My Teddy Bear

This is a teddy bear which I made about 4 years ago when I was doing a lot of fabric memory items to sell. I only wanted a simple teddy bear and one that is easy to make so I designed one and came up with this. I actually prefer a teddy bear over a doll.

The first teddy bear has an appliqued heart and the smaller bear has my nephew's picture instead. Now I remember I made this about two weeks before Valentine's Day. At that time I was also into button-making thus the Valentines button on the bear.

Now I want to revive making these teddy bears. I hope I would have the time to make them again.

If there is anyone interested to order this type of teddy bear, please feel free to send me an email.

Making a Difference : Dress A Girl Australia

In case you havent known, I actually run the global campaign of dressing girls around the world here in Australia. A global project called Dress A Girl Around the World by Hope-4-Women International whose goal is to make sure that every little girl owns at least one dress especially in the less fortunate locations around the world for each of them deserves to own one.

Last Friday, 25th of March, Dress A Girl Australia was featured in the Style Section of Hobart's Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania. Please click on the image below to read more about the article.

If you want to know more about this campaign. please feel free to send me an email.Would love to  hear from anyone and join us on this campaign.

Creative Life Week 20 - Image printing on fabric for mini quilts

For this week, wasnt so sure what to create especially that it is mother's day this weekend. The past few nights though I did some image printing on inkjet fabric sheets which I hope to use in mini quilts I plan to make. 

I want to make a quilt that deals with the children being our future and about peace using the images below - .

I also printed some mother's day stickers to celebrate Mother's Day.

In the coming weeks, dont be surprised if I post my quilt creations using any of the above images.

If you want to do your own image printing, check out my wide selection of inkjet printable fabric sheets here . If you have any questions regarding the usage of the fabric sheets, please send an email.

Creative Life Week 19 - Fabric yoyos and lots of fabric yoyos

This week I did a clean-up of a spare room I use for Dress A Girl Australia. Over time while sewing dresses I was able to collect again a bag of fabric scraps and I really do not like the idea of throwing them away. I know I will be able to think of something to make and use them in the future. So for this week I decided to cut the fabric scraps into circles and create fabric yoyos. And unbelievably I ended up making about 200 pieces of fabric yoyos.

While typing this article I still cant think of what to do with them. I might make a centerpiece out of some or a vase of fabric yoyo flowers quilt or a corsage. Am thinking of selling some of them too.

Am sure this will not be the end of my fabric yoyo making as I still have lots of fabric scraps left not only from making dresses but also from previous projects I had been making using fabrics.

Creative Life Week 17 - D-I-Y Paperweight

It has been 3 weeks since I last posted.  I couldnt find the time to take pictures of what I have created and blog about it but I have been consistently creating a project to continue my 52 weeks journey on creativity. So am going to backdate my posting so each project still represents the correct week the creation was made. 

For Week 17, I did a paperweight. A round paperweight of handcrafted glass.

I printed my image on a high quality paper. The round paperweight's dimensions are about 65mm and 20mm deep. And the base is made of black velvet.

If you want to create your own paperweight, D-I-Y paperweight kits will be made available in my online store soon.

[Traveler's Journal] - Defining Images of the Day - 04/2012 - Sydney NSW - "Pots of Gold" in Sydney

Another activity I want to accomplish this year 2012 is photography. Any scenery or object I can capture with my camera on any given day , something that catches my eye. This week was wet but was a good opportunity for "pots of gold". On my way to work from my station's parking lot

on my way to the train station -

and upon arriving at work when I looked out my window -

Such interesting pictures on this particular day with at least three different types of transportation as backgrounds. Was my lucky day.