It has been a long time since I made one of these. I learn it when I was in secondary or was it primary. My sister ‘s friend thought me how to make it with tissue. It is really simple and I am sharing it with you.

Materials Required
1 piece of Tissue
1 long straight wire for the stem
A pair of scissors

Cut the tissue into half. I am using a 3 ply tissue. If you are using a 2 ply tissue, divide it into 3 pieces.

Stack it together.

Fold it like a fan. Wire the center to hold it together.

Start peeling the tissue upwards, layer by layer. And you have a beautiful carnation!

Now I can do that online too. I love this Beadaholique.com website, it has so many variety of beads stuff and key charm. The hand painted beads are just gorgeous. I am sure I can use them on my handmade bracelets.

I have started to make Chinese New Year lanterns for decorating my home. I saw one post from my pool of bloggers blogging about it. It has some good tutorials in it. Here are my lanterns and below are instructions to make these lanterns. Have fun with it.

Tutorial Below:

Have a Blessed Chinese New Year to all my readers!

I got a pack of all in one necklace DIY jewelry. It was on sale. I kind of like the pattern. A few days ago, I opened it and started putting it together. Inside, has all the material needed to make a necklace. Instead of making a necklace because I seldom wear one, I made a bracelet instead.

Here is the finish silver bracelet. I am wearing it now. Just lovely. By the way, it is less than RM20. Do you think I can sell this?

So I got the clips and ribbons:

With the online free tutorials to make beautiful bows, I made these. Does it look professional? They are all for my gal to wear on her hair.

Why only bracelets? That’s the only thing I would wear. Maybe I will make some necklaces. If you find any nice patterns, let me know.

However, one of my Sunday School children thought me how to make a nice simple earrings. I like it very much especially twisting the wire with the pliers.
I found a beads shop called JoJo accessories which sells very nice Swarovski crystal. I wanted to make some bracelets with it. Here are my innovations:

Ok, I am still beginners and still mastering how to twist the wire nicely. If you know where I can get cheap and nice beads, let me know. By the way, I will be in hobby lobby soon and I tell you I will sure go broke if I enter that store.

Step 1: Take a strip of pandan leave. You can split it into 2. Make a L shape with a little triangle in the middle.

Step 2: Fold the triangle downwards twice. You will end up a square covering the triangle.

Step 3: You take the left strand of the leave, move it backwards to make a loop and go through the pocket of the square. Tighten it to have a square pocket.

Step 4: Weave the leave through the pocket to make the vertical bar of the cross.

Step 5: Weave the leave through the back pocket to make the horizontal bar of the cross.

Wah lah…you have a nice cross. Adjust it to make it proportional.

Happy Easter to all!!!

Now I am folding Japanese Paper Dolls. I wished to learn how to fold 3D Japanese Dolls. It will be kind of cool. It is amazing how the Japanese can come up with lovely creation. You can turn this into a bookmark too.

I will get more lovely Japanese paper in Isetan when I am down in KL. Maybe fold a few Japanese dolls and frame it up. Looks like it will be my next project. After that, I will probably put it out to bid in eBay. How much do you think I should sell it for?

It is a non-sew handmade tutu. You do not need any sewing skills. It is simple. All you have to do is cut and tie. It is good for a Halloween costume. Your gal can be a fairy with it. To add color to the tutu, you just have to buy colored netting material. White goes with anything. You can alternate white with your favorite color.

The cost for me to do this is only RM10

Kiru meaning to cut and gami meaning paper. Kirigami is a variation of origami. Origami is folding of paper. Kirigami is an art of folding and cutting paper into a myriad of interesting designs. I got this Kirigami hobby pack from Times Bookstore in Changi Airport. As you know I like hobby which involve hands. It is fun as you can cut many different patterns, animals, ribbons and etc. You can keep the pattern papers for card making, gift wrapping, stenciling and scarpbooking. I like to cut papers when I want to do deep thinking or when I am not in a good mood. Here are some of the patterns I created. By the way, the pack that I bought, it has 365 patterns, one day one pattern for the whole year. I am three months behind. :giggles:

My children love those balloons sculpture. Most children love it. It can be used for party time. If your kids want to fight, create some balloon swords, they can fight all they want without physical injuries. :giggles:

Materials required are balloons, a good pump and a pair of hands. It is really fun, you can try it. Here is a gallery of patterns you can follow: http://www.professorwonder.com/gallery.htm and http://www.mbd2.com/kidsstuff.htm

Basically I love to do things with my hands like origami, beading, balloon sculpture, cards making, 3D deco and paper cutting.

I wanted to give something to a special friend on her birthday and I saw a bouquet of bears, not flowers. Something that is pretty unique. As I was shopping, I saw this shop having bears for sale. I grabbed some and created this bouquet as in the picture. The cost of material is not very expensive. It is 20% of what the online florist would sell. Hey do you think I can make money selling this in Ebay? How much should I sell it for? I want to rent some Ebay space to test the market.

By the way, it took me only 20 minutes to do a bouquet like that.

This used to be one of my hobbies during my free time. However I have been neglecting it ever since I have 2 hands full. I love making beads stuff. Oh you can also make personal cards with these beads ornaments on top.

My aunt MIL gave loan me this sewing machine. It is an antique as you can see from the picture below. It is a hand sewing machine. I can only sew simple stuff like cushion covers or curtains. I don’t know how to do dresses although I would love to learn but no time. I remember during the old school days, I did sew an apron, house coat and a simple skirt. Yeah I did Home Science and I am proud of it.

Jasmine gave me another idea, she will give me a bean bag pattern to sew. I think I will do that right after this cushion cover project. By the way I have finished one cushion cover and will do another one next weekend. Then I will start on the bean bag. Bean bag are really expensive and over priced. I saw one cloth bean bag selling for > RM150. Maybe I can open a store just to sell bean bag.

I love playing traditional lanterns. You lit up the candles and switched off all the lights. It is very beautiful. When I was young, I love playing with candles. You know what I did? I use can candles with my masak-masak set made of aluminum to cook rice. I will put a candle in between 2 match box, fill the masak masak pot with rice and water, put the pot to sit on the match box and let the candle heat up the pot to boil the water to cook rice. Isn’t that amazing? I was only 5 years old.

Here are some pictures of the beautiful lit up lanterns at my front porch.

My son picked a butterfly lantern and I picked a baby for my gal…