Another Year

Spent my b'day with my most loved ones. This year is celebrated without any pretensions.
Glad to have Nara this year. Love you little man.

Nara's DIY diaper-cover

When I browse for free baby clothing pattern, this one really draws my attention. Seems so simple yet so cute. I whipped up 2 of them from my fabric stash. What do you think of it?

I made slight alteration from the pattern, I dunno if Nara's diaper is much larger or Nara's bum is just big; but it seems he needs more rear space. 

Baby pants - NASA

R: Nara with "a lot of attitude" pose
L: sorry a bit blurry, he soon wanna snatch away my blackberry

Yesterday I dug up for old t-shirt to make some little pants for Nara. Found this old NASA t-shirt, one that his dad wore during his college time. Hahahaha....
I took some of Nara's existing pants as patterns, tracing it on some newpaper as a pattern.

And voila!, 1 t-shirt into 2 pants: 1 long one and 1 short one. How cute is that?
I choose this dark coloured t-shirt as my first trial. Made some mistakes, but the dark coloured fabric just kept everything hidden. Hope you won't notice it :)
The re-purposing old t-shirt project is inspired by this tutorial

I copied the pattern from the existing white pants  (2nd pic)

Ribbon & String Toy: Nara Approved

Nara's Ribbon and String Toy

My sis-in-law noticed that Nara loves to play with ribbons and strings, so she asked me to make something for Nara.
Here is what I made, all from scraps: ribbons from luggage tags, shopping bag, name-card tag, and exhibition tag.
The square was made from a scrap fabrics, and some scrap felt (as insert to give more body).
I put a removable clip-on necklace, so he wouldn't be able to drop it; just in case if he was playing it outside the house
I tried to make it as colourful as possible, mix and matching my limited resources.

Hope this little thing will keep him busy :)
There are some different features on each side

Baby in Costumes

Baby in Tie

I made a little tie from some scrap silk fabric, and attached to Nara's white plain jumper.

I think it turns out quite good, Nara loves it.
He loves to nibble on his tie.
















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Nara the Big Bad Wolf

And I made a "Big Bad Wolf" costume for Nara to attend Joey's 2nd B-day which theme was "Little Red Riding Hood". Too bad the party was cancelled into private family party. >.<~

I made his hat using a T-shirt fabric, hand-stitched into a little hat.
I mixed felt and a grey towel fabric to shape the wolf character.

Somehow it turned out looking more like a cat rather than a wolf. Hahhahaa.

And I used his socks and stitched it with some grey towel fabric, glued with felt claws.

A basic white bib should be sufficient for his belly, but since Nara don't have any white bib, I stitched a small white towel on his little jumper :)

And his tail attached to his jumper with a velcro for easy removal.

I put quite an effort to make this costume for Nara. He's not old enough to understand that his auntie loves to dress him up. Hahahaha
Once he grow up, he probably gonna refuse to be dolled :)

Love you little Nara.
You made a cute Big Bad Wolf.

My New Love: Nara

I am happy and proud to announce that I am officially an auntie to a teeny-weeny-baby-boy named: Narada Hugo Lawer
Born just when the clock shifted to the brand new day of 23 July 2012.
Here is my picture with this tiny fragile-looking creature. Definitely my new ultimate object of affection :)