Happy day to all my blog world friends!

 I was pleasantly surprised to find that I have been nominated for the versatile blogger award by Isa from The M Chart ! I can't tell you how nice it feels to be recognized and acknowledged! Thank you so much, Isa!

Isa is from Portugal, she is an English teacher and she is all green, crafty and creative!  She cooks, she crafts and she make Lavender soap too!  Do check out her site about the crafts she did, her beautiful little daughter and her life journey.


The rules after accepting the Versatile Blogger Award are: Thank the person who gave the award and link back to them in your post. Share 7 things about yourself. Pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs.


 I have been sharing so many things about me when receiving the Butterfly Award and The Irresistibly Sweet Awards....So, what else should I share here...Hmmm....I'm not try to be secretive ...just not sure if you are ready for the information I am just about to share...

What about 7 signs that tell you how seriously "THRIFTY' I really am?

 1. I never buy a single dustbin / garbage liner so far...I reuse all the poly bags from the breads..the snacks..whatever packaging that comes together with the merchandise when I purchased them.  Or sometimes, I use newspaper bag instead.

 2. I bring my own bottled water when I go out for dinning.  I prefer to spend on the food rather than on the drink.

 3. On hot weather night...I would switch on the air conditioner not lower than 25 degree Celsius for an hour or two and switch it off to save the electricity bill.

 4. Mentioned about electricity bill, recently I started to remove all the plugs from the sockets when them are sitting unuse.  Yes, eliminating "standby"electricity loss could save at less 10% of your bills.  You should really copy this!

5.  I always try to reuse the packaging that came along with the merchandise, the box, the tray, the bottles, cartons...

6.  I try to walk as much as possible when going places.  For longer journey, I'll choose motorcycle instead of car (when I'm not bringing the kids together), because motorcycle consume less fuel.

7.  I don't recall when was the last time I buy conditioner for my hair, not that I don't care for them...I use Aloe Vera juice instead since I happened to plant a few in my balcony.  You should really it, it make my hair feel so light and shining!

8.  I hardly buy new kids clothing from the kids department.  Nowadays, kids clothing are more expensive than grown ups.  I keep my kids trendy by buying big T shirt with cute print and 'resized' them.  Sometime we just 'share' clothes ( I'll show you how we 'share' them in next post!)

There 7 +1 things about me...now, I'll pass this award to 15 great blogs I really hope you would check them out (I not sure if the blogs below are "award free" or not... but I guess no harm sharing great blogs source with friends and make the blogs friends circle bigger...)

Blogs and make the world go round!

15 great blogs for you to explore ...

#1. Blue Velvet Chair
 

#2. The Coastal View

#3.  Terrie ~.~ smiling

#4.  Haute To Sew

#5.  JoséBianca's Warenhuis!

#6. bhoomplay's blog

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#11. El hada de papel


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Have a nice day!

Your visit means a lot to me!

Love

PC

Visit by a butterfly...

I am absolutely 'fluttering' ..or may I say flattered to receive

this Butterfly Awards from Nicole of Craft My Soul.

Do check out Nicole's blog, and you may found

so many inspiring post about crafts, fashion and

always something cute and sweet from this lovely bride to be...

In order to receive this award, I need to go through below questionnaire...

Name your favorite color - blue, black, white and anything bling and sparkles!

Name your favorite song - Anything from Enya... just love her voice..

Name your favorite dessert - Chocolate ice cream!

What wizzes you off - At this moment?  Slow network speed....blogger technical problems...

When you’re upset you - Close my eyes and count 1 to 5...that's what I always told my ex-subordinates!

Your favorite pet - I don't have any pet at the moment.  My childhood favorites will be cat!  Now?  I think I don't mind getting a tortoise (small, easy clean up, always look peaceful and calm)!

Black or white - White...my wardrobe are mostly light or white...addicted to white shoes too! ( I never wear anything black on my foot ...no..not even black sock!)

Your biggest fear -My girls grow up...getting marry...and come back and ask me how to raise a child?  I wouldn't have the answer!  I am still learning from them everyday!  Maybe, I'll need to look back this blog for some details!


Best feature - My smile (I am not pretty...but wearing a smile on my face do help a lot!)

Everyday attitude - Pray for patience and be a better person than yesterday.

What is perfection - Life can be 100% perfect or the other way round - It's all about your mind set!

Guilty pleasure - Make my girls go to bed early so I can play some of their computer games! I like to see Jojo's reaction when she found out her 'scores' suddenly get so high when she re-open the games!

Here are the 10 fabulous blogs I am awarding 

1.  Frugal French Girl
Her photography skill is amazing...

2.  Creative Mind

A crafty henna guru...

3.  Banuca Birseyler (Turkey)
She make beautiful things out of junks...

4.  Tiaras and Bowties
She simply talented in everything...

5.  Karima's Crafts
Crafting, recycling, upcycling, sewing....she is all in!

6.  Release Me Create

Her creations are so love...

7.  Creation Ma Deco Maison (French)
I love how she recycled, upcycled....

8.  Felt, beads, fimo...Piluki (Spanish)
A very talented crafter...

9.  Pinkytopia By Sabrina
Absolutely cute...

10. Bicocacolors (Spanish)
You wouldn't see this type of talent everyday...

If you received an award from me

Here's what you have to do if you would like to play along and award a few of your favorite blogs

Link to the person who awarded you
Answer the questions above
Award 10 other bloggers the Butterfly Award

Hope you all enjoy and have fun with your award and the questionnaire!

Love

PC

The Irresistibly Sweet Blog Awards...

MeiJo's Joy is so thrilled and honor to receive the very first blog awards from Happy Cake and others fabulous things - Thank you so much Tabitha!  You are so sweet and kind to think of MeiJo's Joy.

