hearts & crafts | hermes

Fascinating documentary that opens one's eyes into the world of craftsmanship 

of Hermes products.

Check out "Hearts and Crafts" 

 

Ball of String Light

I was inspired by Bertjan Pot's "Random Light" and as much as I wish I could afford this light I came up with my own version. Enjoy!~ 

Pumpkin Door Decor

A friend of mine loves Halloween and invited me over to help make some 

super spooky pumpkin "trees" for her front door. Here's what we came up with...

Supplies: 

Sharpie Pens

Pumpkin Carving Knives similar here

Dremel 

Hot Glue Gun

Plastic pumpkins (Michaels or Target) 

1. We stacked up our pumpkin "trees" to make sure they would balance. 

2. We took our handy dandy pumpkin carving tools and started to cover out the tops of the bottom two pumpkins 

so that they would stack easier when glued together and most importantly, so that the light would shine all the way through all three pumpkins. 

3. We carved out a star/moon in the smallest pumpkin.

4. We took sharpies and drew our own "spooky trees that went all the way up our pumpkins. 

5. We took a dremel and drilled holes on the the bottom two pumpkins 

around the trees to look like "stars." 

Ta-DA! 

See You Later Party

Saying good-bye is never easy but "see you later" was more befitting to this party. 

I decided to incorporated a handmade cake with the initials of the guest of honor, 

cardboard heads of him and his family, custom photo cake and photo collage that I made in honor of his service to our young adult group fellowship. 

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28 

Sky 2012 VBS

150 planes...15 poufs...20 paper clouds..this year's VBS was made on a budget 

but with a lot of helping hands, this all came together and went along well with this year's theme verse. 

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Bananas for Babies

Theme: Monkeys

Colors: Lime Green/Electric Blue/Orange Fizz

Inspiration: Banana Candy

Handy Tools: Monkey Punch

Conserving and Preserving Design

During my trip to China, I had the privilege of visiting a small shop a touristy minority park. We met a local artist there by the name of Ms. Sha Sha who has teamed up with local minority artisans who create their products to raise money to support their villages.

One Village One Product

Kho Kreative

Check out this great new site for those thoughtful moments. Kho Kreative not only provides creative but thoughtful photographic cards that come with handmade envelopes. Feel free to check it out here!

Table Topics

Coffee stirrers, spoons and toothpicks...imaginative and a work of art.

Daisuke Hiraiwa

Studio Verissimo

Cookies & Shopping

I'm always up for visiting new places and especially places that offer handmade and/or handcrafted items. Here's a sampling of a few places I found:

Urban Cookies

Frances Vintage

Shells & Wire

This has been a long overdue project, but I found these capiz shells while in Honolulu at this great store called, Soha Living. I found a way to put them together utilizing fishing wire and a wire place mat that I found at my local Target...and voila! My own capiz chandelier!