I stumbled across this picture above via pinterest and couldn’t resist making one of my own. I didn’t use the book pages to create a paper flower (because I’m too lazy) and instead bought several fake flowers from AC Moore. For more detailed instruction, you can find it here. I had several white wire hangers [...]

Here is a close-up pix of my jewelry frame that I made.  The only difference between the one I made before and this one is that I added a fabric backing to it.  I buy my frames from Goodwill for about $3-$5 and then I stapled wire grid (you can get them from home depot) on [...]

After giving my previous handbags a good look, I realized that they appeared a bit too “amateur-ish” for my own taste so I decided to take it to the next level by using a pattern from BurdaStyle. It took me 2 1/2 days to make it given that I have a newborn to take care [...]

Got beer/soda bottle caps that you don’t know what to do with? Well, my SIL came up with a brilliant idea. She turned them into earrings!  When asked how she did it, she said she punctured a hole thru the cap by hammering a nail through it and then bent it slightly.  She bought earring [...]

Welcome to my new home. I decided to move from blogger.com to wordpress.com because wordpress is much more mobile-friendly. I’m now able to post entries via my iPhone app. I also bought my own domain, elaloo.com to house my blog. So far, so good. Obviously, after importing my entries, there are some things that needs [...]

I had a lovely scarf that I bought from goodwill few years back but I never wear it because it didn’t go with anything I own.  Today, I thought of using it as a cat’s sleeping pad because when Skid (our cat) sleeps on our couch, he leaves behind ALOT of cat hair, making it [...]