A Homemaker’s Diary

Finally, I completed them, all 70 pcs of the white and gold bunga pahar..clap clap!

You will never realize how time and energy consuming making those bunga telur until you do it yourself..huhu!

I have a client who told me that in an effort to save cost, the family decided to buy materials and decorated the goodies for an event. It turned out that it cost them more in term of effort and energy. Even the maids have to be pushed to help around to complete all the goodies..haha!

So if you are interested to order such custom made bunga pahar, please give me at least 2 months to get everything ready.

To the client, may everything goes smoothly as planned for your November wedding. Semoga kekal bahagia hingga ke syurga 🙂

I did this for the photo shoot session for a newspaper early this month. Since I won’t be using this anymore, I am selling this for RM50. You will get the whole arrangement of bunga ros daun getah inclusive of the decorated polistrin below it..haha!

What you have to do is just buy Ferrero Rocher chocolates to fit inside of the rose buds.

This is how it will look like once you have put the chocolate inside the buds. The picture was taken the night before the photo shoot..(as you can see the messy ribbons and organza roll around the picture)

If you are interested to buy kindly leave comment or email me. Self collect or delivery around Puchong/Cyberjaya area only.

From Goodreads.com:

As a child, Charley “Chick” Benetto was told by his father, “You can be a mama’s boy or a daddy’s boy, but you can’t be both.”

So he chooses his father, only to see the man disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence.

Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been crumbled by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits bottom after discovering his only daughter has shut him out of her wedding. And he decides to take his own life.

He makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, with plans to do himself in. But upon failing even to do that, he staggers back to his old house, only to make an astonishing discovery. His mother who died eight years earlier is still living there, and welcomes him home as if nothing ever happened.

What follows is the one “ordinary” day so many of us yearn for, a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets, and to seek forgiveness. Somewhere between this life and the next, Charley learns the astonishing things he never knew about his mother and her sacrifices. And he tries, with her tender guidance, to put the crumbled pieces of his life back together.

Through Albom’s inspiring characters and masterful storytelling, readers will newly appreciate those whom they love and may have thought they’d lost in their own lives. For One More Day is a book for anyone in a family, and will be cherished by Albom’s millions of fans worldwide.
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I’ve read almost all Mitch Albom’s books including this one. I have 5 copies of the hardcover to sell at RM25. Retail price for the hardcover is RM68. Postage via Poslaju will be RM7 for West Malaysia. If you are interested to buy, please leave comment with a valid email address or email me at mq [at] homemakerdiary.com

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Straight Talk for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

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If I were able to use this service, I could use the extra money to splurge on my artsy and craft materials. Have you ever imagine for a moment, if you could have extra money from otherwise must spend budget every month, what will you spend those money on? Tell me..

One of these days, I might be heading to a wrong car like this lady..haha..

The Straight Talk Image… by LittleBard95

Often time people who came to learn decoupage told me that they are interested to learn about folk art or decorative painting. I told them that they need to find a personal teacher as it is not something you can learn in an hour or two. It takes a lot of practice in order to have the perfect stroke.

Of course not everyone has the time and resources to attend such class. I have 2 craft books that are related to folk art or decorative painting for sale. Each of them cost RM35. I have checked with MPH, and they don’t have the stock for such books, but the retail price is RM99.90.

The first book is by Priscilla Hauser – Book of Roses. I have 3 more in stock.

Inside you will learn about what kind of brushes, paints you might need to start decorative painting. There are patterns that you can photocopy and enlarge to suit the size of your painting medium.

This is some of the step by step techniques you will learn from this book. What you need is perseverance to get a perfect stroke.

Another one is by Donna Dewberry. She is a housewife, a mother of 7 children and a self-taught artist, who picked up different painting tips where she could and learned by observations. I used to follow her video online. I even bought some of the materials from ebay. Since not everyone is accessible to Internet all day long, having her book is another great way to learn her famous one stroke painting technique.

This is one of her books : Donna Dewberry’s Quick & Easy Murals. I have 4 more in stock.

There are 300 step by step pictures for you to follow.

You will learn how to paint rose, vine, leaves, hydrangea, blue bird and bird bath just to name a few.

So if you are interested to learn from those books, feel free to leave comment or email me to buy any of them. I will try to get back as soon as possible. The postage charge and handling per book via Poslaju for West Malaysia is RM8, and for Sabah and Sarawak is around RM11.