Needles & Threads: Doll Stitching

*A big hand wave*

It's a good sign that I'm still signing in my blog now. It means the assignments tornado havent strike yet and I'm still free to exercise around my blog.

And so, back to the days when I just reached KK, I granted myself some extra holidays by skipping classes though I'm just fews miles away from UMS. Stay home alone for 5days and this is what I did. . .


An octopus key chain for my keys.

I always have problem misplacing my keys, losing my keys and locked my keys (including car key) in the car. To avoid all these unwanted situations, I will put an extra huge doll key chain to the ring of keys so I can easily notice them in my bags and never too blind to left them. Previously, I have this big round cute pig as the key guardian. The pig did a great job, it cure my forget-to-take-key disease. But now the pig is old and dirty so I sent him for early retirement and MAKE myself this octopus key chain.

YESS, I STITCHED THIS OCTOPUS KEY CHAIN MYSELF! *proudproud*


Well, the only girl things that I can manage to do is stitching.

Look at my first attempt of a doll stitching.



It's a PIGRABBIT!

Owhhhhhh, I personally think he is very cute! I couldn stop laughing at him when I did the final stitching. But because I made the head bigger, it looks kinda fragile. Yet I believe the head and body wont split as I made few stitches to secure the joint. So, I believe in my skill after all. What's worrying me is this PigRabbit getting flatter day by day. It goes so flat even he is just one day old. Well, some mistake in expectation. I thought I stuffed enough of cottons inside, it was really so fluffy, so fluffy that I was afraid the side stitches will came off. But as a result, he is a thin pigrabbit now =(


Back to the Octopus key chain, so this is my second doll stitching. And Octo key chain is much easier compare to PigRabbit. Just a few simple steps.


Draw the shape you wanted. I draw it free hand since it's for personal use. Btw, imperfection is creative!

Then, cut two similar shape out.


Arrange the details so you have an idea of the position and how it looks.


Then, start stitching! Of course, you stitch both pieces of cloth together.


Left some space before you end the whole stitching.

STUFF LOTSA LOTSA COTTONS INSIDE!


It's done now!!!!!!


But wait, aint it looks dull?


Some decorations?



RIBBONSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

I put two ribbons on the Octopus to make it looks silly and fatthiaossss =)


Nowwwwwww,


OHHHH MY OCTOPUS! ♥

Ohhhh yay! One thing I love about doll stitching is the satisfaction you felt when you see your doll is done. And everytime you see that doll again, ohmygoddddd, very proud of yourself. Hehehehe. Even feeling good when everyone say it's cute and ask you do one for them! Hahahhahaha, though I wont do for them la but the still the happiness is there =)=)


♥♥♥

Printed paws

Landed safely in KK. Well, nothing much has changed here. The Mcd still stood well near the petrol station, no additional KFC drive thru, KK drivers are still crazy and urmmm, weather still that unfriendly, hot =( Back here for five days now. Tmr is Monday, so yahh, I will be heading to class. Starting a new semester soon!

This time is a different beginning. Ppl I used to be with it and depends on are all graduating. During first year, I came alone to this land for orientation. But there's a hope, hoping my elder sis to be back soon and I can shift to her place. Then second year, I still came back alone but I'm still with the familiar faces where I used to be with during first year. Now, coming back as third year, still alone on the plane. And also alone in the new hse for five days as my only hsemate as well as my roommate came back later than me. Staying in a strange hse all by myself wasnt easy. But I realized, things dont come easy from the first place I chosen to study here. Nothing was arrange perfectly for me. The reason I go through is because I have to go through. It was tough to be at a strange place, far away from hometown, being no ppl to depend on but life will be even tougher if you are used to the sweet dwelling road.

I wont complaint here because complain only makes me sounds weaker.

