Intergalactic! Galactic! Galactic!: February 2010

Monday, February 22, 2010

Hantu Haid

Evan Yan
eww the toilet got haid blood

woman
eeee

Evan Yan
like one dab of thick black thingy with red trails

woman
eeewwwwwwww
let the hantu haid lick it up

Evan Yan
hahaha
hantu haid

woman
thats the story my teacher told us last time
if u dont wash your pad yg ada haid
the hantu haid will go and lick up the haid

Evan Yan
haha
after that what will happen

woman
the hantu haid will get more and more power
and one day become godzilla haid
so if you dont want to be attacked by godzilla haid
dont feed the hantu haid

Evan Yan
HAHAHAHA

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Sew you think you can dance, dance, dance

Finally got around to organizing pictures of some stuff I've been working on. Phew! I've grown to love sewing more and more, and recently the sewing machine has become a permanent tenant on the dressing table. I told her I'd waive her rent if she just keeps sewing. So far I haven't collected rent. Yes I was talking about the machine.

Sooooooo anyway! My first adventure with jersey fabric is this braided green tank top. I haven't worked with jersey fabric before, so I was worried about the hemming of the edges... so I braided strips of the fabric and hand-sewn them onto the edges.

You can find jersey fabric in a variety of colours at Kamdar SS2, and when it's on sale you can get it for like RM6+ per metre. It's pretty exciting to find these stretchy fabric, and I wished they'd carry knitted and ribbed stretch fabric as well! Here's a close-up on the braids that took me forever to sew them on:

Next is a refashion project. I found this skirt at Amcorp Mall's weekend flea market for RM7.50 (it was purchased with another skirt at a RM15 for 2 price). The seller is a really lovely lady that sells a lot of skirts which are somewhat vintage stocks from Japan. I was drawn to this skirt because of the pastel floral prints-- a colour palette of pale pink and greys, something we've been seriously considering as our wedding dinner colour theme. As pretty as the print was, the skirt was too long and dowdy for me to pull off.

So, chop chop chop and here we are! A high-waisted skirt that goes perfect with my pale pink / pale yellow tanks and cardi!

Ooo! And the most exciting part was making these pockets! It's my first time making pockets other than the hidden kind, and they have a pale yellow lining. Yes I have a thing for pastels sometimes.

And lastly, here's something I just completed yesterday, also another refashion project. This "hospital gown" (as the husband calls it) was found in Amcorp Mall's flea market as well, for a bargain of RM5. The seller is a nice lady too (everyone in Amcorp seems nice in my little eyes hehe), and she carries a number of vintage items as well. If you like buying vintage items, you should make a trip to Amcorp Mall during the weekends! This hospital gown could've easily been sold online for around RM25 on the blogshops. So anyway, here's the before photo. Naise.

A lot of snips and a lot of worrying later, here's the reformed hospital gown:

It's no lie that vintage fabrics are actually made better than most of the fabrics we see nowadays. This hospital gown (maybe I should stop calling it that) is a really gorgeous shade of magenta, and wasn't faded at all. But, the fabric was a lil "furry" on the outside, so I used the insides out instead. No biggie, since the prints were still nice on the inside.

And the dress has a V-back! Yay! When I saw Zooey Deschanel's V-back dress in 500 Days of Summer (the scene where she's walking in the bus), I knew I really one of my own.

So yeahhh. That's about it. I'm really sleepy now, the flu pill is working its magic... zzzzzz

Friday, February 12, 2010

Fabric fetish

This is one of my most favourite things in the room-- my fabric stash! Organized by colour palette! Well, sorta, anyway. Hahaha. Some of it were from Kamdar SS2, the other fabric shop near Kamdar SS2, Ikea, and a lot of my favourites in there are from Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong.

I can't even begin to tell you how EXCITED I was when Jess and I went to Sham Shui Po... basically it's a fabric market where you can get shitloads of awesome prints (especially retro inspired ones) at like less than RM5 per yard... and lace fabric for around RM10 per yard (which was what my registration dress was made out of :D)

Couldn't find much details on the exact directions so we were a bit lost here and there, but I've documented the directions.. will put them up soon in case any other lost lambs out there need it!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Manpits

I thought my armpits smelt different yesterday.

Turns out I had used his deodorant instead. Heheh.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Every happy home needs one of these

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Wonky Wabbit comes to town

I got really excited when Boon and Shirley had their baby girl Emily. A girl!! All my friends have been having baby boys, and I guess when Emily came along, she really felt precious. Hehehe. I didn't manage to make her anything in time to visit her at the hospital, but got to making this wabbit doll over the weekend.

Erm... reason I named him Wonky Wabbit is because.. he IS rather wonky. It was my first time sewing a doll, and I'm so horrible at symmetry!! -__- His right arm looks like he's perpetually pointing out to something on his right HAHAHA. And erm his ears ended up pointing sideways than up ~_~"

He's made out of pastel pink cotton with pastel yellow for the insides of his floppy ears. The pastel pink cotton was very flimsy, so there's a thicker shocking pink cotton layered underneath to prevent the flimsy cotton from slipping on the sewing machine. His stuffing is from my favourite Daiso, so yes only 5 buckaroos for them and I still have plenty left :-D

His baggy bag is made out of stretchable lace cloth (I bought shitloads from Kamdar when it was on sale for like RM6 per metre or something, plan to use them as part of our curtains for our house later on), couldn't find a decent ribbon in my box (because I don't really buy ribbons in the first place), so made a ribbon out of the same pastel pink cotton. AHH YES I LIKE TELLING LONG GRANDMOTHER STORIESSSSS.

:-p

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Boon has two children.

woman

10:58

eh u went to visit baby emily that day ar

eevon chung

10:58

errr

who is baby emily ah?

woman

10:58

err

boon's baby

guess not then

hahahahha

eevon chung

10:58

BOON HAS A BABY?!?!!

woman

10:58

ZOMG!

@_@

yes...

his 2nd one...

eevon chung