A Homemaker’s Diary

I have a few more weeks to go before I deliver this baby and honestly I don’t know why suddenly the mood to clean up strike me. I have another 2 custom made decoupage orders to be completed. Since we live in a double storey house, sometimes I have to go up and down the stairs several times a day to get what I need to use for the craft work.

Then I found this on pinterest. A brilliant idea since the DIY caddy is easy to make and it’s not heavy to be brought up and down. I already have a wooden, heavy caddy for my craft supplies which I find a hassle to carry when you are 8 month pregnant..huhu!

Will do this with my son soon. At least he could see that there’s something else that could be made out of the paper towel tubes apart from making race cars (he learned that from Art Attack).

Last month I went to learn on how to do 3D decoupage from a teacher I knew from Internet. Actually I already know some of the basic technique and even tried to do a simple 3D decoupage before, but since she has some special tools to mould the clay, I thought might as well go and learn from her.

As I am heavily pregnant, I was only able to follow the class for about 3 hours. Those who came from morning, went home almost night time. My main intention for the class is just to get the important techniques and then I will finish the piece at home.

After a few weeks, I managed to complete to top part of the cutlery box. For the rest of the pictures, I used toy clay bought from Yenji. I like the texture of the clay compared to the one used in class. It is a lot more expensive though..huhu!

I will update the whole cutlery box picture once I am able to complete it.

Remember my previous entry about starting an edible garden of bayam merah? Well, after a few weeks of waiting for the first batch of bayam merah to grow, I decided to harvest them.

I also harvested sawi 5 bintang which I have planted earlier. For bayam merah, I didn’t pull out the whole plant from the soil because I was not sure whether it will regrow new leaves like sawi. We’ll see the progress of the bayam merah after this.

I have cooked sayur air bayam and used the sawi in mee goreng basah. It was certainly a great feeling to eat vegetables that you grow in your own garden.