DIY: My own Blended Oil

My 18-months Diploma of Aromatherapy already passed 5 months now, we have learnt and tried some oil blending based on the systems we are learning.

This time I tried to blend some oil for my own use and let myself being my own white mouse. 

I blended one Face oil & one for Eczema oil. I have put on for few days now and not bad at all. YEAH! 

I am not confident and not qualified yet to share the recipes here yet! Wait for me until qualified! hohoho 

Stay tune! 

Love, love k

Year of Horse

I had a "FULL" Chinese New Year! We have been eating, sleeping, watching TV for the last 5-6 days!!! This year is Year of Horse and I am one of them!!! (In other words, I am turning 36 this year! Time is Definitely Flying like XXXX.... LOL)

Beside relax and enjoy the CNY with family, relatives and friends, I should have a ton of work to do! 

1. Homework: Oil Blending for Dermatology is done but will pass it to my friend to test on tomorrow!

2. Report on my Oil Blending

3. Knitting the Elephant for my client, her son is turning 1 on 19/2/2014! (this is TOP URGENT!)

4. Study Anatomy & Physiology (Exam in early March)and thousands, a millions of new words and things to learn & memorize. 

5. want to crochet that Red/white flower pad! 

   

By the way, I bought this crochet book yesterday! YEAH

Now going out to meet friends for dinner! Bye! 

Wish all of you have a wonderful Year of HORSE!

love, love k

Tailor-made crochet Amineko Cat

Remember I made my first Amineko Cat in September for Chinese Moon Cake Festival!? 

Well... my friend saw that one and asked me to make Amineko that look-a-like her cat~ um........... I thought how to make 2 tones with cat face/body pattern...Well, obviously I accepted this challenge... Then I clicked to her Facebook and checked out the cat. Immediately I sketched it down, the front and the back of the cat.

There are some concerns to stop me start immediately to crochet:

1) The "Gold" color hair of the Cat

2) The Amineko Cat has some pebbles inside the body for stability (but mine used dry green bean not green pea) but definitely I don't want to use this for her cat as I don't know if she would wash it or not!!!! LOL but I looked around my home no shop has small pebble for this purpose.

3) How I crochet the 2-tone on each row...with all those patterns on the cat.

4) My bf was back to HK in Oct and only stayed 3 weeks.

5) I started my Aromatherapy course in late Sept, so I have started to study and home revision....

...so based on above points and more (such as laziness & watching TV)... the project was delayed. 

Finally I think it is too bad if I couldn't finish it before Xmas for her. So I kicked my axx... I went to search yarn, beads,.........)I started and noticed my friend that I would give it to her by the end of last weekend [to give myself a push and let her know I am doing it! :P ]

So, the last week, I have been working hard on it every night..... but at the same time I was worry about my Chemistry exam as will be on 21/12..... what should I do!!!??! 

Well well well.... I finished the cat COMPLETELY on yesterday, 15 Dec, 2013. Including photo-shooting, labelling & packaging! HAHAHA

Today, my friend has a day off and she would come to my office to pick it up~ Yeah, save my time! So, I would go for my Chemistry study from today Mon to Fri, Exam on Sat! Then Xmas BBQ on Sat evening with my gals~~~~~~ YEAH~~~~~ 

I think as my Aromatherapy course has a LOT to learn. I should NOT take any order of knitting! LOL 

love, love k 

16/12/2013

YearLong Knit-a-Long 2013 (Continue to 2014)

Feel so bad that I could not complete my YearLong Afghan KAL 2013 in 2013.....11 squares were behind. 

So from the first day of 2014 I have started to continue knitting these squares. On 19/1/2014, I announced that I have completed all 30 squares. YAY!!!!! 

Now it is the time to block all the new squares & some blocked ones that still not in the right size!!!!! 

Here showing you my recent blocking patterns! They are beautiful, aren't they? :P

Hope the process of crochet them together NOT a lonnnnnnnng one! LOL

I have put my 30 square pattern list on my Ravelry. You can go & check it out~ 

love, love k

My 1st Toe Up Socks

Diagonal Lace Socks 
Feb 11, 2012: I started with Wendy's Diagonal Lace Socks but at that time i couldn’t figure out some steps……… so frogged…..

Around Oct 2, 2013
After another year of knitting and learning more stuffs… I wanted to try it again BUT I changed another pattern also from Wendy….Double Eyelet Rib Toe-up Socks

I could handle most of the part. 
For Cast on method, I used Judy Magic Cast on because I can handle better this than Turkish cast on, but I have a problem on one side after knit the first round…. having a HOLE… :( Don’t know how to fix this….

Also, the Wrap & Turn I did not do well too... LOL

I will try more different technique socks for comparison~

After finished up this pair of sock, I went back to Craftsy.com a free short tutorial by Carol Feller about Short Rows method!!! Also I purchased another online knitting class on "Knit Original Toe-up Sock" with Donna Druchuans.

Chinese Moon Cake Festival 2013

Today is Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival aka Moon Cake Festival! 

Beside Moon Cake we can have, paper lantern is another popular item especially for kids.

In the last 2 years I wanted to knit a Bunny Lantern (one of the traditional one) but always too late to do so.... 

This year I thought let do something more funny is (1) make Amineko (2) make a bunny lantern for him. 

I MADE IT!!!!! YAY

Also, I am happy that I bought a mini moon cake with a cute miniature moon cake tin. 

This pattern on the tin is one of the oldest moon cake box pattern. In the very early stage, it was printed on a paper box with moon cake. Later on, printed on tin but usually held 4 normal sizes moon cake inside this tin! hehe

Tonight, we will go to our grandma's home for a family dinner, eating moon cake, playing lanterns and look up to the sky for the FULL Moon! 

Happy Moon Cake Festival

祝大家中秋節快樂! 

love love, k

My First Amineko Cat!

I have been seeing people posting their funny Amineko Cat for so long. Finally I also cannot resist this little fellow! XD!

Also, he is my first CROCHET doll. 

However I had problem when crocheting in round, sometime when keep on moving up... the number of stitches changed.... So when I making the 2nd arm (halfway) & I compared to the 1st one...er... why not look the same!?@@#@$#$%... look bigger... so undo...re-do.. 2 times, 3 times,.. or 4 times. I can't remember. Then for the legs happened the same! =.=

At the end, somehow look ok altogether! LOL

I will make more accessories for him to make more funny pictures!
 

Stay Tune! 

love love, k