Held by love

We have a gift for you-

just a simple nail.

However you will never be able to use it for the purpose that it was intended. It will never join two pieces of wood or fasten a picture to a wall. This nail will probably never be hammered by you – we don’t think anyone could bring themselves to do it. Not this particular nail. Let this nail, instead, serve as a reminder each time you find it again. That you matter to someone. If you ever doubt your worth or value, if you ever doubt that you are loved. Hold this nail just for a moment and reflect. God so loved the world that He gave His only Son... while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Believe and remember. How much you hurt or how much you suffer, you are loved. Never forget that Jesus was held on the cross not by nails but by LOVE...

The concrete nails

with the ribbons, colored papers and glue

covered with transparency sheets

the finished product; The nail Bookmark

Im glad I was able to resume making this cute book mark.  It was last year that I made these and now I resumed and I have a goal. I plan to make as many as I could. I plan to give these to my officemates, ojt here in the office and plan also to give it to my friends and also give it to relatives when I go home to cebu. I hope I can make as many as I could. I need help in making these bookmarks and I pray that my house mates will help.

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My Handwriting

My mission is to make my hand writing a little bit legible. The way I look at its legible enough for me but I guess my readers would find it hard to understand. Its small so maybe Id make it more bigger, and define the letters e,o, r, and my letter is is crooked.. I realized that im not making any effort to make each letter the way they should be. I just scrib and jot but I know I can improve it.

I guess there are several factors that affects one's penmanship, the kind of paper matters and the kind of ballpen matters, and that theory applies to me and hope it also applies to some. But, there are really people who are blessed with such nice penmanship even with cursive and the architect style of writing. I classify my hand writing as trying hard architect style, wahehehehehe.

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Back to crocheting

Its been long that since my last crochet project. Hmmmmm maybe last year its was my double trhread coin purses and now im back to making agian and this time its a something for a housemates cellphone. it makes life less stressfuk for me and just my way of coping. It makes me think of crochet ang focus on the task at than turn my attention to matters that would only make mea little bit down under being happy.

half finished cellphone holder

the finished product with cellphone inside

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Two weddings, one month

Its march not June, but the first month that I made two thank you cards for two weddings.

I had so little time to prepare but I guess the adrenaline rush pushed me to finish the thank you cards on time. I have to do double time and have to endure late sleeping just to finish my target dates.

for March 17, 2012, Kuya Tata's wedding

 The first time I used tulip borders for my thank you cards. I wonder why didnt thought of this the past years. Its another look and a touch of elegance.

March 8, 2012, Jovy's wedding

 The first time I sued the picture background for the design. I just tried one copy 

and when I saw that it was ok to print it using parchment paper. 

other design for Jovy's wedding

Kuya Tata's thank you cards without the sequins and the silver cord

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Modified wordless bracelet

I have decided to make a modified version of the wordless bracelet, the typical wordless bracelet is made of macaroni beads and a leather type cord. Its hard to find the macaroni beads, I have tried looking for it in major stores and fabric shops but it was very limited. Then, one night, I saw this lady wearing a certain tribal bracelet and I noticed it was almost the same color as the wordless bracelet except that there was no white bead. So I have decided to modify the wordless bracelet and use the cute dark brown nylon thread and use the very cute bead  instead.  I had difficulty in locking the two ends so I decided to pay extra 50 pesos for the demo on how to make the lock, the guy was kind enough to tutor me on how to make loops for the lock and  was a fast learner and was excited enough to try the craft at home. The first tries were not that durable coz the first bracelets lost the lock, so from there I have learned my mistakes and improved my craft to make more quality wordless bracelets.

Materilas for the wordless bracelet:

small tribal beads
  red
  black
  yellow
 white
green

lighter
dark brown nylon thread #16

courtesy of www.missionsresources.com

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DIY explored

DIY? What;s this? I came across this word on a blog and I searched and now I know. It means Do It Yourself. I feel so stupid, but honestly I didnt know. SO i have considered this word my word for the day. I searched more then I saw sites that made me excited, like do it yourself cards, halloween decorations, cute crafts with crayons and the list goes on and on and I wanted to do them all LOL. Its the shiny syndrome, it hit me, I wanted to do a lot with so little time.

