unbeing a hermit

let me show you what have me occupying my time since july.


i managed to finish it when he was in korea just before christmas. wah lao eh. i literally didn't do anything much. and when i did, i didn't have time to upload them.

i do recall making a bunch of fuzzy cakes and donuts.....

anyways, the sweater ended up being a leetle too big for the DH. this means lots of unravelling and restructuring. oh me goodness *faints* i'm very tempted to put it in hot water to shrink it.

i made the DH do my xmas shopping for me whilst in korea. *shows off the haul*




all these just for meeeee... once again he gets off not having to buy me any pressies, on his own i mean.

and these are the various feebies and samples that he got from the shops. cat not included.

wah... fwee eyelash curler.. i have not opened it yet even. so many things to try but not enough time to use.

i had a fun time wrapping up presents last year. 2008 i mean. which isn't such a long time ago. i'm looking forward to another christmas, but gift buying is getting more and more difficult.

this is the only thing i made as presents this time. but since then i have made a few more for the shop.

vacation update

I've uploaded a bunch of my vacation pictures onto facebook. i'll probably take a long long time to upload them here. which i really should because then i can at least write down some of the more exciting stuff. all i can remember now is some of the wonderful view from the road trips. if anyone's interested in looking at the pictures, my names' suzie's sushii on there.

i've started making beads again. this time more elaborate. i wonder how long this hobby will wind down like so many of the others. and it's also pretty tiring with the mini work. ah..

ooh.. i disappeared and came back..

and imma disappear again. we're going to Munich tomorrow and we'll be gone till November. mwah ha ha ha.

since this is mostly a show off craft blog, and i have not been making much things, therefore no post.

actually i do have a bracelet and some small items made but i have been too preoccupied to do photoeditting. i'm on a secret craft mission and it shall be disclosed only after christmas. oops, should i even mention it?

toodleloos.

wish me happy holiday.

i want one of these...the CatGenie



no more scooping cat poop ever again.

kimchi + blisters = painful meal

uh huh. my lower lip is full of blisters from chafting against the braces. they seem to be moving from the left to the right. as of now i can count 2 big ones and 4 baby ones. i really must try to 'cool' down.

the kim chi is not helping of course. now that the DH is gone again, imma goin' to eat quite a fair amount of kim chi. more blisters for me. w00t!

the DH finally bought me a nintendo DSL. it's what i call in a nail polish color. pearly nudish pink. you know what this means... time to crochet a case for it. ^___^

i've even sorted out my yarn and found the perfect fluffy soft yarn for it. also not to mention all my WIPs. lots n lots of bags to be finished off and lined.

^_________^

put up 2 more earrings. go look.

this was made for a colleague. it's meant to be her love bird but i made the beak too big so now it looks like a colorful falcon.

more cat pictures

lost n found

i want one of these... they just crack me up



giant microbes

online shopping is fun!

after being on leave last week, this week seem so painful. anyhoos, i've got work to do and i am valiently trying to complete it. it's tuff to wake up in the morning and tuff to keep awake throughout teh dai.

i so want this dress. it's from Betsy Johnson. i love love their tiny evening dresses. so pwetty.

summer vacation

well, we're suppose to be on vacation but we ain't going anywhere. somebody couldn't tear himself away from his work it seems. we could already be in Bali by now, or Bintan.

at any rate, we did go to the beach this morning but since we weren't near any bike rental place we ended going to the pool. now the DH looks like a lobster. :P

tomorrow we'll be better prepared. sunblock. clean undies. food. he did promise to take me to the pool again tomorrow, and we'd try to get near a bike rental shop.

yesterday i made this.

