its because of the uploading photo thingy that wordpress uses. I do not like it, its tedious. Especially when I save images on Flickr and I have to go through so many silly processes.It was waaayy easier many yrs back.So here I am, typing out a six month update, I wish to update every week if I can but this silly biz with the photos is being an obstacle for me.
These are pictures from botanic garden, look close and you can spot a fish or two.
Mushroom or fungus….which one is it?
Huge turtle swimming along with Koi fish and trying to get some food or attention. It could also be waiting for a chance to snap at you.
Last week we were working with Non-Living and Living things, I had the kids go around the school to find things that are living or once living or not living at all.
We found a hibiscus flower with mealy bugs, the kids were excited and angry with the bugs for destroying the plant.
The most oddest part of the search was this, for a while we thought it might be a lizard egg till one of the teacher dropped it – fake pearl.
Working with vertical addition using the golden beads.
Small Picture cards and LMA….you can see the spelling mistakes.
A bit of weeding done, to keep the garden happy and some beautiful weeds to look at.
Its not like I totally did not get some crafting done. Embellishing the girls’ dresses was fun.
Custom order for a lavender coloured rain cloud.
And some face painting for the school concert, these were done during the rehearsals.
Today, I got out the sushi felties that I have been working with last week for a photo shoot.
Delicious?
Argh !! Don’t eat us!! We are too cute!
They seem to be having a blast! ( For some odd reason I can imagine them talking with scottish accent -_-’ )
This is Ginko from Mushishi, I need to paint him soon.
That’s all for now, maybe if i can overcome this photo thingy , I might write often, otherwise who knows when will be the next time. Have a happy weekend and happy 2010!
January 24, 2010. Argh, Arty Crafty, Don't mind me, Etsy Shop, General, Just to let you know, Photographs, What the...?. .
Yup , I am officially a Naruto Fan. I can’t believe I am saying this or typing this….hahah. What’s wrong with me?!?!! Nevermind..
Here are more pegdolls from naruto anime.
Gara
Kakashi
Iruka
Yamato also known as Tenzo
Kisame
Deidara
I think they look cute , but I wish I could make it even cuter by adding hair and stuff.
My terrarium is in progress,
and I have added a polymer clay mushroom to my terrarium, I hope to add a gnome house to it if I can make one.
Next I am on Facebook
yeah, so that’s it for this week, I had horrible time with my pegdolls photo shoot, so I am tired after numerous trials. My picture still looks pathetic but that’s all I can manage with this weird hot weather.
June 21, 2009. Arty Crafty, Don't mind me, General, Just to let you know, Photographs, What the...?. .
for an hour and here to celebrate the rain after weeks of infernal weather, are photos of rain drops , there were no dew drops since the heat evaporates any bit of moisture in the air.
On papaya leaf…
… and banana leaf.
I have been away for the longest time, but I have been crafting a bit whenever I make time.
I have been working with polymer clay and I am out of ideas at the moment. But I have been working with something new – peg dolls.
Here are some pics of the peg dolls I made … ( Hidan, Zetsu, Naruto,Tobi and Miroku)
Process, draw them out on paper and when satisfied with the look and draw it on the peg dolls like these guys, Genma and Roy Mustang.
This is Roy Mustang from Full Metal Alchemist,
and here is Genma from Naruto.
Well the main reason I’ve been away from the blog and shop….too much Japanese Anime and Korean,Taiwanese and Japanese F4. I got hooked watching the Korean version and decided to check out the Japanese anime Hana Yori Dango. Once I finished watching the anime , I could not get enough F4, so I checked out the Taiwanese Meteor Garden 1 & 2 , while still waiting for the korean version to finish. I also watched the Japanese series and the movie as well. Finally its all over with the Korean series up for another season, I have started watching Naruto, Naruto Shippuden and Full Metal Alchemist and what not. They have become my inspiration to create my own toys using the peg dolls. I have done a few characters already , with most of the dolls coming from Naruto and one from Inuyasha and another from Full Metal Alchemist.
Maybe one day I will have a peg doll army ….haha.
Anyone interested in getting your favorite anime into a peg doll, feel free to contact me and I am up for challenges! 
June 15, 2009. Tags: Fullmetalalchemist, Genma, Hidan, Inuyasha, Miroku, Naruto, RoyMustang, Tobi, Zetsu. Argh, Arty Crafty, Don't mind me, General, Just to let you know, Photographs, What the...?. .
Arty stuff that I have been involved with: Eric Carle’s House for Hermit Crab was the inspiration. They were made from polymer clay. I call it ‘Story in a Bottle’.
It was my sister’s 26th birthday on the 1st of January.
We had a mini BBQ in honour of her
Now more baking. I made some Magnolia Vanilla Cupcakes. They were very simple to make and delicious to eat.
Yes, just one green tomato amongst the red.
