Mussel Shell Flower

My son and I were thinking what to do for his teacher, Mrs Eunice, as a thank you gift for having put in so much effort to help the kids present an item for their school's concert.

Since I have a lot of my mussel shell from here, I thought we can do a simple craft with it.


Materials needed:

• 7 Mussel shells, all from the same side
• 2 circle Cardboard, 5cm and 7cm diameter each
• 1 (Balloon) Stick, cut to desired length
• Double-sided Tape
• Scotch Tape

How to do it:

1. Colour one side of the smaller circle if you like.
2. Stick the circles with double-sided tapes and set aside. If you have coloured the smaller circle, then tape the non-coloured side.
3. Place shell, inside (shiny part) down and the thiner part outward, to form a flower pattern.
4. Remove the protective paper from tape of the larger circle.
5. Stick it over the center of all shells.
6. Turn it over.
7. Remove the protective paper from tape of the smaller circle.
8. Stick it over the center of all shells.
9. Turn it over again.
10. Place the stick with one end to the middle of the larger circle.
11. Stick on scotch-tape to secure it.

Note:
The number of shells needed depends on the size of your shells.

* Sticking the smaller circle over the shells *


* the Mussel Shell Flower *

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妹妹 having exams ...

爸爸 took some pictures of the kids with his mobile phone recently.

I found some really cute ...

* Shhh! Quiet please. Examination in progress *

Dancing crabs in action

Presenting the 3 cute dancing crabs!

This is part of the performance by 哥哥's class.

WokkingMum in Banquet Bagus

Some time back, I mentioned I was approached to contribute my recipes to a newsletter for the only Halal Food Chain in Singapore. Well, the newsletter is out!

So, if you happened to pick up a copy of the free newsletter from any of Banquet's food outlets, check out my contributions. If you are unable to get a copy but are still interest to know about the recipes, the two recipes they had chosen to feature were this and this.

Special thanks to Ms Berrie Neo for mailing me 2 copies of the newsletter.

Dancing crabs out of the sea

It's 哥哥's school graduation cum concert today. The day all parents were waiting for and I can tell you it was worth every minute of waiting!!

Overall this year's performance by the students were better than last year's. Their theme this year is God' Marvellous Creation so we saw lots of cute animals and of course under sea creatures like 哥哥, the crab. *wink* We were laughing at some of the performance as their actions were so cute! The costumes were very bright and colourful too!

Definitely lots of hard work were put in for this event. I think their hard work were paid off because I can see everyone there enjoying the whole performance.

Kudos to the teachers and the children. Thank you for giving us a great performance!

Easy money from Nuffnang

Yeah! I finally got my cheque from Nuffnang! My first 'pay' cheque after more than 5 years staying at home as a homemaker! It felt good to 'earn' my own money. I just do my blogging as normal and the money just come in. How hard this that?!

Anyway, I have read about other Nuffnang members 'complaining' that the money is little and they rather use Advertlets. My goodness! I would give up Advertlets anytime if need to. I'm getting good money from Nuffnang. For me it's about about five times more compared to Advertlets and more ads are coming in for my blog. Thanks!

So for those who intend to put up ads in their blogs, go for Nuffnang!

We are very busy, you know ...

哥哥 when to school today and realised that he didn't have his homework in his bag. I remembered him completing them and also asked him to keep it in his bag. My mistake for not checking.

Anyway, I went home and couldn't find that 2 pieces of paper. When I went to fetch 哥哥 from school, we went to see his teacher. I told her we have misplaced the papers and asked if we could have a replacement. This was what happened ...

Waving her hand as she walked (she didn't even stop to speak to us) ... 我们(teachers)很忙的。没办法了，你用白纸写啦。And she disappeared through the front door leaving us behind.

Oh, okay. I'm sorry I ate into your lunch time and it's our mistake for misplacing the homework but shouldn't you being a teacher give a better answer even if the answer is no? Why do I get a feeling that this is a 'too bad, nothing I can do' attitude? To me, it was really rude of her to talk as she walked. We were like half a meter apart!

Tell me my expectation of a teacher is just too high.

BBQ-ing in the kitchen

I have a few good friends whom I'm still in touch with after I got married and have kids. Everyone has their own agenda so it quite tough to arrange a gathering. Most of them are busy with work except of me, busy with housework. *giggle* I hardly meet up with friends after I have kids as I find it very tiring to bring the kids along. By the way, I'm the only homemaker. The rest are either single, married with no kids (career women!) or married with kids BUT still working. That's why you see my face is having this light shade of yellow and it's not Jaundice. LOL

Anyway, Becky and I were in Facebook sending each other messages last week and the idea of BBQ-ing at my place came up. Yeah, we had BBQ and steamboat in my kitchen. We invited Soh who also knew Becky over too. I prepared lots of food. I think a bit too much. 爸爸 kept filling their plate with food and these two poor guys just kept on eating. I think they don't have to eat for breakfast tomorrow liao. *giggle*

The kids had fun too because they had free flow of Coke and 妹妹 kept raising her cup to toast. She was very insistence too. She kept saying :"Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!" till you raise your cup!

