Play dough Beads

Had extra play dough after making the key chains (see earlier post) so decided to make beads for a simple bracelet. The read beads are most successful (I think) probably because red stand out more from the white.

These are really really small donuts for ear rings (as compared to my palm). It was challenging getting the details onto the tiny beads

Book Binding

Wanted to make the teachers something different this year, something useful...thought for many weeks, scanned through google search...before deciding on book binding.

It was a rather difficult and tedious work as it was my first attempt at book binding, PLUS I didn't have the right materials: used a big safety pin to poke holes in the paper, cross stitching thread and needle, used wrapping paper, construction paper and cardboard to make the cover, etc. etc. In other words, I had to make do with whatever I had. I also referred to several book binding tutorials online before I was confident enough to go about making the actual books.

My first try was a failure, with pages not in line, strings tangled...

Below is my second (more successful) attempt:

three books for three lovely teachers
~HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY~