Craft scene : Petite Abby

I am a crafting class freak. And I am very happy to admit that I am. If you are like me, a crafting freak please check out Petite Abby's craft classes. Her shop is located in TST Solo Building on the 3rd floor. She is a mom who took a dive into her love for craft and opened up a shop to teach other moms and craft lovers crafting. She is an avid crocheter and a sewer.

I am so lucky to have found her via Group Cow one of those group buying website in Hong Kong ... think Groupon ... I think Groupon started all this hoopla. It is so hard to find where the good crafting places are in Hong Kong. They are typically tucked away unless you know what you are looking for around town.

Check her out via Facebook and you will find all her classes listed there.

I have taken two classes with Abby and she is an awesome teacher!

26 November class Abby teaching her class how to crochet.

This is a sample of the crochet basket.

This is my version and it is all wrong cause I added more stitches. But my boy loves it.

These are cute and handy dandy. The cookie is a needle holder.
And the pudding is a pin cushion. The pin cushion took me 3 hours to complete.

Sample of how they should look like from a Japanese craftzine.

18 December class with Petite Abby.

recent arson and freezing temperature

Couple days ago there was a suspected arson in Fa Yuen Street that resulted into 360 Hong Kongnese homeless. And 9 people were killed plus 34 injured. The firefighters took 7 hours to put out the uncontrollable blazing fire. The hawker stalls fire spread to residential buildings.

According to our local driver, he said it is always related to the mafias, but the police will not catch anyone. The stall owners pay out to different mafia gangs "protection" money for each stall space. The Hong Kong government allows hawker stalls, but set some rules to how big each stalls should be etc. It isn't the first time that the hawker stalls in this particular street had endure such tragedy. According to the local news last December similar incident happened where 50 stalls were burnt down.

And it is freezing these last couple of days, Hong Kong in the 50s F ... unheard of at this time of year.