Don't forget your shield!

Narnia
till 26 August 2012
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/narnia/

Yesterday I helped out at the Powerhouse Museum on the Narnia Shields which is a part of their school holiday program which is related to the Narnia exhibiton.

For $5 you are provided with a silver shield as well as some lovely decorations such as coloured stripes and symbols. Each of the colours and symbols have means e.g. the lion means warrior (I'll try to get a copy of the info later as I forgot to yesterday).

You can also visit play.powerhouse.com to download a template for the sword and helmet as displayed by this lovely umm... mannequin thing.

I made a sword myself which is being displayed by my friend!

And here's my own shield!

I also went as a visitor on the weekend to check out some of the other exhibitions... :)

Faith Fashion Fusion - an exhibition on the style of Muslim Women in Australia
till February 2013
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/faithfashion/

If you are able to catch the Boulton and Watt on a steam day, it's such a fun experience seeing it in action and one of the earliest and largest examples in the world which still runs!
Permanent feature

Lego Brickworks - ten amazing instalments by various artists including Adriano Zumbo (pâtissier and macaron extraordinaire) and Benja Harney (self taught paper engineer - I love seeing his works!)
till 30 July 2012
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/exhibitions/lego_brickworks.php 

Zumbo

Craig

Harney

Wiggles Exhibition - here's a sample of the paper rose making station; I would have a shown a photo but my rose failed dismally... :/
The Wiggles exhibit will be in for at least another year, maybe longer?
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/wiggles/

Here's a view from the Member's Lounge - it's actually the first time I've been to it (I've been to the one that used to be on level 4)

An afternoon city view on the way back to the station

t-shirts and games!

As I mentioned before, it's the 50th year of friendship between Australia and Korea, so a company called JK Entertainment somehow organised an amazing concert with 12 KPOP groups to fly out here!!

They were 2AM, TVXQ, C.N BLUE, MBLAQ, SHINEE, B2ST, SNSD (Girl's Generation), KARA, Miss A, Secret, 4Minute and SISTAR!

Anyway, I made a t-shirt using the freezer paper method which I lugged over from the US a year ago, yeah, I know, I finally used it for something!
for instructions see: "walmart collection"

I've been told the back seems a little empty so I might add some more lyrics when I have time (even though the shirt's been used now, lol)! The t-shirt also looks a bit crumpled as it hasn't been re-ironed yet.

My friend made her own t-shirt too, she put all the group names in felt ont he back of her t-shirt, a lot of effort but it looked fantastic :)

Also received some freebies from the day event and garnered some interested stares at my 'Like" banner XD (I've repainted the white section and waterproofed the whole front)

I also made this Korean Jegi at the Powerhouse Museum, which is sort of like a Korean hacky-sack, which I failed dismally at playing >.<

 Instructions!

1. Take about 3 pieces of A4 tissue paper

2. Place a washer on the bottom edge (of the long side) and fold it over to the other end.

3. Pokies it with a pencil.

4. Now we're going to pull each end through the hole, it's a bit tricky but here I am folding the end of the paper over so it will fit through...

5. Put a rubber band around the base to secure the paper.

 6. Tear the paper into think strips and fluff up the jegi.

And it's ready to play with :) if you're wondering about the colours...I made two lol

Instructions were modified from the one they provided at the museum, I don't think they would use the word pokies...

paper roses only

For my birthday, a friend of mine gave me some lovely kawasaki roses with red two-sided paper. I've attempted making these though couldn't really get the hang of it myself.

And here's a photo of one of those cute cupcakes from cupcake bakery ;)