Brooch Bouquets

I am so totally in LOVE with brooch bouquets right now. I find them unique and beautiful. The best part is they are long lasting and you can keep them forever after your wedding. If only I knew they existed earlier, I would definitely used them for my wedding. I hope to make them myself one day when I have the time and materials in hand.

Here are some of my favourites.

Photo by Noaky Etsy.

  Photo by Amanda Jane Heer Etsy

Photo by Boho Wedding Blog

Photo by LXdesigns Etsy

XOXO
Wahida

Beef Spaghetti Bolognese

Morning everyone

Finally I had my spaghetti bolognese craving fixed. Yuppie! : ) Been craving for it for almost two weeks but I only had the chance of making it yesterday. So far, I have only been loving the spaghetti bolognese that I make. I don't know why but I hate the spaghetti bolognese that restaurants normally served. The sauce was either sour or too little. So never will I spend a bomb on bolognese that doesn't deserve my penny. Anyway the base sauce of my bolognese came in a jar. So I did cheat a bit in this recipe. No doubt, it is handy for working mothers who have little time to make dinner before they devote the rest of their time settling their kids. However it is not advisable to use convenience food all the time because of the lack of nutrients. Below is my version of spaghetti bolognese. Hope you will enjoy making the recipe like I do.

Recipe:

500g of minced beef

1 can of button mushrooms - sliced

1 jar of Ragu spaghetti bolognese sauce - I would prefer to use Raguletto brand but I couldn't find it at my  

                                                             local store anymore

2 teaspoon of tomato paste 

2 medium onion - minced

4 cloves of garlic - minced

1 packet of spaghetti

1 teaspoon of mixed dry herbs for spaghetti bolognese

grated mozzarella cheese - optional

salt and sugar to taste

oil 

Gathering all of my ingredients except....

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my trusted dried herbs that I almost forgot. It was happily sitting in
my fridge.

Methods:

Sauce

1. Pre-heat 3 tablespoon of oil before adding the onions and garlic. Fry till they turn soft.
2. Add in the minced beef and mushroom. Stir well.
3. Next, add in the bolognese sauce, tomato paste and dry herbs. Mix them till evenly distributed. At this point, you may add water or soup stock if you want to create more sauce.
4. Gently boil the sauce for about 10 mins before seasoning it with salt and sugar. 

Spaghetti

1. In another deep pot, fill it with water and bring it to a boil. 
2. Once boil, add some salt and oil. The salt helps to enhance the spaghetti's taste while the oil prevents the spaghetti from sticking to each another.
3. Add the amount of spaghetti that you need and let it cook. You may follow the instructions found at the back of the spaghetti packaging but I normally don't. I cook it till I get my desired texture and firmness. 

And the finally result

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Ta Dah!! 

My very own version of Beef Spaghetti Bolognese. 

 Yummie!!

XOXO

Wahida

DIY: Custom Button Monogram

Hey everyone

In today's post, I would like to share with you an exciting news. I finally finished my very first DIY project. Well, initially I was planning to use the two big frames that I bought many months ago from IKEA to display my wedding pictures and decorate them with my scrapbook accessories. But when I was surfing the internet, I came upon some interesting posts on how bloggers actually used buttons to monogram their initials on a frame. Without any doubt, I knew I had to do it. So I made one for dear hubby and one for myself. And here is the result! I think I like hubby's initial better than mine. My letter looks a little bit weird and cramp in this frame. Oh well I did arranged the buttons free hand instead of using a template, so can't complain too much. 

One for him and one for me.

And now I just need to wait for my handyman (who else but darling hubby) to hang the frames above our bed frame.

P.S: I was thinking of painting the frame white. Would it look better? Or do you think I should have use a better colour background? Tell me what you think.

Bye!

XOXO

Wahida

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Ava Felt Hair Clip cum Headband - SOLD

A custom made Ava Felt hair clip and headband for a satisfied customer's daughter. Hope she likes it.

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Wahida

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Ava Felt Hair Clip

Hey everyone

Finally, I made another Ava Felt Flower for myself. This time it is in my favourite colour combo: i.e. dark brown and yellow mustard. I attached it with a hair clip at the back so that I could temporary clip it onto my metal headband. The final outcome looks awesome! 

I can't wait to match the flower headband with my recently purchased dress
 above from ASOS.

Credit: Flower design is from SnazzieDrawers.

XOXO
Wahida

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Custom made Ava Felt Brooch - SOLD

Specially custom made the Ava Brooch for a forever young at heart lady. She asked for it and so I made it. 

Flower pattern by: SnazzieDrawers