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The Nail Bookmark

I like doing bookmarks on excel; it may sound awkward but I can manage it with ease

I printed it using card boards and with other colored papers as well

Then, cut them individually

Since I dont have a laminating machine, I used transparency sheets

I used these clips to hold each bookmark with the transparency sheets

The star of the bookmark; 1 inch concrete nails

Then, I used stapler to permanently hold the sheets and the bookmark and sew ribbon to hold the nail

then, I used glue to secure the nail

The finished bookmark

   Here's the Nail Bookmark :

We have a gift for you-

just a simple nail.

However you will never be able

to use it for the purpose that

it was intended. It will never

join two pieces of wood or

fasten a picture to a wall.

This nail will probably never be

hammered by you – we don’t

think anyone could bring

themselves to do it-

Not this particular nail.

Let this nail, instead, serve

as a reminder each time you

see it, each time you find

it again.

That you matter to someone.

if you ever doubt your worth

or value, if you ever doubt

that you are loved,

hold this nail just for a

Moment and reflect.

God so loved the world

That he gave His only

begotten Son…

while we were yet sinners

Christ died for us.

Believe and remember.

How much you hurt or

How much you suffer,

You are loved.

Never forget that

Jesus was held to the

Cross not by nails

But by love.

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Water Colors 101

 Getting to know how to use the water color brush my first lesson....

 my water color leaf

 eclectic? incomprehensible.....

 flat wash

 graded wash

 light wash plus dark contrast

flat wash plus water flicks....

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Neena's Thank you cards

This is my first time making thank you cards for a kid's birthday....

 

the pictures: got the design form imikimi and finalized at powerpoint

and saved as jpeg...

 The finish product....hmmmm I dont know if its good enough...

 chose this one to compliment with the color pink star...

 The pink ribbon to match barbie's pink aura...

and the pink star

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Crochets 2010

Cute colors

I used remnant threas for these...

without zippers

the thread given by kri kri... thank you!

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crochet and patience....

Last thursday and friday I got under the weather, embraced all the pillows on my bed and the stuffed toys beside me, with cough and the colds making my tears flow like rain, wew, I know im exaggerating but its hard getting sick like this. Mama, is far, and my family is Cebu, wow, what a pity. Wish they were here , they could take care of me, feed me, cook soup for me and even just scold me for being such a hard headed 34 year old single, work addict lady.

Well, sad, truth, Im work addict, even if I felt bad wednesday evening, i brought a paper bag full of work load from the office, of course it was due this friday and I would not want cristy to do the job for me, I finished it just in time I left the papers on cristy's table and when I went outside got saoked with the pouring rain ( oh no, not again, another reason why the stay in bed got longer than expected).

Thursday morning, I just cant stay there and lay my head like I were dead, this cant be happening, I have to do something, even with the head pounding hard with pain and the colds making me cry and the cough making me bark like a guard dog, I have to do something, with the boring tv on, I tried looking for something to do.

Eureka!, found my crochet things, felt that I have missed my crochets, my threads, my colorfull threads. I started, I thought I forgot how to make crochet purses but there I was glad that the chore jut went swiftly as if were already encoded in my head with the coordination of my fingers, the crochet needle and the two strands of thread. Patience, hmmmm, patience is a virtue, and for the past days I have seen I slowly lost my patience, slowly, and slowly I realized I have dragged my body to its limit and abused and now I am reaping the consequence.

What exactly is patience? defined by Encarta as a capacity for waiting: the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset, or to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties. Patience is a skill that we practice and the more we are able to endure without frustration the more patience we have.

Patience, crochet.

Slowly, with each single stitch, I can make my crochet purse.

Thank God for the realization.

I agree, things happen for a reason. My getting sick happened for a reason ( for me to get some sleep and some rest).

Zelmarq

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Wedding thank you cards: the making

The Finished card

After cutting

Bare card

The materials

My bed: the venue

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