Very nice amber coloured tea.
Daiso tea light holder… Super shiny!
Ajisen Ramen meal combo: the silver fish tempura. It was A++++.
Super kawaii Japanese candy!!!! Look at that cute tangerine.
At Harbour Front – a cruise liner ready to sail.
More baking again: this time, caramel cream sponge cake. The cream was a success though I can’t say the same for the sponge cake.
Here is Nandhini in a her new robe. She looks posh, eh?
January 13, 2009. Arty Crafty, Cookery, Doggie, Don't mind me, Food, General, Just to let you know, Pets, Photographs, Shopping. .
Not a fantastic picture, but we were not allowed to take pictures at the Esplanade theatre. This was The Nutcracker.
The holiday theme for last month was “Buildings and Construction”. We had a few exciting projects lined up for the kids. Firstly, we had to make a town entirely out of boxes and tissue rolls, which was fun but a bit tedious. Secondly, we made a gingerbread house – well I did the putting it together business while the kids watched. We also baked gingerbread men. It was comforting to know that I had at least a little bit of baking skills left in me.
I have to say my first attempt at baking gingerbread men was not so bad.
I love this gingerbread girl.
Just before the year was to end, my family made a trip to this interesting place of worship at Loyang. Three different religious buildings were all located next to each other: Chinese, Muslim and Hindu side by side. If people of all religions could exist in such a state, the world would be a much better and safer place to be.
I was most impressed by the ceiling of the Chinese temple with its incredible attention to detail. It was simply awe-inspiring. The pillars of the temple itself were impressive; the stone carvings were fantastic. Mad skills!
Another shot of the temple, this time it’s the inner part. Incredibly impressive.
There is also the famous 4D stone, known for revealing winning combinations of lottery numbers to people. I did try staring at it for a bit to see if I could get it to reveal some numbers to me but that sort of thing doesn’t happen to a normal person like me does it?
With no luck at numbers, we headed to another temple near Changi and did some praying for a good year ahead and headed off to Changi beach.
It was good to see the sun,
the sand
and the sea.
I have no idea when was the last time I went to the beach. I just stood there at the shore, getting my sandals wet – which was no matter since they are of PVC material. Many people have remarked how watching the waves is soothing to the mind and I definitely have to agree. I was not pleased with my dad for cutting the trip short and heading back home.
Got some souvenirs from the sea… Seaweed!
26 December was my mom’s birthday and I decided to bake her a cake.
That was my first attempt at baking after 10 years. I had been in doubt about my failed baking adventure at 19 but the successful venture was a definite ego boost. Heh.
I have to say, 2008 was not a bad year at all for me. As for my new year resolutions, I didn’t get to complete them at all. So do I have any for 2009? I think I do.
January 4, 2009. Cookery, Just to let you know, Photographs, What the...?. .
Yay I am back at wordpress!
After a brief period at blogspot, I am glad to be back. I kept getting shut down whenever I tried to log into wordpress. Miraculously it stopped shutting me down , so I can blog at wordpress hurrah!
Lots and lots of things have happened and i m just gonna surmarise what has happened, the year is close to an end. I will say one thing though, 2008 has been good for me , I hope to say the same for next year.
August – National Day (Red and White)
Singapore Inspired food stuffs made by the kids, unfortunately, I didn’t get to take picture of tomato sushi (red and white)
I do have these :
Strawberry Jelly with Nata de Coco
Egg Cakes with Whipped cream and Strawberry jam
September – Outings ( Rainbow fish and Science Center )
and at the Science Center
Yikes watch out you guys….its after you!
October – Deepavali
At Serangoon
Just before Deepavali, we had lilies
and a little deco for the room
November – School Concert
Paper accessories done by me for the girls, they loved it, kept telling me how special they felt.
Appreciations gift for the parents by graduating kids
My attempt at polymer bird….very bad really
and Christmas deco is up at Vivo city
December – Buildings and Construction
Mighty Machine (miniature version)
more to come….
Take care and a great week!
December 8, 2008. Argh, Arty Crafty, Don't mind me, General, Just to let you know, Photographs, Travel, What the...?. .
I brought my student to the zoo, it has been sometime since I last made a visit to the zoo. Here are some pics that I took that have been waiting to be uploaded for sometime, I m still trying to adjust to blogger.com , I still prefer wordpress, but I just have no idea what went wrong with my puter that keeps shutting wordpress down …sigh .
This was found at the entrance of the zoo, it reminds me of the animation Ice Age when the mammoth goes through the cave to find some drawings and he find mommy elephant and daddy elephant being together.
I have never seen such a big croc or alligator in my life , it was huge..
I have to say I was just a teeny bit scared of falling down into the area and come face to face with it…
We saw the usual giraffes, zebras and lions
We saw the most popular attraction …the white tigers, my student was so excited, her favourite animal after watching Kung Fu Panda, Master Tigeress.
