AnAk2 DaN tEkNoLoGi…

Dua tiga minggu ni bukanlah minggu teknologi dan gadjet terbaik aku. Berikut apa yang telah terjadi (untuk rekod saja, tiada apa yang boleh dilakukan bagi melegakan rungutan ini melainkan dihadiahkan atau diganti unit yang baru..huhu).

  1. Mesin jahit -ntah kenapa sejak minggu lepas asyik patah jarum je. Satu malam sampai 5 jarum sekaligus. Bila aku dah tak sanggup lagi nak layan, aku simpan dan sorok dia kat tepi dinding. Buat-buat tak pandang dia. Kecik hati! Tapi bila di pejabat, rindu-rinduan….bila baring tengok tv malam-malam (sepatutnya aku menjahit time tu) aku rasa sedih sangat….  aku berikrar untuk cuba lagi…tak mahu putus asa dengan dia….
  2. Telefon bimbit - suka sangat restart/reboot suka-suki dia je. kadang-kadang tu tengah-tengah bercakap tiba-tiba dia matikan diri sendiri dan hidup kembali! Adusss…. kerap sangat dan sampai aku rasa nak buang dia. Bateri dia pulak pendek sangat jangka hayat..sat-sat activate reserved power. Nyampah tau… tapi aku tak menyimpan duit untuk beli yang baru pun. Ingat nak beli Samsung. Asal boleh call in/out, sms (penting wooooo) dan surfing FB/blog..huhu cukup lah… walau aku perasan IT savvy gak lah kan dan sibuk-sibuk nasihatkan orang dan dicari-cari time nak minta di’explain’kan spec gadjet, tp aku sendiri tak beli-beli..haha
  3. Kamera - D90 aku telah disahkan bakal dilupakan sementara selepas Myra dengan tidak sengajanya telah menjatuhkan dia ketika cuba berjengket-jengket menarik tin biskut dan tertarik tali kamera tersebut jatuh dari meja. Aku tak terkata apa-apa. Sekejapan dia kelihatan menangis kuat dan tak berhenti berkata ‘Aya minta maaf, Mummy’... hmmm… body mungkin ok lagi, perlu test dgn lens lain kot. Lens nya confirm error…fatal. Nasib lah kit lens je tapi itu je lah lens yang aku ada pun! Lepas ni kena simpan duit beli wide-angle lens…huh
  4. Laptop – hari ini Zikr pula agak aggresif. Mula-mula sedang buat latihan, dia main-main, aku tegur dia supaya lebih bersungguh-sungguh. Aku ada sebut ‘jangan main-main nanti Tuhan marah’, tak semena-mena dia menangis. Aku keluar bilik untuk entertain Myra kejap. Tak semena-mena Zikr dah baling-baling bantal dna sepahkan bilik. Laptop yang (lama betul nak sampai part laptop kan..hehe) kebetulan ada di bilik turut tertarik dan dijatuhkan. Tindakan tidak sengaja lagi telah berlaku! Nasib baik lah malam ni aku check laptop ni ok pulak..tak de apa-apa. Mula-mula je masuk safe mode, mungkin sebab tak properly shut down tadi kan.
  5. TV – tunggu masa je ni..hari-hari diorang baling barang, sipi-sipi je nak kena kat permukaan skrin dia. Kalau baring tengok tv tu, kaki pun dah naik atas dah. Calar tu toksah cakap le… tengok pun rasa terganggu, sebab nampak sangat kesan-kesan crayon lah… tapak tangan melekit-lekit lah kat skrin dia… kalau aku lap hari ni, esok ada lagi…hmmmm

Selepas isu kamera D90 dan Laptop tu, aku dah kurang sabar sikit. Aku ambil wudhu’ dan solat Dzuhur sebelum aku beritahu ayah untuk keluar sekejap. Zikr masih menangis lagi. Tapi ayah dah perasan yang aku dah start hilang sabar dah, jadi dia suruh aku keluar tenangkan diri sementara dia jagakan anak-anak kejap.

Sepanjang drive tu (tak tahu mana nak pergi masa tu) mengalir gak lah air mata. Itu reaksi aku kalau marah, bila menangis, marah tu akan automatik hilang. Masa kamera jatuh malam sebelumnya, aku masih boleh lagi sabar, aku biar Myra dengan perasaan bersalahnya sekejap sebelum aku peluk dia dan explain yang dia perlu lebih hati-hati dan sentiasa beritahu Mummy kalau nak apa-apa. Sebab ini bukan kali pertama jadi benda-benda macam ni, ingat masa dia kena air panas masa nak buat susu sendiri? hmmm memang karakter dia macam tu. Suka nak buat sendiri.

