❤ Lucky Packet Design: This is so...HeartFelt :)

Felt. It reminds me of primary school days of messing about during art class, collectively incurring the wrath of the art teacher and just having fun.

Today I found a few scraps of felt hidden away in my little collection cupboard and decided to experiment with it.

I decided to make a brooch and a few hair clips as I'm always in need of these items.

What do you think of them?

❤ Lucky Packet Design: Flower Garden

I love going scavenger hunting at my mum's home. My mum was/is a seamstress and would even do amazing works of embroidery before her trio of nuttiness came along. However, she still has this love for material so she's got a LOT of it.

I used to wrap myself in them as a kid and prance around the house pretending I was wearing some big fancy ballgown :)

I found quite a bit of plain cotton/linen blend material so I decided to claim it as my own (thanks mum!) and decided to make this:

Check it out! Wee little fabric roses

I added a few odd beads and sewed a bit and voila! My first bag! It's perfect for travelling, storing linen, socks, your precious items and other odds and ends.

Hit refresh :)

I've been neglecting all things related to this blog/project of mine.

I know that excuses are a bad thing, but I didn't realise how the time flew by in the past few months. I made promises that I couldn't keep and I still owe some people an apology. In the midst of all that occurred, I remembered, 'oh yes, don't I have a website to run?' and that's when I looked at the date and got a bit of a fright. It's been 2 months since I last said I would do something about this blog. So here I am restarting this blog, once again!

So after much thought and much bothering of some dear people (you know who you are), I've changed the name (AGAIN) and registered a domain!

I've yet to figure out how to work out the other things like how to create a website from scratch (I've forgotten how to do that!), so right now the domain is just pointing to my blog.

I figure that a domain that I've got to pay for will make me start this project up again.

December-January shall be a renewal of this website and I hope, if the Almighty wills it, that all goes well from there on.

Let the brainstorming begin...

❤ Lucky Packet Design: Linocutting and Rubber Adventures

In the midst of the paper cutting project, I got a bit distracted and decided to fiddle about with some rubber and a lino-cutter.  I started off with the pattern that I was playing around with in my paper cutting project, but then decided I'd like a regular old flower instead.  

By the way, I've cut myself at least 3 times.  In Ramadaan it was hard for me to control my frustration and not yell out, 'S#!^' every time I stabbed myself.  Linocutting is not for sissies.  Keep band-aids nearby - and perhaps some protective gloves.

After creating my rubber stamp, I decided to test it on a piece of fabric (which is somewhere around) and as it turns out, I'm pretty pleased with my first shot at lino cutting and printing.  I'm going to fiddle a bit with the design and once I find a trusty roller, I'll (hopefully) create some designs to share on here! :)

I ❤ Food: Ramadaan - Done. Eid ul Fitr - Done.

The burfee didn't make me do a barf-ee.

A lone lamington and a single tiramisu cupcake found themselves coupled.

The strawberries jumped for joy when they realised they weren't being turned into pavlova, but split themselves up when they found out they were being creamed.

Ramadaan came and Ramadaan went.

Eid came and Eid went.

So the month of fasting was good - but then Eid came at the end of it and  even though I said I wouldn't, I ATE and ATE and rolled over and ATE again on Eid day.  Terrible.

(why do you think there's only one of each item left?  There's a lot of other things that you can't see because...they're in my belly! ahhah! psssh...I made it all AND ate it all!  SIES!)

All in all, it was a good Ramadaan - istighfaar (prayers for forgiveness from sins) dhikr (prayer), sabr (patience) and shukr (gratefulness) was a constant thought/action :) I had a lot of time to do some thinking, doing and less procrastinating.  I'm doing a mental 'WHOOP!' just for the latter :)  Let's hope I can keep it up now  :)

Sorry for the cheesiness in the captions.  I couldn't help myself :)

I ❤ Food: The temptation of the Eclair

Ramadaan.  A month of 'fasting, not feasting', as the cliche goes.
We're supposed to control our appetite, worship our Creator in abundance and think of those who have less than us by abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sunset.


After sunset, this Muslim Woman had a moment of weakness.

Hello Eclair, what are you doing here on your lonesome?

It seems like your friends don't want you around.

How sad, nevermind, I've found a better place for you...in my tummy! Nom, nom, nom!

Psst...

Me: "Psst!"

You: "Yeah?"

Me: "It looks like I'm getting it back..."

You: "What back?"

Me: "The crafting/artsy mojo back!"

Watch this space...