Welcome the Year of the Snake 2013

Wishing Everyone a Happy & Prosperous Chinese New Year. May all be blessed with Good Luck and Good Health!
祝大家蛇年行好运！恭喜发财！万事如意！身体健康！

We just went to Esplanade Drive, Singapore, and we had taken some photos of the Ang Pow River's countdown fireworks.

Mix & Match - Spaceship & Diamond

We can add varieties in the making of Ang Pow Lanterns for Chinese New Year.

I combined my Spaceship Ang Pow Lantern & Diamond Ang Pow Lantern to make a Chinese New Year Lantern as shown in the picture on the left.

You may click on the following links to find out how to make the

Spaceship Ang Pow Lantern

Diamond Ang Pow Lantern

Enjoy and have fun!

How to Make a Diamond Ang Pow Lantern

This Diamond Chinese New Year Ang Pow Lantern is very simple to make and it uses 4 Red Packets

Materials you need:
1) 4 red packets
2) Super Glue
3) A tassel
4) Estimated 30 cm red string ( you can decide the length you want)
5) beads (optional, I didn't use it in my video here)

Here is the video that I have created to show you how it is made. Enjoy and have fun!

2013 Chinese New Year Lantern Decoration along South Bridge Road, Chinatown, Singapore

My hubby and I visited Chinatown few days ago to feel the atmosphere of Chinese New Year. Along South Bridge Road, we could see the road was decorated with a row of yellow lanterns.

We then followed the row of lanterns along road.

When we reached the junction of Upper Cross Street, Cross Street and South Bridge Road, we found this very cute snake head.

The following pictures show this long Snake from different views, which it is made of many yellow lanterns. We felt this is a very creative display to welcome 2013, the year of the Snake.

How to make a Lamp-shaped Chinese New Year Lantern with 24 Red Packets

Chinese New Year (CNY) 2013 is round the corner. It's time for spring clean and make new decorations for our home.

My hubby does this "Lamp-shaped" Chinese New Year lantern. He made a pair and put them up at our door.

The lantern does give an oriental look to home decorations.

Now, you would want to get ready the following materials to make a lamp-shaped lantern:

- 24 red packets (also known as "Ang Bao", "Hong Bao" or red envelopes)

- Stapler

- A piece of red string estimated 30cm ( to attach the lantern for hanging

- A red tassel with a pearl bead.

Here's "How to make a Lamp-Shaped Chinese New Year Lanterns with 24 Ang Bao"

A Flower Bouquet Lantern Made of Red Packets 红包绣球

This is another video I found in YouTube to make a "Flower Bouquet lantern with Red packets".

This video shows a different approach. It uses 60 square red packets, instead of having to trim 30 red packets into 1:2 rectangles.



I just learnt that this is also known as  "Flower Kusudama"

Found Video on How to Make a Decorative Flower Ball with Red Packets 红包绣球

I'm so glad to find another video that demonstrate How To Make A Decorative Flower Ball With Red Packets.

When I browsed through this video, I noticed this lantern is different from the one I made in my earlier post on "How to make a Flower Ball Chinese New Year Lantern"

This lantern is also beautiful. To me, this one looks like a flower bouquet. I would like to call it the flower bouquet lantern instead.

I counted this lantern would need 30 pieces of red packets, each red packet trimmed into rectangle of 2:1, i.e. a rectangle comprising of 2 squares.

In another words, it means there are 24 pieces of rectangles, the balance 6 pieces rectangles to be trimmed further to make 12 squares.

This video I found would demonstrate how to make this flower bouquet lantern