TP rolls toy Binoculars - easy n cute

Today is Mei Mei arts class again

This week her homework is TP rolls binoculars...

After browsing through Pinterest...

She still not happy with the samples she found...

So, this is her creations after some 'upgrade' from

what she learn from the internets...

She did it within an hour.

Yes, she is very proud of her works

and so am I.

She used some old strings which I salvaged earlier from

old drinking bottle (the green and blue ones)

Cut some flower shape cardboard...for the 'lens'

wrap the lens with large roll of sticky tape / cellophane tapes

to make an 'easy instant ' lens'  glass.

Connect the tp rolls with a empty staples bullets box.

wrap with color paper and decor with washi tapes.

Add to little cute eraser owls to enhance the 'watch out' level.

Love it!

How to keep your cabbage fresh and crunchy for months without fridge!

I love to prepare veggies for dinner.

And weather in fresh market or shopping mall

veggies is always cheaper when you bought in whole or per package quantity.

My family love veggies...but we certainly unable to

finish on whole cabbage in a day.

And when I stored the leftover cabbage in fridge.... it always turn 'soft' and 'sleepy'!

So, this is my solution

In this way, some say by this method, the cabbage can last for 3 months...

I'm not sure about that...but I'm certainly sure it would last for 1 month...because mine did!!!!

Tutorial - Easy Kids Craft - "Tie" Sponge Cat / Bear?

Evey Wednesday, Mei Mei's school have art class.

This morning, her teacher asked the class to bring a list of material to for the art class...

Some rubber bands

A ractangular sponge of any color

some ribbon or lace,

buttons, stickers, anything for decoration

She ran through my stash and took whatever

that interest her.

So, this is what she bought back from school.

Jojo's art class homework - Making Art from Nature

Hi! 2015 is full of suprise...

good and bad

Well, today I would like to share

Jojo's recent art class homework

"Making Art from Nature"

The class is asked to produce an art piece

with natural material.

With only 1 night lead time

we have limited material on hands

and here is what she came out with

Paper Model - Sheep - Free Template and Instruction

New Year Inspiration - Keep on reuse

Drinking bottle to Thread Storage....

Brilliant!!!

source : blogland

2015 Chinese New Year Goat Lantern

Every pre-Chinese New Year,

Jojo's school will ask each student to submit a lantern

made of red packets to hang in the school hall.

As this year is the year of goat / sheep...

we thought we should try something

more fun than making the ordinary Chinese lantern.

Jojo found a very interesting website from Japan which

have tutorial and PDF template to make

a paper model Sheep

here is the link 

http://papermodel.jp/eto.html

With some modification

this is what she came out at last.

After finish the paper model sheep

she added some red packets which pre-cut into

round shape and pasted on the sheep'body'

She also added a pair of 'horn' for the sheep.

DY hand corsage for sister wedding day!

Received a request from my sister

to prepare some wrist corsage for her bridesmaids

on her wedding day!

So glad to have a good reason to craft again!

Congrats to my sister wedding

and Hooray for me!

I spend days browsing Pinterest for ideas...

but my sister prefer some simple and retro one...

I absolutely have no idea.

These are some of my "works" today...

What do you think?

3 old T-shirts = one new tops

Make your hip look thinner with one simple easy trick!

Yup!

No kidding!

With one simple easy trick!

Just add a split at one side of your long tee...

Like this!

Old Plastic Pot to Sea Stone Covered Pot!!! Tutorial

Yeah!  My first DIY on 2014.

I've lots of plastic pot in my garden...

Most of them came from my purchase of plants from the nursery...

Plastic pots are nice and cheap...but they don't stand long in

a hot and wet weather here...and they turn brittle very fast.

But...I don't give up or throw away things easily...

So, I turn them into these ...

I made this pot with some leftover grout and sea stone/sand I collected

during my visit at the beach.

This is how I begin.

#1 Mix the grout with some water...

the mixture need to be thick and sticky.

