Easter Basket

I decided to make a little Easter basket for my SnC DT project and thought that since Earth Day is also just round the corner, I'd make the basket out of recycled magazine pages. Of course Wabbit had to make a guest appearance, after all, Easter will not be complete without the essential bunny right?

Made pinwheels (J's favourite!) with beads and sequinned centres to decorate the basket. And yes, they can actually spin.

A little flag-banner for wishes.


A close-up of the 'stickled' and sequinned flag-banner.

Happy Easter!

Supplies - SnC Easter Kit, Making Memories Acrylic Paint, ColorBox Petal Point Inkpad, Stickles, Recycled Magazines Basket, Beads, Heart Peg.

Traditional Chinese New Year Breakfast

This is what our family normally has for breakfast on the 1st day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. I'm not sure if this is a general tradition or just a tradition with G's family, but this yummy dish is made by my MIL - 'mee suah' (rice vermicelli) in chicken broth with huge mushrooms and hard-boiled egg. There are actually 2 versions of the broth but this was the one that J and I had. 'Mee suah' actually symbolises longevity...

Valentine's Project 2 {Sneak Peek}

Here's a sneak of my 2nd Valentine's Day DT project for Scrap-n-Crop. Watch out for the complete reveal ...

Valentine Boxes Of Love

Latest release on the Scrap-n-Crop newsletter - a pair of handmade boxes made for my Valentine's Day DT project.

{Heart} box is layered with 3 different sized foam hearts with a touch of bling.


{Love} box is finished with bling-ed alpha stickers.

A close-up to show the dimension of the layers and details.

Supplies - Scrap-n-Crop Valentine's Kit, bling

Valentine Project {Sneak Peek}

A little sneak peek of my Scrap-n-Crop DT project for Valentine's Day ... stay tuned to see more!

CNY "Kum" Bag

So, I can finally share this - my project for Scrap-n-Crop, my humble little "kum' bag.

For those who celebrate Chinese New Year, you will be familiar with the tradition of gifting people with "kum" (which translates to "gold", well, not the real gold but those mandarins), especially when you visit someone or when you have visitors. I decided to do my take on this tradition and came up with this little bag for carting around the mandarins when we do our visiting rounds this year - my little "kum" Bag, which will be filled up with lots of "gold"!!! Here's wishing all Happy Chinese New Year, and may your houses be full of "kum".

A close-up of 1 of the sides with the character 'Fu' which translates as happiness.

The other side with the monograms making up 'CNY' for Chinese New Year.

More 'blings'. Love the cute flower eyelet used for the cord-handle.

Materials - Scrap-n-Crop CNY Kit Gongxi Gongxi, blings.

A Happy Ballerina ...

... thanks to Yoonie who's just amazing at needle-craft (is that what you call it??) This was the beautiful tutu that she made J for Christmas. My apologies for the late posting on this as it was near impossible to capture a photo of J in her tutu as she was always twirling around when she has it on. I kept getting shots of part of an arm or butt as she moves so quickly. So I finally devised a tactic. One day, almost immediately after she got up from her nap, I threw on her tutu, she was still in slow-mode and these shots were what I got ...

The tutu is absolutely gorgeous - a peachy pink colour, with beautiful sequinned band and sequin flowers. Thanks so much Aunty Yoonie, J loves it!

AND in addition to that, Yoonie also made her this cute little Wabbit which is now J's bestest bedtime pal.

Chinese New Year Project {Sneak Peek}

Here's a teeny peek of a something-something done for my DT work for Scrap-n-Crop which will be featured in an upcoming newsletter.

Love Is ...

... this.

Me & my baby at Christmas - perfect!

Winter Solstice Festival

This year's Winter Solstice Festival was fun. Fun, as in we had J's participation this time round when the family got together to roll the little colour flour-balls (normally in white and hot pink) which would later be cooked in sugar syrup. And this was what the little apprentice cooked up ...

Hard at work.


The finished product ... well, not exactly round balls, but i guess it's acceptable. In between making balls, we made some snowmen and mice flour-thingies too. FUN! I didn't manage to get photos of the cooked item as all got consumed before I had the chance - maybe next year then.