Friends Forever 友谊万岁！

最近爱上制作手作书。前前后后制作了好几本。除了相框，我想手作书应该会是个不错的礼物吧。送给大朋友或小朋友都一样合适。送给小朋友可以当画册，日记或者是拿来收集喜欢的贴纸也不错。送给大朋友嘛，可以当记事本或日记。不晓得在这个电子时代还有没有朋友和我一样还在用着纸质笔记本。：）

无论如何，我还是想为我认识了20多年的几位老朋友制作一本手作书。毕业后各奔东西，也并不常见面，大家都为着自己的生活而忙碌。虽然如此，大家都不曾把彼此忘记。

物轻情意重，希望老朋友会喜欢。

在这里先跟大家分享制作好的两份礼物。

手缝书两本

French stitch 手缝法

可爱兔兔图案

泰迪熊图案

正面

背面

脚踏车造型书签

正面

背面

叶子造型书签

老朋友准备签收！

Gift for Baby Ariz

This year is definitely a busy year for baby gift making. This time it's also a baby boy. Running out of time as well as ideas on what to sew, I decided to make a gift using resin clay. 

My all-time favourite gift for friends is the photo frame as I believe everyone for sure has a collection of photos; family photo, baby photo, group photo with friends/colleagues or scenery photo taken on a trip. It would be such a waste if those beautiful photos are only kept in the memory card of your camera or mobile phone. Hence, I like to decorate photo frame to make it as a gift with a personal touch. 

Here is a personalized photo frame for baby Ariz. Congratulations to my friend, Ana, on her new baby boy! May her new baby fills her life with joy and love!

Photo frame with a personal touch

Congratulations!

Bear & balloons

Blue for boy

Colourful bunting flags to celebrate the special occasion

Custom made greeting cards

Gift done up in SAA paper

French Stitch Bookbinding 手作书 2

The craft of hand bookbinding is really amazing. It combines paper, fabric and threads into a piece of art. I fall in love with this craft instantly after attending my very first bookbinding workshop three months ago. It's simply because I can play with paper, fabric and stitching at the same time! Isn't it wonderful!

Since the workshop, I have been binding quite a number of different sizes of books. It makes a perfect gift for friends. :) I was hungry to learn more about bookbinding. So I signed up for another workshop to learn a different style of book stitching. This time, I went with three lovely people, my sister-in law, whom had also joined me in the first workshop, a friend who love to sew and her daughter.

The book binding style that I'm learning this time is called French Stitch. The stitches resembles twisted 'X's. The historical forms of book binding are simply beautiful! 

Looking forward to binding more books!

French stitch book binding

Retro camera charm as bookmark

Front cover

Back cover

Another hand-sewn book done!