DIY Rope bracelet

Bought some rope from the sewing supplies shop last week and made this rope bracelet. Twisted the ropes around I was happy with the shape, hand-sewn the bits that overlapped so that the shape would stay, and studded it with gunmetal studs. The end has a giant lobster clasp (leftovers from my previous handmade accessories venture). Rewarded myself with some chocolate after that. Easy peasy! :D

Scamper away!

I've been whining about wanting to sew a hat with ears for a week or so now, and I finally did it, thanks to jessyratfink's awesome tutorial! Oh I so love the Interwebz!

I didn't do puffy ears like the tut, but did softy ears instead. And instead of white, it's in PINKKKKKKK! (okay I happened to HAVE this piece of pink flannel lying around you see....)

My husband looked so amused and bewildered when he saw me sewing the hat, and he kept asking who am I sewing it for, to which I said myself and he kept thinking I was joking.

Anyway, it was past midnight, and I was walking around the house wearing the hat and I think I accidentally gave someone a fright. LOL.

I love this pattern. It makes me feel like I'm some lord of the flies.

"BOW TO MEEEE!"

"Yes, sire!"

p/s: Why oh why can't I change the font size of me title. This is so annoying.

Oue Wehdeng: Part 1

Ok I have no idea why I spelled what was supposedly supposed to be "Our Wedding" like that. Maybe it's the unholey hour. Things just has to be spelled wonkily like Wonka gone wong.

So.... gosh. I really did marry this sakai huh?? :P

Well.. I don't know what I'd do without him. I'd probably just be a lost goat.

People who don't know him well usually think he's serious and solemn. He really cracks me up though. And when I crack him up, he laughs like a mad kid. And when I hear that laugh, it always feels like I unknowingly won a lottery.

Look at us appreciating art. We're so intellectual, aren't we? Hehehheehee

I am happy when I am a sewing tenggiling

New projects uploaded to Burdastyle. Want to start on the Loretti or Simplicity patterns next!

Organizing is so fun when you I have PMS, hurrah!

My closest friends and my husband know that whenever I start fussing about getting things cleaned and arranging things so they look organized, I'm PMSing. So it's no surprise that the beast reared its head again tonight.

The head was screaming "The room is a mess! We need a shelf thingy!"

So I walked up to my husband and said "We need a shelf thingy."

We got the shelf thingy (and also some basket thingy and an acrylic box thingy-- told you this was a beast we're dealing with), and after a few hours I suddenly had a sewing corner where my machine could sit comfortably (instead of always sitting awkwardly on the dresser) and all my sewing supplies were within reach, tucked nicely in basket thingies and box thingies.

And the beast's verdict?

"Two thumbs up, hooman!"

Phew.

Also, the wedding was so fun and tiring, I really wanna sit down and properly blog about it to do all the people who helped us out justice. It was an amazing party fer shizzle :-)

The Lazy Person's Guide To:
Chili Pan Mee Maggi Mee

If you have the time, checkout this chili pan mee recipe that was made from scratch. It looks pretty awesome and I hope to try it someday.

But if you don't have the time, here's a simple shortcut to having some spice in your life when you're craving for chili pan mee inspired meal at home: Just use whatever noodles you have, vegetables and egg, and most importantly, buy ready-to-serve crispy prawn chilli.

Taaaa-dah!

This is supercheating and people might call you unorthodox but you should just go dudududulalallaalalacanthearyouuu

It's coming!

We've less than 2 months to go til our wedding thingamajig, so yeah we're scrambling to get stuff done. When it comes to invitations, clothing, accessories etc my husband always gives me a @_@ face whenever I tell him, "We'll make that ourselves!" I think I'm kinda stressing him out :P

One of the things we did recently was to get our engagement photos printed by Photobook Malaysia. Our photos were taken ages ago by our friend Lobak, and we really love them to bits. They were shot on film, which I think made my father in law nervous about whether the photos would turn out "professional" or not, but after he saw the photobook today, he was really impressed and said "Wah your friend very good at taking photos ah!". PHEW...

There's a bit of us in every photo setup-- Jiggles because Senkiat used her to get me, notebooks of doodles that we drew for each other, our hobbies, our favourite place to eat at, and we wanted a shot with the helmets because that's what we had to wear when he took me to track day at Sepang.

