Monday, February 24, 2014

Wedding bouquet

14/02/14, not only was it a Valentine's Day, it's also the 15th day of Chinese Lunar New Year, most importantly its also my baby sister's wedding. It was a beautiful beautiful day and she is one gorgeous bride. Now that the day has pass, I realize that I sadly didn't take much photos with my phone, so while waiting for the professionals to send us their lovely work, enjoy my amateur take of the hand bouquet I made for her ^_^


Sunday, January 19, 2014

Sweet Bonnet and Slipper Set

Sweet Bonnet and Slipper Set - $60

Size available:
- newborn
- 0-3 months
- 3-6 months
- 6-12 months

Bonnet pattern by La tienda de paloma
Slipper pattern by The Lovely Crow

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Pen Cozy (free pattern)

This post is a little dated cause it's about the teacher's day presents I made for princess to gift but since I have a pattern to go with it and it can be used for any occasions or lack there of, I'm sure you won't mind much that its kinda late, hehe.

I am a very last minute kind of person when it comes to gifts, I don't know why but I just never seems to have enough time for anything, so I came down to either bad time management, or that I get easily distracted by everything else. I manage to finish these pretties in two days and send them in two days before the September holiday starts. Each one can easily be done in an hour and I actually got compliments from the teachers the following day. YAY ME!

 
Bought the cute animal cups from Popular.

Got some printables from the net, gave them to princess and told her to go crazy with it... and she did.
LOL!

As I mentioned, its kind of last min, I didn't have any wrapping papers in hand so I used some pastel A4 papers laying around.

This time I actually did scout the net for a pattern but did not find what I wanted so I made this up on my own, YAY! a pattern of my own! ok fine, its very simple, but still... *feeling proud* hehe.

What I like about this is no sewing and there's only 2 tails to weave in, the one from the leaf tip, and the ending tail from the flower, provided that you crochet your beginning tail as you go. I hate sewing, SUPER DUPER HATE TO THE CORE! I suck at it so whether it's a little or a lot, I just hate it, I find that anything that requires me to sew ends up looking awful. I'm quite sure in future if I do start designing my own patterns, I'll probably find all sorts of weird ways to minimize sewing.

OK, enough of blabbering, here's the pattern. :D

Pen cozy with flower and leaf

Materials:
Worsted weight yarns, I used Caron Simply Soft Pistachio for stem and leaf and Watermelon, Grape and Blue Mint for flowers
Size H hook or whatever size to achieve gauge
Needle for weaving in ends
Embellishments for flower center and necessary adhesive e.g. glue gun
stitch marker for beginning of round.

Gauge:
4 sc by 5 rows = 1 inch

Stem pattern:
ch 5, sl st to join
Sc on each chain and continue to sc for 15 rounds (75 sc) or til preferred length for stem, sl st into next sc, do not cut yarn.

Leaf pattern:
Ch 6, sl st into 1st ch from hook, sc 1, hdc 2, 2dc in next ch, dc in last ch, ch 3, sl st into same ch as last dc, ch 3, do not turn but rotate your work and continue to make the other half of leaf
dc into same ch as last dc and sl st, 2dc in next, hdc 2, sc 1, sl st into last ch.
Finish off and cut yarn.

you stem and leaf should look like this:



Flower pattern:
NOTE: for Round 1, pick up stitches from the last round of stem from the inside (see photos), this joins the flower to the stem without the need to sew it on later.


Round 1: Start with adjustable ring, make a ch and pull it tight, then make another ch (top left), insert hook into adjustable ring, pick up the stem (top right) and insert hook into one of the sc on stem (bottom left), yo, pull through stem's sc and adjustable ring (bottom right), yo, pull through both loops, 1st sc made. continue in same manner 5 more times (6scs)


sl st to 1st sc and tighten the ring.

Round 2: Ch 1, *sc, ch 1, 3dc, ch 1, sc* all in the same stitch as ch 1, 1st petal form. Repeat * in the next 5 sc.

Round 3: *Sl st in 1st sc of petal, ch 2* repeat for the next 5 petals, sl st into 1st ch 2.
(I use ch 2 because I want the 2nd layer petals to be as close to the stem as possible, if its too tight, you can ch 3 instead.)

Round 4: Ch 1, *sc, ch 1, 4dc, ch 1, sc* into the same ch 2, repeat * in the next 5 ch 2s, finish off and cut yarn.
Weave in all ends.


Embellishments:
I hot glued small button to the center of flower, you can pretty much use anything you like and either hot glue or sew them onto the flower.

I got the pens from Popular Bookstore, The cozy should fit any standard pen with cap.

That's it! Wrap it up and gift away or enjoy it as your own. XD

Monday, August 19, 2013

Minion Giveaway!

To celebrate my hubby landing a job and in anticipation for M.o.M to approve his work pass, also to celebrate the milestone of 100 fans on my Facebook page, I present you MINION GIVEAWAY!


***Giveaway Closed***
I will announce the winner over the weekends, Thank you for participating!

31/8/13 - !!!Diane Schweinhagen and Mike Tetreault, are you a fan? I can't find you on my page or my blog, if I don't hear from you by the end of the day I will unfortunately have to remove all your entries for the Minion giveaway or it will be very unfair for the other entrants.!!!

1/9/13 - Winner has been picked, Congratulations to Ellen K. Please contact me with your preferred style and size.

This is my first giveaway using this rafflecopter app and I actually quite like it as it makes the whole giveaway easier to manage. However, I would also like to remind all future contestants to please follow the steps to earn entries, for example, to qualify for the giveaway, you have to be a fan of my Adrialocity page or follow my blog, I had a few contestants who did what they have to do for the optional entries but weren't a fan of my page or follower of my blog, in which case, all their entries were voided. I sadly have to remove 19 entries due to that. I was quite lenient on this giveaway since it's my first, I actually do look for the shares and tweets, even if I can't find the shares or tweets due to privacy, I actually leave it in (which I will not allow for future giveaways, to keep your entries, you will have to share and tweet in public instead of just friends).

So in future, please please please follow the requirements as I hate for anyone to lose their chance to win something due to that. Thank you for participating, be a fan of Adrialocity or follower of my blog if you're not yet, to be updated on future giveaways and sales.
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Win a Minion Headband, beanie or earflap beanie in the size of your choice! Giveaway runs from 19 August 2013 to 31 August 2013. Free normal shipping in Singapore, for international and other shipping options, please contact me. Thank you for participating and good luck!

Edit 20/8/2013: Don't forget, you have to be a Fan of Adrialocity or a follower of this blog, This is mandatory to be qualified for this giveaway.

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Mermaid Scales Newborn Bonnet

Mermaid Scales Newborn Bonnet

Other colors available

Are you a photographer? Do you like a chance to win this bonnet and many more of other photo props? Yvi`s Photography is having a giveaway with lots of cool prizes! Good Luck!

you can enter here: 
https://www.facebook.com/YvisPhotography/app_228910107186452
Mobile friendly link: http://bit.ly/170KCF9
Here are all prizes in it: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.623982857634688.1073741827.137492656283713&type=3


Shimmery sandy shells on magical blue mermaid scales.
(No mermaids were harmed in the making of bonnet ^_^)

Size available:
$30
Newborn
0-3 months

$35
3-6 months
6-12 months