So here is what they look like. It took me 3 nights to finish them. This morning I temporarily stuck them on the wall to see how it looks. I think they are just as good as what I could have ever imagined. They are clean, crispy, safe above the bed (only the weight of a piece of stock card paper will not hurt anybody on the bed), and beautiful.

I used a white folder instead of white card stock paper, as it is slightly heavier. Of course I had to use my favourite craft knife to cut through all the lines. I did try with different coloured background paper, but I prefer them to remain just white. The coloured background would look good if it is to use as a box cover, but too busy on the wall. I think if I ever want to make any changes next time, I will be bold to design my own pattern, probably more free style looking.

I think it is the so far the best wall art I have ever created. I am really happy with the result. Now I just need to buy some 3M strips to stick them properly.

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I know it doesn’t make sense as Vivian is 20 months old and it is the time to get serious about getting her off the nappy now. However, I suddenly had this project idea and was all very motivated to make this….

Okay, the real reason is, the other day, I had V’s snacks and bottle left in the same compartment in the bag. The bottle leaked and the snacks broke into small crumbs. I was very mad about that ugly plastic bag which held nappies getting wet and sticky, even though I didn’t say a word to anyone.

I threw it away immediately and I was kind of hoping I had a cloth bag holding all the nappy related stuff in a relatively organised order, so I could have avoided this depressing accident.

So I had this idea. It took me two nights to finish the project. The first night was all about quilting this sandwich changing mat. I didn’t have a special feed on my sewing machine to do a free motion quilting and have never done this before at all, but I love the look of it, so I was all crazily brave about doing it just by a normal sewing machine without any experience.

Last night I did the bias tape binding, my favorite sewing part and made a little drawstring bag to hold mat, 3 nappies and a Huggies baby wipes travel pack.

The fabric was picked up from a Op shop two years ago under 1 dollar. Took me no time to cut fabric, about 4 hours sewing on machine, a lot of planning in the head about the idea that would serves the purpose. I eventually just made it as simple as possible.

So here they are. Over all, I really love the final look of my free motion circle quilting, even though I know there are a lot of mistakes and it could have been done much better. Hehe, just don’t look at any details:-)

Thanks the God, all my hard work was worth it. I feel much better now:-)

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One thing that I like the most was to see that she made all different sorts of art works, such as finger paintings and craft creations (certainly with assistance of the childcare staff). Some of them are such interesting pieces that I can’t help thinking of keeping them or displaying them at our home.

Recently she made two great masterpieces that I particularly like their colour combination. They were kind of abstract style on glossy white paper. One is a combination of more brownish colour tones, another is very pretty pink, purple and yellow which I am particularly fond of. I bought two simple black frames, and put one up on the wall in our bedroom above my favourite corner with other “trashes” I made over the time.

The black probably is not the best choice and not very impressive for this particular piece of art work, though it is very universal. I just didn’t have time to find the perfect one before my patience runs up. I believe that very soon Vivian will have other new bits and pieces of art works coming up and a modern thin black frame will stand the test of time in a long run.

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One of the creations I liked the most was a butterfly collage that I made completely out of the recycled items available at home.

A ugly brown wooden frame with broken glass. There is a bit history about this frame. It came with the certificate of me being “The Employee of The Months” many many years ago when I worked in a nursing home. The glass was broken last year and I hated the colour so much that I always wanted to throw it away. The reason it still lived in our house is it has pretty good quality.

What I did was to paint it over with white acrylic. It is not easy to do so, and the result was not very smooth, but I kind of like this effect as it looks a bit country and rusty. I do have a white spray paint at home but I find it disturbing to use as I simply don’t have time to set it up in an outdoor area with the little one by side all the time.

Some old magazine pages are what you would need. Just cut butterfly shape out of different magazine pages with different colours and texture. I cut 42 of them.

You would need sticky tiny little dots to adhere the butterfly at the centre back to the white mat. Organise your butterflies and make sure they are in straight lines and the wings are flipping up a little bit.

See, a frame without glass is perfect for this kind of project. I knew there was a reason I kept it. If you use the one with glass, you would need a shadow box type of frame, otherwise there won’t be enough room for flipping wings.

Easy project but looks different! FYI: just in case you like the candles better than butterflies in the photo. They are just candles sitting on the salt in different shapes of glass containers, which I enjoyed the idea too. Hehe, I think I was at my peak creating all these stuff:-)

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I made these red roses out of some coloured printing papers. As you probably know, making origami roses is my ultimate origami project. I am always fascinated with them and want to be able to make them myself.

There are many different types of origami roses would come up if you search on the Internet, but there is only one type I can manage to do so far. The rest, remains a mystery to me. I, either couldn’t understand the instruction ,or failed to follow an instruction. It is very hard if you just watch a video and try to keep up with it without a real person giving you any tips.

The one I made is called standard rose. It is simple but good enough for me. I made some calyx and stem as well so they look like a real thing.

I picked one for my husband today, plus a box of chocolate. Happy Valentine’s Day:-)

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