HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY
HONEY BABY YZ
Here are some possible inspirations or ideas for your friends.
Trust me, you don't need to throw money around for an amazing gift.
IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS
So, I live in the Southern part of the banana shaped section of Malaysia, really near Singapore. Yeah, you might be wondering why suffer over getting presents for a friend when I could just get my ass over to Singapore. First, I can't freely go into Singapore without apparently my parents permission. Second, it's expensive especially when you factor in the 7% GST.
My dilemma might seem pretty unfortunate plus I can't drive to the big city which is Kuala Lumpur ( for non-Malaysians ease of understanding) as I do not have a driving licence yet. The story behind that is pretty funny and I shall not delve into it.
THE JOURNEY INTO MY IDEA
Hence, I got her this bunny soft toy which I love too.
Then I envisioned the bunny holding colourful balloons at both its' bunny hands as it held a big red board which will be her birthday card.
We will both be parting ways, living a life of a university student soon at possibly either different countries or the same country. This itself, gave me the idea of printing out Google Maps of the places we will be furthering our studies.
The flower background was handmade by me too. Just use your average A4 paper, then use your water colours to randomly paint shapes of haphazard circles, the important part of this is painting dark strong parts of a colour than mixing soft delicate parts naturally with it together.This helps to create the effect of a more 3D flower since nothing has just one monotone colour. Then take a standard ballpoint pen to sketch , roughen up the flowers, thereby creating necessary shadows on its petals.
The colourful printed tapes and the old-ish ,hipster-y stickers you see were bought and collected over time by me. The brown string can be bought for RM 5 for 120 metres at Daiso.
So I made a pocket envelope photo album. It isn't hard. All you need is some coloured paper, double-sided tape, some decorations even magazine cutouts and lastly, print out pictures of important memories.
I love quotes especially from books ,hence I choose my quotes online and just wrote them with a standard black Sharpie.
I initially thought of getting her real flowers but since another friend was doing that, I just found a tutorial on how to make these big beautiful paper flowers.
This was by far the hardest part of her gift as the hot glue gun I bought was broken.
I actually had to unscrew the whole thing and try to fix it.
It was a failure , hence I came up with an easy, transportable and safe method of melting my glue sticks in the comforts of my own room. The method didn't require me to contaminate the metal pots used for cooking with glue. I was worried if it could be poisonous even if I made sure to wash it well.
After thinking it over and remembering how a woman melted her MAC lipstick on a spoon over a burning candle, I carried the same procedure out except with glue stick and a small sacrifice of getting burnt from the hot sticky glue from time to time.
The end results of all that, sweat, brain cells, glue stick fumes and glue burns was these flowers.
Sorry, my room is very windy,thus the position of the petals are as such.
Once again, these are some of the ideas I did for my BFF. You may modify it for your own use.
The true happiness of all these hard work is the smile I was able to make on her face.
ITS THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS.
NOT MONEY
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
MY BFF YZ, THANK YOU FOR PUTTING UP WITH ME.
FOR THE MANY TIMES WHEN I NEEDED YOUR HELP
FOR THE TIMES THAT I WASN'T SUCH A GREAT FRIEND
FOR THE ROUGHT TIMES WE HAD
FOR UNDERSTANDING ME AND
FOR BELIEVING AND FOR NOT GIVING UP ON US.
HERE IS TO US
I AM PARTLY EXCITED TO START UNIVERSITY
YET SAYING ALL THE GOODBYES
MADE ME THANK GOD FOR MY LIFE IN MY COUNTRY
THE PEOPLE I MET
I FELL IN LOVE WITH
GOT MY HEART BROKEN OVER
THE FRIENDS I LOST
AND BEST OF ALL THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHO STOOD BY ME
AND LOVED ME DURING THOSE LOW MOMENTS.
LET ME BE YOUR BRIDESMAID AND I SHALL BE YOURS TOO!
Love you.
