Kids craft - beaded bongsai tree

The Chinese New Year is getting close...

(This year...CNY falls on 10th of Feb 2013)

I'm busy cleaning and clearing the house.

Jojo and Mei Mei are sort of free...

They are running  and playing around the house when I WAS HOUSEKEEPING!!!

and this make me SICK!

So, when I found some packs of old beads...and strays of craft wire...

I remember a nice DIY I saw in the Pinterest...

via

(Check out the link for the detail step by step DIY.)

I think this is beautiful piece of arts.

So, I took a piece of rock and tie up the wire...and pass it to the girls...

This is what they accomplished after I finished cleaning the first and second floor...

(about an hour ....)

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!

My 'pumpkin' project...

Pumpkin seems to fill the pages of Pinterest lately

Jojo and I can't help but to try our hands

to do something related to 'it'.

And we did a minutes DIY today...

I always adore decor in small scale

So, in the beginning, 

we try to source some some baby pumpkin

from local stores and markets...

But...no luck.

And pumpkins are not cheap too..

So, this morning when I was busy filled up the groceries stock in the kitchen

Jojo gave me a big shout when she came into the kitchen.

"MOM!!! PUMPKIN!  BABY PUMPKIN!"

I was thinking "What the ...until I saw what she was pointing at...

Those white garlic I just bought from the market.

Yes, some of them do have the looks of a mini size pumpkin

and with the help of some imagination ... I guess it's possible...

You gotta believe this and try it yourself too!

Remember this 'thing' which I share with you some times ago?

Did you  manage to guess what it is?

or what it could have made from?

Well, it a 'faux stainless steel' thing which I 'discovered' 

unintentionly when I...

 

...decided to have a "Ramen" for a quick lunch...

Ramen to "Faux stainless steel"?

Yup, I couldn't believe too but it's really looking pretty good

and much easier and better than the faux mirror mosaic 'invention' I done previously.

I need to emphasis again...It's really SUPER DUPER EASY!

Here is the 'newest crap invention'...

Open up the ramen wrapper...

Have a potato chip and save the tube...

Wrap the wrapper around the tube...

check the 'grain' of the foil...length wise and width wise give different impact!

I found mine is perfect when wrapped it length wise.

Don't pull the edge too tight when fixing the wrapper onto the tube,

slightly pull and pinch the pattern will 'come out' by itself!

How? Why?  I don't know?  Try it and you see!

The result is absolutely stunning...

just like a new piece of stainless steel object.

Not camera tricks guys... what you see is absolutely original!

I don't have any idea what to do with it yet...

I don't really need any 'stainless steel' vase at the moment...

What do you think?  What possibilities can I transfer this idea into?

Just feel happy and clueless looking at them...

"Start by doing what's necessary;

then do what's possible;

and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

~St. Francis of Assisi~

Hope this super crap stuff inspire your day!

Love

PC

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My greatest joy of blogging is finding new friends who share the same interest with me and blast me with their 'out of the box' ideas!  My second favorite is to read comments.  I love comments, positive or negative ones...it doesn't matter - I just love to know how they feel when they read my posts and saw what 'craps' I did.

The post which I received the most feedback is my "There is a will...there is a way...", about how I came about a sequins sunburst mirror.  I got so many compliments from this piece and so very good comment.  The mirror is indeed awesome but how many of the viewers will really do it?  And there are comments too that a mirror is only a decor and not must functional...The method is simple but kind of time and patient consuming... I absolutely agree with all these opinions..

So, dear friends.... how about an 1 hour diy, real simple, easy and functional version of the sunburst stuff?  Something like this...

A sunburst clock  

(clock is much more functional 

and I bet everyone have a simple clock like this one)

I get mine from Ikea

cheap material on hand

a roll of polypropylene ribbon

Simply roll it up into a bow.

Make lots of them....I made 12 large and 12 small ones

Stick them together with a double side tape...you can be 

creative with the pattern...the ribbon is very flexible and easy to handle.

Fold it into any pattern you prefer...

Stick them onto the clock..

Hmmm....I guess I should paint the clock frame with some gold color..

now...what do you think?

Have a nice day!

Thanks to all who stop by

and 

help me share the craft joy around...

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PC

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