Thursday, June 25, 2009

Post-it Notes Questionnaire

In gathering info, I've prepared a series of questions for my respondent to answer (seen this some where, forgot the link.. so it's not entirely my own idea).

01 colour papers
In this colour papers initially

Then respondent wanted to stick them onto his LCD monitor. Though the LCD is huge, the papers somewhat obstructed him during his full screen gaming sessions. And so I was asked to re-write them into these little sticky notes.

02 sticky notes on LCD
I have a feeling it was also due to original papers not being orange (yes, birthday decor is still up)

03 Q1

04 Q2

05 Q3

I wonder what would happen if the feedback did not meet the expected results.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Of Celebrations..

June is a special month for celebrations. My sweetheart's birthday falls in June. Father's Day is in June and daddy's birthday is also within that few days!

Typically, Father's Day is a day we would just spend with daddy for some get-together time. But since I have started the precedent of baking mummy a cake this year, sis has asked me to bake daddy one too. But me with my very limited culinary skills, know no other recipe but my chocolate cake. That, however, is not a problem as the kids (my nieces and nephew) love chocolates.

Photobucket
So with the help of hubby, and some recycled birds cut-out, this is the first cake for daddy.

02 cake box
With an identical cake box design to the Mother's Day cake.

03 birthday cake
The no-bake Oreo cheesecake for daddy's birthday 2 days later.

As with most celebrations, we eat out at Sit A Spell Café, where pre-dinner, sis and I get to shop around the rows of boutique (with discount for knowing the café's owner), while mum and dad get to chat with my aunties.

04 nieces
My nieces - XY can just about finish the whole plate of spaghetti and XT with her meehoon

05 sweetheart & XT
Sweetheart (with my friendship bracelet and Benetton T-shirt, one of his birthday gifts from me) posing with XT.

In continuation of the many celebrations, XT presented us with invitations to her coming birthday party.

06 invites
Her handmade invites

So you see, I have a new project to embark on.... she has named her birthday gift, but I have some supplementary gift ideas brewing in mind *wink*.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Friendship Forever

01 embroidery floss
Remember making friendship bracelets out of embroidery floss during school days?

As a symbol of our 19 years of friendship, I've made my husband a friendship bracelet. It has been as many years if not more since I made one. Do you even remember how to make one? I, again, turned to the ever helpful google search for refreshment course. I still don't know how to make those complicated pretty patterns. It took a lot of trial and error to make the basic ones that I did.

02 making bracelet
This was me making the W pattern during a recent trip to Singapore. Believe it or not, hubby actually taught me this pattern!

03 friendship bracelets
The one I'm using for the keys turned out too short even for my bony wrist and the one in the middle was intended for hubby but also turned out too short for him, so it ends up in my own stash of accessories.

04 bracelet for hubby
This is another one of the same pattern in similar colours made for him. So we now have matching bracelets! :)

If you are wondering where I got my embroidery floss from (they are awfully expensive nowadays!), I actually managed to search and find the balance I put away from all those years when I used to be a novice cross-stitch enthusiast.

05 cross-stitch
Some of my masterpieces

I kid you not. That was a lifetime ago. I, myself, find it hard to believe when I look at these.. at all the hard work and patience put into them.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Happy Birthday Sweetheart

Yesterday was my bff's birthday. I threw a party for him and it was one of my favourite parties. Not every birthday requires a large party. Sometimes it's fun to keep it laid back. So with me as the host and the only guest, it was an exclusive affair.

I spent weeks (ok ok.. so I procrastinated in the first few weeks and only really spent the last few days working hard) preparing it. I decided on a safari (him being such an animals lover) and the colour orange (his fav) as the overall theme. My initial concept was much bigger than this, but cost, time and logistic forced me to scale down to what it was.

balloons bouquet
Birthday surprise started from him receiving this balloons bouquet of my safari-theme, and I had him brought home for me to see even though he couldn't see the rear mirror while driving (and I went through a harmless little white lie with the help from michiyo in ordering the balloons)

living room
While he was at work, I had to keep to a tight timeline to put up everything in place

birthday banner
The birthday banner (especially love the shadows of the animals template on the wall)

balloons

dining & kitchen area

table setting

study room
In the study room where he spends most of his time.. no, not working but playing games. See that new huge LCD?

bedroom
Identical banner in the bedroom

bathroom mirror
The bathroom mirror

birthday gift
And lastly, what is a birthday without gifts..

Looking at the colour scheme, I'm hoping to recycle certain things for Halloween...

Sneak Peek

Pssst... I'm back! Been busy. This is a sneak peek of the latest project I've just executed.

sneak peek

More photos to come...