Monday, September 30, 2013

Positive thinking - Try Again

Sometimes truly tired on thinking how to get more people to visit my shop.

Sometimes truly want to stop.

But I just want to have a rest, I never think of giving up!!




More positive thinking ideas in my Pinterest:

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Paper crafts - 2013 Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Show

Besides the plastic bottles big 'lantern' or dome, there were a lot of traditional lanterns displayed in the lantern show.

They were made by bamboo sticks and papers. I think that must be very difficult to make.

At least, that requires a lot of patience to bend the sticks to the shapes that you want and stick the papers to the sticks afterward.

Animal lanterns: deer

 
 
lion, cow

 
 
lovely polar bear

 
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Bottle crafts - 2013 Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns

There was a big lantern show in a park in last Saturday.

After having dinner with our families (we usually eat with family on this festival), we went to watch that.

Wow! The show was amazing, especially this big dome made by plastic bottles!

The outside wall was made by very big plastic bottles, like those we use in office with taps.




Thousands of small plastic bottles were hanged on the ceiling inside it. That looked so grand!

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Paper Crafts - Mid Autumn Festival lantern (1)

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

We will play lantern with my son's little friends tonight.

When my son was 3 years old, studying in Kindergarten, we joined the school lantern design competition.

We made the lantern together.

We used a toy box to make a bus lattern.

On one side, I cut two rows of window. The windows were transparent and thus we can see the light inside.




Monday, September 16, 2013

Printable Coloring Pages - Under Sea / Ocean animals

My son wants to draw a picture for joining a drawing competition at school.

He wants to draw some under sea animals. But he doesn't know how to start.

To give him inspiration, I drafted a picture with pencil for his reference.

I think some kids may also like to color this picture, thus I put it onto the Blog.

You are welcome to print it out for your kids.

As it is drafted with pencil, the color is light. But I had tried to print it out, the lines in the picture is still readable.

Hope that your kids will like this!

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Recycle plastic bottles - Bowling

One day, my son told me that he has never played bowling and wanted to try that.

But playing bowling in Hong Kong is quite expensive and the balls are quite heavy. He may not strong enough to play that.

Suddenly, I remembered that we had saved some empty plastic bottles for crafts. They could be act as the bottles for bowling.

My son enjoys this, lol!

Save two more plastic bottles will make this bowling game perfect!

Monday, September 9, 2013

Kids Crafts - Halloween plastic coasters

I always want to find a kind of home decorations for festivals, which can be reused.

I discover it now! It is the DIY plastic coasters.




In Halloween, I can design related pictures with my son and put them on table as home decorations.



After the Halloween party, I can take the Halloween pictures out, punch a hole, attach a string and make it as a bookmark.

Then, we can redesign our own coasters again with drawing, sewing, photos, colored sand, etc. 

If not using as coasters, I think this can also be used as photo or picture frames. We can stick a piece of cardboard at the back of the coaster to make it stand.

In fact, I think that it is great to give the coasters to guests as souvenirs/ gifts. They must like them!


This is for sale in my shop:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/128942293/4-diy-halloween-plastic-star-coasters?ref=shop_home_feat

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Halloween kids jokes (1)

Halloween will come soon.

Below are some funny kids jokes.

They are funny.

Below are copied from http://www.ahajokes.com/kids_jokes.html, more funny kids jokes there, lol!!

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A vampire joke
What's a vampire's favourite sport?
Batminton!

A werewolf joke
What do you call a werewolf that drinks too much?
A whino!

A witch joke
Where did the witch get her furniture?
From the ideal gnome exhibition!

A skeleton joke
Why didn't the skeleton go to the party?
He had no body to go with!

A cannibal joke
What happened at the cannibal's wedding party?
They toasted the bride and groom!

A ghost joke
How can you tell if a corpse is angry?
It flips its lid!

A demon joke
What do demons have on holiday?
A devil of a time!

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Give one more try!

Like these words.

Never give up!

Try one more time!

Success may be come if you try once more!

 
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Sunday, September 1, 2013

A house for plushy toys

I have some plushy toys bought years ago.

But avoiding them to become dirty, I seldom display them.

Instead, I put them in plastic bags and put into the kitchen cabinets.

One day, when I cleaned the cabinets, I discovered them.

I let my son have a look of them.

Out of my surprise, he likes them so much and asked me to let him play them. (Oh! He is a boy, not a girl. Is that strange??)

Of course, it is OK. Thus I took him out of plastic bags again.


One of them is a small black cat which my boyfriend (now is my husband) bought at Australia many years ago when we studied there.

My son likes that most.

But with limited space, how to store them properly?? He already has a lot of toys.

Looking at the carton boxes that we kept for crafts, I had an idea.

I used a big box, previously used for storing car toys, to make a big house for them.

This box is great as the front part is made with transparent plastic.

By making it into a house, the transparent plastic is just like windows which allows us to see inside.

I made it into 3-storey. Each storey has its door.





Each door has a lock made by rubber band and a thumbtack.

My son likes this house very much.

And of course, I like it too. Because it can help to keep the plushy toys tidy, lol!

Sometimes, saving old toy boxes may be useful not just for crafts, but also for making the place tidy.
Do you agree?   

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