My mom’s a seamstress. It is what she is real good at. In fact, she made her own wedding gown when she got married to my dad at 18. I think she can sew just about anything even curvy seat covers!

Over the years she had sewn for us. It was only in the mid-80s, though, that she thought of sewing for neighbors to have extra income. She has been known for quality and precision. When she moved to another house, her clients followed her.

She made my wedding dress too, although I designed it. Before my time, I have designed the beading of several of her clients’  wedding dresses. That’s what I miss. It’s one of my craft that I rarely did but enjoyed doing.

Since I was a kid, I loved the idea of living in a trailer…that’s how it was called before. Being able to have everything in a small space and move around at the same time is something I like. Watch the video below on how to make your own trailer. It’s possible, yes, and by the look of it, it’s beautifully crafted.

If you think you have what it takes to make one yourself, then by all means, that will be great! I’d like to make my own too! I just don’t think I have the skills! But I love having an RV so I guess, if you’re like me, either you buy one with cash or check on RV loans that can make it possible to own your trailer.

Two months ago, during the UCG-Manila Women’s Club, we were introduced to jewelry crafting. Our mentor, Nida Panlaqui (suddenly I forgot her married name! Panlaqui is how I’ve known her since about 3 decades ago!) was our resource person. Her mother is a member of our club. Kids of members were also invited so 2 of my girls were there too.

Nida (in blue) introced jewelry crafting.

Adults and children alike picking their "jewels" to craft.

Everyone was silently busy. I was taking the pictures.

Lunch.

Continuation.

Ria made all these!

I made a pair of earrings. I wanted something different, I made it look like tiny people. I've made more of them later, better and improved.

I turned my "little person" into a zip holder.

It was such a success because after the Show & Tell portion of the club, which usually lasts 45 minutes, that time it continued until the club ended (it started at around 10am and ended around 4pm), while still doing other stuff.

Later for the following weeks, I’ve gone to jewelry craft shops to buy my stones and pins and several pliers. My 3 girls got busy and creative. We were able to sell some just at our door to people walking by. Some were sold during the Church’s recently concluded rummage sale.

I hope to sell them online too once I get a good camera. My phone cam’s not good anymore. I need something that good for real like a digital camera but that costs too much way beyond my budget!

Also, I hope I can do jewelry-making with loose diamonds too! That would be awesome!

Whether you are designing some structure as an architect, or instructing and you needed some visuals, or merely designing from your imagination, not necessarily educated in that field, have you ever wondered where you can get CAD designs of industrial supplies so you don’t have to redesign the wheel, so to speak?

I know of a place and not only can you get the designs free, the items are available and you can buy it directly from reidsupply.com. Their online catalogue is also fantastic, they have the capability to let you crop a portion and save it to your computer or have them email it.

Check it out, I think it’s very helpful.

I’ve made 2 designs meant for bloggers and uploaded to Jujups. You can sign-up if you haven’t yet and order your t-shirt. I’m going to make it fit for mugs and others too but as for now the 2 designs are specifically made for t-shirts. They’re inexpensive. P650 which is less than US$15.

What is special about the designs are the originality in the poetic composition…really meant for bloggers.

The shirt design above is meant for Filipino bloggers. It basically encourages that Filipino bloggers are and should have original content and be an example of originality.

The design above has the poem below (in case you cannot read it from the shirt):

Behind a monitor,
Logging in;
One writer,
Great within;
Great ideas,
Expressed,
Released!

If you will notice, both designs spell BLOGGER.

Please go to the site and I’d appreciate if you rate them. Much better, if you get your own shirt.