neck bags & custom made owl key chains

just a quick update of what i am up to. made these bags>>>

then made some of these for an order>>>

and will have to make one of these to make someone happy>>>

really up to my eyeballs with work, house, mom-duty and honing my craft... need more time!!! where can i get some?

custom made owl ornaments & owl keychains

been trying my hand at making rolled fabric roses for some little bags that i was making but got way laid as i had to make these cute little owl ornaments for a special order.


and since i was already making the ornaments i thought i could make a few plush keychains whilst i was at it. and here's one of them.

shabby chic fabric pears

here's my latest project: fabric pears anyone? they're good enough to eat! they were quite simple and straight forward to make and i'm considering making different designs later.

festive hanging owl plushies

a busy weekend with someone asking me to make some custom-made owls. and here they are >>>i've also finished my owl family project, made from the pattern i purchased from snugnluv. will post pics of them soon.

handmade stuffed fabric owl ornaments

Above is my first project. Looks easy peasy but since I haven't used a sewing machine for ages, I was really rusty. Looking at the results now, I am quite pleased with myself. Below is my Brother Innov-is 500 Embroidery Sewing Machine.
My hubby found this machine for me. Its a really crafty machine loaded with functions. Although a bit temperemental, once you get around its quirks, its a joy of a machine.I will get around to posting a tutorial of how to make this owl ornament yourself, so stay posted to this space, however if you are not so friendly with sewing, you can always get one of my owl ornaments from my etsy shop or my ebay, whichever is easier for you. Thanks so much for visiting!

reviving the Chronicles

I have come out of my hiding to blog about the plans for resurrecting the Vampire Chronicles movie franchise. I have a need to articulate my opinion of these developments.

Recently I have gleaned from Bloody Disgusting website that Robert Downey Jr. of Ally McBeal and Ironman fame is in talks to reprise the role of Lestat. Not that I don’t appreciate RD Jr.’s charm and charisma. I mean who in this world can duet with Sting and carry it off? But that is beside the point. Loyal Ricean fans know that the main protagonist of the Vampire Chronicles, Lestat was turned when he was not even 20 and he is blonde. Now imagine RD Jr. being blonde and all and trying to carry off the weight of having to look a twenty something vampire? He is I promise truly a great actor, but not Lestat!

L has to be portrayed by somebody who has an inner insolence and must be really naturally full of themselves. You know who would be perfect?


Combine Ed Westwick’s natural impertinence and cover it with Chace Crawford’s face. CC’s looks would match well if Michelle Pfeiffer were to play L’s mother turned vampire fledgling. Perfect? Almost but not quite.









Tom Cruise was nearly faultless as L. TC is naturally insolent anyway, I think. He taunted Louie to perfection in Interview and the only thing really is TC looks dodgy as a blonde.

So whoever is planning this coup of reviving the Chronicles in film, should I think, take their cue from the mega-successful Twilight series. The demographics of this film make it a win-win from the get-go. Take some teenagers and a vampire-werewolf love triangle story and what do you have? Then you have a whole market of screaming girls who are richer than us adults thanks to babysitting money, piggybanks and allowances, to sell the movie to. See what I mean? Not only is this film series inciting hysteria, but it has successfully revived the vampire genre that sort of slumped since Buffy ended its run.

The Ricean novels are a darker, richer, more melodramatic saga and told in the right way with the right actors in film form might just make them the more epic. But unfortunately this is just me saying this and the powers that be that will make this movie, might just on some dumb happenstance create a total disaster!

It’s hard to write blah de blah de blah

Kind of challenged in the time management department of late, as always, what with juggling a gazillion things to do and cramming basic la lingua español on the side prior to our road trip to the sun-kissed and sea lapped capital of Catalunya. I have a thousand excuses but mostly, truthfully I'm preoccupied with satisfying my inner fashionista alter ego. I’d never be caught un-trendy in Barcelona – that’s a crime! So enough with my blah blah excuses, yes I am guilty as charged. So I’ve been busy indulging my shopaholicness. Kind of lame but never mind, better lame than dowdy right?

gushing over Barack

I watched a documentary about his childhood and the years before he took over the White House. I’m awed with how he is very much like everybody else but he isn’t at the same time. He is the embodiment of greatness. I think this is what a lot of people see in him. He’s just amazing. Like JFK, Denzel Washington and Will Smith put together. He’s so rock and roll. I hope the shine never fades away. It’s sad when they do, but it’s inevitable… think of a shiny penny thrown into the pig pen that GB left behind. Barack is bound to get his elbows dirty and most likely his knees too. And that stink might rub off on him as well. Just everyone try to remember the shiny penny before it got dragged in the muck ok. He was left with a mess to clean up, what do you expect?

can do no wrong

Pink for all her wackiness can do no wrong and so is Calvin Harris in my book. Their new videos are darkly macabre but I still find them fascinating. Pink sort or played out her personal life on video with her string of hits So What (about life after ‘divorce’) quickly followed by the sobering Sober (about someone literally sobering up) and surprise surprise, Please Don’t Leave Me (in a nutshell about a doomed yo-yo relationship). I was a bit surprised because begging someone to stay was the last thing I thought Pink would sing about but she does it with gothic finesse anyway. Love the way Pink was channelling Stephen King’s Misery in the video. It’s obsessive watching. You get sucked in and let-in on the evil goings-on. Same with Calvin Harris’s video of the dark irony of cosmetic surgery, he is a very upbeat Dr Frankenstein, I suppose.

And don’t ask me why I’m drawn to dark ghastly stuff, I’m just allowing my darker half be content and so should you. Look at what happens to people who are too self righteous and condescending. Don’t get hypocrites started or you will end up regretting you even opened your mouth in the first place. Which reminds me, weeks ago while channel surfing, guess what was on TV? Music video of the Ketchup song. So as the sibling singers were gyrating and singing asereje, Mariel was informing me that as a matter of fact, the said dance to the song was the devil’s dance in the Philippines. So I say, “Where on Earth would such conclusion come from? Mariel don’t believe all the non-sense that you hear!” And please tell me whoever started this rumour/fiction, because he/she needs to be shot. Obviously this person has too much time on his/her hands!

Remember how in the early nineties, rumours abound about certain songs how they inspire you to become followers of satanic cults? The most popular of these, Queens’ Bohemian Rhapsody. It’s bonkers, really. Some school mates I know even played an inverted tape of Queen’s hit to listen to the apparent satanic verses. What a load of BS. Seems to me that people who propagate these scare-fests are themselves obsessed with sex and are over compensating for that via and all out media war on anything suspiciously dark in nature.

So going back to Pink and CH, move over PCD’s, I have a new 3-minute obsession x 2. And since these 2 can’t do no wrong, who has done wrong lately that I can bitch about? Hmm… nobody else but 2 KT P’s… KT no 1, saying having swine flu is trendy… and since she thinks so, can we at least make her the poster girl for swine flu? She’ll probably catch it with kissing all the girls? And KT no 2, for going out, getting drunk and flashing her 2 gigantic cosmetically enhanced assets while 3 children and husband are at home. Girl, we know you earn most of the dough but you are giving us ladies a bad name. It’s just not right when you’re a mother and you’re flashing in public… just plain wrong!