time 'n' love 42- when the two elements meet-CrAtfY LIFE

My yellow submarine is reappearing...

2011-09-08T21:13:00.000+10:00

Hi followers and lovers of all handmade, I have been away for a long long time now, and I finally have good strength to write again. So sorry to all of you that was following me for sometime now. Please forgive me for disappointing you friends.

Now that I am back, I want to celebrate with you what I did this afternoon:
... Sourdough Bread!!

Yes, this is entirely homemade and handmade (no miracle, or life changing machine involved here) sourdough breads. And my entire family and friends are loving it.

Firstly, I want to say thank you to Andrea Ferguson for giving me the starter and from there I need to treat it like a pet (living pet). She also gave me a very good ratio to mix the bread and the whole granny story on how to look after my Holly (my pet)

Well, I must say this journey was not easy as I live in a very cold area in Tasmania. This success came very close to giving up the whole idea of making my own bread and crepe and what not!

upclose and personal with my Holly after being in the tanning bed for 1 hour

Holly #1, Holly #2 and all the way to Holly #5

trying out my artistic side of photographing

loaf form from Tupperware; with the recipe below I yielded a good five loaves.
(I love how it comes off clean)

Sourdough 101

1)Sourdough dislike cold places. (can't grow well or rise)

2)that just mean Sourdough loves heat. Grows really well in the summer

3)Sourdough dislike metal surfaces touching it.

4)Sourdough loves plastic, wooden made, glass or ceramic bowls or spoons.

After three attempts I now have a 100% success rate and I would love to share my tips with you:

How to look after your pet (Sourdough)

Firstly, you need to be ready to have a new pet in your kitchen.

Be sure to give time to look after it like you would look after a goldfish? dog? lol!!! (since, we are going to take care of it we might as well give this thing a name) My son gave it a name and a type too; Holly the Sourdough Dinosaur. (I was laughing out loud when he gave me that whole story)
After we have build an emotional attachment to our sourdough we are well and truly ready to begin.

Feed pet with even amount of flour and water (the amount of repetition really depends on how much you will be using)

If you do not bake a lot then, my suggestion would be just before you want to use it (bake it) and keep the rest of it in the fridge for 7 days. (that way, your pet is hibernating and does not require any feeding during the 7 days)
Reminder: Being in the fridge ONLY means the process is being slowdown. So feed your pet after 7 days

..... ANOTHER WAY

You may want to feed your pet once a day on a daily basis. (your pet will certainly grow really heaps, Be careful that you may well and truly create a monster pet! LOL! This style of feeding is mainly for families that eats only sourdough bread and you have a heap of recipes using sourdough as a main ingredient.

For both methods please make a blanket for your pet and be sure to change your pet's sleeping area (container) once a month. WE want to have a clean area for your pet to grow. LOL!

Sourdough Bread Recipe

4 cups of sourdough (pet)
6 cups of water
13 cups of flour
salt to taste

Mix starter and water.
Add 6 cups of flour and mix well, with your hand.
Add the rest of the flour and salt and mix with your hand again. (very sticky so I suggest that you use only one hand as your other hand might be useful to pick up a phone call or a bubba)
When it is all mixed well, leave in the big bowl overnight in fridge.
The next day put it in pans or free form.
Leave it on the bench top for the day (be sure where you leave her has a lot of heat) and covered with a wet tea towel.
Once you see your pet double in size you know that it is ready to be put in the oven.
Depending on ovens, I have my oven turned up to 150C for 1hr.
Beat the bread like a drum and you should look for that drum sound. And it is cooked.
Andrea's oven is turned to 180C to cook for 40mins.

As I mentioned earlier, I live in a very cold area so I omitted the step where I had to put the sourdough in the fridge after I mixed it up. It fact I need to crank up my heater just to see it double in size. So have a go and try what suits you bestest.

Hope you like this recipe and will try it. Do let me know how you find your pet and how you like this recipe. Enjoy life!

Nothing has been done

2011-04-15T23:40:00.001+10:00

Half a month has gone and I still have not anything to post. I apologize for I have been really busy sorting my life here in Tassie. Thank you for being so patient with me.

time 'n' love 42- when the two elements meet-CrAtfY LIFE: Tasmania

2011-03-30T20:43:00.000+11:00

time 'n' love 42- when the two elements meet-CrAtfY LIFE: Tasmania

Tasmania

2011-03-30T20:42:00.000+11:00

Hi friends and family, we finally arrived in Launceston, Tasmania. I apologized for the delay of updating my blog. This is my third week being back here in Launceston or Launnie.
At this stage, I have yet to settle, there are a lot unpacking and sorting and re-settling, still. I honestly do not know when I could be back online (just got line connected) and writing blogging with all of you out there, but this I really want to share before I get off.

