Making things with my own hands.

As we continue to furnish our home, we were looking for a side table for our reading corner, and we were excited to come across a workshop with Triple Eyelid to make one out of recycled pallet wood! The side table is made of a base IKEA side table metal frame, we worked mainly on the wooden top with recycled pallet wood. I really appreciated that this project makes use of recycled pallet wood – Triple Eyelid uses the old pallets that are collected back from industrial usage,

I have been following Tombalek for a number of years, since I came across a wooden chair workshop they had. Now that I have my own place, and they came up with a table workshop, I thought it was a perfect time for me to sign up for the workshop. When I went for my first session, and saw the pieces of wood I was going to start with, it looked like quite a big gap from what the final table was supposed to look like: Nevertheless, I trusted that after 30 days, things will someho

I fell in love with Amado Gudek’s Fallen Trees jewellery collection when I first saw it in 2016, and I got a pair of earrings for myself back then. I remembered asking if there was a workshop where I could learn to make them, but Elaine, the founder of the brand said she didn’t have one at that moment. A few years on, she started Resin Play, and I joined a workshop to make Resin Seascape jewellery. To my excitement, she recently organized a class to make Fallen Trees jeweller

I was spending a week in Shanghai with my sister, and was looking for a craft workshop to join. By some stroke of luck, a search on baidu returned a workshop to make a Ukulele. This was a lovely coincidence, because I had planned to get a Ukulele to learn how to play (in fact, I had already agreed on a deal on Carousell., but the seller and I never managed to find a good time to complete the transaction / exchange). My China-savvy sister made reservations for a class for me,

Sometime ago, I was inspired by a DIY wall clock project I came across on pinterest. The writer reassured that it was really simple, so I thought — why not? The photo of the project was really simple and beautiful: From The Lovely Drawer I sourced for all of the parts at spotlight: the round wooden piece, and the clock bits (hands + movement). I wanted to find a round chopping board similar to the one in the original project, but most were quite thick, and I wasn’t sure if th

As I continue on my journey to seek out workshops – wood was the next material to come to mind (after metal, cloth, paper. What else is there?). I found a wood whittling intro workshop at The Green Wood Guild in London. I honestly wasn’t quite sure what to expect for the workshop. The last time I handled wood was during Design & Technology class more than a decade ago, and I think we made some sort of a box, and I mainly remembered filing / sandpapering & varnishing the wood…