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*...

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*

Stash Swap ~ Pincushion in d'House

Akhirnya... selamat sampai gak pincushion dr Cik Kema nehh. Tak senang duduk taw menunggu parcel ni sampai. Mekaceh bebyk2 la Cik Kema. Mcm2 adaaaa - pincushion (ni kompem la kan), pot holder (rasa sayang nak guna la pulak), Owlla si burung antu (nama ni Cik Kema yg bg ok..) & yg paling best ialah purse itew. Nampak je kicik, tp besar sebenornya yeee... Mekaceh ye Cik Kema.. muahhh..muahhhh..muahhhh...


Yg ni pulak pincushion aku buat utk Maya, owner Craftzone Malaysia. Simple aje. Actually ada 2 pincushion. Tp entah macamana aku dpt idea yg tak berapa kreatif, aku combine jd 1. So dpt la 1 pincushion yg boleh tahan besar besarnya... sungguh tak kreatif.. Hopefully Maya suka (ayat standard la nii).. Yg lain2 tu gift iringan aku utk Maya sbg tanda ingatan dr aku - Needlebook (felt + cross stitch), flowerpin & simple card. By the way, design utk needlebook tu dah penah aku buat sebelum ni, pincushion jugak.

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.

Doughnut Pincushion

Pincushion yg aku buat kali ni special sikit... This time aku guna evenweave fabric and overdye floss yg MW bagi. Floss ni lebih kurang mcm DMC Variegated. So a bit easy to stitch but cannot wash because its not colorfast. Hubby yg bg nama "Doughnut Pincushion" sbb mmg mcm donut pun, tapi xleh makan je *grin*

Front

Back

Pincushion2

Another pincushions.... nothing to say la.. sindrom malas dah dtg balik *sigh*

Pin Cushion

Another pincushion.... design yg sama mcm yg sebelum ni...