith. Thank you very much! In fact, this little girl has some bloggers who has b...
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Meet you tomorrow!
2008-02-13 03:00:00
Make sure you will be here tomorrow for Valentine's day! Now I am off to prepare a post for tomorrow, and do some shopping. I need to buy garbage plastic bag, body shop supplies, go to the drugstore to by some medicine for my old maid. Her body is ache because of housework.. LOL.. I think I got to find my senior maid, tired of these already! Not sure what to cook today as well... I will take Cliff a shower now. See you tomorrow and for those who hasn't play with me, do leave your guess! Hihihi hahaha.... Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime there's new post in this site for free right to your email...
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Lets Play
2008-02-12 05:33:00
Guess how old am I? *wink* This is just a game, I will reveal the answer on Valentine. I will make a new header or avatar from scrap for the winner who can guess the right number. For those who wants to play but doesnt need the header or avatar, join us for fun! Hahaha. Come on, start now! Each person only has one chance to guess ok! Best regards Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime there's new post in this site for free right to your email...
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Me and My Children
2008-02-11 10:04:00
Babies...hm... my hubby told me that I only love my own babies. Yes, I never be so close and care to children and babies. Fortunately, I care enough to raise my children lovingly... hihihi.. I even willing to do anything for them, even cancel all opportunities I get and choose to be with them instead. This Feb 23th, I am asked to participate in a drama at Singapore. It's really an honor for me and I think it will be fun as well. Going to Singapore for free and take part in a drama ministry is something I will enjoy to the most. In fact, I choose to say no. I just don't think this is the right time, leaving my kids at home with a new maid... no way. My hubby still has to work at Saturday so he can't be with the children. I can't let my children be taken care by someone else. Despite of my love to my children, I have no plan to have another child. My grandma told me to 'make' the third child, may be she will be a baby girl... LOL. I refuse her softly. Not because I have given a...
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Ups and Downs
2008-02-11 05:54:00
How are you? How am I? :-) Pretty messed up but still can smile. Ha ha ha... Learn to be positive and avoid worries just like Eric Speedcathollydale and LB. I will be brief today. Downs: I didn't win the diamond contest. Thank you so much for all votes you've given me, especially all sweet comments that make me smile from ear to ear! Winning something is not the important thing, I enjoy the process and appreciate all supports! Thank you very much!Have changed maids twice again. :-P This one is always my source of BLUES, which is western friends could never understand. Ha ha ha. I have changed 6 maids in 4 months! Quite sick about this matter... wueeekssss...I actually like the last maid I hire for 3 weeks, the 15th years old girl. But last night I found out she has been not honest to me and often bad mouthing me behind me. Her partner is 40 years old woman who just works here for 5 days! *sigh* Yesterday the old maid was angry at her and insisted to leave at 8 pm last night. My ...

Internet access
2008-02-09 08:07:00
We all want to find the best internet access providers as we blog and online everyday. There are so many offers and many choices out there for us. Here in Indonesia we can get free internet access at HOTSPOT in malls, we also can use wireless service and if we subscribe cableTV we can get cable internet. I myself use ADSL services while some of my friends use cable internet. They said it is faster and more reliable than ADSL service I subscribe. What do you use for your internet access? Do you feel satisfied enough with the service provider? You can get many information about cheap internet access here, including DSL, dial up, cable, satellite and wireless. Many choices of service providers are also provided. I read how to speed up our computer from the site. All this time, I thought defragmenting our computer is enough to speed up the computer. I am not a tech savvy woman and sometimes my hubby is too busy to take care our computer at home, so I find this very useful information...
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Xin Nian 2008
2008-02-08 13:05:00
Hi friends!! Gong Xi Fa Chai! How is your CNY? My family still celebrate Chinese New Year, though most of us are Christian. We want to keep Chinese tradition from generations to generations. Besides, this is the time to meet entire families and relatives. We don't do this at Christmas, we have a family feast at Chinese New Year. I was busy visiting my families and relatives last two days, so I couldn't be online and visited your blog. Besides, it is a school holiday for Clay. So I have a lot of to do with the kids. How many red envelops (ang pao) did you prepared? I prepared more or less 65 ang pao this year! At the first time I got married, I was so shocked that we have to prepare a big amount of money for ang pao.... 40 angpao for my hubby's family and only 4 for my family... sobs..sobs... sobs... hahahaha... and as the time goes by... the family is getting bigger and bigger... this year we share 45 angpao for my hubby's family and 20 ang pao for my family. We also have to...
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Me by Four
2008-02-08 06:23:00
Juliana tag me this me by Four Meme.... I think I have done very similar old version of this meme before here 4 jobs i have had : 1) follow up department at trading company. 2) a graphic designer of bible study series for teens. 3) manager at The Peak restaurant. 4) a director of Human Resources and Self Improvement of my children ( my current job) 4 movies i watched over and over : Meteor Garden 1, Mars serial, Pretty Woman, My Best Friends Wedding 4 places i have lived : Bandung only... 4 shows i watch : Oprah Winfrey Show, hm... really rarely watch tv by the way.. Teletubbies show, Barney's show, and F4 concert show? LOL 4 places i have been : Bali, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. 4 people who email me : LadyJava, Amelia, Winston, Karen... 4 favorite things to eat : 1) Kuo tie 2) Nanking chicken 3) Ogura 4) Tira miss you! 4 places i would rather be : Greek, Israel, Europe and Disneyland but with my beloved ones please... not alone! 4 things i look forward to thi...

