Showing posts with label Leeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leeds. Show all posts

Monday, June 22, 2009

Road Sign


One thing that I really like about my neighbourhood in Leeds is the road sign shown above which features kids' drawings. Maybe people will pay more attention to road signs if they are all as cute as this one.

I have all the free time at the moment that most people will like to have and I'm trying to savour every moment by doing something productive. I need to make that promise. Hence, the sudden update of my long neglected dear blog.

Miky took me to dinner last Saturday at Ho's Restaurant. I ordered watermelon juice, vegetable hot & sour soup and vegetable fried rice while he ordered seafood. I always tell him that he must have been a fish in his past life. After that we went to watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I'm not a big fan of action movie but it was interesting and quite funny. Shia LaBeouf is still worth watching!

My hay fever has been getting to me for the past 2 weeks and I didn't expect it to have a come back this year. I'm thinking of buying that organic hay fever balm, since my hay fever meds from last year isn't that effective. I have been in the UK for more than 5 years and I only start getting hay fever since last year. I wonder if there's some explanation to this.
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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Miky's Birthday Present

Front View of Miky's Birthday Monster

I made this felt monster for Miky's 26th Birthday. Last year I made a tiny one and he had it as a key chain guarding his keys. Now this monster is guarding Miky's room as he's a bit too big to get into Miky's trouser pocket. I glued the eyes and mouth using fabric glue because I stuffed it first before adding the face details. Next time I'll do the stuffing last, as the fabric glue is not that pleasant to smell at.

Back View of Miky's Birthday Monster

I never really know how to stitch words onto felt and this one doesn't come out as I wanted it to be. In case you are wondering, it reads, "Mic Menn Bday 09". I think using back stitch will do the wordings more justice. Anyway, I'm still quite pleased with the end results as I normally have ideas in my head and rarely get to take action and execute them. My inspiration for this is from the photo below, a photo that I took of shop's window displayment full of little cute monsters in Leeds city centre:
The shop is opposite Leeds market. I don't really remember the shop name as it's not really a kawaii gift shop but they do happen to have these adorable felt monsters. They look simple but I think I took almost 10 hours to finish making one while catching up with episodes of Lost.
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

It's Nice To See You Smile Again

Found this heart warming graffiti on the wall of Zara clothing shop in Leeds. I don't think it's commissioned by the shop. I'm guessing this graffiti creator must be a female. This will be one of the things that I like about Leeds city centre.
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