How to put a king-sized duvet or quilt cover on quickly.

Eversince I learnt how to stuff quilt into quilt cover quickly, I have always wanted to share how I do it. It used to be one of my most dreaded chores because it’s really hard to fit a king sized quilt into its cover.

Now though, I enjoy doing it because it gives me a sense of accomplishment every single time haha. You could probably find plenty of videos on how to quickly put on quilt cover but it always involve rolling up the quilt/cover together first and I have tried that and found it a bit hard due to the large king size.

I find my method easier as I can do everything while standing comfortably around the bed. I hope the tutorial is clear enough. I tried to make a video but it’s hard to make one by myself, maybe next time when Gareth is around to help me!

For now, I hope the pictures and instructions are suffice:

1. Lay quilt cover on the bed, inside out and spread it out flat with its opening at the bed-end.

2. Then, lay the quilt over the quilt cover.

3. Make sure all the corners match and tie all the corners of the quilt and quilt cover together if you like.

4. Now, stand at the end of your bed. Put your hand into the quilt cover and grab the left corner (together with the quilt) and pull it out.

5. Once pulled out, it will look kind of like this.

6. Now, do the same thing with the right-hand corner. Put hand inside the quilt cover, grab right corner (together with the quilt) and pull it out. You will end up with this.

At this point, you will have one layer of quilt cover fabric still quite flat on the bed, with a thin sausage on top of it.

7. Now, continue putting your hand inside the quilt cover, find the left side seam (together with the quilt) and pull it out. It will look and feel weird/messy but no worries…be patient.

8. Continue with the right side seam. Put hand inside the quilt cover, find the right seam (together with the quilt) and pull it out. The roll will get gradually fatter.

9. Repeat (7) and (8) until you’ve run out of side seams. Now you got yourself a massive sausage on your bed.

10. Almost there! Now, slip your hand underneath the massive sausage and find the top seam (together with the quilt) and pull the entire seam + quilt towards yourself.

11. Now the sausage will begin to unroll.

12. Watch as it unrolls with the quilt neatly inside the cover.

13. Tadaaaa!

14. Now, button up the opening of the quilt cover.

15. And make your bed. You may want to iron your sheets, I don’t though…sorry about the wrinkles lol.

Thanks for reading and hope this helps!

Liam’s 1st Birthday Aviation Theme Party – My DIY Journey

The canopy is gone. Furniture back at their original places. Cake stands and bowls and decorations stowed away, till the next party. Maybe Liam’s 21st birthday lol

Thank you everyone for coming to Liam’s first birthday party, especially to my Dayre family the #bahamasmoms.

Thank you for all the amazing and thoughtful gifts for Liam, they will last him for a few years! Liam is a lucky chap to have received so much love 💗.

I have written extensively about my DIY journey on Dayre but I think it might be interesting to my non-Dayre readers so am going to reproduce the story here.

When it was time to plan for Liam’s birthday, I had two themes in mind; nautical or aviation. In the end I went with the latter cause I want to keep nautical theme for a pool party when he’s older heheheh.

Next thing was to start a Pinterest board of course. I think I surfed Pinterest almost everyday! Initially asked for quotations for feature table but coiled in horror at the price :P So I decided to do it myself.

I chose this as my inspiration picture. I didn’t want to (or more precisely, couldn’t) emulate it but I like how it’s got many layers and textures and most importantly I can pull it off with using recycled materials.

For the cake toppers, I made airplanes out of wooden clothes peg and art sticks. “Clouds” made with scrunched up white paper. Bought the candle which I hated coz it’s green but it grew on me and I used it in the end eventhough I had bought another candle that’s white with red piping.

Made a cardboard box plane for photobooth. This took the longest time but not too bad.

I wrapped the main body in brown paper cause it was a colourful cardboard box pre-transformation. Only two boxes were used to make the plane. The backdrop was leftover fabrics from my DIY ballroom ceiling streamers for my wedding. Just simply clipped them to my curtains with clothes-pegs. I actually bought cheap polyester pillows, hoping I could pin the filling onto the fabric to simulate clouds but that didn’t happen cause the filling was so crumbly so had to abandon that idea lol

My baby pilot in his private plane :)

As for printables, I only needed two types; cupcake toppers and mineral water labels. So, I errrrrrrrrmm stole the design somewhere and then I used photoshop to customise it to my liking. I kept the basic design, just redo the text and coloured it differently.

As you can see it was too annoying to cut the toppers out properly so I just cut them circles straight.

Cupcake toppers in action.

Gareth helped me to cut water bottle labels.

The customised water bottles.

Now let’s talks about the cupcakes. I wanted non fondant cupcakes and birthday cake. For the cupcakes, I got 3 flavours; salted caramel, rose lychee and banana walnut. The birthday cake was pandan gula melaka flavour.

All from home baker DK Bakes. You can find her on Facebook and IG.

I love her because not only her cakes are yummy, she totally came up with what I had envisioned. For instance, I wanted a simple tall non fondant cake and she delivered. She could see what I was really gunning for and she wasn’t pushy with her own aesthetics.

