Simple Pleasures are Best

Dont you think so? Even though it means picking up the phone and talk to someone or listening to some MP3s, or even just hanging out your legs..

Freebie by Waxing Moon Designs.

Round Robins

A round robin is a piece stitched by two or more people. Usually comes with a theme, a series of designs or even a complete design divided up to be stitched by each of the participants. A dateline is set for each person to finish the stitching before mailing it to the next person until eventually it will reach the last person who is also the owner of the piece.

This is my piece for 2006 MYS RR. Seasonal Postcards c Passione Ricamo. These are previously freebies at the website, but no longer available. However, these postcards will appear in one of the UK mags as part of their stitching series.

And this is an old designer RR. I chose Lizzie Kate's Friendship chart as my theme. I have always wanted a piece like this. It reminded me of old school book where friends will autographed all over..

Book Covers

Finally I had some time to make up these book covers. Previously, it had only been ideas in my head and in the pages of my book. The original idea came from a plastic book cover that I brought back from the US. It fits a standard paperback size (with some room to spare) of any thickness.

People said 'dont judge a book by its cover'. I wonder what they will said when they look at these covers.


My first design..the book Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.

Hanging Hearts..the book The Devils Wear Prada by Lauren Weisberger.

Progress pictures..

Last finish of January..LK February stamp without those tiny buttons.



LK May stamp. Finish this quite a long time before..buttons still to be attached.


BC February snapper. I am so lazy to finish up that leftover stitchings!


BC March snapper. Missing the bottom line. Cant find the floss. I think I am missing a few swirls too.


JABC Open a New Box. Stitch this while waiting for car to be serviced.


JN Parlor Ribbons. Managed only 1 band after a frogging due to miscounting.


DT Sanctuary assignment #2. Still missing the fountain paths.

Stitching smalls..

Eight-sided pincushion or biscournu for MYS exchanges. Design is JN Whimzi Rose.

Sweets for my sweet..

These are Soan Papdi. Somebody came home from India and brought us these. They are like very finely pulled sugar made from sugar (of course), veg oil, chick pea flour, wheat flour, pistachio & almond with cardamon taste. I love them, but some are being put off by the cardamom taste. Here, you dont normally eat those cardamon, just cook with them for the nice smell..

These reminded me of semang (pronounced say-mong) that I had known as a kid. It was of pulled sugar too, but coarser and made into a rounded shape. I think you can still find some at the Pasar Payang in Terengganu. It is white in color though the one that I had known was pink.

At least for now, if I see a Hindi movie, I know what sweets they are serving..LOL!

Meme of Fours.

I need some posts that I dont have to upload pictures. So I am tagging myself with this. Read it at Zalita's blog (she got it at Harsha's). She wrote "if you're reading (and you haven't answer this set of questions) consider yourself tagged'..

Meme of 'Fours'

Four Jobs I Have Had in My Life:
1- teacher/tutor - a facilitator in some holiday camps..
2- consultant - in anything! LOL! Some of my friends would say that I have 'answers' to everything. I do 'kelentong' (made jokes) sometimes..hehehehe
3- AVON direct-seller (during the year after I finished my studies and hadn't been employed yet).
4- Reader - yeah..before i was employed, I did this a lot! LOL!

Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over Again:
1- Sleepless in Seattle
2- Jane Austen's adapted movies like Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice. I wished I own a DVD of these ones, but couldn't seem to find one here. They dont like old, historical type movie here. No selling value..I missed P&P at the movies. What can I say? I love historical setting..
3- Disney's movies!!
4- Movies that has creativity (models created, computer generated etc) in them like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Day After Tomorrow, Perfect Storm..

Four Places I Had Lived:
1- Omaha, Nebraska, USA. I studied there.
2- Zurich, Switzerland. Only for a few days, on training, but I had been there more than once.
3-If you want to count the places that I had been for duty travel-London, Manchester, Sdyney, Jakarta, Bangkok etc..hehehe

Four TV Shows I Love to Watch:
1 - All the CSI series
2 - Monk
3 - Akademi Fantasia (local reality TV show)
4 - Discovery Travel and Living channel and Discovery Channel

Four Places I Have Been on Vacation:
1 - Scotland (& London)
2- Los Angeles - Dallas
3 - Yokohama - Tokyo - Kyoto - Kansai
4 - Johannesburg - Cape Town - Buenos Aires

Four Websites I Visit Daily:
1 - Yahoo Mailbox
2 - Yahoo Groups
3 - Any links that appeared in any of my emails/YG. LOL! That's more than 4 if you want to count them.

Four of My Favorite Foods:
1 - Pizza
2 -Sweet and Sour
3 -Porridge
4 - Veggies

Four Albums I Can't Live Without:
1 - Siti Nurhaliza
2 -Malay R&B like Anuar Zain, Dayang & Kaer!
3 -Whatever they played on XFresh FM.
4 -AF Stars hehehhe..just to fill this in..I love Mawi's album!

Four Places I'd Rather Be:
1 - Where the is a body of water (esp waterfalls), some greens/flowers, mountains/high places
2- Vacation places. Anywhere!
3- Bookstores
4-LNS or craft stores.

Well, to follow suit, If you're reading (and you haven't answered this set of question) consider yourself tagged also.

Charity Day at RTK

I missed the days when we had Kem Penyayang with BPKC. It was a good thing that I am able to do this again with these friends of mine. ANd thanks to those who had made this possible. They did the gotong royong cleaning up the place and the kids had coloring contests and games.

I would had loved to do more but somebody had to mind the smaller kids..

A second home

Due to the long commute everyday to work, I have long for an apartment in the city. But it would take a lot more time to see that materialises..for the time being, I have this great views from my timeshare apartment's windows. We had an early morning gathering in KL so I booked myself an apartment out of my entitlement. My first time at the Legend Hotel and Apartments.

