365 update!

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week 5

week 6

the days i forgot to take pictures i printed out pictures that inspired me instead. and because i had to do a lot of catch-up, i didn't have time for much embellies, was just mostly photos and journalling. (:

on impulse, i made these banana walnut muffins last tuesday. i found the recipe, checked if i had the ingredients and made them straightaway! they made for great breakfast with tea on wednesday morning. (crf earlier post)

and then yesterday, i made this grab bag on impulse too! i've been  in a rather creative slump. thats why squiggletown hasn't had much updates and i haven't really been scrapbooking. i'm really pleased with the result because usually i shy away from sewing patterns - too many words and instructions and prep work. but i really liked how the bag looked from the picture, so i decided to try it. after some trial and error - taadah! andrew liked it. i loved it! its even got little pockets on both sides for keys and random cash, lipbalm and all.

i added this little detail - crochet flower with wooden button. 

well, need to get back to work (:

ttfn!

*sheryl

p/s:

found this on my sister's blog who said she got it from zech's facebook. super funny. its "Christian pick-up lines"

1. Nice Bible.
2. I would like to pray with you.
3. You know Jesus? Hey, me too!
4. God told me to come talk to you.
5. I know a church where we could go and talk.
6. How about a hug, sister/brother?
7. Do you need help carrying your bible? It looks heavy.
8. Christians don't shake hands; Christians gotta hug!
9. Oh you are cold, Ecclesiastes 4:11.
10. Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven?
11. What are your plans for tonight? Feel like a bible study?
12. I am here for you.
13. The word says "Give drink to those who are thirsty, and feed the hungry"; how about dinner?
14. You don't have an accountability partner? Me neither.
15. You want to come over and watch the 10 commandments tonight?
16. Is it a sin that you stole my heart?
17. How many times around you would I have to walk before you'll fall for me
18. If we lived in Noah's time,you and me would enter the ark together.
19. I wrote your name and mine in the love calculator and the results showed "divine providence"
20. Have you ever tried praying at a drive in movie before?
21. Excuse me, I believe one of your ribs belongs to me.
22. My friend told me to come and meet you, he said that you are a really nice person. I think you know him. Jesus, yeah, that's His name.
23. You know they say that you have never really dated, until you have dated a christian.
24. Yeah, I predicted David over Goliath.
25. I know why Solomon had 700 wives, it was cos he never met you.
26. Before tonight, I never believed in predestination...
27. Nice bracelet. What Would Jesus Date? Oh, I mean "Do."
28. What's your name and number so I can add you to my "prayer" list?
29. Hey baby, you wanna take the church van for a spin?
30. Has anyone ever told you, your eyes are like doves and your neck like the tower of David (read Song of Solomon)?
31. Excuse me, is this pew taken?
32. [check the person's shirt tag] "just as i thought... made in heaven."
33. Hey, need a ride to church?
34. I'd pick you over Satan any day.
35. God was just showing off when He made you.
36. I'm pretty flexible. I don't think a woman should be submissive on the first date.
37. No, i'm not coveting, I intend to make you mine.
38. What do you think Paul meant when he said, "Greet one another with a holy kiss."? (1 Cor 16:20b)
39. Do you think "ask, and it shall be given you" is to be taken literally?
40. I practice our mission to "love one another" to the fullest extent!
41. I didn't know angels flew this low.
42. If Eve was tempted by an apple than you must be my fruit.
43. That halo matches perfectly with your eyes.
44. I must be dead and looking at the angel that is going to take me to heaven.
45. I just don't feel called to celibacy.

i hate dust...

hello blogworld.

sorry, i know i've been MIA for awhile. the whole new year thing kinda sparked the packing mood in me again (i know?!! like packing again?!) it started on sunday, when i consolidated the sewing stuff and didn't stop till today (at least i think i've packed enough for me to stop. mmhmm.)

SUNDAY

the sewing stuff was in 3 different places - the guest room (in an old 3 tier box), the family room (in my mother's wedding present from my grandma, which happens to be one of those vintage/antique-esque sewing machines) and my room, in the small ikea sewing box. so out came the ziplock bags and boxes and i managed to pack everything into this teal toolbox (that i used to use for my beads) and my ikea sewing box. the more expensive sewing tools are in the ikea box with me in my room, but the teal toolbox is in the family room so if the maid needs to do some hemming she can just do so without asking me for the sewing stuff everytime. 

i think the green heart felt pin cushion was made by mom.

