Hello, Kitty!

Remember I said 妹妹 'chuop' one of my crochet bags? I had wanted to modified it to fit her but I find that it looked too 'adult' and decided to make a brand new one for her instead. This time round I used felt to make a bag for her instead and with one of her favourite characters, Hello Kitty, on it. :) One of my favourites too. ;P


Since she is always trying to button her clothes on her own now, I thought she will prefer a button with tab instead of the usual zipper and velcro. And I was right. :)

I'm not sure how long the bag will last but at the moment she carries everywhere even to bed. :)

Button Flowers

This is an alternative to the craft I did with my daughter much earlier. We had intended to make these flowers for her teachers but the shop selling the bells had ran out of bells.


So I used buttons instead of bells. We gave each teacher 2 flowers of Bell and Button Flowers in a stalk each. It looked a lot more nicer.

I'm repeating the instructions here for easy reference.

Materials needed:

• Cardboard Paper (We used index card)
• Pipe Cleaner/Wire (We used wire)
• Button
• Colouring Medium (We used colour pens)

How to do it:

1. Draw the outline of a flower on the cardboard.
2. Cut out the flower.
3. Colour the flower.
4. Use a pencil to poke 2 small holes in the center of the flower.
5. Fold the wire into half.
6. Thread the wire through the holes of the button and through the holes on the paper.
7. The button should be in the middle of the pipe cleaner.
8. Twist the wire together.
9. Bent the flower forward and it's done.
   

Veggie Rose Card

This is part 2 of my son's Teachers' Day Gift and is soooo overdue.

I happened to cook xiao bai cai and kept the ends to do this. My son said it looked like a rose.

I had my son use it to stamp on cards and my daughter was just having a little fun stamping away on a piece of drawing paper.



Materials needed:

• End of Xiao Bai Cai
• Assorted Paints, acrylic paint preferred if you intend to colour over it.
• Assorted Colour Pencils
• Cardboard

How to do it:

1. Use a paper plate to hold the paints.
2. Dip veggie into paint.
3. Transfer to paper and stamp away.
4. Set aside to dry.
5. Colour using colour pencils over if you like.
   

Bags, bags, bags ...

Lately I have been making bags when I have time. These are a few of what I have made. Some of the crochet pieces have already been recycled because I didn't quite like it in the end. :P

妹妹 has already 'chuop' the piece above with the pearl handles, right after I complete it. ^_^" I will have the find time to modify for her as it difficult for her to carry it. :P

I have just completed the one below last Friday and it's my current favourite. 爸爸 asked me if I intend to make a identical one for 妹妹. I told him I would, if him buys me a sewing machine because it's bored (for me) to hand stitch a duplicate. :P (No more hinting liao.) But it's still a 'anything but no sewing machine' from him. Darn!

I guess I won't be making this bag for 妹妹 BUT I have plans to make her something else. :) For the time being I'm back to felting. :)

* My 2 tone bag *

* Matching thingy for zipper *

Children's Day

This blog is turning into a photo blog soon! Yeah, more photos of the kids. These were taken during Children's Day. Both of them had celebrations in school that day and brought back big bags of gifts from friends and teachers. 哥哥's school even had a mini sport day on that day!

Since both of them finished school much early that day, I brought them out to IMM (their favourite place) to have lunch. I bought them little toys, titbits and stationery from Diaso (me cheapo :P) and they have a few of their favourite animal rides.

I guess with only me around, they are easily satisfied. ;)

* The kids enjoying the animal rides *

Old Friend

This is another very late post. :P

My best friend came to visit me on 30 August. (It's that long liao!) 2 other friends (ex-classmates) were supposed to come to but didn't make it in the end. Aww, I was a little disappointed but there's always a next time.

I had prepared a couple of little gifts for my friend. Ai ya, you know lah, people like me who don't work got no money to buy gifts. So mine are hand-made (from recycled stuff!) :P Yeah, I unpicked an old bag I did long ago which I no longer use, washed the thread (so it's not like badly permed hair LOL), dried it and reused it. If you recall this, they are from the same family. ;) I had some left over clothes pegs and suction cups from 哥哥's Teachers' Day's gift, so I did some Memo Clips too. I hope she finds them useful.

I had intended to cook lunch on that day but since there will only be 2 of us and the kids, I made BBQ wings using the same ingredients for this instead and we made chocolate chips cupcakes together which my friend brought home later. We ate and chat so much (cos we haven't meet formonths!). Luckily, the kids didn't give us much problems. They were either playing or watching the TV. We went to MOF in the evening and 爸爸 joined us after work.

I wish we were able to meet up more often. There is just too much to keep updated. I'm already looking forward to our next meeting!

* Coin purse and Suction Memo Clip for my dear friend *

Friend, if you are reading this, thanks for visiting me and the kids and your wonderful gift!. Thank you for still keeping in touch with me. It has been .... *counting* .... 20 years! since we've been friends. I want to let you know, I proud of you for what you have attained. It's not easy to be where you are now and I know how much effort and hardwork you had put in and the sacrifices you made. Good luck with your new career and I'm still hoping to hear more 'important good news' from you soon. You know what I'm referring too. ;)

Kids in September

I haven't been updating this blog for a looooong time. For the past few months, I have been very upset. Mainly with 哥哥. He has been giving my a lot of problems at home as well as in school.

I didn't want to remember all the bad things and hence I just blog about it. I glad things are getting back this week and I hope it stays this way.

These were taken in September. They didn't change much, did they?