My pink lady of the South China Sea..........

Need more beads…pretty please!!!!!

More often than none, my customers will be asking for more beads on their dresses to which I am more than willing to oblige. In this particular case, I did the sleeves with heavy beading, thinking that it suffice enough but apparently not. It took me only a couple of hours to do the neck and she is pleased. Another happy customer.

From that time onwards I would do the neck, sleeves and the front of all her dresses so as not to appear unaccommodating to her needs. I avoided having to repeat the same mistake and manage to deliver her next orders without a hitch. Lesson learned…

Spring has sprung …Cik Pn Siti Khatijah Shaikh Mahmud

Little People Big Fashionista... yet again.

Introducing my petite fashionista lady from Kertih who has been a patron of Mai Style for as long as I was in business… Cik Pn Siti Khatijah Shaikh Mahmud.  She used to make daily trips just to see me and she still does so even during fasting month.

Her choice of colours and fabrics has been undisputedly admired and closely followed by her peers. While I may be involved in making her dresses, she has full credit on “making it works” with just about anything and everything under the sun.

Eid AlMubarak 2011 was celebrated with 2 baju kurung and a kurung moden to begin with, which she later added 5 more pieces for me to do for the after Eid Al-Mubarak. As you can see my work is never finished and as a result I can never have the time to do mine. That’s usually is the case if you ask me. Always coulda, woulda and shoulda…. Never can, will and shall for me…..

sulam kerawang ayak di tangan baju bermanik

sulaman awak di bawah baju kurung sutera

Little People........ Big Fashionistas........

Like Mother, Like Daughters.... Pn Mira Dona.

Miniature or life-size is no measurement and knows no boundaries in the vanity world especially in beads nation.   

I was lucky to have met with Pn Mira Dona her 4 foot something self and even smaller daughters a few years back. This year alone she had, let me count… 5 baju kurungs made before fasting month, just the basic stuff and 4 elaborately beaded n embroidered baju kurungs for after fasting month ie Aidil Fitri celebration. Plus 2 more baju kurung for her even smaller daughters in all to match hers of course. Sadly I still owe her 1 more baju kurung for next week. Imagine that!!!!

She started off as a small size lady has now somehow shrunk to an even smaller size due to a month of fasting. If she keeps on shrinking, God knows what is there left of her……. Luckily we are reaching the end of Ramadan and she would not be shrinking any further.

But I am posting only a few of her dresses for now… I don’t want to overdose you guys with the multiple sets of snap shots I took.  So please bear with me on this……

like mother......

like daughters......

senior version.....

junior version......