Christmas Gift #2

Here are some Christmas gift that I receive after Christmas. A handmade card from my partner that I send to seng seng, it seems like she haven't receive my swap gift yet, but I already recieve her thank you card.
Another lovely, creative card from EE, my bf and housemate feel that she creates more surprise on her cards.

Christmas Cards from friends

Got this lovely small card and lots of goodie from Ivy. She is very generous in giving small gifts to me this year. I love her decorated envelop with some snowflakes stamps. Lovely
Agnes was kind enough to sent me a card too. Thanks Agnes.

To everyone else : Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Stamped images

A surprise letter landed on my desk... it was a swap gift that I got from Ivy. This are so precious as they are hand carve stamps from her own personal collection. I'm so grateful that she gave me tons of them. It will look extreemly great on my future card making. Thanks Ivy.

Gifts that make me happy

I'm back from my bangkok trip~ phew.... that was so tired. I walked so much until my leg was terrible painful and need to go for massage. Will blog my trip later.

After my trip, my work load become heavier. I need to rush for work in office because of the 2 day leaves that I took this week and the 2 days leave at Raya last week. I want to work, but I was still on holiday mood and it is so hard to concentrate.

I got this gift lying on my desk when I was back from Bangkok. It's a gift from a craft friend Ivy from Taiwan. Gosh~~ she sent me some of her lovely collection of her handcarve stamps which is mounted on wood block. An ATC that she made and some embellishments That is so lovely and it surprise me when it comes with a small box. Thanks Ivy for this lovely gift.
I got the right hand 3D bear card the got before I go to Bangkok. And a sweet card which is double roller card. Both are from a leekean, she is just so creative in making these cards.
Here is how it looks ~ the card can stand alone... so cool.
Thanks gals for these lovely gifts~~ you have brighten my lifes~~

Whimsical Jar Swap

Here is the Whimsical Jar Swap hosted by Kelly. This is my first Whimsical Jar Swap. I always wanted to join this kind of swap but the postage to overseas are too expensive.

Here is the jar for my partner Pussy Cat. I notice that she did more on beading and I have send here some beads and charms from my collection.

I decorated the cover of the jar with Penny Black clear stamps, pattern paper and flower ribbons. I have added some glitter on the stars...



The front of the jar I decorated with a Cat holding a gift stamp from Penny Black. I stamped the word "It's your day.... spoil yourself silly!" which I think it is just perfect for my partner to spoil herself on so much craft materials that I sent.

Here are some sneak preview on the jar. I squeeze alot craft materials from fabric, lace, trims, ribbons, charms, erraser, clips, decorative items, kawaii items, deco tape and much more.... Here is the of the content that I sent to my partner when she pour out the whole jar.

Here is the jar that I received from Joan. She decorated the jar using fabric and beautiful laces.

A capital C embroidery on top of the jar. I think because my name starts with C.

Let me see what are on the jar >.<

Beads, buttons, lace, fabric, shells, wires, handmade goodies....

Love them...

It's been such a long time I never swap. I'm glad that I join this one and can't wait to use these lovely goodies.

Rose Cabochon Ring

Brought this Teal Blue rose cabochon Ring recently from The Aura, I kinda love this type of flower and the antique bronze ring. It is now one of my favorite accesories now~ !

Crafts Gathering 6/6 Mid Valley

This was my second meet up with Gianni. She call more people for this meetup - which include Agnes, Estee, Gainni, blue grass, Dan dan. Dan dan bring another crafty friend too.

There is my new hair cut.

Due to school holidays + public holiday, Mid Valley was packed with people. I will need to squeeze myself at the KTM. Futher more, I still feel aching on my whole body due to the yoga class that I attend last thursday. (Too long never exercise!!)

We started swap for some small handmade gifts that we prepared. You can see the whole table are full of goodies on our swap items...

Here is the total swap gifts that I get. Is that wonderful?

Miniature living room doll house from Estee

Tea Time miniature from Gianni

Bone seaside drawing from Blue Grass

Braclet from Agnes

Cutie handphone chams from Dan dan.

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Today I accidentally browse thru this digital lomo camera Vivitar Vivicam 5050. A better function compare to those keychain camera. Omg... I wish I can try on them, see how beautiful the photos are at flickr group, here, here, and here.

Gifts from friends

It is a wonderful world of the internet that I meet new friend with the same interest. Here are some small things that I receive recently. Omg~` they are all very beautiful.

Handmade bookmarks for EE. She is so talented in carving stamps and her card making skill has improved. See how beautiful the bookmark is.

Another gift that I win online from Joan. A pair of pearls earrings. There are very beautiful, especially the Comet Argent Light beads are so sparkling and it is so suitable for wearing them at dinner.
Happy days receiving gifts from friends......

Jatujak/Chatuchak Weekend Market

Jatujak Weekend Market or Chatuchak is the must go shopping place at Bangkok if you are at there during weekends. Its only open at weekends. Our first day at Bangkok was Sunday. I insist in going to this market. I told TS that most people spend a whole day at here but his friend say 2-3 hours of shopping time is enough. I told them impossible but they didn't believe me.

