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