Not so angelic

How I wish that my Princess is a baby again, not a 5yo toddler. She used to be good gil; listen to mummy, helping mummy around and such an angelic girl. But everything change just so sudden, especially this year where I feel she was so mischevious and always up to her sleeve. She talks back and rude. She does not learn that in school, I am pretty sure because I got confirmation from her teachers that she is very good girl there. So, does her brother's presence and my lack of times contribute to her change of behaviour??

How I wish I have more times for my children. When Princess was small, I spent much time with her, nurture and teach her. I have to say that I am pretty proud of myself and her as she has pick up good reading habits. She enjoyed reading books and never stop to learn. Just that her recent behaviour is pretty unacceptable. She always fight with her brother, does not give in to him, did not do the things she was told and speak back. So it was a headache for me and hubby as we sensed that she has be own personality and worry she will get worse when she goes to primary school in 2 years time.

Well, I got suggestions from other mummies around and hopefully it does work in my case:

1. Don't get angry
It only make things work and she gets more rebellious. Take some minutes to cool down first and then talk rationally with her

2. No siding
Do not side any of your kids. When they fight, and no matter who started it first, punish both. Take away their toys, no snacks etc.

3. Praise them
Like punishment when they misbehave, praise them when they are well behave. Hug, kiss, pat their head or clap hand will make them feel great.

4. Spending more times doing things your children love
Like playing with their favourite dolls, toys, building blocks or reading books. Anything to bond the quality times and show them that in regardless of busy schedule, we still love them

So, you think they will work for me? Anything else you would like to add?

Quirky Love: Star Gazing

Continuing with some more pages from my Adventure Book here's two of my favorites. I think one of the most romantic things you can do during the summer is to go star gazing. You can pack a picnic and take a blanket and just enjoy the beauty of the sky. If you plan ahead you can go during a meteor shower and make wishes on shooting stars together. If the outdoors isn't your thing or the weather is just not cooperating you could go to a planetarium instead (here's a list of a bunch in the US). A lot of them have free entry and they're good old fashioned geeky fun. For my pages I listed a couple of meteor showers that happen during the summer; the Southern Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower and the Perseid Meteor Shower. On the other page I included a pull out for an exhibit going on at our local science center. I love space and stars and science in general so it's a fun thing to share with my boyfriend.

Blank templates and all the credits for the pages can be found here. There's no credit necessary but it's always appreciated. Feel free to leave me a comment with your projects if you use them because I'd love to see what you make. Enjoy :)

Window Treat-meant for me

One of the happiest moments for me is when I feel like I’ve just opened the 1958 Sears catalog and ordered the perfect set of drapes for my studio. Well, unfortunately I can only wish for the time machine to be able to go back and order those drapes. My time machine is a group of amazing thrift shops I have here in Kansas City. These are junk stores really with a stash of treasures right out of the 1958 Sears catalog, and beyond. Now, don’t misunderstand my ease at finding these wonderful relics. There is an extensive search and rescue program involved here. Most of the time the perfect “have to have” vintage treasure isn’t waiting at the shop door with my name on it, but once in a while I think it is. This time it was.

This time the rescue was for the perfect set of pink, french-pleated drapes with a touch of lavender and sketched icons in charcoal gray with gold accents. It is as though they really did arrive in the mail from Sears just for me. Oh, but even better, I was able to find them years later and I know they have a wonderful story to tell. Now they will share the next chapter in their story as they cheerfully greet me each morning in the studio when I begin my workday.

There is another thing that makes this story even more delightful for me. I not only love the treasure hunt for vintage finds, but the amazing deals that come with thrifting. Most of the time the treasures are pennies on the dollar, even better deals than the original Sears catalog prices. This time, once again the price is right! This set of drapes were all of $7.00 for the set. I was able to cut and sew them into two sets of window treatments, making each piece of the four drapes a mere $1.75.

Well, my time machine back to 1958 would not have been as good as this. I guess I should just be happy when I step back into the past as I walk through the doors of my current day thrift stores and find the window treatments that were meant for me.

My children bag

I used to have many baby bags from Anakku, & Mummycare but I guess I put so much toll on them, they all worn out. Probably the children stuff are too heavy for them. Lol! So recently I resorted to organise my children bag better and never buy any of those bags again. Now I have one or 2 bags that I recycled and turn into my children bag.

A lady will never goes wrong by owning a bag organiser. I put my mobile phone, keys, purse, lipsticks and other stuff in there. So when every time I change my handbag, I just take out the organiser and put into the new bag.