Dalam hati sedih gak lah, aku ingat lagi kegembiraan masa mendapatnya (D90) dulu. Bukan main mahal lagi time tu, sekarang ni dah murah dah. Akhirnya rosak dalam sekelip mata. Hmmmm… tapi aku sedar yang dalam hal anak-anak ni tak boleh buat apa. Diorang ni belum faham apa-apa sangat pun. Lagi pun kamera boleh beli lagi…Myra? Kegembiraan mendapat dia….hanya satu dalam sepanjang hayat aku ni…tiada gantinya.

Tapi lepas kes laptop tu aku perlu masa nak digest apa yang berlaku ni. Sebab kejadiannya back-to-back kan. Anak-anak memang lasak. Kebiasaannya sebelum bertemu dan aku cerita, kawan-kawan tak percaya, ada yang kata aku je yang tak biasa dengan budak-budak sebab tu rasa susah jaga diorang. Tapi bila dah jumpa, semua pun surrender, anak-anak aku memang lasak… :) Aku dah lama berhenti bawa diorang beli barang dapur, kecuali terpaksa. Biasanya mesti tak beli apa-apa…sama ada sibuk bekejar ke sana-sini sambil terjerit-jerit atau aku yang hilang mood dan nak cepat-cepat balik! Setiap kali makan di kedai, tak sah tak tumpah air, nasi terbalik, terjerit-jerit dalam kedai nak sesuatu, pukul memukul atau pun muntah dalam pinggan. Mesti berlaku, wajib lah.

Tapi seiring dengan waktu, aku juga belajar. Aku sendiri terkejut dengan reaksi aku masa kes kamera tu. Aku rasa dah berusia kot. Kurang sikit amarahnya. Dan aku selalu rasa yang kesan menyusukan anak lebih setahun ni bantu aku sayang diorang lebih (bukan aku kata yang tak BF tu tak sayang anak, cuma applicable kat aku je lah ni). Aku nak marah je, aku teringat rasa sayang aku kat dorang tu dan nampak precious je kat mata. Cthnya, kalau diorang pecahkan pinggan, aku nampak macam dua-dua tu buat muka comel dan flying kiss kat aku..heheh. lebih kurang lah perasaannya. Huhu….

Ntah lah…. tak apa lah. Sabar je lah Yan. InsyaAllah ada ruang dan kesempatan untuk beroleh yang baru. Aku singgah sebuah mall di kota raya (ish rahsia tau tempat lepak I..huhu), beli susu dan pampers. Beli juga McFlurry Horlicks dan Oreo yang mengancam tu untuk anak-anak. Tak sabar untuk pulang dan lihat wajah kesayangan tu… :) Tau apa soalan pertama Zikr bila aku sampai rumah?

“Mummy kata tak de duit, tapi boleh pergi shopping beli barang banyak ni”

Alahai…. nasib baik lah Mummy sayang kamu, Zikr oi!


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JaNgAn MeNyErAh…

Sejak beberapa bulan kebelakangan ni, ada banyak benda yang terjadi. Sebenarnya hidup aku memang begini. Tragis dan ekstreme. Dari kecil penuh dengan drama. Seseorang pernah berkata yang hidupnya mudah dan laluannya tenang sehingga dia bertemu aku. Aku merasakan kata-katanya sekadar ambil hati, pasti bermacam-macam telah dilaluinya, cuma dia lebih merendah diri dan tabah dari aku untuk boleh berasa demikian. Lebih redha. Aku, yang ditakdirkan melalui pelbagai peristiwa….yang sedikit demi sedikit menjadikan aku seperti aku. Nampaknya masih belum berhenti….

Hmmm… malam ni aku tak mahu terlalu berat dan drama. Terasa ingin menulis yang mudah dan meluah rasa dalam hati. Aku diberi Allah ujian yang banyak. Syukur, Allah masih ingat aku. Masih ingin beri kasih sayangNya dalam bentuk ujian dan dugaan hidup. Walau aku bukan hamba yang baik dan soleh. Aku sering kelupaan. Sering rasa besar diri pada keupayaan dan keberadaan sesuatu dalam lingkungan milikku yang sebenar-benarnya bukan milik mutlak aku. Semua ini milik Dia.

