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Show your (Embroidery Hoop) Stripes!

Hullo! Just when you thought I was never coming back, well, here I am again haha. In order to celebrate the sudden re-appearance, I will share with you a little tutorial on sprucing up your plain 'ol embroidery hoop. For whatever purposes it may serve.

To begin, you will need an... embroidery hoop! and 3 solid colored washi tapes (oh and scissors):

Next, you cut them up and place them like so:

Then, you fold 'em under and smooth it over with you fingers to make sure it sticks well:

Repeat until done (I trimmed the tape around the part where the hoop meets to make it look clean):

There you go, yet another use for those washi tapes! I would have loved some floral hoops or a hot pink one. But alas! All I had were these 3 rolls, so stripes it is.

Now, I must confess that I actually still have been blogging, and after I tell you, you will understand why the sudden tutorial on embroidery hoops and such.

For you see, you can now find me over at the Feeling Stitchy blog on Mondays!! Sewing up little projects from public domain ebooks and what-have-yous. With much gratitude to Floresita for the spot, I am learning something new every week from others and have challenged myself immensely with every new project. Do drop by!

So sorry dear blog for the neglect, I shall try my bestest to have time for you too. 

Peace. Love. Dream. Make Time.

It's Always Mother's Day

            To all mothers around the world.. happy mother's day :-) 

            This blog has been quiet...since...it seemed like I was in labor for months...then the baby came bouncing out quick! :-D I'll be back to sharing again here soon (AND going back to work) ...but for now I am enjoying baby smells and seeing the beautiful crack of dawn.

            Hope you are all doing something wonderful in your corner of the world. 

Peace. Love. Dream. Celebrate.

Steamy Kitchen Recipe Test #1

        The lovely Jaden Hair at Steamy Kitchen is coming out with a new Asian cookbook! And we are lucky enough to get chosen as one of her recipe testers! Very exciting :-) Dear Husband and I, we really do love food. Most especially healthy Asian food, so we are enjoying this.

        Whilst we continue to play test, do check out Jaden's first book: The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook - 101 Asian Recipes Simple Enough for Tonight's Dinner, or drop by her website for more recipes and wonderful tips, ideas, inspiration about cooking, homesteading and things to make :-)

Peace. Love. Dream. Cook!

Cookie Monster Sunday

        Hullo. The little fam and I are home-alone as the big fam are all off enjoying Bukidnon's Kaamulan festival. Yesterday was the Street dancing showcasing Bukidnon's rich culture from it's many indigenous tribes, and tonight is Rodeo Night to celebrate the champions of the Rodeo and Bukidnon's wonderful cowboys.  I can just imagine everyone's alread pretty drunk..right about..now. Haha. 

        And on the other side of the fence.... we spent the afternoon in bed, Dear Husband watching a Chinese film (in Chinese haha, which we do not speak nor comprehend!), Begotten Son played with his lego people eating my Rement food, and I finished my booties for the babe. 

        Being the only female in my lil' family of males can be quite lonely at times, specially when I see the most adorable things to do. My sisters and neices all live too far for these sudden bouts of "oh my! let's try that!" Times like when you see Cookie Monster nails!

Sources (clockwise from Top Left): 1.Nifty Nails  2.Heather  3.Oh My Nails  4.Catherine's Loves 

        Alas, with no one in sight, I had to try it on my micro nails. LOL. *sigh* Small hands=Small nails.As much as I would have loved to do those other designs, the size of my nail needed some planning, so I went with a version of #2. Heather's cookie monster nails. I didn't have the wonderful shade of blue that they used since I am limited to whatever nail polish is sold in the little town nearby. 

        Do you want to know the brand names and the colors I used? Hehe I should have taken a photo, but for now here goes: CHIC Classics Nail Color in Neon Blue (really?! hahaha) and Caramelicious, BOBBIE Premium Nail Cream in Kohl and Pure White and RAIN by Colortrends Nail Creme in Sheer Bliss (in other words, clear top coat). I am glad I wrote that down for posterity's sake because the markings are disappearing as I write this.

        The number of cute nail art out there multiplies by the minute, thus I can't wait for summer break when all the girls will be here for their vacation. I'm sure they've got more nail space that I do. 

        It's really fun to knit though when your nails are all done up, and the Cookie Monster is grinning back at you. 

        Hope you all had a lovely Sunday and here's to wishing all of us a week filled with wonder and much love.

Peace. Love. Dream. Get Inspired.