I never throw away those pouches as they come in handy. I pack a pouch with spare clothngs and napkins, and another pouch with diapers, creams and tissues.



This is actually a cooler bag but since no one used it as cooler bag, I turn it into my handy bag.

Authentic Prada bag bought by hubby from China 5 years ago. Now I turn it into a great children bag, because I like it spacey.


Still have space to put more stuff.

Two Slithering Snakes

Eliana requested a snake lunch the other day and this is what I came up with: Two snakes slithering through the grass and mud! :)

Snakes? or Worms?... hmmm..

Honestly after I made it I thought they looked more like earth worms so perhaps the ham on top doesn't work... but to Eliana they are snakes and they were a success!


The snake sandwiches were open faced sandwiches with bread, cheese and ham on the top. Cut cheese stripes and small confetti sprinkles spots for decoration, and the eyes were white confetti sprinkles and I used an edible food marker to dot the eyes and make the mouth


The flowers stems, grass and the border are cut green peppers


The star flowers are cut strawberries with a small star cutter *I was in a star flower mood at the moment obviously. looking back I wonder why I didn't use a flower cutter... ;)


The "mud" is chocolate pudding.  (p.s. a little bit of pudding goes a long way!)




This meal was gobbled up :) It was a fun creative lunch and I hope you enjoy it too!


Until Next Time... :)

Feeling Crabby?

I was thinking the other day, "what should I make for lunch?" And well because Eliana was so crabby the day before a crab came to mind!  So I made her a crab lunch :) A very cute crab I must add.

The crab is a ham and cheese sandwich made with a sun dried tomato tortilla with edible candy eyes and for the mouth I used an edible marker


The "sand" is crushed graham crackers


The "ocean" is blueberry gogurt


The palm tree is a pretzel rod with sugar snap pea leaves and raisin "coconuts"


The sun I cut out of a yellow bell pepper




Eliana loved this lunch! It reminded us of the beach and how much we love summer! I hope you enjoy it too :)


Until Next Time... :)

Quirky Love: Photography

Photography is a hobby of mine and I love learning new techniques and tricks. I wrote in the film on the side the quote "Photography is the beauty of life captured." I think photography can be a fun thing to learn how to do with a partner. My boyfriend is super into computers so he's helped me find all kinds of free image programs to experiment with. I like to document our lives and the things we do through photos. They're a wonderful reminder of where we've been.

Blank templates and all the credits for the pages can be found here. There's no credit necessary but it's always appreciated. Feel free to leave me a comment with your projects if you use them because I'd love to see what you make. Enjoy :)

Car washing

There is a car wash shop near my shop, so almost every week I would send my car for washing.

Before I married, I used to wash my car myself. And after I got married, I seldom wash my car. Not so frequent unlike when I was single where I washed it once every 2 weeks. So everytime I picked my my mum for breakfast back then after I married, she will not stop complaining about how dirty my car was. Why not? Little gal loves to step on the cushion with her sandals on and throw things in the car, may it be wrappers, toys or hair accessories. So now I have small plastic bags in my car, when ever she wants to throw something, I will ask her to throw in the bags. At least it is easier for me to dispose later.

Back to the present. Since I have no time to wash and vacuum for a past year, I just have to rely on them to do the work at the price of RM8.00. They do not do great job, I have to admit, but at least it gets my car clean (if not sparky clean). Why I said they do not do great job? Because I still find some stuff underneath the front seats. Sigh!

My Quirky Life: Venue Change

 I know I need to post more, I'm working on it. I've had lots of pain issues (again) this week so I've had a hard time getting my thoughts in order so I could actually post something. I don't want to end up posting a gurgling mess of grumpiness >.<

First of all I want to talk about changing venues for my shop. I never had a real chance to get my ArtFire store up and running due to medical stuff and they've recently announced that they're doing away with Basic (free) accounts. That's all fine and dandy since I hadn't been able to get to really invested there. I can't afford the $10 a month subscription fee so I'm moving my shop over to Zibbet for now. What I really want to do in the future is set up my own shop but I have to learn how to first. Until then Zibbet is where you can find me :)

I'm working on polymer clay charms and jewelry to list right now but I'll also be putting up some prints of my photography and some artist trading cards (expect tiny zombie bunnies!). Speaking of photography I've been asked by a friend to contribute some of mine to an online magazine. I'll be going through my stuff and trying to figure out what to submit later today. I have a hard time judging my own art. When the issue is published I'll be sure to link it here :) And of course I'll post here and on Twitter and Tumblr when I finally get stuff listed in my shop.

