Crafter's Get Together: A fun crafty session together

Last Saturday  crafter's get together at kak Syam's studio! A super fun event! Everyone had a crafty session making easel cards, sharing techniques, chit chatting, munching on potluck yummies, exciting giftswap session & even got freebies!  Nearly all of us continued to Spotlight The Mines for after party shopping craze. LOL.

My first ever easel card from the crafter's get together! 

What do you think of my card? When a crocheter do paper craft,  of course I added some crochet element on it as usual  This time a crochet camera.
The 2 strips of washi tape I used was from Miyyah. Absolutely beautiful & limited version, only from Japan! Thanks Bali for teaching the technique and everyone who shared their materials! ❤

The gift swap from Saturday's get together! 

Tania @tjdkav got my gift which are my MFK orchid crochet design brooch (she got a pink one) & a multipurpose Malaysian Crafter badge that I digitized & machine embroid.
I'm so lucky to get @art_melody Hana's lovely pocket box & her easel card. Thank you! 

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Supporting my crafter friends at My Handy Creations Bazaar by Brother Malaysia

I managed to visit & support my crafty friends, who are also our ACG members, opening booths at My Handy Creations Bazaar by Brother Malaysia at Paradigm Mall yesterday.
The bazaar was for 3 days starting from Friday. Happy to meet them all! They definitely had a great time.

If you've missed the bazaar, you can check them out at their IG or website/fb for all the awesome stuff they make.👍😀

@sekocinorlie, FB: SekociNorlie
(felt & fabric craft, specialised in beautiful handbouquet)

@madebyrozirahman, Web: made by Rozi Rahman
(fabric craft, checkout the nostalgic fabric batu seremban)

@rimaumanja, Web: Whimsicalnquirky
(Specialised in gorgeous wire jewelery work, fabric & embroidery craft)

@mikylayna, Web: Mikylayna
(felt craft, specialised in handsew handcut cute felt clock/notebooks)

@yanscrafty, Web: Yan's Crafty
(jewelry & papercraft, specialised in earrings & cards)

@sarangcraftbyabby, FB: Sarang Craft by Abby
(fabric craft, specialised in baby related products like the bedak caddy)

@zilakasimquiltshop, FB: Zilakasim Quilt Shop :sharing booth with norlie
(Specialised in making bags, embroidery & quilt)

#myhandycreationsbazaar #brothermalaysia
#acgmalaysia #bazaar #crafters #theartsandcraftsguild #malaysiancrafter #supportlocal #craftbazaar #malaysia #paradigmmall #wefie #selfie #craftymalaysian

Crafter's Get-Together Ver.6 at Scrap-n-Crop

Last Sunday I went for the crafters get-together Ver.6 at Scrap-n-Crop at Kajang.

Most of the participants are paper crafters & I've joined them since 5 years ago. I've learned a lot from them on paper crafting. It was as usual, a fun & crazy event. 

Basically this is how the normal crafter gathering work table looks like. Mostly papercrafters have lotsa stuff to use  Luckily I still stick with my yarn & crochet needle since 6 years ago I start joining them. This is the only time of the year I make cards with some help from the papercrafter experts! 

Here's some of the cards that we did. But I just did one!  

        

After all the craziness, crafting, chit chatting, sharing info, munching on yummy food & a gift swap, here's couple of our group photos!    

After the craft 'party', 2nd round at the nearest mamak for tea break :D

#misfydkrafts #malaysiancrafter #crafters #gettogether #fun #crafting #sharing #scrapncrop #gathering #papercrafter #crocheter #sewer #feltcrafter #handmade #cards #cardmaking

Another contest by BenangKait.com: Baby hat+Booties

Hey guys! It's been quite awhile since the last post! I was a bit occupied by my orders actually, a big order from a baby shop for my bootees. I'll post about it later in another post. Anyway, currently I'm participating a contest by BenangKait.com in FB.

I made a new Baby Mohawk beanie matching with the baby boy sneakers that I've made previously. It's quite similar to the custom order by one of my customer last year which was for adult Mohawk Beanie . This is just the mini version of it and the Mohawk can stand too! =).

