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Actually, it was more like crafterday and more since it took many many hours. But anyway. You might have seen this before. It's quite an in thing now. So before my weekdays are no longer free, Lil and I decided to have some fun with this! • • •  N A I L  &  S T R I N G  A R T ^ What you need ^ 12mm Plywood (~A$11.70, Bunnings) 25x1.5mm Nails. Contains 215 nails. (~A$4.60, Bunnings) Thread (~A$1 each, Spotlight) The Plywood we bought was A1 size. The guys at Bunnings cut it into half for us for free.  So we had an A2 piece each – that's the size of four normal A4 papers. I used 7 of those rolls of thread for my project. So, let's begin! ^ Pick words, trace them out ^ The words can't be too small, or you'll have a harder time weaving the thread around it. We chose to just have one word each. You can print the words, or do what we did – trace them off the computer (the screen makes a good lightbox) because the pape...

A few from a week at Drysdale with friends when the days were warmer.  Drysdale is about an hour's drive from Melbourne city, just beyond Geelong.

Here's Mary Poppins in the longest word ever, in a little bit of colour and calligraphy. Super-cali-fragi-listic-axpi-dali-docious. That's how I memorised it many years back. 

I used to love art classes in school. They were one class I was better at. I even did art during computer class – by drawing random things using Paint (oops). Once, our teacher asked us to buy watercolour pencils for class. My parents brought me to Popular store, and I picked out the 32 set Faber Castell tin watercolour pencils and begged my mum to get it. My dad was like, so expensive!! And my mum was like, shh let's just get it. Hurhur. So I got it :D It was only later than I realised the tin set was way more expensive than the ones in cardboard boxes. But OH WELL. I GOT IT. And I was proud to own it. And I have no idea where it is today ha ha (well, it's now about 15 years later). The other day I was in Popular store again in Singapore, and chanced upon Faber Castells. I bought the 24 pack (not the tin one hurhur) to play with. Googled for basic watercolour pencil lessons and followed this one here . Pardon the light – I did it at night with my lamp for better lighting...