Tabitha's blog is filled with a great mix of awesome decor, super simple craftings and recipes, amazing photographs, cakes and a lot of others fabulous things.  And every visit to her blog is always full of surprise and inspiration.

And thank you to everyone who visits my blog, drops me a comment and also those who willingly follow my blog even though I never offer any give away, but just pure friendship in return. Dear 126 fabulous friends (those I placed at the very top of the blog) you are the reason I keep this blog running and cracking my mind every day and night...try my best to share with you what you may delighted to see!!!

Ok...now to proceed this "honorable ceremony"...there're few conditions that come along with the award...

#1 - Send a 'Thank you" to the person who nominated you and include the link.

#2 - Share 7 random facts about yourself

#3 - Pass the awards on to at least 8 fabulous bloggers that you think is irresistibly sweet!

#4 - Contact those bloggers and congrats them!

Ok!  Let's begin...

Now, 7 random facts about myself...random...

Fact 1 : I haven't go for movies since 1998...after the first date with my first boyfriend (current hubby)...

Don't get me wrong, I do like movies but I prefer bought a DVD and watch it a home...more comfortable and I decide when the show begin!  Not to mention the homemade snacks I able to enjoy at the same time.  After having Mei Mei and JoJo...I think having a home movies night is one of the best activities during weekends!  I love anything from Disney and Pixar.

         

Fact 2 : 

When starting our home in 2000, my hubby and I decided that we are not going to use any toilet paper, tissue paper, kitchen towel and we even stop buying newspaper.  For the TR...I do keep some for guest and visitors.  Mei Mei and Jo Jo is potty trained at 1 + to 2 years old...no more paper diapers after that.  Even as babies, they only wore paper diapers at night.  

Fact 3 :  I am a left-handed.  During my childhood times...Most Chinese family don't prefer (unwilling to accept)to have a left-handed child...I remember I have a few classmates in primary who are born left-handed but forced to use their right hands when learning to write.  I am so glad my family never did this...and I even win a few hand writing competitions in school at that time!  Some of my envy classmates said I cheating because not using the 'right' hand.  I fell in love with Chinese Calligraphy when I was in Year 1 - and learn to write with brush with my right hand! Yep... I write with my right hand when brush writing 'cause left hand will smear the ink!

Fact 4 :  I am not a girly girl...and never was.  At home, I am the one who chase after cockroaches, hand catching bugs, lizards, crawlies.... And I am glad that now Mei Mei is a great fond to these creatures...I hate to see girls who cry or jump up when they see a cat or a mouse...Nowadays, girls also need to be 'macho'!

Fact 5 : Beach, library, garden, lake, waterfall, these are the places I find peace and can spend forever there!  Yes, I visit library once or twice every week.

Fact 6 : I appreciate good song and music, but I never spend a penny buying cassette, CD on them.  During my teenager's year...an original cassette can be very expensive (about RM20 per pc) and I'm already very thrifty at that time...So, I only listen to radio or when a song is played at the supermarket.  My favorite one will be Kenny G and Kitaro (Japan).

Fact 7 : 

old photo taken during before Mei Mei  n JoJo

I would never consider myself pretty...my family never labeled me as one too...One of the reason is I am not pretty...in fact I have this really rare facial defect since a kid.  One side of my jaw bone seem to grow bigger and wider than the other side and there is not much a surgery can help.  When I was a kid, I always pray this problem can be solve and try to hide it by cover with long hair or comb my hair to one side...after I grew up... I start to ignore and get use to it that I am not normal.  Honestly, I wouldn't say I am ugly but I do say that I look 'weird'. Due to this defect, I never dream of dating, having boyfriend or even getting marry.  I never have any admirer until my final year in university where I met my current love.  We met, we friends, we date and got married.  He NEVER ask or mention about my 'defect'!   Not even after married.  I did ask him why...he said "It's doesn't matter and you look perfect and beautiful to me."  The very first person who say that to me and mean it!

Fact 8 - (Wait...there is no #8....no...not in the conditions, I add this myself... If you want to know more or there's anything you want to know about me..just ask...anytime...you don't have to wait for an award time to know me better! :) 

Now, I passed the sweet awards to (in random order, I hope the condition is 126 awards, all my blog friends are sweet!)...

#1 .  Mich L. In L.A.  - A blog of creativity and mind provoking!  Her comments is always so sweet!

#2.  Creative Mind - Her talent in Henna Designs and crafting is amazing.

#3.  Of Pinks and Fairy Tales - A very sweet working mom and lot of sweet stuffs she made for her little princess and amazing anthropologie-inspired projects.

#4.  Jac o'lyn Murphy - Everthing you see in this blog are simple SWEET!

#5.  Vibrant Serenity - Sweet Texan sharing her life in Denmark!

#6.  Cookin' for my Captain - A creative sweet Captain's wife... cookin' up all the greatest recipes from all over the world!

#7.  Hazel and Honeysuckle - She describe herself as an Aussie PHD student who craft and blogs to stay sane!

#8. A Creative Princess - Her blog, her linky party, her comments, her kindness...she is definitely sweet.

#9. The smallest forest - A very talented sweet lady who live down under...

#10. Love Sweet Love - The title tells it all....Love Sweet Love!


#11.  Inspired by Giving - Isn't that a sweet name for a blog?


#12. Crissy's Craft - A sister blog to MeiJo's Joy.  Drop by her blog and be inspired by her fresh and easy craft on a budget.


#13. Messy Mimi - What do you say when you saw a mom with elbow deep in paint, batter, soil or getting messy with fabric and all things crafty? SWEET!

Thanks again Tabitha for granting me this Sweet award - I would have give it to you if I have a chance to!  You are definitely IRRESISTIBLY SWEET!

Love

PC