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CRAFT

My Crafts Diary

Paper Craft

2024.11 Mom's Birthday Gift

Paper Globe of Happy Birthday.

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2024.11 Merry-go-around

The final piece to add to my amusement park collection  — a model from ROKR.

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2024.11 Amusement Park TV Show

I'll watch this show every day — a model from ROKR.

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2024.11 The Tea Cup

Started another collection of Amusement Park — a model from ROKR.

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2024.11 Moon Castle

Well, I planned to build this during the Moon Festival but we were traveling. Wasn't too late to celebrate it now. Model from ARTMODEL.

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2024.5 Monkfish

This monkfish is still single. Did not find a male one attached to her among the 1170 parts to make her — model from MECHANICAL PARTY.

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2024.5 Bull

Let's all wish for a bull market — model from MECHANICAL PARTY.

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2024.5 Princess Bee

Make a Contract with me now and become a Magical Girl (Bee) !! (⁠。⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧ — model from MECHANICAL PARTY.

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2024.5 Mantis

A mantis. Model from MECHANICAL PARTY.

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2024.3 Six Eyes Fish

Another Mechanical fish (with six eyes). Model from MECHANICAL PARTY.

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2024.4 Guppy Fish

Yes, I can also make a fish from screws! Model from MECHANICAL PARTY.

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2024.4 Wedding Crown

Built a stunning crown for a traditional Chinese bride — a puzzle from ARTMODEL.

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2024.4 Screw Bugs

Remember the Hunter Seeker in <Dune> or the ADI (Autonomous Drone Insects) from <Black Mirror>? Mechanical Bugs are just so cool! Models from MECHANICAL PARTY.

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2024.4 Mechanic Butterfly

My second bug model from ROKR.

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2024.4 Mechanic Beatle

The first of my mechanical bug collection! I was so looking forward to this model and it finally arrived! <3

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2024.3 Romeo and Juliet

A romantic music box ✨

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2024.3 Butterfly

As you can tell, I love butterflies. Added a colorful piece to our butterfly corner. 

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2024.2 Deep Sea Octopus

Built an Octopus sculpture with clay 🐙

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2024.2 Rabbit Lantern

I used to have these to celebrate the Chinese New Year when I was a kid. Decided to make one myself this year. 

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2024.2 Hanfu Origami

A piece to celebrate Chinese New Year.

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2024.1 Resin Koi

My first attempt at crafting with resin.

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2023.12 Pinball Machine

The Christmas gift for Michael, acknowledging his contributions to the process — model from ROKR.

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2023.10 Alice in Wonderland

Such a neat wooden puzzle and it fits so nicely on my bookshelf!

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2023.9 Cicada Specimen

Creating specimens for the first time. Turned out to be surprisingly straightforward, and I ended up making quite a few of them.

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2023.8 Plants Bookmarks

Put together these cute bookmarks with the leaves and flowers from our backyard, documenting the summer of 2023.

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2023.7 Motocycle

Took me 3 days to put this piece together. These metal pieces attacked my fingers and they are still hurting.

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2023.6 Luminous Butterfly

Modified the butterfly piece and put it on the wall.

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2023.5 Fox Wedding

We are having a fox wedding today! (My bride has waited patiently for a year!)

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2023.5 Butterfly

I made a moving butterfly that would glow in the darkness!!

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2023.4 Backyard

The backyard came later with lights in the pond - I love our water lily pond. <3

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2023.3 House

I have been thinking about making a pair of meaningful paper crafts and decided to make two views of our house - a front view and the back view during our two favorite seasons - spring and fall. I finished the house one first with a design to turn the lights on. 

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2023.2 Black Irises

I love black irises. They are very elegant and noble. Made one with crepe paper. Looks super cute in our dining room. 

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2023.1 Mush Paper Sculpture

It took me 5 days to finish this craft piece, a paper sculpture to depict Mush - our baby dog.

Designing a product is always fun as we discover new ideas and inspirations in the process of building - the lighting and the flowers were not part of the original design but ideas that came along the way.

 

We should never be concerned that the product is not “good enough”. And don’t be afraid of making mistakes - the lilies turned out to be great by themselves. The only thing we need to do is simply “get started”.

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2023.1 Cho Paper Sculpture

Had this paper sculpture design in my mind for several months. I want to see if I can make a home decoration of my cat, Cho, using paper. It’s funny that it must be uncanny to Cho and she attacked it, lol.

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2023.1 The Flying Dutchman

I really thought the dragon was the hardest to put together, but this ship brought the difficulty to another level! It took me a whole Saturday to put it together. The completed product looks amazing though. 

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2023.1 Pumpkin Carriage

It is the magical pumpkin carriage from Cinderella. My mom likes this one way more than the dragon - she is always my little fairy. I also played with the video editing so the video turns out to be pretty cute. :D

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2023.1 Dragon from Game of Throne

This dragon took me a full evening to execute. Amazing amount of details on the raw metal material. I was thinking about installing a lighter in the belly of the dragon so it can produce "Dracarys". But then I have to learn the structure of a lighter so I can break it down and find a way to install the trigger. For another day!

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2023.1 Butterfly

Did not intend to make the Jinx' butterfly but it did appear to be pretty similar. So I took one step further and added some features. Well here we go - a start of new series. 

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2023.1 Chess Box

Designed this chess box to hold all my origami handmade chess pieces. The silver and golden girls represents the chess pawns.

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2022.12 The Sun Rise

Designed and put this piece together at the end of 2022.

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2022.12 Jellyfish Lamp

Designed and made this jellyfish lamp. Used two layers to depict the jellyfish to give it more dimension.

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2022.12 Pop-up Paper Sphere - Christmas Ball

Made this pretty Christmas ball during the Christmas of 2022. 

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2022.12 Pop-up Paper Sphere - Alice's Teatime

This is the 5.5 hours process of making this paper craft. It is unexpectedly hard to put all the pieces together, but the final product is super cute.

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2022.12 The Terrarium

Built a terrarium and my metal bugs now have a home. 

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2022.12 Metal Beetle

It's a metal beetle.

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2022.12 Dragon Fly

Put this metal dragon fly together. First attempt on metal puzzle.  

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2022.12 The Piano and Violin

Got addicted to building these metal puzzles! It's the piano and violin today.

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2022.12 Merry Go Round

Love this delicate piece. It's so shiny. :3

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2022.12 The Metal Drum Set

It took me 4 hours to put this miniature drum set together.

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2022.9 Lazy Cat by Kyohei Katsuta

Folded this origami cat and made a frame for it because my mom kept saying that it's a racoon. :<

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2022.9 Pop-up Paper Sphere - Alice In Wonderland

Built this Alice In Wonderland ball together with the bunnies to celebrate the mid-autumn festival. 

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2022.9 Origami Rat by Eric Joisel

Folded this rat piece and Cho loves it. 

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2022.8 A Paper Sculpture

Tried this design from the Internet to make a pop-up card.

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2022.8 Moon River

Designed and made this pop-up card. Named it <Moon River>.

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2022.8  Hamster by Kyohei Katsuta

Folded this hamster origami piece.

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2022.8 Fox Bride by Kyohei Katsuta

Folded this fox bride piece. Now I really need to make the bloom so I can pair them!

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2022.7 Snow House

Saw this design to build a snow house using Q-tips on the Internet and tried it myself.

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