Bangkok here I come again!

One can never reject a nice relaxing trips with full of great food and massages!!! hehe shopping was not too bad.. not as fantastic as I envisioned but that was because the exchange rate is a bit low at this point in time and I had SELF CONTROL!!!! hehe....

my favourite purchase! doesn't it look like the nunn design SB embellishments??

absolutely HEART it!!!

feeding a very hungry baby elephant bamboo shoots.

Saw it at Patpong (Silom Road) the red-light district in BKK

my favourite dessert from Thailand. like Ang Ku Kueh with the tau sa filling!
looks totally plastic but absolutely delicious!! yum
eh... i still can't figure out the actual name! ;)

one of the best meals I had in BKK was at Chatuchek weekend Market!
Rice with chicken green curry, deep fried chicken, mix veg and green mango salad..

all for 210 baht, which is SG$ 10!!!

I was so full by the end of the meal!!! it was just delicious..... drool ;P

planning my next trip already... haha.. anyone wanna come along???

set

oh and i played with the settings on my camera AGAIN... and I think the pictures turned out better now? esp the one with the close up of the yellow ribbon n the AC flower ribbon?? yeah!!
I'm a happy gal

Happy Father's Day

Well.. glad to announce that out of the 2 'parent's day' I managed to celebrate Father's Day today with Dad. Predictably, we went to a Japanese Restaurant at Turf City (it's a combination of his 2 fave things... Jap food n somehow Dad likes Turf City??? I think it's Giant). Food was not bad overall although veg was pretty salty... Er.. present for Dad? On it's way... :D

Happy Father's Day, Dad!


Common knowledge that we take after genes from our parents right?? (read we're kinda screwed man!!)... so I have to say the organisational part of me is from my dad! I like to make sure stuff is organised and packed exactly nicely together! An area for SB, an area for sewing, a box for all the beads for jewellery making... and today I added a box for my make up!!! kekeke... it's something that I've wanted for a long long time but I could not bear to part with the obsence amount of money for the box from Shu Umeura (my fav makeup brand) but the lady at the counter made me an offer I could not refuse.. hence... adding to my collection of limited edition stuff and to my addiction for organisation.... I have myself a new makeup box with a pretty bright pink graphic design on it.....

Price is still kinda high but I had a good offer.... hands are trembling, heart is pumping from the knowledge that I actually bought the box... you know it's kinda like a love-hate relationship now... love the box, hate the fact that I spent again!! argh...


well to cheer myself up and to stop feeling guilty, I've finally fully made use of my AB purchases...

Another album cover for my other AC album...

a yellow ribbon to break the monotony of the fabric

Maybe I should start selling custom-made album covers???
anyone interested??? let me know!


WIP for an UPtown Madison Bag

The base totally bugs me! I cannot get it right... but after several times of trying I finally made it look somewhat reasonable. Bit tired after trying so hard on the base, I've decided to hang on a while to recuperate, give myself a breather before I start to do the top stitching and time to pack for my BKK trip this Wed.

woohoo!! i'm going on a H-O-L-I-D-A-Y!!! can't wait! and there's where Dad's pressie's gonna be from, or rather from DFS. Dad's pretty happy that I'm going for a holiday. NO, not because it's GOOD RIDDANCE (aka nagging from me) but we always get alcohol from him at DFS that's he's only request... cute dad i have, no need to buy anything from holiday trips, only bring back the good stuff from DFS a bottle of red, a bottle of liquor and 3 cans of beer!

oh and my 'chelsea' bag has been going on shopping trips with me.. so far so good.. it's a sturdy bag alright! Cool!!!

Protected!

My completed album cover....

Thought the black fabric should be jazzed up with some ribbons...

I detached a lanyard given by TVC during one of their OH and sewed it onto the cover! An AC label for an AC album :D

Another 1 more cover to go!

