Our 1st Ever Xmas Bazaar

Yesterday was our 1st ever Xmas Bazaar & it was held at one of the reputable International Schools in PJ area. I was privileged enough to have the honor to participate in the bazaar.

This is ME at the bazaar venue, setting up the table...:D

When the bazaar started, it was a little overwhelmed as many kids & adults were gathering at the table looking at these...So, these cuties no doubt were my hot seller! I sold most of it...if I knew, I'd made more of these...

I used the flower magnets as part of the decorations for the Friendship Flower Fairies Collection as well as the Party Princesses Collection, Green felt as the grass...lol

Response for Cars were so-so. The big Airplane is not appealing (remind myself to research more on boys version of crochet items), but the airplane keychains & magnets were sellable.

My coasters were my no sale items...note to myself to never EVER make coasters when participating in event relating to kids...:D

Overall, the bazaar is a success for me. Well, I can't compare as I have no experience in bazaar sales before (expect the time that I moonlight for few months for a friend, but I don't do setup. I just sell. The items are not even made by me!)

Lots of lesson learnt...lol

My biggest satisfaction is when all of them (customers & admirers) mentioned that the stuffs are so cute. Of course, not all admirers bought from me as some have budget constraint (they are mostly kids...lol) i have kids coming back & forth looking, playing & admiring the dolls & get frustrated as they didn't have enough cash to buy...some smaller kids were even pestering & 'forcing' the parents to buy...sweet memory...

I'd love to do more bazaar in the future too! :D

Aeroplane Plush

Honestly, I have made a lot of Airplanes, but have not really write a blog about it. Reason being I couldn't find an airport mat to place the planes on...

Anyway, since I am preparing for boy's version of toys (plus, we dont know what gifts Constantine is going to give his male friend for the Xmas exchange party on Friday. (Please refer to my previous blog on the Cars to find out more)

I have some small airplanes, & some big ones...

These are the small ones...for the small ones, i actually made them into magnets & keychains as well...

These are the big ones...

For comparison of the big & small ones...

These photos are also taken by my boys...pretty good! :D

Note that these are not my original pattern. You may refer the original pattern here: http://www.innerchildcrochet.com/patterns/mini_stuffed_airplane.html

Garden in a Jar

It's the end of an academic year for Christopher. Based on our family 'tradition' (we only started this tradition when Constantine started school), every year end we will prepare some goodies for classmates & teachers, to wish them a very happy holiday & thank them for everything that they have done...

You may want to read on the previous year end goodies we have prepared for Constantine here:
Flower Power, 2011

Graduation, 2012
Year 3, 2014

Since this is Christopher's 1st year in school, he got all excited about the year end party, which is on 21st Nov. Which means, the mommy will be extremely busy preparing the party packs for his class mates & teachers.

For his classmates, I will usually prepare the normal school kit like pencil case, pencils, eraser, etc plus some food items. Pretty standard. I will only prepare something unique next year for the graduation...:)

But for the teachers, I handmade the presents. This time, I try something new...it is still crochet, it is still Rose flowers, but it will be in a mason jar...:)

Here's what I prepared...6 for female teachers...oh, just so you know, there is no repetition in colours...:)

This bigger jar with 3 Roses & a Butterfly is for his home room teacher...after I finished assembling the flowers in the jar, only I realised I forgot the leaf! LOL...oh well...

This bigger jar with 2 Roses & a Butterfly is for the Principal...

Then the smaller jars are for his other female teachers...smaller jar can be tilted...so it will have 2 options of displaying. 

This is for his home room teaching assistant...

This is for his 'favourite' music teacher...

This is for his Mandarin teacher...

This is for his Swimming coach...

And this is for the helper...a stalk of Red Rose...looks good!

Since flowers are not a wise present for male teachers, I made airplanes instead...

This is for his Taekwondo Master...

From this angle, it looks like the plane is taking a left turn...cool huh...

And this is for his Gym teacher...

Ready to take off...

Not too bad, huh?

These are great for decorations & as a paper weight! Best of all, it give me a chance to come up with something that i have never done before...using mason jar...

But honestly, i was kinda regret at 1st because it was very difficult to put everything in...😂

But, I guess it was an experience...

Material used: mason jar, acrylic yarn, glue, artificial grass, japanese beads, toilet roll

Duration of completion: 48 man hours

Experience/Satisfaction level: 😭 can be further improved...flowers need to be smaller...