YES... it is NICHE Market by the St. Giles Society this Friday and Saturday; 1st and 2nd April 2011 at the Tramshed Inveresk, (before Mowbray, Launceston) All 20% of the sales go to St. Giles Society. They have a Facebook page which you could go and find out more. So google Niche Market. See you there!

Turkish Monkey

2011-01-11T23:35:00.000+11:00

I am missing my cymbal

I crochet this Turkish guy for my son, Elijah as a gift for him on his last birthday. I did not manage to post this up as Monkey has not arrived to his hometown, Istanbul. So, there you go... he is home and proudly showing off his homeland to you all.

As I have posted about this book I bought from NeedleNoodles called the Creepy Cute and I really love that book due to the pattern diagram they have (just like those in the Japanese Crochet Book). I am getting alot out of those diagrams since a diagram is flat compare to language (words). An Asian reading the words and an American reading the words could mean all very differently. So, I am very thankful for all those pattern diagram.

Bug is on

2011-01-07T00:21:00.000+11:00

Been down with a bug so sorry I can't write to you, precious. Hope to see you all next week if not earlier. Cheers!

Tiered Skirt from Cucito Magazine

2011-01-05T03:02:00.000+11:00

frontal tiered skirt for my 6 year old daughter

close up of tiered hem at 1 cm

hem of skirt

gathers on tiered skirt

frontal view length: 34.5cm

tiered and gathered; three tiers

I want to be honest with you: I am very proud that I managed to finish this project with zero understanding of Japanese words. I am sure this statement has given the highest credit to the Japanese Craft Books in the market globally. I read so many blogs across the globe and they all say the same thing. "You do not need to know Japanese Language to be able to sew, so long you are a crafter or seamstress or know and understand basic sewing skills and techniques.

Nonetheless, I did owe purlbee and movinghands a lot of credit too. Thank you so much to these people that TOOK their PreciOUS time to blog on Japanese Sewing/ Crafting terminology to the whole world. Thank you so Sew much.

Juggling my rubber balls ... will be back on Wednesday

2011-01-04T03:33:00.000+11:00

is she tossing or juggling? I wonder about myself too

I am so sorry but, with my children having to go to schools and me being their teacher, it is a whole lot of matters to deal with all at one time. Yes, I homeschool my children for this time being as I am also in the midst of relocating to another land ... It is just too good! I am ReAlLy juggling my rubber balls now . . . I still see a lot of them on the floor but, the good side is they are only rubbers. So, I am adjusting to all these and I hope to write some great tutorials and exciting pictures posted up soon. Love lots!

Good bye 2010? already?

2010-12-30T19:02:00.000+11:00

Good bye, already? I do not even know if I am ready to say good bye to 2010, yet?

It was such a good year and I still feel like there are a lot to do, but still the clock ticks without my permission.

I am really thankful for this year because I have done lots by leaps of faith not by sight. Plus not worrying the results ahead. And I truly like this better.

I am thankful that this year I started my Etsy.com Shop and this blog everything about handmade. (brutally truthful) I just can't dedicate myself to ONLY one craft (too much that interest me). I love too much handmade or I love handmade too much, from baking to sewing, from blogging to knitting, from origami to amigurumi and the list just never ends.

I am still finding lots of ways to mix all the skills together (at least two) in one project at all times, but it takes load of time. I am very proud of a lot of mama bloggers out there that does their blog so well despite of family/ children, running arounds, schools and so much more other commitment apart from updating all the lovely followers.

So here, I am going to name them (a few) to say thank you for encouraging me to start my blog and my Etsy and starting my website soon. LOL! (really want to):-

6060

RetroMummy

craftymummy2two

A Heavenly Stuffed Life

Joy's Hope
SewTawdy

Norwex with Isaac and Shirley

purlyshells

sew a straight line

The Absoulte Handmade

all so cute OR
all so cute
Sewdistracted
Restingmotion

amigurumiparadise

wiremysoul

Isitatoy

Dawn my faithful follower

wai sam ho my faithful follower

Creative Little Daisy
MissCeliespants
ThulaThula
and the list still goes on . . . cannot think of all of you in one sitting, afterall you are global!
I am truly serious, without you all, I would have not done it this year.

