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Meddling in the Kitchen

Posted in Baking Attempts, Cooking Attempts, Declan, Family, House and Reno, Just about Me, Kenji on August 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »

It’s good to be back at our own place!  I can mess up the kitchen for all I care and there will be no one breathing down my neck ha!  Suddenly felt like being a good mother on Sunday so I woke up slightly earlier wanting to make Pancakes for my kids!  I surfed the web [...]

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New parking place

Posted in Declan, Family, House and Reno, Uncategorized on August 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Apparently my first born possesses better parking skills than the mum.  He found his flight of vehicles a brand new parking spot right below our suspended TV console. He refused to keep them at the toy basket and he spent a long time painstakingly lining them up prior to his bed time.
 
 He also tried his [...]

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DIY ID

Posted in House and Reno on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

No budget to engage interior designer, so how?  DIY lor.  I struggled to doodle out what I had in mind for some of my carpentry works, hopefully these diagrams will be able to facilitate my discussion with the carpenters next week.  Otherwise I can talk until I die I still can’t be sure they knows [...]

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New Home pressies for the boys

Posted in Declan, House and Reno, Kenji, Our Move on May 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Finally completed the below 2 pieces for the boys:

I’ll send it for framing and intend to put it up above their bedhead.
Currently our new home is into it’s 3rd week of renovation.  Tiling has completed now awaiting for carpentry work to start.
I have been having weird dreams about my reno..  Think I have been staring [...]

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Our Sofas

Posted in House and Reno on April 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Just a little update on the progress of our new place.  We got our keys last Friday, renovation is suppose to start on 27th April, that is provided that the renovation contractor bothers to get back to me…. sigh…  He is simply too busy…
Anyway we had been making little purchases here and there, including things [...]

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My Renovation Quote

Posted in House and Reno, Uncategorized on March 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »

arghhhhhhhh having most of our stuffs in the warehouse now is such a big inconvenience…  I wanted to scan my quote to share with some folks who are also going to do reno soon…but no scanner…. So I’ll just type it all out here…
1) Hacking and disposal – $2500
2) wall tiles for 3 toilets – [...]

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Our First Nest

Posted in Family, House and Reno, Uncategorized on February 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »

These 2 weeks have been a pretty mad rush for us, especially during the weekends.  The dad appointed the mover pretty late, thus we got the boxes late which means we started packing late as well.  The last 2 weekends were mostly spent throwing out stuffs and packing what we wanted to bring along.  The [...]

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Busy Busy Busy

Posted in Declan, House and Reno, Just about Me on February 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Apologies on the lack of post lately.  As the title denotes, I am busy busy busy.  Busy with what?  Busy with relocation.  I had reported to my new work place.  The pace here is really rea..ll..lyyy sloooo…www ….  *yawn*
Couple with a change in work environment, I’ve been busy doing research on interior design in prep for [...]

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