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Mai Style is about my passion for bead works (jahitan manik), embroideries (sulaman ayak, sulaman ayak kerawang) and confectioneries (kek, roti, dll). For more info contact me at my email add mai_shopgirl@yahoo.com, my facebook or my facebook fan page.

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Monday, October 31, 2011

A prolific beading season....

Biting off more than I can chew..

Timing factor plays a fair bit of elements in my nature of business.  Make no mistake about it. In fact as far as I am concerned it rather poses as stumbling blocks in running a one man (woman)-show business like mine.
When that torrent of orders start pouring in within a short time span, I usually get so overwhelmed with brain storming to make each and every order a stand out on its own until it was too late before I realized that I have unintentionally bitten off more than I can chew.
Coincidently, I also realized that I occasionally do get sidetracked solely as a direct result of my own blunder. Hey… what can I say? I am only a human. But one thing for sure, I never lose sight of the ultimate goal on making the prompt delivery and keeping my eyes for the ultimate price. For customer’s satisfaction is the measurement of every success…..






Monday, October 24, 2011

Beads there... Done that...

No walk in the park……..
It’s a very vicious circle of stretching my heads trying to come up with yet another beading works, especially for a repeated customer.  Trying to figure out the situation is no walk in the park, I tell you. One prevailing notion that haunted me all the time is: Who in the right mind would want similar beadings on their clothes?
Truth be told, some customers do come to me with a preconceive idea of their own, may it be from pictures they saw or a magazine cut out.  Even with this helping hands presented to me, I still would have to come up with some sort of design of my own and stay true to my style of beadings. Otherwise, it would be the case of seen them one, so seen them all.  I would not want that at all..
In case of Pn Akmar’s green baju kurung moden, she gave me a cut out from a magazine to view but gave me a free hand on the final design.  I sure hope I live up to her expectation…






Saturday, October 1, 2011

Love is in the air..........

What’s that gotta do with colours?

Well, have you heard that blue sometimes are construed as having the presence of love? I don’t know how true the notion is but would definitely be willing to go along.
Wearing blue on the other hand is by no means reflecting the state that you are in but rather the vibes that you are projecting. That love is in the air. Evidently. Meanwhile, wearing the colour bronze is projecting the presence of wealth, prosperity and even the state of grandeur. One would surely know that ultimately, if it looks good…. Then wear them.
I know now and I knew it for some time now that certain colours you put on will inevitably mirrored the mood you are in. And both blue and bronze are no strangers to me. It is not a rocket science to figure out that you will feel good and look great in certain colours. Some people have fewer choices while some lucky ones have a whole spectrum of them. And yours truly happen to be the unlucky ones. So find out for yourself. And take your pick.


A special thanks to Pn Zila and Au revoir.... May we still keep in touch and you know where to get me..