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Kimi and Afi are getting so smart now! We were playing a game where I gave them a scenario, and asked them how they would react. For example: Me: If a girl say, ‘can you be my boyfriend?’ What are you going to answer? Kimi: No thanks. And suddenly Afi said it was his turn to ask a question. Afi: Ibu, if a boy say ‘I like you’ and ask you to go to the airport so you can fly somewhere, what are you going to say? Me: Hmm... where are we travelling to? Afi: Malaysia  Me: No thanks, I have been there many times. Kimi: Ibu, you should say, ‘No.. I’m married!!’ LOL These smart boys with their dinosaur art gallery. It’s bedtime, but they decided to get creative now.. pfftt...

Date: 30th June 2020 Hi, It’s Kimi again . Now I’m going to tell you about my adventure at SEALIFE Mooloolaba QLD. This is me and my brothers lining up in the longest line I’ve ever been. But we made it to the end of the line and got our tickets and started our journey. First, we went to the touching bay, I touched 3 starfishes and 1 sea cucumber but we weren’t aloud to touch the fish. Remember this is not a sea horse it’s a sea dragon, sea dragons don’t have a curly tail like a sea horses. Next, we took a picture of this, and when Hafi took the boy one I didn’t want to be the girl so Aydin was the girl and I was in the middle. Before we went in the tunnel my mother took a picture of this Great White shark🦈 and it can rip it’s prey apart.    This thing here is a giant stingray, stingrays have barbs that has serious poison ☠️.  But they won’t hurt you unless you disturb them. This is a Goliath Grouper, Goliath Grouper have giant mouths to swallow its prey and it was coming after Aydin

I am officially a student, again! My career life has been quite monotonous  lately, not that I’m complaining, but to be honest, I am ready for a bit of a change. For years now, my bedtime story is reading through OZBargain, the website for bargain hunters like me. And during the pandemic, a post mentioned that University of Tasmania is letting people enrol Diploma of Sustainable Living free of charge!   So I looked it up, contacted them, and it was confirmed that this course is 100% funded by HECS scholarship until December 2021! Everything is online, no exams, just assignments! Plus, sustainability has been the core topic for most of my teaching and grading tasks - a topic I currently enjoy. So I tried my luck and applied - and to cut the story short, I am now a uTas student. I will need to complete the whole diploma by December 2021 to secure 100% fees waiver.  Wish me luck and hopefully I can successfully manage all my roles - mom, academician, crafter, and now student! 

As I am writing this post, the pandemic Covid-19 restrictions are starting to be lifted gradually here in Queensland, Australia. Going to the shops are no longer scary, I mean, people are still social distancing, but I don't feel as guilty as I used to feel.  Anyway, with so many mothers stuck at home, online shopping has become the new norm (me included). And my liners were completely out of stock. My local Spotlight seems a bit emptier than usual, so there were not many fabric patterns to choose from. But I loved the micro fleece Dinosaur print, and started working on some new liners. The polka-dots pattern was cute too and matches the colour theme of the dinosaur one. Now I have 2 design up on my eBay store - Dinos and Grey Bunnies!  Click for my eBay store AUD5.50 for a set of 3 liners With this all sorted, I can happily start marking some assignments. Changing role from a crafter, to an academician - here I go!

For an amateur, I find crocheting garments very challenging, especially to get the perfect sizing. I realised that the size of the yarn plays a crucial role in determining the size of the end product. The tutorials that I have been following may have used a thicker yarn compared to the ones that I have because I kept getting a smaller version of whatever is being crocheted. But this was not mentioned in the tutorials... I guess I have to study more on this... Anyways, right before the date of my planned delivery, I managed to make 2 matching baby headbands - one for my baby girl and the other for JuliZac's. Thank god it fitted Aya well! And my latest project is this red sun hat, with the purple flower embellishment. It would fit a newborn  better than Aya who is already 1 month old. Babies grow so fast! I have this up for sale on my eBay shop which I feel would suit smaller babies or even dollies. Now that would be adorable!

I have sooo many scrap fabrics! I can’t possibly throw them in the bin, they are so precious. I might need them one day - but the rate of collecting scrap fabrics are higher than actually using them and now I ended up with such a huge pile! If you’re like me, what kind of sewing projects will you take on to clear your stash? For me, fabric binder is the way to go. They use up a lot of scraps and make colourful borders for any sewing projects. And they are super easy to make: Step 1: Cut fabrics into same sized rectangles - width depends on how wide you want your binder to be, and length depends on how frequent you want the patterns to change. The shorter the length of the rectangles, the colourful the binder will be. Step 2: Sew a straight line connecting all rectangle fabrics. Give some considerations on how the patterns match one another. I prefer contrasting colours. Step 3: Now you can just sew the long connected scraps as a binder - YouTube tutorials on how to