I fell sick when I got here. But I still need to drag myself up to get medicine and groceries I needed for the days. This is part of the lesson to be independent. My car tyres tube came off when I was pumping air into the tyre. It was my first attempt to pump air into my tyre and something misfortune befall. I was afraid, I called for a stranger to help. He helped but what worse was I needed to change the tyre. I didn know how because I was a girl after all =.= When he mentioned I might need to find someone to help, I realized there are no ppl in my phone list that I can call to help. It was frightening to realize that. I almost cried but I rmber TanMingMing words, no point crying cause it will only makes you looks ugly. So, I didnt and I got things settled.

Two years here, I was never afraid when my car got problem. And I realized it's because I know there are ppl there to help me to solve the problem. I will now because I have to settle everything by myself.

I know what I go through now will make my future easier as I will be stronger than now =)



Yess, happy faces ♥

The five blind mouses.

A trip to Historical Land, Malacca again during Raya with family. This time is a three days two night trip. Usually mom will just spent a day in Malacca doing shopping and some walking near the Red House but this time she wanted a longer holiday with us. Sweet thought and well planned. She called my elder sis to book the hotel rooms since half a year ago as she worried all hotels in Malacca would be fully book by Raya. What's more is grandma and aunt will be coming along with us!

First stop, the Malacca Zoo!

Aunt wanted to bring her precious daughter and son for a zoo visit.


The welcoming parrot. Never change since my first visit which like 20years ago?


Dad love this miniature horse. He was so excited bout them and kept saying, "SEE THE DONKEY!" -_________- But, they are miniature horse.


Owhh, my cute cousin sis. Throwing tantrum here because her mom dont let her to walk. Omgggg, look at the chubby cheek *pinch*


Porcupines fighting for food. For the first time, I saw porcupine raised their sharp spines. It's kinda scary especially they make those uneasy sound effect.

Dad and MingMing was saying that the porcupine will release their spine towards predators. I was defending that it would not since the zoo put the porcupines so close to visitors and no warning board. So, out of curiosity, I browse the truth,

"Quills or spines are released by contact with them, or they may drop out when the porcupine shakes its body, but cannot be projected at attackers. New quills grow to replace lost ones. From ancient times, it was believed that porcupines could throw their quills at an enemy, but this has long been refuted." -Wikipedia-

Hahaha, so do not afraid of porcupines attack in zoo!


Pathetic aviary. Not much birds in there.


The bro and sis. Shayley mei mei look miserable as she was so afraid she would fall. SHE DID NOT MOVE AN INCH when we took pic. And, spot the little cute crocs on her!

Second stop, the well.

It was so famous back then. Ppl came to bath and take the well water which believe to bring good luck. But now, it became a deserted ground.



Lunch time, some cendol ♥





Next day, the ever popular spot in Malacca, Red Building.


And we climb the A famosa.


So contended that they reached!


Some souvenirs?


The musician whom make the whole A famosa more livelier.



Mom fall sick on the second day. So, we stayed in the hotel and nap nap nap. Night time, mom was unable to join us for the shopping trails =( She attempted too but she was shivering. Dad stayed with mom in hotel. And the three sisters continued the shopping.

Last day, we planned to visit the Mini Malaysia. But closed due to some improvement construction. It was really disappointing as none of us been there before. It was our hope! Crashed =(

Instead of Mini Malaysia, we went to Botanical Garden.




And, Butterfly farm.


The cute love birds in Butterfly Farm.


This outstanding bird catches our heart the most!




That's the quick summary of the family trip!

Mom comment after the trip: Never go any trip anymore!
(hahahaha, she was sick badly)

Clover love ♥

Found this clover in my dad's garden.

p/s: It's dad's garden because he is totally in charge of the arrangement of the flowers, choice of flowers, watering, fertilizing and basically, just everything. And he enjoys it very much!

