A Homemaker’s Diary

Remember my previous entry about my garden? These were the pictures taken about a few weeks ago.

Now my garden is not that nice anymore..huhu! The next door neighbor decided to put up the wall and the Indon contractors spoiled everything. They stepped on my pearl grass while laying the bricks, making the cement dropped everywhere and in the process damaged most of my plants..eeiii sakit hati!

We have to remove most of the potted plants away from the construction area in order to salvage them..but some die in the process. Benci! Benci!

I hope the job will be completed soon because I plan to rearrange my plants and replenish the grass before Hari Raya.

I have been researching on the design of beadwork to do on my baju raya this year. There are many pictures from other beaders that I have saved in the hard disk. So I showed them to Hubby and asked for his opinion..his comment…
“eeii serabutnya, macam macik2..tak cantik la..batu bulat2 besar nampak pelik..” isk isk..

So since my baju raya is like color of Rangooli, I was out of ideas on how to jahit manik on it..huh! I tried combining manik pintal with labuci and it looks tak berseri (I used the leftover of beads from the time I sew Niece’s wedding attire, the beads colors do not match my baju kurung tone very well.)

I can’t use manik tabur with bunga lalang design like above since the corak on the baju kurung is not plain.

In the end I think I have to make do with manik V design like the above picture since I only have just enough round beads with 2 colors that suit the baju…(ni kes malas nak beli beads baru tapi nak jugak jahit manik kat baju raya..isk!)

I even practised beading the pyramid design like above but it just looks gloomy. Next time I should have think twice when selecting the color, corak and kain for my baju kurung raya..huhu!

(Most of these pictures were posted in bungatelur.info before, I haven’t beaded any new design to share since I have my son..isk!)

I’ve got my baju raya from tailor last Saturday. And now I am contemplating whether to sew beads on it. I have been researching several designs from other beaders online, but it seems that the design I like will need me to spend a lot of hours beading it..which won’t be a problem if I don’t have a little fella here to take care of..huhu!

Oh, the liberty of childless years, boleh suka suki buat apa yang terlintas di hati..now even the visit to the loo has to be done in split second while he’s sleeping (or in the morning, before he’s awake)

Coming back to the beading topic, I feel really tempted to jahit Swarovski on the baju raya. I think I still have some beads left from the time I tried to make bracelets a few years back. Checking out one design on Glamstarz fotopages, she used about 800 pieces of 4mm biconne..(if I were to jahit that on my baju kurung raya rasa macam tak berbaloi sebab lagi mahal beads dari harga kain..huhu!)

I think I will end up beading something simpler. I will save my Swarovski dream on something that costs 300 or more..keh! keh!