Ribbons pillow

Recent made - kids pillow with ribbons.
Wanting to have this cotton animal print seen everywhere (which I love), I sewed a smaller pillow case to be paired with this pillow (below). I think with these two lovely softies, it's cozy enough either for kids afternoon nap or bring along in the car.

Besides this, I upcycled a lace top for the shop.

Sewing has been slow recently, as kids are advancing in their grades level, I'm putting more time to coach and tutor them more academically. Having said that, I'll have to squeeze time out of busyness to keep the creative juice flowing in handmade.

Kids pillow with handle strap

 These two were the pictures I captured during our recent trip to Pulau Langkawi, my mom's hometown which we frequently visit to since little.

  Those flag on the fishing boats are the political party's during the recent election, fisherman hang it on their boats.

I made and sewed a fully natural cotton pillow with strap handle for my children. This is a larger size pillow which suits the third and forth grader of mine as they've outgrown their existing ones. I make it with versatility and practicality both in mind - at home and bring along for outing. Handmade is sweet and very dearly.

and hopefully with the above pictures, it will hinder the recent fact that our house was being broke in last week through back door. Most of our gadgets has been stolen, among others including laptop, mobile phone, a Canon EOS with its lenses. It is heart broken when all these basic tools which you've spent more than ten years accumulating and gather lost overnight. It's people's hard work and effort to be who they are and what they have now. Hands is to work, not steal! 

When you buy second hand item, please make sure you know their source. PLEASE DON'T BUY STOLEN GOODS! Otherwise,..... 

you're just creating more CRIMES!!!

Chinese Cheongsam

 

The above are the snapshots of Ceongsam dress which I've bought for myself from Guangzhou. All girls in my family including sisters, sister-in-law and my mother has got one dress for each of them as souvenir. So, that's more or less of what I've bought ^_^ Look at its embroidery, it's gorgeous isn't it?

This purple dress is the alteration job I've got yesterday and it's done. It's from my old classmate's mom. She asked me to trim the initial bottom part off and turn it into just a top. So, this is the end product.

 

A trip to China

 Medicine Hall - Photo taken by me at the muzium

 Michael Jackson's sculpture - Photo taken by hubby Jim

Photo taken by me at the muzium

 Busy street and petty sellers - Photo taken by me

 

Photo taken by me at the muzium

 

 Street petty seller - Photo taken by me

We went to Guangzhou two weeks ago, accompanying hubby Jim to fulfill an installation of system there. Both kids were following as well for a stretch of nine days completes with their first aeroplane flight. The weather there was about 23 degreee celcius, unlike ours here is 32 degree celcius which you would feel as it is 38! Look at those greens, it's beautiful. I show my friend those pictures of petty green sellers, they are asking if I want to be a vegetables seller... LOL... I'm more interested in eating them, I say ^_^... The vegetables that I planted in 38 degree-celcius-like weather wouldn't be this big, juicy, fabulous and full of varieties. Only a certain species would grow.
We do shop, I'll show you the shirt top which I had bought in the next post ; )

Fly little birds, fly!

I posted this pretty late from the previous post, the birdies actually are able to fly the next day from my previous post in which our estimation is quite precise from the fact. Once their feather are fully covered the body, which means they're ready to leave their nest and fly. These were the last incredible sights and moments we managed to capture before they left. We're not sad, just feel a little reluctant, but it's a good thing for them. At the same time, feel very blessed and thankful to the birdies for choosing our pine tree as their nesting ground thus providing wonderful experience in raising these littlest. Fly little birds, fly...

The bird

Introducing the parent bird that always staying by her birdies side. I think the birdies will soon able to fly and leave their hatching nest.

Two new birdies

These few weeks, we're keeping the progress on these two new birdies. There are, their parents in pair, feeding, guarding them day and night. My kids who seems so afraid that they would die in hunger, feed the birdies with leftover rice from the kitchen, lol. Whereas the daddy of my house every morning before starting work surely would take a peep at the birds and keep recording the movement of the bird several times in a week. Obviously they are much more enthusiastic than me towards these new members. Whenever I see the adult bird approaching the nest, and even before I able to snap a picture them, they left. It surely serve as an interesting and exciting educational experience for the kids and the adult alike. 

Today

Today is month-end, I'm one of them who rush during the last moment to pay for a-sudden-tax notice received three days ago which is due today. The cheque-deposit machine is out during lunch hour and everybody packed onto the other cheque-deposit machine, the only bank in high-dense Relau. I hope you can imagine the fully packed auto-banking room during lunch hour. Upon leaving, I had even accidentally knocked my head on the opening glass door. There's an optical illusion occurred, I couldn't estimate the distance of the door and me, it's not properly laminated and yet those people in the queue never give way to those who is leaving. Not serious as I'm still able to blog, but it is bad, hubby even prepared a hot boiled egg to soothe the bump on my forehead. I lighted up fire on the wooden stove to bake a ginger root for my aching head. Can those glass door and glass panel being laminated properly? Can we people be more considerate and tolerate? When only we would take more precaution measure before untoward happening occur?

Active Bird Nest

We found this new bird nest on our pine tree outside our home a few weeks ago. As they can't fully reach the height of the nest, the excited and curious children of mine keep checking the bird nest daily by putting their hands in if could sense any eggs. The birds didn't disappoint them. We should expect new birdies soon.

Pause for thought