Crafts & Knots...: 2010

Monday, December 20, 2010

Sneak Peek - Gifts To Some Lucky Ones

Nine Lucky Ones are getting some of these and other stuffs from the blog as well. You'll know it when you received it. Merry Christmas

Mini cards for the occasions

Handphone Chain

Floral Earrings

HairClip in Pink Spring

Winner of Christmas KeyRing/Zipper Pull!

Congratulations to the four winners of the Christmas Give-Away! Here they are, with slight variation with one another

Hope you all like it!

Anna's - For being the first to the site and responded by mail

Clara's - For being the first to respond on the site (Sorry, I ran out of the Girl in pink dress)

LeeSan - For responding on the site as well

Sze Chean - For erm...coz you said I wasn't fair since you were travelling & you couldn't respond in time :P Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Everyone Again. Thanks for responding!

Monday, December 13, 2010

Rising of the Sun - Promise of the Day's Possibilities

Between Sunrise and Sunset, which makes you appreciate life more? I must admit, that I'm not much of a morning person. Yet, there is nothing as beautiful as sacred as the sunrise at the break of dawn. Waking up with the sun hitting the room through the window with the aroma of coffee caressing the nasal, seeping through my lungs, makes a great start of a brand new day. Waking up was never about yesterday or what has past, although it may alter who you are before. Waking up is not about tomorrow, although it may be planned. Waking up is about today, and what you do today, changes yesterday and tomorrow. Today is a brand new day, promise of the day's and future possibilities.

Rising of the Sun - Promise of the Day's Possibilities

Made the tag with stamps that I've just received in the mail.

Noticed that I've distressed the edges in Faded Jeans

Brand New Day Tomorrow....

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Christmas KeyRing / Zipper Pull

Silly Me! This is for Christmas too and I forgot to upload it in the previous post. Anyway...Who should I give this to?

Its a KeyRing or Zipper Pull depending on what you use it for

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is the best time of the year. Through I'm not Christian in any way, we Malaysian celebrates everything. And I love Christmas the most like most people because it is time for year end bonus and time to clear balance leave for the year.

It is also time when children ask Santa for gifts and the adults pay for them. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Oh Well, I'm neither a child nor do I want to be an adult just yet.

So Merry Christmas Everyone! Hope you get lots of love, happiness and abundance of joy this festive season.

This is for you Cheng Li

Bracelet Watch!

Its a Bracelet & a Watch! Inspired by When Flowers Bloom

A Sunny Pot of Flowers

You know the feeling you get when you've finally found what you have been hunting for? High and low? To the end of the world might I say?

Well, I have been hunting every store, every site possible to get my hands on Tim Holtz Tattered Florals here in Malaysia. There is none! And those sites carrying the dies either do not shipped it here due to customs complexities and duties or just too expensive to shipped. Alas, I said to myself, no matter how costly it is, I MUST GET MY HANDS ON IT! And I've got it!! WooHoo!

So Here's what I've made in November (a few things actually but the Internet at home just had to throw some tantrum and wouldn't let me upload). Anyway, It is Hoon's birthday and the Tattered Florals came just in time. So I made her a sunny pot of flowers with the die and my cuttlebug machine.

Tadaa! A Sunny Pot of Flowers!

Here's the flower pots made from Coffee Brown Cardstock and I ran them through the Cuttlebug Machine with the Swirls Folder. Made the crown of the pot with Martha Stewart Doily Lace Punch

And the flowers is definitely a Tim Holtz production

And that is where the Birthday message should go; on the stem of the bunches, hidden in the pot.

So Happy Birthday Hoon with a sunny pot of flowers from morning till night. May your birthday be as bright as the flowers and as the years grow, may your happiness grow with it and never wither.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Happy Diwali 2010 Friends!

As the festival of lights. is approaching near, here's three cards I've made for the three Indian colleagues who sits around me every weekday. For most of the hindus/Indians and working class, this is the biggest festival and the day when they want to be with their families and perform the prayers together in their homes.

So wishing, Mara, Wanan and Jason a very Happy Deepavali, 2010. May the festival of lights be the harbinger of joy and prosperity. As the holy occasion of Diwali is here and the atmosphere is filled with the spirit of mirth and love, here's hoping this festival of beauty brings your way, bright sparkles of contentment, that stay with you through the days ahead.

Best wishes on Diwali and New year

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Summer Butterflies Earrings & Bracelet in Purple

September is always the month of gift. There will be plenty of birthdays, celebrations, events and happy thoughts. And purple seems to be rather popular in August and it has been carried over to the month of September too. August has been a tough month with more negative energy than usual, but the antidote to fifty enemies and negative energy is a chat with a good friend.

Here's to you and your gf, Meekhall, Summer Butterflies Earrings & Bracelet in Purple & matching bracelet. And yes, you get a free handmade card too.

All Things Pearl Earrings

It has been raining heavily lately; and it is just the start of September. I wonder if the world has gone mad with the weather having tantrums and not following nature's usual time. Or maybe it is just a manifestation of the earth unusual way of showing its supremacy & influence towards living things. Then again, having some rain every day can be therapeutic in some ways. The after-showers seems to always bring new hue to the sky and a feeling of a new beginning.

In any case, rain always calms me down and I could enjoy the simplest thing in life..A cup of hot coffee/caffeine and pretty pearls in soft hues.

All Things Pearls Earrings in Pure White

All Things Pearls Earrings in Soft Pink

All Things Pearls Earrings in Amber

All Things Pearls Earrings in Lavender

Saturday, August 28, 2010

August Sneaks by! Yikes!

Every August sneaks by before I even realized it. In fact every month passes by before I even enjoyed it. Panic sets in and I scrambled to cram whatever and however many stuff I want to do, create and experience.

I couldn't sleep one of the nights coz it was so hot even with the air-con on. I guess my body has been deprived of rest and does not recognize it anymore and it is showing rejection towards soft bed, pillows and comforter. Even the giant bear doesn't recognize me. :( Feeling oddly active, I got up, went through my drawers of stuff and made myself a bracelet. I'm not sure why I picked purple again, I think its a phase...or maybe because I was thinking about mangosteen; speaking of which I have not sinked my teeth into any one of these purplish fruit with a snowy white juicy plump flesh yet.