With all those acorn caps I've been collecting, finally I made them into soft felted wool acorn garlands. It takes quite a number of steps, from drilling holes (I need to exercise my arm muscles - I had a sore arm after drilling few hundred caps), stringing them on hemp cord, and attaching the felted wool balls. I hope to keep some of them in my room, wrap them around a mini-pine tree I hope to have this winter, and add some festive atmosphere in the house!

My favorites are the white ones as shown above, but I've also been making the multi-color garlands and also custom single-shade ones as well (blues, greens, reds, you name them!)

Have you heard of acorn picking? I get asked often, "Excuse me, do you eat* those?" when I'm picking acorn caps in the nearby park for the Delica's felted acorns as well as lavender filled acorns. I try to go early in the morning, after my daily run, and it's right during the time when everyone is going to work (I live super close to my day-job so I have the extra time in the morning), so I get those weird looks or questions. 

But regardless, apologies for slow updates in both the shop and the blog, but as you can see, I have been working behind the scenes, making new projects (soon to come!), dreaming about new crafts, and also preparing for the holiday season!

* There is actually a Korean dish that uses ground acorn powder to make jello-type of dish, which I use to make it into a delicious salad - I'll share my recipe with you later!

I used to live in San Francisco before moving to Cambridge for graduate school, and while I was in SF, I found a quilting fabric store in the Sunset. I immediately fell in love with all of their fine prints, and started buying yards and yards of fabric, just so I could have it in my room.

I finally decided to make something out of it, and made these adorable lavender-filled sachets with acorn caps. It's quite fragrant, and I love having them in next to my bed. I went a little overboard and made three varieties; a garland sachet, an ornament (so you can hang it easily), and the regular single kind.

Hope you enjoy these too!

I recently came back from Paris with a box of  macarons from Laduree. Those small macarons in pastel tones were so beautiful that I wanted to make a felted bowl version to keep them in my Laduree box!

So the crocheting craze started, using up all my Icelandic wool yarn I brought back from my Iceland trip earlier this year.

The bowls are tiny, a good size to keep earrings and necklaces. Adorable!

During spring break I visited my friend in Copenhagen on my way back from Reykjavik, Iceland. I had purchased a luggage full of Icelandic lopi wool, and couldn't resist crocheting a bowl while I was lounging by the window at my friend's house. And of course, I got to enjoy a Carlsberg on a rooftop.