AhMigurumi...

Up for Adoption

2011-01-20T00:23:00.000-08:00

These cute little items and critters are up for adoption. Do visit my blogshop at http://ahmicozyshop.blogspot.com/ for more info!

My first amigurumi pattern: bear

2010-08-09T18:47:00.000-07:00

This lovely bear is my very first original amigurumi pattern. When I first took up the hobby of making amigurumi in April'10, I made most of my amigurumi critters by looking at others pattern with some modification or none at all. I'm really happy that within the short period of 4 months into this hobby, that I am able to make my very first original piece, crafted by me from top to bottom!


Amigurumi bear

Amigurumi: Heart

2010-08-09T18:46:00.000-07:00

My dad suggested to me to make a puffy little heart amigurumi and here it is!

Amigurumi puffy heart

Long Hiatus...

2010-08-04T05:05:00.001-07:00

Hey guys, I am finally back blogging after such a long hiatus... Been busy with work and crocheting cute little critters ordered by my friends!
(yes, I do take in orders, just email or leave me a comment!)

Just managed to clear up the piling orders (except Pei Li's) and sent them off to their buyers.. It has been such an amazing week..

Here's what I've been up to..

DoraemonS, the one on the left is HUGE (5"/12cm tall)

Hp pouch for Auntie Lydia

Tiny little Octopies hp hangers and keychains

Rabbit on a stick, made for friends' convocation

Cute tortoise, requested by my colleague

Doggie

Bookworm

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Crochet Handphone Slip on

2010-06-18T23:32:00.000-07:00

I was looking through Mel's blog entry entitled, "Shades of pink" yesterday and also saw a reader's comment on her blog which state that she was the Malaysian Martha Stewart!! (absolutely true, a very gifted lady).

The entry inspired me to try and play around with few yarn of different colours at a time and so, I came out with this hand phone slip- on pouch. I made it to fit snugly to my phone, to cushions the blow EVERY time I drop my handphone, which happens very often!

Shades of pink and purple pouch, using Ondori yarns

It was also my first time doing free crocheting, so no patterns for this item, just single crochet it up all the way!

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Amigurumi: Dolphin

2010-06-11T08:09:00.000-07:00

This is my first attempt to make a dolphin and it's the hardest pattern that I have done, up to date.

Here is a picture I found on the internet:

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Here is mine!

Hmmm, should I add some details to it? Like a mouth? Coz it sort of eerily resemble a shark at some angle? Comments anyone?

Not the final "look" yet. Gonna alter the "top" fin! It's too big...

Tadaaa....this is the final look. I have reduced the dorsal fin size.

Ex Craft Project: Part I

2010-06-04T09:27:00.001-07:00

These are a couple of craft projects previously completed. The work was mostly on stitching aida cloth with DMC threads (in short: cross stitch) and felt craft.

The mini birthday cake. The very first of the felt craft that I had done. Added some beads onto the strawberry to add to its "yummyliciousness".

My second felt piece, a Hello Kitty wallet, made with felt and beaded with nice pearly white and pink beads. HK is my fav character! (this post is especially for dear Ming Ming)

A tiger clock I made with felt....A real clock. Now hanging on the wall in my room.

Ex Craft project: Part II

2010-06-04T01:46:00.000-07:00

The colourful world of threads and aida cloths, which have been dearly sewn to my heart since the age of 10.These are the few cross stitch pieces that were "privileged" to be kept as a record by means of photography, in recent years.

A plain pouch which I made for my sis to keep her earphones in, with her name stitched at the bottom.

The other side of the pouch, with my name sewn at the bottom.

Handphone pouch which I made for myself.

Front: Little girl praying.

Back: Little girl with her pet kitten.

A handphone hanger: A purple kitty that I made for my dear mom.

Another hand phone hanger, made for the BF. with his name and zodiac sign, Capricorn.

A chinese pouch pattern with the word "Fu". It was meant to be another hand phone hanger but it was meant as a gift to my dear grandma, so I added the extra bit of "ru yi jie" on top so that she can hang by the bed. The hardest part of the whole stitching was the Chinese character...Didn't know how to go about it at first. Took me quite a while.

A pillow case which I made for the BF as the 2nd anniversary present last year. Only pillow case, pillow not included. So, he had to get it himself. Muahahaha (evil laughter)...

