Wool Felt Christmas Bell 羊毛聖誕鐘

Christmas will be around soon . Last Sunday I tried making some wool felt Christmas bells. These are what I've made.
I did the wet felt bells and the needle felt pendants of owl, bird and hen.

This is the first one I made. Personally find this owl cute.

A hatching hen is nice as well ?

The day I went up the Stanley Park overlooking the South China Sea. The carved words on the stone mean "Admiring the Wave". I picked up a dry branch. It's good for the owl to stand on.

Here it looks like

I put the big branch in the vase to hold the felt hat I learnt in England. It's a kind of decoration. Looks good, right?

We're into autumn now. The season I love best, dry and crispy.

Nature is full of inspiration and creation. But nature can be a great destroyer. Today we've typhoon - a super typhoon is approaching. Hope it wouldn't hit too much.

Decoupage and wool crafts tuition swap 玻璃拚貼與羊毛手工藝交流

What a fruitful session for us ! Eva and I swapped crafts tuition last Sat. She's good in decoupage and was so kind to show us to make decoupage on a glass plate with the effect of cracks also to make decoupage on a bag.

Eva specially made me this glass plate with a beautiful rose and cracking effects. Judy said the rose just like "coming through a wall ".

Loving it and big hug to Eva.

I made this one with the pretty napkin paper. Just love the pink & purple blossoms. Thought this original painting is a master piece of a famous painter. Who can tell me who's it?

Decoupage on bags - transfer napkin papers onto a cotton bag.

See how lovely they are. Simply like printing on the bag.

They're washable !

After the session of decoupage. It's my turn to show Eva how to make a wool coated soap and bangel bracelet. These are what they look like.

First wrapped a thread of the same size of a bracelet with wool. Soaked in water and rubbed around it till the shape come out. Then took out the thread and full to the desired size.

The girls made these. They said they're not good in needle works. Well, my pleasure to do the embellishments.

I stitched with some lace flowers, glass beads etc. Girls do you recognise which one is yours? Do you love them?

The idea of making a wool felted bangel bracelet from this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJIo0dkqdC0&feature=related

Our gorgeous - we wish you thriving and tough 心肝寶貝, 願你茁壯成長

My nephew Mathew's daughter Hei-hei. She's tough and won the battle.

The night two months ago my niece Rhoda called me in distress that her brother Mathew's 21-month old daughter Hei-hei was in hospital for liver failure and asked if I know any medication can rejuvenate it. I was shock to learn it. The failure was all in a sudden just a week when she got a flu and seen doctor. She has taken some medicine contained panadol. The virus or the side effects may have attacked her liver. I’ve no such medical knowledge and immediately called my pharmacy friend for advice. He said it’s a critical issue and the girl was in ICU and the consultant doctors were taking tender care of her. Let’s give the hands to doctors.
Next day the little girl was transferred to intensive care at Queen’s Mary Hospital where the liver treatment is renowned. She’s in coma with tubes and fatal. Doctor suggested to have liver transplant immediately. It’s critical and running against time. The siblings are bond and were tested for blood type and physical checks. Found daddy’s was compatible though fatty liver and it’s the only choice and can't wait. Time is life and transplant was immediately followed. Days after the operation the girl was still in coma and with some tubes. Concern was that she’s in coma for quite a long time, the brain may have impacts. Doctor can't do scanning at that moment. I can imagine how distress and worries the family was. I have concerns and worries about them but didn’t want to make many calls or visits which would be annoying. I prayed for them and sent to the family some flowers with words of wishes. A few days later, good news spread, the girl woke up and can recognize all family. Crying, smiling, scratching, pulling tubes…….. all such actions proved her brain is working. A big relief for all of us. Now almost 2 months she’s home running everywhere and on the path of getting well.

Daddy and the gorgeous. Sweetie you're getting well and have the brave to flight for the awful moment. We love you.I’ve been thinking of organ donation after my life. For some reasons I do not want to carry a donation card. After the case of our sweetie, I recognize how meaningful the act of donation. I‘ve filled out on-line the Centralised Organ Donation Register. This is a symbol of love and rekindles the hope of other people. Hope more people will act now. I wish our sweetie thriving and knows how GREAT her family and daddy are !!

