Saree making

Alice's wedding is less than 2 months away. The 3 of us bridesmaids have to get our saree blouses tailor-made soon to avoid the pre-deepavali rush at the seamstress.

Since Christine, Sue-Ann and I have been travelling at various times, this is the only weekend where we can get our acts together.

We decided to yumcha at this nice HK dimsum place in DJ (i can never remember the name as it's very Chinese - but it's super easy to locate cos it's the corner shop, same row as Maybank).

After a hearty yumcha (coupled with loads of eggs tarts), we were ready to go check out this tailor recommended by Sue-Ann's friend.

We took a while trying to decide on a design we like and we had to communicate with our friendly tailor, Muthu what exactly we wanted. We also sought his professional advice on whether the material will suit what we had in mind.

I was the first to make up my mind cos I've done some research online and i sort of had an idea what i wanted. Anyway, there's no pix of me as my right eye was slightly swollen cos i woke up with a sty this morning. Hope it'll subside soon :(

Then it was Sue-Ann's turn to take her measurements.

Christine couldn't make up her mind whether to make a halter neck or a blouse with sleeves.

See? I told you Muthu is friendly. Look at that smile.

Sarees in different shades of pink

~*~*~*saree blouse designs*~*~*~

source: internet

These are some of the designs i found from the internet. Obviously, some were more sexy and daring than others..

I told Muthu I wanted to make this blouse design. I like how the cap sleeves looked, but I couldn't decide whether I should have the back hooked (like the cream blouse [picture below this picture]) or just have it tied like this blouse below. In the end, I decided to have it tied cos I already have 2 very traditional saree blouses like the cream one below.

Fingers crossed that the embellishment/beadings on my material will turn out okay on the sleeves.

Ooh..sexy back

Aathe Textiles
(2 shops' away from Sri Paandi)
43C, Jalan 11/4,
Petaling Jaya.
Tel:03-7960 0219

We're pretty excited about getting together next month to collect the blouses already :p

Standout Party with Nuffnang and Tiger ~ my version

Here's the much delayed blog post..
As usual, i am fashionably late in submitting the entry. :p

This is what i wore to the party. Lots of bloggers i met that night asked where i rented my costume. Hehe..i told them these belong to me as i do perform belly dancing sometimes. I borrowed the orange top from my instructor, Brancy.

Sis dressed up as an angel. Love her wings.

The limited edition bottle designs. Gotta collect them all!
What a fresh facelift for Tiger beer. :)

It was my very 1st nuffnang get-together event.

And we met lotsa interesting bloggers there.

This bunch dressed up as Spartans. Talk about the power of numbers!

Benard the cow was our constant makan and drinking kaki that night. A really cool guy.

Candid back picture

The cash-rich cow (yeah, he collected heaps of nuffie dollars) who loves a good spanking.

The two angels.

Kenny Sia dressed as Susan Boyle. Trust him to come up with something so funny and outta the box.

We were all given Nuffie dollars of about $20 each. To earn more dollars, we had to cheat win them from other bloggers via activities like arm wrestling, one-two-juice, etc.

We could then use the nuffie dollars we've earned to buy slaves from the auction.

With PinkPorkChop the most outstandingly dressed blogger that night. I tell ya, she had a tough time moving around the crowded place.

Nihonjin and Superman.

I was nominated to go on stage to vie for the Standout Queen title. In total, there were 3 gals and 3 guys on stage. Jojo Struys and Liang were the fabulous hosts that nite.

The nominees..

Cleopatra, Joseph Scissorhand, Carrie the belly dancer, Pinkporkchop the Gungho Queen.

MIA - Benard the cow, and Kenny Sia as British's Got Talent's most outstanding performer Susan Boy(le).

All nominees were asked to do something to validate why they deserve the 'Standout' title. Well, since i was dressed as a belly dancer...i did what i do best. :)

Kenny was such a good sport. Molested him Did a couple of body rolls with him while dancing. LOL!

Soon, it was Kenny's turn to perform. He wanted to sing, but the crowd wanted him to flash. And..he did! Talk about having balls man!


The finalists with our fantabulous hosts - Jojo and Liang.