We're halfway through getting our invitations done. Yay! Now I gotta get me a shower coz me is stink.

p/s Photobook is having a 40% promotion all month this August 2010.

Hallo, is it me you're looking for ah?

Every time I call my husband on the phone while he's at work or in front of his friends, he answers with a flat, monotonous, macho voice tone. It's kinda annoying but kinda funny too (hope he doesn't read this and starts making it a habit).

*pinches nose and speaks on the phone*

"HELLO Can I speak to Mr Wong Sen Kiahahahhaa.. (cannot tahan)"

"Yesss?"

"What you doing?"

"I'm at work la."

"Working late ah?"

"No la, leaving soon already."

"GREAT! We go dinner together?"

"Ok sure."

"WOI why your voice so macho wan?? Can you please be a bit mushy?"

"Can't la, got people in front of me here."

"Fine, bye."

"Hehehh."

-_____-

Coco & Stravinsky sitting on a tree......!?!?!

Dayumm. I never know Coco Chanel and Stravinsky had a thing together. Thanks to Suzie Bubble (and thanks to the great fashion guru Evevon who recommended that blog), now I know. I've watched both the Coco movies (thanks to Jess-- hmm this is starting to sound like an award acceptance speech), and yes I would want to watch Coco & Igor too.

I had to study composers like Igor Stravinsky when I was doing music theory (I really hated it-- I kinda hate studying in general heh heh). There were four main periods of music; Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century.

Basically Baroque pieces make your left hand and right hand work out really crazily on the piano, kinda like making both hands run a race to see who can go fastest and has the highest stamina. It was insane.

Classical pieces are a bit easier, where your left hand is mostly playing accompaniment and not fighting with your right hand to be the g-kwok. Maybe people learned to relax a bit more then.

Romantic pieces are... hou romance loh. HAHA. They'd have a lot of emotive chords and make you feel a lot of warm emotions and also make you feel like you want to do lyrical dance in So You Think You Can Dance. Hmm.

20th Century pieces are a nightmare to play (for me). Not only do the composers come up with their own unknown chords that make you go o_O, their piano notations are written for people with 13 fingers instead of 10. Pure torture. And they'll change tempo and keys every 2 seconds just for fun. Stravinsky was one of them.

But now when I listen back to those pieces especially from the 20th Century era, I appreciate them so much more for their avant garde psychotrocity. Those composers were doing what artists like The Knife is doing today-- making music a form of art and sometimes, telling a story and taking you on a journey without even saying a word.

Here's one of Stravinsky's famous pieces. It's MAD.

I would like to study music again one day (by studying I mean reading Wiki hahahha). Learn all those songs I learned before in theory classes last time and understand them again.

Anyhoots, here's the trailer of Coco & Igor. Kinda NSFW.

I miss sewing.

Darnit darnit darnit :-(

This year in music: Fembots!

Everyone's paying some kinda sci-fi homage in their music. I love Janelle Monae's and Kelis' albums. Unfortunately I can't say the same for Christina Aguilera's robotic mishap :-S

I'm gonna kidnap you with the help of my family...

... you just wait and see, you'll belong to me me me me me meeeee

Beeyotchmode

Sometimes people are talking but all I hear is bla bla blaaaaa

I just want to stud the whole world and then get octagon and subway tiles and have the happiest bathroom in the land.

In other news.... I love my brothers and sisters at work. We're one noisy idiotic bunch of bradies.

Wedding schmeddings

To be honest? I'm not big on weddings with cultural customs-- the big extravagant lavish Chinese wedding where they play The Final Countdown when the waiters serve the first dish, and the bride doing 3 wardrobe changes during the dinner (this is a bummer because I doubt the bride gets to eat much of the food and in my book this isn't really fun).

If we could elope, we would. I always joke when people ask where will our wedding dinner will be held, saying that we're eloping to Vegas and getting married in a fake Elvis church. Only that I'm serious :P OKAAAYYY, half serious.

I'm not a fan of big extravagant poofy expensive wedding dresses where the bride has to make extra effort to walk one step and how much $$$ they cost, because I just want a dress that I can shimmy comfortably in and be able to do the robot dance without causing an unnecessary tear that reveals your rear (in granny underwear).

