An Appreciation...

ADRS wedding gift to Darr and Fendy...... and laid the bedding set on, at their home.

So proud and glad the little gifts were appreciated......

Wedding Gifts

This king size comforter is to be completed soonest possible for a wedding gift to someone very dear to me and family ....  Our second daughter, DARR

Sarah Aisyah

 Like an angel she, Sarah Aishah, slept soundly on ADR'S baby products.... a little gift to celebtate her birth.

Little Gifts for little ones

I hope the previous celebration was great for everyone and heading for another 6 days of fasting during this month of Syawal.The holy spirit lingers on still and I am most of the time being away from my sewing corner....

I did few little stitches though during Ramadhan and meant for giving away, as I used to do every year, a small gift for the little ones.

This year I made few bags of seven stone games, batu SEREMBAN...... When I saw few of cousins and nephews were engrossed themselves playing with some river stones or gravels they collected around the house.... this gave me the ideas of giving them something.... inside a drawstring little pouch.

And I made some paper weights by scaling up the size.... for the sewing room.

Miles of Precut Binder

These I received from Murniwati sometimes ago together with lots more treasures that she feels she had grown unfond and tired of.....How lucky I am to received them all. Thanks Murni.

Will include the above 1.5" precut binder to all many small projects that matches and needs red binding. Well, for any large size quilt...... I think it is not suitable 'cos it ends up about quarter of an inch finished.......Very tiny!!!!

ALISHA's own

No earthly joys could bring more pleasure,
Than a little child to love and treasure.

the saying goes and she is the jewel of her parents' eyes and soul......... ALISHA

I have not met this little baby, but I know she deserves this little gift .... made with sincerity and love from me. Hope we will get to know her thro' her mother..... soon.

A panelled design and simple stippling quilted around the sashing, with Alisha's name.

You just bloom and grow up Alisha and be a good Muslimah ....... Aaminn!

EXPECTED n UNEXPECTED

The gate bell rang twice yesterday and I received two parcels, one the expected and the other a non expected bundle of joys.................

The unexpected ones came from HaminahLee/Bannister from Miri, Sarawak in conjunction of her birthday...... Happy Belated Birthday, Mina. She posted all these specially for me .... so thoughtful of her.... Lovely batik Sarawak sarongs, crocheted potholders (by her), beaded coin purse and a packet of lovely buttons...... Thanks again Mina......You really made my day filled with joy..... :D



The other soughtful parcel was from Pondok Craft and came the green beauty which I have ordered from their recent Fat Quarter - 1930's Collection. I booked two packets of fqs but I think Ayu must have dropped one extra for me........ :D thanks Ayu.......

There are lots more in their lines of fabric collections and the offer valid till end of June ....do hurry!

WANI's Storm at Sea

Finally it flew its way to Wani today at Bentley WA, Perth. Hope Wani could sleep tight from the day she received this Storm at Sea.

My wish you are happy and study well and begets whatever your dreams are.... TAKE CARE DEAR... we all love you and our du'a will flow alongside you where ever you are!

P/S Those who wish to make the same please visit here

-Wani has received this on the 27th May 2010

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

On the April 17th marked our 27th wedding anniversary......... we were happy to be with our three children at BK3. Nothing fancy, just a small gathering and a small feast for lunch cooked by our son (the-chef-to-be by whom major in western food and pastry). The best dish was this.....

Fished out fresh from the sea by hubby during his last trip to Pulau Payar, Kedah.


And Hubby gave me this to spoil me more..... Thanks DIA .... love you true and thro'.......

But the best gift was to be with ALL the family members..... Abah and Mama love you ....... Nia, Darr, Boy.

GIFT...... Given

The pink beauty is now with the happy owner, Khis. She came few days ago with her DHubby and son, Najmi....... Look, she even prepared to get snapped with pink attire too.... ;D

She collected her floss-bobbins too. We bought those through Yati, thanks Yati!

Just would like to share her other happiness, a brand new toy.....a GL! (do not forget to give me a ride, Khis)

FEW LOVELY GIFTS

These past few days I was not feeling good.... with the changes of weather and had a severe migraine and put me off my sewing area constantly.

Yesterday changed the whole things when I received these lovely gifts from Hubby and a dear friend....

This little beauty 'accidentally' fell on my lap as a gift from Hubby due to my birthday few weeks ago...... (what more can i ask when I have so much love and affections from the man of my life......) for my dear old baby giving me a signal that something was not okay with her..... she has to visit my technician shortly. Then came the urge of having another little baby to fulfill my need of something small and handy and Hubby came to the rescue..... so this belongs to me from beloved Hubby. Thanks Dear!











