It's been all about handmades this Christmas.
It started with crazily crafting for fund raising for the Children's Hunger Fund. Incidentally, I got an email from the people from the organisation, that a total of USD$835.00 was raised from Singapore! About 40% was raised from our sale of handmades, while the rest were from direct donations online. This is not a huge amount, but I consider it an achievement since Children's Hunger Fund had little or no awareness from this side of our world. This amount roughly translates to 16,700 additional meals for the hungry children! Every little effort to help was indeed significant!
My appreciation goes out to all the blogging moms friends (you know who u are 
) who have helped to create the awareness needed for this fund amongst their friends and contacts. As well as fellow crafting friends, Pauline, Lena and Rachel, who spent so much of their time to painstaking make the handmades needed to raise the funds. Thanks once again for your time and effort, ladies!
Despite not being in a celebratory mood during Christmas, I still rejoiced…knowing that we were able to make a difference to someone else's life this year. And how about repeating this for Christmas next year, ladies?
As for personal handmade gifts, since Christmas presents have all been opened, it now safe for me to post this without spoiling any fun for anyone.
I spent another 2 weeks, post Children's Hunger Fund-raising crafting…to make these items for family, friends and for myself 
Kokeshi dolls on magnets
'Houses' – Needle felted on linen zipper pouch
'Greetings' – Needle felted + embroidery on a linen zipper pouch
'Matryoshkas' : on a cotton zipper pouch for myself!
I made matryoshkas hairclips for my friends' daughters, and each of my friends got a matryoshka brooch in a different shade.
'Snap' – Needle felted on a small linen pouch for myself, the self appointed family photographer
I am really enjoying needle-felting, so I will be making a couple more small zipper pouches for my friends, each with a personalised picture on the pouch.
I hope to be making more handmades in the coming year, possibly considering to peddle them on my personalised etsy shop…will have to depend on how much time I have on hand, just have see how things pan out.
