Time for Craft

Has been in love with miniatures these recent years but did not blog about it in any of my post. Here it goes... When I had my first hands-on experience to work with polymere clay around three years ago, I was totally in love with it. Yes, I'm truly in love with this durable, and at the same time flexible clay. The color variations that you can create with polymere clay can turn out very realistic. By looking at the images above you can tell it, lol. There isn't any long hours of firing needed to obtain that hardness, the oven baked clay just need around 130 degree for a short 20 minutes of baking. Convinced? By the way, even my niece thought the donuts was real when I whatsapped her the picture telling her I was on my way to send her some, teehee.

My prototype, a bear plushie! Never did I have imagined I could ever make a bear successfully with my hands, frankly, I can still remember clearly how my first diy 'doll' (hopefully it is) looked like when I tried to make one at around 6 years old or maybe younger. A mixture of unmatched scraps, done with jagged lines of hand sewn stitches, holding the pieces together to look like one. A stick I picked up from somewhere hardly hold the head to the body to avoid it from dropping. Little did I know about proper sewing, all I wanted was to own a doll, and that was how I started DIYing my way till this age. It's amazing, when you really want something you'll do something about it. And when a customer's request got in a few months back, I started asking myself why can't I do it, maybe it's time for me to make a doll/bear again... I went to the library to research on the making of bears, studied the steps and take n...

In this project, I injected the idea of making pressed flowers without the days of waiting for the flower to get dry with the help of silicon gels. Here I repurpose a few left over plastic containers with some unique leafs I can find on the roadside and a few pieces of transparent wrapping papers that comes with your new shoes purchased. Yes, I do keep those wrappers especially the white and clear ones for tracing and paper marche purposes, they are very useful when you need it. Fresh from the ground, cut the leaves into the required length needed for the container. You may need to reduce the thickness or slice it thinly, if the leaf or stalk is very thick and quite stiff to stick on the container later. When this is done, plan the layout of your design where you want to place the leafs. Use a brush to spread enough white glue on the container where you want to place the leafs. Don't have to worry about the mess of paints here and there, as you'll be spreadi...

As I was on the 'felt' mood recently and a number of black hair pins were left behind to put into better use, I had this idea to come up with a set of interchangeable cute felt design for little gals to pin onto their hair. You just need to slip the hair pin into the hook attached at the back of the design, and there you go!

I'm pretty satisfied with these pencil holders I've made from coloured felt pieces and a roll of yarn which I bought at Daiso, a $2 dollars departmental store in Singapore. As usual, I used toilet paper roll tube coupled with a round piece of cardboard as the base. These large commercial type of toilet paper roll tube are often end up in the trash of public toilets of commercial buildings or shopping centres. As I can't tolerate to leave these to waste, I've collected a number of them waiting to be my next makeover star! Take my words, they were from the cleaner aunties who reserved them for me and not taken from the trash ok:> Be inspired with the endless possibilities to make use of our trash! Until then, see you!

The 2nd time into the Sony Creative Science Award 2011 competition, and we grabbed away the Merit Prize with this recycled project titled - Pursuit of happiness. Months of researching, brainstorming seems worth it. We're considered the 'lucky' (when opportunity meets preparations) ones, out of a few thousand pieces of projects submitted, we were shortlisted. The whole idea was inspired by the karakuri , automata concept. I started building the 3 seagulls with popsicle sticks. Duplicating a few copies of the same body shape on the popsicles, three pieces were glued together to get the thickness (body) of the seagull. Small little piece of white felt were sticked at both sides of the body as an extension from the wing to the body to give it the flexibility to flab. The whole setup was a A4 paper carton box, waves pieces were cut out from trash cardboard, wine cork was used as the t...

On my lifetime to-do list, is to volunteer my skill and contribute in a meaningful oversea project that benefit the less fortunate. ACTS  started as an initiative of Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace in Singapore in 2007, to share the joy of Christmas with other less fortunate in Cambodia. ACTS is a year round program, a mission outreach that involved some 180 to 250 participants from different parishes as well as non-Catholics. ACTS participants have come from as far away as Mauritius and include Malaysians and Australians amongst other and some have moved on to start their own projects to assist the less fortunate. After months' of preparation for the art and craft curriculum and the mural wall paintings, I finally embarked on these 8 days mission trip at Cambodia on 7 December 2012. As the resources are very limited there, I faced difficulty even at the initial stage of planning my eco-craft curriculum. Recycling...