February has leaped away

I forgot to add in my last post that I had finished the final 7 flowers for the Hexagone SAL Exchange of one flower per week.  All 52 flowers are done yet I will have much more to work on to make this into a quilt but for now this will have to wait a little until I decide the next colour to go with my scheme since I am now not too fond of the fabric shown here in the background. It's a little too overly "congested" (I am not sure if there is any quilting term for this).

COTM (Colour of the Month) This was the Pink Exchange from Zarina in Penang.

Look at the generous amount of fabric

 and the floss that she sent

with that I finished this into a Scissor Keeper, which I have made once for an exchange but never one for me, so now this is mine to keep and a matching scissor fob to go with the scissor

A couple of finishes done on some pieces stitched quite sometime ago from various sources

Just before February come to an end, me and two other GF revisited Pantai (Beach) Redang, a fishing village and well known for its abundance of fresh seafood . Being a work day, there were no bus loads of tourists and there were less crowds. This is the same spot with the raining red wishing tree, the tree with dangling red ribbons of well wishes.

 The fisherman has yet to return with their catch thus there were no colorful fishing boats; the fishing village in sight

The river that flows into the sea

Spotted a fruiting Morinda (Morinda Citrifolia) ; Indian Mulbery Tree

we called it Buah Noni (Noni Fruit)or the Noni Tree

It was our diva moments,ROTFL; Jaimis and me while the other GF was too camera shy

Lap Mei Fan literally translated to mean Waxed Meat Rice. It's a very deceiving term, because there is actually no waxy stuff, it's just meat that has been cured by a long process of salting, smoking and drying resulting in a waxy sheen on the surface of the meat. This is how meat was being preserved long time ago for winter seasons (in China) before refrigerator was invented.

It's relatively a simple one pot dish and rice cooker possible

Here I used only pork sausages and waxed duck thigh 

Spotted one morning looking out. The birds are happily chirping and was very loud.

Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments.

Until my next post, have a good weekend everyone.