I'm going to try to get through and post the rest of the pages of the Adventure Book I made in the next couple of weeks as well so be on the look out for that! I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend.

Also, please send good thoughts and love to Norway!

Little Bunny Foo Foo...

Sometimes making a creative lunch seems too overwhelming and too time consuming to do. Well this is by far the easiest creative lunch I have made and it was a big hit! It is easy, cute and fun. Meet Little Bunny Foo Foo:

Little Bunny Foo Foo Hopping through the garden :)

The bunny is a ham and cheese sandwich cut with a bunny cookie cutter

The grass and flower stems are cut green peppers

I filled the flower silicone baking cups with honey graham bunny cookies and clementines

If you want you can add more decorations, but a simple creative lunch works just as fine! Its simple, fast and yet so creative :)

Until Next Time... :)

A Tail of Two Countries

I am happy to finally be able to share the Woodland Tails baby products with you. They are happily residing in two different hemispheres. One is here in the US and the other is down under in Australia and New Zealand. The baby products are different for each so you have the opportunity to find baby sleepers and burp cloths in one area and stuffed animals, blankets and melamine in the other.

In the US the baby products are distributed by Maison Chic for babies. The baby items are shown above and the link to Maison Chic is here, however you may want to search online or at your favorite baby shops to find the darling sleepers, pajamas and bib and burp cloth sets.

For those of you in Australia and New Zealand you will find additional Woodland Tails products through the distributor Lily & George. The baby items carried by Lily & George are shown above and the link is here, however you may also want to search online or at your favorite baby shops to find these sweet onesies, stuffed animals, rattles, bibs, blankets and melamine.

You can also search online for any Woodland Tails products and by using additional search words of the animal names you will find many locations for these baby products. Below you will find the names and traits of each animal to help you search for their hidden location deep in the woods, north and south of the equator.

Extra Hands

When we move into our new house, hubby is getting a live-in helper to look after the housechores and kids. At least he can take his hands off the kids (no need to look after the kids after office hours) since I have to be at the shop every evening.

It does sound good having a live-in helper. However after listening and reading about some Indonesian maids, I have second thought of having foreign maids. I had one Indonesian helper before, who helped me in the shop for 9 months but after she gone back for CNY this year, she never come back. Waste of money spend on her work permit and passport, but there is some thing we cannot control, right?

So we are looking for a local girl that would be willing to work as our maid. It would not be much work actually. Simple housechore in the morning (no need to do cleaning daily since we only at home in the evening and sleep). As for the kids, by next year both kids will be in kindergarten, so she only need to look after them in the afternoon. By evening, if I can spare my times, I would pick and bring them to my shop.

Sound smooth, but got to see once we move in and we able to get a helper. Need my MIL to find from kampung. Suppose to have one Indonesian maid, and my MIL said she is very good in work. However after working for my MIL in her canteen, the maid decided not to come to Kuching and work for us. Probably the kids factor. Not many maids want to look after kids. Lol!

Chicks like Flowers ;)

Haven't you heard? Chicks like flowers! ;) I know corny.. but you love it.

This lunch is a fun way to present fruit and veggies in a way that any kid will surely enjoy. And it is super easy. Win. Win. (I aim to please) ;)

*taken with my cell phone so please excuse the quality*

I cut up cucumbers, strawberries, raspberries and clementines and shaped them into flowers with blueberry centers

The "grass" is made up of cut up green peppers

The Chick is a ham and cheese sandwich cut with a cookie cutter.  I placed more cheese on top of the sandwich and used organic fruit leather to make a collar.  The eyes are edible candies. (Now i know looks like a duck but I have another cookie cutter in the set that is definitely a duck so I decided this is a chick!) 

The small chicks are Target brand Cheddar Chickadees crackers

This was a good hearty lunch! I don't think Eliana finished everything but she loved it!

Until Next Time... :)


Linked up: 
Tip Me Tuesday
*Get Creative*
Kitchen Fun and Crafty Friday
Thematic Thursday

"A" is for...

A is for.....

Alligator!

The "A" is from the Scrabble Jr. Cheez-Its
"is" was cut out of the spinach tortilla
"for" was cut out of cheese.
The border is made up of blueberries
The alligator is a cheese and turkey quesadilla made with spinach tortillas cut into an alligator shape, and of course no alligator would be complete without edible eyes!


