Frösche Tanzen

Am Bali hat Bobo mich ein Windspiel gekauft. Es hat viele Frösche, welchen in Wind tanzen. Goldig, genau?

Aber die Schnur mit dem großen frosche riss. So ich benutzt meine Leimpistole um die Schnur zu reparieren. Der Leim hat jetzt getrocknet, ich kann das Windspiel hängen.

My Service Balcony Garten

I bought these little hot pink and purple Bygel containers from Ikea. Only cost S$0.90 each and comes with drainage holes, which were a tad too big. So I had to line the bottoms with netting to stop the soil from coming out when I water the plants. Great for hanging off window ledges and grille.

I think I might buy more, I am a little disappointed they don't come in blue. But I did see white ones. 

Sour Grapes II - Wreath Making

As mentioned earlier, I was going to make some wreaths using the grapevines from Mutters garten. Actually wreaths have a negative connotation in Singapore because the Chinese used to send wreaths to funerals (they have now evolved to floral arrangements). But I wanted to make some like the ones I bought from Salzburg and Munich. So first thing I did when I got home was to soak the vines in water to make them more pliable. I toyed with the idea of stripping the bark off first, but decided it was too difficult and I would do that after I had dried the wreath. 

Unwinding Mutter's wreath

Mutter had wound some of the vines so I had to unwind them to smaller, tighter shapes. I did not have enough vines to make big wreaths, and I didn't want to waste a lot of flowers on a bigger wreath. So in the end, I ended up with 4 wreaths. Should have wound two of them together to make a wider one.

Rewound wreaths

So I hung them up to dry for at least a month. I bought a glue gun from the neighborhood hardware shop (they sold them cheaper than Art Friends), and when Bär went to Bangkok recently, he asked me what did I want as a souvenir. I said I wanted cheap flowers.

Bär's flowers

The lovely guy got me some flowers (too bad they were not very good quality), and some balls to go on the wreath (I thought this was an excellent idea). I sat down last Saturday to try out my new glue gun. After practising on shoe repair, I started to try sticking the flowers on the wreath. I had scrapped off the dried bark off it beforehand. 

I wound white ribbon around the wreath and snipped off the flowers before sticking them onto the wreath

Because I had been repairing my shoe, I decided to sit crosslegged on the floor while putting everything on spread newspapers, instead of working at a table. I was almost halfway done, when I accidentally dripped some hot glue on my ankle. The heat was so intense, that I grabbed the tip of the gun with my left hand. WTF seriously. And then I scalded my thumb and fingers really badly. The joke was that the pain on my ankle wasn't that bad, and I wasn't even scalded there. But now I scalded my fingers so badly that boils appeared!!!

OUCH!

I started crying because the boils became very hot. I decided to burst the boils because the heat inside the boil was killing me. Don't do that, it will make the wound worse and cause infection. It's been seven days since, and my left middle finger is still very badly injured, and looks AWFUL. 

Completed wreath

It was nearly impossible to complete doing the wreath. I had been planning to make 4, in the end, I winced through finishing the one I was working on. The pain was so not worth the effort. Sigh...

Materials needed:
Glue gun
Newspapers
Ribbon (to wind around the wreath)
Dried/ Fake flowers

Kleine Schmetterlingen an meiner Wand

I was trilled to see the glass frame selling at Art Friends for S$3 while out with C and Y so naturally I bought it. It was a massive deal because the frame comes in two pieces of glass so you can suspend your artwork in between. The first I bought had a scratch on the glass which I couldn't see because it was covered in plastic. I only realized it when I was tearing the plastic open while at the restaurant with the two ladies.

Oh Shit. I ran back to the shop where they agreed to let me change the frame. So good, what should I do with it? I thought about buying stickers of butterflies of various sizes (I was thinking of the same color for consistency). However I couldn't find any, which was a pity because the alternative was to draw and cut my own butterflies, which is bad because I do not have a steady hand for cutting.

So in the end, I went to Paper Market and bought a piece of scrapbook paper with pretty butterflies. Good thing was that a blue background with white spots was printed on the other side of this paper, so I could also resort to drawing my own butterflies if the cutouts don't look nice.

Cutting the butterflies was a pain, but I thought they didn't turn out too bad, so in the end, I stuck them between the glass panes. Schön?