And, I'm not going to learn any proper ballroom dances just so that my husband and me can WOW the crowd by dancing the "first dance" (as if we never danced together before). We're just going to to do the robot dance, if anything.

And if my hair pins fall out and my mane looks crazy like a mad chewbacca in heat, then all the better for the pictures! You only get married to your beloved once, so let your hair down, have fun, and make monkey faces. One day you'll get so saggy nobody will notice you're making a monkey face even when you're making one.

Picture via Snippet & Ink

Make it golden

Some nuttery happened with the gold spray a few weeks back. It was 1AM and I had a calling to finally do it! I have been looking all over for a pair of high tops to spray gold since last year. I searched in Bata and was told their largest size did not fit me because their high tops were made for guys (ptui!), in Kamdar's school shoes section too (no hep), and in Converse (ok got size but so expensive kns).

Then suddenly for my birthday my husband bought these Converse shoes for me to play with. My first reaction was "Acckkk why you go and spend so much money!?!?!?!" and I was so afraid to do anything to them because they were pretty expensive (probably the most expensive pair of shoes I've ever had)... 

-_____-"

Long story short (too late for that, hah!), I finally did it. I also replaced the laces with bright cyan ones, coz you know, the gold ain't attention-grabbin' enuff, numsayin?

Now where's my rap soundtrack in the background...

Escape room

I hope one of the rooms in our home will be a hobby room where we can do all the creative things that we like-- RC cars, a mini home studio, sewing, etc.

A home studio like Pomplamoose's would be awesome. Fill the place up with all sorts of instruments. But then again we might need a whole room for this. Hmmmmm...

A star is a star and you'll shine regardless





Exile you are my hero.

Saved by the seam ripper

After a disastrous start with the famous Coffee Date Dress, I was hesitant to try another Burdastyle pattern. I say disastrous because everyone else seemed to be breezing through the pattern, but mine never came to life and it was chucked aside eventually. Hrmph.

I was staring at the lowest rack in my wardrobe where I keep my finds from weekend thriftings, and dug out a vintage frumpy dress-- it had a classic pussybow, long puffy sleeves, droopy elastic waist, was probably several sizes too large, and the skirt was reaching to my ankles. Yes so I'm short, kill me.

BUT the saving grace of the dress was the print. Oooh I have no idea whether they were birds or trees or birds on trees or some marijuana leaf but the print was fun! So heck, I decided to try another Burdastyle pattern-- ripped the dress apart and cut out the sections according to the new pattern. After many mistakes and ripping out seams with the seam ripper and sewing again and again, I finally finished a dress using Miasu's Contour Bust pattern. Yay!

After finishing the dress, I spray painted my sneakers gold. I know it's not really logical but it was some kinda mad chain reaction.

A wise man once said...

"Contrary to what most people think, your wedding day is not the most important day of your life. It's what comes after the wedding day that matters the most."

Amen, you wise, farty man you. (Yes you Audi)

Project runaway

Finally got some time to spend with the sewing machine! :-D It's kinda therapeutic for me, watching the needle go through the fabric and joining pieces of cloth together. I just oiled the machine a week or 2 back, and it's sooo smooth now, wooot!

Here's a simple tube dress (gah, with that darned belt again! ~_~"), made from a thrifted skirt from Amcorp's Weekend Flea Market. It has a wide 2.5 cm elastic at the top (safer for boobage security I suppose), and a thinner 0.5cm elastic in the middle for the waist to help hold its shape. 

I promise myself I'll make some new belts after this post. Grrr.

And here's a skirt, which is a slightly modified version of anywho's tutorial :-) The jersey fabric was from Kamdar SS2 (again), at RM2.50 per meter. It's not the greatest jersey (in fact I bought it thinking I'd use it for craft/fun/experiments), but it serves well :-)

I've been watching Project Runway Season 5, but Jess was right-- it wasn't as interesting as 4 or 6. Most of the time the garments made you think "Oh yea that's kinda nice I guess, but in a whatever way..." Season 4's Christian's designs would make you go "WOW, SHIEETTTT". and of course Season 1's amazing Austin still blows my mind with his immaculate tailoring. Season 4's Rami's draping is of course, CRAZY #$*&^#*&@^ amazing. Season 6's Carol Hannah is still my favourite and I am *still* rooting for her haha.

Dayumm, I must really like this show.