Crochet Lariat

I love accessories even though I am not good at wearing them. I am a clumsy person and necklaces get caught onto something, rings will scratch myself, ear studs also end up lonely without a partner... But I love them.

I decided to make nice long lariat which is very versatile for the wearer... you can have it long, short, choker-like, bracelet and even as a nice teeny-weeny belt...

These two here are put up for sale... Each will be priced at S$8 (postage not inclusive).

Gold Caribbean

Tan Caribbean

Please send me an email if you are interested.

Snap Purses

Thanks to Serene, who had ordered the crochet rose hair ties, I started planning for the up coming Teachers' Day gifts.
I had always wanted to do the little snap purses but because I do not have a wide variety of fabric, so it will not turn out as cute as those that I had seen online. So I decided to make one out of yarn. Searched the net for a pattern but yielded nothing but nice pictures of other crochet snap purses.
Since this weekend is the examination prep week, I am home bound with two princesses, one is still nursing her asthma (although not whizzing but has to be under close obersavtion) and the other is having a battle with her revision. So I started to try out in my own and I made one!
It is really simple looking... will improve on the pattern and then add on the designs, such as buttons, lace flowers, crochet flowers...

Here is the one I tried this afternoon.

Crochet Rose Hair Ties

I made cute little hair ties for my princesses.

FOR SALE

Each one is about an inch in width.

Will cost only SGD$1 each.

It is good as goodies bag filler for a little girl's birthday for her girlfriends.

It beats filling in with sweets that will spoil the teeth.

Drop me an email if you are interested.

Rustic Lilac

Rustic Blue

This is also a little step into my dream handmade shop.

Will be very grateful for your support.

Thank you very much.

And I finally completed...

these custom ordered crochet bags!

And I had difficulty sharing it here at Blogspot.
I do not know why but uploading of pictures failed like 4 times... I gave up.
So please follow the link below to take a look.

WENCRAFTING

Anyone there???

Seems a bit quiet here at the blog ...
Seems like my friends have gone off to other places...
Well... life goes on.


First up... Superpig's birthday was last Friday.
He went to work as usual and he did hint about a cake.
The night before, we were at a minimart and he said,"You need to replenish your baking stuff?"
I did not think much of it until Friday afternoon itself and realised that he hinted for a birthday cake.
So I baked... and this is a chocolate eggless butterless cake.




It was perfect for Aver.
It was good enough just that I cut the sugar down a lot so it was not as sweet as a cake should be.
Aver loved the cake a lot as she was simply thrilled that she could eat one.
Ash loved it too as she was involved in the baking.




Then there is a little girl, C, whose birthday falls behind Kenny's.

So I made her a bag.

I made another one for her little sister, C, whose birthday was a lot earlier (which I had forgotten...sorry)

I hope they like the bags.

Crochet Bags

Spent quite a lot of time on these bags.

Almost 10 to 12 hours over 2 days for each bag.

I love it... but they are not ready all done yet.

There is still the inner drawstring bags to be made.

The design is still going through my head.

The bare bag

The completed bag


The green crochet ruffled flower
The second bag with a longer handle

The blue crochet fuffled flower

What do you think about them?

Crochet and Sewn

From an ugly transponder to a lovely item to hang on my neck whilst I am at work.

So if anyone is interested in beautifying your transponder drop me an email.

Oh... I am very proud of it because I designed it myself and it is my first very own pattern.

Next is a blouse I had sewn for myself.

After sewing for my princesses and also other non-wearable items, I finally embarked on a blouse for myself.

I like the blouse a lot and the instruction is rather easy to follow.

I believe there will be more blouses for myself in future.

With regard to the Pay It Forward game, the response is weak but as and when you like to join in just drop a comment here.

Ah Fat, your item is in the designing stage... and thanks for responding to that post.

Crochet necklace for Ash

I was not feeling up to beat for the past week.

Aver fell sick last Friday and she is still running a fever and developed a nasty phlegmy cough.

So since I was stuck at home with her, I made this necklace for Ash.