Little ones made from air dry clay

2010-06-02T08:06:00.000-07:00

Last week in Spring, I managed to get a packet of air dry clay (gratitude to Grace for paying :P).
It was supposed to be for fridge magnets but I didn't want to make those. Instead, my sis and I make little creatures out of it.
Here are a couple of shots of the after product. Enjoy!

Whole bunch of animals! And even a bunch of puny bananas, can you see?

These 3 are my personal favourites, especially the small worm. Look so innocent and as if saying "Please don't eat me!" repetitively...

My dad liked all the creations. He said that I was very good in making stuff with plasticine or modelling clay when I was young. Said I made a very nice looking snail that he kept till it went missing when we moved house 5 years ago! Haha...

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Craft Stash!

2010-06-02T02:53:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the yarn stash which I managed to buy and collect over the period of 2 months!

These are the stash I got when I was in KL a few months back.

Yarns that I bought back in home town.

I think my yarn collection is getting bigger, though not "ginormous" YET.

And to think I had these 4 skeins of yarn to start with.

Oh, and I have yet to upload the stash I bought last week. Oh oh...

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Random bits..

2010-06-02T00:03:00.000-07:00

I have finally got around to blog again. There have been so much in the on-going's list at work.
There are so much things been held from being posted here and so, I thought of to cramp all in this "pictorial blog entry".

Oooo, firstly, my external HD died on me recently due to faulty wire in the enclosure. So, I got myself a new very plain one.

The 3 year old enclosure. Those were the days when I was into the "bling bling and how to zheng your gadgets".

The new enclosure.
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And now, back to craft related note!

Here are some amis I made from a month's time back, til now.

This tiny little mo0 mo0 is my latest craft work, made specially for a good friend of mine, Jii Gu! Love those big pair of innocent eyes and that bell hanging down from the neck!

Oops, shaky hands!

Ami "babe".

Ami snail.

Ami squirrel. ( Weird eyes, think this one is a failure)

Ami Mommy Carrot and Little Baby Carrot. Made this for the Mother's Day occasion.

A cup pin cushion for my dear Mom. A quick whipped- up mother's day gift!

And my latest craft work- felt.

Wanted to personalise my room door, and so I deco it with felt alphabets, squid and sea lion. :)

I went to the Spring with dear Gracie last week and spotted this glass deco photo frame. Obviously I didn't do a good work painting it. You can see some areas are unevenly painted. Haha.

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Craft: My therapeutic hobby

2010-05-03T01:17:00.000-07:00

Here are the amis that I made over the weekend!

Carrot in a basket

The basket and cute little carrot

Have a warm cup of coffee, accompanied by small duckie on the coaster..

My latest Obsession: Amigurumi

2010-04-06T18:21:00.001-07:00

Recently, I stumbled upon the Japanese art of crochet called Amigurumi when i was "googling" for craft ideas. Amigurumi is a Japanese word combination of ami, meaning crocheted or knitted and nuigurumi which means stuffed doll. So, in short it is stuffed crocheted or knitted dolls.

It was so interesting that I had to learn all the basics needed to crochet. Luckily, I found hook and needle, a blog with video tutorials for visual learners like me! Since then, I have been doing ami and trying to create my own pattern.

One of the earliest ami piece I did, "Amigurumi Alien" by lion brand. It doesn't look very much like the pattern provided I know. Got a lot of comments like, "Ee, a banana!" or "A corn!".

Love birds, pattern by lion brand.

Ami lamb and mouse keychain, presents for my besties.

Koala bear head keychain, by some pattern I found online.

Little Turtlie, my very own ami pattern.

Bali Express Trip:2 days and 3 nights

2010-04-05T19:42:00.000-07:00

31/3/10

Just got back home from the lovely island of Bali last Sunday. This trip is a relatively short one and thus, I "coined" the name "Bali Express Trip". A very special trip for me, my first since I started earning last Aug, 08 and it's also my first with my dearest colleague, Ah Lu (Ms. Tay!) and friends.

Tried my very best to keep the priceless memories of the trip (by capturing the best of them in pictures Was busy clicking away on anything and anything I set my eyes on. (yes, even the air tickets). I would have taken mad amount of pictures if not for the "old age" of my digicam's battery.

The four of us stayed at Aston Inn in the Tuban area. It was not bad a place to stay in with affordable price but was quite a walking distance from the happening and shopping area of Kuta or Legian Street, to be exact.

