Nov 19 2009 09:12 am
Posted by smz under Diary,Family,craft,crochet
Just An Update…
It’s been a complete week since I last blogged. Time really flies.
The week has been pretty hectic, not so much about work, but more on the preps for the new home. I felt lazy to blog because I didn’t (still do not) have interesting related pic to put with the blog. DH said a blog with no pic is boring!
Anyway, let’s recap what I’ve done in the past 7 days (not necessarily in order):
- Went to the new home for alarm testing and to measure certain corners of the house (I think I went twice, though DH went there more frequent).
- Went to the shop that makes and installs grills (went there twice!)
- Went to Al-jazeera, in Cyberjaya for dinner!
- Visited Ikea twice. First to get some ideas on what to have or not have in the new house. The later visit was to get some measurement and quotation for the kitchen cabinets (yeah, i think we are taking Ikea’s product for that).
- Visited a few furniture outlets and eventually bought (or rather ordered) some items (you’ll see much later when they are ready).
- Went to Nilai to look at and eventually buy some fabrics for the new curtains.
- Attended my niece’s son’s wedding (on Sunday). Yeah, my niece is 2 years older than me and that was wedding of her first child/son.
- Sent Aina for her music class on TUesday night (this is a weekly routine, it’s just that last Tue DH came home late, so it was only Aina and me).
Argh… And we have loads more to do before we could move into the new home!
Oh, on the crafty note, I’ve got a lot more yo-yos since my last post about them. I also carry an “in progress” doily in the car whenever I go out with DH. He’d be sriving, and me crocheting (if I feel like it..).
Today (yeah, it’s another off-day for me) we are going back to Ikea!
What Flower
Are You?
Kay_leeda on 19 Nov 2009 at 11.15 am #
Ahhh…you’ve been busy, yes? It’s always like that before moving into a new home. Have fun decorating and furniture hunting
I like doing it actually, but it can be stressful when taste and likings between us and the better half don’t meet.
sabre23t on 19 Nov 2009 at 2.40 pm #
Grills – are you going for wrought iron ones? We chose a small installer, instead of a more established one. Wrong choice.
Kitchen cabinets – we did consider Ikea ones, but we decided to get from a local kitchen installer MamaKitchen/Jetshen. I won’t recommend this installer, even though the final result is quite satisfactory.
Curtains – we did consider Nilai 3, but we decided to get it from a local curtain installer, Beverly Design. Nice show room with loads of floor to ceiling curtain fabrics. They certainly look different hanging full height, then the small samples cutouts. This installer I’d recommend for my neighbours.
House warming – we did a small kenduri doa selamat, the week before we moved in. But, you’re welcome to visit, regardless. Just give me an sms, so I can order oops bake a pizza or something.
smz on 19 Nov 2009 at 9.17 pm #
Yeah, you are right, Kay. Can be very stressful with the other half!
smz on 19 Nov 2009 at 10.38 pm #
Sabre,
Sorry, somehow your comment went to the spam folder!!
Grill – Big Boss is looking into it.
Kitchen cabinet – Ikea’s look durable and within the budget.
Curtains – I am going to sew myself (wah.. very ambitious indeed!). I plan to have just plain ones – straight stitches only. Remember, the theme of the house is “MINIMALIST”.
My biggest concern is packing the stuff that we have in the current home – scary!! You won’t believe it, but I still dare not throw away DH’s lecture notes – no not his notes as a lecturer, but his notes as a student (or did I throw them away recently?). We also have manuals for software such as MS-DOS! There’s also my notebook that DH bought me circa 1997(obviously out of comission).
OKlah, I do have my Math books too. Kreyzig’s “Advanced Engineering Mathematics” books, we have from 1st edition untill 5th edition, if I’m not mistaken. Also some books on Fortran, Pascal and Basic programming!!
The kids too have their fair share of book/comic collection!
naim on 20 Nov 2009 at 6.05 am #
Yup, fancy wrought iron for the 3 sliding doors, the main door and the open side access to wet kitchen area. Then we can leave all these openings open for daylong constant breeze throughout the house. No grilles on the many beautiful glassy windows, but security film able to withstand whacks by the hammer.