HIBISCUS (Gumamela) BUBBLES

This is a classic pastime I used to do when I was a kid. Mom taught me how to prepare Hibiscus (Gumamela) bubbles; and now I am sharing it to my little girl. She enjoyed mixing and blowing those bubbles.

My Gumamela plant

INGREDIENTS:
10-20 hibiscus leaves
2-3 tsp detergent
250 ml water

MATERIALS:
blower
mortar and pestle

Hibiscus leaves, and mortar and pestle

detergent

water

my daughter's old bubble blower

PROCEDURE:

1. First, crush Hibiscus leaves using the mortar and pestle. (I used stone when I was small)

2. Next, put crushed leaves in water.

3. Then, add detergent. Mix.

4. Lastly, let stand for 5 minutes. Afterwards, you can already enjoy your bubbles.

Little miss says it's like cooking.

It's windy; can't really catch those bubbles in photo.

Have a fun summer! =)

HOW TO DETANGLE DOLL'S HAIR

Barbie and Jem, and my little miss

Yesterday, my daughter and I kept ourselves busy with detangling Barbie and Jem's blonde locks. There is not much of a problem with Jem's hair; it just needed a bit of conditioning. Barbie's hair was the one to be rescued. 

To detangle their hair we used Johnson's baby shampoo, Surf fabric conditioner, water, towel and comb.

PROCEDURE:

1. First we gently shampooed their hair using the baby shampoo and rinsed afterwards.

2. Next, we removed the excess water in their hair by wiping it with towel.

3. Then, we applied fabric conditioner on the hair and combed it gently. The amount of fabric conditioner will depend on the severity of the tangle. We left them for an hour for the fab con to seep through; but 30 minutes is okay.

4. After an hour, we rinsed their hair with water; combed it and air dry.

I never knew before that Jem dolls are actually vintage. It was just a hand-me -down toy from my bestfriend.    I never knew her hair was really like that (punk style) until I saw it on the net; I thought my bestfriend murdered her hair. I know vintage things should be kept but not my Jem; she was playing with us since I was a kid. It's my favorite doll; love it!

COILED MAGAZINE FLOWER FOR HEADBAND

'Found a way to jazzed up my old white plastic headband using coiled magazine pages. 

Here's how I did it:

MATERIALS:

headband

coiled magazine pages 

a piece of green magazine page cut as leaf

glue

varnish

(for the procedure on how to make coiled magazine pages, please refer to http://imaginen-nen.blogspot.com/2013/04/coiled-magazine-bangle.html )

PROCEDURE:

1. Form the coiled magazine pages into a flower; use glue.

2. Glue the leaf at the back of the flower; and apply varnish to make it a bit stiff.

3. Lastly, glue the flower to your desired position on the headband.

My little girl modelling it for me. =)

Have pretty summer! =)

COILED MAGAZINE BANGLE

I made this bangle out of magazine pages. I think this could be a great summer accessory; but I haven't tried to submerged it in water though. =D

MATERIALS:
magazine pages
super glue or glue stick
cardboard
poster paint
varnish

PROCEDURE:

1. Cut strips of magazine pages about 1.5 to 1 inches in width.

2. Get a strip and roll it from the tip.

3. Coil the rolled strip from the tip. Then glue.

4. Cut a cardboard strip and roll it according to the circumference of your arm. This will serve as your guide when you glue the coiled strips together.

5. Put a rolled scotch tape on the cardboard bangle to hold the first coiled strip. Then glue the coiled strips together according to your desired pattern or design. Avoid putting glue on the cardboard.

6. Remove the cardboard and leave the bangle to dry. Afterwards, you can also paint the dried glue with your chosen color so that it will look neat. I painted mine with green poster paint. Lastly, coat with varnish for added luster and to make it stiff.

That's it! Have a beautiful summer! (*-*)

LITTLE TREASURES II

Here's my second collection of Orange's drawings. I have observed that she is drawing events that recently happened in her life like her recognition day; recent episodes of her favorite TV show, "Indio", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6sR24r0JLc ; and the episode of "Tropang Potchi" in Baguio City last Panagbenga 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropang_Potchi. 

RECOGNITION DAY, March 2013

My 3 y/o little miss just had her recognition in Day Care last month. According to her these are her classmates Franchesca and Ana Marie in their recognition dress. They are also wearing crown. (But during the recognition day they are actually wearing white graduation cap)

GMA 7 INDIO

Orange had watched on TV that the main character of this show, Malaya/Simeon, reunited with his father (Baba) and mother (Eloi). I saw this drawing in her sketch pad.

Baba, Malaya, and Eloi

The lines connecting their hands, according to my daughter, manifest that they are holding each other.

CHARACTERS IN INDIO

"Malaya"

"Malaya with his top"

"Esperanza"

Feet are covered with her long dress

"Rosa"

"Magayon"

The letters on her arms and lines on her legs are tattoos =)

"Lihangin"

But looks like Lidagat or Dalikmata to me. Lol =D

"Ubo Simeon"

Orange loves Indio so much that she even asked me to send this drawings to Simeon (Sen. Bong Revilla), lol =D The triangular thing on his head is a hat; used by Simeon when he went back to Ilawod.

TROPANG POTCHI

Orange saw the Panagbenga episode of this children's TV show. She was so amazed when she saw the street dancing participants in their Igorot costume. She said that they dressed like the little Indio (Malaya). Then, I found this drawing in her pad paper.

She said this is an Igorot Ka-Potchi.

"Miggy, Potchi, Sab, and Len-len"

The kids in tropang Potchi were wearing hooded shirt in Baguio City, that's why the kid on the left has that striped thing around his face.

OTHER DRAWINGS

She drew these dresses when Mama was sewing her recognition dress.

She also copied her toy castle in this drawing.

She was awarded Best in Arts, Best in Storytelling, and Most Thoughtful in her recognition. Yey! =D