Babe For Life

I know this is sort of a bit late, but if you are following my blog, you realised that the whole month of December is empty. Basically I was too busy this year, and I have no time to blog.

December is a month that everyone will feel the joy of giving (ahem), and everyone will do Christmas shopping for their family and friends. Every year, we have a tradition of exchanging gifts in the office, so we will get something for each other.

All my friends in the office know that every year, I will make something on my own. And I will try to give a gift to almost everyone, (provided they joined the company way before I started making the gifts, and we become friends.)

I had make pouches, land yards, coin pouches, tofu doll miniature key chains, etc... I have already run out of ideas of what to make for them every year. My gift must always be useful, unisex and not too complicated, because I have to make about 100 of them each year.

This year, I decided to make key chains with their first letter of their names. Eg. J for Jennifer, G for Gillian, L for Lijun etc. I started making them since October, and frankly speaking, it was quite a chores. I got my friends from different departments to help me write down the names of the people over their side, and I started to knit the alphabets. Along the way, I received news that some people are leaving and new successors came in. As we get to work each other a lot, we make friends, and I have to put in their names for the gifts too.

This time, I was super stressed out, because of the attack of the 'Hong Mo' and getting prepared for Taipei trip (I accepted a lot of GRO assignments in November and December), I have not enough time to make them. My available slots were time after work, after my gym and gathering with my friends during weekend. It was a challenge for me. (It is always a challenge every year!)

I realised that there are a lot of people whose name starts with S, C and J, and there are very little people with names starting with V, and there is only one person with the letter B. Haha! Even the letter W has more number.

The most exciting part was to look for the key chains. I went around many places looking for them. Either that they are too expensive or the stores did not have enough stock. In the end, I found a handicraft shop that sell beaded stuffs, and I managed to get 100 pieces of key chains from there. The boss is kind enough to give me a discounts, because I bought so many from him.

I successfully completed everything before Christmas Eve, and these are my final products!

Tada!