art & craft

Weekend

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It was a hustle and bustle Saturday. Shops and hawkers are cranking up with Chinese New Year (CNY) songs and decors are setup at Petaling Street. It seems like everything has happened before. Was it a déjà vu? Nah~ it’s not. We do the same thing every year. We shop for CNY stuffs till the very last minute, as usual. It’s not done yet and will be continued on the following weekends. Woot ~

Textile shop. My favourite shop where I enjoy looking at the patterns, colours, feeling the textures and think what can I do with this and that? It’s so beautiful. I bought 2 pieces of polkadot cloth. Thinking to make a few sets of bean bags (juggling cubes) to juggle. That’s gonna be my next handcraft work. Yay !!

polkadot

It was a beautiful Sunday but we did not climb. We spent precious time at home with mom and dad and best of all, we made these juggling cubes. Our team work performed pretty well. Thanks, Abner. Let’s keep it up.

juggling cubes

And let’s see who juggles better and the winner wears the pants !! Woohoo ~~

Art of Nature

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moodboard_nature

Many designers, artist and poets inspired by the beauty of nature. The drifty cloud in the sky, crystal-clear and blue water, white sandy beaches, gentle sunshine, the amazing sunrise, sunset, moonlight, woodland, the peaceful sound in the forest, forest insects, the greenery of trees, wild plants, flowers and et cetera. How can I forgotten about the sea world. The friends in the sea. The cetacean I’m dying to meet. The Nature, a most wonderful creation of God leaves me absolutely mesmerized. It’s my biggest influence.

I’ve compiled some photos taken from my trips to various places and created an inspirational mood board that I’m gonna use for some upcoming projects. So now I am going to get my painting done and I shall start a new one soon. 🙂 Have a nice Tuesday !!

Soft Toy Postcard

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Evonne: Mel, come and see this!! I bought a few of it.

And so it catched my attention. For the first time I got sooo excited over soft toys. Soft toy postcards that it is. I was at the rotating slat panel display for about 15-20 minutes, choosing for my favourite ones with fascination. I really like the idea where recipients can peel the cloth off and turn it into a soft toy. It’s so adorable. 🙂

I wanted to get a giraffe and a whale but it was out of stock. 🙁 So I got the pink elephant, monkey, lion and t-shirt rabbit at TWD4 each if I have not mistaken. You can check out the website here for more varieties.
soft toy postcard

And this cute little pink elephant is now in good hand. Hohoho ~

Incomplete

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painting

I have yet to complete with this painting. I wanted to finish it so badly but I’ve got emails. Loads of them. Am getting nervous as I have gotta tie up some, some? hmmm some loose ends before my holidays. Fingers crossed that I can finish this over the weekend. *cross…cross…cross…*

And yeah, am excited at the same time too but I have not get my stuffs prepared and have not packed for my trip just yet. My oh my… am in a very ‘kelam-kabut’ and beatles mode now. *grinzzz*

Thank you. Noted.

melanie

handmade wedding cards

So I got back from Singapore like a month back. The wedding reception was great, fun, full of laughter, *whisper* and tears too. Albeit the trip was kinda hurry-scurry, but it was really a nice one.

And here you go my new set of handmade cards for the newlyweds. Painting the little birds was fun as I always love doing it to bits.

Another weekend is coming very very soon. Have a nice and creative one y’all !!

Back to the 60s

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I personally agree that polka dot will not get out of vogue no matter what the trend and era is. Yup, it’s so famous back in the 60s. I’m not sure if I have ever mention that I got inspired by the 60s. The decade that brought us flower power, hippies, bell bottom, hot pants, mini skirts, polka dot, Audrey Hepburn skinny jeans, Beatles suit for the men and the list goes on. Where were you when all these were happening? If a genie could grant me a wish, I wish that I could turn back time and live in the 60s. *Erm… can I have more wishes ??* 😛

While I was experimenting some new flowers for my accessories projects, I realized that my obsessions have recently expanded to involve headbands. I’ve the designs of the headband sketched. Done some drafting and finger crossed things will turn out well.

The elastic headband below is 100% handmade of polka dot and solid navy blue cotton. With the perfect match of the newly-experimented-flowers, it brings everything to perfection.

chomelle_polkadot_headband

Oopsy daisy… pictures to come later.

Have a lolli-lollipop Birthday!

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I would like to say thank you to an ol’friend of mine, Joanna for her trust in me and giving me such a great time to create a scrapbook as a birthday gift to her hubby, Brian.

It was fun looking for materials, getting the ideas and best of all, I can do some sewing as you can see on its cover. 😀

This book contains sweet memories of the couple and the new journey of life with their new born princess, Ashley. To personalized this impeccable-handmade-gift (ahem), I got Joanna to hand written the poems and messages to Brian on the prepared space. Mmm… mmm… sweet-kan? To enhance the taste of sweetness, there it goes a lollipop made of felt fabric.

A very belated lollipop xxth birthday to Brian !! 😀

birthday_scrapbook

Here’s a song for you. HAHA. Enjoy.

Finally BLACK

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Inevitable, life is like a roller coaster ride. Been riding out the ups and downs for the past 2 weeks. Sincerely appreciate the experience and learn from it, definitely. 🙂

YEAAAP !! Black is my all time favorite color. Am trying to source for more materials to mix and match where my upcoming projects are all gonna be in hair accessories. Gawd… hopefully I don’t need to drag for another couple of weeks to update my post. Fingers crossed.

I’m experimenting a few different kind of flowers and here’s one of it. Black Chiffon Flower on a Double-Elastic-Headband. Am lovin’ it !! 😀

chomelle chiffon flower headband