HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

pressie from my BFF

Two of my new year and birthday resolution are to cure my malas and procrastinate so that I sew more and to update my blog regularly than previous year.

2009 was a great year for my career and study but not so great on sewing... hehe... I had to give up sewing as classes/assignments took up all my weekends. Weekdays was tiring after long days at work. I was so stress handling both work and study but thankful that I did very well on both.

2010 is going to be a very challenging year because I will go back to design office and at the same time complete capstone project for my master. I shall try my best to fulfill my resolutions...

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Yesterday was supposed to be a sewing day. But I was having an after-effect 0f dentist experience and packing my stuff at work. I managed to sew a baby gift: what else but another set of pajamas for my staff baby girl. To whomever stop by at my blog, I'm so sorry for another boring post... :) Finally I got to use pink... or fuchsia ... I won't be able to give it to her personally because the day she begins her work after 2-months confinement leave , I also start working at another organization. In the afternoon I bought cotton canvas fabrics with the intention of making thank u gifts to my colleagues...

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This week is quite busy. Today new semester begins and class starts at 11 am.

I've been sewing real slow...

The past weekends I've been sewing curtains for my living room and it almost done. All there is left to do this weekends is french plate lace day curtain. Actually there are only two windows but the length is overwhelmed me... I'm very slow with measuring and cutting. I want it to be precised and perfect although the end result is not necessary perfect... :)

Maybe I was trained that way. Things don't just happen, it has to be conceptualized, sketched, measured, dreamed a bit, put in drawings and plans, and executed. While I was cutting the fabric, I stepped back so many times... Sewing is a therapautic hobby that I want to savour yet I am concious of time I wasted... so I always stressed out that so many projects I wanted to do were not done as planned. That might be the reason I dislike taking sewing order from other people.

I planned to change the curtains five months ago during the semester break but had no idea what the color and design would be. When I first moved into my home six years ago, I went for cooling and calm effect for my living room to counter the scorching hot sun of the outside. Light apple green seemed to be the answer and I still love the color. However, this time I wanted to go for something edgy and clean yet still maintain the original concept. So a few months ago, I choose dark grey and white. I picked IKEA fabric which seems affordable to me compare to others.

I'm loving grey and yellow at the moment...

Sacrifice... or vanity, I decide...

i've been asked to go to Kuching to be part of VM Pre-Study for one of my colleaque project. it has been 2 years since i've been there... so the work trip was quite inviting... however it would take 3 days to complete the study, i.e site visit and interviewing consultants which involved Saturday as well.

Since i've started studying, my weekends are quite precious because one day from 8:30 am to 6:30pm will be devoted to class and the other day is for preparation/studying and also recreational. so i had to pass...

besides work trip in my line of work usually equal to being under the hot sun for many days and eating rich and fantastic food... these are not good at all.... LOL.

however, instead of Kuching i had to audit another project at Germany and in 1 day.