Peter Pan collar shirt

Over the past few days, I tried out Peter Pan collar with suitable piece of dress. I made this plain white Peter Pan collar and fixed it on my favourite piece of floral print cotton fabric left from this top. The result turned out well. I love it.
I will jazzed it up a little more, come back here tomorrow and I'll show you which bottom that I have in mind to match the pair to become a complete one...
; )

Custom made Baju Kurung

Over the weekend, I managed to make this - a newly completed baju kurung which I custom made for a client. huh... it was a big task though for this sewer-in-me. Now, what I hope is the dress would fit the wearer well... praying hard for that...

In another note, my son told me that one of his teacher is retiring soon and he hoped to give something as souvenir, right after school on the day that teacher is leaving. So, as it was a last minute notice for me, we just got this handy to be given away. I hope the teacher would appreciate hand-made as much as we do.

A zipper pouch and books

 

  

 I made this 8" x 5" flat bottom zippered pouch this morning. The fabric cut out supposed meant for an extra-large pencil case, that's why it has got two-pencil print. Somehow, I think we (me & my kids) needed a craft pouch more than a pencil case, so that we can keep our increasing craft utensils in it. My sewing notions captured in the picture are for illustration only, all will be taken out and hand over to my crafty baby. Maybe I shall make a few more, I probably would need one as my cosmetics pouch, another as my toiletries pouch, and another as sewing its and bits pouch... just to name a few and definitely it would help me to get organized... : P

In another note, our books have arrived after much waiting. Kids can't wait any longer to get the parcel open and read the books first-hand. The mummy was as excited as the children to take the first peek at all those books. oh,... I love books!

 

These are some of our collections of books.

Casual wear shirt

(Photos courtesy by hubby)

Today I'm in this attire; a new casual wear shirt with a pair of knee length jeans. Pattern design and sewing all done by myself over the weekend. It's made of Japanese cotton fabric with matching bias tape. With the shirt, it will accompany me to run my routine duties of go to school, market'ing, breakfast with hubby, cook in the kitchen, teaching kids and etc...Despite of all these mundane chores, I do not want the 'attire' on me to be that mundane and boring, my closet is badly needed some update. When we look good we'll feel good - that's what I believe ^_^

Chives and a lost subscription

  

My younger son came back with his subscription of Good Friend, but the other one is left with lost subscription, meaning that we had paid but the teacher did not give him the magazine. gosh... looks like I need to go 'see teacher' again soon. Frankly speaking, I don't really like to be present at the teacher's office unless it's quite necessary. Experiences did tell me that it's better don't show face there, the teachers tend to be pleasant, forgiving, fierce, autocratic, ...  since they don't like to see us, we also don't like to see them...shhhh, don't say I say one harrr...  
This is just a little hiccups in life, let's talk about other pleasant things that's happening around...
We sow some seeds during the weekend, among them are kai lan, brinjal, chilli...  but chives which we sow earlier are growing well. We have another 3 pots of mature chives plant which we do harvest them from time to time. In cooking, it goes well in fried noodles and char koay teow. Sometimes, my mother does come to get it for her cooking usage.
Did you see the drawstring bags which I just successfully made it? It's an addiction, once you know how to make one, you'll just wanted to make another and another. Sometimes there are requests from children, husband that they want to keep their camera, recorder, as their outdoor pouch and etc...I'm thinking to list down the steps and tutorial in making this drawstring bag. Hope I have that momentum soon.

 Happy Tuesday, friends!

Dumpling Festival DuanWuJie

Today is DuanWu Jie - Happy Dumpling Festival!
I've eaten the 3rd mixed-dumplings, counting on since yesterday : P Bought a few from early morning market, but mom too gave me a few that she made out of spices, that could probably last for a few more days as my breakfast, snack and supper. My ex-neighbour too is a big fan of dumplings made by my mom, since she's living in a new home not too far away from mine, this morning I visited and delivered this delicacy to her. Although she's living a distance apart from me, I still held her close to my heart and I'm very pleased for being able to give and share. Maybe this is one of my ways to show that I always think and remember of them especially on this very festival.

Jumbo coloured pencil holder

This week is a good one, I managed to get some age-old projects completed, one of them is this jumbo coloured pencil holder. When the time isn't right, somehow I just couldn't find the needed sewing its and bits. This project was delayed mainly due to the 'lost' of velcro tape, now found it. hurray...followed by is the proud moments of my son showing it off to his teacher and friends for this mama-made things. I think the reason is simply they feel loved.
What have you sewn lately? Do share.

Cheers.

Cape shirt

Designed & sewn by Samm

My cape shirt is completed finally. It's made from medium weigh linen in my favourite pink. Russ has a pair of pants made from the same fabric. ahh... I think it would be fun to play paired-up for mother-and-son attire ; )

The pattern is hand-drawn, thus if you want to make one, just furnish me with your measurement and I'll be happy to share it with you...

Randomness

"Mummy, how tired are you?" My elder boy asks. Obviously they are too much influenced by the computer game...But, he did this drawing entirely on his own, file saved under 'bmp', yes, a big file. Then send a mail to me with this picture attached and asked me to check on my mailbox. He gets what I teach him. Keep fingers crossed.

My younger boy is practicing to use chopsticks - one of the good things to learn and the coolest way to eat regardless of race and age.

PS - I'm finishing my flap-over shirt that should be done soon. Do check back to see how it turn out in a day or two.

Happy Wednesday, friends!

Train ride to zoo

 

It's school holidays, we brought our children for our first train ride. It's a wonderful experience overall despite some delayed of two-hour during our trip back from Taiping. We managed to stop over at Taiping Zoo to pay some visit to friends of nature. The pictures above are not in proper manner but you could get the idea of what were around...That squirrel was one of my best captured moments. He went to macaws' captivity to get that corn on the cob and run back to the top of the tree to enjoy his meal... hah... a smart action, isn't he?! I like his super cute posing. Hope you have a wonderful trip too. Cheers!