STEAM Project Newton's Marble Cradle

Because of COVID-19, I am being temporary laid off and my kids are out of children for a certain period of time. We have to do some home schooling.  Besides thinking about academic learning, I still need to think about something else to teach them, including art, physical activities, science experiment, etc.

One of the science activities we did is Newton's Cradle, my kids called Marble Cradle. We were going to experience the scientific theory of force and transformation of energy.

Truth to tell, it's a bit difficult than I expected. 

Baby Bunny and Ducklings in our yard!

 It's so cute! 

One morning, when we went out for a walk after breakfast, we found this baby bunny in our yard....

10 minutes: DIY Eye Mask

Can't having a good sleep?

Too much noise? Lights are too bright?  Whatever the reasons are, try this 'eye mask', it may help you to get a good sleep and good dream. 

Even kids can make it as well, as a present in Mother's Day, Father's Day or anytime you want to handmade a present for you friends or your family.  Grab a piece of fabric, felt, elastic band as well as needle and thread (hand-sew).  That's all you need!

Mini Sequin Swatch Cushion

All of sudden,  sequin swatch becomes so popular, you can find it on clothes, accessories like notebooks, backpack, pencil bags..... it's quite expensive as well.

I came across a piece of sequin swatch fabric while I was doing shopping. As it packed as craft material, it is relatively cheap. 

First idea I came up with is making a mini cushion, my kids can keep it in their bedside, or even take it with them when we are having road trip.

It didn't take long to finish it and it is super easy to make it too. 'Hand-Sew', that is what I did.

I still have few pieces left, as I mentioned early it is relatively cheap, I gave them to my kids and let them have their creativity to make something out. 

Can't wait to see what they make it out!

Yummy Yummy Kitchen - BBQ Crispy Duck / Oven Roasted Crispy Duck

Here comes the another recipe ....*glad that I remember to take photos*

BBQ Duck / Oven Roasted Duck


Ingredients and Seasoning:
Whole Duck

6 tbsp      Light Soy Sauce
2 tbsp      Shaoxing White Wine
(don't know how this wine looks like? please refer to my other recipe post: BBQ Pork)
2 pieces   Anise (break it into small pieces)
Pinch      Ground Cinnamon
Pinch      Rock Suger (melt)

8 pieces  Green Onion
8 slices   Ginger

Steps:
1)  Mix well all ingredients except green onion and ginger. Prepare to use later.

How Lovely!!!

Today morning, we all woke up late!!!!

Hurry to brush teeth, wash face, dress up, have breakfast.......

Hurry to school too.....

I saw THIS when I left the house ........Oh... my sweeties!

DIY Projects - How to make a No-Sew Tutu Skirt / Dress

Making Tutu Skirt or Dress is easy and inexpensive, everyone can do it only if you are willing to spend few hours on it.

After learning the basic techniques that I showed in my other posts How to make a No-sew Tutu Dress, you can customize the color, the style or add any decorations on it, specially design for the child's fairy dress up party, Halloween costume, Christmas party, Birthday party.....

DIY - Halloween Scary Crafts and Decorations

This year (2016), I spend quite a lot of time in decorating our house because I need to think about: What kind of decorations the kids can make???? Of course, it takes more time to finish the decorations even just simple cut and glue, I believe it is very important that kids to be involved in it.

Here comes .... I call it: Garbage Bag Spider Web
REALLY??? Garbage Bag???

Yes, Yes, Yes. Very cost-effective! Just take one of the garbage bag (unused), fold and cut. Then you will get two pieces of spider web. So I put one piece of spider web in the dinning room window.

Made by Mom.



And cut the second piece of spider web into half, put it on the sitting room windows with origami bat.




Take a closer look at the BAT.
Made by Mom.


 

Life Memories - Valentine's Day and Easter Holiday

WOWOWO......HOHOHO...............HAHAHAHA..............

SO much FUN!

In Valentine's Day, I got heart-warmth presents from my lovely kids. Thanks for their love to me and of course I love their surprise too.

Sooooooo.........what I am planning to do in Easter????? I think they may not like egg-hunting again this year (because we do it every year), but Rainbow came to ask me to do something special about the egg-hunting, that means she doesn't want NORMAL egg-hunting.

As my passion in handmade, I start thinking, thinking, thinking......

Oh, Aurora wants to do the egg-hunting indoor!!!!!

Not quite easy...but finally, I came to the idea.

First, they have 96 eggs to find, all are hide inside the house (except bathroom and kitchen). They must find ALL the eggs, then open it at once, there are some letters in it for them to solve the riddle to get the Easter presents.

Second, they have to rearrange the letters and solve the riddle. Rearrange the letters take more time than I think, with Daddy's tips, they finally get the riddle: Egg's Mom???

