D.I.Y Polaroid Film Album

Recently, my dad bought me a PINK Instax Mini 7S (polaroid) camera!!!!!!

I've always wanted an Instax camera since young and I literally celebrated when my dad decided to buy one (it was on a HUGE discount + they gave 2 packs of free film heh heh). I like the idea of instant photographs and the camera itself can be so useful for parties or functions.

I took a lot of Instax photographs and I needed a place to put them, so I decided to make my own Instax Film album :-) it is easy to make, and materials purchased are cheap and and also easy to find!

D.I.Y POLAROID FILM ALBUM

[cover page]

I didn't know how to bind the pages together, so I punched holes at the side of the pages and used a metal ring to hold the pages together :)

little pockets to put my films in

and extra space for more films :)

 my favourite thing about this album is the cute little 'pockets' pasted on every page of the album, it allows me to easily take out their films to look at and vice versa

most of the stickers I used were given to me by my lovely sister ♡♡♡

I bought the craft papers from Popular, and the papers are all so pretty! I really like the paper I used for my cover page because it has shimmery reindeers on it, perfect for the Christmas season :-)

for the 'pockets' or film holders, I cut out small pieces of paper (about 8cm x 4cm), and I folded in a small area at the bottom of the paper.

next, I folded in the sides.

and then I taped the folded areas together, added some white glue on the folded areas, and pasted it onto the page.

like this :-)

Materials I used:

1) 6 large pieces of craft paper

2) Craft stickers

3) White glue

4) Scissors

5) Scotch-tape

6) Polaroid films 

I had a lot of fun making this :-)

Thank you for reading ♡♡♡

mockingjay braid

About a year back, I was brainstorming for gift ideas as it was about 2 months before a friend's birthday. Personally, I like making things for people, be it baking cakes or writing cards and doing up some craft. I feel that handmade things are always more meaningful gifts :-)

As my friend was a huge fan of The Hunger Games and liked the Mockingjay symbol, I decided to search online for bracelet patterns related to The Hunger Games or Mockingjay emblem, and came across the pattern below:

This braid pattern required a total number of 38 strings and 36 rows had to be braided just for 1 emblem to be out. I knew that attempting to make this braid would cost me ALL of my time and a whole lot of patience, but I wanted to give myself a challenge, and anyway I had to give my friend a gift, so I tried it. I FINALLY finished it after a month aaaaand.............it turned out like this:

TA DAH ٩(^ᴗ^)۶

This was probably the hardest and the most time consuming braid I have ever completed but I was really happy that it turned out the way I expected it to be!

(a bit of background info) The Mockingjay emblem came from The Hunger Games, which is a science fiction novel written by Suzanne Collins in 2008. The novel was also adapted into a film in March 2012. The Hunger Games trilogy consists of 2 other books, which are Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010).

finishing an emblem already took me 1 and a half weeks, I was literally jumping for joy when I finished the whole thing haahaha

I used a masking tape to secure the strings together before starting on the braid, and this kept the strings in place and also ensured a consistency in the width of the braid :-)

If you would like to attempt to make this, you can find the bracelet pattern here. You will need a lot of patience, will power, and hard work, but its always nice to give yourself a little challenge now and then :-) till next time!

lemonade

so I was playing around with my computer and decided to delete a gmail account that I didn't really use much, but I didn't know that email was connected to my YouTube and Blogger account, THUS deleting them too...........(boohoo)

my new blog shall be called heylemonade, because the other day I tried making orange lemonade with my mom (recipe here) and it turned out really good, so the word lemonade just really stuck with me (instead of theorangeloop, which I now think is quite a stupid name to give my craft and hobby ha ha)

3 cheers for my new space :-)