December 30, 2011

First Step

Salam and hello.




This is the first Aryaan's pair of handmade booties. Made of felt, I used the templete from here and this design is the simplest one. I hope I could make another with some other (or my own) designs.



I need to put something on this pair.




It is quite boring days of the confinement period if you spend it with nothing but wrapping your body with all that bengkung and barut, spend your time watching tv and surfing the internet (owh, minus the time you spend with your sweet little baby!). So, this is what I do - sewing.


And again, I hope I could sew more! Till then!


December 26, 2011

The Color Challenge, No. 2

Another wedding. Another colors. I love wedding... and colors!



December 23, 2011

The Story

Salam and hello peeps,


Dah lama sangat tak update blog ni. There's so many things to say here, banyak ceritanya, cuma tak berkesempatan saja. Anyway, as per last entry, I had delivered a baby boy on Saturday, December 3rd and we named him Aryaan Hafizh. Well, Aryaan was the name we called him since he was inside my tummy. I suggested to Imran to name him Aryaan Elijah Imran, but eventually we decided to name him with that simple name. Alhamdulillah, semuanya berjalan dengan lancar.


Even on the day I delivered. Pagi Sabtu tu saya dan Imran boleh bershopping lagi di Pureen Stock Clearance Sale di PJ bersama Papa and Mama Djibril. Pagi tu juga sebenarnya dah start sakit (sebenarnya saya pun tak tau itulah sakit sebab contraction!). Imran dah tanya samada nak ke klinik dulu atau ke PJ, dan saya decided untuk ke klinik selepas balik dari shopping. Sakitnya tak la kerap, selang 20minit je... And we were shopping there dalam crowd... really, ramai betul orang. Berhimpit-himpit!


Pulang dari shopping, kami singgah ke klinik ibu mengandung yang dekat je dengan rumah. Doktor kata takde apa-apa, it was just a show. Lain la kalau sakitnya regular, dalam 10 minit satu. Anyway, Khamis sebelum tu sebenarnya dah ke Hospital Serdang sebab ada sedikit bleeding. Doktor kat hospital tu check, katanya bukaan baru 1cm, takde apa-apa dan saya dibenarkan pulang. And when the doctor at the clinic gave us the same thing, so we think nothing to worry about. And Imran pulak sepatutnya ke Jakarta on Monday. Doc kata kalau Ahad tak sakit dah, Isnin nanti dia boleh ke Jakarta.


Well, I think the doctor saja je nak sedapkan hati. Agaknya dia memang dah tau yang masanya dah hampir. Takkan lah doktor klinik ibu mengandung boleh bagi verdict yang macam tu, bukannya saya orang pertama yang jadi pesakit dia. Hehe.


Lepas ke klinik, kami balik rumah (sempat singgah kedai beli aiskrim pulak tu!). Lepas maghrib malam tu kekerapan sakit menjadi setiap 5minit. I told Imran, and he suggested to go to the hospital. Tapi saya masih berdegil, kononnya nak ikut cakap doktor, tunggu esok (Ahad), kalau-kalau hilang sakitnya. Then, we went out for dinner. Tengah-tengah dinner tu sakitnya memang setiap 5 minit. Tapi masih boleh layan bola kat kedai makan. Ha-ha!


Then, Imran cadangkan untuk buat simulasi perjalanan ke hospital, nak tengok berapa minit masa perjalanan. Lepas makan, terus ke Hospital Serdang, kononnya kalau tengah malam nanti sakit sangat, boleh la tau berapa minit ke hospital. Tepat 15minit sampai di parking lot Hospital Serdang. Last-last saya kata alang-alang dah sampai masuk terus je la, saya dah tak tahan "sakit 5minit" tu. We didn't have to worry pasal semua barang memang dah ada dalam kereta, termasuk la buku pink.


Lepas daftar, saya masuk bilik rawatan, doktor check, katanya bukaan dah 6cm! Oh God! Saya tak tau nak kata apa. Doktor pecahkan air ketuban then terus bawa saya masuk ke labour room. Tukar baju, hubby kat luar pun dah diberitahu, tak lama lepas tu doktor check lagi sekali bukaan. Saya terdengar dia kata dah 7cm tapi dia masih consider it 6cm. Nurse beritahu saya dalam pukul 4am nanti saya bersalin. Masa tu dalam jam 11.20pm. Saya fikir dalam 4jam ni jenuh la saya menahan sakit, tambah-tambah air ketuban dah dipecahkan. Huhu...