Eliana LOVED this lunch and I don't think any kid would have trouble eating this lunch! ;)


Until Next Time... :)

Our favourite

No 6 Kopitiam is our frequent place as it is in between my shop and our house. So as usual on Saturday around 5pm and since we both did not have our lunch, we went to our "lao ti fan" (old place)

As usual, we ordered our favourite claypot dishes; his curry lamb and my assam fish! Usually I would ordered my usual dish, i.e. soy sauce pork trotter, but that day, I just felt like having fish.


Total RM18.00 for the 2 claypot dishes with 2 bowl of white rice.

To have a balanced diet, we had stir fry midin, which is RM6.00. Pretty expensive for such portion, I said. But still, we like this place and never bored of its food.

Two Frogs On A Log..

So while I am getting used to blogging I figured I would revisit some of my favorite creative lunches from the past year.  This lunch is one that Eliana absolutely loved and I had a lot of fun making it! I decided to make two frogs on a log and this is what I came up with...

This creative lunch is compiled of a ham and cheese sandwich frog with edible candy eyes and I used edible marker to make a mouth

The tongue is organic fruit leather and the "flies" are raisins with sliced almond wings

In the Frog silicone cup there is a fruit salad of kiwi and blueberries

A yellow bell pepper sun

The "log" is made up of cut up grapes

This picture was taken with my cell phone...! I know, I know, not really helping my desire to be a better food photographer and take better pictures but right now I'm really all about convenience and well when you have a hungry three year old you really aren't going to go get the camera and say "hold on sweetie Mommy has to take a perfect picture"! So usually I snap one or two pictures really quick with my cell phone and hope for the best! I hope I can figure out a better method!

I hope you enjoy this creative lunch as much as we did! 

Until Next Time.... :)

Last of Harry Potter

Yes! Avid fan of Harry Potter series, ready! The last installment of Harry Potter films is in cinema now. I have not grab a ticket to the big screen yet but will definitely do so in the next few week.

I remember back in end of November 2001, when hubby and I first dated, Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone was just released in cinema. It was actually our second date that night. First was a lunch date in Hong Kong Noodle House. So, our romance started from there and together with Harry Potter movies, it has been 10 years now.

After a nice candelight dinner in San Francisco Grill on our second date, we went for the late night movie in Star Cineplex. It was our first movie together, so it is meaningful for both of us to watch the final installment in big screen. *wink* Hubby even has the original DVD collection of all Harry Potter movies; a good movie is worth keeping, he said.

My Quirky Life: This Week Has Been Long

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I figured I should make a post so my blog doesn't get lonely. This week has been particularly tough for some reason so it's been hard to find time to write a decent post. Most of my time has been spent asleep or in a half-awake stupor where I can't think straight. I'm sure my messed up sleep schedule isn't helping things. I should be going and staying with my boyfriend again soon so hopefully that can help me get back on track.

When I could I've filled my time with polymer clay and doodles (mostly zombies, I'm constantly drawing zombies or robots for some reason). Once my clay pieces are completely finished (I'm making quite a few of them into charms for wrap bracelets) I'll have pictures up. I'll also be listing them on my ArtFire store for sale :) Speaking of which, I made myself some super simple business cards last night/ morning. I think they'll work for now.

One last thing, here's some random sparkly rainbow nail art I did recently.

Child's food

First of all, thank you guys for your birthday wishes in my previous post. My big day is more than a month, but it is really nice to have earlier wishes. You make my day!

Let me bring you back to my childhood time. Yes, once a while I would reminiscing my sweet path of childhood, especially on food and time spent with my family. I grew up in strict environment where mum is the "police" ensuring we abide to "house rule". Nevertheless she is a good mum and I love her cooking. Dad on other hand is sole breeder; providing what necessary for the family. No matter how tired he was after a long day at work, he would brought us for supper almost every night. Come to evening time, me and my younger siblings would dressed up and eagerly getting ready to go for supper.

One of my favourite childhood noodle dish is tomato sauce crispy noodle. Remember one of the favourite stall to have such dish was in Chawan Road where a couple operated a small business in their house compound. Since then, they were no longer in operation; wonder where have they moved to. Hardly can find good tomato sauce noodle in Kuching.

The noodle will be deep fried to crisp first, and when there is order, the cook will cook the tomato sauce and add some fish balls, fresh prawns, sliced pork meat and chicken meat with green vegetables. Then the sauce will be added to the noodle. However nowadays the portion shrink and less ingredients. Tasted one last weekend in Stutong. The sauce not bad, combination of sweet and soury, but they only added some chicken meat slices and vegetable. So bland. RM4.00 per plate!