I have been neglecting Ash due to over tiredness from work and also a demanding Aver.
Ash felt unwanted and had been acting up (partly due to her lack of focus also...).
I am guilty of how I reacted towards her made her feel this way.
Plus, I am turning into my mother, subconsciously, being very sceptical and critical of our own offspring. (Which i was determined not to be but... a long story which I will pour out another time.
So, now I am trying my best to show Ash that i love her just as much as before and that she still a precious gem in my eyes.
So this is for her.

Handphone Dangle

I am selling this little fellow that I have made.

It is a crochet red heart (sweet little thing) with a Doaremon bell attached at the bottom.

Now, you can find your handphone amongst all the stuffs in your bag.

There is only one of this.

Selling price: SD$5

Postage : Free normal postage

If you are interested please drop me an email or leave comment here and I will get back to you.

If you are not interested in buying it, also drop me a comment and let me know why.

I like to know how to improve.

Thanks

Edited to add: This dangle has been bought by a longtime friend. Thank you very much.

My Melody

Remember this?

I started it about a month ago and I was not very sure if I was able to complete this project. I am still a novice in the area of crocheting (actually, I am a novice in almost every skill... no I am not being humble here nor trying to sound like a hyprocrite but after all the blog hopping, I realised that my crafts are so inadequate as compared to them.)

Anyway, I finally managed to complete the crocheting part about two weeks ago and only managed to assemble it yesterday night.

Here is the end product...

I must admit that it is far from the orignal cute My Melody and far from what I expect it to be. But it still has a little bit of its cuteness... As I was about to dispose it this morning, Aver asked for it and held on to it all the way to school. So I guess it was not as bad as I thought.

What do you think?

Re-organising, knitting and new shoes...

My boxes of craft things... these does not include my fabric stash...(faint!)

See how bad I am with my stuff? I have quite a lot of tidying to do and this is only part one...

I re-organised them and put them into need boxes.

These boxes will return to the shelves in the store room.

I decided to teach Ash how to knit...

There she is... trying very hard.

It is tedious for her and after a few rows, the needles are left on the dining table.

Guess she doesn't enjoy crafting as much as me.

Lastly, I prettified a pair of white canvas mary janes.

Just to update on the stuff I have done in the past two days.

Enjoy your weekend!

2 Crochet Sun Hat

One for Aver and one for Ash...

My precious gifts from God.

Crochet Sun Hat

I crochet a sun hat for Aver and am doing another for Ash.

Can't wait to have the both of them wearing it together when we go out into the sun.

However, I do have a problem trying to keep the hat on Aver's head...she will pull it off!

The longest she had a hat on her head was around 5 minutes.

The next time, you will see both girls with similar hats on!

Marco 13/30

Ash asked...

"Mummy, when you are free can you teach me how to knit?"

Wow... finally, she is asking to do one of the crafts that I am doing.
But I don't knit... I crochet.
Coincidentally, I bought a set of plastic crochet hook the previous time at Spotlight with the intention of teaching her to crochet this coming school holiday.

Here are the hooks I bought for her ... Macro 12/30

My Crafting Till Now

I thought I should do a list of all the crafty things that I had done since years ago.

I started with cross stitches but have been neglecting it.
I had tried some Precious Moments designs but I have no idea where they went.
And for those projects that I had completed, I did not frame them up as there was no place for them to be hung up.
These were done some seven to ten years ago.

Then I tried my hands on sewing and started with quilting.
I made a blanket for Aver and then I planned another for Ash.
Although all the blocks had been cut I have yet to sew them yet.
It has been coming to a year.

I moved on to appliques... I did a few bibs for Aver and a few more for friends' babies last Christmas.

After that I started to learn to sew for my two little girls.

I think I did sew a few more but I just do not have any photos to show...

Mental note to myself...take more photos!

Next I tried to sew a blouse for myself but it did not work out.

So there is definitely no photos to show at all.

Then there is the halter top I sewed for Pam.

There are other bits and pieces of things I have done.

Hair clips... or barrettes.

I am starting on another batch and this time I used ribbon embroidery and thread embroidery as designs.

There were also grocery bags.

Tissue cozies...

Diaper bags

There are crocheting too.

And of course, there is the digital scrapbooking.

There... I have lsited down those that I have done in the past few years.

I have a lot of craft supplies sitting in my storeroom waiting for me to turn them into something nice.

Soon... my friends... soon.