Thank you so much to my family especially my hubby whoeverso faithful in supporting me even when I failed so many times in so many ways.
Thank you to all my children who never stopped being there for me, modelling, food tasting, sous-chef, cleaner, and a whole lot. I will certainly miss my eldest daughter as she will be going to Primary One next year. That is why I said to Hubby, that I constantly need a 3 year old in the house because they are the best helper and they grow up us too quickly.

GIGANTIC thank yous to all of you and those I forgotten to mention!

xxxxxxooooooo

p.s: Now I am wondering if I could close this year with

a BiG Japanese Buffet-eat all u can

2011...

So have you any idea what your 2011 will be like? (on a rough scale) or what are you expecting to happen for you, your family, your work, your friends, social networking, business ventures and opportunities, and etc. I know I have LOTS!

I am relocating down south and I am really excited, so you know what level of business is ahead of me. (I bestow upon myself, hahahahah) Is a good business though. I know I will be very busy leading a bunch of young children, (my favorite) one thing I enjoy retromummy's blog is her joy and enthusiasm for her children and her church and I truly share that common ground. (Thank you Corrie S.)

Let's see . . . what else is ahead of me? Yes, more business and blogging time, creating more clothes from Japanese Sewing Pattern Book like Mrs. StyleBook, getting a new Juki Sewing Machine (liken a BMW to me) and shipping my entire home to South and last but not least is going back to pattern drafting and sewing classes. YES! Hallelujah!

Merry Christmas and a Great Happy New Year to ALL xxoo

2010-12-30T00:35:00.000+11:00

"Wishing you all beautiful life follows you always"

see you all in 01.01.11

xxxooo

Still kicking away. . . ;p

2010-12-24T17:55:00.000+11:00

I have not forgotten to write, but it is really tough to juggle everything at one time. Yesterday, June and I was grocery shopping away from 10 till 4pm with a 30 minutes break in between. Thankfully enough the weather was so beautiful. Thank you Heaven above! :) After we came home, June had to go straight out the door to work and I had to keep all the grocery away PLUS bake a big batch of GINGERSNAPS. It was SOO fun.

I had so much to write and share with you girls, about yesterday and the day before yesterday, and so much pictures needed to be uploaded but, there is not enough time to do it all. So sorry gals, I believe I need to do a delayed post. Nonetheless, here are some great work from TimenLove42. Merry Christmas to ye'll!

Dad must be great at creating little "Adams"

Lis getting some 'eyes' out of the bag; my super designer

I guess God was also choosing what eyes and hearts to put onto Adam when He made him

and he is on the roll...

I sure hope they are not preparing to run, run as fast as they can, cause they are the ...

and so they are trapped, icing sprinkled they cannot runaway

"Let's build us an army now,"

how about another close up

My Parcel haS ARRiVED!

everyone's favorite; none other than Dorothy Moore's Pattern Drafting Book

all around the world from U.S of A
Dorothy Moore's Pattern Drafting Book

Let me reveal just a little secret of mine. A week ago, I've got on to Ebay and bid for this wonderful book (i think it is out of print) And... I won! (Sorry, too excited) My hubby was so thrilled for me as he received this on my behalf this morning. (I have yet to even leave a feedback for this fella and I am telling you all now) Seriously, if you can still find this copy, Do Not give it UP! I managed to save some money bidding on Ebay so go get yours now.

more blogs coming up after this beautiful celebration is all over

shell button kit

crocodile hair clip

Next year I hope to continue to share with you more gadgets that I find useful as I plot through my self taught pattern drafting course. Also, sharing with you this new product that I am working on right now. Cheers and once again Merry Christmas.

The Dress Form Mystique ‹‹ textural

2010-12-22T13:20:00.000+11:00

The Dress Form Mystique ‹‹ textural

As I am on the lookout for Bunka Dressform, I stumbled upon this very interesting blog. She gave a lot of informations on dressform. Her expereince in searching for a dressform is revealed. I think she gave us a lot of insight on buying a dressform. Whether to save money in a long run or short-term money saving purchase is all up to you, but before you consider a dummy do check this blog out. All the best in scouting!

