Charm Swaps

I was browsing through my favourite shops on Etsy, and I came across the blog of one of the sellers. Noticed on the side navigation that she joined Just Simply Charming. I clicked on the link and was immediately stunned.....

The awesomeness!!!!!

How this GORGEOUS bracelet came about? The hostess, Ruth Rae, organised a charm swap sometime late of 2006. There were 24 artists and crafters altogether in this project. Each one of them made 24 identical charms, according to their liking and preference. They then send them all to Ruth, who compiled each of the 24 different charms into a bracelet. There were 20 or so identical bracelets, which Ruth sent out to each of the contributors.

I so want this bracelet! The blog dedicated to this project, Just Simply Charming, was written by Ruth, and there are amazing tutorials on how to make each of the charms, contributed by the artists. There are progress reports too. :) Neat eh?

Besides this project, Ruth organised an earlier Fabric Charm Swap, also with the same concept. Check out each individual charm on her Flickr set. I'm just overwhelmed by the beauty of each piece.

I love this concept of different artists coming together to make something so wonderful. I hope I'll get the chance to participate in such a charm swap next time. :)

Strawberries Explosion Kawaii Grabbie

Yesterday night, I was suddenly very inspired to create more felt crafts. After all, we B1/06 just completed our 2nd class test paper : Pharmaceutics. There are still 3 more weeks to go lah, with 4 more papers. :( *Patience, patience*

I had in mind a few days ago to compile a strawberry-themed kawaii grabbie. And I proceeded to make a 2-strawberries embellished felt pin/brooch yesterday night. Continued making 5 strawberry-patch-themed 1-inch felt pin/brooches this afternoon. Included kawaii stickers and origami hearts. :)

Check out the listing in my Etsy shop :

Strawberries Explosion Kawaii Grabbie :

Hah.... Felt really productive la.... Still am feeling that. Probably will make more stuff tomorrow, IF I'm satisfied with my revision-studying outcome! :P

Tonight, just now, I went with my cell-group friends to a steamboat place at Sunway. The place's name is something like Yuen's Steamboat, and it's a 3-storey corner shop, with each floor accomodating around 20-30 tables that can take 12 people at each. And wah-lau! Packed like mad lah that place! Nasib Philip (our cell-group leader) booked a table for us. *Phew*

The food is good. I especially like the kuih talam and coconut-covered sago kuih, as well as the coffee agar-agar (jelly). *Typical me la - dessert lover*. There's a wide variety of steamboat ingredients for us to choose from - seafood, frozen meatballs, fishballs, all that kind of thing, tofu products, dried noodles, veggies (fresh and fermented) and loads more. There's also a selection of cooked food such as fried rice and beehoon (fine noodles), and masak merah (Malay-style chicken with masala, lemon-grass). And the famous BARBEQUE CHICKEN WINGS.

I tell you, the chicken wings kena sapu like mad. Once a new batch of wings arrived at the buffet table, people went fighting for it. Actually digging at the stainless steel container with plates! Without even bothering to use pincers, spatulas ar any form of decent food-collecting equipments. They just used 2 plates - a plate to shovel the wings into the other plate! I mean, walau! No need like that gua! One whole stainless steel container full of chicken wings suddenly became a container with only grease stains left. And what's more, people were actually lining up waiting for the next batches of wings to arrive! Walau!

But of course, there's a reason for those people doing that la. :P The wings were truly SEDAP man! Nice nice NICE! Mmm.... :9

I found that it's a great thing, going out with friends just to makan (eat). Love the atmosphere - it's relaxing and I felt no stress. :) Should do that more often. :)

Can you feel the LOVE?

Woke up this morning to a fine warm sunny day. Lazed around for bit. Then decided to do something crafty.

Lovely Wall Hanging

Yes, it is lovely - it is made of pink origami hearts. The card stock (brown and red) is actually a card box for cakes, from Secret Recipe. I cut off the top lid for use in this piece. The striped paper is one of the Pocky wrappers I've stashed just a few days ago. And the metallic pink hearts are folded origami-style using the Strawberry Chocs (Meiji) wrappers. :) For hanging and extra touches, I cut strips from a red plastic bag and tied them at the respective places. And the two white strips hanging from the end (attached two hearts) are actually wires that mostly come with new electrical items - used to bind the cables.

Yup. This whole thing is made from junk. :D