Definitely would not go back for it, unless I really craving for tomato sauce crispy noodle again since nearer to my house! *wink*

Once a while, I feel like kid again and indulge in sinful food. Fried chicken. It has been my favourite dish when I was small, and tell me which children never love fried chicken huh?

As tempting as it is, I seldom have it. Got to control my diet, you know.

So just out of craving on a Saturday, I opted to try My Chicken Restaurant in Tabuan since near my shop. I ordered the take-away since a lot of patrons that time. Love the takeaway box. Colourful and atractive, don't you think???



A lot of advertisement in this small box!!


The chicken taste almost the same like KFC, but bigger in size. That was my lunch for that day.

My First Blog

First things first I think I should let you all know:


1. This is my first blog post.
2. I am not a food photographer (I so wish though). I just use a digital..point and shoot..no real technique.. hopefully I will improve on that
3. Most Importantly I am a mother to a beautiful three year old named Eliana
4. I make cool lunches for my daughter
5. My three year old is my heart and soul
6. I love her with all my heart and my love grows for her everyday
7. My husband is pretty darn amazing too
8. I mean, I guess our daughter wouldn't be here without him...
9. No seriously we've been married for five years and I'm fortunate to have married my best friend
10. We own a green cheeked conure named Kiwi. He is the most cuddly bird you will have ever met. (yes you read that right. cuddle. we have a strange bird..)




So this was my first blog post... we'll see how this goes :)

Presents

From hubby


My early birthday present. *wink*



Yeap, my new toy to play with. Since he knew I love snapping this and that, my ideal present would be digital camera. Thank you, my dear.



From far away lands



Chocolate from Sweden, toothpick holder and fancy earrings from Moscow. A shop operator near my shop went to Russia to attend her son's graduation from medical centre. Then tour around Europe for over 10 days. She bought chocolate bar for my 2 kids. My 2 kids always play with her when they come over. Very thoughtful of her.

Don’t turn up your nose until you try it!

Who likes turnips? I’m thinking not so many of us. Let’s face it, they get a pretty bad rap. In fact the only way I remember ever eating turnips as a kid was when they were raw, peeled and cut into pieces, you know, like a carrot (but not!). I have also heard of mashed turnips, you know, like buttery mashed potatoes (but not!). And then there are turnip greens, which makes me think of a fresh, green lettuce salad. Nope, not like that either. We’re talking cooked, like spinach, and don’t even get me started on the bad rap spinach gets.

There is one way I not only like turnips, but think they are pretty tasty, and bonus, nice to look at as well. They are pickled turnips, you know, like dill pickles (but not!). They are much easier to make than pickles and are great during the summer months to enjoy as a snack or with salads or sandwiches, accompanied by pickled cucumbers and peppers.

The recipes for these summertime snacks couldn’t be easier, or believe me, I wouldn’t make them. They are quick to make, but need the added ingredient of patience to give the veggies enough time to pickle. Maybe turnips are the virtuous veggie or something. Anyway, the taste improves as they age. Try them for yourself; here are the recipes below.

Pickled Turnip Recipe

3 turnips (peeled and diced into medium pieces)

1 small beet (peeled and sliced)

4 garlic cloves

1 cup white vinegar

1 cup water (or equal parts with vinegar)

1 tsp salt (more or less to taste, but should be quite salty)

Place all ingredients in a quart jar, stir to mix and leave out for two or three days (or refrigerate if you like). The turnips will take on the magenta color from the beet within hours, but the pickled flavor will be best after a few days. Once the jar has been opened, I advise refrigerating. The turnips will stay crisp and fresh for up to a month or more in the refrigerator.

Pickled Cucumber and Pepper Recipe

2-3 cucumbers (peeled and sliced)

1 red or yellow pepper (cut into half-rings)

1 small Walla Walla Sweet onion, sliced (I omit the onion, but my mom swears by it:)

fresh basil leaves

a few sprinkles of dill

1 cup cider vinegar

1 cup water (or equal parts with vinegar)

1 tsp salt (more or less to taste, but should be quite salty)

Place all ingredients in a quart jar (larger if needed), stir to mix and refrigerate. The vegetables will take on the pickled flavor after a few hours and can be kept for up to a week or more in the refrigerator but will not keep their crispness. Don’t worry, you will eat them up within a day or two anyway. :)

So, don’t turnip up your nose on these pickled treats until you give them a try. Think of them like every other pickled veggie you’ve ever eaten~but not!

