A conservatory for the house

I must admit my favourite part of the house is actually not in the house but rather outside in the garden. I just love my garden, I love working in it and I love spending all day everyday just pottering around in it. That’s why I like big windows that look out into the garden from inside the house.

I’m thinking of putting in a conservatory in the house so I can enjoy the garden with the glass walls and ceiling. I can also bring the garden into the house so I can enjoy it while I’m inside. I need to get an idea of how my conservatory will look like and a builder to put it in for me. I found Anglican Home Improvements that does all sort of home extensions and they have many type of conservatories available. I can rest assured that Anglican will do a great job for me because of their thirty six years experience in quality home improvements.

Poor Little Pumpkin

This is really a saddening story. My heart goes out to the little girl abandoned by her own father at the Southern Cross Station last Saturday before making a run to America.

Little Qian Xun or "Pumpkin" as was called by the people who found her was abandoned by her father possibly because she was going to slow him down as he tried to run away from New Zealand. This is indeed heart wrenching, how could a father dump his own 3 year old child in a strange city?

Story is the father came over from New Zealand with his daughter but left for the USA after dumping his daughter. Police in New Zealand has found a body in the boot of a car belonging to the father who is believed to be the mother but is yet to be confirmed. I don't care too much about the other stuff but I'm just saddened by poor little "Pumpkin".

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Emotional Memorial of a Beloved Dog

The picture of Buddy's cat urn on the HAL Woodworking website is amazingly life-like. Such high-quality pet urns would make a beautiful resting place for anyone's pet.

Gryphon's owners, the Marquardt's had such nice things to say about the urn in their testimonial. Pets are truly a part of the family.

The Merry Monk

I was rummaging around with all the junks in the factory today when I came upon a particular item that was quite amusing. I dunno where my kiamsiap boss gets all his silly little things from but I thought I'll share it with you guys today.

This is the Merry Monk. The Merry Monk is a happy monk but why is the Merry Monk so happy leh? For fun raising action please watch the video below to find out why...take it away Merry Monk!

New sofa for me

My old sofa is old and broken and I need to get a new one. FurnitureFromHome.com has many excellent quality sofas and I’m thinking of getting one shipped from there.

I particularly like their leather sofas because I’ve always wanted to get one but never had enough money for them. Now that I can afford one I like this curved sectional piece in light brown color and I like the smell of fresh leather too!

Should I get them?

I was at Toy'sRus the other day when I saw something that was very tempting but so far I've resisted the temptation to buy it but now my resistance is starting to wane.

Its the commemorative tin collection of the Star Wars cantina band! The one in the first movie when Obiwan and Luke went to see Han Solo and Chewbaca remember? The normal price for this is $70 but they're going on sale for $35 nia! So should I get them? Oh...its tempting.

What's your speed?

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Home made compost

Here's how I make my own compost; throw all green kitchen waste and garden clippings into the compost bin...
Throw in some blood & bone to speed up decomposition...
Turn it over once a week to aerate the heap...
And you get dark delicious compost, full of earth worms and ready for the garden!

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Potting Table

I wanted to get a potting table so I would not break my back when I'm working in the garden. I check out a few websites to see what's out there and there's hundreds of them mainly in the USA with prices in the hundreds! Here's a couple I saw on some websites, they look good but too fancy and pricey. I noticed most of them have one thing in common; they have a sunken container on one side for potting mix, by the looks of them they kinda look like the kitchen sink! Which leads me to an idea; I can build my own potting table using an old kitchen sink!
What luck I have, last week when Terese and I were going for a walk in the neighbourhood Terese saw someone threw out an old kitchen sink! So I took it home and clean it up a bit and it still looks pretty good.

So on the weekend, I went to the local hardware store and bought some cheap timber to erect a frame for the sink to sit on...

...and there you have it, my very own potting table made with an old kitchen sink and some timber frames! It even has castors so I can wheel it anywhere I like.

Nourish your skin

We all like to have a healthy skin and there are many ways of keeping our skin healthy like eating the correct food, drinking plenty of water and using skin lotions and moisturizers. But now there’s a new trend in nourishing our skin and that’s with the newly discovered dietary supplement called R.G. Skin Revitalizer made from the oil of the tropical Red Gac fruit.

