First Workshop at RRCraftHub: Hot Air Balloon Bouquet

I was preoccupied with Learning Oasis sewing workshop in the first week of May but I want to kick off a class at RRCraftHub. So, I made arrangement with Atie aka MekBungo to run a Hot Air Balloon Workshop. I helped her with the poster and we blasted the social media. It ran less than 1 week and we managed to gather 3 students for MekBungo’s maiden class.

Long story short, the students’ commented that the intro price of RM250 for the class is really value for money. MekBungo shared her tips and tricks on making the hot air balloons like

• various types of clear balloons, price range, quality and where to get them
• how to get the smaller balloons in the bigger balloon
• how to make simple arrangement of a combination flowers and chocolates
• how to finish the bouquet with sticker vinyl personalization and ribbon
• and lots more!

Atie going through various types of balloons

Mother’s day hot air balloon bouquets

loving the red and pink combo by Scila of @scraft malaysia

Arwen gets a bouquet as the workshop falls on her birthday

I received a lot of request for the workshop but in view of Ramadan and the coming Syawal, I guess the earlier dates we can organize one will be end of July or early August. If you’re interested to attend the workshop, Please fill up this form and we will contact you to confirm your attendance. That is so we don’t miss out anybody.

The May that was; Hong Kong Trip

I would like to say I’ve been busy but the honesty of the matter is I’ve been hit by a lazy bug when it comes to my blog updates. I guess the true culprit would be PROCRASTINATION and as things started to pile up, the P word just got bigger and bigger. 

OK, lets start. Going back in time to May 2012. I’ve decided to take a breather from bazaars for the whole month of April with the intention on working on Mother’s Day and Teacher’s Day promotion. That kept me quite busy when orders for my handbag organizers came in. Thank you Dr. Zeti Hussein and Teacher Ila Abdul for your orders. I hope your friends and colleagues enjoyed them as much as I had fun making them. 

Next Stop: Hong Kong

This is an unscheduled trip. Azrai was going for a trade exhibition and I asked if the kids and I could tag along. Long story short, we packed our bags and flew to Hong Kong on Arwen’s birthday. So it’s like a big 2 year old birthday present for Arwen; Celebrating it in Hong Kong Disneyland. Here’s some  pictures on our first day in Hong Kong at Avenue of Stars:

Day 2 in Hong Kong lead us to Hong Kong Memory Chest. I’ve been researching for a cutter just before we left for Hong Kong and had my mind set on Sizzix Big Shot. A quick check on the store locator in Sizzix website gave me an email address for HK Memory Chest and I send a quick email asking if they have one in stock. The reply came promptly from Angela and what luck, they are running a promotion for their birthday celebration. We went there and the very friendly and ever so helpful Erika showed us the Big Shot and a quick demo. I’m just sold not only because the price was right, but also the excellent customer service given by Erika. I just love spending time there. I wish I could have a studio like that. Check out the pictures, you’ll know what I mean :)

I have a quick video of Danial with the Big Shot :)

And since I’m already at it, here’s some more pictures of us in Hong Kong Disneyland:

The kids (and both Azrai and I) had a great time there despite of the heat. We stayed until the end where they had the firework display. The kids kept talking about it for weeks after we got home. I’m just happy that they have this beautiful memory of their childhood when they grow up :)