We took the BTS train to Mo Chit Station. Here is the ticket machine, just change coins with the counter to buy the tickets.
Here is train comes ~~ the train is more advance compare to KL, abit similar to Singapore MRT.

Huge roundabout on our way to jatujak, with colorful taxis and busses ~ bright pink, aqua blue, green~~

6 of us at the train. Missing TS who is the camera men.

Reach Mo Chit station. Look at the crowds~~ Look at the busses and taxi~~ Omg ~~ so much people. It is around 2.30pm and the sun is very hot. There is a view from the train station that we can see how huge is the weekend market. I forgotten to take picture on that. But you can see them at here.
We are too hungry that we grab some waffles when we come out from the train. TS eating the rum and raisin waffle.

We walk down the train station and saw a park. No one have any idea on how to enter the weekend market and we followed people walking into to the park. The park are some of people picnic on this hot sun. Crazy~!

We walk and we walk, and spotted some food to eat. It is hard when it comes to ordering food as we don't understand thai. So we need to point the menu and show 1 or 2 with our fingers. Here is comes- Tomyam noodles~! Was surprise why it is in white color. And at the table have several sauces. The seller seems understand what we are asking and pull out 4 difference sauce for TS to mix with. Here you can control how spicy or how sweet your soup/noodle will be.

Pork noodle~~ nothing special, just that the portion of food at Bangkok is small. Similar to Penang, but the price is KL price. That means expensive.

After our meal. It was 3pm already. Omg~~ Time is running out as i know the stalls start to close around 6pm. It is best to get a map, incase you get lost. We got ours on half of our shopping journey.

The first thing that got our attention was this knitting colorful bags. Yes, colorful things will attrack me alot.

We ended up buying 3 bags. I choose the most smallest and cutest one. The rest was brought by TS. I feel very "aunty" if carry bigger bags on these design.

We brought another luggage at jatujak. 4 wheel army skin luggage only cost 1500Baht. If buy in Malaysia, after discount it is still RM300++.

I know I don't have enough time to walk the whole market, so I only choose what I like to see the most to look around. I was lucky that the first station I walk into the art and craft section.

The second thing I spotted was these beautiful lights~~ I love love them alot~~ I wish I can buy all and decoration my house, but I do not own one now. So I just brought 1 pack which contains balls and latterns of lights. Beautiful~~


Some beautiful decorations on the market~ TS spotted this for me~~ he really knows me.

This i spotted myself~~ Bird cage! Not sure why people like handcrafts love bird cage. But it's a popular item to decorate your garden or your home. There is alot of them selling there but it is too big to carry back to KL. Does this look great??

Artificial flowers and grass. I love it in balls and they look colorful.

Tote bags~ I think hand draw too~~ I enjoy walking and looking at this area~ so much ideas that I can get here~

It was a rush trip shopping here. I do see alot of miniature food like cakes, dishes, sushi, tables, chairs, even stalls, booths... I even saw some shop selling beads, shells accesories, paper flowers (very cheap~ can use for card making),gift boxes, buttons.... Too many. My suggestion to just buy when you see them, else sometimes you won't able to find the stall back.

TS spotted another hand draw t-shirt shop ~~ I love them so much~ Almost every piece have different dolls and design~

This is what I brought for 280Baht~~ she is way too cute~~ .

Another designer's design T-shirt. TS wanted the Mummy T-shirt but it was out of stock, so he choose a Thai Boxing T-shirt and I choose the Thai language T-shirt.

I don't really like this type of handmade t-shirts but it is crowded with people in front of the shop~

Some beautiful picture under art section~~

Drawing on Blythe~~

Found some blythe outfit and dolls selling at the ladies fashion area. I saw some blythe doll outfit but I didn't brought any~~ regreting now~! Blythe dolls are very expensive at Thailand.

Mango with sticky rice 50Baht~ We saw from the hotel this is a must try item. But I think nothing so special of it. Just the mango taste good and sweet.

Alien vs Predator made from recycle metals and hardware. Was impressed!

There even have a section selling pets. So many cute dogs that I like. Pricing starting from 5000Baht which cost more then thousand RM in Malaysia. Wish I can bring them home, but they can't ship to Malaysia :(

Wholesale of dog food and materials~~ first time I see so much different dog food....

Dog are as lucky as human now, they even have kimono dress for dogs. Accessories for dogs too (Bling bling neck tie for dogs).... Bangkok is really more advance then Malaysia.

This is my first time I saw dress for rabbit~~ omg!!!

A branch of youngster wearing in black, hands taking human organ (of cause fake ones) and starting to shout out their slogan (in thai) which we do not understand. At first we though they are protesting.

Incest snacks again~~ I dare not eat!~~

Some tiny buttons and fancy buttons I got from jatujak. Very reasonable price. The ribbons I got from pratunam market for 50Baht only. We left jatujak around 6pm. I want to come here again. Shopping at Bangkok is definately cheaper then Singapore.