Tutorial

Some people have green fingers, they are able to plant anything they want, I admire them. I always want to have a small cottage built near a lake, with flowers blooming in the garden. As I mentioned small cottage, have you all noticed a little cafe in Kiulap called "Country Patch"? A place you shall like.

Well, back to the fingers... Unfortunatelly I do not have green fingers, so what kind of fingers do I have then? hehe...

This one is on my desk and I notice that I am not the only one to play with it. I came across this type of calendar not very long ago and actually wanted to make one for my dad, instead I submitted it for the "Green Project" held by CI. Just in case you would love to make one, here are the steps:

I used one of the pizza box ( the one from my monthly kit club ), simply make up your mind for its size, mine one, the base is about 6 1/2' (W) * 6 1/2 '(D) * 6 1/2 '(H). The size of the dice is a 2 1/2' cube.

Now, you use pp to cover them up, I made a slicely bigger cube to house the bare one.

Before you glue pp on to the stand, must punch holes first, measure the hole properly, otherwise you will have problem to put rings through them. I add eyelet on the hole too.

For the month sheets, I all used scraps and used rubon (MF). Now, the last part is to stamp (MM ) the numbers on the cubes. Have you thought over how to do the numbers? To make sure you have no problem to have day 1 to day 31?

I am not an active blogger, I know it takes so long to be mine 100th post, a few RAKs will be given away, so watch out this space, very soon...

This week

The jewel box was actually done right after the crop night in Shabby, but I didn't manage to add any embellishment till today! Keep thinking...

This week is just like any other normal week: busy, busy and busy. Rafeeqa got fever in the week so made my week even busier. She is a strong little girl, takes medicine and gets rest as doctor advised, seldom makes my life harder. I am so proud of her, my little angel. I'm in the process of making a LO specially for her, will post soon.

May is coming, that means a special day for mums is coming too. 4 years ago, I spot a very pretty mother's day card, fell in love instantly with the lovely drawing and the touching words, thought to give to my mum, but I never made it... the card is still in one of my "special box".

The idea of making my own cards started last year, but I wasn't that productive, only manage to finish a few. The thought came back and I finished a few during the week:

Rainbow Magic books

Does anybody out there also know this is the hottest topic amony many of the girls recently? Especially my Renee and her classmates! Since the series came out about 3 months ago, the books become the only thing Renee wants when we go shopping in weekends. Now, she has collected all the weather fairies, some of the pet keeper fairies, colour fairies, jewel fairies, party fairies and holiday fairies, she's kind of like to make a collection of all the books. I have counted the catalog, that will make over 40 books, I will need to spend a lot on that!

The girls like to exchange the books too, so she brings different books to school everyday. To make sure she brings back the book in "good condition", I made her a bag. That piece of old felt was lying in my drawer for at least a year, I bought it to make fortune cookie last new year actually!

Hahaha... now make the perfect bags! Just add a little flower and name tag, it looks so cute and now I think I should make a bigger one for myself just to keep my stuff tidy too.