my fingers are in pain

i sort of went all ambitious and decided to make a cluster of rape blossoms kanzashi, even though march jsut passed and it is now out of season. however, that cheery roll of yellow organza was just edging me on and on friday i ran across and bought a crescent shaped hair clip which was perfect for me idea.

lots of pieces n circles to cut.


and to pin into shape.


and bases to wire and wrap.


the squares are folded and sewed into a rough shape.

and finally the petals were glued onto the wire n felt bases. i got too carried away here so i didn't take any pictures :P

and the seperate flowers were wired onto the clip..

more pictures are on my shop.

on a different note, i bought these chio chio shoes at almost half price! ah ha ha ha!!

they were originally exorbitantly priced. goody goody gosh.

nice smell..

take a breather

uh huh. i need to take a break from my usual manic manufacturing mode. my shoulders and neck are killing me. but i'm pretty satisfied with my lastest collection of kanzashi flowers.

i bought me some satin ribbons and japanese chirimen fabric and had been in a whirlwind of making these cute flowers.

the blue hydrangeas headband is still a WIP. i'm waiting for my green ribbons to arrive.

the pink flowers may be turned into individual hair pins/a single large updo pin.

i can't think of what i want to do with the rest. dang! i wish my hair was the huge long curly mass i had before so that i can put my hair up and wear pins in the bun. aiyah!

speaking of green ribbons, i asked the DH to help me procure them as he was in Shanghai during the weekend and these were what he got.

how exciting! i'm glad he did the shopping cos he chose exciting colors. actually they were what was left over in the shop. these are 5 cm wide ribbons and pre-ordering was actually required. anyways i'm glad he bought them cos if it were up to me, i'd probably get only shades of pink.

i can't wait for him to come back and hand them over. he is still somewhere in china. :P it's hard to track his travel route. he keeps changing hotels. hahaha!

right now i'm craving some tea. teh O!

manic monday

day 1 of the bazaar passed and i am tired! OMG! i'm so not cut out for tending a stall/shop. 2 more days to go. i hope tomorrow will be a busier day(in terms of sales of course). i'm glad i have a friend and the DH to help out cos we do all need our tea and pee breaks. tomorrow the DH will go off again so it's only my friend and me.

a fellow stall holder suggest that i try the red dot museum instead. she says it's all hand crafty things there so the crowd may be more recepient. but the situation here today is that there wasn't any crowd. so unlike what i remembered many years ago. boo...

we got our new washing machine on sunday. it's so water conserving that i don't even see water in the drum! at least the older machine looked wetter despite being a water conservation model as well. i keep suspecting that the new machine is faulty in it's water estimate, and my cloths won't come out clean. hmm... this problem needs to be resolved.

kanzashi obsessed

i've made a few hair ties from patchwork cloth which can be seen at my shop. this one that i am brogging about is a result of my sakura obsession. i've tried it make it as close i can to the tsumami kanzashi that represents april. wanted to attach some falling petals but i think it's a bit too much for daily wear and on a hair band.

the pink was color in using water colors so they will run when wet. eep! thinking of getting some fabric dyes instead but i don't want to get a large bottle of 1 single color. do they have palettes?! hehe.

bags!!!

so i finally saw the SATC and really liked this bag. but apparently i've read some reviews and quite a number of people hates it. :P i do rather like the flamboyant things.

wouldn't it be cool if someone were to get it for me. ha ha ha!!!

anyways, i was at Coach Taka today and tried this on. actually i didn't see this color there but the blue was quite nice. or black. or bronze goldie. or pink.

itsh sho comfortables. i covet. but since i already have a similar, i have not more quota for bags. booooo!!!!

this looks quite nice too. love the greens.

can you imagine? my cloths are already so colorful, and i like even more colorful bags. and shoes. and jewellery. i'm afraid i'm going to turn into and obiang 30 year old. aiyoh. must try to be more stylish...

big flying cockroach

the cat was stalking something in the toilet and it was a huge cockroach. it was not flying. *phfew* so i attacked it with a baygone spray. the spray was... shall i say very effective. as i watch the big brown thing flop over and twitch its crunchy legs i felt bad. really bad. normally i have to spray insecticide at them flying things while they escape and take a really long time to expire and usually i just pick up the weak but not yet dead creature and flush them down the loo. but tonight, the concentrated spray (through a long nozzle) really killed that bug. and it just died. it's really horrible to see something expire. :(

my mum's plant flowered and they are the cutest things. i couldn't stop looking or touching them. so velvety. and they smell sorta stinky and sweet at the same time. i can fit this whole bunch into my palm. and i gots small hands.

today has been a very productive day. i made cookies and tart shells and pieced the entire collection of fuzzy charms.

the whip cream will take another day or so to dry completely before i can varnish them and glue into place. right now i've got a couple of completed ones and the rest assembed but not glued/varnished. i'm so pleased with these.

tomorrow i'll have to finish up my birdie collection. and hopefully make a few more before my arm and shoulder stiffen up.

and the reason why my photoes look so fuzzy is because i've been taking them with my phone, which boasts a 8 or 10 MB resolution but since my hands seem to be trembly lately so... and i still think no matter what an actual camera will always do better than a hp.

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?

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