Knock Knock!!

Knock! Knock!

Is there anybody home?

 

 

Hahaha.. Hi there.

Have been MIA (missing in action)

for almost 5 months.

 

Oh my, yeah! Been busy with my

baby & kids...and work.

 

I have tons of things to blog about but just can't find

the time to do so. And also stitching,

it is always in my to-do list everyday.

But the minute I reached home

with the kids after work and finish up

housework, the bed is the last thing I wanna be. Heh!

 

Okay, I heard there is a Giveaway by Heather.

Uuuuu cute patterns are for grabs.

Go visit her blog to find out more, I'm trying my luck too.

 

So, happy stitching to you guys. I'm so jealous of u all!

And Happy weekend.

 

Bye,

Fara

 

Baby Boom ~ #5

Hello there!!

Yes, I have safely delivered

my 5th child on 9th April 2014

AND

it's another

BOY!!

Hohohoho...

There will be chaos in the house!!

 AFIQ RAFIQIN

3.42kg

So, I will be away for a while..enjoying my maternity

leave and this little bundle of joy.

Love,

Fara

#Remembering MH370

 

Today the whole world is saddened by the news of MH370 that

was crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean sea.

 

My heartfelt condolences to all Family & Friends

of those who were on board MH370.

 

Al-Fatihah.

 

 

 

Hello Kitty

Just a quick update.

I've stitched this "Hello Kitty"

and made it into a keychain

for my darling niece "Aleesya".

 

 

She turned 5years old last 11th March and

is a huge fan of Hello Kitty.

 

 

Well, off to settle my office work.

 

Take care,

 

Fara



IHSW ~ Feb 2014

I'm late in posting this month's IHSW.

 

Busy busy month for me as I'm towards

my 8month of pregnancy and I have to finished up

my accounts work quickly before I go on maternity leave.

 

March is always a crucial month for me, as the

auditor will come and audit my work.

 

So, ok done with office work.

I did manage to squeeze in some "me" time last week.

My kids went out with their aunties and I was left alone.

A great time to relax without the headache and noise

from the kids... a lovely weekend to hermit

at a corner and stitch stitch stitch. Yay!!

 

 

Here's an update on my superheroes alphabet, progressing slowly.

Hope to finished it before I pop!

 

 

 

Hope you guys had a lovely IHSW!!

 

Fara

 

 



Happy Chinese New Year 2014!! Horse Year!

Wishing all celebrating CNY a

Very Happy Chinese New Year!!

 

May this year will be a prosperous new year to all.

And especially this is a Horse Year, which is my year..

I'm super excited as my little baby will also be born in a Horse Year.

 

I made a quick cross-stich of a Horse, just for luck!

 

 

As usual as all years, I will be going back to

Malacca to see my grandma.

 

A picture of us siblings with our Mom & Grandma (Apoh).

 

My kids with their cousins and aunties.

 

 

 

Oh, my little sis have gave birth to a boy last 20th Dec 2013.

 

Me with this cutie-pie Adam.

 

 

On the 1st day of CNY was my little niece birthday,

we didn't managed to attend her birthday celebration as we were at Malacca.

But I did a small card for her.

 

Have a great day everyone,

 

Fara

 



 

 



IHSW ~ Jan 2014

1st IHSW for the year.

 

I started back on my long toss away "Superheroes Alphabet".

I've stitched an alphabet a day, so I had 3 superheroes this IHSW.

Yay!!

Am glad to show off my piece. :)

 

K ~ Kilowog

L ~ Logan

M ~ Martian Manhunter

 

 

13 done, 13 more to go.

 

 

Happy stitching,

Fara

 

11 years 1 month

As today is the 21st January, I just

realised that I had been married with hubby dear

for 11 years and 1 month.

 

 

Dear Hubby, hope our marriage will last forever till Jannah.

 

 

 

This piece I had done since our dating time, sometime in year 1999.

 

Do we look different or still the same?

 

 

Love,

Fara

 



December 2013 Highlights ~ Throwback

Hi All. Been in hiatus mode for sooo long.

 

Hope all is well with the beginning of the year. Me, I am super-duper

busy with work and family.

 

 

Need to update on the last month of December 2013.

 

 

#1 ~ My 3 elder boys had their circumcision done.

Amin when smoothly, Hakim cried a bit while

Aleem was whailing in the doctor's room.