Do help me to vote LIKE to support my original work by clicking this LINK and LIKE my photo. =D

Art for Grabs + KL Alternative Bookfest at Annexe Gallery

Last Saturday, I went to Art for Grabs at Annexe Gallery near Central Market with Zam. It's a bazaar where people can sell their art/craft stuff & even literature/art books for the KL Alternative Bookfest. Miyyah (Miyyah@Kertas), Saza (ShareYourLoveWithCards), Nirwana (My Glass Cubicle) & Dura were there selling their craft & artwork. The crowd were ok & not too pack, so actually we can slowly browse every booth there. It was fun & a lot of the visitors really appreciate art & crafts! Here's some snapshot that I took there:

Overview of the craft & art section.

Miyyah & Saza booth selling their paper work! There are plenty of pretty & cool cards, toppers, magnets, albums & even paper miniatures.

 Miyyah's neighbour, Nirwana (MyGlassCubicle) who helped to look after Miyyah's & Saza booth when there are not around & Durra who was busy preparing fabric dye paint for sale. I love to see Dura's gorgeous artwork + T-shirts & Nirwana's cute knit baby booties! 

 There are some familiar faces in the bazaar like Individium & Juxta Arts. But one that I haven't meet in person is Reita Rahim from Gerai OA. I knew her from FB & she was really a nice lady =).   She helped in running the Gerai OA. 

What is Gerai OA? Taken from FB: "It's a volunteer- run, nomadic stall selling crafts, books, CDs & DVDs on the Orang Asal (indigenous minorities) of Malaysia. 100% of the sales money is returned to the artisan, business or NGOs."

I bought two pretty bead bracelets by the Rungus (indegenous of Sabah) =) Love them!

After the Art for Grabs, I went to Ampang Park with Zam & his lady friend to buy some yarns. Here's what I had there for an early dinner!

 My Favorite Asam Laksa (Rice noodle with tonnes of chunky sardine meat, pineapple, cucumber etc in sour fish soup)! Yum! But I still prefer the Asam Laksa taste at the Jusco MidValley's =D.

My 1st ATC: Mangosteenskin Butterfly ATC Swap

CI was excited to join Mangosteenskin's 2nd ATC swap themed Butterfly as she gave a green light for other medium (besides drawing & painting) to participate! Thanks Mango! I know it's really a late post as the due was 1st of May! I've actually finished them in March!

Anyway compare to my friends ATC like MikyLayna & Namizam, their work are amazingly stunning! Here's my not so stunning first butterfly ATC which somewhat has a dark & gloomy look =P
Oh ya, if you thinking what the heck is ATC, you can check out here for more details ;)

My three Butterfly ATC. I always love to mix my technique. You can see I have embroidery, beading,crochet & cro-tat technique here & there.

Had you guys participated in any ATC swap before? =)

A Fun Weekend in Putrajaya

Last Sunday I went to Putrajaya with Mikko & Miyyah to checkout our crafter friends & ACG member booth. I went there with Mikko & we planned to meetup with Miyyah at the Belia market in the 1 Million Youth Gathering Day(3 days event). The event was humungous! There were tents of several pavilion from each Minister Office in the Putrajaya (BTW Putrajaya is the federal administrative for Malaysia).  Initially Mikko & me didn't know where exactly the market is so we parked at the pink mosque in Presint 1, eventually we walked thru all the tents until Presint 4 where the Belia market is! I've checked the google map and it was 2.5km (around 30min) walk under the hot noon sun! The tiredness was nearly forgotten after we reached our destination! We 3 had much fun looking around the booths, meetup with some of our crafter friends & ACG member Adam & Shahril selling their fashion stuff (frugal mugal) and also snapping tonnes of fun photos there! Most of them in Miyyah's camera, will try to get the photo from her as soon as she uploaded them!. Here's some photo (not much) that I took with my camera =)

 

 Fun posing with the Lomo wall by a LomoKids Malaysia at the Belia Market. The wall was really pretty with all the colourful lomo photos! I too play with camera from Lomography but not that active. I have a Fisheye 2, Supersampler & Fuji Instax poloroid camera. If you are wondering what is Lomography, basically is analogue photography. You can checkout more info on it from the Lomography site.

After the fun adventure in the Belia Market, we went down to Alamanda Mall to have our lunch & dessert! Here some photo of us enjoying our ice cream!

 So what did you do last weekend?

Paper Crafter V2 Get-together by Miyyah

The Paper crafter V2 get-together by Miyyah was on the same day with the Norlie's felt class at the school. After finishing the class all of us went to Eco Cents at Damansara Ara where her get-together was held. The Eco cents is a store where they sell vintage clothing from Japan. You can checkout their FB page here & blog page here.
Checkout some photos of the get-together:

Mikko, Sabrina, Norlie, Zam & me at the get-together after the class. 

