a warm hat ---- check!
been knittin on road, while waiting for water to boil or for the oil to heat up, reading with LO.. it's gonna be some time till I pick up the needle again..
oh ya.. wanna add a flower so it'd look a bit more girly.. or something something.. so it's more kiddo, haven't figured out yet...
when I have the time..
now gonna chill until if she decides to take her afternoon nap.. my my.. so much to catch up with..
edit -- I forgot to include where I found the tutorial for this very basic knitting required hat, it's from knitpicks. If you're one hardcore(-ish) knitter, I dun recommend for you to surf the website coz they have too many cool knitting stuff.. hehe. u might go crazy..
note to self.. remember dear.. knitting is just the other fav past, past, past.. past time.. hehehehe
*can't wait*
Anyways.. this is usually where she goes to when we're having some kind of a time-out/cooling off and we tell her to go sit in her room. When both of us ran out of patience and both started screaming.. LOL.. I guess she's found good use for her time. Maybe also that's how I look like when I'm mad :p
I can't imagine myself being more serabut than I already am.. everything is all over the place.. oh well.. maybe also it's just that time of the month. Oh yes.. successfully got myself hooked to milk tea. not any kind of milk tea... it has to be as strong as a good cup of teh tarik.. so I'm drinking old towns instant how-many-in-1 milk tea.. now at 2 cups a day..
..great.. I hate tea.. I miss coffee... now I'm contemplating to replace that 2 cups of tea.. man.. I get addicted too easily.
the picture..
I was awake at 4 and couldn't get back to sleep. No, am not clinically depressed coz I'm generally very merry (blame merry sprites and merry hearts for usage of word haha) My body just do that sometimes... I bet some of you experience the same thing too. What more with wudhu I'm still not sleepy now and it's past 6 am already. So I was sorting out my pictures and what not while listening to some music.. and I really dunno how this got into my playlist.. the first time listening to it and it's great. It got me with the bassy intro.. Somehow the song feels right at this hour... I dun really know what exactly it's trying to say.. but I'm sure there's a message in there. Yeah... deep down, I am worried about the bigger things.. petty things.. I can just dust it off.. but the inevitable... *sigh*
... I'm such a sucker for acoustic versions.. and unpluggeds... I could listen to blurry acoustic all night...
This is one of the things I've been doing this week. I have been keeping myself off the computer a bit coz LO just cannot see me on the PC else she'd be.. UP TO TEN.. nak!!! repeat infinite times or until mommy caves in. Rekindling my passion for knitting is great coz it's one of the things I can do while I sit playing/reading/whatever with her.
I started knitting 3 yrs ago I believe.. and you'd think I knit baby stuff while I was pregnant.. but no. I think it's just unpractical coz it's too hot la.. and judging from many photos of my LO in just diapers kinda justifies it.. so no, I didn't knit any baby thing. I did knit a laptop bag though.. maybe I'll look for it later and put up a picture of it. I stopped knitting after I gave birth to Afya..
Then I saw shmontel's friend's blog long long time ago (i dun remember who, sorry).. how she recycles t-shirts into yarn and have always wanted to try it.. then... remembering that the place we're going can be quite cold.. and we have sorted out LOs warmies but then I remember that most heat excapes from the head.. and so I thot it'd be cool to make a beanie hat for her.. then I got all excited and bugged OH to get me circular needle haha.. here's some photos of the project.. I mutilated a very very loose mishapen knit blouse which keeps showing off my skin even with my wide hijab and since this is kinda new to me.. I'm taking it slow.. then there's the length shortage problem.. and no more time to make more t-shirt yarn.. so I mix em up with my old yarns.. so I dunno.. I feel like I wanna start over.. have to put up the hat picture later coz I haven't taken a picture of it.. but the good thing is that it fits.. tapi macam pendek pulak.. and hey.. apparently knitting is also like riding a bike ;)
and my sister's b'day today.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! and all the best in whatever you decide to do. help is just a yahoo messenger away provided the connection doesn't suck and Afya doesn't go UP TO TEN, NAKK!!!!