I am FLYing!!

I found this great site through my routine of reading other stitchers' blogs. It looks like a good reading (I haven't read it all yet, just the intro paragraph) for an unorganized person like me..hehehe.

"To help Families get organized. We will establish new habits and develop daily routines!No Whining allowed.

One more comment from a Dear Friend of mine:"This is FlyLady's little list that has grown by leaps and bounds due to her special way of weaving housecleaning tips with homespun humor and daily musings about life. She has a no-nonsense approach to getting your house and your life in order. She mixes housekeeping advice with insights about life and love and anything else that is on her mind. This list is whatever FlyLady decides it should be -- it's her list. She expects subscribers to decide if they get anything out of it or not. Those who do are invited to be part of the cyber family. Those who don't are encouraged to unsubscribe. Only you can decide what is right for you. If you can't figure that much out,don't blame FlyLady!"

Let's meet the FLYlady.

2005 Report card

Had uploaded some pictures of finishes in 2005. Some pictures are still not there. Too lazy! In anyway, 2005 was not a good stitching year for me. I still have some of my stash in boxes and they are unorganized at my new home. The earlier reason of not stitching was because of no proper place to sit and stitch! LOL! In a way, it was true. I had to crank up my head to watch the TV while stitching on the floor.

2006..i intend to have a stitching corner for myself and buy shelves for my books and my stash. Maybe more framings done for some of the old finishes. I also had reorganized the albums. WIPs are to be featured here in my blog. I will keep the albums for those that I had finished. Am thinking of doing more exchanges too. Had missed receiving things in my mailbox. To learn more finishing techniques too!

Check this link for pictures.
http://community.webshots.com/user/azrozita

W.I.Pping it out..

WIP=work in progress. Open New Box by JABC (Just Another Button Company) at 9.5 hours.
Chatelaine's Mini Mystery A @ 19 hrs.
Just Nan Parlor Ribbons @ 11 hrs.

April glooms..

Finished on 11Jan06. I love the colors (but then I am always partial to blues..hehehe) and the motifs, see how they blend in with the design title!

Wait! I think this one is not fully finished yet. I forgot the lines underneath the wordings.

In rotation..

The other good way of finishing stitching projects is doing them in rotation. You pick the ones that you want to finish and work each one for about 10 hours or so before continue on to the next. When a project in that rotation is finished, you can add in another one.

A good place for reading about rotation http://p096.ezboard.com/btwbbrotationstitchers

This is Chatelaine's Watergarden WIP (work-in-progress) at 54 hours.

On assignment..

DT Sanctuary of assignment 1. I am on SAL (Stitch-ALong) with another group to do this one. Stitchalongs are good motivation to finish a project. For this one, a leader will post an assignment a month, along with some tips and how-to. It's a good thing if you have questions or have difficulty in some of the stitchings to ask to the group. Someone will surely help you out.

I haven't actually finished the actual assignment. Had to venture out to other area because I am missing the NPI needed to do the paths out of the fountain. Will take some time to order one.

Fire at works!

Nope, I missed the ones they had on New Year's Eve. Had to settle problem calls and I had to cancel my plans to see one on display. Hope to get a better schedule in August. I would love to take lots of pictures of KLCC with fireworks in the background. I have a few places in mind of where I want to take them..Am aiming for 31st August! InshaaAllah..it's worth celebrating your birthday on the same day..heheh

The other night, a friend smsed me. He said my pictures of Jerangkang Waterfalls are worth getting into photo competitions! Isn't that a very nice thing to hear? Hehehe..Wait till I saved up some $$$ and get myself some telephoto and macro lenses (and maybe a wide/panorama lens too). One of the reasons why I picked up Canon Powershot A520. I wouldn't want to get into another expensive hobby, so a point-and-shoot is the next better alternative.

Picture courtesy from Internet.

May you bloom wherever you are..

Finished on 27th December. Sadly to say, I was unable to continue on my marathon for these snappers. There was no way I can finish them before the New Year begins. I had been on-call for systems coverage this December and they seemed to be lots of problems nearing the end of the year! I usually ended up sitting in front of my laptop most nights solving problems and answering/making calls than sitting down and stitch.

June zooms..

Finished this snapper on 21st December. This is one of my favorites on these snapper series. I love to travel! Whether it's a backpacking one or just a day out in the city.. they say on the Discovery Channel, adventure is within yourself, not the journey itself. I agree! I can go places I'd been before and there'll be things I missed on the last travel...

Some branded trains..

I love going places like this... It's free! The KIDS were just there to accompany me because there is no joy and excitement of going places if you cant enjoy it with others. :-) The younger ones loved to try and stopped the trains. It's a joy to watch them when they succeeded (it happened when the trains did stop so that other trains can passed through to adjoining tracks). And for that day only, they made some new friends too, talking gibberish that somehow only they understood.

At full moon..

For the Malays, there is this event they called 'aqiqah' where a sheep was slaughtered, cooked and served to neighbors and friends to celebrate the birth of a child. For the Chinese, they have this full moon meals given away when the baby is a month old (I guess). This is the first time I came across the event. It's for my big boss's daughter. The meal consists of glutinous rice cooked with soy sauce and mushroom, some pickled ginger, roasted chicken, 2 red-colored boiled eggs (the Chinese loves red), some desserts that made of glutinous flour with bean paste inside and a cupcake. Now I am wondering what the Indians do for the birth of their child? Recently, I came to realise also that for the Chinese, an English name tdoesn't means that you celebrate Xmas!
In another thoughts, I love trying new cuisines (as long as it's halal) and for some, they cant even stand the thought of eating it!