Saturday

I went to Kinokuniya book store today to browse the craft books. There is Ann Cox and Helen Gibbs to name a few and a bunch of Japanese books. On making bags . I think I will do bags. There is a very nice book on baby booties. I just spend the day in KLCC the bookstore.
I feel tired today . Yesterday was not nice day either . So I will concentrate on whatever nice things I have in mind . I have embroidered three flowers . There is about 13 more flowers to go. My mother and sister said it was nice. My sisters came for the Chinese New Year.
Well the home made business had not been launched . I have been planning for the business since 2007. It has not even started. I hang some pictures of my dream house and rooms. I hang it on the wall so that I have some things to dream about.

I saw many books on cats. I feel very sad whenever I think of Cleopatra Chomel. I felt guilty. There is a stray cat from the back yard who is getting friendlier everyday. She comes into the house for food and I give her. She used to come yesterday and she slept in front of the house. I will try to be friendlier to her. She even lets me hold her in my arms. I think I have to buy a book on how to take care of cats. This time is for serious . I do not want to repeat what I had done or did not do. Cats are gentle creatures. I love them. I don't think I can write about my dead cats.It is too painful. They always appear when I am very sad. Is this a sign or are they just hungry ?

White Linen

I bought 1 metre of white linen at Kamdar 2 days ago. It was by accident that I went there. So I bought the linen as embroidery is said to be good on white linen. So , I will start that about a quarter of the linen because I feel that I will be bored and tired to do a 1 meter of material .
I had washed the linen.
My brother Mal is selling perfume. I have contacted a bee's wax seller from Johor. He is from bahterayubalam in Skudai Johor. He told me that the smaller bee's wax is from RM 5.00 and the 1 kg bee's wax is about RM 50.00. He will contact me when he goes back to Johor . I hope I can have the bee's wax . It has been a long time to locate it since of money constraints . So if and when I get the wax I can start making a face cream.

French Onion Soup

Today I made a french onion soup. I have not made an onion soup before . It sounded easy . It cost me about RM 25.00 to make the soup. The soup tasted sweet. I used yellow onions since the guys in the food videos said to use sweet onions , so I bought some from Cold storage.
Well here are some pictures. I don't really know how to adjust the photos. There are three photos. The ingredients I used. The big pot of onion soup and a small bowl of soup with the french bread and melted cheese. I use whatever cheese I have. It took about 50 minutes before the onions start to caramelize. I use beef stock cubes and my mother gave me some of the beef stock she made when she used the pressure cooker.

My embroidery stuff

These are some of my embroidered flowers which I have done. The lilac and green ones are long and short stitch embroidery which I learn from the Trish Burr book.

Embroidery

Last week , I went to Kinokuniya to buy a book by Trish Burr. At first I wanted to ask my sister to buy another book by her from Amazon but then I saw that there is a book by her available in the Kinokuniya website. So , off I went . I like her book because of it's beautiful flowers. There is a shop near my house which sells the DMC thread. I went there twice. For the right colour. So far I had brought about 10 threads. I started to embroider two flowers. They turned out very nice, so I say to my self.
I had an asthma attack last Wednesday. I feel very tired and stopped using the air-conditioner. My sister in-law too is in the hospital. I hope she will recover. These asthma attack in not predictable. I remember being alone and having one of it's attack.
As for my new hobby , I still have not upload any pictures. Let's see maybe later.