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Hello, Creative people of Hive! What a wonderful day it is!

Like everyone else, I soo love that beaming heavenly body in the open sky at night. It just feels so great, watching and staring at the moon after a long tiring day. It is the most beautiful thing we see at night in the countryside. I must say I’m in love with the moon, but my 2-year-old daughter is in love with it even more!

Even before she was just a few months old, she already showed her amazement and interest in the moon. There were a lot of instances when she was making grasps and wanting to reach the moon, which was always followed by her sweet giggles and innocent smiles. From then, I had wished I could give the moon to her. But now I did!

To have this MOON in your room is so easy and simple. All you have to do is follow these steps and enjoy the process.

For the MOON

For Coloring

For the Lamp

For the Holder

If you have these then you are good to go!

1.Inflate the Balloon to a big Circle shape. Carefully do not inflate it too much so it won’t explode during gluing.

2.Prepare a mixture of your Glue and water. For this, you can have a 1:1 ratio, but in my case, I just mixed it and get the desired mixture I want.

3.Prepare the tissue paper by cutting it into small pieces. I use Tissue Roll Paper so cutting it into a square is easy.

4.Once the Balloon, Glue, and tissue paper are ready. You can now start gluing.

5.Brush the balloon with glue and cover it with tissue paper.

6.Keep brushing and gluing the paper until the balloon is fully covered.

7.Repeat Steps 5 and 6 for multiple layers of Tissue paper. This will make your lamp hard and sturdy once dry. Mine, I had 5 to 6 layers of tissue paper.

9.Dry it under the sun. Or you can dry it using a fan. Keep it safe while drying it.

Chika:

Now, while waiting for your lamp to dry out, you can have your lamp and holder get ready.

The Lighting and the lamp holder

1.Prepare the bulb with sockets and the wire. I used a 1-meter wire.

2.Assemble the wires and the bulb. If you are like me who's scared of electricity (even if it's OFF, hehe), don't hesitate to ask for help or guidance from someone whos good at it.

3.For my Moon Lamp holder, I used my old (dead) Bonsai tree. This Bonsai tree didn't survive (also a DIY), but I couldn't throw it away because of its unique form, and now I'm happy that I finally could make use of it.

4.For the base, you can use any pots or container you want. I used my old pot and filled it with pebbles.

Make your Moon Real! Color it!

2.When dried, it's time you can apply brown or ivory colors (Acrylic paint) for the design of your moon. Use a sponge instead of a brush to achieve a natural effect and lightly stamp the sponge to the paper lamp.

3.Let it dry.

And Viola! you now have your Moon waiting for the night for it to shine!

The Moon Lamp.

I called my daughter and watched her reaction closely as I turned on the Moon Lamp! Her eyes glowed with surprise and amazement. "Wow! Moon! It's the Moon Mama! It's the Moon!", the words she keeps saying. She stares at the moon with so much wonder, and she looks at me, and looks at the moon again! Ahhhh. My heart is melting! Seeing the happy smile of my daughter is more than winning.

And I realized, my "MOON FOR MY LOVE" DIY which I pour my heart into doing was after all not for this month's competition of the MOONS' but for winning the smile and the heart of my daughter all over again. And this is the beauty and the joy of my DIY MOON LAMP.

P.S.

Thank you for reading guys. Hope you are all safe and well always.

Warm smiles from @callmemsile.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=callmesmile/gxskzsef

Hello wonderful and creative people of Hive!

It is garden time again in our school! All teachers and students religiously buckled down for this task and this is not new to us. As a public school, we have this annual Program that requires the school to have a garden. But with or without this program, we always do gardening and landscaping to not just beautify the school and get recognition but inculcate the love of gardening, landscaping, and taking care of plants in our students.

In this season of our school, everyone gets creative and artsy in showing their garden and landscapes and so as I. I so love wood designs and I want to bring them to my garden without repairing or changing it every year (as it gets easily dilapidated due to weather and termites), why not make it concrete huh?😎! So, in today's blog, I am sharing How I make the concrete walls of my garden look like wood!

MATERIALS NEEDED:

A. For the concrete walls:

-Hollow blocks

(Note: the amount of materials needed for the construction of the garden walls depends on the size of your garden and your desired height of the walls.)

