A Homemaker’s Diary

After browsing around for best price for these 2 giraffe shelves, I decided to invest RM340 and bought them.

The area was used before as dear Son #1 sleeping space. But since his younger brother keep on making noise at night, we decided to move his bed to the other side of the room.

Now he has enough containers to keep all his paints, Play Doh moulds and LEGO. A worthy investment I would say.

Hubby bought Apple TV last 2 months in the effort to cut our subscription to Astro. So now, dear Son uses the device to watch YouTube on the big screen. One of his favorite topics is Play Doh.

Yesterday while watching the review on Play Doh Ice Cream Shoppe:

Son: We’ll buy this set
Mama: No, I won’t buy anything, you don’t want to listen to Mama..and you don’t clean up your toys, you already have too many toys
Son: We’ll buy this..
Mama: No, I don’t want to buy..

After much contemplating, with his eyes still watching the YouTube..

Son: I’m cleaning up my toys..and I will listen to you (stop watching YouTube and start cleaning up)
Mama: (not responding)
Son: I will listen to you Mama (kiss Mama’s cheek)

Well, son..you should try that trick with Abah, I’m sure Abah will buy you the big LEGO set..hehe!

Last two weeks the parcel that I bought from US has arrived. Crafty Steals have these watercolor cards kits by Faber-Castell that I thought will be great to use for our homeschooling art time.

The kits come complete with all the materials needed to make 6 cards each like the brush, artist pen, the watercolor pencils and even sharpener. We have tried one of the cards in Rue de Paris kit. Today we completed one of the cards in the Contemporary Floral kit.

For this Contemporary Floral kit, it comes with embellishment and gold paint. Since it doesn’t have glue, I used glossy accent to stick the faux jewel on the card. Oh, I really like the artist pen that use indian ink which comes with each kit. I think I enjoy coloring the cards more than my son does..haha!

While I was waiting for my second son to be born last February, I found the offer by Pixajoy to try their mini flat album. For RM5 you’ll get 16 pages of mini album. The delivery charge is RM8. Since I have never tried this kind of printed album before, I thought it will be a good idea to commemorate 5 years of my eldest son’s life.

It took some time to find suitable pictures to sum up some of the best events in our parenthood, like the first moment our dear son was born, Hubby’s first Father’s Day, our first Hari Raya as parents and so on.

The templates and layout given by the album editor are quite elaborate as well. It’s just a matter of creativity and of course patience to choose which one that suits the theme of your album.

After submitting the completed album online, it took about 2 days for the printed album to be delivered via courier. I am happy with the finished product and will definitely make a bigger album for our family of four soon.