The Red Gac fruits are found in the tropical regions of Southeast Asia in particularly Vietnam. They are rich in beta-carotene, lipocarotenes and other potent antioxidants that help rejuvenate the body. Beta-carotene helps boost your immune system while lipocarotenes are fatty acids help in the absorption of nutrients present in Gac fruits. The antioxidants help your body fights free radicals from oxidation thus the result is a healthy body and healthy skin.

Red Gac or Momordica Cochinchinensis Spreng grows abundantly on vines and can grow as large as cantaloupes. They are bright red in color thus the name Red Gac and the red oily pulp is traditionally cooked with rice for festivities where the red color is represented as good luck and joy. The power of the Red Gac lies in the seedpod chambers that contain all the goodness of antioxidants and good fats. Now everyone can benefit from the goodness of these amazing fruits as a supplementary intake.

Second Chance Part 2

Okay, today I finally got to finish what I started yesterday with the kumquat plants. After hard pruning them the next step is to prune off most of their roots as well.

This is how the root ball looks like after years of growing in a limited confine of the container, massive root ball and I'm going reduce it in size dramatically with a normal saw.

First I'm going to cut the bottom half of the root ball off in half. It cuts quite easily coz its mainly fine roots with the occasional tapered roots near the middle.

Next I cut the root ball even smaller by cutting the sides down by more than half. After that use a secateur and tidy up the root ball so there's no rouge roots sticking out here and there.

And that's how they look like after my little 'surgery'. That's a massive amount of roots taken off so they can start growing new roots if they survive this. But if they do survive it would be a while before they start to look good.

Plant them in containers like any normal plants but keep them in a shady place. Keep the growing medium moist and cross my fingers! Let's check back with them in a couple of months or so.

You can dance like a pro

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Second Chance Part 1

Welcome back to the Tukang Kebun Show again. Remember the post I wrote about replacing the 2 tired looking kumquat plants I had outside my front door?

Well I was actually thinking of throwing them out but now I've decided to give them a second chance. I'm going to do some drastic actions and see if they can bounce back to good health.

First of all I gave them a really heavy pruning, so heavy that they're only left with the main trunks standing! Next I will have to prune the roots as well but that will have to wait till next time coz I still haven't done it yet!

...to be continued.

Organize my life

My garage is a mess. I have cables, screws, nails and tools lying around on the floor everywhere. There are just not enough storage spaces and shelves to put them in.

Maybe I need to reorganize my life a little bit better. What I need are storage bins to put them in so I can neatly stack them away. I’m sure I can fit everything away if I am a bit more organized.

Planting Camellia

Welcome back to the Tukang Kebun Show. Today I'm going to show you how I planted a Camellia Sasanqua in an empty spot I have in my backyard that doesn't get much sunlight because it's on the south facing fence.
I chose a Camellia because they thrive in shady or part shady spots so in this case would be ideal. Camellias originated from China and did you know that tea leaves come from a Camellia plant?

First up I dig a hole just large and deep enough to accommodate the root ball of the plant. You don't need to dig too deep unless you're burying a body! After you've dug the hole throw in some fertilizer at the bottom of the hole.

Remove the plant from it's plastic container and tease the roots out a little to help it establish itself quicker. Before I place the plant in the hole I also stuck a stake into the hole which will act as a supporting beam for the plant later on in it's life when it has grown bigger.

Place the plant into the hole right next to the stake making sure it's level with to ground level. You don't want to plant it too deep. Then backfill with soil making sure there's no air pockets. Throw on some more fertilizer on the surface.

While you're backfilling, make a circular mount around the plant so that when you water later the water will form a pool in the circular mount and soak right into the ground to the roots.

That's another job done. While it's still establishing itself, make sure it doesn't dry up and water twice a week or maybe even more during the hotter months in summer. It should establish itself within a year and able to fend for itself. In the meantime, tie the branches to the stake if needed to help it along.

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Women's Hair Loss Project

For most women their hair is the crowning glory of their womanhood but to lose that can be quite traumatic. This is a story of a young woman who has this uncontrollable disorder of hair loss. She started a blog called Women’s Hair Loss Project initially as a mean to cope with her disorder and to heal her suffering through sharing her story with her readers. It has now fast becoming a popular blog and gaining a lot of readers in America.
Female Hair Loss makes up 40% of American hair loss sufferers and can be devastating for one’s self image and confidence. Hair loss does not necessarily be a men’s problem because women do go through balding as well but society has forced women to suffer in silence. Hopefully this project can help other women with similar condition deal with their situations and also generate understanding amongst the rest of society about this disorder.

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