Fabric hand-printing my way!

Phew! At last I'm done with  fabric printing for my group members of Handprinted: A Fabric Swap III challenge. I had an amazing time despite having wasted few meters of fabric beforehand. Hahaha. Anyway it's gonna be a busy day for me at the post office tomorrow, as I'm yet to send out all the parcels for my lovely Rita, Ira, Angela, Jennet, Amy and Rachael. I'm such a queen of procrastination! Sigh. 'Nuff talking and let's talk about my way of doing the fabric painting shall we?

I know there are lotsa tutorials out there for fabric printing and one of the best method is the silk screen printing, where the fabric paint will come out smooth and perfect on the fabric. But apparently I'm a bit lazy to make my own screen so I opt to use a store-bought stencil (got it at cheap price from Spotlight!) and tape it on a piece of baking sheet paper. Creative right? Haha. I then used a sponge roller and roll the fabric paint onto the stencil gently. The result...just perfect! And if you ask me how do I feel about the outcome of it, I must say I'm pretty impress of myself too. Haha. 

Thought of doing more fabric painting for my upcoming flea market event lah. What do you reckon? ;)

P.s.: Crossing my fingers, hoping the ladies will love the fabric as much as I enjoyed doing it! :)

Sew Awesome: Wallet for Husband

Sewn my husband a gift. A handmade wallet inspired by Nati Con La Comicia. Made the pattern myself and self-constructed it and I'm pretty happy with the outcome of it (even though it's not that perfect). And at least I managed to save a good $40 for that. :)

I'm not sure if I need to do a tutorial for that. What do you reckon?

The weekly muses

My breakfast this morning. Malaysian style. Ketupat palas with beef curry. 

My hot chocolate at Manchester Press. 8 Rankins Lane, Melbourne CBD.

Simple but yumm as always. Lunch.

My diy clutch making its first cameo at Proud Mary.

 

Proud Mary Coffee. Husband's long black.

Sauteed beef with risotto for lunch. 

DIY Mini Cake Stand

 I wasn't too keen to use it as my daily-use plate because of its fanciness so I made 6 pieces of mini cake stands out of it. 

Fyi, I bought cheap ceramic mugs (with no handle) and glued it with super bond glue onto the bottom part of the plates and voila! I have myself mini cake stands for me to serve my cupcakes, cakes and cookies for this Raya celebration. :)

Nest

As soon as we touched down from London, they started all the minor renovation for our house. I must say, we're very much satisfied with the end product and we got everything that we want within our very small budget. :)

 

Our humble and small office area.

Inspired by Wondermilk's cafe decor.

Udden kitchen.

A thrift deco for our bedroom. Got to this for a super cheap price of RM10 from Sogo. :)

What we did in Alor Setar

Good food. Nice people. Great wedding.

March's a busy month for us and Fabulous Floral. I'm a bit restless here but then again I'm thankful to god for whatever rezekis that we had right now. :)

And I'm missing Mia, Toby and Riko too. Can't wait to catch our flight back to KL.

Till then, take care peeps. :)

Paperclips & String

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DIY your own earring by using paperclip + string. :)

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Cool and easy sangat.

For full tutorial, please click here. :)

Recycled Gift Bows

Made from magazine

Made from Yellow Pages

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You can click here and here for full tutorials.

I love this cool ideas and I'm thinking nak adapt this awesome idea dekat Fabulous Floral punya gift pack. ;)

And oh fyi, Fabulous Floral has been featured as one of the "50 Blog Pilihan InTrend" too. :)

Cool wrap idea by Tokketok

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I love all her ideas. Brilliant just like this one. :)

 Uses only black/natural color kraft paper + acrylic paint

Fabric covered pots.

So cantik!

HERE is the full tutorial on how to do it. ;)

Seriously I wanna try it out but I think I really need to get myself the mod podge first. Who knows where I can buy it?

Thanks in advance! :)

And Happy Friday peeps.

Coffee Cozy.

I love sewing stuffs for me husband and this is what I came up with before me husband nak pergi jam with his friends. :)

photo credit to: house on hill road

Inspired by Erin Harris from House On Hill Road, you guys can get the tutorial and free template from her website. Do click HERE for the link. 

Till then, Happy Thursday peeps! :)

Printable sewing cards.

photos courtesy: mini-eco

I found this super cool craft for kids. But I too interested to do it just for fun. ;)

For complete tutorial & template (pdf version), you can click here.

Macrame Necklace.

I'm not dependable on me husband but we always do stuffs together. When he's not around I get...all BORED. So I guess it's time for me to pick up reading and sewing and cooking and baking again. 

Therefore I've found this for a starter (see below).

photo courtesy: p.s. - i made this

Guess I really need to figure out on how to weave the string. ;)