Time for Craft

Inspire by my friend, Mindy, I couldn't wait further to put my hands on making a pinata for my two nieces on their coming birthday celebration at the beach. From the old old story, Pinata was first started by the Chinese. They celebrated New Year by making figures of cow, buffalo, covered with colored papers and filled with seeds. Though the point of the game is to get the goodie inside, the underlying meaning of such game symbolizes 'hopes'. As the pinata is hanging above your head, its just like you are hoping something from the sky above. Besides, it also symbolizes 'charity', as everyone will have their share of the goodie inside the pinata when it's hit opened. It took me a few days to have it done and a couple of minutes to have it 'destroyed', but I enjoyed making it and seeing the kids having fun and laughter hitting it. The happiness and memories that left behind is enough for this craft to be continued after generations.

Spent the last two days at a family service centre decorating these letters that were hand written by some neighborhood secondary school students in Singapore. These letters were to be hand delivered to an orphanage in Thailand, sending them some words of encouragement and giving them hope from another part of the globe. For a good cause, I'm invited to help make these messages that were written on plain writing pad papers more appealing or heart melting to those unfortunate children at the receiving end. Hoping to catch a little smile when they receive them, or inspire them with some decorative ideas, I do my best to turn them as lovely as possible. I supposed this is what I can do for them at this point of time...