A Homemaker’s Diary

It’s been a while since I last shared my craft work here. Well, consider this as my last work for this 2008.
The client finally decided to tie the knot this December so I have to finish up her bunga daun getah. This is supposed to be made in 100 stalks but since I am no longer fit to work the extra hours..hehe..I turn them into 50 pieces.

The picture shown above includes about 25 batang bunga telur. The design takes space so I rather not put the whole 50 stalks on one pahar. In a way the client can save some budget as she will only need to put 25 stalks on each side of her pelamin.

For those interested to attend craft class such as decoupage, bunga stokin and bunga dip, I will be conducting those classes after this Hari Raya.

Since there is no fixed schedule for such classes, please leave your details and email through the comment column if you are interested to attend any of the mentioned classes. I will contact you back with more details for the classes that you are interested to join and we can arrange the time and date for your session. For those not working, you are welcomed to join the class during weekdays. I usually limit the participants to 4-5 persons per session.

Usually each class will last about 3 hours and for weekend I only conduct the class in the morning.

I hope those who have contacted me earlier regarding the craft classes in previous months will grab this chance as I will only conduct these classes till end of November 2008. Otherwise you have to wait until next year, most probably after April when I will resume the business again.

I received a phone call from a journalist from majalah Wanita asking whether I will be OK with photo shooting. No, they are not going to shoot story about me, they just need to take around 10 pictures of my bunga telur creations for their upcoming isu perkahwinan.

So since I have not done any latest design of bunga telur, I decided to do some last night. Just in case whatever in the collection is too berabuk (like Hubby said) or not up to their standard. After all I owe it to the magazine buyers to see what else Bungatelur.com could come out with rather than what I already uploaded on my website.

My friend from Bibah Songket insisted that I made a few bunga telur from her songket leftovers..ye la ye la nanti aku buat…hehe..but if I do the same design nanti look like the one we sent for Ratu Sehari magazine photo shoot pulak..adeih…I am trying to utilize whatever materials I have in possession now and with all this new bunga telur making, I have to mess up my living hall again..huhu!

Those magazine people are coming this Friday morning and now I think I really want the Indian grass cutter to come knocking at my gate..all the lalang in the lawn are as tall as the gate..time nak potong rumput ni tak de la pulak sapa2 lalu..time tak nak tu ada je yg dok ketuk2..

Will update more once the magazine photo shooting is done! Till then, I have to get back to all the messy stuffs..huh!

My decoupage student SMS me in the morning asking whether she can come over to buy the decoupage tissue for about 20 pieces. I replied that I won’t be having enough stock or choices since most of the good designs have been bought by previous students. Perhaps in August I will buy more stocks if I were to conduct any more craft classes, decoupage particularly.

Now should I conduct any more class in August or should I just relax and enjoy my long overdue holiday? After all there’s only a few more weeks free in August (excluding the week of Niece’s wedding and all the travelling) before we start fasting in September. Perhaps that few weeks would be best utilized by cleaning the rooms downstairs and upstairs.

Maybe in a few days time I will come to a decision, but the thought of doing nothing is very tempting..hehe!

I have no pictures to share, and even once I have completed the bunch of bunga pahar (she will collect it by tomorrow), I am not sure whether I will take one. Rasa malas pulak nak cucuk all those bunga at batang pahar and set up the mini studio..huhu. I hope the client will be kind enough to take few pictures of the bunga pahar at the pelamin.

Then there will be another bunch to be completed by 21st May and 2 classes that weekend. And after that I can do nothing all day (which I doubt sebab sure boring giler tak buat apa..kan)

My morning sickness is getting better these days. I had nasi lemak ikan masin, jagung rebus and laksa (bought them in the evening) after I send off Hubby at KLIA and yet at 4am I can’t sleep because I am hungry..huhu!

Perhaps tomorrow after my client comes and collect her bunga pahar, I will drive to JUSCO to get some ingredients for macaroni sup..hehe! Tapi sapa nak tolong basuh pinggan..huhu! See how it goes tomorrow or otherwise I can always opt for take away from Secret Recipe.