Beading - A Stress Therapy

That wuz what posted in Harian Metro, 26 January 2011. An article about a group of ladies (they're all my beading frenz.. !!!) choose beading as their hobby. Other than juz to fill up their free leisure hours, they managed to generate some income from their hobby. And the best part, they known each other for past a year via Facebook.

We normally meet once a week or more, to discuss on our beadworks. We also do share our knowledge among each other on some beading techniques. On top of that, some of us do conduct beading classes for those who are in interested to venture more into beads embroidery.

I wuz not there during the photoshoot, as I had some other appointment to attend. Ho.. ho.. I missed this golden opportunity. I wuz told some of them had even received calls, sms & messages in their FB enquiring about their beading services after their contact numbers and blog links were posted in the article. So can I called them as 'Celeb Beaders'.. ?? Ho ho ho.. i missed the boat (I wannabe the Celeb Beader too, LOL)

lotsa love from me,

Day 8 of 2011

Yearppp.. it's Day 8 in 2011, yet I haven't post anything since my last posting last year. Hope it's not too late to wish everybody a Happy New Year. May 2011 brings more shines & joy to your life, mine especially. I really mean it.

I have many things to write, few photos from last Eid'ul Fitri beads embroideries orders to upload here but don't know when can I do so. Hope in one of these days. Insya Allah...

lotsa love from me,

Dear Potential Customer, Can You Call Me Back

Yesterday I received a phone call from someone (sorry, I forgot her name) asking about the Rose Garden design that I stitched for Ju. She promised to call me back which she did. Unfortunately I didn't manage to grab the phone on time to answer. There's a number listed over my phone screen but when I dialed the number, it's a main hunting line of TNB.

To my dearest potential customer, if you happened to read this posting can you call/sms me back. Sorry I didn't able to answer your call yesterday as the rings stopped I could pressed the button 'answer'.

lotsa love from me,

Needlecraft is My Passions...

As far as I remember, my love in needlecraft started when I was in my Year 1 in primary school. I always look forward for our needlecraft session where I started learning stitch an X on gingham. Soon later our teacher will teach us some other stitches.

Later, I learnt to keep myself busy at JB Public Library the same year and there I found myself a book on crochet. I remember I told my dad to buy me some crochet needles & yarns, and he bought me my 1st yarn - a dark blue colour. This is where my love in crochet started.

After more than 20 yrs I started seriously cross stitching. I'm glad I found many local cross stitchers who share the same passion as mine. I also introduce myself to tatting, thanks to my sifu Faizon. And I do take up some short courses on curtain makings. At least I can sew my own curtains whenever i like.



And now I'm into beads & sequins embroideries on baju kurung/kebaya or blouses for almost 2 yrs. I started my small business in beads & sequins embroideries services this year, and Alhamdulillah the business goes well. I will share some of my beadworks done for my customers in another posting.

What I want to point here.. Needlecraft is my passions, and if my passions can generate some income, it's a blessed.

note : I'm really pissed off with someone who look down on my passions and my small business. Juz remember : 'life is like a wheel...'

lotsa love from me,

It's Already 2020...

... ermm, how time flies. we're now in year 2010, on the 28th day to be exact and yet, i haven't posted anything.

resolutions ...??? well, i think i better continue the previous years' resolutions which some has not 100% completed (almost all, actually.. ermm). i hope i can seriously working on some beads work this year. other than that, learning decoupage technics, quilting, cake decorating are also to be considered. ho ho.. now my list getting longer, hik hik hik.. anyway, i'm still hoping i could slot some time to continue my cross stitching, tatting & crochet in between my new interests.

lastly.. i would like to 'A Happy New Year' to my blogs readers, thank you for your visits and do come often & leave some comments.

lotsa love from me,

Ladies Nite Out...

Well... this happened quite some times ago.. to be exact on 12 June 2009, when Aniza was in town. Just for record, I have never met Aniza & Leena in person before though we knew each other online for many many years. We finally met in June and our blind date was at Sakura, SS 19. After that we straight away arrange for another blind date on 12 June 2009, this time at Shah Alam where Linda & Aida joined us.

From left :Aniza of Some Empty Spool, Aida of Jarum Emas, Linda of Linda Stitching Rambles, yours truly of My Little Touch & Leena of Needle Nooks.

Gals, look forward for the next Ladies Nite Out..

lotsa love from me,

It's 40 !

See this number - 030609.

It's today date. A bit similar to 030669 - the day I was borned 40 yrs ago. So, today is my birthday ! And I wish one day I could owned a car bearing the plate J-- 3669.

Other than phone calls, smses, emails & some wishes thru Facebook (you can add me if you wish), I received a hand bouquet from my sisters sent to my office. Owwhh.. the birthday gal wuz so shy actually, lucky my boss wasn't around.

