A Homemaker’s Diary

(Picture taken from susiesbigadventure.blogspot.com)

It’s 3rd day of Ramadhan here in Malaysia. I hope it is still not too late to wish all the Muslim readers, selamat berpuasa 🙂

It’s kind of hard for me to cook this year since the baby is really clingy. I even have to break my fast in the room since he doesn’t sleep during the berbuka time.

With two kids on tow, it’s even harder to go and buy food at Pasar Ramadhan. I guess it’s all in the parenthood experience. Once they all grown up, life could get back to normal pace, hopefully.

May this Ramadhan brings the best of everyone this year, and may all our amal ibadat will be accepted by Allah.

My friend of Shaja Ratul Design sold these decorative pillow covers a few months back. Since the initial plan was to use cream colored bed sheet for the wedding bed, I thought the combination of gold and white decorative pillows like this will be a good match.

Later my brother got a whole new set of king sized bed from his in laws for this wedding. He went to buy the comforter and bed sheet in pink color as there was not many choice in Parkson at that time. (The Akemi cream colored bed sheet set that I have is in Queen size)

I collected the pillow covers a few weeks before I went back for the wedding. We went straight to Mydin USJ to buy the inserts. Little that I realized the correct size of the pillow. It is supposed to be 18 x 18 yet I confidently bought the inserts in 16 x 16 size.

When I tried to put the inserts into the pillow case, it didn’t fit well because it is too small. I ended up sewing new inserts using whatever cotton pieces and fibre I have in my craft room.

So here it is the picture of the decorative pillows on the wedding bed. These pillows will be passed to another cousin who is getting married end of this year 🙂

Time flies really fast this year. I learned a lot, cried and laughed a lot more as well. I am grateful for all that Allah the Almighty has planned for us to endure this year.

I pray that we will be stronger and 2014 will treat us kind as a family:)) Happy new year everyone who reads this..May you will always be blessed and have courage to continue living in the ever so challenging world.

These are the reasons why I couldn’t sleep tight for the past few weeks..hehe! My son is now 4 and he requested to have a birthday party. The theme is Disney Cars like last year. Actually we held a small party last year with minimal decoration and limited invitation.

The bright red and black latex balloons were bought from Glowing Party House. I found their FB a few days before the party while looking for Cars foil balloons. The rest of the latex balloons were bought in Toys R Us the week before.

For the balloon sticks I bought 50 of them at SeaStar Party Shop.

If you are planning to get a helium filled foil balloons, you can get them at Glowing Party House. If you want to fill with normal air (like the small foil balloons I bought from Toys R Us), you have to tie it to balloon sticks.

Fruit tarts, cheese tarts and cream puffs were ordered from Kak Yati of Kay Bakery. Birthday cake, brownies and chocolate chip cupcakes were ordered from my friend Sya of Luscious Brownies & Cakes.

SIL came earlier on the party day and helped me to fry the nuggets and steam the hotdog. Hubby and niece were the one who decorate those tidbits with the printables and arrange everything on the table.

For the cupcakes, I just add on the Disney Cars cupcake toppers. Been doing the cutting and sticking job at night after son has fall asleep..huhu!

Overall I am happy with the outcome of this Disney Cars party. Perhaps next year we could find more Cars related items in the market. I’m sure it will take years for dear Son to get over his obsession with Cars..haha! I can always keep most of the party decoration and re-use them year after year.

Next in list are to get checkered flags, black and white checkered table cover and more Cars foil balloons.

It’s that time of the year again. For those who love plants, fruits, to see livestock and farming machinery, this is your chance to check out MAHA 2012.

I’ve been to MAHA every year, mostly to check out the floriculture booths selling plants and fertilizers..haha! But this year I can’t wait to bring dear son to check out the farming machinery. Last year we brought him to see the livestock though I personally hate the smelly goats, sheep and cows..huhu!

MAHA 2012 will start tomorrow, from 23 November till 2 Dec 2012. If you are not sure what to do with your children during this school holiday, bring them to Serdang to check out the exhibitions. I’m sure it will be one great, educational trip for them.