Joy of Gifting

Its that season of the year again, the Christmas season, the festive season. Though we do not celebrate Christmas, i LOVE LOVE to see the Christmas spirit all around me. In HK there are lot of Christmas decorations floating around, the whole town is twinkling and the best part - SALES!! Everywhere...and why not take advantage of it :)

I really have been meaning to blog more my dear friends, but somehow these days time seems to be a precious commodity... Also I have been crafting more and blogging less..!! MUST mend it..

A dear friend of mine requested a small crochet item from me. Have a look at it..

 

Can you guess what it is?

It is a set of scarfs for the deity she worships. The deities are dressed in resplendent clothes and they even have seasonal outfits. Since the onset of winter, she wanted to put some warm clothes on for them and asked me to do some for her. She picked the colors and I picked the pattern. The white scarf is from the free pattern HERE and the red one is basically STAR STITCH, a very good video for the same can be found HERE. I was so glad that my handiwork was getting put to such special use!

Also in the little princess school we had to give a hanging 3D Christmas decoration.

Made this Flower Star for her. It was truly a joint effort as the Hubby punched the flowers, the little miss put the tiny stars into the golden pins and I pinned it into the thermocol star.

 

She also wrote Merry Christmas on it! 

Topped it with a red bow and voila it was all done :)

Hope you all are getting ready for the festive season, one way or the other!
Love to read and share all your adventures as always...

Love,
xxx

Fascinations on a Friday - 09/28

Don't we all love taking photos? But in the digital form rarely see them often. I was wondering how best to display the lovely memories and stumbled upon a wonderful tutorial from Deb of Paper Turtle.

 

You can find the tutorial HERE. This can be a fun craft to do with kids and the possibilities are endless! Have fun and keep smiling :)

  

Happy Friday and a great weekend to everyone !

Love,

xxx

Re-cycled Lantern

Good Monday morning to all my fellow bloggers!

Having the blues? Feeling down as you need to work? Falling mentally ill because you need to start the grind again? ha ha..welcome to the Monday morning!!

I have had a hectic weekend, not the relaxing sorta one which i would have dreamed off :( Banker was really ill and the kids were just recovering. My helper was also off on Sunday and believe me i dint have a spare minute even to sit and think about crocheting or blogging. The brighter side being me and the little miss did lots of crafting. The school has asked to make a lantern for the Mid-Autumn festival using recycled materials. You can read more about this festival HERE. A craft project to be done by both the parents and the kids together. I dig such things and immediately set off to get a creative lantern done.

 She painted toilet paper rolls blue.

 A really keen painter i must say !

These were our raw materials. Rather recycled materials. An empty juice carton and some form sheets which i had bought a while ago.

We made a rocket lantern using the following materials :

1.An empty juice carton/milk carton. Wash it thoroughly and clean it. Cut it open and cut off the top.
2.Toilet paper rolls. Cut a single roll into 2 pieces. Cut 1 inch long stripes on the rolls and fold them outwards so that they become stick-able.
3.Take plain A4 sheets. Give your pre-schooler her favourite color paints and a brush. Ask her/him to paint the whole sheet with the color. I did it in red, blue and yellow.
4.Stick the red color paper over the juice carton for making the body of the rocket red.
5.Cute rocket wings out of any cereal box and stick the blue sheet over it.
6.Paint the toilet paper rolls blue and glue them on to the base of the juice carton.
7. Here's the part i loved the most - Cut foam sheets in 3 different colors and layer them for a fire effect. Roll them together and fit it in the toilet roll and voila!! a beautiful effect :)

 8.Make any kinda decorations your toddler asks for. Give her some glitter glue and some punches and you are good to do!
9.Cut a circular piece of card board and roll it into a cone. Stick it on the top of the carton for the rocket's top.
10.I cut some paper fringes from craft paper and the little miss stuck it on the rocket.
11.Make holes on either side of the carton and just thread some yarn through them so that the little ones can hold it.

Lo and behold your rocket lantern is ready!!!

 She says she's worked real hard for it :|

 We put a glow stick inside it through the door i cut in the carton. It glows and all..She is thrilled to bits when i did this. Makes me so happy that i a m a crafty and a stay at home mom :)

 

Can you believe that i have hardly hooked and my granny square count is WAY wayyyyy behind. Off i go to attend to it! Awe...not so fast says my kids, there is 2 meals and 2 naps inbetween my and my favourite hook right now. *sigh* soooo long!

Have fun with your kids, they don't last long :)

Love,
xxx