Colour Challenge and card-y business

I’ve been WAITING for this week’s colour challenge because I’m home everyday and i went to laine’s to top up my supplies! And it’s here! yay!

I FINALLY got a circle cutter. after thinking about it for months.
And i’m soooooo happy about my purchase that i just had to use it when i made my card today. heh.

This card and more selling at cardsncraft.wordpress.com

And mummy says she needs a card for her colleague, so i gave her my stash of cards (seen and unseen on my blog) and she wanted a card on transparencies. And my previous attempts on transparencies card er.. just didn’t go very well. So i did some research on the net. And came up with this!

All i can say is… research pays off..
yes.. even for things like making cards.

I did take a picture of it with white background behind but i figured out that i like that I’m able to see through the card. Sooo my card AND my window grills.

*EDIT* OHHHHH how can i forget!??!??! credit for clear card idea to Jennifer Mcquire who graciously shared her idea on youtube. Thanks!

 

5 Days MC

In answer to my prayers for more rest, God gave me at least 5 days MC to be legimately absent from work for about a week.

Ok, what happened was that i went to the dentist yesterday, the one near victor’s house and wanted to ask him to come down and eat hokkien mee but i ended up being quite late so i didn’t, but i realise today that he ate dinner late too. So i should have just asked him out for dinner -_-”’

ANYWAY, i went to the dentist and waited for an hour +++ for the dentist! But i forgive him, cos he’s said thank you for waiting and was very nice to me. So i told him what’s wrong and his initial diagnosis was that it was my wisdom tooth giving me problems. Later he took an x-ray for me.. that was interesting! So i got to see how my left 2 molar teeth look like. And i’m proud to say that it looks healthy enough. No decay thank God! But there was just a wisdom tooth hiding in the corner and creating this little hole thing that makes food drop inside so i easily get inflammation and infection and decay and what not. Anyway according to the doctor, the long term solution is to get rid of the wisdom tooth by paying 500-800 bucks. SO for the time being, he gave me medicine for the inflammation, and it’s better now, as least not aching that much.

And at this point, Victor would disagree, because i was whining away to him on the way home from church today. Because at that time, it was SUPER achy. So i kept harping on the fact that my cheeks were swollen and i wanted to put my finger in to rub the area. He suggested biting some chewy sweet, but i didn’t have one on hand. So when he bought bubble tea, guess who stole a sip here and there. I was so excited that the pearls and coolness of the drink help soothe some of the achy-ness.

So I should be going for the op… though I need to find out from my boss when would be the best time to take it. So for all those who planned something with me in the next 2 weeks. I’m sorry, but it gotta wait till after I’ve recovered from the surgery.

Anyway, i’m quite excited about it! Partly cos of the MC.. 5 days off leh! where to get? But my dad was concerned that it might affect my performance since i’m undergoing probation. hrmph.. but no choice right. the wisdom tooth has just gotta go. And It’s a new experience… and…. well.. the dentist quite good looking.. one always needs some good motivation to go to the dentist.. besides the usual if you don’t go ah….blah blah blah..

 

My first design challenge

I’ve always wanted to try my hand on something like that. And since I had time to spare today… not for much long though. I did a design challenge. muahahha.

 

 

yay… this wasn’t my original design though.. wanted to put the words in a circle, but it didn’t work out.. And! i wanted to put a big fat felt “4″ instead of “for” but i didn’t have the right colour of alphabet stickers.

But. i like this toooooo. And very proud of myself for completing a challenge…

*CLAP HANDS!!!*

 

25 October 2008

One of my proudest creation so far.. =)

My dad ask me to open a shop to sell cards. ahhhh i should ah.. who wanna sponsor me! Wah, in looking through the card, i realise that how many of the items inside are NOT scrapbook materials.

The flower like thing at the back of the heart was bought from daiso, its part of a bangle thingy, i dismantled it and used it as a flower. Cos it’s so expensive to buy big flowers in MWL. The gems and pearls are bought 4 packets for $10 at this flea market in tampines interchange, it’s suppose to be used to zing your phone. Ribbon from popular. String from cross sitch string separated to make it thinner. The only scrapbook material!! is the paper… from Made with Love. The purple one was a free sample from Making Memories some more. haha Oh! and the black pen also from MWL. The heart is hand cut out from a cardboard painted with acyclic paint using my finger.

