December 2015 DIY project

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Thank GOD for His blessing of creativity.  We do not have money to buy gifts for our friends and relatives but GOD has given me the gift of giving and service so I enjoy blessing others with whatever He bless us with; even at times like these where my husband has been unemployed for about 10 months and there's practically no income for the family. Sounds ridiculous but GOD has provided somehow and though we cannot give expensive gifts, we still can give something. Hope the recipients do not mind the inexpensive but labour of love put into each and everyone of these mugs and phone covers.

The mugs were painted individually with nail polish made in Korea and I chose to write "Jesus love so and so" to remind the recipients of GOD's love for them each time they use their own special mug 😊

These are the phone cases. The first on the top row was done for a friend's grandson, who loves dinosaurs.  The one next to it is a design I took from Eliza's FB profile (wanted to do one with a design she likes so that she would use it) Oh, the third one was especially done for Pete as he loves planets and universe.  In fact, I especially selected different ones with different verse and design from what I could gather of the recipients' like and dislike. Any ways, none of them really expressed that they like them - so, it does not matter.

As for the phone cases, I especially pick Bible verses and beautify them with nail polish to remind the recipients of GOD's precious Word. I think they are so special because of  GOD's Word even though they may be inexpensive. Unfortunately none of the recipients really like for them as I have not heard from them that they do 😌 It's ok, I tell myself. Everyone has different likes and dislikes so I just do all these as unto Jesus and not be sad.  Sometimes, I ask Him, why give me gifts that make me do foolish things like theses :(  Instead, give me lots of money so that I can buy expensive stuff people would appreciate :)

These 3 were especially hand carried to Eliza and her 2 flat mates. Because Eliza and myself love Colours, I made one with bright and cheerful colours for her 😍  We also sent many small presents to her for her Birthday and Christmas.

Pete's family wanted us to join them for Christmas this year as we have been avoiding this "expensive" occasion each year for the past few years as we can't cope with buying 30-40 presents for his family members. So I told him that we should at least get them something, though small but something personal and from our hearts. It took me many days to paint 30+ individual mugs for each of his relatives.

 These two plastic ones are especially done for his two grand nephews. Hope the recipients like them :)  Blessed Christmas :-)