Craft Tools/Supplies of the Day : Needlecrafting - Dunroven House Tea Towel Pack of 6 on Sale

Are you into needlecrafting? Making great applique designs? Embroidery? Then our pack of six Dunroven House tea towels is for you and better, it is on sale for $24.50. That is $4.08 per tea towel only which normally normally retails for $7.50 per towel. Dunroven House tea towels are great for embroidery, appliqued designs and sewing. They are made of 100% cotton and has a twill tape in a corner for ease of hanging. Or you can use them literally as your tea towels. They are washable and dryable.

Pack of 6 comes in 3 mini check colors : Blue, Red and Green. Click on the image above or click here to check it out.

Friends in a Snowglobe

Once in a while I would reconnect an external drive I have to my computer which contains all the digital pictures I have collected over the years and browse on some of the files. And the picture below is one of the lucky  files today. A picture of a snowglobe I created 8 years ago. And the snowglobe has a permenent spot in my cabinet. 

After the high school reunion I attended in Feb 2010, I went to Los Angeles, California in September of the same year and spent a weekend reuniting with 2 other high school classmates who did not make it to the high school reunion. It was a real blast and so much fun that the days just went by so quickly. One Saturday I needed some green foams for a flower arrangement and so I went to a 2-dollar shop but ended up buying an empty snowglobe instead. Went home to find the picture taken in a park in LA. I was thinking it would look very well in a snowglobe and indeed it does. Just look at my snowglobe. A 2-dollar snowglobe treasure of me and my friends. 

16 years old today and never wilts!

Fabric roses. 16 years old today and never wilts. The only fabric roses I have ever made.

Soft Treasures: Poor old Mexican Jar with my created big tassles

Soft Treasures: Poor old Mexican Jar with my created big tassles: This is my poor old mexican jar stationed in one of the corners near my kitchen area. I use the jar to hang or decorate the big tassles whic...

Making A Difference : A facebook store for Sponsoring Dresses for Disadvantaged Children

I have opened a facebook store for my Dress a Girl Australia charity work for the Dress Sponsorship Program. The proceeds from the Dress Sponsorship helps pay for the cost of distributing dresses to places in need. Click on the link below to check it out and sponsor a dress today.

Sponsor a Dress 

You can also click here to sponsor a dress from my webstore. To know more about Dress A Girl Australia, click here. Thank you.

Making A Difference : Dress A Girl Australia turns 8 today

I always wanted to do something good for humanity but I never knew what that would be and when am going to do it. Until one Sunday morning while browsing the internet for new fabrics to hoard I ended up in a site that dresses girls around the world. It started with just me and my sewing machine, a few fat quarters from my collection and a desire to learn how to make a pillowcase dress so I can send a couple to share with the less fortunate girls in Belize. 

My very first dress I made for a little girl in Belize. She must be about 9 years old today and I hope she is doing well. Click on the image to read the story about the dress.

Ten months later it has grown into a community of sewing enthusiasts who wants to share their skills and their passion for sewing. It has attracted individuals who have never sewn a dress before and for some don’t even own a sewing machine but are very eager to learn to make dresses for the children around the world who needs it. A growing community who like me imagines a world where every girl owned at least one dress for every girl deserves to own one . A crafting community who wants to make a difference in this world one dress at a time and make this world a better place. 

Some donors have moved on and new ones are still inclined to join. After 8 years today (today was the very first day I made a dress) I am still sharing whatever I have and  whenever I can to disadvantaged children in the world. Happy Anniversary to Dress A Girl Australia and after 10,018 dresses, 1,129 t-shirts and 1,946 pairs of shorts, 149 quilts, 91 school totes, boxes of school supplies, a Dress A Girl Well in Kalagi Uganda and almost 4 clean water tanks for the people of Vinh Long  Province of Cambodia, I hope I will always have the strength and discipline to keep on growing and making a difference in this world especially to disadvantaged children. Thank you to all who have joined me in this wonderful journey. Much appreciated.

[Gardener's Journal] - Enjoying the heat

These prickly pears are really enjoying the heat here at my place.Just look at all those opuntia ficus-indicas.

Even the one pad i planted on a pot has its own fruit.

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