I love Ikea!

I went on a sewing frenzy when I bought these two mini bolts of material from IKEA! (Should have bought the other two bolts in red too!!! Ahhhhggh!!!) Lots of ideas popping in my head and I really have to buy these fabulous cotton prints. My mom thinks I've gone overboard with the fabric stashing, but still go wah! with everything I've made so far. Don't try to stop me, I just love these cotton prints and at RM29 for 3 metres each, I should have bought more (sigh!).

Lime green tones and hippos dancing, what sweet and happy colours.


I made one for each of my niece. Of course, Nigel 's bag is for his newly acquired toy the L-Max (Thanks Grace for lugging it back from the states!). It's padded inside to protect his toy from his clumsy self!
No bag is complete with one of my felt pins.
A little bag I made for Ijin. I hope the strap is not too long . This is also one of my favourite upholstery fabrics.
I made a draw-string pouch to match Nigel's bag to house the long wires that came with his edu-toy.
Buttons! Buttons! Like candy from the candystore!!

All of them together. What do you think?



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Mega Month of May

This was supposed to be my work in progress report for the month of May, but I think most of you know that I sort of do crafts that only require at most 2 days of work. I don't really like time consuming crafts (Ok, I admit, I have a short attention span and some of the crafting I do is already stretching the mark.) So, here's more like my completed works for the month of May. Work at home have been quite hectic, but surprisingly I've also completed Emily's lunch tote. (See if you can find hints of the completed project in these pictures, I won't be showing them until I send them on their way to Emily.) My baby jacket tutorial will have to be posted later, still have the template to prepare. Thanks for dropping by, really appreciate the comments and the personal emails I've received. Love you girls!

A little fudgie-wudgie for a newborn. My niece just gave birth to a healthy baby girl!

Don't you just love Crocheted dresses. I used leftover yarn and in lavendar.

Sitting pretty on a pillow I made.
The baby jacket I've been working on. I will post the tutorial later this week.
They call this an Amigurumi. Did this a while ago with my leftover rug yarns. Turned out quite well. Don't ask me how I did it, I just crocheted free style and planned as I hooked. Will plan to do more of this, she's so cute. A row of these will be so nice!
The back of the crocheted doll. Velvet ribbon straps and a yummy blue bear for a button.
Say 'Cheese'.
Hmmm. I think I need to do those legs again. They look a little weird.

Take Up The Challenge

Sanguine Store is currently conducting a stitching competition employing Carrie's Thread.

For more information, please visit:
http://sanguinestore.wordpress.com/competition/

Registration ends on 31st May 2007.

Snoogems From All Over The World

I've been receiving mail from crafters who have made snoogems from the template. Here's a few of them. I hope more will turn up. They all look soooooo cute!

This is from Christelle of France. Check out her blog here http://chris10000.canalblog.com/

All the way from Germany - http://redwork-in-germany.blogspot.com/

These three are so adorable. Find them at http://trucentocs.canalblog.com/
Are there any more Snoogems out there? Do write and I'll post a picture of your snoogem here.

One more from Ciyou, Wangsa Maju. She did this entirely by hand-stitching - so give her a pat on the back for good job, well done!
It's her first softie! I hope there'll be more to come in the future.

Becky's first snoogem. Find her at http://runningwithcrafts.blogspot.com/

This little one is from Australia. Good work Jess!
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Happy 78th Birthday!

We celebrated Stan's mom's 78th birthday today and I had to make one of my picture frames for her. It was another trip down memory lane for the Ngs. The family portrait was taken when they first made their move to the Loke Yew flats. I salute her for having the strength, patience and wisdom to bring up 6 incredible sons! Stan is on her lap and at only 8 months old. We also discovered that almost all the grandsons all look like their fathers when they were young. Stan's dad looked dashing in his white suit too. I have never met him but I believe he was a wonderful father and Stan has spent many afternoons with him at his place of work - he was a movie projector attendant at Pavillion cinema in Bukit Bintang, KL. That explains Stan's incredible knowledge of old movies and bygone golden screen stars. He remembers having watched the original King Kong movie many many times!

Happy 78th Birthday - Mother!
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Happy Mother's Day - A walk down memory lane!

This post is for my mom, my grandmothers, my favourite aunts and beloved grandaunts. All of them - SUPER Incredible Moms!

My grandmother and her younger sister (whom we have never met). This picture must be taken before she came to Malaya.


The boys (Kenneth, standing on the left and Meow on her lap.) and Popo.

Auntie Sally and Me. A beautiful lady who was very fashionable during those days. She passed away a very long time ago and I still have a string of her 'shell' necklaces.

Auntie Yung Yee and all of us. From the top, Grace Lim (Now a doctor!), Meli, Me and Ah Ching with her mom.

Just us and mom at the ferry. Most probably on one of the holidays to Penang. Look at Meli's pigtails (she always have them tied like that!)

Celebrating Meow's 1st birthday.
Mom holding on to Meow, Auntie Josie and Shen-ni at an outing I cannot recall but we usually go holidays in a big group. I'm sure Shen remembers our little adventure over at the balconies of Awana Genting and the watermelon incident! (LOL!)

New Blog Look

Just exploring around changing the look of my blog. Can't seem to get the blog header to fit inside the border. So without the border, my posts look a little lost. Will update as I go. Anyone got any advice on how to get it just right?

Thanks for visiting! Watch out for my next tutorial...a cute baby jacket!

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A Messenger Bag for Faith

I made Faith a little messenger bag and in a her new favourite colour - Fuschia! Here it is...




Felt pins to go with the bag. Of her dog and of course, a cupcake!

Have Your Cake And EAT It Too!

You Are a Marble Cake

Eclectic, inventive, and peaceful. You are never willing to accept what's "normal." You live to push the envelope. You find it hard to make up your mind. You prefer to have everything you want, right away!

What Kind of Cake Are You?

Go to http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofcakeareyouquiz
Take the quiz!

My little Champion!

Nigel came back with his first trophy last Saturday. (28th April) It was a beautiful day for Sports and my little champion and his team was so focused, I've never seen 4 year olds so determined to win before. This little guys and girls sure have the drive! Here's to the little tykes who won the day!

Nigel posing with Faith and Tiffany. Red team was also made overall champion!
The day began at 8am and they're already wide awake and enthusiastic about the event.

Ruun-Jan and Ijin were there to cheer our kids on that day too!
Brother Stanley and All of us hanging around for the event to start! I think parents made up most of the crowd. Of course, for every child there will be a brigade of family cheering them on.
Kids in a colourful parade.
Nigel's team preparing for the race.

Are they strategising? Look at that frown of concentration.


It's his turn! And we're all holding our breath.
Look at him go! And fishing...was just his game.

Ruun-Ann and her year 5 team at the starting point.
Her team came in third. She was the quickest among the rest (the rest...were quite asleep!) She did an incredible job! The obstacle course was quite difficult for 5 year olds.
Go Ruun-Ann Go!