Next project???

I think that I've finished up my crafts mood and ran through my patience quota. Not really interested in picking up any thing... but the thing is, I'm also super bored... sigh, I've finished re-reading the Hobbit. So next on the list is the trilogy of Lord of the Rings. And if you've gone through it, you'll know that it is not an easy read, even after 4 or 5 times. Even all 7 books of Harry Potter is much easier.

Or I can
a) watch Black and White... not too interested in the storyline, but one of the better Tdrama I've seen. At least it makes some sense.
b) watch Mr Brain, but however good Takuya Kimura is, it seems like a re-hash of Hero.
c) finally watch First Shop of Coffee Prince (KDrama). I heard that it is a good drama, but somehow, I've been putting it off. Dunno why. Noticed that I've got Tdrama, Jdorama and Kdrama all lined up? Go figure.
d) go make more monster dolls. As Rachel says, I've still got lots of the fabric. So if I do, we'll end up with more pink monsters. Or, I can send the cloth to sis, so that she can go and make one for Sarah... hahahaha, my brilliance sometime do blind me??? Hey, I can't be the only siblings with a death wish, right Sis?

Flower Daisy

Hi I'm Flower Daisy. I am a flower doll. I was born on 10 June 2009. Don't believe me? See my official birth certificate!!!

as written by Rachel Koh

For all it looks, this doll gave me loads of trouble. Deceptively, it started off easy with the hair. So I thought, okaaay, first couple of steps done. The bodice was also do-able, but I made it a little bit too low cut, so had to stick it back on. Hey, this is meant for kids, okay...

But the challenge finally arrived in the form of the skirt. The instructions says that you're supposed to stick the skirt to the doll with the double sided tape provided. Buuuttttt.... they didn't inform you that the double sided tape had a super duper high affinity towards the paper part, rather than to the fabric. Furthermore, it doesn't help that the fabric was extremely flimsy. So there I was the whole night struggling to peel off the paper and the whole tape keeps coming off. Finally, my patience ran thin and enough was enough.. time to call in the big guns! A proper needle and thread, to sew it on!

Well, you're supposed to tape the ribbon over the flower skirt and flowers on the shoulders too, but what the heck, I just PVA glued the whole thing.

The last straw was the fairy wings. The PVA glue was to be used to stick on the hair and the glitter onto the wings using the design template provided. But somehow, I wasn't really thinking things through that day, and used paper underneath it to minimise messiness, instead of plastic sheet... so guess what? The glue seeped through the wings and stuck onto the paper. So I ended up with paper stuck wings! Now that I think about it, it really looks funny. I can laugh now, but I certainly wasn't in any laughing mood that day! Ha! I managed to salvage it by washing away the glue, glitter and paper.

The most important thing was, I managed to convice Rachel that glitter will not stick permanantly to the wings and will shed throughout the house. Then, Grandma will not allow the doll to sleep with Rachel.

All in all, it does look ok.. >_<

Nina

Meet Nina the Monster doll. As a Monster doll, that is why Nina looks the way she does. She has mismatched eyes, a bright orange nose and sewed on mouth. However, Nina likes to look pretty too. That's why she has a red flower on each hand and on its left ear also. She also love her sparkly blue buttons!

Nina belongs to Rachel and she loves Rachel a lot b'cos
* Rachel picked out the colour of the material, agreed upon the flower decoration and the blue buttons.
* Rachel helped mummy to stuff Nina up.
* Rachel named her Nina.
* last but not least, Rachel loves her.

Nina is supposed to have siblings but mummy is not up to it. Let's see after half a year...

Rachel's Lego

As I mentioned in a previous post, I'll try to put up if possible, Rachel's lego creation. This was done last night. According to her, it is a building, but I don't think that it should be built anytime soon.

Here are various views of the same 'building'

The green thing on the left is a tree, while a pyramid is on the right

PS. This should be one of the last post for the time being... last of the spurt, unless, of course, I feel like posting, >_<

Sun catcher

Here goes another previous project. (hehehe, as sis says, I tend to post in spurts ^-^). These few were completed sometime ago. Not too bad, but a tad tedious as I can't just pour the beads onto the segments. I need to use a needle to place each individual bead in its place. Well, as we can't change our character, I'll just have to suffer through it....

This is the first one that I ever did. Can you believe that it was bought in a pet shop in Penang (2007)? Yeah, of all the things to bring back from Penang, and we had a trying time keeping 2 pairs of small hands from helping.


I believe that this was also bought in Penang (2008) also from the same aquarium place. This is easier as the beads are bigger and I convinced Rachel that we should not start on it until we reached Melaka. The smaller hands are now bigger and more difficult to placate... hehehehe, but she's still the cutest, right, sis?

This should be the latest. I've sworn off doing any of these beads again, unless,
a) I'm absolutely bored
b) have absolutely nothing else that I can think of doing.
c) there is nothing else in the shop that I can buy or interested in
d) Or, if Rachel somehow managed to convince me that we are absolutely in a dire need to add to our collection. Hmmm, not very likely as she would rather me doing some other things.

Rachel abstract art

Okie, here's another piece. This is quite recent, just finished 2 nights ago. She drew the lines herself, but requested mummy to help her to colour it, since "my hand is tired and mummy must help me, right? When mummy is tired, I also got help mummy." (drama, drama).

Most of the big spaces coloured by her. Just help her to fill up the smaller squares & triangles. The white spaces at the border is purposely left white as she says she didn't draw anothing there.

Fairy painting

Another project that I completed a few weeks ago. This is another item from 4M (we are fast becoming ardent supporters of 4M products). This piece is easier than it looks. All I've to do is to mix the colours and paint! Simple isn't it? but with the additional help that I have (Mummy, I KNOW how to do it, I know how to paint!) things become a little bit more interesting, like how to cover-up the yellow spot that dropped onto the lower right wings. Unfortunately with the paint that was provided, cannot hide it well. I actually wanted to touch it up a little bit more, but Rachel feeling a little bit left out, was impatient to hang it up NOW!

Rachel's art craft

Now we have Rachel's art. She is quite creative in her own sense. And her 3D view is better than mine. Maybe the next time when she create her robot or monster from Lego or her other blocks (she has 3 different types of blocks!), I'll remember to take a photo and post it up too. She's also quite adept at using tape (lots of tape) to turn simple odds and ends into some toy or items that she can play with. However, she tends to give her grandma headache when she remove all those tapes and stick them to the floor. And I've not started with all her notes that she stuck to the walls...

What do you think?

PS. She is quite excited to see her own art appear on the internet.

Be Happy!!!!

I am pretty (Rachel's caption not mine)

Fan (She stuck an ice-cream stick onto the Mandala that I made and turn it into a fan. If you notice, she did some of the colouring too)

Mermaid - plaster cast

These are plaster casted mermaids from 4M. Looks easy but ended up not too easy. Although the plaster powder that was given can make a few molds, but only the first time worked. All the other times, somehow, I dunno what I did, but it could not hold together, becoming powdery. And being the first time, I couldn't gauge the time it starts to set (very quickly within a few seconds of pouring) and the viscosity even gets higher by the time I pour into the last mold. So, there were a few air bubbles trapped in each. Initially I thought that I'm going to abandon this set but as the other sets didn't work out... well, too bad. Included are acrylic paints and you need to mix the colours to get the secondary colours. Not too bad, I'd say. Hehehehehe...

Individual pics

Mermaid on treasure chest

Mermaid playing the harp

Mermaid playing with the fish

Mermaid on the surf

Mermaid with the pearl



Mermaid with the shell