Posted on Monday, August 25, 2014

Virtual Blog Tour

It is Monday. As I am preparing myself to start this new week, no matter what we will go through this week I am reminded by the Lord that He is faithful and there is hope only in Him for those who depend on Him and to those who search for Him:

The faithful love of the lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, “The lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!” The lord is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for him. So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the lord . (Lamentations 3:22-26)

A few weeks ago, my blogging friend, Ramona, invited me to join this Virtual Blog Tour. She is one awesome lady I met on blogging world who inspires a lot of her readers through link ups, reviews, inspirational posts, crafts and giveaways! Check out her blog here to see what she has shared with her readers.

Virtual Blog Tour is one fun blog-hopping to get to know each other and they have been doing. Each participant of this Virtual Blog Tour has to answer these 4 questions. And today I would like to share a little bit about me with you all 🙂

What am I working on?

As a stay home wife and mom who has a kindergarten aged daughter and a pre-schooler aged girl, I am busy with them every single day 🙂 Right now, I am working on a lesson plan for my preschooler while the oldest at school.

this picture was taken a few months ago… just a glimpse of what is happening in our loft almost every day 🙂

I am also one of Wycliffe Associates volunteers working on a project for Pacific Area ministry. And I am a volunteer translator at YouVersion Bible App.

On my spare time, I blog, do scrapbook layouts, make cards, DIY, crafts with my girls and crafting with friends.

How does my work differ from others of its genre?

In the last few months, I have been taking some times to seek God and reevaluate what I do and how it aligns with what He has called me to do. Couple weeks ago, when I attended a women blogging conference, Declare Conference, God confirmed me what and why. I know that God has given me the ability to do what I do to make his name known among to others through my role as a wife, a mom and a paper crafter.

What makes it different is that I do this as a servant to my Lord, a ministry to others. That brings joy and satisfaction in my heart, not only because it is my hobby or just because I can do it.

Why do I write/create what I do?

I realize that through all of these what I am doing here is a preparation for me and my family to go serving the Lord overseas, among the people in SEA*.

I write because God has called me to share the stories He is writing in and through my life and my family. I write because of my hope more people to know the needs of the Good News to be heard in the languages of the people in SEA*. I write because I want more and more people to stand in the gap between these people and God, to intercede for them because they cannot.

I write because I am their voices to you.

I am writing and creating with a mission for a mission.

taken by Daniel B., Wycliffe Vision Trip 2005

How does your writing/creating process work?

I am inspired by a lot of people and learn from a lot of people. My writing process is not as easy as I write in my first language, but I am thankful for many times God helps me through a lot of friends and teachers, especially with my husband who has been a great help for me to improve my English, written and spoken.

First, I write my first draft which come from a lot of resources, for instance my quite time with the Lord, reading the Bible or reading a book, even every day life is full of inspirations to write 🙂 Then after I get my first draft, I will go back to read it again and write more. Sometimes, I post after editing my second draft, but sometimes, I need to go back and edit again for the third or fourth time.

And for my crafting process, I like to work with sketches. First, I will make plan. Right now, I am working with my daughters’ first year scrapbook albums. So I gather all of their pictures I want to put on the albums. Second, I will find sketches or templates (for digital scrapbooking), then work on them as I can. For digital scrapbook layouts I created, I want to make memory books for us to remember.

I love making handmade gifts and cards for family and friends. I make list what I want to make for who, search for inspirations and tutorials (from Pinterest, most of the time :D) and then I will work on them, sometimes I will ask extra time on the weekend to work on projects while my husband spend time with our daughters.

My church friends and I love to get together for craft night once in a while, for sure we always get together around October or early November to make hairbows and hairclips for Operation Christmas Child Show Boxes project.

When I can, I take pictures of steps how I create my project to share here on my blog 🙂

Next stop of this Virtual Blog Tour is my creative friend, Padni. We met at Stuck On U Sketches Design Team. And the most amazing thing is that we come from the same country! She is a scrapbook maker and teacher, loves handmade craft, home living stuff and photography. Check out her blog on September 1 to get to know her and to see what she’s been up to 🙂

THANK YOU for visiting my blog today. Your visits brighten my day 🙂

Posted on Friday, July 4, 2014

Scrapping Everyday Miracles: New Challenge

New month, new challenge at Scrapping Everyday Miracles, a challenge blog where we are challenged to share God’s miracles and blessings in our lives. It is one way of sharing how gracious and kind God has been to all His children.

This month theme challenge is Create / Creation. The inspiration is from Isaiah 45:18

“For this is what the LORD says — He who created the heavens, He is God; He who fashioned and made the earth, He founded it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— He says: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.”

You may apply this theme in any way you can imagine, create anything you want to, a layout, card, journal page, off the page project, anything. You have until July 17th to post your entry at SEM Blog (link on the right sidebar using the link tool, please link up directly to your blog post or your project).