Aku tak pasti apa yang aku buat betul atau tidak. Kadang-kadang ada masanya aku rasa sedikit kerisauan tentang masa depan selepas setiap keputusan dan pilihan yang aku buat. Aku seperti manusia yang lain, takut akan sesuatu yang aku belum tahu dan lalui. Tapi aku belajar sesuatu dari semua ini. Bukan sekaligus, tapi sedikit demi sedikit dari setiap kali berlakunya sesuatu sepanjang hidup aku untuk laluinya, andai betul jalannya, bersyukurlah… andai tersilap langkah dan ia membawa kepada sesuatu yang bukan kesukaanku…bersabarlah, pohon lebih pengampunan. Lalui hidup seterusnya dan berdepanlah dengan pilihan-pilihan dan kemungkinan-kemungkinan yang  diberikan dengan lebih ketabahan.

Ada masanya aku terasa keseorangan…tanpa sebarang sokongan. Rasa terbeban tanpa dapat mengadu pada sesiapa pun. Bukan lah keluarga dan sahabat-sahabat tidak menyokongku, namun mereka juga punya masalah masing-masing, tidak perlu membebani mereka pula. Sesungguhnya aku sudah biasa bergantung pada diri sendiri.

Biar tidak dikasihi, aku ada selautan kasih untuk diberi

Biar kesempitan hidup, aku tidak akan meminta-minta, akan aku cari sendiri

Biar aku dihimpit kesusahan, aku akan cari formula untuk menyelesaikan

Biar kehilangan. aku masih ada kenangan buat aku kuat

Kata-kata orang? hmmm.. sudah lama tidak aku endahkan. Maaf lah, aku perlu teruskan hidup aku begini. Andai ada yang rasa tidak puas dalam hatinya atau rasa aku terlalu individualistik dan egois, ini lah aku…. sehingga kini yang aku dengar hanya syarahan demi syarahan tentang apa yang sepatutnya aku buat mengikut acuan orang lain, ideal di mata manusia tapi bukan memberi jalan penyelesaian atau ikhlas membantu aku keluar dari setiap kesukaran yang aku lalui. Akhirnya, aku jadi lebih sakit bila dikhianati perasaan berharap.

Jangan pernah berharap dengan manusia, hanya padaNya aku serahkan segala pengharapan.

Bila lebih berdikari dan selalu membantu, ada saja yang ambil kesempatan dan menyakiti. Hmmm… manusia sering begitu. Aku sudah boleh maafkan mereka, tapi untuk kembali dalam hidup aku seperti sedia kala….hmmmmm aku masih belum dapat benarkan ianya berlaku. Pasti ada bezanya. Walau mereka sudah berubah…aku perlu masa.

Bukan berdendam, tapi aku masih rasa sakitnya sehingga hari ini, benar….maaf itu mudah, melupakan itu hampir tidak mungkin! Sakit sangat bila dikhianati. Ada yang lakukannya bertahun-tahun sehingga aku hampir putus asa. Sakitnya hanya Allah yang tahu…sakit dalam hati ku selalunya terluah di fizikal. Aku jadi benar-benar sakit.

Kini aku masih dalam proses recovery. Walau jalannya masih suram dan kelam. Masih belum tahu apa ada di hujung sana…masih belum bersedia dengan ranjau dan duri di kiri dan kanan. Aku tabahkan hati. Face it. Hadapkan segala pengharapan kepada Tuhanku. Pasti Dia merencanakan yang terbaik buat aku. Jangan menyerah…..

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DeAr KiDs,

Dear Zikr and Myra,

While both of you were at Mamawan’s house, Mummy has made sling bags for each of you. As what you requested weeks ago. Sorry it tooks a while for Mummy to sew them. Mummy enjoyed every bit and love to see your faces when yo get to wear them.

These are the bags. The front is Myra’s Sling Bag and at the back is Zikr’s Sling bag.

Mummy put on your favorite pink bow that you keep showing me when I was sewing for others and Mummy use Doraemon prints that you like and carry everywhere with you.

This is the inside look, Mummy used the exact prints that you chose.

This is Zikr’s Sling Bag. You chose the same like Myra. Doraemon prints.