One day, just one day, I’ll video down the whole process of making cards and be like one of the pro scrapbookers that I usually see on youtube.

=) making cards make me happy.

 

graduation photo

I walked into the photographing studio today and was immediately ushered into the makeup room, which was so girly, because they had huge mirrors and bright pink chairs. And the make up er aunty was in bright pink too. Anyway she helped me make up. I thought my eye shadow was yucky and the eye liner too (cos it was dark blue and not black.. maybe if i had black eye liner, i’ll look as if somebody punched me in the eyes). But if you stand about 5 steps away from me and look, i think it’s not bad..

I had somebody to robe me up and make me look nice and scholarly.

I was so secretly excited in the studio. With the dim lightings. And this guy fussing around me, putting my robe in place and my hair, taming any stray strands, and telling me how to pose and arranging EVERYTHING on me, including my thumbs, fingers, motar board.. I don’t know if you’ve taken studio photos before, but muahhaha i felt very very pampered. I just had to stand there smile and look pretty. No need much modelling genes la.. just smile only. And it did add to the excitement that the guy fussing around me is really quite good looking. *sigh*

My dad on the other hand, didn’t enjoy the experience at all, he felt very manipulated, with all the adjusting of minor things. (eg: relax your thumbs, don’t fan out your fingers, cross your arms, etc, etc.. ) haha maybe it’s just a girl thing to feel that somebody “Adjusting” you.. is actually quite pampering. I’m center of attention leh. Esp for the individual shots. muahha shoik.

And then while walking out of the studio, and seeing the other section where wedding photos were taken. I was thinking that i might like the whole process of taking my wedding photos….PLUS! i was looking at the sample wedding album… ahhh

A girl can dream right….

 

Happy birthday to me (again)

Today seemed like a long day. But i’m home already, bathe, relaxed with clean and clear nose patch thingy on me. I’m waiting for it to dry with anticipation that it would extract all blackheads! It’s not as good as i would like it to be, but nonetheless, even if it pulls out ONE blackhead it’s good. Better to have 99 blackheads than 100 right? ya!

Anyway! for the past 2 nights and tonight was birthday celebration for me! Yesterday with my family, we had steamboat. Was very 温心。And i liked it alot, before we actually ate, my parents and sis actually sang birthday song for me. Was surprised at that act. And then, today Ms Mary Sim, Wilfred and Joy came to celebrate for me too. Gave me a very nice cake (Mary say bigger than what Pearle got for me ) It has my name on it too! nice ah! And while we were chit-chatting, we saw Uncle Joshua and his wife having time alone with each other. Soooooooo sweet!

Oh ya, i so need to say this. My sis bought vouchers from MWL for me. (if you have read her blog you would have known) THANK YOU! i haven’t said thank you to her you know? So i need to proclaim my thanks to her here. Haha. I think i’m going to buy a stamp set!! Cos it’s usually so expensive that i can’t bear to fork out money to pay for it. So now, Sim mei mei got vouchers for me, it’s like a totally valid excuse to go shop there lor! muahahha!

I bought a book today. Again. i have plenty of books to read now, so it’s time to stop buying and start reading. Praying that these books would impact and inspire and I would not just bombard myself with information and not act upon these knowledge.

A friend, now working in Prudential met up with me to talk about insurance and retirement plan. 55 years old seem very far away ah, but i realise the importance to plan financially la. Even if Jesus is coming back soon. Pray for Wisdom! Now that i’ve become an adult and started in the working world, there’s more to think and plan about other than exam studying schedule. And these plans affect my future and my family’s too.

Ok, it’s time to sleep and take off the nose patch and see how many blackheads are pulled up with it!!!!!!!

[edit] yay! many many blackheads came out!

 

Happy birthday Esther!

Ok.. that’s me.. haha

Today was the day i went back to work after church camp. It was horrible. the working part, so sian. I had 143 unread emails of which 120 of them were work-related! and the other 20 was just send to me wrongly. I had to spend the whole morning reading my mails… and stopping myself from annoucing to my colleagues that today is my birthday leh… The only redeeming factor was that IT IS my birthday and i had a lot of well wishes (thank you all you people who messaged me), so that made things better. And that i had sewing class at night.

