Category: Deco

• Chinese New Year Mood

  01.29.11 |Craft, Deco, Special Day Event| Permalink | Comments Off on Chinese New Year Mood

  I am looking forward to the coming Chinese New Year festival. Yeah I will be going back to my mom’s place and enjoy her cooking! That is one thing I missed.

  I have started to make Chinese New Year lanterns for decorating my home. I saw one post from my pool of bloggers blogging about it. It has some good tutorials in it. Here are my lanterns and below are instructions to make these lanterns. Have fun with it.

  
  

  

  

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  Have a Blessed Chinese New Year to all my readers!

• Crystal

  09.29.07 |Deco, Design| Permalink | 1 Comment

  I love looking at crystal. It is beautiful and the reflection of the colors cheers me up. Two years ago when I was in Singapore, Swarovski Crystal were having a sale. I got 3 lovely figurine crystals. I wanted to get a flower too but I burst my budget. Hey guys, crystals are a great present for your love ones.

  I can sit there for hours admiring the crystal. I would like to grow my collection one day.

  

• Glass Door

  07.10.07 |Deco, Shopping| Permalink | 6 Comments

  I have this glass door, a separation between the dinning/living hall with the kitchen. However it was bear for quite a while. I wanted to put some deco but I didn’t find the right one. While I was in Scotland I saw this jello type of deco. It is easy to stick on and remove. No stain will be left on the glass. I did the fish and my children help me with the flower. Now my glass door looks beautiful.

  
  

  

  
  

  Update: The product is called Gel Gem. Info here: http://www.gelgems.com/GelGems/default.asp

• 2006 Ikea Catalog

  09.08.05 |Deco, Furniture, Service| Permalink | 4 Comments

  

  I like going to Ikea when I am done in KL. There is lots of small and nice deco for my lovely home. Once I went there during long holidays and to my surprised I met 4 friends from Penang. I didn’t even bum into any friends in KL. Maybe Ikea is for outstation folks, I donno.

  Anyway for those people outside of Klang Valley who wants a copy of the Ikea catalog, email to their customer service department (customer.hotline@ikeastore.com.my) and request them to send you a copy.

  For those who doesn’t want to chop down trees, please visit the website http://www.ikea.com.my/catalogue06/ to get a pdf copy or you can browse online but it kills your bandwidth.

  I am a collector of the Ikea magazine. I have the catalog from 1999 – 2005.

• Lanterns

  09.06.05 |Craft, Deco, Event| Permalink | 8 Comments

  Lanterns & mooncake festival is coming. You can tell, as the shopping mall is decorated with beautiful lanterns and selling mooncakes. I bought 2 traditional lanterns (baby & fish) for my children. Not the battery operated ones with noisy music. Every year without fail, my FIL will get those for my children. I still have the past years lantern that he bought and it is still in working condition. Now they have butterfly, dragon fly, flower basket and ultraman.

  I love playing traditional lanterns. You lit up the candles and switched off all the lights. It is very beautiful. When I was young, I love playing with candles. You know what I did? I use can candles with my masak-masak set made of aluminum to cook rice. I will put a candle in between 2 match box, fill the masak masak pot with rice and water, put the pot to sit on the match box and let the candle heat up the pot to boil the water to cook rice. Isn’t that amazing? I was only 5 years old.

  Here are some pictures of the beautiful lit up lanterns at my front porch.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  My son picked a butterfly lantern and I picked a baby for my gal…

  

  

  

  

  

• Hand Wax

  06.20.05 |Deco, Shopping| Permalink | 1 Comment

  

  I stumbled upon this at Mid Valley when I was down in KL. Actually I saw this in Las Vegas, US but I didn’t dare to do it. I was afraid of the hot wax. I wanted to try it but in the end, I ask my hubby to do it.

  It was cool, I think my hubby has the biggest hand and it was worth the money. The mold cost RM10, coloring cost RM10 and the base cost RM10. Total was RM30. First the wax hand maker put my hubby’s hand into cold water for a while. After that, quickly dip into the hot wax and cold water again. My hubby told me a warm feeing, no pain at all. She repeated it until the mold was form. Later she pulled it out slowly from my hubby’s hand. She fixed the holes with tiny pieces of wax. Later applied color and put on the base.

  If I ever bum into it again, maybe I will try and put the hand mold in my office.