Here’s my layout for this theme challenge:

Kit: Collecting Moments by Pixelily Designs Template: Template Galore Bundle 2 by Pixelily Designs Font: Noteworthy, Meddon

Kit: Collecting Moments – June by Pixelily Designs
Template: Template Galore Bundle 2 by Pixelily Designs
Font: Noteworthy, Meddon

The verse I used for the journaling. Our friends were on the way to their new home and passed Ohio. They stayed overnight and we had so much fun. The next day, they gave us these Tiger Lily flower. One had bloomed, one was not yet. My oldest was so excited to see the process of the flower blooming. This remind me of the verse clearly saying the The LORD is the creator, the only one who made the earth, formed it to be inhabited. He created the flowers!

I hope you will join us at SEM Theme Challenge!

Posted on Friday, March 28, 2014

I Love My Daughters

It starts feeling like Spring here – some of our daffodils and tulips coming out of the ground, wonderful breeze and my daughter T-Ball practice has started 😀 Just cannot wait to see more of the colors of the flowers!

Every day when I count my blessings, I count my husband and daughters twice, or may be triple. I love them more each day. We have our ups and downs, but God always help me to see that He has blessed more than I can imagine.

Yesterday, we had our downs. I cried with my daughters when they were disciplined. I cried with them when they were sad. I prayed with them and asked God to heal their wounds and give them new hearts that love Him more.

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. – Ezekiel 36:26

I believe in this God’s promise that He is the one will give them new hearts, new spirits. He will give them the hearts to love Him and obey Him, the Holy Spirit in them to guide them in the Truth and to follow His directions.

I am just a mama. I realize that one day they will be away from me, but God, God is the only one I can trust who will be with them always and ever. He is the one that they need the most! That is my hope and prayer for my daughters.

I love creating memories of my daughters for them to remember and to treasure when they grow up, this is one of my favorite layout I created a digital layout using Jen C Designs, Forever Love kit:

Today link up this post at Faith Filled Friday over Missional Women:

And also I am playing along with Stuck On U Sketches – Sketch Challenge 03/28/14. Check out this fabulous sketch from Leah, one of the SOUS Co-creators:

You can get this beautiful kit (30% Off) and collection (50% Off) here:

Pickleberry Pop | Gotta Pixel | Scrapbookgraphics

Don’t forget that playing in ANY of our challenges will make you eligible for our months blog candy! You have a challenge EACH Friday and every other Monday if you want to try out creating Project Life styled. We’d love to have you share with us!

This month blog candy is from Creative Embellishments

Posted on Friday, February 28, 2014

Digital Friday: Many New Kits!

I have some new digital scrapbooking new kits that I love from my favorite designers released today. They are gorgeous, aren’t they?

First is from Jen C Designs, her new My Story Collection is out for March. This kit is perfect for your digital project life scrapbooking. This kit is available at her stores:

Scrapbookgraphics | Pickleberry Pop | Gotta Pixel

Second new kit is from Sherri, Jumpstart Designs. She teamed up with Anna BV Designs to create this gorgeous Digi Duos, Come On Get Happy:

Last but not least…. Pixelily Designs! Her designs are gorgeous and I love to scrap using her designs. This week she released Be Bold and Brave for GingerScrap Buffett March, where you can get each pack of the kit from $1.00 – $2.00, great deal this month!

Also, Lily has new Template Galore Bundle #1 – 16 templates for only $5! Grab it now at her stores: GottaPixel and GingerScraps

Here are the 2 layouts using her new kit and template bundle:

Posted on Friday, February 21, 2014

Digital Friday: You & Me + 1

This is my second post today…. you can go here to read my first post…

This is week has been so rough for me. After heard about the flood that almost washed away my hometown last month, I got sad news from my family that my Uncle passed away unexpectedly. It was a very shocking news to all of us. And then last week 2 volcanoes erupted again in North Sumatra and Central Java caused thousands of peole lost their homes and families.

This just broke my heart.

I can only pray for them. Asking God to comfort my Aunt and cousins. Asking God protect the survivors and send helps.

I sat at my desk and went through our picture archive and realized that there are so many things I can praise God for.

Because He is God. He cares for us. He is faithful. He is too good for us.

I give thanks and praise for who He is.

I thank God for my husband. Honestly, we don’t have lots of pictures together, but we have some 🙂 and TONS of our girls’ pictures…

Valentine’s Day just passed but love is still in the air… I scrapped 2 layouts on us this week. First layout I used Jen C Designs new kit, Mad About You and Memory Maker Template Vol.1 (Feb Template Grab Bag):

And the second layout I used Pixelily Designs new kit, Collecting Moment – February and her template, At First Sight:

I am so thankful for our life together! And scrapping it is one way to remember God’s blessing in our life together.

And….. this is cute one is one of your labors of love… 😀 I used Jumpstart Designs new kit, Pieces of My Days and the template is from LorieM Designs for PBP February Template Challenge.