It's Raya Cards Time

I must confess that I have been slacking this year. I usually get my Raya Cards sorted out by the end of the first Ramadhan weekend. This time around, it was coming up to the third, and I only just begun writing them.

The cards from Sunflower were gorgeous as usual. So, I spent the best part of the morning writing up them cards, while emailing some of my cousins for their updated addresses. Finally got the 50 or so cards written up. That warm and fuzzy feeling came back in the pit of my stomach right after.

Now, I would have to drag myself to the Post Office.

Update on Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 5:53PM by Haris Abdul Rahman

Posted the cards, and the stamps cost 50 sen each! They better send the cards across in at least a Mercedes ..... 

Sunflower Paper Passions

In the last five or so years, the only place we got our Raya cards from was the Sunflower Paper Passions at IKANO. They print their own cards and they were gorgeous. A few years back, we actually got some cards printed from them, but we ended up printing far too many. In the years after that, we would rather just pick some of the ready-printed ones from the store, located on the Lower Ground Floor of IKANO, on the way to IKEA LG entrance.

The designs there were unique, not only in terms of motif and design, but also the actual quality. They made cut-through cards, laser-edged of course, and some of them had wooden bits as decorations attached on to them. The selection was huge.

Anita was especially keen on the envelopes for 'duit raya'. Very colourful and would set it apart from other envelopes come the big day.

When I say lego blocks, I mean lego blocksRight after, we also ventured across to The Curve to see if the decorations there were already up. It was just being set up, with the central foyer again turned into stalls area. It was still tiled out like lego bits today, but I was sure by the weekend, everything would be up and running.

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