Starting off with some non-craft news since my last post. Our church market stall went well considering it was our first time! We handed out loads of church flyers promoting our many activities/services and even managed to have some interesting conversations with market-goers. The face painting was a big hit with the kiddies (some of the mums even asked if we do kids parties hehehe). I can't wait til our next one!
We also celebrated hubby's 27th birthday. We are about 6 months apart in age which means half of the time we're the same age and the other half he's one year older so I teased him that he is so old hehehe. We celebrated his actual birthday with a Lebanese dinner at Emma's on Liberty. The place was packed for a weekday but the food was good. The next night we had a karaoke (Singstar) party with our bible study group which turned out to be quite hilarious! I made hubby a marble birthday cake - it was the first time I made it so it didn't turn out quite right hmmm.
In craft-news, I have been trying to teach myself how to crochet from YouTube videos by this lady. I must admit the beginning was frustrating as I wasn't sure which hole the hook is mean to go through etc. My first few attempts at making solid granny squares well let's just say they looked more like rectangles then squares! hehehe I finally managed to figure out where I went wrong - I had been adding extra double crochets in there somehow thus the rectanlges instead of squares. I've made quite a few granny squares since and am becoming more ambitious to try other things. At our church weekend away last week, our minister's MIL offerred to teach me how to crochet hand/tea towel tops. Older folks are so full of wisdom and skills - we can learn a lot from them.
I'm so excited! I just wanna go buy a whole heap of crochet cotton and teatowels and make some more - these things are always so useful. The other day I saw a pattern for crocheting flowers in a copy of Better Home & Gardens in our tearoom, so I photocopied it and off I went to crochet some flowers.
I'm super excited now that I can crochet things maybe to give away as presents for friends/family. I have to research more on yarn as I'm clueless about what to use. A random fact: I just realised that all this enthusiasm for crafts actually comes from my mum who used to sew, crochet and knit when I was little (oh and my brain comes from my dad as my mum said it didn't come from her hehehe)
We also celebrated hubby's 27th birthday. We are about 6 months apart in age which means half of the time we're the same age and the other half he's one year older so I teased him that he is so old hehehe. We celebrated his actual birthday with a Lebanese dinner at Emma's on Liberty. The place was packed for a weekday but the food was good. The next night we had a karaoke (Singstar) party with our bible study group which turned out to be quite hilarious! I made hubby a marble birthday cake - it was the first time I made it so it didn't turn out quite right hmmm.
In craft-news, I have been trying to teach myself how to crochet from YouTube videos by this lady. I must admit the beginning was frustrating as I wasn't sure which hole the hook is mean to go through etc. My first few attempts at making solid granny squares well let's just say they looked more like rectangles then squares! hehehe I finally managed to figure out where I went wrong - I had been adding extra double crochets in there somehow thus the rectanlges instead of squares. I've made quite a few granny squares since and am becoming more ambitious to try other things. At our church weekend away last week, our minister's MIL offerred to teach me how to crochet hand/tea towel tops. Older folks are so full of wisdom and skills - we can learn a lot from them.
This is the resulting crochet-topped tea towel
I'm so excited! I just wanna go buy a whole heap of crochet cotton and teatowels and make some more - these things are always so useful. The other day I saw a pattern for crocheting flowers in a copy of Better Home & Gardens in our tearoom, so I photocopied it and off I went to crochet some flowers.
My corrected solid granny square and my crocheted flower - not bad ha?
I'm super excited now that I can crochet things maybe to give away as presents for friends/family. I have to research more on yarn as I'm clueless about what to use. A random fact: I just realised that all this enthusiasm for crafts actually comes from my mum who used to sew, crochet and knit when I was little (oh and my brain comes from my dad as my mum said it didn't come from her hehehe)
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Wow - I'm so pwoud of you Nga!!! :)
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