Never know clover looks so cute until I accidentally saw it growing massively in my dad's garden. I was attempting to look for a four leaves clover as it believes to bring good lucks to finder. Spent long time enough but none. So, it's truth that four leaves cover is really rare. At first, I thought, there are so many there, it must be one grow abnormally with four leaves among the thousand. But it's just not my luck. Yet, very happy with this adorable pieces! Smaller size clover are cuter but the bigger size make perfect for a picture. Eagerly plucked a few and sellotape it on A4 paper with hope I could preserved a little longer as this clover withered fast. The moment I plucked, it was fresh and looking beautiful, next few minutes, it started to withered. And it looks like as if I plucked it for hours.

The next day. . .

The clover turns brown. So, I planned to pluck more and preserved it in another way like sellotape both side. Out to garden, look at the spot where the clover grow, it's GONE! ALL GONE! My dad did gardening so he plucked out all the cute clovers and sent them to garbage bin =(=(

Still able to save a few for new method of preservation. But, haihhhhhhh, my cute clovers. .

Heartbeat

Never underestimate the strength of your heart. You will never know how much you can go through till your last breath. There times when you are down, you go through it, survive and still breathing. Still able to smile, even a little. When you look back, doubt yourselves on how you did it and thought when come the second time, you can't. But you never realize you can go through it because you never realized how strong your heart is.

Trust the heart that had been with you since the day it starts to beat.

21 Guns

Do you know what's worth fighting for,
When it's not worth dying for?
Does it take your breath away
And you feel yourself suffocating?
Does the pain weigh out the pride?
And you look for a place to hide?
Did someone break your heart inside?
You're in ruins

One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I

When you're at the end of the road
And you lost all sense of control
And your thoughts have taken their toll
When your mind breaks the spirit of your soul
Your faith walks on broken glass
And the hangover doesn't pass
Nothing's ever built to last
You're in ruins.

One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I

Did you try to live on your own
When you burned down the house and home?
Did you stand too close to the fire?
Like a liar looking for forgiveness from a stone

When it's time to live and let die
And you can't get another try
Something inside this heart has died
You're in ruins.

One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky

One, 21 guns
Lay down your arms
Give up the fight
One, 21 guns
Throw up your arms into the sky,
You and I

I still think this song has the best lyrics. Never dies off ♥

Bees in mind

It's September! And I'm in the transition mood now back to KK. A week from now, September 14 will be the day back to the not-so-sweet second home. It's a new start there. Everything will be so different now. I got a new home there, new hsemates, new environment and all by myself.

Many ppl had told me I did a wrong choice to stay with all forth year students and left myself to this state which I will have to start everything again, have a new hsemates and adapt. But what ppl failed to understand is I didn made this choice. I was left with this choice. Yes, I could stay in the hostel during first year and get to know new first year students. Pick one and stick with her all the time. But UMS hostel distribution system arent according to coursemates, it distributed randomly. And my roommates that time are all Malays and even my neighbouring roommates are Malay. They are good ppl, very friendly, I had a good time with them but I couldn stick with them for four years. They have their own close friend from KK and they have their coursemates. Morever, different living culture and habits which make a huge difference. So maybe the best choice was to close with coursemates. But considering the course I took is engineering, my coursemates are mainly boys and I'm the only Chinese girls. Not being gender bias, but I would prefer girls more than boys and I'm much more comfortable talking with a girls.

And many ppl might not get this, usually UMS students will not choose to shift out from hostel as they do not have own transport. They are 100% dependent on sch transportation for daily routine. Shifting out means getting a car or a motorbike.

So yah, I'm going back. I got so many thing need to do and still undone. Not prepared physically or mentally. It's worrying me.

Things need to do before going back;
1. Buy jump start cable. (My car couldn' start since July/ August)
2. Buy toiletries (I throw all my toiletries away)
3. Get hse key from one of the hsemate.


Things need to settle when I'm back;
1. Start my poor car.
2. Service my car. (The last time I use my car, the exhaust produce black smoke)
3. Shift things from my old hse to new hse.
4. Clean up new hse.

The car is the biggest problem. Omg, I just hope LittleKancil will be obedient and get alright soon. Or else, I dont know to manage things there without a car =(