Big Eyed Bambi

i got the idea from this charm that i see on some sites.

and i was itching to get one and since i don't see it here, i decided that i can needle one into shape. the toughest thing is to make the legs. my fingers are suffering from multiple puncture wounds now. i really should get me some thick finger gloves.

today i made a giraffe. i was planning to make something big and fat and cute but this one turned up almost anatomically correct. the legs are of course short and stumpy. i started at about 5 pm, made dinner at 7pm. by the time it was 10 and the blue planet was showing i was putting in the spots. heheh. not bad for today.

mao mao helps to model.

i really like this 'eye' effect. it's weird but somehow it makes the eye sparkle. and since i do not have black, all my animals are gonna be brown and doe eyed.

i'm not sure what to do with them now. the giraffe was suppose to be for me new bag. i might turn the deer into a charm, maybe for handphone, or a pendant.

i'm done bragging now. i wonder what i can acheive tomorrow.

my toilet smells like cat wee

sighs. i wish that my apartment has a rubbish chute attached. so i can dump rubbish away immediately. so i don't have to dress up just so to throw away smelly bags of eated foods and kitty wee.

so.. i made quite a few good stuff this weekend. i turned some cupcake into studs, finished up my 'easter' earrings, bird tree, love dove, and my absolute fave, little red riding hood complete with the BIG BAD WUFF.

just too bad that the DH has hijacked the camera away in china. so no pictures. right now i'm starting on the 3 little piggies, and another BiG BAD WUFF.

what other fairy tales would you like to see on your ears?

more cat pictures

more cat pictures

more cat pictures


more cat pictures

making miniatures

the reason i wanted to try needle felting is cos the result is fuzzy and the animals look live like. it is made from wool after all. i like my furry things.

my first attempt at making a terrier. i modeled it after a friends dog. unfortunately i also managed to turn her terrier into a dachshund. ah ha ha ha. it's a tershund. a dashier. w00t!



but i have to say that it's rather cute ya.

i also made a cat but eee... me dun like.



it looks like some deranged animal hybrid. :P

me will try again.

thish is why i hate crocs

more cat pictures

crafting madness

a friend recommend that i register with this: http://community.livejournal.com/sgselltrade/
that means i have to open an account with LJ and maybe post on it too. the registration rules are quite stringent but i suppose it is suppose to protect the buyers. which i understand. more work for me then. maybe i really should enquire about how q box operates.

i've been meaning to post for days but i actually havent' turned on my pc much. that's because i've been hooked onto my new hobby. Needle felting!

so after about 100$ and 4 broken needles later, i have these...



which have also been turned into earrings and put up on the shop.

i love the look that the wool gives. like a real animal. it's all fuzzy.

what else should i make? hmmm

valentine kitty singing telegram

the DH sent me this once. he wasn't a very verbal person when it comes to saying certain things

click here for the full image

silliness

my silly DH. make me worry for him so. his lappy refuse to boot up and he can't get to his work. good grief. cannot scold and cannot sayang *sends flying kisses*

tired. will sleep. zzzzzz....

i'm bored and i want to go home

it's finally pouring. yay! no more aching knees and stuffy air. and an apartment that's like a sauna.

i feel so restless. i want tomorrow night to come quickly because the DH is coming home! yay! deep deep down i cannot survive 2 weeks of him away. one week is tolerable and the days fly away quickly but anything more than 7 will make me restless and tetchy. aaarrgghh! it's not 3 yet.

me is all excited about needle felting. i'm itching to buy all the equipment and start making something. :P of course i cannot. not yet. must resist. grrr..

i envy people with great designs and creative ideas. i admit that i am a copy cat. meow. purr. purr. i'll just trawl the internet for ideas and steal them! meh! ok la. i don't copy exactly mah. hor?!

anyways if you have any thing that you want made you can let me know. maybe i can custom make for you.

which reminds me. i have many pendants waiting to be finished. not tonight. me going shopping.

toodles.

it's been 2 years

it's nice to know that we've been married for 2 years. and we've lived in this apartment for 2 years.

and we did not celebrate it. that's like the joke for today, because i didn't realise that the anniversary was last week. and apparently the DH forgot all about it too. but according to him he did realise it earlier than me, it's just that he didn't want to mention it.

there was laughter all around. i will do a victory dance to commemorate the day. many good years to us.

feep feep

my usual office surfing brought me to this site.

