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Demolition and Building New Walls

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We bought this 2000+ square feet condominium early this year, with a combo living and dining space, 3 bed rooms and 2 small utility rooms, 4 bathrooms and 1 powder room, a wet kitchen and a dry kitchen (if you wonder why we have dry and wet kitchen, please read on), and a balcony overlooking a sport’s courtyard. 2000+ square feet for a family size of 4 and my kind of hobby, I wouldn’t say that it is “enough” space for us to live in. Having said that, I have to engage an interior designer to help me with a proper planning and design, hope that we can “create” more useful spaces to occupy.

After, 3 months of discussions, many meetings to finalize the design, we kicked-off the renovation work somewhere end of September. Basically, we have to tear down a few walls and convert the unit the way I like and hopefully will utilize all the spaces as much as possible. A proper cabinet system in order to store my huge quantity of craft tools and materials apart of the basic household items.

I really missed my usual routine between family, craft and work; I knew I am going to be super busy this time of the year, and it really occupied me more then I thought it would be. Hope that I can settle down in my new home early next year, with my new craft room and sewing room…. YAY! Will keep you all update about the progress!!!

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Meet up With Kelly, the lady behind Fabric Fanatics

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Remember Fabric Fanatics, the sponsor of the July fabrics and accessories giveaway? Today, I am so happy to meet up with Kelly, the lady behind Fabric Fanatics, for the first time. Kelly personally travels 350km from her shop to meet up with her fans and customers here. She has a stall set up at Strait Quay, Penang, until this Sunday. If you are around and want to grab some beautiful fabrics and accessories, or just to see this pretty lady in person, be sure to visit her stall before she goes back. For those who can’t make your self appear here, you are welcome to visit the Fabric Fanatics website and facebook to view and order the products, Fabric Fanatics ships to world wide.

Years ago, I used to think that buying craft materials especially beautiful linen fabrics was a nightmare. Now, I am glad to say that with the well spread of craft sharing across the country, handmade has made its way to gain more fans locally. With the current trend, we begin to see more sewing related supplies coming in. Sewing hobbyists like me are so lucky to be able to buy irresistible fabrics locally without even have to get out from the country (like what I used to do). Many fabrics were imported, cut into smaller pieces like fat quarters and fat eights, which is the right size to sew small projects like purse and zakka crafts.

I really enjoy today’s shopping, more fabrics to stuff up in my “already-choke-up” sewing room. As many of you may already knew, currently I am busy with my new home renovation, lots of design and planning to deal with my Interior Designer. I still craft but in slower pace, hope to sew and share more patterns & tutorials when I am almost done with my new home renovation. Please stay tune with all my updates.

Congratulations, Gill, the winner of the fabrics & Ribbons bundle that modes4u sponsored.

[Gill, I have emailed you with the email address you left together with the comment. Please reply within 3 days (by Feb 15, 2012).]

Remark: You can see the number next to Gill’s comment here [scroll down until you see the number 233], and this is where I used the randomizer to pick the number randomly from 1 to 403.

Thank you for all your awesome 403 comments trying your best luck in getting this bundle. From your responses, I got the hint of what to do on the next giveaway. Till then, please browse through the site to see if you have missed out any of the patterns & tutorials. I have made the new web design even more surf-friendly. You can browse through category from the drop down menu, or using the gallery page with some small preview photos for you to choose.

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Craft Materials - My recent shopping trip to Singapore

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Now, I need you to tell me which segment in the shopping guide you would like to know more. Please cast a vote in the following poll form, multiple selection is allowed, so click which ever interest you.
 
The poll will be closed on 31 December 2011.
 
Thanks for your vote and soon you will see more on the shopping guide.
 
The above photos are the craft materials I bought from Singapore during my recent shopping trip. I went to only 4 shops to get all these. On my next trip, I will make sure to bring my camera to take some photos for the shop I went.

1. Sportlight at Plaza Singapura (Off Orchard Road)
2. Daiso (Plaza Singapura)
3. Sing Mui Heng (1st Floor People’s Park Center), they have a branch in Kuala Lumpur too.
4. Golden Dragon (2nd Floor People’s Park Center)

My trip was a little too rush to cover everything in Singapore, there are a couple of shops in my list that I haven’t had time to visit, they are:

1. People’s Park Complex (next to People’s Park Center), you will be able to find more fabrics on 2nd Floor.
2. A quilting shop in Tangling Mall

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[Update 10 Oct 2011 - winner's names]
The winners are:
1. Teri Riordan via Facebook (comment # 26)
2. Royce (comment # 197)
3. Maddy Pierson Via Facebook (comment # 432)
4. Lisa Griswold (comment # 154)
5. Debra Rodkey Lee via Facebook (comment # 241)
6. Kenny Lim (comment # 104)
7. Pat V. (comment # 434)
8. Hanne (comment # 424)

To check if you are the winner, just go back to the giveaway post, the number beside your comment is the number I used to pick the winner in the random way.