MONDAY

andrew and i made ian's birthday present. since i'm pretty sure he doesn't read this blog i guess it'll be okay to reveal the present. anyhow, its slightly different from the picture (we added some stuff to it too. haha)

a gift tag and a small plush croc adorns the paper bag. i added an eyelet to the tail of the croc and ballchain so he can use it as a bag tag or something too. 

it was really nice crafting together with andrew. we were watching the last two episodes of Little Nonya while doing so. he made the notebook, the design and cutting and binding, everything! and i sewed ian a pencil case. its double-lined, blue stripes and brown lining. it was the only guy-ish fabric i had. the gift it of course wrapped in brown paper and tied with twine (its like the sound of music "brown paper packages tied up in string, these are a few of my favourite things!) so the gift wrap sorta had a brown-white-orange-green theme going. 

TUESDAY

packed my scrapbook paper! they were previously sorted by colour. but i realised it was hard to match. and a monotone palette gets kinda boring after awhile. so i decided to arrange them by brands. i guess its because each publisher sorta has a certain style, so sorting by brand isnt as messy as i thought it would be. and of course i had to use my post-its to tag them! its the newer type? its the one thats thicker, so they stand up well and don't get crushed as easily. 

plus its pretty easy to spot the brands too!

close-up. the boxes are from muji. love the frosted white. (:

WEDNESDAY

i packed my scraps. i don't have a picture, but basically by brand too. and i did a layout of the first week of 2009. i wanted to try something similar to the 365 project. except i know i wouldn't be able to really take a good picture every single day. so instead, i'll use either a picture or an item from the day (like ticket stubs or clothes tags). the album is paperchase (love it!) and i haven't decorated the cover yet. i quite like it just kraft actually. but we'll see. ohh, except for the "real leather" tag that was from my clutch (that i will be using for cny.)

its quite a simple layout actually. i was kinda tired from all the packing and my mindset was all "simplify simplify!!!" so the layout was simplified. 

and i had this for supper! san and i used to eat this when we were kids all the time! they got these cute animal fishcakes. san and i would wait for them to expand and count them and have a mini competition to see who will have more animal fishcakes. (: i don't know if its new, or that we just didn't notice it, but there was an udon flavour too. the udon one tastes a bit seaweed-ish. now i know i said i don't hate seaweed now, but when given a preference i'll still rather not have it. haha. so i preferred the yellow packaging, which is the instant noodles one, which had somewhat of a chicken flavour.

THURSDAY

*phew! okay, caught up to today! haha. so today i packed my scrap area (i know! again). but it seems that after awhile, dust seems to invade and settle on everything and its really annoying. i like things clean, neat. and for a multitude of reasons, i just had to pack the area again. it was just irking me. 

so its more level now? like i tried not to stack things up to much or have things shoved all the way back. and i tried to group items? like put them in a tray or a container - its easier to clean. haha. 
been using my colourful ceramic cups more too. the teacups i use for my accessories, the milkshake cups for scrap stuff. (can you spot my green bronto sticking out from the back?)

and i needed to place some items waaaaaaay up on the top shelf. and the thing was they were open baskets with no lids. so i took some food covers and used them to cover the baskets. you could use showercaps too i guess, but the food caps come in different sizes and colours, so it fits snugly. (:

okay! so what else do i have left to do:

• type out 2005 murphy's law calendar quotes for mom
• prepare sunday school lesson
• photocopy sunday school worksheets
• photocopy last night's Bible class notes for mel
• do QT
• try to read the newspaper
• eat vits
• scrub + face mask
• tidy up room a bit
• and write all this down in my diary

tmr there is ian's 21st birthday bash and a visit to the peranakan museum will be in order. (:

ttfn!

*sheryl

its starting to smell like Christmas

i love Christmas, strings of lights, tinkling bells, fresh baked cookies, 

peppermint candies, striped leggings, red & green, 

holly & ivy, candy canes, sugarplum fairies, nutcracker ballet.

eggnog apple cider and pine trees.

gingerbread house with white icing & gumdrops.

presents, holly wreathe and bright red birds.