Come to think of it, I still didn't know much about how they had been and what they had been up too, especially Becky who had stayed overseas most of the time because of work. We just kept laughing at what the kids did. Oh, Soh, did you remember to pinch 妹妹's face for everyone? *giggle*

Hmmm .... How about we do this again, with lesser food? Anyways, thanks for coming. I had fun preparing the food. Hope you guys had fun stuffing them *giggle* It was really nice to see you guys. Maybe the next time we meet, we can play mahjong too! *wink*

Oh, thanks 爸爸 for doing the bbq-ing, the clearing up and the washing! Appreciate it! I'll do it the next round.

Don't pacify me

I managed to wean-off the pacifier for 哥哥 when he turned one. He cried for a week and it was over. 妹妹 is almost two and a half years old now and is still very attached to it. I decided yesterday I had to do it.

My intention was to boil it with bitter gourd (so it will taste too bitter) but I couldn't find those small ones in the supermarket. So, I snipped it almost off instead, leaving half of it hanging on. I showed it to 妹妹 when she asked for her 'tu-tu'.

妈妈 : See, tu-tu is spoilt.
妹妹 : Ahhh ... spoilt ... (tugging it and it came off)
妹妹 : O-oh! Tu-tu ... spoilt. No more!
妈妈 : Yes, no more. 妹妹 don't want tu-tu, okay?
妹妹 : Yeah ...

She did asked for it but I kept showing her the snipped off tu-tu to remind her that it was spoilt. The poor girl sobbed to sleep but at least she did not cry loudly and it didn't take that long for her to stop sobbing, compared to 哥哥, who cried non-stop. Perhaps it's the age difference.

She still asked for it today during her nap time, hopefully, not for long.

No wet pants

妹妹 was at home without diaper and I was lazy to let her wear one before we went to a nearby coffee shop for lunch. After 1 1/2 hours later, she did not ask to go to the toilet and was still dry. Yeah!!

I'm going to try doing it again next week, bringing her to 哥哥's school, have breakfast, then to the market. Hehehe ... But this time, I must remember to bring an extra set of clothes and a plastic bag ... just in case.

Featuring soon ... The Little Craft Box

My plant has been sprouting and blooming again recently. Does this explains why I'm so lucky?! (wished it was money luck though :p)

I just received an email from a certain company, who is planning to publish their own (free) magazine, asking to feature my craft ideas in their magazine with byline! Wow! The email mentioned that they will be featured as my column. Does that mean it will be a regular thing? They want to meet me to discuss. Hmm .... I will call them to find out more.

This is a pleasant surprise for me as my craft blog has the least visitor count and the least hits compared to my other two blogs. I had to read it thrice to make sure I read it correctly.

Anyway, all this got to wait till tomorrow after I speak to them to see how it works. Wish me (more) luck!

The third crab

哥哥 has been very grumpy recently. He told me his teacher switch his place for the graduation performance and now he is the third crab. He grumbled that till now, his teacher still has not change him to the original position.

I told him teacher did that for her reason and it okay since he will still be in the performance. Then I found out he is concern that we may not be able to see him as during certain part of the performance, being the third crab would mean the last crab. Sigh! Anyway, I assured him that we would find a good place so no matter which place he is in, we would still have a clear look.

Satisfied with my arrangement but still grumpy.

Girl of many faces

I found some of 妹妹's cheeky shots I took some time ago.

Choosing only what you want to remember

哥哥 : 妈妈, can you buy chocolates for me?
妈妈 : Why?
哥哥 : Then you can give me as special reward when I'm a good boy.
妈妈 : Hmm ... okay. But I'll only buy one and I'll give you when you are really a good boy.
哥哥 : I want that one .... got a face .... same as that day I saw in the computer ... got a stick one.
妈妈 : ???? Computer? I don't remember seeing chocolate in the computer. How does it looks like?
哥哥 : The computer one is a boy wear hat one. But got another one is girl. Then you hold the stick to eat the chocolate. You can remember or not?
妈妈 : Ai yo!!! That one!!

He was referring to Chillycraps' headshot! *slaps forehead* All these he can remember, ask him to remember his spellings so difficult. Headaches!

Incidentally, that is also my favourite when I was a kid. I always fight with my brother to take Peko because I'm a girl mah. Luckily 哥哥 doesn't fight with 妹妹. He always take Poko and leave Peko for 妹妹 because he said 妹妹 looks like Peko. haha ....