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How To Give Your Home A Modern Look

Nowadays, there are a whole lot of different ways to decorate and style your home. We live in a time where everyone has a different taste in furniture and design. Some people opt for more minimalist lifestyles, while others go for a maximalist look. But regardless of your taste, everyone wants their home to look and feel as stylish as possible, and giving your home a modern touch can be a great way of accomplishing this. So here are three types for giving your home a modern look.

How To Give Your Home A Modern Look

Chinese New Year Ang Pow Fan

This is my Chinese New Year ang pow fan tutorial. If you would like to learn about other lantern designs I have made previously, do take a look at my Pinterest board for Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year Ang Pow Fan Craft

Chinese New Year Ang Pow Sheep

It is the time of the year to start making some Chinese New Year crafts! This year, the first day of Chinese New Year falls on the 19 February 2015 and it will last for 15 days. Last year, I had made quite a few Ang Pow lanterns, taught the children simple ways to learn the Chinese zodiac, did various paper cuttings and also made a 3D Chinese “Spring” character. Click on the title Chinese Culture to look at my previous Chinese New Year crafts.

This coming year is the year of the Sheep. During these next few weeks, I will be sharing different types of sheep crafts with you!

Today, I am showing you how to make a Chinese character sheep 羊 using ang pow (red packet). This is a very simple way to decorate your wall and teach your children Chinese words.

Ang Pow Sheep

Chinese New Year Wall Decoration

This year Chinese New Year falls on 31 January 2014 and is the Horse year.  There is a 12 year cycle and and each year has a different animal to represent them.  In a later post, I will blog more about the background.

It traditionally starts on the first day of the lunar month and continues until the fifteenth.  The lunar calendar is based off the cycles of the moon, so that’s why the date of the Chinese New Year varies from year to year of the Gregorian calendar.

Today, I would like to show you how I decorated our house with the decorations that my mum sent me. Some of these photos were taken by my sister from a shop in Singapore.  It is very important for Chinese families to decorate their house to fill their house with plenty of good wishes e.g. years of brimful happiness, good health, wealth, prosperity etc.  It is equivalent to how English people decorate their houses with Christmas decorations and ornaments with wreaths, candles, mistletoe etc.  This is our Chinese New Year Wall Decoration!

Chinese New Year Ornament

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