Talking about sewing class, digress, my teacher now gives us sample cloth every week, for us to use it to design clothes leh. I seem to be the only one excited about it, and went back to class today to hao lian-ly show my teacher my work piece. And i was the ONLY one who did it lor. But i want to see the other designs of my friends there also…. *whine whine*

After sewing class at 930, i was walking home and thinking.. Sian, is this how my birthday is going to end… when suddenly on the way back, i saw two figures talking and laughing and then one of them suddenly scream. IT WAS PEARLE!! haha she wanted to surprise me by meeting me at my sewing class and happy birthday me, but in the end i ended class early and saw her while they were walking to meet me. So i was standing there stunned, and Pearle was screaming, and Mei mei was laughing away.

Nonetheless, THANK YOU PEARLE. For the heart to plan this surprise, to spend money on expensive book and the strawberry birthday cake (because they got no mango) and to come all the way to tampines to celebrate for me. Actually if it’s without Pearle, my birthday would have passed like any other day. so thank you! She came to my house and made everybody laugh…

PS: The sun on the cake is suppose to represent a candle… and it’s very reflective hor, really like sun. And mei mei seem like the birthday girl instead. She so happy! Haha she very jealous that pearle treat me like queen because today my birthday.

Oh no… i can’t stand another day of work already… =( how can these working people survive day after day, week after week, month after month, working and working and working… bleh..

Sometimes I don’t know how the things i like to do, and can do relatively well in, can ever fit into God’s end time plan. And if they are just frivilous things and has nothing to do with God, should i even bother doing it. But it’s the things i like! So why do i have those desires in the first place? If there’s a reason why God gave me those desire, then they must be a way to do it to glorify God, but i don’t see how it can at the moment..

.end.no more.finish.i cannot type anymore.if not i’ll say something i don’t want to say.

 

Happy birthday Clo

A surprise birthday celebration for Mr clovis Tan in Ms Clarity Cafe today. Haha surprise ok! *clap clap* for pearle who manage to keep the surprise from him even tho she told me that was almost bursting already. And he was REALLY surprised when the surprise cake came in together with our SUPER SUPER loud birthday song and the fu-yan claps of the other restauranters. It was quite funny when the waiter came to us with the cake and candle without knowing who’s the birthday boy but clo was busy peering into pearle’s jordon to notice that there was a blur waiter there with a cake for him. So by the time he [clovis] realised what was happening, the waiter already knew who the birthday boy was and the symphony of harmonious birthday song was already starting.

 

Clarity cafe is very nice, i just wished they would on the lights. I like the Chix Ballotine. Nice. Our age range of the group that gathered there was from 16 – 36 ok! A vast difference of 20 years!! Our youngest was just stoning and finishing his food at record time, while our oldest was busy snapping away [like he said, snap no need money one].. So he caught everybody at their most candid (and of course most unglam moments) and refuse to press the button when you’re smiling at the camera. But you’ll see the flash when you’re laughing with your mouth open with half-chewed food inside your mouth.

 

Photos are all with Mr Oth. Who would mostly likely post them by this weekend in his photoblog. If not…. it’ll be in my photobucket la.. or in the next post.

 

The feeling of seeing the place PACKED, with 20 more people queuing up and all of us just squeezing through the queue and enter the place to our ‘reserved’ table is just pure delight. Remind me always to reserve places when we’re out for dinner. VERY convenient and definitely worth it. And so was praised for being smart! hahha

 

It’s finally the weekends. It’s not the most relaxed weekend but nonetheless, it’s a weekend!

 

Cedele Carrot Walnut Cake

It’s the best! Serious

Our best seller, this moist carrot cake is finished with cream cheese frosting and generous amount of California walnuts.

And when they say generous, it’s REALLY generous. We had a free slice of this super de-li-cious cake in the office. Because of courtesy, everybody only took one, i unashamedly went to take another one. =X

BUT!!!! i took 2 small piece, the others took one HUGE piece ok. it’s just the act of going back to take one more. But it was soooo worth it. Very very nice.

