Hiatus Mode

It's been a while since I last posted something to this blog...
And quite frankly, it's not because I lost the hang of it but I haven't had much time on my hand to do crochet projects after my baby's birth. :(
My baby + the office work load that I currently have are the things thats been eating most of my time the past month.

Last night though, I tried to pick up my hook and yarns again.
I've been wanting so bad to make Pm an MJ sandals...

I have this free improvised MJ pattern that I saw online. I am currently working on it and keeping my fingers crossed to finishing it soon. However, I only have the sole done last night because I had to stop to put my baby to sleep.

But as soon as I am done with it, I promise to post a picture of how it turned out.


Aaahhh... crocheting still gives me this natural high... I am so much in love with it! :)

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A Visit from Lynn!

Last Saturday, January 16, my friend Lynette gave me and PM a visit!
She handed me also her gift... a set of crochet threads! woooppppeeee!

threads from Lynette with love

Oh! and she also took PM's most recent picture which she posted on FB! Such a nice shot!

Thank you so much Lynn for the visit, the present and most of all for being so warm! =)

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Been-a-While

It has been weeks now since I have last updated my blog site... Not that  I have nothing to write about, I just don't have the time at the moment. Sad but true, I didn't even had the time to celebrate the holiday season!

I have a lot of things to actually write here, photos to upload of both my baby and the crochet crafts I am able to do little by little (only when PM's asleep) but I just couldn't find the time to blog and upload them. Every time I try to login, either PM all of a sudden wakes up or my wound would hurt that I am forced to just go back to bed and lie down. It's only been 3-weeks since the time I gave birth, I know I owe it to myself to let me rest more and heal... and enjoy PM.

Though I miss blogging and crocheting...
For the moment I know that I am better recuperating and taking care of my little one.

Nonetheless I promise to update this as soon as I feel a lot stronger and PM a little bigger.

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Post Partum Blues?

(*sigh*) I miss crocheting...

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My 2nd Crochet Book

Today happened to be a happy day for me...
Why? Well, around 5:10pm today, my second much awaited crochet book arrived...

After waiting 3-weeks for it to get here -- finally, I now have it!
Super happy happy HAPPY ME! =)

Crochet Patterns for Dummies by Susan Brittain

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1st Attempt: Baby Booties

Last or what could've been a couple of weeks ago already, I was able to make one really nice crocheted mittens for the princess using a size-8 local Cannon thread. Immediately after seeing the mittens done, I wanted to do a pair of booties that'll match the cute mittens -- still using the locally available thread.

But it didn't turn out as easy as I have imagined it to be for several reasons: 1. I got frustrated trying to find a non-complex bootie pattern that will come out just fine as the mittens. 2. I got confused several times with the pattern directions and 3. it'-just-not-as-easy-as-I-thought-it-would-be.

But a determined mom as I was, I kept telling myself I have to keep looking, I will come up with one! So with that in mind I kept looking-downloading patterns, trying-crocheting and undoing what I've done... Until finally, I was able to come up with a simple but cute booties that can match the mittens I have done!

The said pair of booties is actually now done... I won't be able to post the picture with this blog though because I feel a little dizzy-lazy-tired to do that right now. Must be due to all the walking I've done this afternoon. But hopefully, you'll see the photo posted here by tomorrow or the day after that (*crosses-fingers*).

And now that I am done with my 1st mittens-booties pair, I am hoping that I'd still be able to come up with at least another pair of booties-mittens, this time using the Indonesia yarn given to me by my friend Lorie... before the princess is born.

*NOVEMBER 23
As promised, here's a photo of my 1st crocheted booties attempt =)

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Star ng Pasko

Very inspiring...

Dahil ikaw Bro, ang Star ng Pasko =)

I uber love this song...


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Face-to-Face

Finally she's now more than an online friend because last Sunday, Nov 15, we finally met personally! 