We were all so glad that our turns to perform's over. Thanks to Benard and Joseph for keeping me entertained on stage. Boy, I was so nervous.

While waiting for the results...
We camshored a lil more..

Standout King title goes to Joseph Scissorhand for his funky popping/break dance. He won a Xbox.

Standout Queen goes to Pinkporkchop who did a bridge. She won a pink Coach bag.

The rest of us won the 'Pacifier sucker' award which includes a pacifier (of cos!), mini bolster and RM100 Topshop voucher.

Timothy, co-founder of Nuffnand presenting me the 'Pacifier sucker' award. I ditched the pacifier and only posed with the bolster.

Woohoo...I've been getting Topshop/DNP vouchers almost every month. Life's good. :)

On our way out, we bumped into Ringo/Cheesie. She's really nice and interesting in person.

Another picture moment with Jojo Struys.

Thanks to Nuffnang and Tiger for organising such an Outstanding partaaayyyy!

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Many asked me if i've used the voucher.

Indeed i have. Instead of getting something from Topshop this time (i couldn't find anything i like as i've bought the ones i like already), i bought this Coral frill tea dress from Dorothy Perkins.

Saree shopping

Last weekend was pretty eventful.

Sue-Ann and I went with Alice and Suren to Klang to shop for our sarees. Yups, Alice and Suren will be tying the knot this November and we'll be Alice's bridal entourage (MIA - Christine and Reena). Christine and Reena could not make it at the last minute, if not I'm sure it'll be even more fun.

Alice's theme is pink. Easy for me as i lup pink colour :p but not for Sue-Ann as she's never owned anything wearable in pink before.

We have determined that we wanted chiffon material (so that got silk and other materials outta the way, which was a great relief). The deal was we could either go for the same shade of pink in the same design, or same shade of pink in different designs, or go for different shades of pink in the same design. 

I never thought choosing a saree can be so challenging.

For one, the colour which suited me didn't suit Sue-Ann's complexion. So, the obvious solution was to choose a colour which matches each of our skin tone.

This is the very first saree I chose. The colour actually looked heaps better and it looked amazing on me (Ok, excuse that retarded expression i had).

I love love the embroidery design on the saree. And the colour..it was the only piece with this exact pink.






The price is also very 'beautiful' actually..it costs RM983 before we started bargaining.

After bargaining with the boss (Suren's mum knows the guy), it went down to RM355. Which was out of our budget).

I think this piece is RM8xx before discount. But the girls reckoned the colour of the 1st saree looked nicer on me.

Sue-Ann went for a lighter shade of pink. But somehow this colour didn't 'wow' us. We suggested a sweeter, lighter pink.

This one is a lil too plain, the design was very bare.

I searched high and low at another range (which costs around RM3xx) for the same shade of pink as the first one..but to no avail. 

This one I'm draping on came close...and I love the design. And Sue finally found a shade which she likes. 

So ta-dah! Presenting our sarees.

Each costs around RM383 before discount. After much haggling, we got it down to RM120 each. 

Btw, my saree was very roughly tied, the foldings were actually falling off cos i was actually moving about a bit.

Next, we went hunting for matching accessories.

Now, the only thing that's left is to find a good tailor to make our saree blouses.

While walking along the street, I found 2 saree blouse designs i quite fancy.

We had lunch closed to 3pm. 

Suren brought us to a decent banana leaf eatery. Mmmm..

Look, it's served in real banana leaf, not those plastic-ky banana leaf plate you get in PJ.

Thanks to the couple for bringing us to Klang. :)

All in, the outing was pretty short as I had to rush home by 5pm to prepare myself for Nuffnang and Tiger's Standout partay!

There's definitely gonna be part 2 for our saree shopping as we'll be going with Christine again..

Here's a sneak preview of what happened ;)

I was shortlisted to go on stage for the 'Standout Queen' title. Yups, the guy in the orange hawaiian nightie is Kenny Sia aka Susan Boyle. He was nominated for the 'Standout King' title.

All 6 nominees with Jojo Struys and Liang our hosts for the night.

I need to grab the pix of others as I didn't take any piccies that night.

So, stay tuned to find out who won. :)