Inside look of your bag. the prints you like the most.

Now dear, Mummy can’t wait to see both of you at Mamawan’s! Missing so much….

Lots of Loves,
Mummy…

Note: They were requests from the kids. I took some time to design them, not to take any credit from this cause I got the inspiration everywhere in the web and the magazine. I calculate and draw the pattern myself though. As usual, a lot of mistakes here and there but I gathered all my courage to start doing it again and again. Had unstitched a lot and stitched them back with loves! love doing this so much.. :)

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ToTe BaGs (for Kak Ina)

These are Big Tote Bags for Kak Ina. She chose the prints and they matched very very well!

The two bags together

Large dark purple (brownish) and orange flowery prints, heavy cotton matched with dark narrow purple stripes.

Inside

Large multicolor flowery prints, non-cotton matched with wide stripes. The non-cotton material had given me a different experience while using it, the hard way. well, I learned, that is most important.

Inside. Hopefully Kak Ina will like them. :)

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ToTe BaGs (Sold to Kak Sherry and Kak Yati)

Two more tote bags made with the same material. The small one is the same like my Mini Tote Bag and that is the larger one at the back.

The dimensions are as follows:

Small Tote Bag: 9″ (W) x 11″ (H)
Big Tote Bag: 14″ (W) x 13″ (H)

The small one sold to Kak Sherry and the big one was bought by Kak yati. Thank you for your purchase!

New fabrics came in and more beautiful bags are on the way!

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Tutorial: Zippered Pocket

I’ve tried one method of doing zippered pocket for one of my tote bag. In fact I did two pockets using this same method. This is how I did them, it may be more ways of doing this though. This is more like a combination of what I learned and imagined it should be. Well, let me know how you do this the easier way… :) I’ll update.

STEP 1: Get yourself two pieces of intended dimension for your pocket. I made it one piece an inch/ 2-inch longer than the other. I folded the zip placement (abaut an inch, you can have it less than that, just enough for the zip)

STEP 2: Sew one side of the zip. Note that I sew the zip faced down, as I wanted this to be material for the inside pocket

Close up.. see that the zip is faced down and a bit gap is seen too.. It will help to conceal the sewn thread from outside later on

STEP 3: Sewn both sides of the zip, don’t worry of the excess zip length.. you can always cut it off, it happened that I only have this length for this project.

STEP 4: Sew the sides and bottom seam. Note that the zip is being placed flat like that, that is why I put one piece in the beginning to be an-inch/2-inch longer so that at this stage one piece will used up about the same length

STEP 5: Finished pocket look like before attaching it to the main fabric

STEP 6: Draw the window line as above and as per desired zip length. Note that this fabric already pressed onto a hard lining material

STEP 7: Cut the hole, make a window and press it (with iron) if you like

The window from outside main fabric

STEP 8: Pull it off

STEP 9: Sew both fabrics along the square window of the main fabric. Secure with a lot of pins. It won’t be easy for the first time, I did mistakes here and there too before I get used to it.

This is how it looks of an open zip.

The look from outside, zip closed. It wasn’t perfect but I love to practice more and more zippered pocket. Will also look for an easier way too.. let me know if u know one!

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No RiCe DaY…

After successfully recovered from Chicken Pox, Zikr had another success of transferring that very virus to me…sigh….now I’m in MC period since last Friday. Will hopefully be back to office by Thursday, I expected of having some more MC days though, Chicken Pox is not something that can easily be rid of… hmmmm

Well, the time with the kids is always well-spent. I woke up this morning tired but excited. Tired that Myra couldn’t sleep the whole night, asked me to play with her, I was half asleep when we played Pizza delivery last night. Excited to start the day with so many plans in mind. So, I started by bathing the kids and prepared some toast for their breakfast.

After getting an agreement with Zikr and Myra, we decided to have a ‘No Rice Day’. Mummy should cook other things and not rice-related foods. This is important so that they won’t complaint for no rice afterwards. After all, Mummy is looking forward to do inventory clean-up (pada hal nya, nak mengabiskan barang dalam stok huhu)….

The main course will be Spaghetti Bolognese. Easy and since all ingredients are available for this dish today. Zikr had asked for the additional two times… three plates!!

Myra asked:

“Mummy, Aya nak SUPUGATI ubuh kicap, please”

I can’t stop laughing and she looked at me with a serious face. Until she said;

“Mummy dengar tak? Aya nak SUPUGATI la”

Hehe.

