Working from home ...

I didn't go to work today and decided to do some work from home. Actually, it's work from my favourite joint; Starbucks. I come here to do my marking during term time and I am rooted to this place for hours on ends. Even the staff here recognise me and will "advise" me to get the tall Latte.

I sat myself down near noon (C had woken from her nap and she gladly waved goodbye to me because she has her Disney cartoons to watch) and then started working on my Scheme of Work... then I realised I didn't have my books with me. So I did what I could and then I finally got down to doing something I had wanted to do for the longest time.

I tried digital scrap booking! It is always nice and meaningful to tag photographs as there is a story behind every photo. Scrap booking has really evolved... in the past, it was done using real scraps; just about anything and everything you can lay your hands on but scrap booking now has become a "rich man's hobby". If you were to step into a shop selling all these scrap booking materials and embellishments, your jaw will drop because these "scraps" cost as much as $50 or more.

So the cheapo that I am, I guess the way to go is digital scrap booking. It is so so difficult because I am so unfamiliar with the tools and the program. Thankfully there were tutorials online which I could read up and there was Aunt Linda I could ask. Then I played around with the designs and templates and this is what I came up with. Melanie is brilliant to come up with all of these which people can use.

I know this is really amateurish; I just started this afternoon, so go easy on me.

I am still experimenting and hopefully I will be able to come up with better and more sophisticated designs soon. I will show this to Cheryl later and see what she says.