Life Memories - Coolest Gift 2015 from Rainbow

The coolest gift this year 2015!

Thanks for Rainbow's design and artwork.

(Only for my life memories: This year, Rainbow is ten, her idea, her design and her artwork really appreciated me, she only grabs the materials we have to make it)

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Life Memories - X'mas 2015

Really appreciated that this year's Xmas, Steve has assigned a really good working schedule that he has consecutively days off with Xmas holidays. We had a extremely busy and fun during the holidays. Beside visiting and gathering with families and friends, did Xmas shopping, Science Centre and Museum visiting, crafting Xmas-related stuff and decoration and gifts........we also did cookies making and playing snow outside.

Cookies making: Guess who has the most fun? I said this year I won't make any Xmas cookies, if anyone want to make it, make it with daddy. So finally I made the dough, and they did all the remaining parts......turned out cookies making over 2 hours and over baked (hard to chew)! But they were really having fun!

Snowman making: Well this year not much snow, they wait wait wait and wait.....OK OK OK.....no more waiting, even not enough snow, we still try to make one. Roll Roll Roll.....keep ROLLING, snow become ball shape, bigger and bigger, snowman body done, and Mom roll the head, done too.
Kids make eyes, nose, hands, and put scarf and mittens, now snowman feel so warm.

I (personally) decided to re-organize my craft table. Look at all those crafting materials and tools, it is a BIG, HUGE project!

DIY - How to make Rhinestone Headband by using Paracord technique

As I mentioned in my older posts that I make hairbows to sell, and at the same time I will custom made hairbows, hairclips and headbands for my two sweeties. As long as they tell me what style they like, I will try to mix and match the materials.

In couple times, I followed my thoughts and ideas to make something for them, even I am very satisfied on what I made but I found out that they like it and not really use it.

Like it because that is mom handmade for them.
Not use it because in deep down, the stuffs that I made for them not really suit their style.

Now I learn that only if they speak out or tell me, means they really want that.

This time my sweetie told me that she likes to wear headbands but not the elastic one. And she likes the headbands sparkle, just like tiara, she wants to be a princess all the times. SO I use......

1) Plain headbands, no pattern on it
2) Purple rhinestone (she likes purple)
3) 1mm cord or thread (I use rainbow-color)

Actually, I made one that just glue the rhinestones on it but after wear couple times, it is quite easily fall apart. I glued it again, it fell apart again after wear.

By using the basic paracord techniques (refer to my post on basic paracord bracelet), I tied the rhinestones with cord to make it really firm that it won't fall apart. IT WORK!!!!

First, using the super glue to glue the rhinestones on the headband.

Second, starting paracord! Just make sure in each knot, you have to adjust it to fit into the rhinestones and headband, it need to be tight.

DIY Projects - How to make Duct Tape Bookmarks and Duct Tape Zip Lock Bag

WOW!!!!

I can't believe that I can think about a craft that only take few minutes to finish. Quick, easy and even my 4 years old sweetie can all do it by herself.

I don't know how the idea came out, I just look around and immediately said: we make a bookmark that we can use it while we are reading. Grap the woodstick (recycle from Ice Lollies) , feathers (pick the color you like), and duct tape.

START MAKING !!!! DONE !!!!



Story behind these bookmarks:
That afternoon, it took much longer time to put my baby in bed for a nap and I had a feeling that he probably woke up soon. I haven't finish the kitchen work and I have to prepare the supper too. When I came out from the bedroom, my two lovely sweeties looked at me at the same time showing that they were quite bored, nothing to do. Truly they asked me can I do something with them, I really want to but there were tons of kitchen work waiting for me. So my answer is: You too can read the books that borrowed from the library, ok? But their answer is: Mom............

DIY Projects - How to make a Princess Cape and Tiara

How to make a Princess Cape and Tiara

See What I made for my little daughter..........

Princess Cape made by tulle and ribbon. Tiara made by pipe cleaners, pom pom and some rhinestones.

She always said she is a princess. She is extremely happy and excited when she gets the cape and tiara, of course I am really really really happy that she loves it.

Handmade crafts materials shouldn't be too expensive and it is better to use and think about materials that we already have, at least this is what I always tell my kids about crafting.

This time I only use what I have and only takes me about one hour to finish BOTH.

My Favourite App Game - Happy Street by Godzi Lab

Up to now, Happy Street by Godzi Lab is the only app game that I played over one year.

Cute Cute characters and Amazing Themes.....just has an idea to capture some upgrade buildings images and keep them in my blog to become part of my life memories....

The graphic design is really really great! Just has update in December for Christmas. So Cute!!!

Very interesting that only Canadian iSO update has the Pirate Power Theme...


