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A cute letter!

12 Feb 2010

I received a surprise in the mailbox yesterday!

A letter from my son! Lol!

So let’s see what’s inside…

…two cards, err I mean one and a half card that my son wants me to take notice of!

Yassin thought that we can try to save Dodos but little did he knows that Dodos had become extinct before 1700; the last Dodo died a little more than a century after the species’ discovery in 1581.

Anyway, we can try to save the latter. You can ‘adopt’ a rhino HERE.

Note to Yassin: Thanks baby for the reminder!

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so the ladybirds flew…

In: crafts

10 Feb 2010

…but that won’t stop us from making a few that are going to stay right here.

And Yassin jumped to joy and screamed, “Weehoohoo!”

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Got milk carton?

In: crafts

9 Feb 2010

I try not to buy toys for Yassin nowadays coz it would take him less than 5 minutes to spoil them. So what I do is, recycle from what we already have, for example a toy house out of milk carton.

You need a small milk carton, acrylic paints, a brush and a cutter knife. First, you got to glue the opening (where we insert the straw). Paint the top part with brown color and bottom, yellow. Of course you can use your favourite color. Draw a roof pattern on the roof. After it dries, cut out a door and windows. That’s it.

Yassin likes this house very much, instead of putting his cute stuffed toys, he put real ladybirds inside but of course they didn’t like it there and flew away.

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My little model

In: crafts| digital photography

8 Feb 2010

Everything that I do, it’s basic. I use whatever I have, including my own son as my model.

Lol.

Yassin posing with my handmade necklace made out of paper and beads.

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Cheap gift wrapper

In: crafts

5 Feb 2010

Here’s s very simple project for you to make; your own gift wrapper from old newspaper. This is actually done for a craft book I’m working on.

You need:

- Old newspaper
- Acrylic paint (your color choice)
- Ribbon

Instructions:

Take a piece of newspaper (tabloid is the best) and paint whatever you want. Let it dry. Wrap your pressie with your hand-painted wrapper and decorate with complement colored ribbon.

That’s it! As easy as ABC! Even kids can do it! I know you can do better! Come on take your ‘paper lama’ and paint!

I have two pending books to settle by 15th February and have settled one (recycled craft projects) as we speak.The other will be nature projects. Originally, I wanted to write about sewing and gift projects but I changed my mind. Recycled and nature projects seem more interesting. Cheap and easy to construct.

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A cat on a red cushion

In: acrylic

4 Feb 2010

I am painting cats in-between painting flowers; and crafting in-between the in-between. All the in-betweens were done in-between the priority; taking care of my son.

It’s so hard to juggle.

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Art imitates life

In: home sweet home

3 Feb 2010

This eggplant tree is what inspired me to make The Tree decal. I changed the shape of the leaves to make it more simpler and added another hole to the birdhouse and a swing to make it more fun.

The birdhouse? My mom provides the vacant birdhouse so that birds can stop by and perch. She even put food in there. But birds are afraid to come close because we have a cat, not to mention the neighbourhood cats. The closest they perched was on the tree branches.

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Tree Decal in Littleshop

In: Emila's Lilshop

3 Feb 2010

The Tree decal is now available in Littleshop.

Color options available:

I wanted to make the colors clickable via radio button but I am having a headache on how to add it. For the time being, if you like to order, just leave me a note on the color choice upon checkout.