It did not ends there when Hubby brought in two big envelopes and placed them on my sewing table. Oh gracious God..... from SHIMA..... both!!!! I was so speechless when I opened the contents.... Shima, you managed to enlighten my days and here I mumbled my words of thanks for being so thoughtful and giving 'that' most beautiful fabric, fabrics, ribbons and lovely decoupage tissues........ apart from the first 3 sets of hexy-flowers of our Hexy Game..... Thanks a heap dear....... thanks again and again. While doing this entry I am still holding your hexy-flowers and all the lovely fabrics in my hands......

Friday Give-Away/Quilting Gallery

This is the other parcel that I received today.....

The two gorgeous tote bag patterns, from Barbara Weiland Talbert. Indeed I am one lucky winner, coz believe me, they are great patterns and superb tutorials.

Thanks Barbara and Michele of the Quilting Gallery for the patterns. I will make both and will post about them as soon as I get it done! Thanks..............a million times :)

BOOKS

Apart from few goodies, cookies and other accessories that my children bought for me and hubby for the Eid, they remembered my passions of sewing and crafting... here are two beautiful patchwork book by ONDORI and Origami by Tomoko Fuse to add to my collections.

Thanks kiddos.... Abah and Mama always love you all!

Before I could finished browsing, they jumped to me and requested that I make patchwork bear one each for them ..... oh oh .... guess they must have discussed this way back in BK3.

Lots of beautiful things to sew......and plenty of papers to fold!

PINCUSHION SWAP

My excitement of waiting for the pincushion swap finally came to an end when this arrived yesterday. I was so exited all over, for this was my first swap and received some great gifts from Vanessa Bodrie of Minnesota.I read her blog and I fell in love with the neighbourhood she and family stay. So country........ a serene life. She is good at quilting and my... her kids too do lots of craft projects! Please do visit her blog!

She wrapped some of the gifts with great black and red fabrics, my favourite colours.

When I unwrapped there goes the beautiful, cute pincushion sewn with care, some beads, ribbons, fabrics and a card..... I love all these.


Thank you Vanessa for all the wonderful and thoughtful gifts. Also my thanks to Sandra to make everything possible and happens......

A GIFT

Have made this yesterday for somebody that is far yet feel quite close to me. I did not know that few days back was her birthday, until I read her blog. So it is the best time to give her something that came out from my own hands... even how simple and plain it was.

I know she will appreciate this.....HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY LANI CLAYTON LASKOWSKI may you be showered with many happy returns of the day!


P/S Ar per today June 14th, 09, Lani has received this... a little bundle of joy to her. I am so glad and happy for her.....!

PINCUSHION

Dear friend Haslina gave me this piece of stencilled fabric to make into something. Received few months back and it took me awhile to get it done and finally managed to complete this yesterday.




It is a pincushion having 4 inches square. Just stitched a cotton lace around it and have no intention to add anything else because it is just beautiful being itself. I did not even cut it any smaller to give space for the pin or needles not to land on the beautiful stincilled part. Too lovely to get poke!


Thanks Haslina. I will keep this lovely gift from you.... ever!

RAINBOW FABRIC, FELTS and GIFTS

I have been eying for this fabric design from a very creative blogger friend Jajakraf. Finally the parcel came knocking at my door step today. I am so happy....


Apart from that gorgeous rainbow fabric Jaja could managed to get me some rainbow colours of felt. This is my double happiness......


And also, see the pinky little round thing there...... It is truly Jaja's. Thanks so much for the lovely pincushion for my additional collections. Love it. My third happiness....

So all in all I am the happiest old girl! Thanks again Jaja for making my day, today.

A GIFT FOR ME

It was not planned that we (hubby and I) traveled our way to KL again last weekend. We took a bus since hubby had never tried on one before and after my first (with Najwa) and literally narrated the luxurious coach and we could have a pleasant journey, he agreed. We went there to visit bro-in-law at Institute Jantung Negara for his by-pass surgery done last Monday. He is doing fine now and progressing fast for he is an active chap. Thank God!

Well as usual, the first thing that I grabbed was my take-along-set of my hexy project. For six hours journey we managed to acquire a lot. WE????? Hubby did some sewing too..... of course he can sew.... (can't prove to you cos promised would not show the pics of him sewing). We had great times together and we could talk a lot and mesmerising our happy moments this past years >>>>>>

Deep in side, I missed my shopping or rather hopping around KL........ as we spend most of our times at IJN.

But lucky me cos my girls did it for me..................... so, so happy....

See what they had bought for me. Till now I do not understand why they bought these items for.......

This mushroom thing is for darning.... it helps me a lot to avoid pricking my fingers during that process.

The sewing book is okay.

But the beading book ???????????

The tools set ??????????

............ help!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, THANKS A LOT GIRLS