We are back this week with another peek into the studio space of one of our creative team members.  This week we get to learn more about Leena Loh and find out how she uses her space to get crafty.

Whether you have a dedicated room, a closet, or a dining room table; the goal of any creative space is organization. If you can’t locate your supplies quickly then you will spend more time looking for the perfect paper or embellishment item then you will spend on “creating.”  We hope that you enjoy this week’s tour and have fun learning more about Leena!

1. My scrapbook style would be more eclectic. My pages tend to have lots of white space, with emphasis on the pictures and stories I want to showcase.

2. I get my inspiration when I travel, for work and leisure. I love taking pictures on the street in the countries that I traveled to, especially building structures, billboard advertisements on buildings and subways. My favorite countries with colorful cultures would be Japan, Thailand, Philippines and Hong Kong.

3. My current favorite products for scrapbook would be the new Pink Paislee’s Cork Buttons and I also love canvas fabric and felt, which I bought loads of them during my shopping trip to Tokyo last year.

4. If there is one wish, I would like to quit my job now and do volunteer work in impoverished places like Cambodia, India and Mongolia where thousands of children are illiterate because they do not receive education due to lack of school facilities. It would be great to help build schools so the children would have the opportunities to get some basic education.

5. My favorite movie of all time would be The Wedding Singer, which I’ve watched again and again and I’m still loving it!

6. My guilty pleasure? That would be ice cream, ice cream and ice cream! Can’t live without it!

7. My favorite memory would be when I first met my husband in London, our favorite city in the world. We just hit it off within a day we met and we spent everyday throughout our stay, walking in the streets of London, having coffee on the sidewalk cafes, watching theatrical plays and of course sharing lots of long conversation.

8. My one fear that I really dread is if something happened to me during my traveling stints, I would never be able make it home safely and see my family again.

9. My first job was waitressing in my Grandpa’s coffee shop.

10. I love music which is soothing to my ear such as pure acoustic bossa.

11. My typical day for me on the weekdays would start at around 7.30am, getting ready for work, seeing my boy off to school and my hubby and I would drive off to work. He would then drop me off at my office around 9am and the first half morning would be spent checking and replying tons of work-related emails! I would maybe sneak in to check my personal emails, pop by my favorite scrapbook forums and blogs as my morning ‘refreshments’. If I don’t travel, the second half of the day would be spent in meetings, trainings and making lots of plans for our responsible countries. My day at work usually ends at 7pm, hubby would pick me up and we get home around 8pm. Dinner would follow and I would spend some quiet time with my son, watch a little TV, helping him with his schoolwork and when he has finally gone to bed, I would chat up with the hubby on our day and maybe do a little scrapping, crafting or reading. If I’m up to it, I would stay up to around 2-3am. Weekends will be for family outings, meeting with friends and also catching up with crafting usually during the night. If I travel for work, I would definitely come back home for the weekend, it’s a must!

12. My signature piece of clothing would be tights and an over sized shirt. I feel comfortable moving around in them especially when I’m on photography assignments or shopping trips.

My scrap space:
I live in Singapore, a small island country with a population of just abut 4.5million people, with land size of an hour’s drive from the East to the West of the island. So, land and space is definitely very scarce and 80% of the people here live in apartments (a house would cost millions of dollars!). I am one of the lucky person to have my very own scrap corner in my apartment. It’s a small space but I definitely appreciate the fact that I could spend my crafting time in a proper space.

This is my one and only scrap table located in one of our rooms, where I work all the time. I made my scrap area an open concept so as to utilize the minimum space I have and where I can see and grab my stuff within arm’s length.

I displayed my favorite embellishments and the ones that I use all the time on a curtain rod, which has been improvised by my hubby! I love the fact that I just have to look up from where I work on the table and I just grabbed whatever I see.

This pedestal which supports my scrap table top are one of my favorite storage space which is also within reach, where I kept most of my paints and mists in containers.

My sewing machine is located on the right side of my scrap table which I can reach out easily whenever I want to sew on my scrap pages or any other projects.

This shelf is where I kept the rest of my embellishments and papers, just behind my scrap table. I just need to swivel my chair around without having to stand up and I’m able to grab whatever I want on this shelf! *laugh* I’m a lazy girl and as long as I don’t have to walk more then a few steps from my table to get my stuff, it work perfectly well for me.

My scrap table and shelf are from IKEA, along with the other containers like the cookie jars for my ribbons and buttons, the curtain rod, the cork board, the paper carton boxes and also the rattan baskets. I love everything from Ikea, they cheap and also versatile.

And lastly, I store more carton boxes, my Sizzix machine and craft magazines on the built-in shelf which used to be for my books, and they have been shifted to the other side of the wall.

If you would like to learn more about Leena please feel free to visit her blog HERE