Hoo Are You Time

Just love this! It's Hoo Are You time!

1. What is your Zodiac sign? 

Not really sure. I'm between Saggitarius and Scorpio cos my birthday is on 22 November!!!

2. Name 3 things that are always in your purse besides your wallet.

Let's see. I'll have my mobile phone, lipstick and my little notebook to write things in.  Usually I'll have an idea and quickly write it down so that I won't forget.  These ideas are either work or crafty related :-)

3. Which magazines do you look at the most?

Hmmm..... crafty magazines at the library but no particular one I look at the most. 

4. Do you pluck or get your eyebrows waxed?

I used to pluck them but I would tear.  My friend introduced me to shaving them! So far so good!

5. How often do you go grocery shopping?

We go once a week at our local wet market and the supermarket. My hubby shops for fish, because he's good at choosing the fresh fish and he knows which fish is what and whether it is from the sea or it is freshwater fish - I just know the difference between salmon (pink) and non-pink fish!!  I shop for the other stuff :-)

Inspired by an abalone shell

We need more innovative people like Angela Belcher :-)

What's the air quality in your city?

WHO has collated air quality data from nearly 1100 cities across 91 countries, including capital cities and cities with more than 100 000 residents.   As you can see from the diagram most of South America, Africa and Asia have to bare with high particulate matter, or PM 10.  These are fine particles that are emitted from sources such as power plants, industry and vehicles, and get trapped in our lungs.

Jeans to wristlet!

I think I have managed to use every part of my hubby's jeans!! I converted the back pockets into a wristlet. Had some difficulty with the zip. Somehow it ended up very bulky at the ends and I had so much trouble sewing it up!! Any advice? Not sure whether my zip was too long....


Now I just need to figure out what to do with the top part of my hubby's jeans  :-)

Legless jeans or hotpants? :-)

Cut out the bits for the wristlet. Zipper is also recycled!

Any sewing experts to advise me how to get rid
of the bulk at the end? Had difficulty sewing through it too.

Jeans to chair cover!

Been very lazy! Haven't blogged about environmental stuff. This project took me quite a while to do - let's say, I just procrastinated. Again from an old pair of jeans (I now know what to do with all the shorts/trousers that no longer fit me after I got pregnant - okay, I don't have number 2, but they've just been in my wardrobe for ages!)  


Actually, this pair was bought a year after I gave birth and the muffin just grew and grew that I can no longer button up the top :-(


Anyways, here are the befores, durings and after photo!  Thanks for popping by!

The chair before. Hubby was thinking of chucking it but crafty me
knew what to do!

Awesome Upcycling Crafty Blog

I stumbled on Michele Made Me blog. It has lovely ideas for crafts and projects using things around the house. Take a look! Michele is super duper creative. This month it's all about crafts from old jeans!!!  


Here are the made-from-jeans projects I have made  :-)  Click on the pics for the link to the how-to!!

Update on 20 Sep 2011 - I used some scraps from what is remaining of my hubby's jeans to make part of a office chair seat cover.  Check out this post! 

Litter in Space!

This is so sad. Not only are we polluting Earth with our litter, but we're also littering space as well!!!

Cars, cars and more cars....

So, there are now 1 billion cars on the road, or rather that mark was passed last year.  I'm not sure whether this figure includes green vehicles but 1 billion is a lot.  I just took a look at our Singapore car stats.  We've jumped from  392,961 to 597,746 in 10 years.
Got some other stats below. What is scarey is that China has the second largest population of cars and the country contributed to this explosion in car ownership in the past year or so. I bet there are many more Chinese who aspire to have a car - the middle-class dream - it's all about face.  I think it is definitely the goal of many Indians too. Apparently, the Indian MNC, Tata Group has built the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano.  The story goes that Ratan Tata, chairman of the Group, noticed a lower middle-class man riding a scooter with 2 children and his wife in the rain. You heard right, that's one family on one scooter. To Mr Tata, he thought "Why can't this family own a car and avoid the rain?".  In other words, his solution was creating a car that was affordable to the masses.  Shouldn't the solution be about creating an enhanced public transport system? Why should we create another product that will encourage more car ownership?  Do you own a car?

Ratio of cars to people (Source- WardsAuto.com):
U.S -  1:1.3 (pop. 310 million). My goodness that probably is one car per family!!
Italy - 1:1.45.
France, Japan, and the U.K. - fall in the 1:1.7 range.

China - 1:17.2 (pop. 1.3 billion people)
India - 1:56.3 (pop. 1.17 billion people)