felt flowers

I made all these felt flowers the other day... all you need is felt fabric, a needle, thread, and any other decorations you want to add (buttons, pearls, lace...). I just had fun combining different colours and shapes together and it was relaxing just to make them (yes... me and my spinster ways). You can just imagine me in a dim corner, sitting in a rocking chair, hunched over and making these flowers. Um... yeah, that's pretty much accurate...

But now I've got all these felt flowers and I don't know what to do with them. Any ideas?

change. for the better.

On Monday, my friend Amanda came back from Hong Kong. I was so excited for her to come over so we could hang out. She did come over. And we did hang out. By cleaning my room for FIVE HOURS!!! She literally put me to work right away and we worked for hours (with only a short Screamers break in the middle) and I finally began to see the carpet underneath the pigsty in which I dwell. Hopefully after this MASSIVE cleaning venture, a certain someone will never have to trip over my mess and fall flat on his face ever again ;) 

This is actually the second time Amanda has come over and forced me to clean my room. The last time, she came and vacuumed was over a year ago and admittedly, I did not do a good job of keeping it clean. But this time, I've promised her to maintain it so that her hard work will not have gone to waste. 

She hung/organized all my clothes and made me do laundry...

...and she even colour-coded all my tops!

Actually, at this point I was just taking pictures of her and laughing at the fact that she was actually vacuuming my room for the SECOND time. Look at those hyperspeed vacuuming skills.

I found out later that "cleaning Laura's room" had been on her TO-DO list from the very beginning. Evil. But truly, only a great friend would put up with my messiness disorder and I couldn't have cleaned my room without her help/motivation.

After 5+ hours, the job is not fully done... I still have a lot to do but I'm on my way to changing my crazy ways. When I am completely satisfied with it, I promise, I shall show you all a little room tour. =P 

QE Park

Queen Elizabeth Park is always such a beautiful place to visit. My family used to go quite often just to walk around, so after dinner one day, we decided to revisit our childhood memories...

The flowers are still as gorgeous as I remember them...

But soon... things started getting weird...

My brothers and I found giant things to climb...

... and huge structures to pose with!!

(we used to play tag around this thing! I remember getting hurt from running into it! =P)

We attempted to levitate...

...which only Clarence succeeded in doing...

and then we started climbing trees...

and... doing other weird things!?!?

Good times. =)

Since our whole family is going to Hong Kong for a month (we're leaving in... SIX DAYS?!?! Uh.... what!!) this park outing was good practice for spending lots and LOTS of time together... 

I just hope they won't get annoyed with me and end up leaving me at a park bench somewhere.

Five Guys Burgers and Fries!

Okay, I think I am officially obsessed with the image above. I think it's one of my favourite doodles that I've ever drawn because looking at it every time just makes me so happy for some reason. Anyway, I'll make up any excuse to re-post that good ol' happy hamburger, and it IS relevant because today I'm posting about BURGERS.

 This particular eating extravaganza takes place at Five Guys Burgers and Fries in Surrey (2285 160th Street). I think there's also another location in West Van (2002 Park Royal Street).

The burger itself is around $6, but hey it's got DOUBLE PATTIES... and considering a McDonald's meal can get up to the double digits, it's not THAT expensive. I usually don't like thick patties because most of the ones I've had are dry and tasteless. But the meat was REALLY JUICY. Also, you can get a whole bunch of free toppings on it (like bacon, lettuce, fried onions, mushrooms, etc.) so obviously when I saw that it was all FREE, I loaded it up. Oh, and the fries have some mighty addictive seasoning on them. 

Here are pictures of...

the BURGER.

the FRIES.

and... the RESIDUE. 

Randy and I probably don't remember the conversation during this meal... oh wait, THERE WAS NONE, because we were both too busy wolfing down our burgers. After my first burger, I was tempted to get another but I refrained, for my arteries' sake (although my stomach was telling me otherwise)...

Let me know if there's any other burger places YOU would recommend because being a huge burger fanatic, I'm always up for suggestions!!!

DIY: bracelet stand

When it comes to jewelry, I like to wear rings and necklaces the most. I don't have that many bracelets and I usually forget to wear them because I store them away in a little box like this.

So I decided to make a bracelet holder with some random things I found on my floor. I literally just came up with this while cleaning my room because I found an old cardboard roll and a cup. And so I stopped cleaning my room (there's always an excuse...) to make a new BRACELET STAND.

Here's the finished product!

Let's just hope my mother doesn't notice that one of her cups has gone missing... 

;)