About

Hello! I’m Nadine but I rather be known as naddie (: I am a SAHM to an adorable son and a SAHW to my awesome husband. I am a sporty person and enjoy running, basketball, canoe polo and surfing. I also enjoy reading and writing stories and poetry. I have been crafting since young and have been designing for some years. My obsession with pretty papers has led me to incessant spending both online and at my local stores.

I created my first blog in 2002 but have been blogging before that. I loved coding, creating and designing websites and had a fanaticism for fanlistings and cliques. That love somehow died about two years ago and I started blogging much, much lesser. However, I am attempting to blog more now that I have topics to blog about—my new family (:

I started scrapbooking as gifts for friends in 2007 and attended my first scrapbooking class in 2009. That was when I learnt terms like lignin and acid-free. So in terms of experience on scrapbooking, I’d say I’m quite a newbie :/ I am a sucker for simple layouts and use minimal embellishments for my works. I personally find that over-using embellishments tend to make things really cluttered and messy. But I have seen layouts with a ton of embellishments yet still looks really awesome :D

hello-love.org is a newly purchased domain for all my crafty things. Thanks to my craziness over all things pretty and vintage (and crafty and nice), I decided to have a crafty blog since Sweet Child has been my personal site and blog since 2003 ;)

My current creative goals would be to be on a design team, create a store selling my crafty and hand-made goodies, and set up an online store with my sister selling crafting and scrapbooking needs :D