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Haloween pop-up project

Christmas pop-up project

Crafting fun with kids can be a good thing for this holiday season. Haloween and Christmas is coming up, there’s this cool site: robertsabuda.com that will ease the fun in making holiday pop-up cards.

The site provide you with templates and step-by-step guide to do this project. here’s sample snap shot of the page, give it a try when you do have spare time – especially during weekend with kids – make it a fun family activiy.

Have Fun trying!

Someone blog about this in here, it reminds me of that movie called Monalisa Smile (2003) with Julia Robert, Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles in it.

I feel very lucky not to live in the 1950′s =) so I guess no one will be expecting me to function under those principals below for a wife, but it would be nice if one could, which I think would be pretty hard for current standard life-style having the fact that woman has to work also aside of house-wifing (for the lack of better term I like to call it that).

Want a healthy relationship? don’t see each other as a servant, just ought to help each other in order to establish a healthy and balance relationship. Women and Men both are created to be one in marriage as a harmonious companion – not like so men can be masters and women their forever servants/helper with a degree below them. eekk, I don’t want a man like that!

well incase the picture above has a very small print I’ve re-write all the points here:

1. Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and they prospect of a good meal (especially his favorite dish) is part of the warm welcome needed.
2. Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you’ll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people.
3. Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.
4. Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives.
5. Gather up schoolbooks, toys, paper etc and then run a dust cloth over the tables.
6. Over the cooler months of the year you should prepare and light a fire for him to unwind by. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order and it will five you a lift too. After all, catering for his comfort will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.
7. Prepare the children. Take a few minutes to wash the children’s hands and faces (if they are small), comb their hair and if necessary, change their clothes, They are little treasures and he would like to see them playing the part. Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer or vacuum. Try to encourage the children to be quiet.
8. Be happy to see him.
9. Greet him with a warm smile and show sincerity in your desire to please him.
10. Listen to him. You may have a dozen important things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first – remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours.
11. Make the evening his. Never complain if he comes home late or goes out to dinner, or other places of entertainment without you. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure and his very real need to be at home and relax.
12. Your goal: Try to make sure your home is a place of peace, order and tranquility where you husband can renew himself in body and spirit.
13. Don’t greet him with complaints and problems.
14. Don’t complain if he’s late home for dinner or even if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through that day.
15. Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or have him lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him.
16. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.
17. Don’t ask him question about his actions or question his judgment or integrity. Remember, he is the master of the house and as such will always exercise his will with fairness and truthfulness. You have no right to question him.
18. A good wife always knows her place.

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This is quite an interesting picture taken of a mouse riding a frog in India Monsoon. Here’s the story:

Look at this picture. See anything interesting? What on earth this mouse doing at the back of this frog?
Actually what happened is, at that time it was an heavy flooded in india and the mouse was trapped and can’t even escape from the monsoon. Thank goodness, there is someone willing to lend a hand. None other than a Frog ,come to rescue him (Mouse)

Well if a frog can lend a hand to a mouse which is a completely different species than it is, then we all can do much better for each other, right? well I hope so =)

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scrapblog is bringing the art of scrap-booking available online (digital scrapbooking). Now you don’t have to be afraid of loosing your scrapbook, it’s online! The good thing about it is it can be view from everywhere with the ease of not having to carry around even a pound of weight with you. Also you can show it off to just about anybody you are willing to share it with, how fun?

Above is an example I found of someone doing scrap-booking in scrapblog.com of their newborn baby.
I think it’s done in such a lovely way. well scrapbook lovers out there should try doing this. It’s free, no shopping hassle, and good thing is it’s easily accessible – free – for everyone.

I love their features such as those stickers and tools you usually have when you ensemble a real scrap book. they have many of styles and designs. here’s what their editing screen look like:

Give it a try on your spare time, This is quite a lovely family activity especially if you have small children around =)

source: scrapblog.com

Well incase you have nothing better to do to kill time, then you probally should visit addictinggames.com. It’s quite fun, especially if you have some waiting to do, like in a long plane ride =)

The good this about this is, it’s for free! Here’s a quote of that from addictinggames.com:

Fun Free Online Games from AddictingGames
AddictingGames, the largest source of the best free onlinegames including funny games, flash games, arcade games, dress-up games,internet games, shooting games, word games, RPG games, racing games, and more.We have thousands of fun free games for girls and guys from addictivedevelopers like Armor Games, Games2Win, and, of course, AddictingGames! Andwith game reviews & ratings, you can find hot new cool games every day.AddictingGames – the best place on the web to play games for free!

with that many games for free, how can you be bored? well hope this help to keep your spare time a little bit engaging. Try to share it with kids, especially the good and the educative kind of game! Here’re screenshots of the miniput game I did. play miniput game here.