He had to go out of the room to get a breather

and encouragement before returning again for the surgery.

 

 

Before the surgery. All Happy smiles.

After surgery. All sound asleep.

Hashim mimicking his brothers. Haha..


#2 ~ My anniversary with hubby dear on the 21st Dec.
We decided to go on a vacation to Avillion Port Dickson
with the kids as they had healed.

Lil Hashim enjoying his holiday.

Our room was above the sea.




#3 ~ Aleem started primary one on the 30th Dec.

Aleem with his school uniform. My boy has totally grown, sob sob.


Year 2013 has its ups and down for me. Hope to have a better year in 2014.

Adios,
Fara

 

 

HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR ~ 2014

2014 is here. A very Belated New Year to All of you.

 

 

 

Will continue with new updates soon.

 

Take care,

Fara

 

"The Shahadah" ~ Completed!!

Oh Yeah! I finished before the year-end!
Hip Hip Hooray to me.

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Stitching,

Fara



WIP ~ "The Shahadah"

My sis (Ida) ordered another cross-stitch from me.

This time it's an "Islamic Calligraphy" ~ "The Shahadah".

 

She wanted to give it for a wedding present for her hubby's cousin.

I was supposed to finish it up last Saturday (7th Dec),

but I didn't make it to that deadline.

 

Luckily, she said that she can give the present later.

Maybe after she delivers. Yup, my sis is also

pregnant and she is due next Jan 2014.

 

I hope to finish this by end of this month. 

 

Lots of xoxo,

Fara



November updates

Yuuhuuu!! WOW! It's the month of December now.

Just a few more days and we are off to 2014!!

 

How time flies. Sorry for the long hiatus.. many things have

occurred during November. Some good and some bad ones.

 

 

#1 ~ It was my company's trip. Off we all went to the

LOST WORLD OF TAMBUN in Perak.

The kids had the time of their life..

swimming in the man-made pool, and waves and slides.

And also the hot springs pool.. uuuu how relaxing.

 

And the highlight of the day was the lucky draw.

I WON big time!!

 

I got the Sony NEX-3 camera & Sony 42inch TV!!

 

 

 



 

 

 

#2 ~ Someone broke-into our house.

Eeek!! I woke in the middle of the night at 2.50am,

and saw someone was in my room!!

OMG! I was screaming at him and he quickly took my handbag.

 

My hubby however was working late and I was left alone

with the kids. Can you imagine my terror!!

Luckily he didn't harm us, I quickly called my hubby to come home.

Police came with the security guarding our area, but the culprit wasn't

caught however!!

 

I went to stay with my in-laws for 2 weeks after that.

Trauma trauma trauma!!

 

 

#3 ~ Kids were sick, so was I.

The kids were sick one after the other! Oh my!

Tonsilitis, cough, flu and high fever!

But after they were all right, I was next!

And it hit me real hard, I had the sinus and my head was pounding like mad!

It wasn't easy being sick and pregnant at the same time.. believe me.

Oh, sadly to say that I Gave up on finishing my Home#2.
Due to all the things happen, I just don't have the mood
to join in the competition. However,
I will take my time to finish it up and put it in my house.
Sigh!! Good luck to those who enters.

 

#4 ~ My 3rd son graduation.

Aleem finally graduated from pre-school.
Yay!!
Will need to get the photos from my hubby.



Hope everyone had a wonderful time stitching.
Till then,

Fara

 

 

Finally Here!!

My SIL (Adah) finally gave birth to a

very healthy baby boy last Sat 26th Oct 2013.
I didn't managed to have a pic of the newborn baby.

However..

 

Here is the chubby lil fellow :

 

 

 Ahmad Jibryl Haq

 (pic taken recently, 15days old)

 

 

And here's my finished bib for the little Jibryl.

 

The Finished bib!!

 

Close-up on the name and characters!!

The back of the stitches

My Lil Hashim trying on the bib.
That's his style of showing peace!!
hahaha...


Happy weekend and stitching.
Don't forget it is IHSW this week,
just go to http://joysze.blogspot.com/ to join in with
other hermitters!!


Hugs,
Fara

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Giveaway

Heather from Heather's Stitching Story

is having a Giveaway.

 

Just look here at her link to enter.

 

 

Her prizes will be :

(pic courtesy from her link)

 

 

 

Good luck to those who enter. I am entering as well!!

 

 

 

Hugs,

Fara

 



Cute Couple Bear ~ Finished!!