Pirate Power Toys and Rock Island Brunch Combo

Wow.......Just finished this year craft sale that held by different community.....

This is my first step of my home-based business, I am really satisfied the sale, not even the hairbow I sold, but also making friends with other crafters around my living areas.

I spend quite a lot of time in preparing these two months sales as I don't have any experience in doing the craft sale, thanks for my hushand over 100% support me and take care the kids, so that I can concentrate in all my handmade products.

Thanks and Thanks again

Life Memories -- Being crazy during this year!

Wow....when was my last post? It should be last year April? May?

It is really a long long long........time since last post.

What happen to me? I can tell last year May, my family and I was really excited as we bought our own house. Being busy in dealing with the bank mortgage as well as moving stuff, I found out that I have third baby too. We are all happy about the coming baby. And most excited thing is my husband's whole family came to here to visit us for the whole summer holiday. So you see, right, all the happiest things happened at the same time.

For me, the worst thing is five days later after we were going to move to our new house, his family was coming too. Oh my god, only five days, our house is full of moving stuff and boxes, everything is messy. How can I tidied up all the stuffs?

Life Memories

2012年11月

又到聖誕，又到聖誕......

小朋友樂透了！

爸媽郤忙透了！

當今年收到第一份聖誕禮物時，意味着是時候要拿聖誕樹出來了。刻不容緩，當天晚上便拿出所有佈置聖誕節的裝飾品，只花了一整晚便把聖誕樹佈置好，很漂亮吧！爸爸負責亮燈儀式，我就趁大家不在意時把聖誕禮物放在樹下。燈一着，樹上彩色繽紛、樹下禮物一堆。彩琳忙着看看誰送了禮物、桐桐忙着左摸右摸樹上的裝飾，各有各忙。

真到今天為止，今年要購買的聖誕禮物已買好，第一批要寄出的聖誕禮物亦已在數星期前寄出，餘下的是親手自製的聖誕禮物，但趕不切郵寄了，對不起，我們的好友！唯有預祝你們新年快樂吧！

Life Memories

2012年10月

這是什麼？
為什麼會是這個樣子？

它背後隱藏着一個辛酸的故事‧‧‧

故事發生於我和我的愛人熱戀中‧‧‧‧‧大部份在熱戀中的少女都會親手編織一樣物件給她心愛的另一半，我也不例外，我選了編織一條頸巾。當時不善於編織的我，選購了灰色的、價錢較貴的毛冷，因為是送給心愛的人，貴也是值得的！我還構思在頸巾的兩端加上二行深藍色橫間，特別些麻！每天努力地編織，每一針都充滿着對他的愛意和關懷，終於完成了，雖不是完美，但看上去還不錯呀！歡天喜地送給他，他也很開心地收下。冬去春來，為什麼跟他拍拖的時間總是看不見他戴上那條項巾？問還是不問？算吧！也猜到答案吧！

Life Memories

2012年9月4日

今天是彩琳開學日，表現怎樣？

昨天，我建議她在開學日穿得漂亮些，要麼穿條新裙子回校，她郤滿不在乎說要不要全身穿得閃閃發光回校嗎？她說她才不會這樣做。那就隨她喜歡，但總要在睡覺前選定一套衣服，免得早上手忙腳亂。

今早，我比他們早了半小時起床，預備了：早餐、書包、外套 (現在早晚天氣較清涼)、鞋子......到七時二十分，叫醒彩琳和爸爸，估不到彩琳一叫即醒，還立刻換好衣服，才洗臉刷牙，那爸爸呢？都不錯，只是比她慢一步吧！

那桐桐呢？當然是跟着起床吃媽媽奶。媽媽忙着餵奶，彩琳跟爸爸吃過早餐後，彩琳竟然要爸爸替她梳理頭髮 (她從來都不讓爸爸梳頭，今天是第一次) ，她還自己塗臉霜、塗潤唇膏、戴頭夾哩。時間充足，理應不用這麼緊張。但彩琳郤不停催促要離家上學去，那就一家四口開開心心上學去，出發吧！

途中，彩琳自己背着書包，遠遠拋離我們，爸爸說給她影相，她郤說：我不想停下來，你拍VIDOE吧！看見學校、更看見熟識的同學，彩琳躍躍萬分地牽着同學的手往學校操場去。我們邊看着她邊跟其他家長閒談，上課鐘聲響起，彩琳和她的好同學竟然在一年級的隊伍中排隊？！哈哈，不知是否玩得興奮，忘了今年自己已是二年級，還跟同學說她今天讀三年級，真攪笑哩！

從彩琳的言行舉止，看出她很緊張今天的開學日，這就是口不對心吧！哈哈！