Sewing and more sewing

2010-12-21T23:56:00.000+11:00

little pillow sewn for my one year old

I am so thrilled that I got this simple stuff done for my little one year old. She really loved her brown polka dot pillow (but I am not showing you that piece) with all her saliva smell and tears rubbed on you can imagine how much attachment she had with her pillow. So when this mummy wants to play heroic; trying to sew a NEW pillow, do you think she will be happy? NO! she was crying and all when she laid down this afternoon. Thank God not for long. After the washing and tumble drying she will soon meet her old friend pillow once again. Hope I did not do any eternal damage on her little heart.

introducing pillow to Nana's Charlie the bear

This is Nayomi's cot. She loved all her furry friends and this guy is her first. The banana amigurumi at the background was my first amigurumi. Charlie the bear is making sure that Nayomi will get to know her new pink and white polka dot pillow more and more by the day.

No one can deny her love for her brown polka dot pal

Something about all my children's hair . . . they seemed to defy gravity for at least 1 and 1/2 years, before they give to nature course. Every time she sees her pillow she will automatically put her left thumb in to her mouth and the rest of her fingers will be grabbing tightly to her a corner of her pillow. Now how in the world will she ever fall in love with that pink friend.

This is after a good soak, wash and tumble dry

will there be any jealously around the cot?

Review Japanese Sewing Magazine

Japanese Sewing Pattern book for children and mother

I mentioned Cucito on my last post and this is the front cover of the particular copy I mentioned. Kinokuniya sells them. This is my first copy and I fell in love with it straight away. Because of this copy I bought so many other copies from different publisher like FEMALE for teenagers, Mrs StyleBook, everyone's favorite, Cotton Friend for mom and children. The reason I got all different magazines is of course to compare the layout and illustration also not forgetting those gorgeous pictures that is printed. It is good to find out which layout and illustrations make more sense to those who are Japanese illiterate. That way I can work quicker and with ease.

skirt pattern picked up by me

This skirt is so simple and yet it gives me a sense of newness and live. (just by looking at the picture) So now you understood why I got so ambitious to be cutting and sewing four sets of this pattern for my daughters and nieces. I never realized that I actually picked up a fabric that are so similar to what the girl is wearing. I must be so hooked in my mind that I intuitively got the such similar pattern without bringing the photo to the fabric shop at all.

Part of the Process

seam allowance of 1.5cm, ironed

reminder: cut the seam edge to 90 degree (at least according to the hemline)

inner piece for the middle frill pieces to be sewn onto

left seam sewn and irond

showing the center of this piece (feint blue line marker)

Well, as soon as I am done sewing I will be posting the more of the process. Right now, I find it rather slow to be posting and sewing at the same time. Not to mention all the cooking, cleaning, tidying we all had to do for Christmas. So Merry Christmas to all of you! Slon-cha (cheers in Irish)

4 days to Christmas Eve-Are we ready?

2010-12-20T19:08:00.000+11:00

Japanese 100% cotton fabric

I do not know about you, but I often ask myself this question, "Kelly, do you like to burn midnight oil?," and more than often the answer is YES! As crazy as it sound, I like the pressure and thrill of it all. But, I can assure you I do not want to stay this way forever. Anyway, the fabric above is going be cut for four girls. Two for my beautiful girls and two for my nieces. I am so excited that I am going to meet them in a month's time. Yes! they are coming from Tasmania, Australia. When we finally relocated over there, I sure hope I can get all these beautiful japanese 100% cotton to sew, more gorgeous clothes.


Japanese 100% cotton fabric cut and ready to sew

All done cutting I hope that I can read the illustration in the Cucito Japanese Sewing Magazine, (fat_connection is selling this) with little to zero error. Mind you this is my first time sewing something from a japanese magazine and I am really excited. (and this crazy me was so ambitious that I cut 4 set with 4 different sizes) So wish me all the best. Shall post more pictures once they are all done. Cheers!

got my cookies ready too... down to the barrel's bottom

Well, if you are anything like my children, this is what you will find in your pantry. Almost gone. We were baking cookies for tonight's market and as they were baking and packing they were also eating. I should have taken pictures of them munching away. I love them. The way children work . . . with 100% joy 100% passion! Gotto learn more off them. Well, these are the slight burnt cookies due to one of the kitchen warrior's mistake; turning the timer wrongly. But, hey we get to put them in our tummy. Enjoy!

