Christmas card #1 2009

Sorry for the lack of updates... my camera isn't working quite well recently.
Christmas mood start wondering in town. I see shops are start decorating with christmas ornements and decorations. I started creating these christmas card earlier. Need to post them to overseas for friend and family or anyone want to adopt them can email me at ciyouong@yahoo.com.

This year, I didn't really buy much materials to do my christmas cards. I would like to see how is my creativity this year with limited materials to create cards that I like. Most of the materials are those exsisting ones that I have plus some newly brought ones.

I love the pink button snowflakes. They match pretty well on the cards. Christmas is all in themes of red and green. I try my very best to make sure it looks match and nice.
A greeny version of chirstmas card. I think I need to stock up for christmas wording or start carving some more wordings for my christmas card collection.

Christmas comes well with blue, white and silver color theme. These are from my last year carve stamps + gems + snowflakes...

Which one do you like more??

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.

House Hunting

TS suddenly feel that he wanted to buy a new house before the year ends.
I was not ready at first, not ready to make commitment toward the house loan.
But after some thought, rather then paying rent, might wise just buy a home to stay.
In addition, I have brought alot of deco items from Bangkok, but my current house has no place to put nor not suitable to put.

Started house hunting thru the internet, book some appointment for house viewing.
This continue for several weeks, sometimes the whole saturday we went for 4-5 places to view house. We started to find around setapak, but the housing price is too pricy. A brand new 1300sqt condo in setapak will cost RM350K++ and a second hand condo will cost at least RM300K++. Something not good about condo is every month we need to pay maintaince fee.

We look into double storey houses, but setapak area is more then RM500K++. We went futher, to puchong, usj, kota kemuning and putra heights.

Both of us love Kota Kemuning houses,you can have a look here and here. But its abit over our budget and it is quite far from town and located at Shah Alam. It's RM400k++ for a brand new unit. I hate those investers. They buy when the house is launch and sell it 2 years later after the house is completed in a higher price. That's why those people that really want to buy house to stay cannot find a new house because of these people. Another thing that keep bordering me are those legal and lawyer fee that will cost RM20K extra because our new goverment new law ~~ hate it.

Argh....... Still looking and searching.....

Mangosteenskin's Giveaway

Look how lovely these stamps are~~ Colorful and cute.... It's a giveaway from Mangosteenskin ~ a talented rubber stamp maker. Known her online for quite some time and her work really amaze me.... Click here to see how to win her stamps.

For me, I would like to have an eiffel tower or a mirror with handle like the image below to be carved as stamps :)





Contest ends 12 noon, Tuesday 3rd November 2009. Quick.... go now~!

Goodbye my stamps

Saying goodbye for my handwork carve stamps... They can't be use anymore. There are sticked together and have chips and cracks here and there.

One think I learn on storing those carve rubber stamps are to layer a tissue within each rubber stamps. Plus do not use those soft rubber as it tends to melt and stick to another rubber.

So sad I have to throw them on to the bin... :(

Blythe gathering at Marmalade Cafe, KL

A small gathering compare to the previous one at Pavilion and KLCC. Marmalade Cafe is located at Bangsar Village 2, Kuala Lumpur. The food there are in big portion and taste good. Mine turkey wrappo was very tasty, it taste way much better compare to O'brians.

I was so rush on this gathering, I forgot to take my camera and here are photos that took by others.

Two friendly freckles with different style. Even the same doll looks different. Mine doll is on the left of the picture. She is happy that she finally have a decent, beuatiful dress that I got from her. The other doll is with a red hook... she definately looks cute.



The restaurant have lovely background of painting ~`

Jaymee's babies~

Cup cakes for Serene's Birthday

Even we have a small crowd this time, but the number of dolls are rather a lot.

The group picture of us~~

Addicted to Farm Ville @ Facebook

I been not blogging for a while, yes busying on my shop, busy on work and addicted on Farm Ville at Facebook.

I am used to play online yahoo games once in a blue moon. I'm not the type of addictive player.
I do play sim city when I was at collage but stop after my laptop are not too compatible on it.

I didn't login to facebook as much as a daily basis.
I was just thinking facebook was another friendster thing.
It seems like the world is all going thru facebook and sometimes I felt left out on some comments, application or games that my friends are discussing about.

Until a few months ago, I notice TS started to play this game, which the sounds interesting to me, I started then after a few weeks seeing him playing and who knows... I was addicted!

The virus spread to my other housemate and 3 of us started to play.... we invited his brother who stay with us to play, but he refuse, but eventually he started playing secretly at home too.

Now some time when we are at home, here is some of our converstion:
TS: "Hei, I'm going to give out a cow, quickly go and take..."
ME: "OKOK.... wait I login first... you wait...."

TS: "My tomatos die liao.... aiyo... I forgot to harvest them"
(he slept after he bath and forget to harvest them)
ME: "I help you harvest liao la... See... I so good"
(he forget to logout before he slept, thats why I saw and help him)

TS: "See I got pink cow....."
ME: "Eh... where?? Why I do not have? Where to get.....where......"

Here are some views on my farm:


Duckling around the pond.... poor ugly ducking is left out.

You can decorate a path on your farm... I like them when the tree is ready for harvest.
from 99% to fully harvest... I like seeing them changing....

Some of my friends farm.....
This is very beautiful... you can see so much fruits and plants that grows....


A bunch of trees ~~ looks like forest to me (laugh)

Are you addicted too??

Fabrics, buttons, paper flowers, lace sticker

Such a busy week.
Whole weekend was busy take photos, arranging and pricing.
I have import alot of craft materials on my shop.
From fabrics, to colorful buttons, lace stickers and Mulberry Paper Flowers.
Get them before there are out of stock at here.

Some of my favorite:









Enjoy shopping

中秋节快乐 Happy Mooncake Festival

今天中午，突然在电台听这首《月亮圆》，让我好怀恋哦。听了这么久，每年中秋都会想起这首歌，真的是白听不厌。
This afternoon, I heard this song from the radio, missed this song a lot. It's a song that I always remember when mooncake festival is around.

几乎忘了中秋节。。。
没什么庆祝，今年也忙得忘记买月饼吃。。。
Almost forget today is mooncake festival....
Didn't celebrate it. I was too busy that I forget to buy myself mooncake to eat. Need to wait until next year.

但无论如何，还是祝大家中秋节快乐！
But I still wish everyone Happy Mooncake Festival.

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~~