Hard-Lenses

I surely have changed physically a lot this holiday. For one thing, I'm tanned because I had swimming lessons and I go swimming occasionally, I've said good-bye to my old braces ( and hi for my retainer),  I've gained more weight (yeah! simply no complain for that :), I'm taller, I have more pimples ( oh well, it's a part of growing up, isn't it?), and, I'm going to get rid of my glasses.

About a week or two weeks ago, my mum accompanied me to have an appointment with an ophthalmologist to discuss the possibility of me wearing lens instead of glasses. The doctor said I cannot wear soft lenses because I have dry eyes syndrome but otherwise hard-lenses were okay for me.

The doctor told me to try a pair of hard lenses and so I did. It turned out that hard lenses are smaller than the soft ones so they only cover your pupils. It was quite easy to put them on, but man, was it uncomfortable! It felt like something was stuck to your eyes and you cannot rub them off.  My eyes went watery and red, but fortunately after about five minutes or so, I felt a bit better.

Ten minutes later, the doctor checked how my eyes were coping with the hard lenses. She said that those lenses suit me and she explained to me that a pair of hard lenses can be used for about two or three years. And because this type of lenses were designed so that oxygen can flow through them, you can wear them 30 days straight without taking them off. Other benefit from wearing hard lenses is they slow down your near sightedness progression ( mind you, I'm fifteen, and I have minus 7 eyes). But you need to be careful not to rub your eyes when you're wearing them.

At last, here I am, waiting for the shipment of my lenses. I'll update my progress with you, see you later guys!

Circles Frolic

Hello people, how's your holiday? Mine's going super duper fun, and as a matter of fact, I've just arrived home from a trip with my family. :)

Anyway, today I wanna show you guys how handy a circle punch can possibly be. Punch a bunch of circles and you can almost make anything from them : trees, flowers, anything! What's more, it gives your cards a deeply textured and detailed look. It's easy! Just stack them on top of each other and voila! You'll make one nice handmade card! 
 

Hip-Hip Hooray!! (pop up-card)

 

Hi everyone, I've been meaning to post this archive for ages, but haven't got the mood to do so. I've made this card quite a while ago, and it was rather tricky to make, because it's a pop up card. I got the inspiration to make this from my pop-up craft book. Enjoy!

Wallpaper for Cards

This might sounds weird...wallpaper? For cards? Come on! Trust me, it works!! Just like ordinary pattern paper... Actually, this idea was originally my grandmother's.

So there is a shop in a market, nearby my old house which sells wallpapers, drapes, bed sheets, and buttons (that was the place where I purchase my buttons!). One day, my mum and I went there, and the shop keeper said to my mum that he had picked out the albums of wallpaper that he has no longer used, which were requested by my mum's mum (my grandma).

We were confused: What? What did my grandma use the wallpaper for? Mum asked the shopkeeper again to make sure that the person who asked for the wallpaper was my maternal grandma not my paternal one. The only person who'll need wallpaper at the time is my dad's sister, my auntie, who's going to move to her new house in August, and so we thought that it was my paternal grandma who asked for the wallpaper.

Finally, my mum phoned my (maternal) grandma, and it was her that requested the wallpaper, and she said that it was for me, for me to make cards......


Wow. What an idea! Never thought of that before! And what's more, it's free, and the wallpaper has texture which is great for cards! A bundle of free wallpaper is just the same as a bunch of pattern paper, which saves you lots of money. I know this sounds ridiculous, but go ahead and asked some stores for old bundles of wallpapers, they're really, really useful. Happy hunting!

Bakin' Time!

How time flies.....it's been almost a month since the first day of my holiday. Didn't I ask you all on the previous archive about what things to do on a two-months-holiday? Well, I did everything that I could think of : swimming, sleeping, reading, sleeping, watching tv, ice-skating and sleeping again...-.-'...

Then the idea of making profiterole (which I think is the easiest and the only pastry I can make) crept to mine, so why not?

In the end though I got the profiterole too hard because I put too little egg in the batter, and I put too much sugar in the vla ( custard cream ) so it was rather too sweet....:P Anyhow, it was still acceptable, and since I still have much vla left, I'll make another batch of profiterole! Yum yum...Wish me luck!

Grandmama's Vintage Old Buttons

source: parfumsraffy.com

Hello everyone, a week has passed since I posted my last archive. Haven't got the mood to write these days... Anyway, about a week ago, my grandma gave me this old bunch of buttons and I love them! You can make soooo many things with buttons... Actually, this card I made was inspired by Marc Jacobs' perfume bottle...luckily I got the perfect gold buttons to use :)