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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

I FELT for the love of sweets ~ 朝著手作達人之路邁進

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I love Japanese craft books – the cutesy styling, the clear step by step photo instruction, unique projects, the pattern booklet that comes with the book (not always), and the beautiful photos - no wonder these books are so celebrated!

Lately, I am have been bitten by the craft bug and am obsess with making pastries with felt fabric! Though it is tedious work but the end result is so rewarding! It is just the cutest plus it makes great present too! Now, I can ship my “pastries” worldwide =)

不得不說我非常喜歡日本的手作雜貨書。除了照片漂亮﹐作品出色可愛い外﹐做法清楚易明﹐又附有剪裁圖樣﹐難怪它們那麼受手作達人的歡迎﹗看到的手作﹐忍不住也要湊熱鬧變身手作達人。最近除了刺繡就最哈不織布藝。在Michael’s買的不織布方塊色彩鮮艷﹐價錢便宜﹐又用途廣泛﹐非常好用喔。而用不織布製作出的各種蛋糕點心更是有趣又漂亮。雖然縫製的過程花時間,但看到美美的成品時,就會有一股滿足的開心。最重要的是現在我可以將蛋糕寄給遠方的朋友﹐他們總是抱怨說不知何時才能品嘗到我的甜點。雖然蛋糕不能吃﹐可是所費的時間及心血是同等的 =) 你看﹐是不是很精緻呀?

I FELT for the love of cake~

I FELT for the love of sweets ~

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from the bakery

Have you ever wonder what you can do with scrapes of fabrics? I like to use them to make pincushions! As for materials for pincushion, possibilities are endless! I made them out of mini jam jar, bottle cap, cork, small glass and etc. Aren’t these lovely?

我有收集縫製衣服剩下的碎布的習慣。這些碎布的用途很多﹐只需利用基本的縫法、繡法,又或配不同的布料,就可製作出很多獨特的生活小物。我最喜歡利用這些布料做針包﹐而做針包的素材可多囉 - 迷你果醬罐﹐瓶蓋﹐杯子﹐總之差不多中空的容器都行。這些有夠可愛是不?

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Beside bitten by the craft bug, I also caught the vintage fever. I have been roaming Antique stores and found many great things. Other than picking up bakewares and silvers, I can’t help myself from purchasing vintage wooden spools, laces, linen, buttons, and the list goes on. I have been eyeing this cute Victorian era sewing machine and am just looking for reasons to justify the splurge ^^

我有說過我很愛往古董店挖寶嗎? 挖到很多好東西說。最得意是找到很多古董烤模﹐蕾絲﹐食用銀器﹐及造型獨特的茶杯等。除了這些﹐我還忍不住狂買古董木制的線軸﹐喜歡充滿懷舊風的小東西﹐覺得很有味道。而最近看上了一台出自維多利亞年代的縫紉機﹐現在很努力的在說服自己敗下去。。。真的好想要。。。

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32 comments:

  1. how can you resist the victorian era sewing machine?
    i love those wooden thread spools to death! ^^

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  2. Your work is absolutely fabulous. Love the mini food. Excellent detail work!

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  3. Very pretty, love the cake with fruits and candy!

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  4. those pincushions are soooo adorable! I'm pumped up to make some too :)

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  5. 非常精致,实在很考功夫!妳不仅厨艺了得,而且还能做出如此漂亮的手工艺,实在让我甘拜下风!

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  6. 我最鍾意Macarons作品, 好生鬼!

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  7. 阿vi,我要學這個!!! ><

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  8. you made these yourself? what an artist. amazing!

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  9. i've been dabbling with felt figures myself, but this goes way beyond what i've been doing. these are SO adorable! =)

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  10. Those are sooo cute, I love all of them, you are so creative!

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  11. I just love everything you do!

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  12. vi,well done!
    作品超可愛,也很有想頭!
    很愛那木酒塞的針枕!簡單,環保,但典雅!

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  13. 針子總給人有家的感覺,你的手功都不錯呀!!!菇菇針子包好有創意呀!!!!

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  14. 呀 Vi,

    本來我看過就算, 男人不方便討論/評價女紅的。
    但隻 Kiwi 餅與啲 Macarons 仔...實在很可愛♥、很鬼馬 ;))

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  15. OMG,太fancy了吧..Vi果然出手一定不凡~~厲害哦!!!!

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  16. 太可愛了! 我也是敗了很多日文手作書...不過常常提不起勁去做呢
    我超喜歡felt的那種喔...可是材料好貴,會傾家盪產的,所以一直都不敢指染.....(說得好像玩world of warcraft一樣, 哈!)

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  17. 妳的蛋糕簡直可以媲美酒店級水準,現在妳還向手工出發,做到很好啊!我不懂針字,很差勁啊!>_<

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  18. Time and time again, you remind us all to appreciate ALL the litte precious things in life...yet we often overlook/ ignore!

    These are awesome works you've done! Thanks again for sharing!

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  19. How sweet! These are truly lovely.

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  20. Hello all,

    I am glad you guys like these little felt sweets! I hope you don't get bore of them because there will be more to come^^

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  21. 謝謝大家的留言及讚美﹐
    阿Vi獻醜了。
    好像最受歡迎的是馬卡龍﹐
    真的很可愛是不?
    最近迷這個迷到不行的說:p

    過客 - 沒關係﹐男人評論女紅又沒什麼﹐我不會笑你的。。呵呵。。

    Yujai - 如果你不是買$79yd的Japanese felt應該就不會傾家盪產﹐不過quality真的很好﹐做包包最適合。

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  22. Oh, 說錯了, 我想說是羊毛氈那種 XD 小小一包就差不多10個大洋了~

    魔鬼別再誘惑我陷下去, 我對這本書流了很久口水了!
    http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/magazine/magfile.php?item=M010019366

    Hmm...我不太合群呢,覺得那個小蛋糕比較可愛, 看來我還是比較喜歡可以吃的馬卡龍 XD

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  23. 嘻嘻嘻~
    vi近期很忙還是有大製作?!

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  24. this is gorgeous just like yourself! :)

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  25. Yujai -

    呵呵。。。
    那我這個魔鬼要告訴你在Berkeley有家店有賣13色felt wool也只不過$25pk﹐
    我可以代購喔=)
    還有Berverly's也有賣2色$2.99pk﹗


    你相中的那本sold out了耶﹐這本也不錯(敗吧。。我是魔鬼。。):
    http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010411485

    小婦人 -

    嘿嘿。。我在忙著整理工作室﹐所以沒有太多的時間弄甜點吃﹐不過快忙完了 =)

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  26. Big Boys:

    Thank you! How sweet of you =)

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  27. arughhhhh......衰鬼~~~~~~~~

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  28. 有时间我也喜欢做点Felt手工。真的很欣赏你的手艺。

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  29. 完全很喜歡,好厲害!!

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