after trying to get this to run on my computer for sometime, finally got it to work... but no time to play :(
OH and I were toying with an idea.. and I got really really thrilled and came up with this! I think it's very practical.. and to me (who has a 2 yr old, pop-in and pop-out, wants to be carried only after a long tiring walk) I was thinking of not bringing any ssc/mei tai for the end of year trip. But now OH said we should bring it! hehe
As usual, taking a break from sewing. It started last couple of weeks while sorting out LOs clothes into wearable, and 'macam nangka' and unwearable pile then I found the first ever hijab I've bought for her in Taiping I think last year also during raya prep shopping. I didn like it very much coz it's too frilly then I tot I should just make one for her and I remember I still have some MM's Lava Flowers which I love so much. So was at Kamdar yesterday and found really good jersey knit and bought PINK.. coz it's PINK :P to match. After all that giggles and chasing and running to try and get some measurements and.. VOILA!... would have made one for myself too if only I wear this kinda tudung.. haha.
I'm out of words.. so this will be another picture heavy entry. I'm really2 happy with the photos. After we got back.. again, we hooked the camera to the tv and just gawk at how the amazing and sharp the pictures turned out. This is in no way that I'm getting into the bakul and angkat sendiri. The credit goes to the camera.. like seriously!!
This time we took the Tapah exit instead coz we need to get to Ringlet. Afya looking a wee bit green, we decided to take a break and lo n behold, Lata Iskandar is just ahead. We stopped for a breather. The place is clean! (or cleaner than previously)
This is KittyII (there are 2 kitties -- identical twin) smeared with choklet. Need to remind myself to chuck this one in the washing machine tomorrow. The other one is clean...
15mins to Ringlet it started to become real gloomy. But it's great coz when it rains.. cameron is really cool. The place is just the same when it's sunny.
Rain stopped... continue le journey to Tanah Rata and passed by Bharat Cafe. Thinking that we've never stopped here before, OH let me go take some photos of the plantation. I was surrounded by SONY Alpha enthusiasts! Tea plantation is always a sight to remember. Btw.. taken with art filter.
THE END
The only thing I brought back from cameron this time.. is this for RM5 X 4 boxes... yummeh!
There's a certain certain photo contest which I would love to join but I think I can't. I'm not really sure tho but was thinking even if I can't I'm gonna send some photos anyways just to show my support. hehehe
This is one which I'm sure I can join and I surely would love to win coz I could really use some more reusable bags. What we have now is not enough to go plastic bag free at check outs especially when doing our fortnightly groceries and of course I really love how Afya's handling the reusable bags as oppose to plastic bags. Now whenever we go out and if she gets some new hair clips or bangles or whatever, she'd carry them in this... oh wait.. lemme rephrase that.. she'd INSIST that she carries them herself in this. The bag is quite big for her actually and it will sweep the floor.. so I have tie up a knot at the handle so it's kinda below her knee level.. and she'd walk funny and I'd be like.. girl, ur walking funny, and she would look up to me and then resume walking funny with a smile. So 2 years plus later... I'm starting to get her and she, me Hehehe..
Funny also that for every word of her baby talk that I finally get to figure out.. she throws another 5 mispronounced words for me to ponder upon.
Okay.. so we get it. Tot = funny and pretty headstrong I might add...
You could help me win by dropping a comment or two at our photo or simply 'like' it and I could only hope that you mean it.. haha
Thanks in advance.
I got pretty stressed this week. The gist of it is on SNUGGbaby website. OH thot I could use a break so we're driving up cameron tomorrow, insyaAllah. I've pretty much tied up loose ends today and so I wouldn't have so many itty bitty things to think about. We might sleep over, we might not.. I kinda hope that we're not staying over coz well.. I need to sew :p
Oh and a last minute thing, mom asks that I accompany her at her stall next Sunday. I guess you can find me there and then. and so.. yes.. I need time to sew a bit and prepare for the stall... should we really stay overnight then..? Bring the sewing machine? LOL Camera definitely ;)
And I won't be joining the walk this year coz we have something important in Ipoh. The usual can't be in 2 places at the same time. Hope it'll be more massive and happening than last year's.
Should really hit the sack now...
I found my mix dvd (or mix tape) 3 dvds worth of my all time fav songs and albums and tonight I finally had time to listen to it again. 7 days worth of music can u believe it?.. I compiled it during the era of depression.
I wasn't really into blues.. but I remember listening to this almost everyday...