Then I spent half an hour watching my favorite AFC channel cooking series ‘Cooking For Real’ with Sunny Henderson. She cooked really easy stuff using a lot of canned food which can easily be found in the groceries stores, of course we can always change the recipes a bit to suit our cultures and type of canned food here too. Today she made a fish dish (baked, buttered and breadcrumbs). I remembered that I still got a big chunk of Salmon in the fridge which I didn’t know what to do with it, so I did the recipe with Salmon.

I poured melted butter (whole 250g for the big chunk) and capers (I got dried not the brine in the can one) and a whole lemon juice. I used two slices of Gardenia bread for the breadcrumbs…huhu. I ground it in the dry blender and tadaaaaaa..breadcrumbs everyone! I guess the French long-stick-hard bread (can’t recall the name now) would be great but two slices of white bread is all I got today. Got to be creative some time.. :)

For dessert, I baked a cake that the recipe is the easiest in the world, I’ll put up the recipe soon. I made this like every other day, because it really need minimal ingredients and usage of equipment, I didn’t use the cake mixer at all but a whisk! wonderful indeed, and Myra had helped me with the mixing part, after all the recipe was meant to be kids-friendly…

We did fine with the No Rice Day thingy but Mummy breached the agreement by cooking some rice…errrr… in case the kids wanted it..huhu…..

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LoYaLtY CaRd WaLLeT (fOr Sue)

This is one order made for Sue. A Loyalty Card Wallet.

Inside wallet.

Outside wallet.

A small wrislet for her too. Glad that the items has arrived safely to her and that she like them.

Thank you for your purchase dear.. :)

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MiNi ToTe BaG

It has been quite some time that I did any tote bag. Tonight, after 11.30 pm, couldn’t sleep and the kids still driving me crazy with their quarrel, I satisfy myself with a sewing project (see how terrible mum I am..hahah). Eventually, I finished it in less than 2 hours (too many advert stops – of making milk and changing diapers..huhu). This is the result. A tote bag for myself… :)

The dimension is 9″ x 11″, just nice for a bottle of milk, a purse and a clean diaper.

The outside fabric is from IKEA and inside is Japanese Cotton. Never bored with this IKEA print, it has been here since 2008, bought twice and done many projects with it. I put magnetic button inside without any pocket though, will definitely do some with zippered pockets soon.

Many projects to come…!

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MoRe PiLLoWcAsEs!

These are the pillowcase projects I did today.

Petal pillowcase for Myra’s IKEA Christel pillow. The dimension is 15″ x 10″. I have a sling bag I love with big flower on the front, and thinking it must be nice to see that on a pillow. Thus I was looking into the internet for any tutorial on how to sew a flower on the pillowcase. I found one great tute here..amazingly stunning and super easy! I never thought I could finish the flower in less than 20 minutes!

Mummy’s little Engineer. This is a habit that she developed for a long time. Yes, she measures things! She has a ‘snail’ measuring tape I bought for her at one of the SSF outlet last time (for kids). She love it since and measure everything in the house. It can measure up to a meter. Guess from who that she get this behavior from! huhu

This is the back of the pillowcase.

This is the back of the pillowcase where I used another method of putting a zip on. This is my first time doing zipper this way and it turned out to be not up to my liking..need some practice.

The detail of the petals. I did some embroidery for the twig and leaves. I had this vision of my instructor nagging on my work this time…haha… yes she was hard on me. I guess I wasn’t a good student..huhu

Looking at the finished project, Zikr brought me his Superman pillow that is old and not so pluffy anymore for some makeover. He picked the fabric that he likes, the yellow giraffe prints. Dya was here just now and gave the idea of folding the pillow and make it half smaller. It was a brilliant idea and we decide that this time around, button would be nice too instead of zipper.

I sewn the edge after folding it. The original dimension was 20″ x 14″ and after folding it is 14″ x 10″.

This is the finished project looks like.

Button for it at the back. Dya and me had playing trial and error with the buttonhole foot and after reading the manual which we should have read it first we could do it easily. My machine has 1-step buttonhole programs inside rather that 4-steps that I had with last machine. Just run the auto-sew mode and I left the whole job to the machine. It is never been this easy!

Zikr loves it so much and already used it now (he is already sleeping while I’m writing this).

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