A Homemaker’s Diary

I have progressed from making felt hair clip with crochet flower towards headband with crochet flower.

And these are two headbands ordered by a friend for her daughters.

Can’t wait to see how they look wearing those headbands.

Putting the flower on the headband is much more easier compared to making the felt cover, less sewing and it is much faster to be completed.

The headband in white with big red crochet flower will be posted hopefully this Saturday. Still searching for ways to make it more presentable to the customer, whether to put it in handmade envelope, or plastic packaging, am thinking of doing a display card to put the headband on like what I’ve seen on Etsy. Perhaps it’s time that I buy the printer..heh!

Finally the Raya season is slowly coming back to normal pace as people getting back to work after a long break and daily routine is on…pheww!

We made ketupat palas as usual for Raya though this time our ketupat tend to be lembik and lack of rasa lemak because I put too little salt in the santan..huhu! And daun palas we bought from pasar were all too small, some were like 3-4 jalur.

Nevertheless I considered the mission to make ketupat palas a success since it was really challenging trying to cook with an active toddler like our son. Hopefully next year it will be better and less stressful..sigh!

Well, how many ketupat or lemang you guys had during this year Raya? I wonder if people still make ketupat for open house..haha!

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Since we are planning to go to the zoo this week, I just remember that I haven’t completed the second part of the KL Bird Park entry done in June.

My son really enjoyed feeding the koi. I liked the area as well since there was no scary bird..haha!

This was taken around the area where we fed the fish. Can’t help noticing the bright red flowers. Actually there were a few hummingbirds (kelicap) around the plant, but it was so hard to take their pictures.

As we walked back to the exit, we passed by the feeding point of the free birds.

I can’t remember the name of this bird. I think it belongs to the pheasant family. Asked Hubby whether he can recall this burung biru, mata merah, he also can’t remember. Maybe next time we should bring some paper and pen and jot down notes like reporter so that I can write an accurate entry. Macam lawatan sambil belajar gitu..haha!

Hopefully our plan to visit the zoo this week will come true. My last visit to Zoo Negara was like 20 years ago..huhu!

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.

This will be the last entry for August 2010. I noticed that I have not updated this blog as often as I should. So far including this entry, I have done only 8 entries for this month..huhu!

I was not really busy during this Ramadhan, not with cooking or cleaning up the house anyway..rather I was occupied with so many other things..hehe..with my newfound hobby of crochet, and most important of all, catching up with my handful son.

Try staying up till 4 am almost every night waiting for a toddler to finally fall asleep then you will understand why I seem to be out of tune with the blogging world. By the time he is asleep I don’t really have the strength to come out with words. Hopefully this phase will pass soon. I do hope that he will be able to sleep in early (like around 12am like he used to) and wake up early…not as early as 6-7am but early enough for us to have other activities.

You see, places like zoo and such are closed at 5pm. So if we wake up around 1-2pm, by the time we get ready and leave the house, we don’t really have ample time to catch up with activities like that. I am also looking forward to join play group or classes suitable for toddlers his age (he seems to love socializing with others), but then most of those classes are conducted in the morning.

For now what we can do after we wake up is to be pekebun kecil in our mini garden. Check out the picture of the fabulous pink rose above, well, that’s our rose. Nice, huh!