Othniel this is definitely deserving of being in your photo blog.

In yesterday’s graduation, when Wilfred told me that central Asia was actually Middle east, my heart skipped a little. I wonder when…

 

I am not aunty

After being tormented yesterday, with 3 good friends naming me as aunty after knowing I’ve gone for a sewing class, I feel this pressing need to explain what exactly i’m doing.

 

And to do that, i need to do some maths first. First and foremost.. I’m in a fashion design and dress making class. (Woo! how i love the sound of that)

 

Dress making (ie making clothes) class ¹ sewing class
Fabric + sewing = Clothes

 

Sewing is just HOW i make clothes, i don’t go there to learn how to crochet or whatever…

 

Anyway! so far.. we’ve been thought how to make all kinds of skirts, sleeveless top and how to extend the top to the skirt so that we get a dress. Oh, and i’ve gone for lessons for about 2 months already.

 

My very first skirt. (which isn’t very interesting, because we were limited to stick to the basic block of pattern she taught us)

      

 

We couple all our pieces with a fashion sketch. But since it was also my first attempt at fashion sketching… i shall only provide a small miniscule image of it… Oh and if you’re wondering why the waist band is white. There’re 2 explanations. One: It’s a fashion design to make it more interesting. And two: i ran out of grey cloth. -_-

 

AND! I’ve only worn this once since i’ve made it a month ago for an interview. I can’t wear it now because i forgot to pre-shrink the cloth before i made it. So… It’s currently too tight since it was made exactly fitted to my size. That’s why it’s been thrown into the depth of my cupboard, explaining the creases, and only taken out today to have a photoshoot.

 

Fabric shopping is most stressful lor. Cos I don’t want to end up buying too much so that i don’t use it. And i don’t want to buy too little. And although estimates are given to us, it’s still nerve wrecking to see the shop keeper cutting that 1 – 2 yards i requested. And then rushing home to see if my whole pattern fits on the fabric.

 

And sewing in zips… is just plain torturous. After our first piece, the students in our class decided that $20 for a dress is cheap! PANTS!!! is the most difficult to make as commented by our teacher. But.. it’s the only thing left that i really want to learn.

 

My 2nd piece… still in the process, without hemming or the zip. And it’ll be shorter than it looks on the design, just because fashion sketches are drawn with inhumanely long legs.

 

I’ve realise i’ve lots to improve on with regards to my workmanship. It’s not horrendous, but it’s not that great either. Tailor chalks are far too thick for premise drawings on fabrics. The top on the 2nd sketch is what i’m going to make for my next project. I might add some sleeves though..

     

 

 And…. i’m in the process of making my 3rd piece.. It’s only got it’s deisgn drawn.

 

 i’m making the 2nd dress from the left. I can’t make the extreme right / left because like i say.. we’re limited to follow closely to the basic block of pattern for our first attempt at making it. That’s why it HAS to be fitted around the waist which isn’t exactly what i like… But there are things like the strap of the dress that I’m attempting out of my teacher’s instructions. There’re not coloured because the cloth is black. I’m very uninspired to colour when the whole piece is just black…

 

As you would have noticed.. the faces are not drawn in.. because i’m just too lazy to do it. It’s difficult to draw faces, even though it’s not detailed. After drawing the 2nd one, which already looks a bit warped.. i decided not to push myself to draw the others. Previous attempts have shown that it will end up looking like a female ghost..

 

For that sketch, i just hurridly erased the face after showing my sis and left it as that! :X

 

And i’ve got to say my teacher do allow me to be more adventurous with my design, seems like i’ve the only one who wants to deviate a little from what she taught. She’s quite nice la. Like i go to her with my design and then she’ll advise me how to tweek the basic pattern to get my deisgn. And i think i’m like her ONLY student who sketches each piece we make lor!

 

So… what’s so aunty about this!!! i know! only the going to to CC part… oh wellies… if that’s the only place i can go to learn this.. I’ll go!

 

It’s not even feminine….. But i guess it’s normal that you’ll be shocked to realise that i’ve gone for this class. Because even my mom was surprised that i liked sewing… i don’t like sewing, i like making clothes. It’s an extension of scrapbooking. HAHAHAHHA