A Homemaker’s Diary

As mentioned earlier, I went to IKEA with Hubby last 2 weeks to find a work surface to put my new notebook on. So here is the picture of the TV bench now turn to work desk..heh!

Hubby got one for himself and now our living hall has no more empty space, with my craft tables, craft shelves, boxes of craft stuffs..huhu! Where is the plan to turn the room upstairs into my craft studio? I guess I just love the vast and airy space we have down here, where I can see all the birds chirping outside and possibly run to get my parcels from the Mr Postman..heh!

Oh, come to think of it, I have two packets at the post office to be collected. Good thing Hubby is working UK time this week, so we just need to wake up a bit early tomorrow to go to the Cawangan Serahan. Perhaps they are the felt flowers and my painting brushes.

Why does it feel like this week passed by so slow? Or is it just me? Must be the weather..huh!

The corner used to have my coffee table full of crafts materials. That’s one of the reasons why I can’t used the table runner I bought for the coffee table meant for Raya decoration. Of course the other reason is solely my laziness to clear up the space, heh!

As you can see I couldn’t put all my crafts materials on the shelves. For now I just put what the usual stuffs I might need during classes. The rest are still dumped in the 2 rooms downstairs and upstairs..huhu (in plastic bags according to the last projects I used the materials for).

I still couldn’t find a good shelving system for my scrapbooking items. Even the Andy shelve I bought from IKEA couldn’t fit the 12 x 12 papers. Perhaps I should just spend my last drop of PayPal money investing into Cropper Hopper storage solutions..huhu!

Hubby took 3 days annual leave in conjuction with our wedding anniversary. The initial plan to stay in Cameron Highland was not carried out because we were so lazy to send the car for service. Then another plan to stay at Colmar Tropicale was down in the drain as well after reading such bad reviews on the Internet by those who have stayed there this year.

So instead of going anywhere for the anniversary, we decided to go out and shop..heh! But before that, on the day itself I got this bunch of red roses from Hubby…I love roses so much..heh! The day after we went to Mid Valley because I wanted to see the newly opened The Gardens. Oh, we watched movie Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium in Mid Valley GSC and had supper at Carl’s Jr. I bought books and some magazines at MPH.

Then the next day we went to The Curve, another book spree at the Borders and then more shelves shopping in IKEA. Now I have a neat craft corner in the living hall, easier to get supply during my craft classes.

I have another day to spend with Hubby but I think I’m done with all the real shopping and window shopping. We walked around the shopping malls until my legs hurt..heh! Oh, I got a skincare set of Biotherm from Hubby and in return I bought him Azzaro Chrome perfume. I have used the products for one year about 3 years ago but switched to few other brands. Now I think I will stick to Biotherm until my oily skin problem could be resolved before I change to anti aging products..huhu..I’m getting older by day now, (who doesn’t, right?), heh!

To Hubby, thanks for being a wonderful partner, complementing my life in every ways possible and I hope we will have many years ahead together. I love you, muah!

Despite the hassle of getting all the materials – brushes, hair dryers, mugs and out of stock sealer and varnish for the decoupage class, I managed to conduct the 2 sessions classes on Thursday and Friday last week very well. Thanks to Hubby for being supportive in finding and scouting for the materials. Pat on my back as well, heh!

My first class only has around 20 students but by the last day, the second session, the attendance grew to almost 30 plus the last minute Pengarah who was so excited to decoupage her mug..hehe! Come to think of it, I should have taken some pictures with her but since she came in after my time was supposed to be up, I was just not thinking anything else but to proceed with my plan to go to KL to get materials for corsages order (dateline 14Dec). Lesson learned, never take the ride on ERL and LRT during after office hour..huhu!

Here is one picture with the second batch of the students. I think not all are in this picture, camera shy maybe. I was told that they are going to submit the class pictures to their Jabatan buletin and website (intranet?). Who knows more Puspanita from other Jabatan would like to invite me for their activity later (for their next year’s budget, perhaps!)

I think I prefer conducting classes than doing commission work and completing orders. Oh, my Aussie client has sent her wedding pictures. Glad that my bunga pahar and corsages did help to brighten her wedding. I will update the pictures in BungaTelur.com website portfolio soon. Oh, not to forget I need to scan the newspaper article and bunga songket pictures in Ratu Sehari magazines, there are more pictures in the IV edition.

I will be attending Folk Art Class hosted by the Laman Impiana magazine this 8th December in Shah Alam. At last I manage to get a seat. I just hope the brushes I bought on eBay could arrive before the class date, but come to think of it, I doubt it. I’m sure it has arrived but got stuck with the custom..huhu!

See you all around, I might not be able to update this blog very often, plus this week is supposed to be my week-off..my wedding anniversary is right at the corner..hehe!

It started around 4am when I was about to go to sleep. There was one opp in PayPerPost that I would like to post so after writing the entry, copying and pasting all the codes as given, the error keep on coming up that I did not insert all the link and code given..damn! I kept checking what might go wrong but until 7am I still couldn’t submit the post. Frustrated with the error, I sent a ticket to their help desk. I know it will take some times to get any reply but what else could I do.

Then at 9:10am, I was awaken by loud noise outside of my house. There was one big truck with Indon workers with an excavator, backhoe whatever you call it. I was not sure what they did outside though I did peek from behind my living hall curtain. Since the notebook was on, I tried to resubmit the post again, but the same error kept coming up. Fine, let it be a draft then though I really like the entry and the images of the logbook..huhu!

So off I went to continue sleeping although I was not in a happy mood. Woke up around 2pm and saw a yellow envelope in my mail box. I ran out to take out the envelope, must be the Wild Mushroom papers so I really don’t want the papers to be folded in two for long. What good will a scrapbooking paper do if it is folded in two before you can actually decide what layout to make out of it.

And once I opened the envelope I noticed that the papers are not double sided cardstock type..huhu! No wonder the price is cheap but since I paid USD15 for shipping, I still feel disappointed. Checked the description given by the seller, yes she didn’t say it should be a double sided cardstock papers. My fault after all!

Well, things are done and choices have been made, no point of feeling down even though it did not turn out the way we want it to be, right? Hopefully the next batch of stickers and embellishment sent by the sellers won’t be a disappointing lots..huhu!