My cats wrestling

My cats Tiger and Mogi are getting quite along. They always play like this, chasing and "fighting". They never scream, I take it that they just compete each other and doing wrestling !

Tiger always licks Mogi. I don't know why. May be that means "hey, boy I captured you !"

"Oh, guy I surrender. I'm tired!"

"Let's do another round"

1, 2, 3........Mogi, you lost.

Bright Jewelry Box

Last couple of weekends Eva and Amanda made a wool felted jewelry box and Katy made a scarf. To make a 3-D box with a round rim is a bit tricky. You'll see below how they made it. A finished box by Eva. I call it "jewelry box" as it can be used for keeping little treasures and the rib is rounded with beads and stones. Looks elegant, isn't it?

Or put a LED lamp inside it's romantic for candle light dinner !

The box with yellow flower was made by Amanda. She said the flower looks more like a coral then a flower. Katy made a scarf. I was intended to teach her a cobweb, instead she prefers a full scarf and made this nice and warm one.

After the box and scarf, I shown them to make a felted soap. Soaps with coat are lovely and typically cute with a sheep on it.

See how they made a box. First covered the resist with wool. After fulling & rubbing then cut the top lid and stitched the rib round and felt to the right size firmly. Finally decorated the lid with flower or anything.

To make a scarf is laying the wool and full it like this.

Another fruitful day to share

Sunday a private session of wet felt was held in my Stanley house. eL & aT come for a tailor-made class for cobweb, baby bootie, brooch and cuff.

Such nice stuff by eL & aT. Love their work and enthusiasm.

Soft color of the cobweb and the hat pins are going well with the cobweb.

Yellow bootie done by aT, blue one by eL for her new born niece.

See how they made it.

Bootie fulling in an enclosed resist.

The girls found it amazing to have done a pair of bootie in one go !!

Laying the cobweb and doing the fulling. A cobweb looks a big project but takes less time.

The girls are talented and were capable to finish all nice stuff in only 6 hours. We’ll be doing another class for a wool felt box in the coming weekend. I call it a “jewelry box” which needs tactful. Should be another nice piece to share then.

Below are my trials. It’s time to make some scarfs, booties and gloves for the coming winter. I’m really into it and can’t wait to do more and more…… Would be a good idea to give away in the festive season. Baby booties are always so cute and lovely.

Who broke my .........

Mogi asked "What's up?" and Tiger said "I was sleeping."

Who has broken my ......... not heart but my own made ceramic mugs.

After morning walk I come home found the mess. All my mugs fallen and broken.

Obviously it’s done by cats . Tiger or Mogi did it? No idea. Most likely it’s Mogi as he’s the new comer and just able to jump up the bench and scratches the magnets on the fridge. Probably when he scratched the magnets his limbs pulled all mugs down the floor.
The mugs are roughly made, not that pity but I was in a hurry to office after clean up. I didn’t blame them and quite tolerated.

I just asked them "who’s the naughty boy ?" Wordless, sigh !

Sweet boy, you’re spoilt ! Who wants to punish you?

Former look of the mugs

Office town meeting

Last Friday, Corp. Depts. of our company held the 3rd quarter town meeting in a Gold Coast resort. This year focusing on Team Strengthening. After the opening and company updates, followed by chairman’s coaching session and team building in the beach.

It’s a hot sunny day we did the game under tree shade, not too bad indeed.

Through the game and the process we may apply learning at work and in personal life with the can-do attitude, enthusiastic, be engaged, positive in front of challenge, prioritize and get focused……... Well, easy said than done.

Anyway it’s the annual off-site get together for colleagues to catch up and a break in the fresh outing.

The book "84 Charing Cross Road"

Today borrowed from library "The World Breeds of Dogs" as reference for my needle felt dog. Just made a brown one. Looks like Dachshunds.

Still catching up the charming little book "84 Charing Cross Road" written by NY writer Helene Hanff about her 2 decades touching correspondence with London book seller Frank Doel in the 70's and her post journey to England. She quoted "The Cotswolds are just what I always thought they'd be : streches of green countryside pocketed with English villages that seem not to have changed since the time of Elizabeth I." Which reminds my visit to Jan some time ago. She shown me around Cotswolds.

Bibury in Cotswolds - Truely it stands for hundred years















Typical houses of Cotswolds