Save the Kitties!

This is a desperate plea to all animal lovers (especially cat lovers) who may be reading this. You see, I live in a condominium and there's been a recent change of management. This new management is hell-bent on getting rid of all the cats that are roaming the condo complex and have resorted to baiting them with poison! 2 out of 15 kitties are now missing and we fear the worst.

These kitties are domesticated and totally lovable (plus toilet trained by my mom and in one cat's case, spayed) but are now homeless because their irresponsible owners have abandoned them. My mother and I have been feeding these poor kitties (15 in all) and although we'd love to keep them for ourselves, we have 2 dogs that simply will not get along with cats. Right now, 6 of the kitties are living in my open-space laundry area (away from the dogs) where they are also free to roam outside. We're very anxious for their safety as we can not contain them in this area.

Cairo as a kitten, He's now in his early teens (human years)

Hero the cat
Gebu means "Fluffy" in Malay :)

Yes, I know there's always the SPCA but I really do not want to leave the kitties there as I've read in the newspaper that they put down hundreds of cats and dogs every month. I just wouldn't be able to live with myself if I had to resort to the SPCA. So please, please, please, if you can find it in your heart to help us rehome these kitties, do drop me a line at puremoon.designs@gmail.com or call me at 012 217 8170. I'm totally open to meet up too if you'd like to meet the kitties yourself. Thanks for reading and hey, if you know somebody else who might be interested, please pass on my contact details.

Going Mortar

Congratulations to Brooke of Gemma (her Etsy store here) on opening up her very own brick and mortar store! Read her blog to get the low-down on her transition from solely selling online to actually signing the lease for the store. You go girl!

Back in the Land of Living

After 8 long months of planning, 8 looong months of ceaseless emails, phone calls, letters, deals, promotions, designing and meetings it finally happened. Last weekend was the ultimate culmination I've been talking about. 8 long months of spending almost every waking moment thinking, breathing and dreaming of the Malaysian Salsa Festival and it has finally come to pass.

Big WHEW!

I'm glad to report that almost everything went off without a hitch. I've had so many glowing compliments and praises that my head is threatening to explode any minute now. Little do the participants know the amount of work and thought put into every minute detail and the small army of people we had behind the scenes who executed everything seamlessly. My hats off to the Organizing Committee and Ground Crews! I'm truly blessed to have these people enrich my life... OK, OK, before I start singing "Kumbaya" have a look at some of the fantastic pictures James took during the festival...

Our logo in lights

Dancing on the beach at our 'Pirates & Damsels in Distress' themed BBQ dinner

I designed the wristband all the participants had to wear.

Sad to say, I didn't get to enjoy the scenery personally :(

Various scenes: Dancing on the beach, our Ground Crew, Workshop by the Pool, Dancing under the Waterfall

These are only the pictures from Day 1 folks. I'll be posting more as they start coming in from the various official photographers. Needless to say, I won't be in any of the pictures since I was too busy running around. Ah, such is the life of an event organizer.

Anyways, I've been in hibernation ever since the whole hullabaloo died down last Sunday. Managed to finish 2 thick and juicy books this week, did a whole lot of nothing and now I am ready to face the world once again. Wonder what's the next big project?

Adorn

I was feeling very book-hungry last week so I picked up a few magazines to whet my appetite. Now, I used to buy heaps and heaps of magazines (I bought 15 at one go this one time... crazy huh?) on top of getting at least 4 new books every month but ever since I stopped living precariously off the parental unit's supplementary credit card, I've had to restrict myself A LOT. I now only buy InStyle and KLue religiously and indulge in at least 2 new books every month. This month however, I figured I deserve a browse friendly treat and seeing that I haven't had time to go to my fave bookstore, I stopped by my local mamak newsstand. To my surprise, my local mamak newsstand had gone all craftsy during my dry-magazine-spell. Look what I found...

Adorn is totally fabulous... I love all the ideas, patterns and resources. Oh, and the pictures are gorgeous! Highly recommended for all you craftsy types and good luck looking for it if you're Malaysian... I was told by the mamak that he only had 4 copies of the magazine TOTAL and that it only comes out every 4 months so you better rush out and get it NOW. You may have better luck at one of the big bookstore chains though. Hmmmm, I wonder if the distributor could possibly send it to me direct?