Drum Roll Please...

For this year's Fodder's Day (Akemi talk) gift, I thought I'd make my DH a shadowbox frame of his other passion in life (besides his family)... Taiko! He is the Director of Puna Taiko and can talk about Taiko all day long if I let him. Anyway, I normally make him something with our daughter on it, but this time I got inspired to make it taiko related.

Since I've never seen any taiko related scrapbooking stuff, I decided to make my own. Do you like my taiko drum? Made it out of an oval spellbinder and punched out small ovals for the "skins". To simulate the hardware, used my mini brads. To give the skin the worn look, I used my distress inks on the sides.

If you look closely at the large photo (taken at last year's Taiko Concert in Hilo), they have their Puna Taiko banner in red... I made a similar banner using my computer and printed it on red cardstock. Then just trimmed the end to look like a flag and rolled the top part over a bamboo skewer and hung gold cord from the top. Its amazing what you can do with a little paper and supplies in your kitchen yah?

For Fodder's Day, we celebrated by going to eat Dim Sum at Kirin Chinese Restaurant at the Hilton Waikoloa. Yum! You don't appreciate dim sum until you can't get it. We don't have dim sum service in Hilo and the only place I'm aware of that has it on this island is the Hilton. Since we were in Waikoloa for a wedding, we decided to celebrate Fodder's day by eating some ono dim sum! :) Here's DH and DD acting silly while waiting for the dim sum to arrive (no carts like in Honolulu- made to order). DD doesn't like dim sum, so she was happy with won ton mein.

Got them to make a "nice" picture for me too... After the Hilton we went to get dessert at ORANGE TREE!!! You don't know how happy me and DD were to get some frozen yogurt! That totally hit the spot. Although we don't have Orange Tree in Hilo... I know a secret!! Well, maybe its not a secret, but I'm so excited that YOGURTLAND is coming to Hilo!! WOO HOO! I will be first in line to welcome them here. Can't wait can't wait! (Thanks Debi for the tip!)

Hope everyone had a nice Fodder's Day! I came home sick as a dog, so that's why I'm so late in posting this.

Forgot About This One...

Now that my busy week had come to an end, I have some time to craft again! While going through some of my old photos, I came across these that I forgot about and never posted. My mother-in-law had asked me for a photo of our family (i.e. me, DH and DD). I had planned on making her a shadow box frame for Mother's Day, so I pretended that I kept forgetting to give her a photo. She even suggested which photo to use (i.e. Xmas card photo)... Poor thing, she must've thought I thought her request was not important... even though it wasn't.

My mother-in-law seems to like green, so I tried to incorporate green into the project. I found some old washi paper that contained green and purple and gold, which led me to use purple and gold for the butterflies.

The thing I got stuck on was the sentiment. My DH and I went back and forth on what words to use and finally came up with a simple Happy Mother's Day that I printed from my computer. Sad, I know. I wanted to come up with something more appropriate but I was out of time and had to finish the project already. Anyway, she seemed to really like it, so I guess that's what's most important.

Supplies used:

Washi paper- imported from Japan (purchased from Masako's)

Cardstock- Bazzil

Labels 4- Spellbinders

Butterflies- Spellbinders

Crystal accents- Hero Arts

Flowers- Prima