Memang sakit. Hubby masuk untuk jumpa sekejap pun masih tak dapat tenangkan saya. Takut pun ada sebab tak tau macamana rasanya bersalin nanti. Ok ke tak ke... Saya tanggal semua barang kemas dan serahkan pada hubby dan sempat lagi dia ambil gambar sebelum saya bersalin sebelum dia keluar tinggalkan saya seorang dalam labour room tu. Sejuk lak tu. Nak tunggu sampai jam 4am, seksanya!


Tapi Allah mudahkan urusan kami. Dalam tak sampai setengah jam, saya rasa sakit yang amat dan mula nak meneran. Nurse yang ada dalam bilik tu suruh saya tunggu, then dia panggil doktor dan hubby. Tengah nak meneran tu saya sempat kena marah dengan nurse sebab dia nak ajar cara meneran yang betul tapi saya macam tak boleh nak tahan lagi, teran dengan cara yang salah. (Mana la sempat pergi antenatal class). Hubby dok tenangkan saya, sambil saya dengar penerangan nurse, sambil tahan sakit. Huhu!


Akhirnya, jam 11.57pm, saya selamat melahirkan baby boy. Alhamdulillah, saya tak perlu masa yang lama untuk menunggu waktu bersalin. Hubby keluar, baby dibawa untuk dicuci, saya pulak dijahit. Pedih, tapi happy sebab semuanya selamat.Dan saya pun dah mula breastfeed baby. Maka bermulalah kehidupan saya dan hubby sebagai parent. Hubby dah inform semua ahli keluarga. Parents saya terus ambil tiket keretapi jam 2am dari Ipoh. Setelah semuanya selesai, saya dan baby dibawa ke wad.


Malam tu hubby tak dibenarkan jaga saya di wad, nasib baik kakak saya yang kononny nak datang melawat, terpaksa jaga saya malam tu. Dia pun kena tidur dalam wad. (Thanks to her!). Hubby kena balik basuh baju baby, sebab baju-baju yang dibeli tak dibasuh lagi. Pagi tu dia kena ke KL Sentral ambil my parents. Then dalam jam 12tgh, waktu melawat, baru la semua sampai di hopital. Petang tu in-laws sampai dan ada beberapa sahabat yang datang melawat termasuk la Papa dan Mama Djibril.


That's the story. Sekarang ni berpantang di Ipoh dan sibuk uruskan baby termasuk lah setelah dia kena kuning, hopefully semakin kurang. Selasa depan jumpa doktor untuk tahu keputusan darah dan air kencing baby yang diambil last Monday.


Thanks to Allah for the gift. Semoga semuanya lancar dan semoga kami dikurniakan kesihatan yang baik. Thanks to hubby for everything and thanks to everyone yang banyak membantu terutamanya my Mak and Ayah. Semoga kami dapat menjalankan tanggungjawab kami sebagai parents, dan semoga Aryaan Hafizh dapat membesar dengan baik dan mendapat didikan yang sempurna. Amin.


p/s: Today is Friday, December 23rd, 2011. This supposed to be the due date of the birth of the baby. :)

December 13, 2011

It's a Boy!!

Announcement!



May Allah bless him. Well, I'm a mommy now. And, "Daddy" and "Bunda" are what he's going to call us... Hihi!








October 21, 2011

Little Leli Deli

On the way home after work yesterday, I was thinking what were we having for dinner. I dropped by the Giant Supermarket to find anything that could be our meal for that evening. Surely it wasn’t rice, I wanted something else. Finally I decided to make a homemade burger for dinner and breakfast this morning. After the shopping, I reached home, took a shower and then started to browse a simple beef burger recipe from my recipe book collections, and I found one.

Not much ingredients are used, and I made some alteration on the recipe. And after it all has been done, I think I would like to name it Little Leli Deli. Ha-ha!

So, here I share the recipe, my own version.