Have you get bored of sending online greeting cards? well if you’re bored already try this new way of sending greetings to meaningful people around you. With Flowers2mail.com you can send greetings with flowers instead of just a greeting card. It’s even worth doing for the fun of it, so make your experience of sending greetings an easier and more attractive one!

This is quite fun to do especially for kids, you just drag and drop! You can pick a vase shape and color, also the kind of flowers you want, the kind of leaves you want, and the greeting tag, just type it in and you’re done.

So grab your kids and teach them to compose a virtual flower vase with greetings for their grandparents, or even for your spouse on his/her birthday perhaps you can remind them to send something nice for their parents.

The great thing about this site is it’s built for fun only, so it has no commercial goals – how wonderful!

This is really cool especially for designers, artists, and lover or digital arts!
this bomomo.com site will allow you to experiment on creating any shape you like
with tools that are readily available there and very flexible.
If you like what you create you can even save it =)

bomomo created by Philipp Lenssen 2008. Internet Explorer version by Nikolai Kordulla.
Feel free to share any image you create in any way you like… it’s yours!

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Great cake especially if you’re a nintendo fans. Isn’t it quite a creative cake? Will be great to treat your small boys with this kind of cake for their b’days.

It’s nice to spend mother-daughter family time by cooking, crafting, perhaps gardening together. However, it might spice things up a little by trying to do a mother-daughter spending time in computer/internet gaming.

Playing internet computer games with your girls can be really educative and fun at the same time. By playing barbiegirls.com and barbie.everythinggirl.com. girls learn to know and use virtual world of internet in a safe – interactive way. These sites provide different games some include readings, some are fun shopping games, or room decoratings. By playing alongside with your daughters, parents are able to educate their children at the same time spending a fun time together.

bellow are snapshots from barbiegirls.com, everythinggirl.com, and pollypocket.com website:

ConnectR the visual visiting robot is available in 2008 from iRobot coorporation which made Roomba, a vacuum cleaning robot.

With ConnectR, Computer and Internet technology we can easily keep in touch with our love ones regardless how far appart we are. I think this is a nice gadget to have especially when work requires a lot of travel days so parents can keep in touch with their kids. Even if parents always there with their kids, this still can be usefull to use for grandkids and their grandparents or even with other far to reach relatives. Each will cost about $500.00

Here’s all the features & info on how ConnectR works, from iRobot.com:

Stay Connected

Affordable and easy to use, ConnectR enables real-time virtual visits over the Internet. Equipped with high-quality audio and a video camera, the robot is located on-site in the home of the “host” party. Using a computer keyboard, mouse or joystick, the remote (“visiting”) party can drive the robot around and interact with those on-site, virtually participating in activities at home or wherever the device is located (for example, in the home of your grandchildren). The on-site host party can also direct the robot’s movements with a remote control.

Audio and Video

ConnectR features high quality two-way audio and a video camera to connect both parties over the Internet. The camera system provides both wide-angle and close-up viewing. The zoom level is 16.7x from the widest view to the narrowest. In addition, the camera features 220 degrees of tilt, enabling complete control of the viewing angles.

Simple set-up

ConnectR comes complete with everying you need to set it up and get going including the robot, rechargeable battery, self-charging Home Base, remote control, headset microphone, and joystick. ConnectR is quick to install and easy to operate. You need a wireless broadband connection in your home and a Windows XP operating system on your PC. You simply charge the robot and follow the user-friendly set-up instructions to connect it to the wireless network in the home. Then you download the ConnectR software program onto any broadband-enabled PC, which enables you to contact ConnectR and use the robot to virtually visit the home.

Easy to operate

The user-friendly interface lets you connect to and control the robot from any Windows XP-enabled PC. Using a computer keyboard, mouse or joystick, you can drive ConnectR around in any direction to see, hear and interact with whomever you want. The people at home can also use the included remote control to “call” out and connect to you while you are away so that you are always in the loop.

Privacy controls

If the on-site party doesn’t want to be disturbed, the robot’s privacy mode lets them turn off the audio, camera or both.

Safety on the net

Encrypted password protection keeps access to the robot private and secure.

Reach out to many, but you’re in the driver’s seat

You can give up to 10 family members or friends PIN codes to provide them with one-at-a-time access to your ConnectR. So, for example, you could give access to yourself at work, your spouse, each set of grandparents, a far-away sibling, best friend and still have room for more.

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