Making ring pillow for close friends is a really satisfying experience, especially when they appreciate it so much and everyone says it's pretty. The greatest flattery was when my very first ring pillow had its photo taken and incorporated into part of my friend's invitation card to her ROM. Anyway here's 2 more that I have made for friends who got married this month.
I like this one because I love the beading, beading is very fun. And especially the centre ball of beads, I learnt it off the internet. That's when I realise that the internet is a really amazing tool, anything that I don't know, the answers can be found online somewhere. I love learning new stuff like this. Besides the bead ball, I learnt to make a star out of beads too, may use it in future projects. :)
I made this for my best friend's wedding because her theme for her wedding is yellow, orange and brown. We incidentally met a common friend with her boyfriend when I passed my best friend the ring pillow and it turned out that the guy's a jewellery designer. He's looking for a shop to set up his own business. He's impressed with my work hahahaha. He asked if I do this for a living, I say I just do this for a hobby. He say that it may complement his work and ask if I'm interested to do this on a freelance basis. Oh my, he must be kidding! I must admit that this pillow is not very well made because I had to sew the pillow together as I couldn't find a sewing machine to use and I was getting desperate. So actually the seams were not very good if you take a close look at it and the corners are not really sharp compared to those that came out from the sewing machine. But nonetheless, I'm proud to say that I sew this from scratch! I like the feel that the yellow bunch of flowers bring out, really look very real. Spotlight has good stuff like this! :) I intend to tie the rings such that they sit on top of the flowers, I think that should be very nice.
Woohooo!!! I'm back from the annual retreat session! By popular request, I will blog about this immediately with pictures attached! Haha think it's been a long time since I have won this much in mj. $22.80!
Look at this set of winning tiles! It was the most exciting mj game in my personal history of mj playing!
Everyone is eagerly waiting for their own winning tiles but i was drawing the 2nd last tile and I got a 'bai ban' which added on to my 'pong' earlier on and I was drawing the last tile to make up for my 'gang'. Lo and behold! The winning tile of five circles!! The last and winning tile for me! I wasn't expecting that. I thought that having 3 animals and a 'bai ban' to make up to 4 'tai' is good enough for me but it ended up in a 'zi muo' 'man tai' wahahahahaha.
And by the way, we've OCC-ed for 4 years!! Long live MJ uni and all it's members! =)
Picture from the book
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My Work
Hmm...any comments? haha frankly I'm quite pleased with myself. This is so far my biggest project =D
P.S.:You are the reason I picked up the hobby again. I'm glad I found someone to appreciate it. =)
Happy Birthday!
I like this one because I love the beading, beading is very fun. And especially the centre ball of beads, I learnt it off the internet. That's when I realise that the internet is a really amazing tool, anything that I don't know, the answers can be found online somewhere. I love learning new stuff like this. Besides the bead ball, I learnt to make a star out of beads too, may use it in future projects. :)
I made this for my best friend's wedding because her theme for her wedding is yellow, orange and brown. We incidentally met a common friend with her boyfriend when I passed my best friend the ring pillow and it turned out that the guy's a jewellery designer. He's looking for a shop to set up his own business. He's impressed with my work hahahaha. He asked if I do this for a living, I say I just do this for a hobby. He say that it may complement his work and ask if I'm interested to do this on a freelance basis. Oh my, he must be kidding! I must admit that this pillow is not very well made because I had to sew the pillow together as I couldn't find a sewing machine to use and I was getting desperate. So actually the seams were not very good if you take a close look at it and the corners are not really sharp compared to those that came out from the sewing machine. But nonetheless, I'm proud to say that I sew this from scratch! I like the feel that the yellow bunch of flowers bring out, really look very real. Spotlight has good stuff like this! :) I intend to tie the rings such that they sit on top of the flowers, I think that should be very nice.
