Happy New Year of the Snake! 新年快樂！☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆
Introducing Jelly Roll! She’s a baby snake that usually likes to curl up and snooze most of the time making her look like a poofy croissant roll. Jelly Roll is super excited that this lunar year is the year of the snake. When Jelly Roll is happy, a special insignia shows up on her forehead! Anyone who catches the insignia’s appearance is bound to have good luck.
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Here are also some cute decorations to print, cut and tape up to decorate your home lunar new year style!
It’s been a long whiles since I’ve had a chance to design a deco project. So while baby napped, I took the opportunity to deco my favorite Hello Kitty piggy bank. This was a project I have been wanting to do for a year but just never got around to it.
The kitty piggy bank was a birthday gift from a college buddy back in the days. Kitty collectors will recognize that this particular design is from the first Hello Kitty Angel product line dating back to 1998. I knew I wanted to deco kitty up to be a fabulous cake full of candy and dripping with sweets. It took three days to complete the design, working on different sides and waiting for each side to cure. I thought about all my kitty loving friends while deco-ing and am super happy with how she turned out.
Take a look at the making of our sweet candy kitty here and don’t forget to subscribe to our channel🙂
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The holidays are coming! This year I’m feeling especially festive because it’ll be baby’s first Christmas 🙂 To get the house decorated up, I decided to make cinnamon pine cones by gathering pine cones fallen from our neighbors’ trees. They can even be dressed up with glitter or baking soda to look like snow has fallen. I left them as is because I love the rich cinnamon color on the cones and they make the room smell super yummy.
Here’s how to make cinnamon pine cones.
- Gather or buy a bag of pine cones that look full and are not damaged
- Line a baking pan with aluminum foil
- Rinse each pine cone under scalding hot water to get rid of any creepy crawlies
- Place the rinsed pine cones on the baking pan
- Sprinkle cinnamon on the pine cones generously
- Bake the pine cones at 250 degrees for one hour to get rid of any other hitchhikers that might be trapped in the pine cone
- Place the pine cones in decorative container of your choice and dress to your liking.
Enjoy the simple and beautiful decor that you just made!
Loving the cute mustache trend and was inspired to create our own mintstache! What’s that?
mintstache = 2 birds in love <3
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Vintage Fisher Price chime ball, record player, toyland radio, jumping jack
Being an avid toy collector, custom toy designer and a new mommy makes me nostalgic because motherhood automatically makes you reflect on your childhood experience, then compare it with your baby’s. Seeing all the neat toys being sold nowadays makes me think of my favorite toys growing up which back then seemed nearly indestructible. My favorite toys were definitely the above Fisher Price classics, play-doh, shrinky dinks, legos…. I also loved the popular My Little Pony, Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, She-ra/He-man, Thundercats (yea…Thundercats…haha) dolls/action figures from the ’80’s too. That makes me think of my favorite afternoon and Saturday morning cartoons – Dungeons & Dragons, Muppet Babies, Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors, Jem,…. I digress… 🙂
You can still pick up old toys on eBay but be prepared to pay up for the really well loved ones like the Fisher Price wind up record player! I did some damage on eBay but instead of getting the original 1971 red wind up record player, I got a 1987 blue version which works the same but was cheaper. There is a re-release of this record player on the market now but beware it is not really the traditional, manual wind up toy of yesterday. It is an electronic toy that does not actually play from the records’ grooves.
I hope the little one will enjoy some of these oldies (but goldies!) and wonder when my baby grows up if he will find some of my favorites among his toys!
