Happiness Project 2012 Review

Well, in few days the year 2012 will be a thing in the past and we would have to get used to writing the year 2013. I realised that my last post was in July 2012 and no updates after that. Do not worry, happiness project is still on. In fact, the month of July probably marked another 'big' happiness entry if I had the time to write it down here.

To start with, God Almighty has blessed me with good news, I am going to have another baby! So, soon enough my little family will become four in total. This second baby is not easy to deal with, mood swings that never exists, cravings and morning sickness which is more like all day sickness to me. I still hug my tummy with all my love. My first son, who is turning 3 years old in April next year, is still too young to understand that he will have a little brother or sister soon and becoming very attached to us. I still struggle in potty training him.

If you are in Instagram, you will see all my other bracelets and bead projects (follow me on Instagram @aliepey). I would post them here soon. As I grow bigger in size, it is beginning harder to sit and do the projects for long period. Surprisingly now in my third trimester, I can sit a bit longer to do my bead projects. I managed to do few bracelets and gave them away as Christmas gifts.

Recently I have added another craft projects to do, making handmade greetings cards! Lucky in Abu Dhabi I could find paper supplies easily and for the other craft supplies like craft punches, stamps, stickers, different kind of papers, embellishments etc I can find them in Daiso shops and Paperchase. Even stationery section in Lulu hypermarket and WH Smith and Magrudy's bookstores can surprise you with supplies. I admit, this new hobby is very addictive and I am only talking about supplies here :) I will post more about this along the way for sure.

So there you go, a short list that goes a long way to make someone happy. Have you found your Happiness Project yet? Keep looking. It's there.

Marble-lous

Will be practicing some bead wrapping with these marbles :)

Daiso at Madinat Zayed

I have not gone to this Daiso branch for a long time so I thought I would go and visit. Got these from them:

Three tubes of seed beads, two star-shaped beads and colourful round beads. I am going to do two bracelets and maybe earrings for my friend's daughters this weekend. Sssh.. it's a surprise.

For a Little Girl

I had few small packs of plastic beads which are colourful and young girl-ish. I bought them from Daiso when I first started the bead project. I do not think I can use them with the other pearls so I decided to make a pair of earrings and bracelets out of them. This is such a great way to practice and it is fun too.

Mina Centre Abu Dhabi

Last night I went to the Mina Centre Abu Dhabi (location hint: Mina Port, Abu Dhabi Co-op, near to ACE Hardware Mina area, Toys R Us) in search for beading tools and supplies. The bookstore, where I bought my tools before, had the small pliers good for cutting wires below 0.8mm. I found the round nose plier set there too, priced at AED30.00 or AED38.00. The only problem is, the round nose pliers are a bit bigger than the ones I have now, it is good if I had a bigger palm *grin*. They also do not sell it per piece so I would have to buy a set of four or five different round nose pliers.

The beads they have are for children craft projects. Small craft section for colourful plastic beads in boxes. Not for me at the moment unless I am conducting bead classes for young children. They also do not have wires I was looking for. I was a bit dissappointed. They have supplies for other hobbies e.g. oil paintings, clay, engravements so if you are into those, you may want to visit this bookstore.

I finally found my mini wire cutter that would cut the 0.8mm in Daiso Al Wahda mall which cost about AED14.00. Happy!