a quick photo shoot..

I picked up my daughter from school and when she came home in the family/ kitchen room, I had stobe lights and other equipment left out. She looked puzzled, but then she ran into her room to put on a nice outfit.. She wanted to me to take her picture.. So I moved the kitchen table, and the background is actually a window curtain. Did not want to bother to put a backdrop with stands and all that. These photos are taken with just one main light (with a 7" reflector dish). I quickly put everything away, time to make dinner and help my daughter on her homework. Oh, she sat on the piano bench.


Next day, I put together a collage layout on my computer.

My Valentine ..

busy scrapbooking ..

I am so inconsistent when it comes to blogging! I started to use this primarily to put photos there, but lately I have been caught up on scrapbooking. I took this picture outside our house on a day my daughter stayed home sick.. Oh, it was late in the afternoon, and love how the sun kissed her face.


I love those yummy MME papers. There are so versatile, and you can combine different lines of paper, and still pull them together. The layout is inspired by a sketch from Basic Grey Newsletter.

Merry Christmas

Only a few days to christmas. Wish you all a merry little christmas.
We are off to the east coast for some family time.

Santa is watching you.. Are you naughty or nice? This is a personal scrapbooking layout I created. The elements are by shabby princess. I love combining traditional and digital.. I have been scrapbooking for over 4 years. And there's even a name for it. Hybrid scrapper. I use Adobe Photoshop. Not only it is the standard
for photographers, I use it for creating digital layouts as well.

Scrapbookers take their layout design very seriously. In my style the focus is still on the photograph.

Little musicians

The kids in the kindergarten thru middle school at the Harker campus in Saratoga presented their music pieces they have been practising. It was a treat to listen to the music teacher played at the end. She played a composition by Beethoven. It was a stunning performance.

It's the Season of Celebration and Performances

The time for rehearsals and performances has begun..

Some pics of my daughter and others at Ice Skating performance in Fremont. I was standing in the back and somehow managed to click some pictures with a zoom lens and that tripod does come in handy.

The girls looked cute in santa's red hot little dresses and white furs,

and that red lipstick is Revlon's "Love that Red"

It really starts off the holiday spirit! Now that reminds me that I still need to do my holiday shopping. And set out the christmas lights and get the house ready.