kitchen warrior, Lissy got them ready for the evening market, how sweet

check it out...cookies all wrapped up

Yes! Can you feel the vibe? It is all about the Christmas vibe. Hahahaha... I am so thrilled and I certainly can't wait for this evening to come. I am truly grateful to all my children including the 1 year old little bub loving our homemade cookies. All glory to Jesus. Cheers!


steaming my Christmas Plum Pudding

How many of you would agree with me that Christmas without Christmas Plum Pudding with Brandy Sauce it is just not christmas-sy enough. I just cannot resist the sweetness of all those fruit soaked in my brandy sauce ready to be enjoyed with the warmth of families and friends,... and the laughter and sharing photos... mama mia! It is the whole package indeed. If you are anything like my family (Asian families) food is the link to bind everyone in unity. If you have anything to share about how you are preparing for your Christmas please do write comments below. Cheers!

Got all my mini soft cookies ready for the market

2010-12-20T19:04:00.001+11:00

P1080243, originally uploaded by Time N Love42.

Finally, I made two batches of cookies ready for tonight sales. I am so thankful that I have these two kitchen warriors to help me. (though can be a handful sometimes) But, they are great workers, afterall one is 4 and the other is going on to 7. We all can't wait for this great fun tonight.

Learning Curve-3rd found gadget

2010-12-17T13:20:00.000+11:00

Today I am going to be a little off the track. Not really,... I am actually liberating myself to write on this gadget topic. I am taking this a little further for you, mummies out there - Baby Diapers. Yes, you heard it right. I have a lot to be grateful for the baby diapers. In my opinion my third found gadget in this learning process of pattern drafting and even online business, is indeed baby diapers. (rotf) I can't imagined those days where no one used this gadget and at the same time, running shows and markets and blogging and cooking and cleaning the house and having to look after three or more children plus hubby. OMG!

The fact that I can be blogging right now, while my 1 year old is taking her nap in the cool of the day is because she is wearing a baby diaper. [and I hope we all are using them responsibly, :)] Now that they have organic and or eco-friendly diapers; I mean this is just getting better and better. Hopefully, all of us can afford the eco-friendly diapers but, I guess the bottom line is, enjoying 'the gadget' responsibly.

I guess I will not go any further, I will stop here and give thanks to this great invention for all mothers of the world who strives and shall thrive to make this world a more beautiful place to love and treasure. Happy blogging and keep smiling to all mummies and non-mummies in the world.

Sharing my learning curve with you-Gadget #1 and #2

2010-12-16T02:58:00.000+11:00

Father Christmas came early today. . . my great finds for today

Well, early this morning I got out of the house, left my children (3 o f them) with my mom in law (that was precious) took a train to downtown China Town, Kuala Lumpur, (great place to shop when you are not with your children) and got myself two of this ruler, by Clover. (I love Clover, may be the Irish in me; Shamrock) {Often, I do wonder why they use that shamrock as their logo)

This ruler is not just any ruler. They have so many benefits:

For starters, they are clear plastic.

2) Plastic means flexible; I even use it to measure around armsyce as I carefully following the line.

3) The lines are in red. I know they are as good as C-Thru Ruler from the States, (I bought like 4 of them, once a upon a time) but now that I have moved on to learning pattern drafting by the Japanese I have no choice but, to measure up in centimeter. It is not so accurate for me having to convert the calculations from imperial to metric.

4) It also has the 45 degree angle line on it. So bias measuring, drafting and cutting is now made easy.

5) It has this green band across the other edge of the ruler. Again, I do wonder why. That's the trouble of not reading Japanese. (Need my hubby's help here, but he is asleep) Can you tell already, the passion I have for this ruler? My passion overtook the feeling of foolishness. That's awesome.

6)It also break down the increments of .01cm or 1mm. So it is really accurate.

7) A hole has been punch on one side for you to hang your ruler. But I think I can use it as a compass. Marking a circular skirt.

If you know anymore great benefits of having this particular ruler do share here. Greatly appreciate. I know MissCelie'spants loves her Japanese findings too. Someday, I am going to blog about her. I have the same passion for German products as I have with the Japanese product. They have one thing in common; precision in producing high quality products.

Alright, enough said. The next thing I received was this book or magbook on the left of the picture above from my sweet hubby; How to set up an online business'. Ahhhh!!! Just the tool I needed to add on to my sleeves. Thank you so much! I feel like I need to be romantic about it now. Or shall I at least romanticize the product a little more? Ok. It was a REAL surprise, indeed. He knew that I am seriously thinking of putting this blogging and sewing passion to another level. Thanks to all you out there that have been encouraging me so much.