Wow!! We are now in the month of November!!

 

I've been busy stitching and finishing

the Cute Couple Bear before the deadline.. which is today!!

 

Yup, I finally finished it today!!

My sis Ida's friend wedding is this Sunday (10th Nov 2013).

 

So, she have less than 2 days to find a nice frame to put my cross-stitch in.

 

 

I thought that I could finished it earlier, but the back-stitch were

a lot!! But all in all, the piece looks good.

 

 

Here's the finished outcome :

 

 

I hope the couple likes it.

 

 

Hugs,

Fara



IHSW Oct'13

It was IHSW Oct'13 last week (18th - 20th Oct).

 

I managed to do some stitching in between of doing

laundry, sending the kids to their piano class,

cleaning the house and etc etc...

 

 

I stitched up another 3 little monster on the bib.

Little baby is still in mum's (Adah) tummy, we are all

waiting for him to come out soon.

 

 

 

I am also waiting for the name of the baby, then I can stitched

up his name on the bib.

 

 

Also, I have received an order from my lil sis Ida.

She wanted me to stitch a wedding gift for her friend.

Actually she wanted me to stitched 2 loving couple cats,

but I can't find any charts with cats but bears instead.

 

My lovely fb friend Huey, have given me the chart and

I am in the midst of stitching it.

Dateline is on the 1st week of Nov. Yikes!!

 

 

 

As for my Home#2 ?? No progress so far.

I am still at the 2nd page, still stuck at the teacup.

There are too many whites, and I got fed up stitching it.

I think I need a breather from it.

Have to gear up on my momentum back to finish it. ;p

The dateline have been postponed to the end of Dec.

 

 

Well, hope all of you had a great IHSW this month.

 

Regards,

Fara

Stitching Baby's Gear

This year a baby boy would be

coming to the world.

Oh it's not mine, but my SIL "Adah".

It's her 1st baby and clock is ticking anytime soon.

 

 

I wanted to give her something special for the baby.

A stitched "something" would be nice.

I saw a few stitched bib/ burp cloth in some blogs and in facebook.

I wanted to do the same but can't find where to buy the bibs.

 

 

Eventually, I contacted my fb friend "Huey" as she had stitched one before.

She gladly gave me one of the bibs from her stash.

Yay!! So, the package came last Saturday, and to my

delight she also enclosed a pink 25ct aida cloth.

Oh how darling Huey is. Thanks Huey!!

 

 

A blue bib with 14ct aida cloth.

A very Pink 25ct aida cloth.

 

I started browsing some designs on baby boys charts to stitched on the bib.

But all looks so babyish. I wanted something funny and cute.

 

So I decided to stitched these little funny looking monsters instead.
It reminds me of Cookie Monster from Sesame Streets. Haha...

 

From CrossStitcher Vol Jan 2013 - Issue 261


The 1st Little Monster that I have stitched so far..

Will update soon on the final product.

Happy stitching,
Fara
 

 

 



Birthdays & Art Expo 2013

On the 11th Sept was my birthday and my little boy "Hashim".

 



 

Hashim is 2 years old while I'm 35..(oho mid thirties..).

I didn't make any party this year..(blame it on the morning sickness)..
:p

But only had a small celebration with my family and dining outside at
Bubba Gump. A restaurant name after the movie "Forrest Gump".

 

 

On the 22nd Sept, my hubby brought us to Matrade in Kuala Lumpur for
the Art Expo 2013 exhibition.
Paintings, sculptures and arts items are displayed there
from various part of the countries.

My hubby's artwork was also displayed there:

 

 

The kids had fun mimicking some of the paintings there:
Hahahaha....

Hope you guys had a great weekend last week. :)

Hugs,
Fara
 



Sept IHSW & Home#2 Update

Well well well...

 

It's been a long silence from me here.. well almost a month

I can say.

The morning sickness this time really kicked

hard on me.. I was having bad flu, and nausea and vomiting..

Had to keep away from cross stitching too as my head was pounding

and I had no mood to even look at charts and threads.

Oooo..pity me :P

 

But now I'm feeling better!! Yeay!!

And I can continue with my Home#2 DMC cross stitch.

 

 

I had started off from here for this month's IHSW :-

 

 

 

 

And here is my progress so far :

 

 

 

Part 2 of 4 is almost finished!!



Hope everyone had a good IHSW this month.

Love,
Fara