NNC 7th ANNIVERSARY | TEA WITH FRIENDS

NNC Members who attended the annual meet.

It's the annual meet of our crafting group for 2014. Yes, we are 7 years old!!!! See what fun we had...

The Annual gift exchange.

Guests arriving at Yee's Button. We rented a cozy place above this wonderful crafting shop in PJ.

Gave Margaret the Bookmarks I made for a separate exchange. We organise many exchanges and in many themes. Do join us for great fun! Will post about this next.

Soon everyone arrived just in time.

Lots of photo taking.

This was a birthday exchange from Sally to Radha.

Another book exchange here.

A squirmy bookmark.

With book included!

We browsed and took home books generously donated by our beloved friend, Janet. We miss you and will always think of you when do our many many crafts.

Usha sorting and going through the hundreds of books and magazines.

Nik also brought some lovely zipper pouches for sale. I bought one too for my mom.

Vivian's little shoppe has everything I want to buy!

Buy some Margaret!

Bought these Modkid and sock monkey for gifts as well.

Handmade and brilliantly made!

Love these fridge magnets!

Beautiful handmade cards.

A mini conference going on.

Paul looking amused.

Exciting day for friends to meet up and chat!

More browsing and selecting.

Cupcakes anyone???

Our little buffet.

Yummy currypuffs.

Enjoying our food and listening to a small presentation by the shopowner.

Ehemmm!

Amigurumi class anyone?

We were surrounded by beautifully crafted needlework. So inspired to start on new projects!

Browsing through some of the courses available at Yee's Buttons.

Look at all the stitching.

The little people had a craft session with Margaret.

Making peg dolls.

Looks like the adults also want to join in.

Little Aerin taking part. She's our youngest member yet!

Nik, giving out goodies to the kids.

Usha's girls! They are so grown up already.

Zarina giving some quilting tips! She's our Queen of Quilts.

Fishing for the Annual gift exchange.

LOL!

Radha received from Usha.

Usha received from Vivian.

Vivian received from Margaret.

Margaret received from Nik.

Nik received from Radha.

And Bee Ee received from Me! Lol! Look at that glee on her face.

We have several lucky draws that day.

The goodie bag! Nik explaining what and who we received from.

Some items are delicately handmade. Thanks everyone who contributed.

Radha won a lucky draw for the fish challenge.

Winning prize! We love fat quarters!!!

A handmade gift for Zarina for the quilt she put together for Janet.

More gifts!

SEE YOU ALL SOON!!!!

Paper Bauble | Ornament Tutorial

I made these to decorate my Christmas Tree last year and remembered Jessica asked me for a tutorial. Here it is Jess...

All you need is Paper. I bought this pretty book from Popular and it comes with folded sheets of beautifully printed wrapping paper all binded and perforated. You need a circle puncher, mine is about 2.5" in diameter, the bigger the circle the bigger the paper ornament. Just make sure you have enough paper to punch 20 pcs of circles for one ornament. Your paper can be a combination of a theme, up to you. Ribbons or any strings, you can use a string of beads or any rope you like. And oh yes, Stick glue or any paper glue you prefer to use. I used a coloured one that dries clear.

Close Up of the 'Wrapping Paper' Book. This book can make 1 dozen baubles and you will still have leftovers. Not bad for 10 ringgit. 1 note though, the bigger the ornament, the thicker your paper should be. But thicker paper are hard to punch, so you may opt to manually cut the circles. Or use the Silhoutte machine to cut.

You need to prepare a template like the one above. I used Adobe to create a triangle to be placed in a 2.5" circle (this depends on your circle puncher). Accuracy is important here, it is afterall a geometric ornament. I have a few printed, just in case. If you need help with this, just email, I can prep a pdf file with the template for you. Punch 20 pcs of the coloured paper you want for an ornament.

Grab a helper to start folding. :)

Punch a template out for guide.

Place the template on top of the coloured paper like this.

With the triangle as a guide, Fold the 3 sides. Crease all 20 pcs. Yes, that's why you need a volunteer.

See how accurate your folds are with the template. After a while you can place a stack and fold, depending on the thickness of your paper.

My unhappy elf! Some more???

Going bonkers after a while.

Glue the folded sides outside the triangle.

You need 10 pcs for the top and 10 pcs for the bottom. Prepare the ribbon loop for the top and combine 5 pcs of the circles to make a dome. Refer to the next picture here.

See the top dome and the bottom dome. We are not done yet, some more circles to add on.

Attach 5 more circles to the top and bottom dome.

Now to connect the top and bottom dome, this can be tricky, but somehow you will notice they will come together to form this gorgeous geometric ornament.

And you keep on going until your fingers hurt and your elf says, 'Ok! That's enough already!'.

See! All done.

Now to go outdoors for a little fresh air.

Boo yah!

My Chrismas Tree all decked out in baubles and paper ornaments.