Thanks for the gorgeous 443 comments in the giveaway, I really caught by surprise and I wish I have more kits to giveaway…. I will know what to do next time when I have similar giveaway. Thank you for participating in the giveaway…. THANK YOU!!!

I will contact the winners now to get the mailing details so that I can send out the kit as soon as possible. If you are the winner and don’t hear from me within 24 hours, please contact me, sometimes my email will get into your junk mailbox. Or, write on the wall of Craft Passion Facebook Page to inform me.

[Winners, please reply me with your valid mailing address by 12 October 2011.]

It is not a new post, but I have edited the existing post with the new simplified pattern. There is a close-up photo on the brim section for you to see clearly on the stitches. For those who can also read crochet symbol, I have added a simple pattern diagram for better view and understanding.

Hope to see your yoyo-puff hat soon. Below is the one Ivana made with the original pattern before this edition. I was so touched when Ivana added this beautiful photo of her daughter in Ravelry and I feel so glad that she made it even with my first confusing pattern. The hat fits well on her daughter and the color she used is simply GORGEOUS!!!! Ivana just told me that she will make another one for her younger daughter

Happy Crochet!!!!

To see more of Ivana’s Yoyo Puff Hat photos, click photo to log-in to Ravelry, click project on the pattern page to go to AnnyLu's project.

I just received another photo from Anna Butenka, she made this with a half yoyo puff instead of the full puff to reduce the weight of the hat.

Please feel free to send in yours to craftpassion_@_live.com [remove the _] I will keep them updated here at this moment until I have the community corner set up so that you can share your photo there.

Tammy, please reply my email with your address by 3 July 2011.

I don’t know why Teddie didn’t respond to pick up her prize, may be she is away and has limited access to the internet. Hope that she is safe and sound, enjoying her summer vacation.

Thanks for the recent Amigurumi Lady Bug Girl, Sofia giveaway participations. There are a total of 57 comments left in the giveaway but only 1 lucky winner will take home the Sofia made by Jane. And, the lucky winner is….

**drum roll**

I have sent an email to the lucky winner, please reply me with your valid USA addresses by June 29 2011 (PST). The address will be given to the giveaway sponsor – JennyAndTeddy, she will deliver Sofia to you directly. If your name is in the winner list but didn’t receive my email, please check your spam or junk folder, or please write to me.

Thanks again for the participation! Hope to have more sponsors for the giveaways in future. It is fun, isn’t it!!!

 
I have sent emails to the winners, please reply me with your valid USA addresses by Mar 29 2011 (PST). The addresses will be given to the giveaway sponsor – Downlite, they will deliver the pillows to you directly. If your name is in the winner list but didn’t receive my email, please check your spam or junk folder, or please write to me.
 
Thanks again for participating! Hope to have more sponsors for the giveaways in future.

Kanzashi Christmas Tree is now on Etsy Shop!!!! This is my first item listed on my Etsy shop.

Due to the long-hour labor needed to “build” this Christmas tree and I don’t want to disappoint you by not being able to send it on time for the holly season, I have to limit the quantity to 10 units only.

I need around 2 weeks to get the Christmas tree done, sending via surface parcel is around 2-3 weeks depends of which country it is going to (from Malaysia). So, in order to have the Christmas tree reach you on time, you have to place order 1 month ahead. Anyway, there is an option to get it ships via air parcel with additional shipping cost.

The glittered star on top of the Christmas Tree is packed separately, there will be an instruction sheet included in the packing for putting it up. A small amount of craft glue will be included in the package for the installation.

Wish you all Merry Christmas!!!

Clicking the following button will bring you to my Etsy Shop. If you don’t have etsy account, contact me to deal direct!

Qty: 20 only

Pencil Holder with a pair of 2B pencil.

Qty: 8 only

Doggie With Silica Beads for wardrobe and cabinet to keep moisture away.

Qty: 5 only

Thumb-Pin pincushion, hang it on the notice board to keep pins tidy. Come with 20 colorful shaped thumb-pins.

Qty: 6 only

8-style Reversible Tote with adjustable strap.

Qty: 1 only

These are the few items I made for sales in the upcoming charity event for the school of  hearing impaired students. If you are in the neighborhood, please come and support the good cause to raise fund for the school. The details are as following:

Vanue:  Sekolah Menengah Pendidikan Khas Persekutuan Pulau Pinang – Canteen
Address: 600H, Jalan Lembah Permai, 11200 Tanjung Bungah, Penang, Malaysia
Date: 01 August 2010, Sunday
Time: 9am -3pm

Besides my handmade, they also sell foods to raise fund during the canteen day.

If you are interested in any of my limited edition handmade above, please call Madam Gee for price and reservation. You can also get the RM10/book coupon from her for the purchases or as a donation to the school.

Madam Gee’s contact: +6-016-477 5111

See you there!