We 5 are completely different type of crafter (we are loud & busybody) compare to the real paper crafter where they sit quietly, concentrate making their fabulously gorgeous cards! You can compare our table & their table from the photo! =) 

  Here's some photo of the end product from the paper crafters & the paparazzi busy taking photo. Absolutely gorgeous don't you think? 

I've only made the paper pin & the punch frog (the quilling leaves are by Zam =P). 

It was definitely fun to have crafters get-together no matter what type of crafter you are. You can learn a lot from sharing & watching what each other is good in. 

February Craft Activities: Norlie's Felt Class for SK Puchong Utama 3

A very late post on my craft activities that I've involved in February. One of it was helping Norlie's felt craft for SK Puchong Utama 3 school kids in the morning of 26th February. Checkout the photos of the activities.

Teacher Norlie, Zam, Mikko & me busy teaching the kids how to sew felt into hairclip & strap.

Teacher Sabrina teach the teachers group. I managed to teach the only boys group in the class & they did very well in sewing the felt although it was their first time holding the needle! They did a really great job in sewing the monster strap while other groups (all girls) were busy making flower & heart shape strap =).

It was definitely a fun experience teaching kids how to sew felt.

MFK on The 8TV Quickie! - The report

Hi guys! This is another long due post! I know it's nearly 3 weeks since the show! Yes, as you all know from my previous post, I was invited to be a guest on The 8TV Quickie on the 1st March. My good crafter friend Rebecca aka Mikko from Craftzmaniac accompanied me there for my first live TV show. Thanks Mikko!

Anyway here's some photos behind the scene by Mikko.

 The studio setting was cute & cozy with tonnes of doodles on the opposite wall!
 

Photo credit to Mikko.

Here's the videoclip of the show on tv taken by Kak Chik from thelittleBIGshots.

Videoclip credit to Kak Chik. Show credit to the 8TV Quickie.

You can check out the archived show at tonton.com.my

Don't you think both Zher & Megan do looked really cute in the beanies? =D.

It was certainly an awesome first experience to be on a cool & urban TV show with the 8TV Quickie team.

A big thanks to Akma who invited me to the show which was really a great surprised when I received her email on the invitation, Zher & Megan for making me not so nervous on the show (very pretty & cool ladies) , and all the 8TV Quickie team. You all are so awesome in your work especially on how you guys handle the 15min show with efficiency, everyday! Kudos!

Last but not least,  thanks to my family, friends, crafter friends, customer & fan of MFK who had given the a super great support on me for all these while since I've started MFK last year until now.

Oh I've prepared some freebies on the show for the callers & I hope they have received them safely =)

Felt Craft Class for Kids - Report

Hi guys! It has been really quite a while since my last blog post! I was kinda busy with the 8TV Quickie (will be posting about it soon), catching up February orders & plenty of craft related outings. I've also have some bad internet connection too, making me hard to update anything in FB & blog.

Anyway this is a long due post (waiting for the TV show video) for an event that I've posted in one of my blog post, where my crafter friend Norlie organised a felt craft class for Kids on the 30th Jan at Wisma Bling Lustre, Puchong.  I've helped her on the class where I teaches some of the kids on how to sew felt. Although I've lost my way there with Zam (I'm not that familiar with Puchong area) eventually found the place after an hour late! But we didn't missed that much. The TV3KidsNews (a kids news show on a Malaysian TV channel) was there to do some coverage. Anyway it was fun!

All the teacher didn't have time to take photos, but we are lucky that Kak Chik from thelittleBIGshots helped us to take some shots of the event. She also helped us to take a video shot of the TV3KidsNews on tv.

Here's some photos that she took in the felt class:

Photo credit to Rumaizah aka Kak Chik from thelittlebigshots.

The teachers on the day, in green hijab is Norlie from Sekoci Norlie, in black hijab is Sabrina form Mikylayna & in black cap is Zam from MiezCraftShop. And me in my light blue slouchy beanie. The cute little baby with a big bow made by Norlie is Mia, a daughter of Kak Chik.

 Credit video taken by Kak Chik from thelittlebigshots.

She also did a mini photo session for Norlie's headband, but there are some of Zam's & my handmade on the kids. Checkout some of these adorable photos of the kids posing with the handmades:

Photo credit to Kak Chik from thelittlebigshots.