I gritted my teeth....

and i finally used the Amy Butler fabric that I ordered previously! hehe.. although my heart broke a little.. just a little when I cut the fabric but i love how the whole bag turned out. I used those super-hard kind of interfacing for the bag and now it can 'stand' by itself. Oh and i used the black/white striped bag as the lining. Now this bag is super-strong.. *fingers crossed*


Matching light brown fabric for the binding. : D it was so darn hard to sew it on as the fabrics all became thick even after trimming off the excess interfacing n fabric!

Mom exclaimed after I showed her the completed bag! The fabric is nice (refering to the AB fabric) but the binding stitching is bad (as the different thickness of the bag caused tension on the stitching, but overall it's still a presentable bag that I can carry around :D

Off to next project.. so many which one?? And what to sew for Sew Much Fun??

Oh! and I wanna thank M for giving me the lovely kit that I used to do for JT's birthday card :D Big Thanks n Kisses going your way!

gifts from the heart

Since I'm 'into' scrapbooking what better gift can i possibly give my dear friends than a 1 of a kind SB LO done especially for them.


This is a card I made for a dear friend in Australia... hehe I mentioned making it in a previous post but i couldn't post it until I'm very sure that she has received it :) so here it is! I'm glad that she loves it ... It becomes 'scary' when your inner circle of friends, those that you know for many years start to get hitched! Anyway, the 'guinea pig' of my lot from secondary school had her ROM end of may and here is her belated ROM pressie! Another SB made with exceptional love! just for her ...


glad that she likes it too.

One-o- a-kind handmade

The weekend's over so quickly! it was great to just hang out with friends, esp the ones that you have not seen for months due to the great distance that is between us! Always great to catch up with one another and to know what one another is up too!

Maad was another great event! Cousin J did not managed to sell much but there was lots of interested people who appreciated SB and took her card for future reference for SB customisation? The interesting stuff that people sold were all handmade and really inspired us to want to set up a stall in future selling the bags that we sew.

And yes! i am very proud of myself that I did not buy anything from MAAD although i was really tempted by this necklace sold by Cousin J's stallmate, V. it was simply gorgeous.. but i CONTROLled! rather i can thinking - contemplating - and seriously evaulating if i will wear the necklace often enough to warrant me to buy it. It's an equvilent thing if i spent that amount on the necklace.. i could have bought at least 15 pieces of pattern paper, 5 7G 97% stickers, or another AB fabric.. well you get the idea!! hehe... well i am still thinking cos the necklace really is simply stunning, nothin outlandish, understated and of cos one-of-a-kind (which i am a sucker for)..

oh! and the pretty fabric wrapped journals, handmade i must add, by the other stallmate, D were just fabulous!!! Bright and pretty colours, it's really great for people who wanna write stuff or draw stuff to keep for memories! I think my X'mas shopping list is extending cos all these handmade stuff are so pretty that you just want to buy and give away!!

Of course, i sewed a bag too! it's the AB chelsea look-alike bag, with the handles. The method to sew the handles have been buffling Cousin J so I experimented it out. I have to say it's not easy cos it require more hand, handiwork and precision, but it was all worth it! See!!!

What's next? I've got pics so i'm going to SB soon!! yeah yeah!

erm.. no monday blues today!! hehe.. must have been the wonderful weekend and the holiday that's coming up! woohoo...

it's on the way!!!

Yeah! I just had an email from Kim telling me that my waitlist for SOMO kit is here! That means I am going to be receiving a kit for the next three months starting June! Can't wait. It is a bit pricy cos of the shipping all the way from States - for people who knows me I've started to be more 'conservative' with my money and I am trying to CONTROL *to the little ounces of my ability* my spending!

But when I see the kit every month, I just told myself I have to have it!!! even for the stamps it's so worth it!! So can't wait for my kit to arrive!! Woohoo...

Enjoy ur weekend! It's packed for me..
1) teaching
2) catching up with friend who's in town
3) seminar at NUH
4) MAAD event!!! - go if you can!!

even though i'm not feeling too good n my whole body's, I guess i've to get better to attend to my packed weekend!