Spread the grout onto the pot....I've mine about 1cm thick!

(take note...the grout may fall off if the thickness is too thin!)

Hold the pot upside down when you do this,

it will be lot easier.

Move the pot side to side and spreading the grout as you go.

#2 - Pour the sand stone over the grout.

Press them firmly into the grout.

#3 - Dry them under the sun 

DONE!

Cost ...

Old plastic pot from plants purchase - $0

Leftover grout - $0 ~ 0.50

Sand stone - Free

Hope you like it!

xoxo

PC

Yeah! First party for this year at... 

Back to school project - cute animal and smiley paper clips

A cute little DIY  idea to brighten up the little one when they is school.

Saw these in the online shop...but I bet with a little paint pen or

nail polish...this can be a very fun minutes DIY projects with

the girls.

Cute and fun clothes pins...

Remember the last post about the cute little pink cats I showed you?

Well, this is what is all about....

They are clothe pins!

LOL...so cute...

Love

PC

Template for making ribbon flower...

Just bought a templates set for easy ribbon flower making.

Check it out...

Use the smallest one for making the top layer.  The 'star' shape is for the second layer.

And the biggest one is for the bottom layer.

Making ribbon flower is really easy and fast now!

Here is a diagram of the template...

1 minute DIY - Plastic Bottle Reuse

I'm busy...as always...

all SAHM are the same...

but...trash to treasure ... is something I do everyday!

today sharing a very brilliant  trash to treasure project...

Plastic bottle turn TB rolls hanger.

inspired by forum friend

Have a nice day!

Love always,

PC

Ribbon flower tutorial

Buzzy day......

making lots of these.....

Thanks for drop by...

Love

PC

Trash to Treasure - Slap roll wristband to Glamorous sock bun wrap around!

Hi!  I'm back!

Yes, life is busy here, and I believe yours  too!
It have been months I let this blog ‘cooled'...
and now it that to 'pay back'!

This is today project

5 minutes + zero cost - 'Fix' a torn cushion cover!

Well, no matter how sweet and innocent my two little girls look to you...

they could be 'devils' at some times.

No?  You don't believe me?

Look what they done to my 5 years old sofa ...

I don't know how they did it...bite it? ...scratch it?

(and I have no other pet in the house...or out the house...)

I love the sofa cover very much, and since it was 5 years old since I last 

bought it...it was hard to get the same fabric for redo.

I have been hunting high and low for a matching fabric but

nothing comes close to it's original color, pattern or fabric texture.

And the worse part is...even though I get the right fabric...

I'm not confident at all I been able to do such a fine job to

sew a new cover...the particular one that torn is a "L" shape cushion...

making  a normal 'square' one already challedge my sewing skill, I'm afraid!

Before thinking of sewing a new one...

I have tried to sew the broken yarn together with some matching thread...

and I end up..sew the cushion and the cover together!!!

And the torn looks even worse!

Jojo and her 'shapes' assignment!

Last evening, Jojo 'bring' a last minutes assignment from school...

TITLE

"Creatively combine 3D shapes into an item"

Honestly...I love 'handwork' and project require creativity and imagination...

but...one evening notice...Urghhh..... 

Do I have any problem?

Not really...but I just send a big batch of paper, carboard...etc to the recycle centre...

Why...whenever the trash bin in cleared????

What ever...

At last...Jojo made it...

(with a little help from me...I just love to participate in craft work project!)

We manage to clear out a shoe box, some bottle caps, 

cardboard and some biscuit wrapper...

Here it is...

No...it's not a house...

(someone in the class has taken this idea )

is not a building...

(mama don't have enough box of different shapes...:p)

is not a robot...

it's a.....

Camera!!!

can you see the box from candles and

the little square one is the squash ball box.

the lens is a potatoes chip cylinder tube

My 'new' old earrings...refashion with 'junk'!

Oh!  I got an invitation for a dinner...
is good news... except...

IT'S  TONIGHT!!!