The zoo seem to have all these statues and I really like them all…
It was fun going to the zoo after all these years !
Next up , my shop has been updated after the longest time…
Find them on www.chirchi965.etsy.com
Have a great weekend everyone
December 8, 2008. Don't mind me, Etsy Shop, General, Just to let you know, Photographs, Travel, What the...?. .
This is from blogspot ….
Its been sometime, since I last moved to blogspot…after wordpress kinda crashed on me …boo hoo…but anyways I don’t plan to stop blogging.
I had to get up at 3 am in the morning to attend a special pooja sometime ago….it was quite an experience and after which I had an invitation for housewarming from my uncle all on the same day.
Upon reaching his flat we found a seafood restaurant with all these fishes and crabs waiting for their turn to the dinner plate.
I finally had a chance to go to batu cave in Malaysia last month , before heading off to Kuala Lumpur, we dropped by Johor Bahru Mariamman temple and had a hearty breakfast at a nearby Indian food stall.
This is at the temple
and later somewhere in between Johor and Kuala Lumpur
and finally made it to Kuala Lumpur and onto Batu Caves
and later after climbing up the stairs all the way to the top harrassed by monkeys and rainfall ( although the stairs weren’t slippery just the occasional banana peels littered here and there by the monkeys… you get to see this beautiful statue
and you walk on to see that are more stairs to be tackled , going down and up again
and you see the main shrine
After praying , I went on to tackle the next set of stairs even further ,
unfortunately I did not take my camera with me to take pictures …..it was wonderful just to be there and see this…
and after a bit of wandering around I went down the steps to have another shot
The time was up to head back to our travel coach and this time I didn’t think the monkeys will bother me so I got to take some photos descending…
and this shot was taken roughly around the tip of the statue od Murugan..
It was a long and tiring trip but I enjoyed myself 
December 8, 2008. Argh, Don't mind me, Photographs, Travel, What the...?. .
Yup, I have been away for sometime…
The children had to make something for their mother’s day present , and being their form teacher, I decided to get them to do something cute and useful in way…
They got some red felt, some sequins,fake leaves, saftey pins , glue and scissors.
1. Trace a flower shape on the red felt ( Two sizes one big, the other slightly small )
2. Get the children to cut out the flower shapes.
3. Let them decorate the two flower shapes with sequins using glue on the top side only.
4. Place the smaller shaped flower on top of the big shaped flower
5. Place the fake leaf in between the two flower shapes, and apply glue in between the two flower
6. Let it dry and next cut a small piece of red felt , enough to fit into the space of a saftey pin
7. Get a saftey pin place the felt through the gap and apply glue onto the felt and press firmly to the back of the flower .
Now for some random stuff
My cherry blossoms are nearly done for the shop
A trip to Ikea
I got some inspiration with this
and I got this
Yay .
A visit to temple
Something that has somethiing to do with azumanga daioh
Hoping for inspirations once my parents teacher meeting and lesson plans are over and done with by next month.
May 25, 2008. Arty Crafty, Don't mind me, Etsy Shop, General, Photographs, Shopping. .
Yes, I suppose that was the most silliest question ever , but how did the butterfly get its name. I couldn’t think of anything. Who was this person who initally named it and what was he / she thinking? An image of a block of butter with wings flying around was all I could think of. Margarinefly , Lardfly and whatever…anybody knows why..let me know thanks!
The weather , yes the weather is becoming unbearable. Lately it has been getting waay too hot for anyone here. I stick to the fan, since its uses less electricity then the air conditioner, doing my bit to consume less electricity and also lesser electricity bill to pay.
and here at 6pm, it feels like its 12pm in the afternoon…..
well, what else can I say about the weather, its just hot, heat, blazing , inferno, hellish ….and all the words to desrcibe this horrible weather… its making anyone and everyone grumpy.
My sister has graciously (finally!!!) allowed me to have my own table in our room.
She decided to change her rather large table and decided that I should be allowed a table too, after checking this Ikeahack website.
This is her side of the table…
and this is mine…rather messy with all my crafty stash and what not…
I found this table mat at some shop and used it for my table…
koi fishes and cherry flowers…
I had this Ikea storage / display unit for a few years now, it was just housing some knickknacks and cds.
I covered it with fabrics and applied acrylic sealer so that now I can use it to store my craft stash and etc.
Much more useful then before.
More crafting or beading really…this is my new craze and its so easy once you get your math sorted out.
Now to more important stuff….shopping!!
I’m in love with my new bag I got from Muji
and loving this sunflowerish card case
plus this slip on
and my new shoes that were on sale …
It’s the 1st of may and it’s labour day…one extra holiday …and looking forward to the weekend.
May 1, 2008. Arty Crafty, Don't mind me, General, Photographs, Shopping, What the...?. .