Sunday, after being lost a couple of times on the way to our building and having to end up picking her up in front of the nearest Mc Donalds, we finally saw each other... As soon as I saw her walking, I immediately recognized her face. I guess the pictures she had shown me really helped as I was able to picture out how she actually looks like.


So anyway, we picked her up from Mc Donalds at around 1130am then went straight to Binondo for lunch. We treated her to an authentic Chinese dish in a restaurant that belonged to a family friend. After lunch,  we went back home so we can pick up her 10kg worth of wool yarns... showed her our wedding pictures (both pre-nup & church) as well as our wedding preparations video. And since we know that Lorie might have a hard time going home with that 10kg box of yarns, we have decided to bring her home to Balara, QC. 


I am glad to have met her... Other than that, I am very thankful for the wonderful gifts she had given me. She made me a scarf, a bonnet for the princess and some very pretty yarns, wooden beads and wrist rest. And because they're just so lovely, I've decided to take pictures of them so I can post them here too! 
Here they are:

the bonnet & scarf for the princess and queen Peach

pretty yarns she gave me... my fave colors (orange/pink/yellow)
definitely will use this for my baby.

the new yarns I bought from her

the wooden beads she gave me for my crocheted accessories

she also gave me this wonderful wrist rest which is being enjoyed now
by my husband because he immediately asked for it!

I really love the gifts she gave me...!
Thanks so much Lorie! i love you love you love you...




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Simple Things...

I still have not given birth...
That's primarily the reason for my excitement -- in spite me feeling super tired lately.

Everyday I wake up with anticipation, always looking forward to regular contractions that would signal me to rush to the hospital to deliver my baby.

However there are times I am left to wonder with "when"... just when will I finally get to meet her face-to-face and hold her in my arms.

This brings me to thinking that, still, the longest wait there is in pregnancy is when you  know you can already deliver her out to this world, but still can't because s/he decides otherwise. Nevertheless, I am always happy whenever I get to feel her communicate with me inside my womb.

And other than us anticipating the birth of our princess... Other things that keeps me excited are: new yarns (both from abroad and here), I am finally meeting Lorie in person since she is picking up her yarns from the house, another set of Susan Bates crochet hooks plus the arrival of my pre-ordered crochet book!

The yarns are already here with me and I can't wait to start working on them... I am meeting Lorie early this morning, probably around 10am so she can  pick up her box of wool yarns. After which we can have lunch together before we finally bring her home. We are picking up the hooks early this afternoon before we go watch 2012 with the other couples we went out with last time. While my pre-ordered crochet book I believe will be arriving by the 21st.

Oh and one more thing, I am finally on-real-leave for at least a month... Which is a good thing because not only will I have all my time devoted to taking care of our little princess, but I will also have the chance to come up with more crochet projects as I am not required to think, worry and do other things related to work!

And yes, it really doesn't require a whole lot of extravagant things to make someone like me happy... because IT'S ALL THOSE SIMPLE THINGS THAT REALLY MAKES ME HAPPY! ;)


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Issue Resolve!

A couple of nights ago, when I decided to migrate to blogspot, I encountered a site problem related to this site's 'comment feature'. Having known that, I immediately opted to raise this concern to blogger support.

Good thing I had the chance to check on it early this morning and saw that I was given several comments about what could have been the issue and the possible resolution to the problem. And even if I know it is going to be quite tough -- and it might call for a little technicality (I am not really a techie person and darn know nothing about codes, internet tech lingo, etc), seriously  the only thing I know to do online is to blog and shop, when it comes to techie stuff, I normally ask good people around me to help me out (um, ok I know, do it for me - should be the appropriate word... ha!), I still went through the process of correcting the problem, which probably is already because of frustration!

Issue: Initial lay-out was corrupted!
Resolution: I literally had to start from scratch... delete the old theme/layout's html setting and set up a new one.

Started working on my site at 0230pm.
Done at 0430pm (and that includes moving back all the links - blogroll).
Just in time for my check up at 600pm...! whew!

