When R and I were in Bali we saw some carved coconut shell lights in the markets, most of the designs were fairly simple. But when we went on a sightseeing trip to a temple outside of Ubud, we f...
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Here's a shot of the main Seremban Post Office I snapped while waiting for R to pick up a package. In Malaysia the postal system is known simply as POS.
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2012/02/pos-malaysia.html
It's been awhile since I've posted. This year has been a busy one already! I recently found some HUGE Lobster Claw plants (Heliconia family ) that were blooming. I've never seen the plants so la...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/11/lobster-claw-plants.html
A Malaysia resident wrote and asked me for some current photos of the kitchen because he and his wife are embarking on a kitchen remodel at their home in Penang. So here are some photos. A sea...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2012/01/kitchen.html
A few readers have asked me what I'm going to do for CHRISTMAS here in Malaysia and so it got me thinking... 2005 Christmas in New York I grew up in MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA where it was alwa...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-holidays-from-malaysia.html
I've seen these cool spiky plants around and found one at one of the nurseries in Seremban. It's a EUPHORBIA MILII DES MOULINS, I think. Euphorbiaceae. CN: , Crown of thorns. Native of Madagsac...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-patio-plant-euphorbia.html
I was at TESCO awhile back and was in the separate section they have for the pork and other non-Halal items (you have to pay separately for these items including alcohol so when we are at the gro...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/12/baby-back-pork-ribs-and-american-type.html
I snapped these shots at the Sri Menanti Royal Museum (I wrote about the place HERE ). Not sure what kind of Palms these are but the berries are beautiful and would look great in my garden as ...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/12/orange-berry-palm.html
I was at FAMILY STORE buying my vegetables for the week, there wasn't a great selection because it was Sunday and the Family Store by my house gets really busy on Saturday and to a lesser degr...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/12/taugeh-hijau.html
The wall lighting for the LIVING ROOM was proving to be the hardest fixtures to buy. I really had been looking for something over the past few months because I was tired of seeing the dangling wi...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/12/wall-lighting-in-living-room.html
While my parents were here we decided to go to the SRI MENANTI ROYAL MUSEUM or as we have been calling it, the King's Palace, located in the royal state capital about 40km East of Seremban . ...
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The orange BOUGAINVILLEA around the house is finally blooming in all wall planters at the same time. Some planters are full of more blooms than others, but they all have flowers!!! Some of th...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/11/bougainvillea-around-house.html
So I have been putting off buying a BLENDER since we moved to Malaysia. Every time I'd see them in the stores I couldn't decide what to get. I was looking for stainless steel to go with the kitc...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/11/panasonic-mx-900m-blender.html
While R's mother was here we went to some of the nurseries. She bought this nice dark grey/black planter for me. I had been looking around since she left to try and find the right plant to put i...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/11/monkey-palm.html
The issue of SWEET HOME MAGAZINE featuring our home is available now! As I mentioned previously, they came to the house to shoot our home and interview R and I about living in Malaysia. Th...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/11/sweet-home-vol-31.html
For Blue main floor bathroom, still my least favorite bathroom in the house, I removed the shower curtain I had put up when we first moved in and added some wood slats to the base of the shower ...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/11/main-floor-bathroom-pebbles-and-wooden.html
I had bought this PENDANT LIGHT for the MASTER BATHROOM awhile back, now finally it has been installed with the other lighting. By the way, you'd think it would be easy, we could just call one l...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/11/master-bathroom-pendant-light-and.html
Inside the Temple so close to our House.
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/11/pertubuhan-penganut-dewa-seremban.html
I've written a few times on this blog about my BUNGA KANTAN plant also known as TORCH GINGER (the plant's Binomial name is Etlingera Elatior ) plant because the plant just keeps fascinating me. ...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/11/planting-bunga-kantan-torch-ginger-from.html
As I worked to get the place ready for the Sweet Home magazine photoshoot, I found I had to make a trip to Ikea to get some things. Going to Ikea from Seremban is a half day event or longer, but...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/10/guest-bedroom-lighting.html
Another thing we had put off for a long time was choosing the light fixture for the stairway. There was a long electric cord hanging there since we bought the house. We were looking for a large ...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/10/stairway-light-fixture-and-window.html
The largest area we had to work on before Sweet Home magazine came to our house was the 'family room'. R and I are calling it the LIBRARY or a lounging space. You might remember back awhile ago ...
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Recently we were contacted by SWEET HOME MAGAZINE , a magazine that features homes in Singapore, Malaysia and other Southeast Asia locations. They wanted to interview R and I as foreigners livin...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/10/lighting-around-house.html
Friends have asked for more photos from our trip to Bali so here they are! Look at this great Ginger plant at a spa we went to. I can only hope the ginger plants I added by the side...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/10/more-bali.html
The Blue Room is finished! Well, almost. The five Ikea lanterns I bought were installed. I think they look pretty close to what I wanted to do. I'm using energy saving bulbs from Ikea, the ligh...
http://the-malaysia-project.blogspot.com/2011/10/blue-room-lanterns-and-ikat-curtain.html