Bathroom
2008-02-08 05:57:00
At Chinese New Year, we had dinner at my hubby's relatives. They have quite a big house, though the wife is the youngest child in the family, we often held a family feast at their house. It was my first time to visit the house, and I took Cliff to the toilet once. Hm... the toilet is not so big, too narrow I guess for that big house. I love big bathroom, and always want a big bathroom if I have a dream house someday. Even our bathroom in this house is bigger than theirs! So I browse about bathroom today, I find this great bathroom... ha ha ha... it's from directbuy. Hm.. it's not actually my type of bathroom, it's so luxurious for me. But I love it because it is spacious, I love the flowers too! The thing that I love most is the sink! Whoa!!! What a beautiful sink!! I wonder if the maid cleans the sink... they must be very careful! LOL. I never saw the luxurious sink like this before. Do you? Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime there's...
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I love You for being You
2008-02-06 01:58:00
These days I learn something. I learn how to love God with all my heart, my soul, my strength and my entire life just because who He is. Not because I want His blessings.... not because I need His protection... not because I want His guidances... not because I need His help in my whole aspect of life... not because I want Him to answer my prayers... not because I need something from Him... not because I want a place in heaven... not because I need Him to provide my needs... Have you ever asked yourself, do you love God? Your Creator? When you love somebody, your spouse for instance, you shouldn't love them because you need their money... or because you need them to take care of you. Love for the love sake...that's all. I am sure you agree with me. Ironically, we come to God only when troubles come, or when we need blessings from Him. OR... we never come near to God at all in bad times, just because we feel ashamed to Him for we never remember Him in good times. These days I ...
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Vote for me please!
2008-02-06 01:04:00
I just found out that the diamond prize needs some vote!! Vote for me please... I will appreciate it... :-) Valentine is my birthday so why don't you give me diamond earings present by voting for me several times? Ha ha ha... Anyway, I gave my best effort to make a great post about it, haven't I? (hm... self confindence... hehehe)... VOTE FOR ROOMS OF MY HEART then... thank you very much! The announcement will be on February 10th! Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime there's new post in this site for free right to your email...

A gift for you from me
2008-02-05 03:03:00
Valentine is coming!! I made a quickpage for you using a KIT from Barbara LeMay (aka "Herald") apple jam envelope by Marcee Duggar and the apparel (dunno what the name is) by Catharina Oelting from oriental KIT If you just the beginner of digiscraps.... you can use CS2 to insert your picture to this frame. Download the psd file here, and open it with CS2... then open your picture and drag it to the frame's window... you can manage the layers to front or back by changing it up or down.. aaarrrghh... so hard to explain it here! So this is a Chinese New Year gift for you... Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime there's new post in this site for free right to your email...
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Friendship Meme
2008-02-05 02:57:00
Friends Anger is only one letter short of dangerIf someone betrays you once, it is his fault;If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.Great minds discuss ideas;Average minds discuss events;Small minds discuss people.He, who loses money, loses much;He, who loses a friend, loses much more;He, who loses faith, loses all. Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,But beautiful old people are works of art.Learn from the mistakes of others You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.Friends, you and me...You brought another friend...And then there were 3...We started our group...Our circle of friends...And like that circle...There is no beginning or end...Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift. So now, let's see how many circle's of friends we can make by simply adding your link on this Friendship Meme !1- Catsy Carpe Diem, 2- Catsy Downloads, 3- Out of the Blue, 4- A Day to Savor and Relish, 5- A Piece of Idea, 6- Write Shy, 7- Stupid Wise, 8- http:...

My Favorite Links
2008-02-04 09:30:00
LadyJava tag me to share my favorite links! The Rules: MUST be clean. No X-rated sites.Only FIVE links.MUST tell 5 people.A link back to the person who tagged you ;)An active link plz.So here they are.... my favorite links! 1. Scrap Freebiessss!! IkeaGoddess got lots and never ending lists of freebies. 2. Julia P designs... she made many scraps element to share for free and she even told us how to make the elements... 3. Flickr where I can find amazing pictures! 4. Youtube I browse some interesting mv or songs over there to blog. 5. Glassgiant where I can find many creative generators for fun or for online gifts! Now share your favorite links with me! Madamoiselle, LB, Dawn, Mr. Fong and Nicole (here's the tag so you have to update your blog soon!! LOL) By the way, LB made this for me! Very cute!! Thanks LB! Hai, thank you for visiting this site... You can be updated everytime there's new post in this site for free right to your email...
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