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Our first stop was to Uluwatu, one of the oldest temple ("pura" in Balinese language), built in the 16th century by the Jawanese whi migrated to Bali , according to Mr. Wayan. We were lucky to have hired him as our driver, who told us quite a bit bout Bali.

View from Uluwatu temple- simply breath taking

After Uluwatu, we made a trip to the Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK) cultural park near the temple. The name Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK) means the transportation of God Wisnu in the form of the eagle. There were parts of statues at the site which was supposed to be pieced together into a very tall architecture, planned to be the tallest building in the world. However, Mr. Wayan told us that the plan was put on hold by the government due to the economy downfall. Nonetheless, the view from GWK was good as we were able to oversee part of Bali- Sanur, Nusa Dua and part of Kuta.

GWK entrance fee tickets

I didn't manage to meet up with my bestie, dear Angel Ch ong but was able to have a brief tour through her university as the journey down from GWK surpass her university, University Udayana.

Universitas Udayana, Bali

Our next stop was Legian Street and Kuta Square, situated near to the Kuta beach which was accessible by foot. It is a good place for tourists to shop and buy local hand made items as well as branded goods. After much shopping, we head over to take pictures at Kuta Beach. The clouds were cotton white fluffy clouds in the clear blue sky, which looked more like a beautifully painted art piece. Breath taking view, I would say, was lost for a moment and didn't mind the scorching Bali heat then.

Kuta beach

That evening, we drove for one hour to Tanah Lot, located in Tabanan. There were several "pura" at the place and was recommended by many travel guides to go in Bali. It is a good place to view the sunset, when the sea level rises and one of the temple by the beach gets separated from the island by the sea water. Unfortunately, there was a huge ass cloud which blocked the view of the sun setting that day.

I managed to make the trip to Tanah Lot meaningful by spending "quality time" on shopping. There were rows of stalls in Tanah Lot which sold clothes and accessories. I bought quite a few accessories and had the chance to practise my bargain or haggling skills!

That night we had our dinner in a rather romantic manner, literally by the sea and on the beach at a restaurant named, "Melatis Kedongan" in Jimbaran. Our driver, Mr. Wayan recommended us the restaurant as we were clueless of which restaurant to dine in. It was indeed a thumbs up recommendation. We had our "Super Delicious" seafood (mussels, prawns and squid) complimented with rice, soup and vegetables, while being entertained by the Balinese dance performance on stage. A group of musician continue to entertain us after the dance- strumming away on their guitars and accordion, along side with their lovely vocals.We head back to the hotel to get our rest, tired nonetheless happy and anxious bout the upcoming plans the very next day.

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The last day of the trip was spent mostly at the Ubud district, where there were many villages in the area. Among them were Terang Bulan, the village where most of the people earns by stone carving. The day was planned out for us to head over to Goa Gajah, which took us a good 45 minutes on the road to reach from our hotel. It was yet another historical temple built in the 11th century by the late King as a place to meditate. The temple was built in the cave, as people then believed that caves possess powers.

Then, we went to Titra Empul, which was also built in the 11th century. It is a place visited most during the full moon interval where many cleanse themselves in the holy water.We continue our journey up to Kintamani which was approximately 1200m above the sea level. From there, we were able to see the magnificient view of the active volcanic mountain and a very large lake.

On the way down from the hill, we managed to stop by at a small estate which plants and markets products from mostly cocoa and coffee. The most renown Balinese coffee is of the type called Luwak coffee. Luwak is a marsupial like creature which feeds on only the best coffee berries and the excreted beans will be processed into the famous Luwak coffee. This may sound very gross but suprisingly, this type of coffee is very pricey.

Luwak: the "coffee bean maker"

Auntie happily roasting the coffee beans

After all the sight seeing, Mr. Wayan drove us back to the Ubud area to have our lunch at Babi Guling Ibu Oka restaurant. Their specialty is Babi Guling Special- roasted pork and sausage on rice.

Babi Guling Special

After lunch, we shop at Ubud Pasar and then had the famous Bebek Bengil as dinner take away before heading back to KL!

View of Bali sky on the way to the airport

Bebek Bengil ("dirty duck") dinner take away

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Welcome to my blog!

2010-03-25T19:58:00.000-07:00

Hello! Welcome to my blog, a place where I wish to share my latest interest (craft!) and some random train of thoughts!!