Skinny me?

Hubby commenting that I am too skinny. I think my current weight is okay for my height. 48kg for 152cm. Skinny meh??

I have got back to my pre-pregnancy weight and die-die I will maintain my current shape and weight. How I do it? My formula as follow:

#1 Stress
How can you think of food when under stress? May it be family related stress, work related stress or other type of stress, I would not be thinking much about eating.

#2 Long working hour
It means busy. When busy, I would not be thinking about food

#3 Diet
Eat less fried food and carbohydrate, eat more vegetables.

#4 Light housework
I have not been going to any aerobic or gym for few years now, so I do some light house chore like cleaning the room. I can never finish cleaning up the room. Everyday there would be mess around. Sigh!

#5 Supplement
I rely on supplement to replenish any nutritions that I may not be able to obtain from food

#6 Kids
Tell me who never lose some weights with kids around. Running after them, screaming after them and cleaning after them. Already enough to make your adrenaline runs high!!

#7 Sex and sleep
Do I need to explain this further? It enhance better relationship with your other half and same time, sex is good exercise too. And not forgetting quality sleep at night.


So I jokingly told my hubby few nights ago, if want me to grow fat then have to treat me to supper every night! Lol! I think he could not afford to because if I gain weight, he will automatically gain more because he has to accompany me to eat.

So what is your post-pregnancy weight control???

Found Object Friday July 8th, 2011

I recently came across a couple of blogs that blend two of my favorite things: art and science.

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First of all I found a tumblr called Science is Beauty. They mostly post images (the format that's best for tumblr in my opinion). Their posts are short and sweet but can act as a jumping off point for more in depth learning if you so desire.

Secondly, I stumbled upon what might be my new favorite blog: Mad Art Lab. They have articles about a wide variety of topics (film festivals, cartoons, fashion, ect.) that all have a geeky science bent to them. It's the absolute perfect blend and I love to see what new and wonderful stuff they find. My favorite thing I've discovered through the blog so far has to be these gorgeous blow glass ray guns! I've posted about my ray gun love in the past so that shouldn't be very surprising :)

One last little tidbit of science+art, this clip from Penn and Teller's Fool Us. Enjoy!

Eye makeup test

My basic makeup is foundation, compact powder, eye brow and blusher. Do not have much time to make up every morning, but if I do have some spare time, I would put on eyeshadow, eyeliner and mascara. I do not like loud colours, so something light is good for me.

I never knew that eyeshadow can tell someone personality till I try this test. More or less it is true. *wink*


You have a loud and outgoing personality. You love to be the center of attention, and you always speak your mind.
You are good at getting people to laugh. You have a wicked sense of humor.

You are highly observant and mindful. You take in a lot of information, and you're very perceptive.
You love adulation and praise. You want your accomplishments to be noticed by all.


Try out this eye makeup test yourself.

My Goals For July 2011

 (My kitty: Cosmo)

First let's go over my goals for June:

• I want to start updating this blog regularly again. I've been overwhelmed with other things lately but I miss blogging. I've done a much better job over the past month than I did in May.
• Help my boyfriend list stuff on eBay. I'll try to post links to the things we're selling on my Twitter if you're interested. A lot of it is computer and video game stuff. There's still more stuff to list but we've sold a few things so far :)
• Start walking regularly. I'm going to mark this one off even though I didn't do it as much as I would like because it basically became impossible when I ran out of heart medication.

Now on to July!

• I want to make time to meet up with friends I haven't seen in awhile even if that just means having them over to play some board games and watch a movie.
• I want to make some new polymer clay charms. I have so many pretty colors I want to experiment with.
• I would like to keep updating my blog regularly and keep working on graphics and things like that.

What do you want to accomplish this month?  

Allergy

Finally, I discovered the cause of my allergy near my upper lip. Not lipsticks or skincare; but seafood. When I ate prawns, the very next day I would have red dry patches on corners of my lip. Not so sure on other seashells because I seldom eat them. Prawns are common in most food like seafood noodle, laksa and fried noodle here.



It has been like this when I was pregnant with my first child. Since then, it has never heal regardless of how doctors and creams I tried. So, I just got to control it by eating less seafood.

Many women I know also have such allergy. Funny thing is it only appeared on upper lip. A staff of mine has such allergy since she was young but once she was pregnant and delivered, her allergy gone. Hormonal change I said. So good!!!