Decorate the gift wrapper without using ribbons

Baby Jonah is celebrating his 2nd birthday this Saturday, and I just want to quickly wrapped his present and get it off my checklist. Meya insist we do abit of art and craft on the box, I wanted to just laze around and wait for dinner time. But we ended up doing a mini project, It took us slightly an hour. I did not have any inspiration and we tried to find stuff around the house we can use. The felt flowers was cut long ago, was just lying around in my felt box.

Well, it not too bad for something that's not planned :)

King & King's Wong Haul

I received a call from King & King's Wong that I have a $106 voucher I can redeem since its my birthday month, no minimum purchase just need to make sure I take stuff more than the voucher value.

I went down with Eva and Meya and I came back with a cake stand, large serving plate and 4 sets of incense diffuser. I only need to top up $29, of course I'm happy :)


This is not a sponsored post, purely my own opinion.

Flower Brooch for Daylin

I made this brooch some months back when I was on sabbatical leave, I originally wanted to turn into a hairband. That day, when Dawn and kids came over for a play date as well as to pick up Meya's hand-me-downs. I have no one else to pass to and I dont think my plan for having a second kid will ever happen. Oh well, its better to pass to a good friend then to sell the old clothes online. Dawn said the dresses are coming in handy as she needed to attend a wedding in Sept. So, I decided to make the flower into a brooch for Daylin to pin on her dress.

Meya's Woordland Fairy Party - Work in Progress Part 2

It's the Hari Raya long weekend, which gives me some time to put more things together for the party.

Fairy in apothecary jar
I added the small pebbles for the bottom of the base, then filled it with green moss, then I added the twigs, bigger pebble. I bought the fairy from The Better Toy Store at Ngee Ann City for $12.90. So happy it was the right size for the jar. I wanted to take photos of the steps taken to built the jar, but halfway I was distracted by Meya's persistent coughing. So when I came back to the task, it totally slipped my mind.




Goodie bags for the little boys
I used the sushi decor for the grass and hand-cut the printed mushrooms. This year, I have a little helper, she helps me to add glue onto the sushi grass and mushrooms :) I made thank you pegs using the leaves we collected from the playground.

Meya's Woodland Fairy Party - Work in progress

Less than one month to go, we actually talked about having a fairy party last year. Luckily, I still kept the woodland fairy's mood board, just need to go into action.

Last Saturday, I managed to get convince HB to drive us all the way to IMM Daiso, and I found some stuff not found in other Daiso.

grass mats

wooden sticks (pack of 4)

After Daiso, I was still whining on and on that I can't find any mushrooms, HB suggested going to Far East, I was ecstatic so that afternoon, we made a trip to Far East Flora and Ji Mei and I finally found my mushrooms :)


Dried Flowers - $18 Far East Flora

Mushrooms - $7.90 Jimei

Twig Fence ( i dun noe what to call this) - $7 for 5 pcs !!!

Preserved Green Moss - $3 Jimei
Brown Straw - $1.40 Far East Flora (to make bird nest)

Cat Socrates

HB wanted to get some weights over at Bras Basah Complex, I was kinda reluctant to go but I was in for a surprise cause I discovered a very cute whimsical shop called Cat Socrates on level 3. It was paradise for me, I instantly picked up an iphone cover of Eiffle Tower upon walking into the shop. Love at 1st sight :)

They sell all sorts of shabby chic and zakka mix of nic nacs, my kind of shop. One corner, they dedicate it to lomo cameras, with camera bags, books and rows of postcards. The stationery corner is just as amazing with the array of notebooks, luggage tags, stickers etc etc. I can go on and on, but if you are into etsy kind of stuff, just go on down, it wont be a wasted trip. Its a perfect place to pick up gifts for Christmas, and if you are buying me a pressie, you can go there too :)

Obviously, I cant walk out empty handed, heh heh heh. I bought 2 picture frames, 1 iphone cover and 2 porcelain birds.

www.catsocrates.com.sg

(This is not a sponsored post, purely based on my 2 cents worth)

What to do when you ran out of ribbons

We are going to a little boy's birthday party this afternoon, after wrapping up the pressie, both Meya and me wanted to use blur ribbons. Unfortunately, I have none left in my crafts cabinet. We had to improvise, we took out some paper and sticker and ta dah, photo below.
Have a great week ahead :)