NNC Birthday Exchange 2010

As-salam & Hye....

Happy Birthday to me... Actually, yesterday 11th August was my birthday... Nothing much to do, no celebration like year before, and year before that and so on.....

Last year, December 2009, i signed up for NNC Birthday Exchange organized by Margaret Wong aka MW.. and my secret exchange buddy was Astrid from Mauritius. I received my gift long time ago. As you guys can see the date, its was almost 1 month ago! Its really makes me crazy as we can't open it nor peeking it.. or else we will be 'chase' by our headmistress, MW.. LOL!


This is what inside...... Taraaa....Very lovely purple wrapper... and inside the purple wrapper - A table runner, a bunch of DMC Stranded Cotton, Silk Threads, Mill Hill Beads, Buttons & Birthday card. If you noticed, everything in purple, my favourite color!!! Astrid also give me a CCN chart "The Tea Room" together with flosses..

Nice ehh...

Everything for birthday mum...

I really love this table runner. Its apprx 1.3metre long! and of course, its purple...

Dear Astrid, thanks you so much for everything you send to me.. I really love it.. For those who want to know about Astrid, a superb quilter, you can visit her blog : Grandma's Red Needle.

Last but not least, Selamat Menyambut Bulan Ramadhan Al-Mubarak to all my muslim's reader.

Big package from South Carolina, US

Yeahaaaaaa.... i've been waiting for this parcel for the whole week. Its from my Pincushion Exchange partner Diane Merlock, South Carolina, US. I was informed by Diane that the box is about 12"x16" and my first impression was - wahhh, its sure a large pincushion!!. Then, later she email again and told me that there is another smaller box inside. She had to bubble wrap it and put a lot of shredder papers and packaging peanuts because she said that the pincushion she made is breakable. Now i wonder how my pincushion look like LOL!

The package was sent by Priority and postage costs a bomb!!

After 'digging' the big box, here's what inside the smaller box. Oh ya.. the smaller box also have a lot of packaging peanuts!

The main attraction!! My lovely pincushion from across the entire ocean... and its inside the ceramic bowl..

Its come with saucer too!! BTW Diane, i'm not going to glue it. Both flower bowl and saucer are so beautiful especially the saucer. Its like a sunflower!

I really enjoyed the stashes too!! Everything in blue - DMC Stranded Cottons, small scissor, felts, very nice beads (pearl beads i guess), ribbon flowers and a container. Thank you so much Diane for everything.. *HUGS*

Biscornu & Pincushion Exchange 2010 With K.Nisa

Hye and as-salam semua...

Lama dah tak update blog. Last month aku ngan K.Nisa setuju nak buat exchange. Kitorang berdua jer... saja suka2 bg hilang tension ngan stress (aku ler tu.. ahaks..) Since K.Nisa dah tau camana nak buat Biscornu, so kitorang decided nak buat both Pincushion & Biscornu plus satu lagi Mystery Gift.

So, ni Pincushion & Biscornu dari aku utk K.Nisa. Simple je designnye...

Pincushion : The Prairie Schooler Design (14ct Aida)

Biscornu : World of Cross Stitch Magazine (28ct Evenweave)

Ni pulak Mystery Gift dari aku utk K.Nisa. Actually aku nak handmade something. Tapi disebabkan dua2 buah ati aku, Afiqah & Haiqal tak sihat, so terpaksa la aku pegi ke plan B. Nak masuk 3 minggu ni, baru depa sihat sepenuhnya. Kalo tak tu, sambung-menyambung sakit diorang.. Paling teruk Haiqal la.. 3x pegi klinik. Sampai doktor cakap, kalo aku dtg lagi, doktor akan suruh pegi hospital. Alergik aku dgr perkataan hospital tu. Trauma, fobia, semua ada.

Buttons, Impression Aida, 2 FQs, Newton Law's Bookmark Kit, Chart, DIY Love, DMC Threads - Satin, Pearl Cotton, Light Effect, Variations

Yang ni pulak dari K.Nisa utk aku. Suka weh... suka.... Hilang stress, hilang tension, hilang mengantuk di kala tengahari yg panas terik... hahahahaa.... Pincushion & Biscornu yg sgt2 comel gitu.. geram je aku tengok.. rasa mcm nak picit2 je bagi penyek.. cute tau!

Crossstitched card, Cross Stitch & Needlework Magazine Issue March 2010, 2 kits, 3 packet beads, bling2 (actually aku x tau nak panggil apa, tapi yg org dok lekat kat tudung, baju kurung tu), frame, cord, Tupperware Keychain & Round Tupperware

Kalo korang tak percaya, tengok la betapa comelnya pincushion & biscornu yang K.Nisa buat ni. Combined dua2 dlm 1 tapak tangan aku jer... Kalo x silap aku, pincushion tu K.Nisa guna 18ct & biscornu tu lak 16ct. Betul tak K.Nisa? Harap betulkan kalau saya salah yeee...

Tupperware ni lak dah ada penghuni dah.. hehehehee.. aku simpan koleksi Mill Hill Beads aku. Sorry ler kalo nak letak gulai ayam ke.. kari daging ke... atau paling teruk cili giling ke... sayang taw... Tupperware ni saiz medium and comel gak....

Nota kaki : K.Nisa, thanks sebab sudi exchanged sama saya... & thanks jugak dgn stashes yang K.Nisa bagi. Saya sgt2 suka. Tak sabar nak tunggu next exchange *wink*...