I find the resolution a bit painful because I had to start everything over again... My widgets were all removed -- so as the links (which was the hardest thing to actually do since I already have quite a lot!) when I had  to delete the old template. Nevertheless, I ended up quite satisfied with how things turned out because with this revision, I was able to find myself a more girly theme -- which I think suits me well =P

Anyway, going back to the main topic, I am happy to let you guys know that the issue has been resolved... You may now start posting comments to my site! yay! =)

So what are you waiting for? Start giving me some 'lovin' ;)




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APEACHLIFE 'Comment' Issue

I was informed by a friend who attempted to post a comment to my site that the "Comment" feature of my blogger site has a glitch!

If you click on the brown comment icon with an arrow, it will redirect you to a website that doesn't belong to me. I actually checked it myself and is not quite sure if it is just a test site or something... But whatever it is -- it's NOT.MINE. So the comments posted there don't get posted to my site :(

One more issue I'm having right now, which is still related to the comment feature of my site is if you click on the main post itself and post a comment by clicking on the "Post a Comment" icon, it will give you a pop-up window where you can type in your message but if you don't have a Google ID and use an OpenID, your comment will not be posted instead you will be given this error message: bX-3vgjl8.

I have submitted an email to blogger support regarding this issue already and I really hope I get to hear from them soon so this gets resolved the soonest time possible. *sigh!

Anyway, I guess this time I won't be hearing much from friends. Because for the meantime, the only people who can post a comment on my crafty blogs are those who, like me, have Blogger/Google/Gmail or Live Journal, Wordpress, TypePad, AIM accounts. How sad!

Please remember, you have to go into the main post itself by clicking on the title of the post where you would like to submit a comment and click on POST A COMMENT.

Again, please do NOT use the Comment icon found on the main page because it will just redirect you to a different website. *sigh!

This is so stressful! :(




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My 1st Crochet Book On-Hand

At exactly 2pm today, I received the book I have been waiting for for weeks!

Finally, my 1st crochet book is here…
Thanks to my husband for getting me this as one of his birthday presents. *sweet*

i love this book!

Oh and there's even one more book on the way… I just can’t wait!

aaaiiiillllaaaaavvveeeeeettttt……..!




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YAS and Excitement!

Recently, I have several FOs in mind that I’m planning or should I say, want to be able to do…

Unfortunately something’s keeping me. I feel like I really lack yarns — even if I do have several yarns lying around in my closet. I just think they’re not the appropriate yarns to use for the things I would like to do. And even if they are, I know that they won’t be enough… I will still run short of the colors I’m planning to use.

*sigh… For now, I guess there’s really nothing much that I can do since I am really trying to hold up from spending due to mega-uber-tight-budget! Which is a little sad as I really want to have lots of different kind of bulky yarns.

After all, who wouldn’t enjoy nor want to be spending / be able to spend on things you really want/need…? Right? But I really have to hold myself up for a while… just for a while.

So patience Peach… Patience.

Still I am looking forward to something (and it’s good!). Our wool yarns ordered from abroad are about to arrive soon! *woot-woot*

I just don’t have the definite date as to when the yarns will arrive and when we’ll be able to finally pick it up, but as per advise, I’ll be given an update about it this weekend. So this is really something to look forward to… That’s 2kg of wool yarns for me! 2kg means a lot of yarns!!!

Now I’m beginning to wonder, am I really becoming infected of this thing they call as “YAS”? I don’t know. But I guess it doesn’t really matter because I am really enjoying what I do.


PS: There’s one more thing that’s been keeping me overly excited… What? It’s the arrival of my crochet book from US! And yes, the birthday wishes from my wish list were all granted (CROCHET: hooks-yarns-books).




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Welcome

Due to space availability, I had to move to another blog site.
So allow me to formally welcome you to this site, my NEW home!

Feel free to visit anytime and leave a comment or two (to brighten up my day!).

Old posts can still be viewed from my old Blog Home.


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