Noo Yoo: Piercing, Perfected.

Images from Thainie

I've been waiting for this day and it finally came!!!  Baby daughter got her ears pierced!  My husband and I didn't really expect it to be so soon since she's not even 4 years old yet but we stumbled across this cute shop at CentralPlaza Rama 9 the other day and decided to give it a go?!  She was so excited, we tried to inform her as much as we could on what was "going to happen" before getting there but she could only think about how pretty her little ears will be just like Mommies, her big sis and her aunties!  

The shop is called Noo Yoo, their website is www.nooyoo.com and they have shops in The Mall Ramkampeng and CentralPlaza Rama 9 and soon at Mega Bangna.  Very nice and clean with all the pretty earrings on display.  They also do nose and belly piercings as well.  Prices start at 490 baht for a simple pair of stud earrings and the piercing service is free.  They have tons of cute earrings to choose from too but the most perfect was that they had a great selection of children appropriate small earrings for children (and all earrings are made of surgical grade stainless steel).    

So we first had our daughter pick out the earrings and then she was seated to do the piercing.  The Noo Yoo staff was very nice and patient with our daughter, she first carefully marked the holes with a marker and let us see if it's good to go.  Once the holes were confirmed it was time for the piercing.  The piercing gun was kinda cool, I was use to the gun looking kind but this was just a square looking metal tool and the earrings were well packed in these medical like packaging and so when it was ready to be used, she didn't have to touch each earring but just used the gun tool to insert and load the earrings.  (Now I wished I took pics of each thing!---sorry)  Well I'm not going to lie, after the first ear piercing she cried but after a little comforting we did the other ear and she was back to being overjoyed with her pretty ears!  If you are interested in getting your child's ears pierced, I would probably suggest to try asking them if they can have both ears pierced at the same time (2 staff assisting)  so that it's done in one go, forgot to think about this.   My daughter is still gushing about her beautiful earrings!!!

Cool Finds: Sprinkles at Top's

Was at Top's Supermarket the other day and saw these sprinkles, 

were also priced really good too.

Sew Thainie: Wonderful Stuff Toys Holder

 I am such a neat freak, I'm always trying to keep everything organized and I feel horrible that my children have to bare with this!  Well I usually try to go through their toys every now and then to see what they aren't really playing with or which can be donated but we have a bunch of stuff toys that we just can't part with since they each have some kind of sentimental value.  Thanks to A Lemon Squeezy Home, I was able to make this wonderful stuff toys holder/net.  Also thanks to my friend Rach for her generous jersey fabric too!!! 

*** Just be on the look out once you put this up, my daughter has decided it is a great chair/canopy that she wants to lounge on....sorry that I don't have a pic of that.

Easter Craft: Salt Dough Egg Magnet

I wanted an egg painting craft but didn't want to do eggs eggs since I wouldn't know what to do with two dozen boiled eggs.  I also wanted a craft that the kids can take home and keep as a memento.  So I thought of salt dough egg magnets that the kids can paint and I would modpodge and glue a magnet on.  

It was a big hit, not just the kiddies but also the mommies!  Only thing I wished I had used pastel colors but they still look cool!  Best of all, it was really easy to prep.  I used this dough recipe from Busy Bee Kids Crafts but you can also take a look at this old post I did too for more details.  The salt dough recipes are a bit different and I can't really decide yet which one I like but the one from Busy Bee Kids Crafts was easier to dry and bake.  Maybe it's the high salt content?  Well all you do is roll the dough out flat to less than a quarter of an inch thickness and use any oval/circle cookie cutter to cut out and then mould to egg shape.  I used a small glass since my cookie cutters were too big.  Then I let them air dry over night (this also cuz I did them last minute late at night and so I was lazy didn't want to bake them right then) and then in the morning put them in the oven for about 20 minutes at the lowest temp.  It will still need to air dry after painting them since they do soften up again.  Also, we used acrylic paints to paint the eggs, will post a pic of the magnet once finished!

Easter Crafts: Bunny Bags

This year my friends and I all got our kids together for Easter a few days earlier since some of us weren't going to be in town on the day of.  Fortunately, I was able to take pictures of the crafts that we did to share them for everyone to enjoy!  

This is a really easy bag craft that you can do with any kind of paper bag and you just need to cut out the bunny ears and the bunny face.  I used scrapbook paper for the ears so that the boys and girls can choose from the different designs and it was precut since I had planned 3 crafts and wanted them each to be short and fun.

You can also add googly eyes and pom poms for the nose too.  Threw in some stickers as well!  I've attached the bunny's face so all you need to do is print and cut!   

Happy Easter crafting!!!

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Image by Thainie....Click to enlarge and save...

Eggsaster? That's okay, there's always crepe paper...

So many of my friends were attempting this egg yarn craft from Simply Modern Mom for Easter and I thought with the right tute it would be easy peasy right?  I mean it's just yarn, glue and a balloon, how hard is that?  Well as you can see from the picture below, BIG FAT CRAFT FAIL.  It wasn't the tute, the tute was really amazing but I'm going to blame the balloons, they were cheap balloons and the deflated in an hour!  

And so I did this balloon craft from Not Martha and instead of fabric starch (which I couldn't find here and made the mistake of scented fabric starch, the one they spray to iron, well lets just say it only make it smell nice...other than that it was like using water) I used the good old glue and water mix.   They turned out really nice and made a great centerpiece!

Top left image from Simply Modern Mom, other images from Thainie

.....here's the tail

Image from Thainie

Here's the craft in action, the kids all loved picking out the pom poms and gluing them on the bunny.  Tried gluing with a glue stick at first but it didn't really stay well so used white glue instead (Elmer's).

Easter Freebie: Pin the fluff ball on the bunny

Easter's coming and been prepping art projects for the kids and thought I would share this with you all.  You can either use art pom poms or just plain ol cute cotton balls!

Click for the full image to print on A4:

Do the hooky pokey...

Did you ever wonder how they do those vinyl stickers so nicely, especially the ones with cut out letters in them?  I finally got a chance to use the hooky thingy (aka Universal Hook) that I bought to use with my Silhouette machine on a labeling project that I've been also wanting to do for a long time....there's a lot I've been wanting to do for a long time....  Anyhoo, so I thought I would do a short tute on how they do it.

Image from Thainie

 - To begin, cut out your stickers with your cutting machine.

- Take some masking tape and gently apply it on top of your vinyl sticker. You don't want the masking tape to completely cover your label.  Make sure you can still see the top and bottom so that you can align it easily to what you are labeling.

- Position your sticker on and rub the sticker until that sucker sticker is on there for good. 

- Gently peel from top to bottom/side to side, depends on your cut out but always take it slow since you don't want to tear the insides.  

- Now get your hooky thingy and start picking at the letters to peel them off.  Be careful if you're peeling against plastic or anything that can be scratched easily.  

- And there you have it!  Wasn't that easy?

 

Here's some repurposed mayo containers for your cooking necessities...

Image from Thainie

  
IKEA plastic boxes for art supplies labelled...

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*** I'm thinking you can probably use a toothpick or those dentist thingys?  Will have to try it out and let you know how it goes...