B. In making the Wood Like Design:

Any pointy Metal that you can use for carving (I used old Nails hehe)

Now that we gathered everything, let's proceed to the steps.

STEPS:

1.Let's assume that the construction of the concrete walls is done. Right after the application of cement to the walls, give 5 to 10 minutes of allowance time before you design the walls.

Note: You don't need a perfect smooth concrete walls, a rough and uneven wall is better for a convincing wood-like look.

2.Make sure that the wall is still a little wet (not totally dry) so you can easily draw and carve your design.

3.Draw your desired wood design. Do it by block for the best result. You can draw curve lines and straight lines until you can form the design you want.

4.Time to carve your design. Carve your design 1/2 inch deep.

Note: The Drawing and the Carving process is the most important step of this DIY. Prepare the best possible Design of wood and carve it properly.

5.Clean the carved area using a brush. Make sure to clean everything for smooth and successful painting.

6.Paint your designed walls using Latex paint. Choose what paint color you want for your Base color. In my case I used black to emphasize my Red and Yellow Paint.

7.When the Base color is dry, it's time to apply the bright color. You can mix the color on a container before applying it. Or you can mix the color using your brush on the wall.

8.Let it dry and wait for the finished product.

Note: Just enjoy this part of the process and let your creativity flow to bring life to the wood-like concrete wall you want to achieve!

And there you have it! You now have your concrete wall that looks like blocks of wood!

I enjoyed the process of making my DIY on How to make my concrete garden walls look like wood. I know its not as perfect as those works of the professional but I am very happy and satisfied with the result.

Hope this DIY can help and guide you in designing your concrete walls. Thanks for reading guys. You can also watch the video that I prepared for you.May you all be safe and well always.

Warm hugs from @callmesmile. 🤗

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=callmesmile/wqwrhooh

Ti's the season for merrymaking. Ti's the season for winning!

The HivePh's Discord was in a blast and was full of high spirits and fun during the 1st Ever Year End Party held last December 28, 2022. It was the funniest, the most exciting, and the most memorable virtual party I'd ever attended.

This Part 2 of our Year End Party, (Yeah, One day isn't enough for us Pinoy to celebrate Christmas) was the moment that we have all waiting for, The Night of the Talent Show.

As we all know, Filipinos worldwide are super talented. During the show, HivePh Community saw how talented and excellent the Filipinos' skills here on Hive are! From singing to dancing, to painting, amazingly, there were 8 entries!

Eight participants (7 solo performers and 1 group performer)were competing who will grab the first Price-a75 Hive Token! Our team was one of those who submitted our entry for the Talent Show. Together with my other three co-teachers and bloggers as well here on Hive ( @missleray, @jobeliever and @naymhapz), we showcased our talents in dancing.

Believe it or not, when we rehearsed our dance, we had spoken to each other (the four of us) that our performance is not for the competition, but rather it is to show how grateful we are to discover Hive and be part of this wonderful community the HivePH community.🤗 More fun. Less expectation.

The criteria of the Talent Show which were given by @indayclara-the contest coordinator were very simple and clear:

Mechanics:

And you know what's amazing?

The criteria for winning!

Criteria for winning?

Based on the Mechanics and Criteria, it is obvious that HIvePh Community was all for the fun-filled experience, the merrymaking, and a pure celebration of Christmas to all Filipinos here in Hive.

The moment of truth! And the winner is . . . . . !

All entries were incredibly amazing! It would be very difficult to judge who to win as all the participants were almost equally talented and great. Thankfully, we were able to touch the heart of the Madlang HivePh and won their precious votes!

Yeaaaayyy!!! Insert us jumping!

So now, I am sharing our fun-filled Dance presentation for you to watch too! Our winning performance during the 1st Ever Year End Virtual Party: Talent Show of the HivePH!.

That's it guys! Merry Christmas and advance Happy New Year Hive!

Appreciation:

I am truly grateful to the HivePh Community Admins, Staff, Event Hosts, and @indayclara! You have given us the most wonderful, meaningful, and fun-filled Virtual Year End Party! You're the best guys! More blessings to the team! Lab ya!