Feeps.

pretty cool stuff eh? sometimes i wish i'd have an original idea. since a lot of times my ideas that someone else have thought of first and i'm just inspired or i want it. hence i make. *sighs*

i also chance acrossed this..

felted creatures.

something that i'd tot to try my hands on but decided to resist. i saw pre-packed needle felting ..ingredients when i was in Tokyu Hands and i was tempted to get them but in the end i didn't. they were't quite inexpensive. but think of the fun! :P

star nosed mole

today i am obsessed with the star nosed mole. the cutest thing eh-vah!

or course, some have questioned my defination of cute but you just have to lookit' it's tiny plump body and that pink feathery nose and you'd go awwww...

extreme close up of it's highly sensitive nose.


i also came across this bat picture that sorta reminded me of the bat i used to keep for a while. the bro picked it up when it was a wee fuzzy pink baby and i milk fed it till it was palm size. and it always called out to me and i'll put her to hang on my shirtfront. awww....


here we have the DH posing with the MAO in their fancy country colors.


yepp yepp. i was similar garbed too! we got the bandana at the Taiwan Shilin night market Jungle Mall.

the DH and i fell in love with a teeny tiny scottish fold kitteh at the Jungle Mall. she was so sweet, she wanted to be cuddled. awwww...

this is not that kitteh. this is a random internet image.

i also manage to grab some charms near the place where we had lunch one day during the Taiwan trip.


and in my current frenzy of sculpturing i made an earring for a colleague.

pot of gold at end of rainbow

right now i've got a bunch of tiny sculptures drying after varnishing.

i especially liked.... everything! the theme looked as if it should be called "in the woods" or "woodland wonderland"

last week's stash

yay! the DH got another silver for his IPPT. all that jogging has not been in vain. too bad there's not congratulatory kiss for him since my cold sore is scabbing up. i'm not taking any chances.

after i successfully made transfers onto polymer clay last week, i've been on a roll. even when i was dead tired from work everyday i must do a little everynight. heeheehee!

these are my latest factory outputs. a bunch of transfers and a few more beads.



there are some more sugar rolls, a few more cupcakes, ice cream cones, oreos, choc chip cookies, eggs in nests and me favourite, Poo! with2 flies each. click on pic to see close up.


the rain's been messing up my laundry. during the rest of the week it's sunny all morning and afternoon with rain in the evening. on laundry day it decides to rain right after i've finished 4 loads of bedsheets and cloths. aiyah! i have to bring everything indoors to dry them with a fan.

the mao mao seems to like this idea though. she can play hide and nap amongst the bedsheets.


i'm going to make more earrings with my new food beads.

clay madness

huzzah! i have successfully made transfers. all i needed was a color laser printer. lucky for me the DH was able to them for me at work. heheheh..

the transfers were perfect. all i have to do is to have a flat piece of raw clay and lay the image over it. it does need water though. i just really hate rubbing the paper away from the clay since it's raw and might go out of shape.




i curved the clay over a wine goblet to get the curve. the DH said they looked like painted eggshells and are very pretty :):):):)

i also made some strawberry shortcake rolls and purple cupcakes.

another row of cold sores popped out. just! a huge cluster. *dies*

all excited and bored at the same time

my company's DnD came and went.

so this is what i wore. the back of what i wore.



it took me over an hour to get my hair done cos i've never done it before and i tried about 3 times. and it took me probaby 10 mins for make up and another 15 to get dressed. hee.

and these are my main people at work.



we all look so lovely that night. and then the next day we all felt crappy from a late sunday night. haha. i had a full blown tummy flu which rendered me bed ridden. crap ya.

~.~.~.~.~.~

i found me a new project. or rather it's something that i have been trying to do for the longest time cos i wanna make pendants and stuff. so what i used to do was to make copies onto photo paper, cut them out and encase them with my favourite media (superglue) onto pendant frames. like these

however, the glue will dissolve the pictures a little so they will smudge. meh.

back to this new and exciting polymer clay transfer method. basically you just stick your picture onto the clay and then the ink will transfer. but there are different ways of doing it. like right now i will need a laser color printer to have my images printed out since i do not want to buy t-shirt transfers. as always, i'd like to use the least amount of money to accomplish my task. heheh. i'm getting the DH to print at his office since my office printer only prints black n white. boo!

techniques here

i'm trying to make these into pendants. hopefully i'm not infringing into some IP issues as these are old old prints.

anway, i spent a better part of friday compiling them onto word and then a better part of sunday compiling them again on photoshop since i can only do limited editing on word. :P

i can sure waste a sunday away.