Cleaning. My room was a mess, with all the magazines, and the un-hanged clothes, the dust. I've repainted some furnitures of the room to white and needed a white-framed-mirror for the dressing table. One day I came home and saw this lovely mirror that my parents bought for me as a gift :) Saved my $$. yeay. My mum also bought new white sheets for the bed. Kak Huriah helped me with the vacuuming and dusting off the dusts.
Centrepieces. I bought the flowers from Floristika, Bangsar on Thursday evening (29.7.2010). I went after work and met Kakmira and Syida at Jalan Telawi, Bangsar. The arrangement was for me to park at Bangsar Village and Kakmira and Syida would pick me up. I asked them to meet me there because I wanted to get some threading done heee. Well, my phone battery died that day, so I had to walk, in heels, around Jalan Telawi to find a public phone to call them. Which was really difficult, because who uses public phones nowadays? Anyway, I managed to find a working public phone and told them the actual place where we would meet. So they picked me up and we went to Floristika. I chose a range of different types of flowers and colors - roses, carnations, hydrangeas, lavenders, sweet williams, sundal malam, chrysantemums, baby breaths and some others I dont know the name of. It was sooooooo much fun to shop for flowers.
When we got home, I put the flowers in buckets of water and started on the centrepieces. I didnt know that it would take a long time to finish. Ahhhh... Thursday night I slept at 2am. The next day I started early and finished at about 10pm. Phewwww.
Here are some of the centrepieces that I did. I also did the flowers for the room and other parts of the house.
When we got home, I put the flowers in buckets of water and started on the centrepieces. I didnt know that it would take a long time to finish. Ahhhh... Thursday night I slept at 2am. The next day I started early and finished at about 10pm. Phewwww.
Here are some of the centrepieces that I did. I also did the flowers for the room and other parts of the house.
Pelamin. I planned to have a simple pelamin for the sarung cincin. Since for the Merisik, it was done with me on the chair, I thought this time I would do it with me sitting down bersimpuh all lovely. Ahahah. So, we asked the canopy people to provide us a mini platform. They sent it the same day they put up the canopies, which was on Friday, the day before the Engagement. The platform turned out to be bigger than expected, but its ok. I covered the platform with light brown material that I bought from Nagoya. We put the wooden - i don't know what it is called - penghadang? divider? - whatever lah, as the backdrop for the pelamin. Then we laid down Kakmira's fluffy brown carpet and put a thin mattress in the middle and arranged throw pillows over it. Initially, I planned to arrange lavenders, purple chrysanthemums and sundal malam along the top of the wooden-penghadang/divider once I finished with the centrepieces. But that got off tracked, and I was toooo tired once I was done with the centrepieces. So Kakmira placed the leftover blue hydrangeas there instead. I bought a pair of blue-cotton-embroidered umbrella and Kakmira placed it at the 2 ends of the wooden-penghadang/divider.
That Friday night, some of my aunts and uncles and cousins came by to help out with anything else that needed to be done. The only thing that was left was to fill in the gift bags that my mum bought at Nilai 3 with yassins and hand-fans that my parents bought at the last minute at a reststop somewhere in Johor or Melaka when they were on their way back from picking up my paternal grandparents from my kampung in Johor :) I was happy with only the yassins, but the gift bags were sponsored by the parents, so I'm ok with whatever they want to put inside it, as long as it is not my $$. :) :). The fans were ultra cute and the aunts had fun reserving the fans that they want for themselves.
Special thanx to my lovely and wonderful family, aunts and uncles, cousins, especially my strongest workforce, Kakmira, Syida, Ibu, KakHuriah, Adri and Han and Lulu and Bapak (The last four ni cheating sikit kadang-kadang - as you can see from the last 2 pictures ahaha) for putting up with my orders and pettiness. Love u guys to bitssssss!!
