Saturday, March 15, 2014

My Terengganu

Kuala Abang near Dungun 
Somewhere after Merchang to Dungun.
Rhu Renggeh, Chendering. The old bridge makes a very nice picture.
Marang
Pantai Pandak, Chendering.
That's my BIL who is a avid landscape photographer. 
These pictures are taken with Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

Monday, February 17, 2014

Personalised embroidered towels

Some embroidered towels that I made. To order, please check my shop tab.

Baby shower gift basket

This is how I came up with the gift basket for the baby shower. Well, I should called it baby bowl since a basket is more expensive to buy. There is a cute bicycle basket included so the mommy can put little things inside. Pictures shown from the initial arrangement to how it was finally done.
All decorations consist of baby wear, wash clothes, mittens and booties. The final picture shown with embroidered towels which I will post later separately.

Snap it out!

Out of sight, so out of mind. When you haven't work with snap buttons for a while, you will forget which part goes with which tools. Many pairs of snap buttons wasted before I finally got it right. So this is just for me to refer to..

Baby blanket with minky fabric

Made this minky baby blanket for a friend's baby shower. How glad I am that this minky (or minkee) fabric is now available to purchase in Malaysia. Minky is perfect for babies. It is supersoft and smooth.

With the extra fabric, I also made up this little blanket with ribbon tags. Perfect as a play or security blanket. Babies would love to play with those tags.

Check out my shop page for ready made minky blankets available for sale soon.

Mail art: recycled plastic bottle

My friend ordered a bottle of argan oil from me. I googled on how to mail the glass bottle safely and found out a link how some unusual mails had been put into the mailbox (in the US). Among them is a mail made out of plastic bottle. This would be perfect to house a small glass bottle inside. With some padding or fillers, the plastic exterior will protect it.

On further Google-ing on how to make one, this is how it turned out. You make a window on the side and the cover it up with some decorations. It'll be fun for the recipient to guess on how to open up the packaging. Mine was just done with a sticker. 😆

Instax album cover

Elisha is 4yo now. Well, 4+ since this was made for last year's celebration. We took instant photos of the birthday girl and guests who were at the party. This album will hold in all those photos. Hope it will make beautiful memories for years to come.

Kimbap

Tried out this dish with my niece. Turned out good though something need to be done about the taste. A bit bland. But all were eaten; none left!

Kimchi

Got these chillies from Kelantan. Made chilli kimchi, 'solok lada' a chilli dish stuffed with grated coconut and boiled fish meat and pickled chillies.

New collection

These rayon threads need to have their own places soon among my overflowing stash collection. ☺

Baby things

Just a sneak peek of what I'd been doing lately.

Monday, August 26, 2013

LK WIPs



Both dated 30th October, 2011. Lizzie Kate's My Secret Garden (top) and the last of the Seasonal Baskets' Autumn (bottom). It was such a depressing feeling stitching that light brown brick stone wall..I think for the Autumn Basket, I am missing some flosses.

Wave bag



Wave bag. I don't quite like the slanted side of this bag. Would prefer to have a straight one. But I like the zipped closure of it. I think this is the reason why I took the lesson to make this bag.



Wishlist: Fujifilm Instax Mini 90

A wishlist in the making. Still have about 6 months or more to save. Definitely going to sell my current Instax Mini 50 to partly pay for this one! Scheduled to be released in the US in Spring 2014 for about USD210. Will be sold in Japan starting September for Yen20,000.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

How to take a selfie.

Cute!

Found this little fella inside one of my old cross stitch magazine...he's going to be cute!

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Cable tidy

Leftover lycra fabric pieces sewn into a tube to organize cables for smartphone, GTab, ipod and Kindle. No wonder sometimes it felt like having a suitcase with wheels for the office. Lol!

Of other creative things...

I may not be stitching during the blog is dead to the world..but that doesn't mean that I was not being creative. Here are some examples. Some stage designs for our Jazzercise studio to mark some event or occassions. This one was last year's Hari Raya/Merdeka day. The draft and the final design. Not my best works..

WG backdated pic

WG as of 12Aug 2012. Found this pic in my phone gallery. Lucky there is Blogger app available as my phone is dead to other thing than itself. No wifi or bluetooth. It's charging itself only when switched off.

Building up a watergarden

It started one day last year when my next door neighbor renovated his house. It was during the fasting month and I had so much time to stitch as I didn't opt to teach my Jazzercise class during fasting much.
I can't yet afford to renovate my house, so I thought I build something on my own instead...



Started this in 2003. Here's the earliest picture that I can find. After 11 hours of stitching date 3rd August.



Next progress was dated on 14th January 2006. After a while, I must thought it wasn't worth it to track the hours of stitching any more. LOL!


And last year 2012, it started to roll... I would stitch on this every once in a while if I had time to spare. Exclusively.. this was dated 29th August 2012.