Handcrafted Reversible Cute House Shaped Cotton Mug Mats.

These super cute mug mats were delicately handcrafted, complete with handstiched window, door and even a tiny doorknob. The door serves as a pocket for cutleries.

Beautiful shade of navy blue linen on one side and cute cats cotton fabric on the other side.

They are available in store as single, set of 4 and set of 6.

Soap Making Frenzy

With the impending arrival of a new bub, I made some time to make a few batches of soap. Two batches for body soap and two more for dishwashing. I'm hoping they will last for a few months while I'm dedicating my time looking after a new human.

The dishwashing soaps were primarily made from rosemary infused olive oil with some violet leaves infused olive oil as well. The body soaps were Lavender and rose infused olive oil with added dried Lavender flowers.

They're curing for a few more weeks before storing. 

Sitting nicely besides drying flowers for tea.

Handcrafted Reversible Cotton Coaster - Floral Cotton, Black Linen with Sashiko Stitching

These delicately handcrafted fabric coasters were made from beautiful floral cotton fabric, handstiched sashiko style stitching on black linen fabric and thick batting to provide protection for your table surface.

They are available in single option, set of 4 and set of 6.

Black linen fabric with Sashiko style stitching (Left) and floral cotton fabric (Right).

Set of 4 coasters:

Set of 6 coasters:

There are lots:

Handcrafted Cross Stitch Christmas Bookmarks - Three Cute Designs.

These cute bookmark designs are all about Christmas. They are awesome meaningful gift for book lovers.

Handcrafted with sparkly DMC threads for the joyous season. These 3 cute designs with choice of red or green fabric are available in store. 

 

Handcrafted Christmas Magnets and Mini Magnets

I have been busy in the last few weeks crafting these little cuties. There are 2 sets available in store. They are awesome gift ideas for Christmas.

Set of 4 magnets in regular size of approximately 4-5cm each. It consists of Mother Mary and Baby Jesus, star, angel in sparkly purple robe, and candle and wreath.

Another design is a miniature size of fridge magnets with size approximately 1.5-2cm and 3.5-4cm. The set consists of a church, angel in sparkly green robe and a pair of poinsettia flowers.

Handcrafted Christmas Hair Accessories - Gingerbread Hair Barrette, Poinsettia Flowers Hair Barrette and Star Santa Hair Clips.

I have Christmas in my mind and so excited to be crafting lots of Christmas themed accessories. These 3 hair accessories were handcrafted by me personally. 

This gingerbread house hair barrette is super cute and quirky with lots of pretty candy colour. The design measured 6.5cm X 8cm.

This pretty poinsettia is my personal favourite and would be an awesome gift ideas for yourself or for your favourite women in your life. Design measured 5cm X 7cm.

The last design is a pair of super cute tiny hair clips of Star Santa. Perfect for girls young and old. Design measured 3.5cm X 3.5cm.

Handcrafted Reversible Cotton Library Bag or Shopping Tote

These handcrafted reversible library bags or shopping bags are super adorable and so easy to maintain. They are machine washable and fast drying in the laundry line. They can also double up as reusable gift bags.

There are 2 available designs in store, yellow with queen bees and turquoise with colourful alphabets.

They make awesome eco friendly gift ideas for any occasions. The bags are long lasting, light weight and easy to fold and carry in larger handbags.

Simply flip the bag inside out depending on your mood on the day.

With an added pocket to store small items such as transport card, library card, lip balm and keys.

Home Sewing - Boys Cotton Summer Pyjamas

Another project by necessity, as my soon to be 6-year-old is growing taller by the minute. The Melbourne weather is warming up and we are preparing to wear our summer pyjama shorts. His current pyjama shorts are a bit tight and short for him so it was time to sew him some new pairs.

I used 2 rolls of cotton fabric in my stash, so this project is completely cost free for me. There was also enough for a one size up as well. So, I decided to go ahead and sew them too. 

The pattern of the small size pyjamas was a copy from his other shorts, I added a bit of length. The larger size shorts are Burda 9747 Pyjamas which I used previously for his winter pyjama pants with flanellete material.

There is still a bit of remnant left. I think I may have a project or two in mind for these.

Spring School Holiday Lockdown Activities - Cooking Salmon Slice for Lunch

Our next school holiday art activity is cooking our lunch. This is probably my most favourite type of activity as it means I'm multi tasking between entertaining, educating and also preparing meals 😆.

We follow this super simple and also frugal Salmon Slice recipe from bestrecipes.com.au. 

Spring School Holiday Lockdown Activities - Sharpie Tie Dye Bookmark

Spring School Holiday had officially arrived in our household and it arrived 2 days early. Melbourne is still under lockdown. Although the outdoor playgrounds are now open, we are still a bit uncertain about mingling with large numbers of people, so we're still trying to figure out the most ideal timing of our visit to the playground. With that in mind, I have prepared a few ideas to entertain my 5 year old (soon to be 6 year old) during this period. 

We do our usual light reading, writing and maths in the morning, as recommended by his teacher, and I added in some variation of arts educational activities for him in the afternoon. I'm hoping the activities are not only entertaining but also beneficial for training his concentration, creativity and fine motor skills.

Our first project is the tie dye Sharpie bookmark. The process is very simple to make and the equipment is available from Officeworks. Luckily, they deliver really really fast... all of them arrived just in time for the holiday. 

He loves the new set of Sharpie that I bought for him. Our old textas were probably from 7-8 years ago. They were mine before he was born and some of them already dried out. 

The first thing that we needed to do was to cut the milk jug into shape. I helped him round up the corners. 

He then proceeded to pick different combination of colour and just be creative on the shape of the drawing. It was similar to the doodle drawing that he did in school this term. 

The spraying with the Isopropyl Alcohol spray requires some assistance, but he managed to do it safely by himself after a few goes. 

After the bookmark had dried, I took the lot outdoor to spray the picture varnish. 

He was so into it and he asked to make some more to give to his classmates when they return to school next term.

Arts and Craft Afternoon - Origami Bugs, Drawing and Colouring

Another one of our Friyay Arts and Craft afternoon activity. This is a combination of origami, drawing and colouring. We bought an origami book from Daiso a few months ago and it's about little critters origami folding. 

I found this is a great opportunity to train fine motor skills, especially for my super active boy who likes sports so much. It's a good training for him to focus, be patience and follow instructions.

This time around, there was no complaint about drawing and colouring. Haha, how did that happen... It's a great outcome comparing to the start of this remote learning journey. 

We folded a few cicadas, nettles, grasshoppers and butterflies.