Cookie Box + Candy Tins turned YUMMIER~!

I'm BACK! :D Took out the stash of faux desserts; sweets, ice creams and cakes, and started off decorating 3 cases with zeal. :D Recently, I found a better substitute to the faux cream that I've used all this while. This new one is really good, as it gives me the benefit of adding my stuff on at my own pace --> it dries off pretty slowly, but the end product is flawlessly beautiful!

{ Handmade polymer clay lollies surrounded by pretty sweet cabochons, pearls and teenee fruit slices --> ♥! }

{ I like this one more much more than the previous one. :P }

{ Okay. This DA BOM! XD Actually made this one first then proceeded with the smaller two. This one was done on a Famous Amos gift container. :) }

{ The sides all dolled up with brown polka-dotted pink ribbon. :P }

{ LOVE the KABOOM of sweetness~! ♥ }

On the side, I was working with this pretty-ness on my side cupboard the whole time :P :

{ White bird cage and roses bought during my Bangkok trip. Laced and beaded clear jar and pink tissue rose ball made for our batch dinner. Rings and stuff worn to the dinner :P }

{ Shallow bowl of potpouri with tealights and shiny string of disco beads. This was also assembled for our batch dinner. }

At the new place now, I feel quite inclined and free to decorate the room as I please. :P

Cotton Candy Box

Hi all. I've been rather caught up with my thesis write-up and preparations for a presentation next week. Though it's nothing like what I went through during my earlier sems, semester 7 somehow demanded a large portion of my time.

After weeks of half-hearted slaving away at journals and online articles, I finally decided that today, I needed a break. I needed to do something to take my mind off next week's research presentation. T-T

On my desk sat this teenee salmon-pink tin. It's a case containing peach-flavoured mints - made in Germany.

{ Impact mints. Get these from any Watson's or Guardian outlets. The peach is real STRONG and I LOVES it! :D}

So I took out some half pearls, acrylic rhinestones and some plastic roses, and set to decorate the tin.

{ My first deco project. Design is a little disorganized. -__-" }

I sort of regretted putting on all those pearls. Too much is not always good, and it doesn't necessarily make the thing pretty. :(

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The last semester of my pharmacy degree course will start by end of November. That means only a few weeks of hols this time around. T-T I'll be in Kuching for the first 3 months of the sem to complete the clinical attachment. I'm so not looking forward to it. T___T

{ My friend Jui Jien + Me. Photo for our convo mag. :) }

More Sweet Deco Kawaiiness + KPop

*Sigh* You're about to bash me right? *Grumbles* I know I know.... What's the point of keeping a blog if I'm just going to let it show the same thing for 3 weeks? T-T

Well. The thing is. I'm currently swamped by a heavy bout of laziness. I've got a few ideas for making stuff but I just couldn't be bothered to lift a finger. Recently, I just discovered the joy of YouTube and KPop/Entertainment combined. From dawn to twilight, it's 2NE1, Super Junior and Star King. It just feels so much more comfortable just watching Bom and Dara's silliness on 2NE1 TV and laugh at Eun Hyuk's lame statements on numerous game/talk shows.

So here's a little something to appease you with. :P

{ Purchases from MimiLoLo }

{ From ToffeeHouse and DecoSweets }

I've yet to start a deco project. I'm thinking hard... Should I cover my laptop with all these sweets? I'm sorely tempted, but I need to find a base cover first. :P

I also ordered CDs from yesasia.com. Been dying for some tunes to keep me high. XD

{ Epik High Lovescream - I love all the songs! Wish there's a 'Best of Epik High'. I'm in love with One, Fly and Usan. }

{ 2NE1!!! Love ALL the songs! My fav is actually the R&B remix (more like Dance remix) of I Don't Care. But In The Club's just as good. }

{ Big Bang Gara Gara Go!! }

{ The filling in the pie! :D This is GD's first solo album, and that's a plastic replica of his face. XD Kind of cool. }

{ Heartbreaker MV is full of apples. GD said apples are heart-shapped and therefore he used apples to represent hearts in the MV. :D }

{ ♥ }

Tomorrow, I'm gonna head over to Central Market to look around at Art For Grabs. :) Am looking forward to it.

Decoden Kawaii Sweets Cabochons!

Since way back last year, I had wanted to get some of those teenee cute little cookies, chocolates, cakes and ice creams in the form of plastic cabochons. I delayed for a whole year before finally deciding to purchase some from Tomoko on Etsy.

Prepare for very sweet eye-candy!

{ Whole of of goodies~! }

{ OMG. I feel hyperglycaemic. }

{ Roses, flowers, strawberries, bows and hearts ♥ }

{ The rest of the cabs which came in two large lots. These are the ones I fancy least. }

{ Tomoko included these as freebies! :D }

I'm still thinking what I should do with these. I actually wanted to do a deco makeover for my new laptop, but I didn't expect the cabs to be as heavy as they are. Will need to come up with a suitable design...

More Decoden Deco Sweets - Kawaii Yummy Bling Style Cases

Final year of uni had just started today. With a super boring lecture on counseling services provided by the uni and stress management. I was thinking, are they subtly (or very obviously) trying to prepare us students for what is coming? Semester 7 is all about research. Some get to do lab research (like pharmaceuticals / pharmacology) and others get to do surveys.