NNC Bookmark Exchange 2010

Last February I signed on for Bookmark Exchange organized by Zarina. Then we have to wait until 23 April 2010 (World Book Day) to "unwrap" our bookmark parcel. This round my parner was Ann from Italy. She's a Malaysian and currently living there. We were only required to make 2 bookmarks of differents crafts.

Bookmarks for Ann. I sent a small stashes too - A Chinese crochet book and 2 stick-it pads. Unfortunately Ann can't read Chinese.. LOL.. I don't have any idea how she want to deciper the instructions!

Bookmarks received from Paul. Thank you sooo much Paul. I really loved the quotes and the embroidery bookmark you made (maybe I should try to stitch the Rhodes Heart too, never try it before)

3rd NNC Anniversary Meet & Exchanges

1st of all, sorry for MIA for a while.. anyone missed me?? After our 3rd Anniversary Meet, I was too lazy to do anything including cross-stitching. Actually at this moment i'm still not in mood to update my blog. So, here's just a few photo from the Anniversary Meet that was held at Sabariah's house @ Setia Alam, Selangor. For full story, you can read from Nik's blog.

My door gift contribution - Ribbons

Door gifts - Felts (MW), Bookmark (Nik), Bias tape & buttons (Zai), Paper stamped (Usha), HDT (Zarina), FQ (Janet), Hand-dyed floss (Diane, USA), Ceramic Rose Cup (Rose), Button set (Mel), hand made Japanese clay ornament (Valarie), Tupperware fridge magnet (Sabariah)

- Thanks everyone

Goodie bag for Afiqah

Goodie Bag for Haiqal

Lucky Draw - Sabariah received mine ~ Simple drawstring with Eifal Tower (crossstitched - from Blackbird Design) and a compulsory felt flower (i made into hair barrette)

Co-incidentally, i received Sabariah's gift - a big 'kekabu' pillow with crocheted cover and compulsory felt flower too

I also managed to complete my exchanges. Even though its not comes to the dateline yet, i used this opportunity to send out my exchange, so i don't have to mail it out.

Pincushion Exchange - Once again MW became my exchange partner. The theme for this exhange is Blue. So for the safe side, i made everything in blue

Even the 3 compulsory stashes also in blue including the box.. LOL!

Bookmark Exchange received from Paul. What a surprised! But unfortunately i /we can't open it until International Book Day on 23 April 2010. Another waiting in pain *sigh*

Valentine Exchange 2010

Actually i received my VE from my secret partner long time ago, on 23rd January if i'm not mistaken. But our organizer, MW only allowed us to open our exchange gift on 14th Feb. So, to avoid myself peeking my gift, i hid it somewhere under my table.. LOL

My secret partnet was Usha from Klang, Selangor. Thanks so much Usha for the lovely card, crocheted heart shape coasters + crocheted flower paperclips. Opsss.. Usha gave me additional stashes too - a long ric-rac ribbon and flower beads.


And these are my VE to Maria in Portugal - a Valentine card (crossstitched on front) + an ornament (crossstitched too)+ tissue pouch + rose. I also add a fridge magnet and 2 postcards of Malaysia. Hopefully Maria will like everything i send to her..

Jar Pincushion Exchanged

Here's our Jar Pincushion Exchanged.. Only 5 of us took part - Me, Rose, Paul, Janet and Mel.

My jar for lucky Janet. I hope you'll like it Janet *wink*.. Just ignored the lace around the jar ok. I took off because DH said its look weired LOL

My jar

Some goodies inside the jar

I received jar from Mel... very lucky me!!!! LOL!!! Thanks ya Mel, i sooooo happy.....

The nice and big box

Taraaaa... Mel's Jar. Can you see all the yummy buttons inside?

Here's what inside - 100pcs yummilicious buttons, ribbons and some paper flower.

Needlebook from Janet

Before the Stitching Bee, Janet had mentioned on the board that she will bring her Needlebook Exchange to our Bee as her secret partner will be there too... but I didn't know that it was me!!!!What a suprised!! I was so happy, Janet... the bird look so cute! and i should try to make that pins also. Many..many thanks from me...

p/s - DD tried to get your needlebook from me, but sooooo sorry... CANNOT.. LOL!

In front
Inside

Needlebook Exchange

NNC Needlebook Exchange organized by MW and she was my secret partner... and it makes me verryyy nervous.. I didn't know which design should I stitched for her and finally I decided to stitch Fairies Alphabet.. It just a simple design - just a letter 'M' & 'W'. I made a small changed on my stitching - I stitched beads on the fairy's headband instead of cross-stitch. Look nice huh?...

And this how MW's needlebook look like..... I sent out last week and I really glad that she love it.

Front

Back

Inside

Bookmark for Shanny

Shanny from Switzerland, had received already my bookmark I made for her. Since it was secret partner exchange, so its time for me to show to others..

I stitched her 2 simple cross stitch bookmarks, 1 papercraft bookmark and the other 2 I bought somewhere.. hehhehee We were required to add stashes. So I gave her 1 piece Impression Aida Fabric with chart and some ribbon and lace. I hope she like it...

Bookmark Exchange

Today i received parcel from Hernik.. my bookmark just arrived!!! Thanks Hernik... i really love it especially crochet bookmark... you know why? because i love purple. yes... purple...purple...purple... (Lumpy dialogue from My Friend Tigger & Pooh)

I wonder if my secret partner received my parcel already.......hmmmmmm