Still cannot believe that my kids have turned 5!!! It’s a big number. And it so happened that this year, their birthday fell on the same day as the Mid-Autumn Festival which is an important Chinese holiday. It signals Autumn and also a time for getting together, enjoying mooncakes and families gather around to enjoy the full moon.
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Last night was our date night. And we decided to check out the new IFC Mall across the river. Most especially to check out the new Apple Store! Yes, that is how ‘geeky’ we are… So much has changed in the Lujiazhui area! Gosh we cannot believe how many new buildings have risen and how many changes has been done in time for the Expo. The IFC Mall is very posh! Not our usual place to go… Lots of designer stores. Almost like Hong Kong. With the opening of the City Super also in the IFC Mall, there’s almost no need to fly down to Hong Kong to shop. Hopefully…
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Yes, a lot of sewing and baking going on around here. Taking advantage of the yucky wet and humid weather to do some sewing. I wish this ‘plum season’ will pass, somehow this year it feels quite drawn out… So in a way, I do not really feel ‘summer’ in Shanghai as we are missing the sun shiny days we used to have. Okay, it can get very hot here but compared to this icky weather, I wouldn’t mind it at all.
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Lately it’s been a bit crazy with stuff to do at home. Been alternating between quilting and sewing clothes. Yesterday, finally gotten down to basting our huge ‘Anniversary Quilt’. The quilt top and backing were all done a couple months ago but just wasn’t inspired to work on it until late yesterday afternoon.
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Found little treasures on the local online shop, just by accident… Little towels with Liberty of London fabric accents. Kids love having little towels to wipe their sweats during the summer so got a few of these for only US$1.00 each. An interesting voile with nobbly bits. This is going to my stash though I’ve already thought of using this for the Sis Boom Patricia Tunic pattern or maybe not…
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Yes, it’s been rather quiet here lately. There’s so much I want to blog about but that’s now taken a back seat due to work commitments and also because I am still trying to wrap my head around this iWeb! So now, I’m starting from scratch a continuation of my other blogs now combined into 1. I haven’t gotten to importing all my old blogs since 2005! iWeb unfortunately don’t support that… (argh!) More plans for tutorials and giveaways in the works… I just need to find the time and hopefully a 24-hr day!
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The twins these days seem to have grown so quickly. I’m still trying hard to catch up and try to record as much as I can of our everyday life. A few glimpse…
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These days, I just feel like the days go so fast with each waking moment spent doing something. I guess you can say never a dull moment. So many things to do and projects to start on top of the usual 10 hours at work a few evening hours during the week and full days with kids on the weekend. This will probably be the last couple posts before Blogger stops supporting my blog on 01 May, and before Simon gets round to moving my blog to our own blog system.
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It has indeed been some time since I managed to blog just about anything. For some reason when December started, we got swamped with work which is great of course, as it made up for the very slow beginning of 2009. So I’ve been trying to find little pockets of time in between work and weekend with the kids to do something. Our Christmas presents for the family unfortunately still has to go out! It’s awful and I’m fortunate my family has been quite forgiving about the lateness. I guess they get to have Christmas all over again… the gifts will finally and definitely will be out this week and I’m…