When I saw this beautiful cover, I knew I am gonna be successful finish reading it for starter. (sorry, but I am a person who DOES JUDGE a book by its cover) I do feel bad for myself and the book sometimes. If only I could learn NOT to do that. Well, the inside of the book are even more fascinating to me. (very me) That's the kind of feeling I get with it. It is very important to me, that we clicked. Beautiful layout. It looked like a magazine and serious enough to be treated as a entrepreneur resource book. Name chosen right; Magbook. Very cheeky.

So, I am gonna be reading it and sharing info from this book, by grace, reviewing it with you, my faithful followers.

signing out now.

1st Book Review-Fundamentals of Garment Design #1

2010-12-14T18:27:00.000+11:00

the first book in this series

I noticed so many people bragged about this book and I do not think I can get passed it. So I bought the entire set. (set of 5) I have been reading this book and I was floored by the accuracy that they are aiming. And they are still refining their research and technique in pattern drafting and dressmaking. Awesome found I think. If you are wondering, I got mind from Kinokuniya, Kuala Lumpur. I am 100% sure that you can order this in any Kinokuniya outlet. This book is published by Bunka Publishing Bureau; 2009. Pretty neat.

You will find the first topic is about all the good stuff; history and origin and then it goes on to materials and tools. Then it will go to measurement, and so on... This book is a MUST BUY if you like their Mrs. StyleBook Pattern Magazine. I can't wait for my Mrs. Stylebook Mag to arrive in Kuala Lumpur this coming February.

Next, I will be posting about sewing notions and all the gadgets for those of you that are like me; being a gadget geek.

Stay tune. Love you all!

psss... by the way, Sewtawdry blog about this book and a few others that I have read but, forgotten whereabout. So check it out

Sew a Pajamas for my baby Lis

2010-12-11T04:34:00.000+11:00

... but I have not forgotten this cake

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round and round the mixing bowl, like a whirling wind, ..1 step, 2 steps,...and it is ready

I've chosen pink for the whipping cream. This whipping cream is a miracle; the easiest to use. All, I have to make sure is my apparatus and utensils have been in the freezer before attempt to get in contact with the cream.

Ta-dah!!! and it is ready for me to frost the cake, can you smell or taste it?

Sometimes, I do dream that I can even transfer taste and smell over to all you out there that are reading.

I am top-stitching my cherry blossom with cut up raisins

Does it or does it not feel like I am making a quilt pattern or applique for my sewing project? I eventually at more raisins and craisins as pollen.

consider it as DONE! (mind you I did all these with the help of my other two children, just can't stop them to share their creativity and love, can I?


There she is, our darling girl, birthday girl

I am sure all of you can agree with me that no matter what went wrong at home, at the end of the day, they still remained as our pride and joy. xxxxoooo


This is it, US! One happy and blessed family. clockwise: Vic (hubby), me, Elijah (son), Elisabeth (1st daughter), Nayomi (2nd daughter

Did you notice, there is a picture of Nayomi in a zebra print box? Well, I thought I paid a fortune for that print. LoL! It was worth it, though!

that's our boy! he just made my heart melt by the way he ate my cake

Did not he make you think that he is eating the most scrumptious cake in the world, at least to me anyway; very good model. Simply know how to put a smile on my face.


that's our beautiful first born darling girl, Elisabeth

I apologized apart from the cake looking like an applique, there is nothing about sewing on this post. Nonetheless, I just felt too happy to keep them in my mac alone. Afterall, I did bake with time and love; TimeNLove-42

xxxxxxooooooo

Forgotten How to Construct My Sloper

2010-12-10T17:47:00.000+11:00

I have been scouting for "How to build a sloper of your own". For those of you that do not know what is a sloper, it is the utmost basic paper pattern that you will want to creat before we can even talk about designing or sewing. This basic pattern is done on some sort of hard paper. I found out that they call it tag board (oak paper) It is brown in color and very thick and sturdy so that when your mechanical pencil follows the edge of the paper it will stay on track.

And while I was in the process of scouting I came across a lot of websites and blogs, but I this particularly excites me:
Check out Turnips and Toile from Melbourne also Creating a Basic Pattern to Create Your Own Designer Clothes

Turnips mentioned something that I was really looking for; the Bunka sloper. Thanks to her, really. I will continue to explore this till I am able to create one again. I actually bought that book (the whole set to be exact) in hope to refresh myself with pattern drafting once again. Self taught is really not my style but, when you have 3 children all under age 6, and homeschooling you will have to look for alternative even if it is not your taste.