I chose to do something not entirely unrelated to pharmacy, but may only be of little help to the profession I'm bound to practise once I graduate. I chose to do a survey on weight loss methods practised by Malaysian adults aged 18 to 65 years. My partner and I will have to interview 340+ volunteers with a questionnaire. And measure each participant's weight, height and body fat (there's a device for that).

Doing it is not what I'm worried about. I'm more anxious about how we're going to get 340+ people to co-operate and willingly participate. It's common knowledge that a major portion of the public just ignores people who look like they're going to ask you for your time to complete some survey. But hopefully, while carrying it out under the uni's name, people may be beckoned to do it.

*Sigh~* Let's not ponder over this stupid research thingy.

Ironically, I find myself with more free time now than when I was back home in Sarawak. Probably because of the moving.

Last night, I took out my crafting supplies and set to assemble this :

{ Yet another decorated case. This time it's a plastic one, which once held cookies. }

Every last piece of candy up there was handmade from FIMO polymer clay. It took me about 2 to 3 days during hols to complete them. Yesterday, I went to this craft supplies store at The Gardens Mid Valley. Bought 2 bags of acrylic rhinestones and a bag of pastel pompoms with shiny stick-outs. Perfect for the project.

{ Yumminess ♥ }

{ Shrink plastic sign reads 'Kawaii~neh!'. Just look at that scoop of ice cream. Mm-mm. }

{ I used various stamps to make engravings on the clay. Spot 'Happy Valentine's Day' sign on the salmon pink heart and rose with the same colour on a chocolate bar. I also used a few pieces of tinted glass pebbles to cover up blank spots around the sides. }

{ Sequinned plush mushroom dangly with a clasp. It's actually a cellphone strap. I took off the cellphone hanger and clasped it to one of the clay charms which has a metal loo. }

{ The sides are lined with white lace. Added a few ribbons here and there. The trick to prevent satin ribbons from fraying is to gently dab some glue to the cut edges. Use glues that harden once dried. Here I used Bostik Super Glue. In fact, any super glue will do. The downside to it is that stains from the glue may be visible. }

Somewhat exhilirated by the accomplishment with this case, I set to make yet another one this morning :

{ Slightly opaque jelly drops in red, yellow and green. These are also made from a silicone mix. }

I kind of feel unsatisfied with how it turned out. The colours and arrangement both seem wrong to me. I probably shouldn't have stuck in all those polymer clay sweets. Initially, I thought of making a jelly land or something, but ended up piling more and more polymer clay charms. -__-"

{ Freestyle rhinestone arragement. So untidy. -__-" }

{ Lacey sides ♥ }

So did you enjoy the eye candy? :D As with the previous box, I'm keeping these two for myself too. :D Though God knows what I'm going to do with them except let them sit in the drawer. -__-"

Oozing Sweetness ~

Many many apologies to everyone. T-T Went missing for weeks even though I was and still am stuck at home every day. Well, I lazed about, poked around with the sis, went for walks and swims, baked chocolate chip cookies, banana cakes and a chocolate cake. Also tried making tau sar piah (red bean paste pastries) with the spiral shell

Apart from that, the whole family's busy with packing. We're moving to Sarikei sometime next week. The date is not set. Dad said "We'll move when all the packing is complete". Easier said than done. I think at the rate we're going, we still be stuck in Sibu by end of the year. -_-" Can't imagine where all the junk came from. I think I threw away half of my stuff - old clothes *which I know I'll never wear again but don't know why I kept them for all these years*, school kid's junk *erasers, stationery, mounts of stickers, cards and plastic toys*, free gifts that came with purchases *magnets? pens? bags? - can't believe I had them still* and thousands of un-name-able odds and ends.

After days of packing, I finally cleared away all my stuff, except for crafting supplies on the working table. I decided to do a little crafting before putting away everything *which I don't intend to till the day before moving*.

{ Metal case bought at RM5 from Daiso at The Curve. }

The tin was decorated, as seen in the photo above, when I was still in KL. I made the charms using polymer clay and silicone mix (for creams). Tried making roses with the clay, but couldn't get the shape I want. ^-^" I still have a lot to learn about working with polymer clay. I also drew a rainbow-lettered sign that reads 'Kawaii~neh!' on shrink plastic.

The sides looked quite empty. Too plain. So, I added a few things to make this :

{ Pertteh little candy box. I love you. ♥ }

First, I glued on a strip of flowery white lace bought from the local store selling sewing supplies. Upon completeing gluing, turned out that the stark white contrasted too much with the metallic grey of the box, hence the attempt to add as many things to cover up any spot of grey.

{ Flowery yo-yo made with leftover fabric from my Tingkatan Dua Ekonomi Rumah Tangga project of making a blouse. :D Dangly pink crystal which was a found-object. :P }

{ Rubber/plastic pink bunny + leaf decoration + pink organza ribbon }

{ Hand-stitched felt strawberry + string of blue beads + grey yoyo }

{ Mmm cake on black shrink plastic + red ribbons with a brass butterly sewn on }

{ The box }

{ Seriously in love with it. I'm keeping it all for myself. :P }