Beautiful Lightings

It takes me about a year to collect the materials for these two projects. I've finished assembling the pieces many months back but I hesitated to get it done as I've no idea how to get them fixed with the lightings on the ceiling. Sometimes it takes some guts to get a job done, and it was how I climbed up the high chair, stretched my hands and legs, and go all the way without thinking those impossibilities... No regggrreet really!!

I saw these creations one Christmas at a Recycling Exhibition done by the disables. Their works were awesome! It amazed me on how they turned those bottles into such beautiful lights. Thus, I replicated their ideas to brighten up my foyer and dining area, transforming the two lightings into something new without a single cent spent...

Don't blink your eyes!!!

How time flies! My son is nine this year. I started making the first snake, his zodiac sign, for him last year as a gift, and this year I decided to make him this key change. It's a simple sewing craft that I've not touched since my teenage years. It brings back lots of memories on how I bought the book at MPH Parkway Parade, how I started making these cute cute stuffs and the people whom I gave the gifts to... Anyway, I still keep some of my work and I'm still loving them.

Grasshopper at Singapore Garden Festival

This was the 3rd time for me and my son to visit Singapore Garden Festival since they were here in 2006 and 2008. It's like a must visit exhibition for us cos we like beautiful flowers and plants. And for me, I get to see many flower arranging ideas using all sorts of media and materials. It's an eye opener!

Besides all the beautiful flower artworks, NPark will always be there to educate and entertain the young and old about the nature. These year, I'm overjoyed they are teaching something I've long waited to learn. Really, someone during my younger days, promised to teach me...but... I'm glad this year that I'm there.

After all the twist and turn, a grasshopper was created. Amazing! This is the grasshopper! I didn't know it's such an easy craft to make from a fallen leaves of a coconut tree! Within a short 30 minutes, I've learned something that I've waited for years for that someone! Hahaha...

Of course, as a usual routine, we won't missed to bring back a few pots of plants from the horticulture exhibitor there. Like the one that we had brought home 2 years ago, and have transplanted into several newer ones since then... They are the sweet memories we have with all the beautiful things in life.

Handmade Kennel

My son has been pestering me to buy a dog house for his pet dog, Richie, ever since he arrived at our home last November. But I just couldn't bring myself to spent on something that may bring me more work to clean up. I might also end up buying something that the little creature dislike. After all, who will be moving in to the new apartment if this happened??

So after months of playing 'TaiJi' (delaying his request) with my son, I finally found this carton box that I can turn it into a temporary yet economical dog kennel. You know about 'test the market' right? So this is the way to test a dog on how he except his new home, heex.

I started out by cutting the pointed edge of the two sides of the roof. Bending the front and the back pieces of the roof to meet at the top of the roof, fixing them all together with masking tape. And next, I cut out the door and the heart shaped window... Getting the kid to do the painting make them more involved in the project he hoped for. Everything comes in place in less than 3 hours and now we shall put our fingers cross...

After much supervision, we found that Richie didn't quiet like his move in to his new house! But to our surprise, he will take shelter when there's thunderstorm and during pouring days. Amazingly, according to my son, he will take cover in it when someone scolded him or pretend to bit his backside. Hahaha, what a smart dog knowing he has a hideout place now!

Draw with a Soldering...

Recently, I really have no time for crafts. Sorry about that, though I knew it is an excuse. I'm quite tight up with some other trainings and learnings, especially during the period of school examinations, that I need to supervise my only child in his school work. Maybe it's good sign to be busy sometimes.

This two pixs that I have here may not be a newly created stuffs from me. It was made more than 10 years back. It was a decoration for the walls in my new house at that point of time. I DIY quite a number of stuffs to cut down the renovation cost. As I had overlooked those things I've made in the past, I found these two pictures which I can share with you at the mean time...

It is just two pieces of plain wooden boards which I sketched out the pictures / theme that I liked on it. Using a soldering, you know the one which they use to solder iron on the circuit board, I burned on the board to create outlines. The burning can be in the tone of shades like the effect of a 2B pencil. In still life drawing you use a pencil to do the tricks, now we replaced the pencil with a soldering. It is fun, though it maybe burning on your hands and smell weird . The result you see here, is that it will last you years without any picture frame to protect it. Bear in mind, it is a permanent marks which you can't erase on the board. Just explore and create as you go along... Enjoy!!