Muffins!

Eversince I bought my oven, I have been keeping it busy at least 3-4 times a week.
There was 1 night when I returned home from work at 9ish and was so stressed that the first thing I wanted to do, was to fold muffin mix and bake muffins.
Crazy, eh?

Have experimented a few flavours since and will continue trying.
My colleagues have kindly contributed to a muffin fund so that I can make more and they have priorities to eat them. Haha!

Here's template 61. Have fun with it!

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Shutterfly again...

Remember the last time I rant about Shutterfly?
Well, I couldn't find another place that prints reasonably-priced 8*8 hard cover AND ships to SGP so I am still with this (almost) shitty website.

Well, I already hate that they auto-crop all my squarish scrapbook layouts into photo-sizes.
(I am forced to go through all the images individually to remove the auto-crop.)
Then, they have this custom-path options which make arranging my pages a huge hassle.

Worse, they screw up BOTH my orders which were made within a week of each other.

Book 1, there were yellow streaks/patches on almost all my pages and they were very obvious on pages with white/light backgrounds.

Book 2, the cropping of the pages were horrendous!

The bottom of EVERY page has 5mm from another page!

For the first book, they proceeded to make a reprint without apologising.
For the second book, I was very pissed and demands for a refund. They ask me to print a form and send the book back before they can process the refund 2-4 weeks after receiving it.

Hello! I'm residing in Singapore. It will cost me at least S$25 to send this book back via registered airmail.
And this book costs S$25! Does it even make sense?

I'm so pissed off right now.
What's there to boast about 100% customer satisfaction when the solution is to reprint and replace?
Why can't they CHECK the product before shipping? Where is the quality control???

I need to find a place that prints 8*8 NOW.
 

Brownies

I bought a convention oven and decided to make brownies today.

Well, I cheated and used pre-mix so I didn't flop.
However, the brownies are way too sweet for my likings so the folks in office are going to benefit from it tomorrow.
I wonder if I add flour to the pre-mix, they will be less sweet?
Or should I stop being lazy and get all the ingredients and do it from scratch?
Hmmm....

I am thinking of trying cookies next week.
My mum used to make cookies with cornflakes inside when I was a kid and I kinda miss it.

Here's a new template. Have fun scrapping!

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p.s.
I have changed the background layer from the texture file to a plain paint. It seems that this reduce the file size by 90% (from 25mb to 2.5mb!).
Do give me your feedback if you find any problems with the template(s).
 

Template 59

I have been gone for long, I know.

Have fun with this new template.

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Missing in action

I'm sorry that I haven't been posting as regularly as I used to.

Have been fighting an yeast infection for the past 2 months and I am really in no mood to do anything else.
Been to the gynae more than 4-5 times, taken 2 kinds of medicines, used 2-3 kinds of pessaries but nothing helps. The cream I used stop working and the itch can be really unbearable, not to mention the other uncomfortable/inconvenience symptoms.

I'm due to see the doctor again next week and I really don't know when is the end.

Sorry for ranting.
Have a great weekend, and I hope to post a new template soon.