Little Leli Deli

Beef patties:

400g minced beef

½ cup fresh bread crumbs

¼ cup flat or English parsley, finely chopped

1 onion, finely chopped

1 egg, lightly beaten

2 tbsp worcestershire sauce

Salt and pepper for seasoning

1 tbsp dried mix herbs

For Burgers:

1 French loaf, cut into sliced, diagonally

Baby Romaine leaves (or any other greens)

Mayonnaise

Mix all the ingredients for the patties in a bowl, use your clean hand to mix it up. Divide the mixture into small balls and pat them in your palm into small oblong shape patties. Heat the non-stick pan with an oil (please not too much). And fry the patties for about 5 minutes or until cooked. Remove from the pan.

And now, the best part. It’s up to you if you want to put some butter or garlic butter on the French loaf, or if you want to toast them up. Take one beef patty, cut it into half, horizontally. Then put it on the loaf, spread some mayonnaise, then the leaves and sandwich it with another slice of loaf. Done and it's ready to serve!

You can also put some tomato slices or avocado slice (Imran always doesn’t like it) or salsa on the patty, depends on how do you like it.

ENJOY!



October 10, 2011

Weekend...

Salam and hello peeps,
What did you do during last weekend?
Imran and me spent 5 hours at Big Bad Wolf Book Sale at MAEPS, Serdang, and ended up with 14 books (including a mag) worth around RM300-400, for less than RM120. What a great deal!

And this is what I've been making during weekend. The Purple Anggur Boy, I named it. Ha-ha! Cute!

Being out of the headpiece-making day, I was just thinking of making something as a monthly giveaway for the student in the Arts Project Class in Shah Alam, whose project will be selected as the best one. So, this cute Anggur Boy is one of it. [Ohw, by the way, Imran said he likes the hair! Hehehe!]

Till then!

Happy Monday, people!




September 26, 2011

Roses headband For Aamily Izzati

Salam and hello,
Here's new thing made last week, a headband for my colleague's new-born baby girl, Aamily Izzati (what a sweet name!)

Roses are made of cream and pink satin, hand sewn and glued on the elastic headband. It's simple but I think the colors make this looks sweet.

Sweet stuff for sweet Aamily.









Wrong spelling on her name. Sorry, sayang! Your dad didn't brief me, ha-ha!

Till next time!

September 15, 2011

So?

So you think you can't craft?



September 1, 2011

Eid Mubarak

Salam Eid ul Fithr 1432H

from us


August 22, 2011

Homemade Pizza

Salam,
Siapa suka makan pizza?
Saya dan hubby sangat suka, in fact saya memang suka makan Italy. Jumaat lepas cuti, jadi saya rasa teringin sangat nak masak sesuatu yang lain dari biasa untuk berbuka. Belek-belek majalah resepi, jumpa pula resepi pizza. Hah, apa lagi, terus keluar ke pasaraya untuk beli barang.

Jenuh jugalah nak menyiapkannya, maklumlah, selalu makan kat restoran pizza je, kali ni buat sendiri. Tak sempat makan untuk berbuka, jadi dinner lah pula.

Membancuh, menguli, sediakan sos dan toppings... akhirnya setelah dibakar, rasa puas hati sebab dapat makan homemade pizza. Walaupun the crust sedikit keras, namun masih berpuas hati. Imran balik rumah malam tu, sempat la habiskan sebiji!


The dough


The sauce


The toppings


The pizza!


The verdict... :P

August 19, 2011

It's been a while...

Salam and hello,

Nampaknya dah lama tak update blog ni.

Dari Jamadil Ula sampai dah masuk minggu ke-3 Ramadhan 1432H. Nak kata sibuk sangat tu tak la, cuma tak berkesempatan masuk ke alam maya ni. Kebetulan pula ICT room kat institute ni dah terbakar, habis semua internet service tak berfungsi. Nampaknya memang kena pasang intrnet kat rumah la...

Good news to all, Imran and I will become Daddy and Mommy in this December! It was surprising since it's too early for a newly-wed like us. BUT, it's soo exciting having some kickings and rollings of the baby inside recently. Don't know is it boy or girl yet, but hopefully everything will go smoothly. Amen!

