We have been pretty much homebound the last few weeks. The nights have been tough as the boy has been waking up so often, and I turn into a walking zombie the next day. I still cannot fathom why he can't sleep through the night, permanently.

We have also taken a break from home-learning the past few weeks and all K have been doing is play, play and play. We have also dabbled into some Christmas crafts on certain days to get into the mood for Christmas, and baking…Apple Pies have been regular feature on our desert selection at home.

K is always very enthusiastic to lend a helping hand whenever we make an apple pie. I think it is also the main reason why the apple pie never fails to taste extremely delicious for him 😉

As for the preparation for Christmas?

Christmas decorations at home to the minimum, the only thing 'Chrismassy' at this moment is the felt advent calendar that I have made for K (I am just not too thrilled about taking down Christmas decorations after the season ends). The prominent thing thing I have at home at this moment, are trails of fabric, felt and strands of threads around the house.

I finally started on working on some items with felt and made K his first 'toy'; beanbags!

And some felties that I have recently made for gifts for Christmas…

And a stripey little one that will be an applique on a t-shirt…

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I really do need to step up on my handmade production of items. There's less than 12 days to Christmas!

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I can't believe that I am actually saying this.

My latest obsession is sewing. I did crochet when I was in secondary school for a while, and the only thing I was crocheting back then were necklaces. For a long while I could not even sew a button on a shirt neatly, so I never quite dared to venture into the area of sewing…until I discovered felting. I am really intrigued by felt fabric, and I am not talking about the craft or acrylic felt that we get here from craft shops, rather wool felt, that I can only find online at this moment.

Felt is a medium that is very adaptable to create illustrative designs and lots of whimsical appliques. Apart from wool felt, I have discovered the no-sew method of Needle Felting and simple embroidery techniques. I have been gawking at the felting and embroidery books from Amazon Japan for the last one hour while online.

So there are so many things I plan to create leading up to Christmas. As mentioned, many people on my Christmas list will be stuck with my hand-made gifts. For a start, I tried making a felt clutch bag for myself and added some simple embroidery and embelishments. And I found out last night that my mom keeps a stash of beads at home, so I did not have to buy any.

Will be kept really busy the next couple of weeks working on more cutesy stuff like felties. And then on to more ambitious needle felting+embroidery projects after.

Sewing has been strangely addictive and therapeutic. And so far so good, the needle hasn't drawn any blood on my fingers yet. 

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