Her daughter Aiza is wearing one of my handmade, a slouchy beanie & my TatyHana pin. The slouchy beanie was made using metallic cotton yarn for myself. Ain't she just photogenic! All her 3 daughters are! Definitely the daughters of a photographer mum!  

Do checkout her official photography website thelittleBIGshots & FB page, she does beautiful photos of kids & family =).

BTW my friend Norlie also just went on air on Wanita Hari Ini TV3 (a national TV, direct translate 'women today') last Friday. So proud of you! Check out her Sekoci Norlie blog & FB page for more updates on her work =D.

Fun 'Felt-on-Tshirt' class with Mikylyana

Hi guys! Sorry for the long silence as I was kinda busy catching up with my craft mood (starting my craft marathon for the February orders) after the 8TV Quickie show which I'll be posting about it soon! There will be several other back dated post too. Some new design beanies & accessories. =)

Anyway back to the original post, another of my felt crafter friend Sabrina from Mikylayna is going to do a class at Shah Alam, Selangor on the 26th March. She is well known among us as the crafter who has the hand like a sewing machine! All her felt work are hand sewn really neatly & tidy as a sewing machine. You can check out her Mikylayna blog & FB for more of her amazing work. If you are interested to learn how Mikylayna do her fun felt applique on T-shirt, then this Part 1 basic class is definitely the one that you don't wanna miss!

Here's the details of the class:

MisFydKrafts will be at The 8TV Quickie!

Yes! I was invited to be a guest in The 8TV Quickie, live on the 1st March Tuesday (Girlie Guide) to talk about my crafts. I was super surprised & honored to be invited to one of the popular, cool & urban TV show in Malaysia which hosted by fun & quirky hosts!.

Honestly, I'm a bit nervous & worried whether I can talk about my craft on live TV! I hope I can do well when the time comes. Wish me luck!

Anyway, for those who don't know about The 8TV Quickie, it's a 15 minutes show starts 11.30pm everyday (except 12pm on Wednesday & Sunday) on 8TV. There will be some freebies from me for callers on the show so do stay up to watch & call to get them =)    

When Crafters Meet @ a Craftstore - Scrap.n.Crop

An unplanned meet up of my paper crafter (Miyyah from Miyyah@kertas, Saza from ShareYourLoveWithCards) & felt crafter friends (Norlie from SekociNorlie, Azza from ChomelCraft) at a local store Scrap.n.Crop which sells plenty of paper & scrap booking supplies! You can get nearly everything there from paper to stamp pads. Normally they sell online (from their site the largest scrapbook online store in Asia!) but they do sometimes have open days where you can checkout the items yourself. Luckily I'm not a paper crafter (yet =P) but if I am one, I'm sure will be drown by all the goodies there! Here's some snapshot of the happy crafters in the store:

I bought some card stocks & ink pads for my new name card project =)

The ParenThots event: Star Kid's Fair @KL Convention Center

This is the first public event I've attended for crafters. I went there to help 2 of my crafter friends who both organizing a craft session, Miyyah & Norlie. They are also the Art & Guild KL & Selangor members. I've also managed to meet up other crafters that I've known. First time face-to-face with Zam from Miezcraftshop, Asma (As) from Simple Rhyme, Nirwana from My Glass Cubicle, Ayin from Prince & Print & Tania.
Here are some shots from the event:

Some shots that I managed to take on the event.

Both photos courtesy of Miyyah@Kertas on FB: The children are so excited even only watching me squeezing the glue!

For Miyyah's session (Quilling), I was the 'glue girl' squeezing the big white PVA glue for the kids to use for their quilling.

Photo courtesy from Miyyah@Kertas on FB: Norlie briefed me on the coupons for participants which I'd helped to distribute before her session. Asma quietly observing at the back =P

Photo courtesy from SekociNorlie on FB: Me & Zam working on the Hot Glue Gun

For Norlie's session (Recycle jeans craft), I've helped on the coupon for the participant & also as the 'glue girl' with the 'glue boy' Zam working the hot glue gun for the kids. All Norlie's helper has this cute recycle jeans flower on them. Most of them got the pins but I got the hairband =D. It was kinda choatic event but eventually everything somewhat turned up well.

More photos of me here:

Miyyah@Kertas on FB 
Miyyah@Kertas

Checkout more photos of the event here:

Parenthots on FB

SekociNorlie

SekociNorlie on FB

SimpleRhyme