Currently I've been busy making some small business. Macam tahun lepas, saya jual serunding ayam dan daging. Cuma tahun ni tak ambil banyak. Harganya dah naik. Tapi, saya masih jual dengan harga yang sama dengan tahun lepas.

3 minggu lepas, ada Jumbo Sale kat Bernama. 2 weeks before that, Imran asked me whether I wanted to join the sale for my head and hair accessories. And I did. Tak banyak yang boleh disiapkan dalam 2 minggu, tambah pula dengan kerja-kerja updating nota untuk kelas semester ni. Walaubagaimanapun, usaha terbalas juga bila kebanyakannya telah dibeli oleh officemates Imran sehari sebelum jualan! Hanya tinggal 3 Satin Flower hairband untuk dijual untuk esoknya! Alhamdulillah, siap ada yang order untuk pairs of hairclips lagi. Syukur. And thanks to Imran for the support.

Lagi besemangat rasanya. So, lepas ni boleh la saya marketkan semua produk tu di online shop saya di HandMade.my.

Ada lagi seminggu lebih sahaja untuk umat Islam menyambut Hari Raya. Pasti ramai yang sudah membuat persiapan. Bagi kami, tahun ni mungkin simple aja. Mungkin baju baru pun takde. Mungkinlah. Maklumlah, banyak lagi keperluan yang perlu dicukupkan. Menjelang December nanti, lagi banyak dana yang diperlukan for the little one.

Tahun ini, Imran plan beraya di Penang. Lepas tu nanti baru balik Ipoh dan Pantai Remis. Huhu... apa rasanya beraya di tempat orang ye? First time raya di Sydney dulu tak la terasa sangat sebab masa tu Raya Haji. Dah biasa sangat beraya Haji di tempat orang. Mungkin akan rasa kekok, atau mungkin saya akan buat-buat tak kekok! Ha-ha!

Cukup setakat ini, kali ni. Saya sertakan beberapa pics of product yang telah dijual di Bernama 3 minggu lepas.

Dan untuk semua umat Islam, tidak terlewat rasanya untuk saya ucapkan Selamat Berpuasa! Hayatilah Ramadhan, hargailah pengorbanan para mujahid yang berjuang dalam peperangan yang banyak berlaku dalam bulan Ramadhan pada zaman Rasulullah sehingga mencapai kemenangan yang haq. Barulah boleh raya! Hehehe!


Large Rose Hairbands.

Pairs of Hairclips - Dahlia and Lacey Rose, ordered by Kurnia (Bernama)


Disebabkan terlupa nak beli plastic utk packaging, saya gunakan brown paperbag dan doilies untuk bungkusan.

And I think this Earth Friendly packaging is quite cool. This ones are for Kurnia (Bernama). Small Poppy Tudungclips as a giveaway!


Till then!


May 8, 2011

Mother's Day

To all mothers and mommy-to-be,




April 25, 2011

Cupcakes by Edi

Back in the office last Monday with smile on my face when I saw a box (well, almost a box) of cupcakes left in the fridge for me. The most sweetest thing of the week after getting tired of Jelajah at Kedah on the weekend!

It was a homemade wedding gift from Kak Ina, she wanted to give me those lovely cuppies since a week before my wedding. So, En. Zul (her husband - my colleague) brought them on Friday but I was on leave that day, away to Kedah. And so he left the cuppies in the office frigde until I got them on Monday.

Her Strawberry Choc Chips and Vanilla Oreo flavored cupcakes are so nice. And her ideas on the cuppies... so adorable! I love them!

Visit her blog and you can order the cupcakes for any occasion. You can also join her Cupcake Class. And hey, this one also can be a very cute wedding favor!

Enjoy!


The colleagues had the rest!





April 22, 2011

He is...

One dedicated person, a loving husband he is.
Romantic in his own way, he always make me smile.
He is so dear, he holds me tight.
He leads, he loves and he brings more sweetness into my life.





p/s: I love you, Honey.



April 21, 2011

Ah... Doilies!

Bila kena tinggal sorang-sorang kat rumah, inilah jadinya.













Tapi nak buat apa dengan stamped doilies ni ye? Hmm... Just wait and see.

See ya!