I shall write more and put up some more pictures to this learning process (pattern drafting)

My 3rd Precious Gem's birthday

2010-12-09T04:37:00.000+11:00

I simply adore her facial expression, inquisitive, perhaps?

picture taken by her 4year old brother

I really like this look of hers when she is focusing on something; "releasing the force," maybe?

picture taken by her 4 year old brother

So the above are a little intro of my beautiful daughter, #2 also our third baby, Nayomi. Today we shall sing Happy Birthday to her. She is one! We are so thankful that the Lord has brought us thus far. It is amazing!

Well, I was baking last night and I got the recipe through this faithful website called . . . BestRecipes. www.bestrecipes.com.au.

So this is the look of the cake; Lemon Buttermilk to be precise. (I did some adjustment on the sugar content)

35, 36,37 minutes and still counting

still baking in our Rinnai oven (fan force)

well, this is the result, but not final; cooling stage

I was told to pour syrup onto it, just about now

So, I hope to show you the rest of the pictures tomorrow. After putting some make up and color on the cake. (Ohhh, I can't wait)

front

inside, upper page

inside, lower page

I whipped this little card; by TimeNLove42 while I was waiting for the cake to be done. cheeky huh?

In case you are wondering what those words mean:

Dada: dad

Mama:mom

Kar Kar: big sister (that is how Nayomi call her sister)

KoKo: big brother (she actually called him his name; Elijah) (not encouraged, LoL)

I shall continue my story later this afternoon, so I hope you will stay in touch to check out my final presentation for my cake.

Signed off with love.

Chapel Veil Project

2010-12-08T16:10:00.000+11:00


Chapel veil by TimenLove42

Honestly, it took me a long time to be a able to write about this project. This project was done back in August. I am truly thankful and proud that I was given this project. (isn't the model beautiful?) I have some photos of the process of making the veil in my flickr account but, I am not so sure how to post them on to my blog so... At the same time, the photos are not that great... so bare with.
Before I begin the sewing process, I already had a picture in my mind. So I put it on paper. (But, nowadays, it is really difficult for my fingers to transfer the picture on to the sketch book) Then, it was the fun part!... Shopping time! :)
I went shopping at the textiles street in Kuala Lumpur and boy, it was hot. I finally got the softest tulle (the type whereby it just drapes) I bought 5metres and I also bought lace approximately, 25metres. LOL!
I was happy with the lace design (very simple) but when I got home I found out that my ancient dinosaur sewing machine can't take that thickness. There fore, I needed to hand stitch 25metres of lace onto the veil. I can tell you that it was fun, errrr...may be not so fun. LoL!

I was contemplating if I will need to attach a comb on to the veil. Later, I found out how the bride was going to wear it under her bun (almost at the nape) my job became even simpler. So now all I need to do is to shape the frontal piece and the back piece and sew a break between the two pieces and ... Voila! It is done.

Funny, how this sounded easier than the real process. Hmmm... Anyone of you out there that are trying to make one for yourself or others I could be of help. Anyhow, I do custom made veil and I 'll surely be happy to custom made for you out there that are getting married. Happy Wedding

Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are [Official Video]

2010-12-01T01:04:00.000+11:00

Today, I received this little gift from my best friend, my beloved hubby. So I thought, this is a very sweet song and I find the whole video clip artistic. The whole time I was truly enjoying the artwork piece inspired by Erika Iris Simmons. Who else in favor of this clip? Enjoy!!!

Teaching Skirt for Ballerinas

2010-11-27T12:30:00.000+11:00

Months ago, I took on a project to sew a teaching skirt for a ballerina and honestly it was a lot of fun. I enjoyed the colors of the fabric. Some people get turned on when they look at designs, but I get all hyped up whenever I see beautiful and high quality fabrics.
I would also like to blog on how I did this chiffon wrap and tie skirt for this beautiful teacher.
Firstly, I got her waist and length measurement of course. Then I figured out the curve of the hem. Later, I would need to send the piece for hemming; baby hem. It is very cheap to do hemming here in Kuala Lumpur. Lastly, I sewed up the waistline with matching ribbon binding.
Below is a link of all the pictures of the skirt.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/timenlove42/sets/72157625253572919