She gave me a few relevant pointers and that’s it while there was one pretty popular baker that I also spoke with and he quoted me exorbitantly and then subtly talked down on me about not getting an extravagant fondant cake. I mean, after like 30 minutes of explaining to this person what I wanted, he said yes he understood what I meant and sent me a picture of a spherical 3D fondant cake with a flying pig, I am not kidding you!!

Anyway, my point is I am really pleased with DK Bakes and if you’re looking for cakes, look no further.

These salted caramel cupcakes were finishing up real quick!

The yummy banana walnut cake.

The rose lychee was really popular too, I wish I had ordered more of these.

And Liam’s birthday cake with my homemade toppers. This is pandan and gula melaka cake. So moist and delicious!

So this is how my dining table looks on the eve of party.

I don’t have old wooden boxes or old suitcases so I saved paper boxes of various sizes to be wrapped up in papers in the right colour palate. Means like brown-ish colours.

I found gift wrapping papers with passports and airline tickets stubs printed all over it in Tesco so I bought 30 pieces lol. Then I also found one in fake wood design.. so I bought 20 pieces. I also found a massive roll of brown paper that I had bought years ago which fit well with my colour scheme.

The stripey blue/white table cloth is actually a fabric I bought for my fantasy of sewing a maxi skirt. So now if I really sew it, means I will be wearing a table cloth hahaha.

The triangle flag buntings were made with the wrapping papers. No precision involved, just fold and cut into triangles, punched holes and run a string through. All glassware you see are stuff I already have. So is the chopping board.

The wooden planes were bought from an art shop. When I saw them I couldn’t resist! Quite easy to assemble, I just hotglued all the pieces together.

Some mini plastic planes from Daiso which I spray-painted white. The paper balls were bought from Aliexpress.

The backdrop are pinwheels and wheels made with the same loot of wrapping papers. Doily on the wheel is from my kitchen. The letters I cut out from a corrugated cardboard I got from an Ikea box. Thank goodness my son’s name has only 4 letters!!

The final look of the table. With all the cakes and snacks on.

With the birthday boy!

With our long time buddies :)

With my my Dayre family, the #bahamasmoms and their bubs, who make motherhood so much more fun! 💗

With more mummy friends!

I had lots of fun preparing for this party. I know Liam doesn’t know what’s going on but am sure he will have fun looking back at these pictures when he’s older. I think he had lotsa fun though, having so many of his friends to play with on that day :)

I end this post with my favourite picture from the party:

Happy 1st birthday my dearest son. Mummy and daddy love you so much and we hope you will grow up to be healthy, kind and honest. As your daddy always say, you won’t go wrong with those qualities.

Not another rant about the Malaysian government?

This is not my first complaint. Just had one not too long ago. You can read it here.

Went to Duta’s immigration office to make Liam’s passport today. We reached there just before 1pm and found the passport office was dark, as in literally all the lights had been switched off.

According to a personnel who was there, the office was closed between 1pm-2pm.

I was annoyed because there’s no notice on changes with operation hours on website or anywhere.

If you know Bahasa Malaysia, it says operation hours during fasting month is 8.30am – 5.30pm. Sounds fair. No mention of 1pm-2pm rest time though.

As you can see, normal operation hours is 7.30am – 5.30pm. No mention of afternoon breaks too, except for the Friday which is for prayers.

So who sanctioned that afternoon break!?

I guess I am lucky that I have flexible hours so I can suck it and deal with it. But really, with such bloated civil service, how hard is it to keep operations going by having staggered breaks??

Half of the staff work while half of the staff take a break. After one hour, the one who rested start work and the one who worked could rest for an hour. Like this also difficult meh!? Simple logic no? But no no no no no, everyone rests and the rest of Malaysians get their toll, petrol, time and work leaves wasted for no reason.

This sort of inefficiency really gives me the angrys!!!

What about normal tax paying working people that have to go all the way to the government office during lunch break only to find that the shutters are down because they have decided to “rest” for an hour. Pay tax for this kind of shitty service?

With other companies, if I don’t like their service I can boycott the brand, stop buying their products or service. But hello, I can’t boycott getting a passport?

Anyway, I went to have lunch at the nearby Publika and went back at 2.30pm. It was pleasant, paid up etc and got a slip to come back to collect the passport after an hour. So, instead of waiting we went off to Publika (5 minutes away) to get some groceries, got back to the goverment office at 4.58pm and guess what??

Lights all turned off again! *&^*&^$%%$&^%$&^%$&^*&^(*&)*&$&^

What is this!? 5.30pm closing time right? Why not yet 5pm already closed??

Not a single soul in sight. Don’t know if sleeping behind the counters or gone home already. Who knows? Mind you I am not in some sleeping town type of branch, I am in Duta branch! Next to one of the most affluent neighbourhoods in Malaysia.

These people really have no pride in their jobs. All they want is more rest, more rest and more rehat.

Don’t make it so easy for people to insult you can or not? Be professional! Have pride in your jobs!

Like I always say, I feel most sorry about being a Malaysian whenever I go to the government office. The chaos, the slightly run down amenities, the awful charts and farce of inspiring slogan after slogan, the attitude. Everything is just a hint, a taste of the state of our nation.