(from a justjohanna stamp

-i only wrote the parts i liked)

made soba today for the first time. kept craving for soba and jean convinced me it was easy to make! i'll admit i was kinda afraid of the soba when it was boiling, cos it stuck together a little. i wasn't sure if i should treat it like pasta when you boil it? ahwells. turns out, its was simple. and yummy. (:

(andrew i made loads so you can have some tonight if you'd like.)

i improvised, i realised i didn't have spring onions. and the soba would be quite plain without that extra pep, so i added minced raw garlic instead. and i had some mushrooms to go with the noodles.

and yesterday we had kenny rogers - gotta love that corn muffin! (its the highlight of the meal). i do believe i found a corn muffin recipe recently. will have to try it out before Christmas, maybe i could do a bunch for Christmas dinner! haven't been baking. i want to, but the oven has been rather wonky and dad is loathe to get a new one, so we'll see. 

found some gorgeous cupcakes from this lady's flickr. i would like that cupcake stand please!

this is from alicia's blog from her new book. i love the culmination of crafty materials. speaking of which, my craft area (and room) is in a mess. i feel that urge to pack again. i know its crazy, but i do love packing and tidying up. (i'm so domesticated. HAHA. right) anyhow, the family is trying to decide if we should have a holiday this year or do some minor renovations. i'm okay with both. but i wanna do-up my room now. but i know that if i get anymore shelving or boxes, my room is not going to have any walking space. think i shall go pack after this post. (:

found this on the hambly blog. can you believe that bouquet was a wedding bouquet?! ingenious isn't it? but this is definitely not a bouquet i would wanna throw to the crowd. would make a lovely centrepiece. the middles of the flowers are apparently vintage buttons!

i used to keep my seed beads by colour in individual mini zip-locks. but over time, the zip-lock tends to have holes. so i gave up and just poured them by colour into bottles. kinda looks like that coloured sand art thinga-ma-jig, doesn't it?

more beads and super lovely suede leaf garlands. i'm saving them for a special project. :D

this is my favourite craft punch at the moment. 

poster from the poster list.

prints from backbone. 

print from print a day.
print from lab partners.

ceramic tree trunk bowls from domino mag.

this tree is so stunningly red! from donna's blog.

more prints from the poster list.

print from is photo.

tutorial to make a cassette tape wallet here!

tutorial to make lego gummy candy here!

print from wolfie the sneak.

and more prints from the poster list.

have a great day! i'm off to pack! (:
*sheryl

4 years and 6 months

it was our anniversary today! (:

andrew got me this bouquet of lilies...

it was so gorgeous! (i realise i've been using "gorgeous" alot. haha) there were so many different types of flowers along with the 3 lilies, i don't even know their names! so i decided to just take pictures, so that in the future, when i know the names, i can put the name to the flower. 

anyhow, i've decided to start trying to be healthy! I-NEED-TO-LOSE-WEIGHT! 

so i decided to start a food journal. in the past, when i tried, the "journal" was too big. so this time round, i decided to be eco-friendly and make these teensy journals from my scraps.

yea, i kinda have a thing for mini-pens/pencils....

i started yesterday. (: andrew and i ran too. so that was a good start. we didn't run today, but we didn't binge either. so thats good too. as you can see, yesterday i ate a lot of rubbish. 

so i've decided to start carrying almonds with me again. they help stave off hunger pangs. maybe an apple would be good too. hmm...

ohhHHhh! and speaking of mini stationery, lookie here! mini post-its dispenser. uber cute! and look, its in DUAL colours. i.e. the alternate pages are in 2 different colours. so its pink-turquoise-pink-turquoise (you get the idea)

and i was just thinking about what to make with my stack of felt. saw this while shopping today. shall try making softies, like that felt owl. (: i think i will name her Wrynn.

random note, after the facial today, i realise i need to stop being so lazy and start scrubbing and using my masks and so on. its all about being healthier i guess. skin and body. so we'll see. Christmas is such a challenging time for diets. what with all the candy, cupcakes, pudding, turkey, roast ham, gingerbread men, cakes, biscuits, salads, mash...oh my. i feel hungry just typing it. haha. 

everything in moderation i say!