scrapbook

It is usual in Brazil, when the baby is born, we visit the baby either at hospital or home, and my cousin asked me to make some birth announcement favors... I made some key holders and made a box using scrapbooking technique...

 

I like the result and decided to make some photo frame using the same technique... 

carton mousse

Last year I started a new hobby... carton mousse!! It quite addictive and super easy to make! As I m not in to update my blog there is all the boxes I made using that technique ...

my first box... didnt have black fabric for the hair...

this one I gave to my friend Dona Ana.

this one I made for my grandmother... funny thing , her eyesight is bad, so when i gave it to her she opened and said this is empty.. had to tell her that the box was the gift!

love the background fabric.. it was my mom s old dress!!

inspired by kyoto geisha

ukiyo-e inspired

romero britto inspired

for my cousin s son...

made it for my niece melissa

made 2 of it.. give both as a present

Lia

My niece Lia was born on 28 th march 2011... for those that visited my sister at the hospital we gave as a favour, key holders, and memo holder and cake!!!

X'mas is coming...

So, Xmas is coming and I started making my presents... first of them were these bottle to hold messages, they have mini origami tsuru inside. I copy the idea from this blog .

and since I learn to make this chinese knot I had to do something using it... so there are this keyholders!

these are the chinese knots that im able to make.

dragon fly

I still had some cord left and looked for things to do with it... that was one of the easiest one i found....

I lost a dear cousin last month, and I wanted to make something for her... As a japanese tradition, when someone passes away, relatives and friends give money to help to pay the expenses of the funeral (kouden). In return the family gives a gift (okaeshi) usually given on the 49 th day memorial cerimony.
And this will be one of the gifts...
I choose the chinese knot that means good luck, the green color of the beads meaning healthy, the white color meaning peace and the origami crane meaning long life and happiness...


It wasnt so hard to make those, the problem was that I had to go shopping 3 times for the stuff... I wish I was smart and buy everything only in one trip!!!


for now I have one hundred ... 200 to go!!!

final work... Im sure that if my cousin was here she would like it!!!

vases

I got this flyers in a night club, as the paper was thicker than usual I decided to make something different... and it turned to a vase!!! now i got to make the flowers...

maternity

My cousin Priscila had a baby boy on 10/08/2010 and I had made for her a board so she could put in the maternity door... when I made it, she didnt have a name yet, so I left a space so she could insert his name later...
On the day she had the baby, my other cousin Malu, bought the letters and put on the board, and it went perfect well with everything else.



The bodysuit, shoes and the star are origami, the others are scrapbooking sticks, and the letters are made of clay.
I also made a family tree for her, but dont remember if i have photos of it, anyways, i will ask her to take some, and later i ll post in here.

making it new...

I got this from a friend, her kid was too "grown up" to play with it, so she gave it to my niece...
The color was a little fade, so decided to give it a boost...





Made all the difference, dont you think?
By the way, my niece loves taking it to walk...

earings and pedants

this is what I ve been doing lately... pendant and earings... made in different patterns and colors, for the earings, made it in tsuru, butterflies, fish...
I like it, and giving them as a present to my friends whenever one has a bday!

recycling

My cousin other day sent me a link , and she asked me if i could do one for her...

Who doesnt have at home one phone list that was never opened? I did have a few, and I chose the one that wasn't too thick.

The only thing that I didnt like about it was too cut the pages... gosh it took me forever to cut it perfectly...

this one was given to my cousin

and with the other half I made one for me!!!

origami mobile tsuru...

My cousin had asked me to make her a mobile for her new home.

As usual I "google" to find ideas (I m really good at copying but not creating!!!) and I found this one, I decided to give it a try as I had all the things I thought it was needed at home... what I used was origami paper, nylon thread (to hook the cranes), silk thread (the orange one), beads ( i used 3 different types - 2 orange and 1 silver), hashi (chopstick) and glue. I really had all things at home! :) I was going to use more cranes, but I was out of orange beads :(

Well... hope she likes it... I did!!!

my niece 1 st bday

My niece is one now... we had a huge party for her (you can check in my other blog - http://minhasobrinhamel.blogspot.com - though it is written in portuguese), I made a gift for the guests.

I made tulip fabric flowers, I found tutorial on the net... I know the leaf is not tulip leaf, but it was the one that would look better, I could write her name and date, and decided to use a pencil as a steam to make the gift more "useful".

and for some special family members I made this pendant... I love this photo and have it as my computer screen!

Long time...

Wow.. It's been a while since I last posted here! To tell you the truth I ve been quite bored, but didnt do much :(

I moved to US, to a small city called Billerica, and life is quite ordinary around here.

I did some small things but didnt have a camera to take photos, finally today I got some pictures of some stuffs I made.

This are magnets I made using chiogami, I bought some glass tiles( by the way, it was my first time using www.etsy.com and really like it!), glue, magnets and Voila... very easy to make those!

Other thing I made was origami earrings , I found here a store(Michaels) that I go almost every week... it was introduced to me by D. Ana, she told me that I would love that store, and she was absolutely right!!! There you can find almost everything you need for your crafts, and I found there some cristals and tools to make jewelry.

here is a butterfly origami magnet and tsuru earring.

Kiri-e

I started a new hobbie, it is called kirie, I got the design from the internet and only cut it!

I guess it takes a bit of time to cut it but it worth!

more Kurumie

Im glad that March is over !! Even though is the month to celebrate my dad, my brother and cousin's bday, I lost my dearest uncle to cancer, terible disease!!! 

I didnt have much free time, and whenever I could, I want visit either my uncle or my niece!!

But I didnt want to be sad so I made 3 new works... 

this cat is to bring lucky!

FRIENDSHIP

this is a small one and I gave to my cousin for her new apartment.

Melissa

My niece Melissa was born this month on the 10th!! She is the cutest thing!!! I made this for her... she cant enjoy it yet, but who knows some day... I'm so in love with her, and now whenever I have free time I ll go to spend time with her, so probably wont be bored so often.

Thank you cards

As some of my sister's friends couldnt come to the baby shower but sent presents anyways, I made some thank you cards.

This photo is not so good so I dont know if you can see the "thank you".  But I thought it was quite cute and better than buying cards...

for my niece

I made this little paper dolls to give as a small token in my sister baby shower... I cant wait to meet my niece!!! 

This is quite easy to make, at least the origami part was... but I still suck at drawing, Im so bad that I cant even draw eyes!!! 

Anyways I hope people like it...

HAPPY 2009!!!

A new year has began, bringing hope, expectations, etc etc... I do hope that this year will be different than last year, more things to do, people to meet, places to visit... and leave all regrets behind me... A fresh start...

For all my friends I wish all the best and hope that for those I havent seen for a while maybe this year we can...

This photo is aquarium that I made last year for xmas, origami fish, blue sand and shells... I do love the ocean, too bad that I live a bit far away...