Later, my son Nafiz called to inform they bought a female rabbit as my birthday gift. Actually my hubby decided to buy this rabbit as a partner to our current male rabbit - Mr Coco. Now Mr Coco got a companion which we call her Ms Crunch.. Ha ha ha.. Coco Crunch.



BTW, birthday gal got birthday cake as well. The kids waiting eagerly for me as they can't wait for cake cutting ceremony and blowing the candles. Anyway, almost every months we had this cake cutting ceremony as our birthdays (7 of us) falls on different months.

Mama & kids posing before cake cutting ceremony.

lotsa love from me,

It's Pay Day....

Time really flies so fast. Seems it already a month I been working in this company. A friend wuz kind enough to recommend me to be a PA to her hubby. For note, I been looking for job for nearly a year after resigned from the previous company. So her offer is something I can't resist. Especially when I have a long 'wish list' - among all a good sewing machine either Janome or Bernina and my personal lappie (Aida - you're so lucky, you now owned your personal lappie. Again M jealous here tau !!!).

So, today is the pay day. I'm smilling happily when I saw the figure creditted to my account. Immediately I have a long long list of things to buy. (Hello Azie... you have another 30 days to live with that figure yea.. don't overspend yea).

I think I should give myself a treat with my 1st salary here. After all my birthday is around the corner (nak juga mention here, ek !). I plan to visit LNS one of these days to buy some stash & fabby.. Probably Craft World @ SS2 or Sakura @ SS18. May be I could get some materials for my 'secret project' there or buy quilting kit so that I can start learning quilting. Anyone want to join me ...??


Note :
Lady Luck wuz not with me, I didn't win Craft Chomel giveaways... I hope, Faridah wud pick my name to win her Birthday Giveaway.

lotsa love from me,

M Back .... !!!!

Pheww... Its been more than a month since my last posting after my puter acting up. And now, M back ! Back to blogging world & back to working life as well.

During my absent, nothing much I done except I take up 'Sulam Manik' lesson. So far, I yet to finish my 1st sulam manik project. I did Manik Pyramid to my old baju kurung and only 50% completed. Now with M back to working life, I dunno when shall I finish this project. Just for note, my neighbour who went for the same sulam manik class has made more than 5 projects for herself & her network. Perghh.. and I didn't complete not even 1 project. Gosh !!

lotsa love from me,

My Computer is Sick !

Arghhh.... how do feel when one day, you turned on your pc & you see a blank screen ? Frustated right ?? Especially when you know you have lotsa things stored in there. And you have planned a day b4 to migrate your files on that unlucky day. Yeahh.. that's what happened to me last week. I'm so frustated, tensed and a lot more for the entire week. Lucky I'm still able to retrieve my emails & do some bloghopping using my hp, although a bit restricted.

This week, my pc a bit ok though not fully recovered. And it getting slower than b4. Forgot to ask DH whether he did some backup b4 he reformat my pc. I hope he did. Otherwise, I have no photos of my late Princess Mocha anymore. Lesson learnt : DO NOT STORED YOUR FILES IN YOUR C:// DRIVE.

But what worst now, I've lost my 1GB old thumbdrive where I have stored most of my files especially my cross stitch charts. Like pepatah Melayu said : Sudah jatuh ditimpa tangga.. Ouchhh !!!

Thanks to Via, Niena, Kak Zawiah & Tini for dropping by my blog & leaving your comments on my previous post.

lotsa love from me,

Happy New Year & My Carrot Cake

In another few minutes, we gonna say good bye 2008 and welcoming 2009. I hope in 2009, I will be spending more time stitching, tatting, baking cakes & few hours a week on gardening. Not to forget, I hope I will turn as a Quilter in 2009.

So as a starter, I made this carrot cake today. This is my 2nd attempt baking this cake after I FAILED yesterday. I follow Anna Olson's Pineapple Carrot Cake Recipe from Sugar but somehow my cake turned soggy. Ha ha.... I have to admit, I dunno how to bake a cake !

For today's carrot cake, I follow Hanieliza's recipe.. Well, this time round my carrot cake baked well except it a little bit hard as my itchy hand add more flour to the recipe ! Lesson to learn, just follow the recipe accordingly and bake often, so that I will get the perfect baking skill.

I also never tried to do my own icing b4. The actual recipes (both Anna's & Hanieliza's) says to use cheese creame as part of the ingredients for the frosting. But I don't have any stock of this cheese creame therefore I opt to do a normal icing using some butter, icing sugar & milk.

Again, I have to admit that my cake decorating also poor, hik hik... Well, I should go for cake decorating classes I guess... ;-)

Thank you Elisabeth & Sheila for giving advice to overcome my blog problem. I did think of creating new blog at Wordpress but may be I still stick to Blogspot. I also tried tips like what Shiela suggested, but to no success. May be I need more time to keep trying.