Making things with my own hands.

I first heard about Jesmonite when I was doing the Concrete Planter workshop with Concrete Everything last year – Alvin showed me some beautiful projects he was working on. Now that we’re confined mainly to our homes due to Circuit Breaker measures, I thought it was a perfect time to get a DIY Jesmonite Terrazzo Coaster kit from them! In case you want to figure out what the entire making process is like, Concrete Everything uploaded a demo video on their IG TV, so you can get

After coming across the beautiful concept of kintsugi, where broken pottery pieces are mended with gold, I was hoping to try it one day. It didn’t quite make sense to break something to do it. And on one serendipitous day, when my friend was showing me around his family’s antique and vintage store, East Inspirations, he told me he had a broken antique bowl ❤ The magic of this project is that the piece comes with a story (or at least bits of interesting facts) – this was what

My sister just relocated to Hong Kong for work, and I was visiting. She was looking for some more permanent company in her apartment, and was inspired to make a polar bear after seeing it at her friend’s place. I was enlisted to put him together during my week there. This polar bear paper sculpture is 1.5m tall, and was made of many pieces of paper. After some warm-up practice with a smaller bird project, we decided that my sister would do the cutting, and I would do the past

I’ve unofficially tried to embroider stuff before, but only basic things like words (and doing it based on logic, without any instructions, so I didn’t know cool stitches). I was delighted to find a complete starter kit on Hoffelt & Hooper Co. while browsing Etsy for random DIY ideas. Even more amazing was that I could customize text on the design! I thought it would be a great project that could be used for my upcoming wedding 🙂 The kit was delivered in a neat little box wh

Was wondering how to celebrate the milestone of turning thirty, and decided that it would be fun to do something with my hands. Thank goodness my dexterity and eyesight were reasonably still in place, and we pulled through to finish this musical globe kit. This was as similar set to the Musical Carousel Box  I made a while back from a DIY kit my friend bought. After that experience, we got smarter, and started a bit earlier + did it at her place (to avoid being chased out to