The husband's diorama


HEART!

He made a diorama for his 1:18 cars and mechanic station tools, and I totally love it! It was so fun going to Jasima to get the corrugated plastic boards, car brand stickers, and at the same time I also got some sewing supplies there heheh.

I made a simple large checkered floor on Illustrator and we printed it out on glossy sticker paper. He designed his own workshop logo and put the whole thing together. Even though the diorama isn't dramatically complicated with caves and moss and smoke machines, I am so proud that he finished the project :D Told him that next time he can help our son build his.

Here are some pictures taken with Sen Hon's camera (thank you for letting us use it!!). I love shallow DOF-- guess I'm just shallow like that. HAH!

Meatballz

Meatballz

We both finished work at around 8-ish today, I popped by Presto to pick up some groceries and we made meatball Tagliatalle. The meatballs were huge and smelled amazing even before they were cooked hahaha... A real yummy recipe by Jamie Oliver (the only thing we changed was to add one yellow onion into it).
This recipe would probably make a great burger patty too. Mmmm. When I told the husband "Hmm, must learn how to make the Ikea meatballs too", he looked at me like I was loco and said "What??! This is WAY better than the Ikea meatballs lar!"
Awwww. Monkey.

Whitest King Alive

Spotted Adrian high up on the VIP balcony area at The Whitest Boy Alive's gig and the next morning I finally got to ask him the burning question that bugged me all night.

You can be sweet, sweet, sweet



Last week my bff Jean had her pre-wedding photoshoot, and Lobak was the photographer! So excited because he's also shooting them on film... can't wait to see the photos :D I took some shots for fun on my iphone... trying to learn how to do video composition and editing. Originally I had a cute song by My Little Airport on it, but then upon consultation with Jo and Lobak separately, it turned out that song was about teenage heartbreak (Lobak said it was very badly written too hahahah), so erm, not suitable. So I ended up writing a song for the video.

Jean and Tung are like a TVB couple, and I find them cute in an unexpected way (they never show affection in public). I absolutely love them hehehehhehee :D

Tutorial: Big floppy hairband

Tutorial: Big floppy hairband

While watching reruns today, I made this big floppy bow hairband. It's huge, floppy, and er, kinda huge. And it cost me about a hairband I had lying around, some jersey scrap, and some time.

Super easy and you can make shitloads. You can make them in any size, any colour, and for anyone. Perhaps Jiggles might like one..... hehehehe.

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I got this little leopard at Koh Samui, and the pretty bow brooch from eBay. It belonged to someone's grandma's massive collection.

Made these elastic belts while watching Criminal Minds. It's a good Saturday :)

Auditors

Audi walks into the office...

Audi: I forgot to zip this morning. (turns around and sees a stranger sitting at the desk doing work) Oh hello! Are you an auditor?

Auditor: (nods and goes back to work)

Audi: Ah... Well, the first four alphabets in the word "auditor" is my name, like A-U-D-I...

Auditor: (still hard at work, no response)

Audi: Hee. Hee. Hee? ........................ok obviously not the right crowd for this.

Like a G6... well, almost.

Jhen: Who was that guy?
Me: Fariz.
Jhen: Fariz Movement??
Me: -___-"

The Amcorp vintage lady has a permanent shop now, and i couldn't be happier. She's located near Popular. Love her vintage stock and the prices are way fab. I rarely shop online these days.

The belt is one of my favourite finds at an old tailor shop. I love this blue cardi. More on this next time :)

Wednesday

Wednesday. Kinda PMS-ey, kinda dead-ey. Cooked halibut for the first time. And portobello too! The husband bought white wine, and we toasted. He asked me why I asked for white wine out of the blue, and I said "Happy mooniversary," and his eyes went @_@ and he tried to hide it by morphing it into a delightful face and said "Happy moonivesary babyyyyyyy" HAHAHAHAAHA. I don't even know if that word exists but at the beginning of every month we "celebrate" it whenever we can, whether it's a movie night in or movie night out or dinner or even doing nothing. I thought it was lame when we first started going out (especially those first few months when you don't know if the relationship is even gonna last hahaha) but I think it's kinda sweet now :")

Thanonchai

Thanonchai directed this ad. It gave me goosebumps, and makes me want to live and chase my dreams.

I found an old interview he did with Agency.Asia, and absolutely loved how honest and humble he was. Here's my favourite excerpt from the interview that made me laughed out loud:

"I'd like to say that advertising is like a "shit". If we produce the advertisement that can do just advertising, it's like you put the shit on the concrete floor. But if we create the advertisement that can make highly sale for clients and can also change the way people think to be a positive way. Advertisement becomes an inspiration to the audience to do better thing in their lives. Then, that advertisement is like a shit that you put it on a grass field and it becomes a fertilizer and make the world even better. Advertising will not be just an advertisement."

Thank you, Thanonchai :-)

The French did it again

YUHUUUUUU! I've been sewing again and boy does it feel good. I'm so tempted to just be a hermit and stay at home and sew all day and all night long.

Made this dress of little florals-- the fabric was purchased sometime last year, washed and was kept in my fabric corner, waiting for the right project to come along. I call this dress The Missus because this CNY I had to hand out angpows instead of receiving them, boohoohoo.. I suppose I might as well wear a dress worthy of handing out angpows like a married woman then. Hehehh.

Today we went out to the shops to look for a French curve ruler. I had no idea this ruler was useful in sewing until I read about it on Burdastyle. I want to draft my own basic slopers coz I'm kinda tired of taking in sides just to fit my tiny bust. SHEESH!

My best friend

He's everything to me and I want to become a better person for us. 

Here are our pre-wedding photos. I hate the term pre-wedding because it sounds so 'mainstream' but I guess that's what it is hahaha. I made my own proper dress for the first time (more on that later), the fascinator, his tie, the headband, and even learnt how to tie a bun properly for the first time. *pats meself on the back ngohohoho*

I love looking at other people's wedding photos... it stirs up a warm feeling in me, a reminder that I, too, lucked out because I got to marry this dude whom I would find it extremely hard to live without.

Thank you, God. I don't deserve this, but, thank you very very much :-)

Photography by none other than Lobak & Vincent :-)

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