October 31, 2014 at 10:17PM Looking back at October's #alexaphotoaday! It was great fun putting together this month's theme. Any guesses for this month's theme? :) As a special feature for this month, I will be giving away the excess items to interested viewers. Items will be reserved on a first-come-first-serve basis. Just leave a comment with the item you would like to receive. Limit one item per viewer. Should I require your address to send you the item, I'll contact you privately. Items up for grabs! (Numbers indicate the qty of each item available) 1. Little blue notebooks x 4 2. Rattan cane x 1 3. Blue pencil x 1 4. Pack of'Donkey' cards x 1 5. Figure-of-Eight chocolates x 3 6. Pack of Kuti Kuti x 3 7. Pack of pick-up sticks x 1 8. Pack of blowing balloons x 4 9. Origami paper x 1 10. Magic Pop x 1 11. Pack of paper to fold stars x 2 12. TY bear x 2 13. Pack of Wang Zhai Xiao Man Tou x 1 14. Phone cards x 2 15. Pack of rubber bands x 1 16. Styrofoam plane x 1 (not featured) Hope you enjoyed this month's as much as I had fun capturing them. Stay tuned for another exciting month ahead! #apad :)

October 31, 2014 at 08:23PM Day 306: "Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you." - Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry ...see and believe! #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 31, 2014 at 12:14AM Day 305: "I used to wonder what friendship could be...Until you all shared its magic with me! "Big adventure!" "Tons of fun!" "A beautiful heart." "Faithful and strong." "Sharing kindness..." - Theme Song to My Little Pony #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 29, 2014 at 10:57PM Day 304: "Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever." - Dylan Lauren #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 29, 2014 at 12:15AM Day 303: "eventually, everything goes away." - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love ...and change is the only thing that stays. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 27, 2014 at 11:18PM Day 302: "Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood...food has a way of transporting us back to the past." - Homaro Cantu #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 26, 2014 at 11:06PM Day 301: "In a world where everyone seems to be larger and louder than yourself, it is very comforting to have a small, quiet companion." - Peter Gray ...and these companions stay and grow old with you. :) #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 26, 2014 at 12:26AM Day 300: "What we remember from childhood we remember forever — permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen." - Cynthia Ozick ...just like the tattoo surprises on the back of a bubble gum wrapper. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 24, 2014 at 06:43PM Day 299: "There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again." - Elizabeth Lawrence ...where toys make this dream even more a reality. :) #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 24, 2014 at 12:01AM Day 298: "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." — E. E. Cummings ...perhaps it's time that we take the step forward; not to be afraid of what others may think of us and just live. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 22, 2014 at 11:57PM Day 297: "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman ...so don't be afraid to just reach out for it. Sometimes falling ain't so bad, especially if you knew what you fell for. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 21, 2014 at 11:49PM Day 296: "Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever." - Dylan Lauren #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 20, 2014 at 10:32PM Day 295: "There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book." - Marcel Proust ...especially if we were being read to. :) #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 19, 2014 at 11:40PM Day 294: "I miss those days when I was a child and everything in the whole world seemed huge." - Anonymous ...and deciding things based on chance and luck was the in thing. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 18, 2014 at 11:16PM Day 293: "That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up." - WALT DISNEY, attributed, The Quotable Walt Disney #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 18, 2014 at 01:22AM Day 292: "Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?" - Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake ...but that's not what we are called to do - we are called to live in the present. To be present to the people around us; not to live in the memories of yesterday. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 17, 2014 at 12:25AM Day 291: "And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!" - Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat ...perhaps not pick up all at once, but one at a time should be very much possible, with care and concentration. :) #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 15, 2014 at 11:36PM Day 290: "No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer." - Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 15, 2014 at 12:20AM Day 289: "Color is a power which directly influences the soul." - Wassily Kandinsky ...and as kids, we saw the world in colour, rather than just black, white and grey. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 13, 2014 at 10:32PM Day 288: "There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't." - Gail Carson Levine, Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly ...and as a child, books were our gateway to the magical world and beyond, where bears talk and chairs fly. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 12, 2014 at 10:45PM Day 287: "Teeth aren't pearly, until you smile." - Anthony Liccione ...and that was the reason why little children could be found squatting along the drain, brushing their teeth, after recess. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 11, 2014 at 10:02PM Day 286: "No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers." - Ravi Zacharias ...and the search for that answer continues today, for the answer for my mission in life. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 10, 2014 at 11:17PM Day 285: "The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson." - Tom Bodett ...but Momo monsters and them drinking tea was something that stuck, even after all these years. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 09, 2014 at 11:47PM Day 284: "The best of seers is he who guesses well." - Euripides ...and sometimes in the act of guessing, we inevitably interact more, seeking to understand. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 08, 2014 at 11:09PM Day 283: "One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!" - C. JoyBell C. ...and as we get older, we sometimes lose this element of surprise, for certainty assures security. Don't be afraid to let yourself be surprised. :) #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 08, 2014 at 12:34AM Day 282: "You have to be odd to be number one." - Dr. Seuss ...just like how Donkey was. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 06, 2014 at 11:45PM Day 281: "What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce." - Karl Lagerfeld ...and Neoprints were the way to go in capturing there memories. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 06, 2014 at 07:52PM Day 280: "They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them." - Malachi 3:16-17 (NRSV) ...by this, we realise that we are and have been truly God's special treasure - His gems and jewels. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth #onedaylate

October 05, 2014 at 12:56AM Day 279: "I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves." - C. JoyBell C. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 03, 2014 at 11:13PM Day 278: “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 02, 2014 at 11:27PM Day 277: “We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.” - Henry Cloud ...and I am thankful for the discipline with love that made me into the person I am today. :) #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth

October 01, 2014 at 11:00PM Day 276: "One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework" - Merlin Olsen ...and all because we forgot to write it down in the little blue book. #alexaphotoaday #october #themeofthemonth