Creating Success Around the World featuring PC from Meijo's Joy

Welcome to
Creating Success around the World

The worldwide blog hop tour, that introduces you to creative people from all corners of the globe.

Every Wednesday our hosts on each continent will introduce you to someone new whose creativity is inspiring! 

Here's how you can take this worldwide tour with us: 

1. You can follow all the hosts to support them and keep up to date with the fabulous posts they will share every week.
2. Then if you are inspired to join, just link up your own blog to make some new international friends (link party is at the bottom of this post).
3. Remember to leave us a comment when you follow us so we can follow you back.
4. And of course we'd love if you added our button to your site to help spread the word! (you can grab the code on my sidebar)
   

Here are your hosts:

Australasia - Jill @ Creating My Way to Success

Europe - Yaga @ The Shiny Bubble 

The Americas - Suzy @ Suzy's Artsy Craftsy Sitcom

Africa - Adepeju at Peekadot

Asia - Me! :)

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Our guest for today is PC of MeiJo's Joy. PC is creating success from Penang, Malaysia.

[Janelle]: It's great to have you here PC! Please tell us something about yourself and your blog.

[PC]: I married Mr. Amazingly Understanding in year 2000.  He is my first love, we met each others on our final year in university.  We was just graduated, jobless and broke when we get married.  Anyway, we still insist to go to Sydney for Honeymoon…well, two newly wed backpackers we were.

I begin my SAHM life two years ago after resigned from my 10 years job as a QA Manager in a manufacturing plant in Penang, Malaysia.  I was a teacher before joining the corporate world. After being a SAHM…I am quite lonely…the only people I ever contact are some ex-colleagues through FB and the vege ladies in the wet market.  I don’t have soul mate anymore.  So, after join into the blogging team, I earn so many soul mates and friends who appreciate what I do, sharing the same interest…and I love to see comments from readers!

My blog is about my new life and direction to adjust myself in as SAHM.  I like to share about ways, things, tips for moms to enjoy life even though in low budget and busy routines. I started blogging in February 2011. My girls are the reason I stay at home. They are always in my mind and they are the inspiration for my blog so I named the blog after them.

Can you tell us a little about your part of the world?

Paradise of shopping (cheap), Food (So many variety), Weather - Summer all year long.... the only thing...some times it can get tooooo hooot.... ;(.  And the dust :P [Janelle: I can totally relate about the dust... it's like that here too!]

What do you create?

I create just about anything that can bring more joy and convenient to my home, my family and friends.  I love to create things that involved recycle, upcycle and repurposed.

Why do you create?

To give a new life to something which other may thought it is worthless or boring.  And hopefully the creation may inspired those who see it, able to see that their life can be just as fulfilling and fun if they inject in some creativity and judge things differently.

Do you sell your creations? If so, how? Where? And is it profitable?

No, not selling at the moment but already allow me to earn so many friends, laughter and joy.

What mistakes have you made or lessons you have learned in your crafting?
Perfection need patience...I always forget that and lost my patience...can't wait to share with friends in blog land.

What, to you is success? Have you achieved it yet, or are you on your way towards success?
After resigned from my previous job as a QA Manager, my current target is to be a calm and cool mom and an understanding wife...a simple goal but yet to achieve, still have a lot to learn especially from my kids. 

So what's next?
Let's craft and share more love.

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Thank you for joining us here today PC! I had fun getting to know more about you. If you want to see more of PC's projects, head on over to her corner at Meijo's Joy.

And now it's your turn to introduce yourselves to us!

Brook&Lyn-Inspired: Surrounded Necklace

I would like to say this is Anthro-Inspired... since more of you are familiar with Anthropologie and can relate to the concept. But the truth is, I got the inspiration for this first from Donatella of Inspiration & Realization. Have you been to her blog? You really should visit... I'm in love with everything she made!

I saw her tutorial for this necklace. 

Agate slice crochet jewelry. Click link for Donatella's tutorial.

These are inspired from Brook&Lyn's pieces from the 'Surrounded' collection. Then last week, while surfing for some inspiration, I saw that Brook&Lyn pieces are now being carried by Anthropologie.

Brook&Lyn necklaces on Anthropologie.

I love the necklaces! However, I don't have agate slices, nor do I know where to get them here. And I don't know how to crochet... I tried to learn when I was younger and my sister is really good at it... I am not. I might try again in the future, but for now, I will improvise.

I have these pendants in my stash and was initially planning to use them:

Bits and pieces of shell set in resin.

I got them for around $1 each, I think, from Quiapo, Manila back in 2007. I couldn't decide which one to use because I only had enough rope for one necklace. While rummaging in my supplies drawer, I found this:

It's a white child-sized glass bangle I also got back in 2007. Since it's small, I've been using it as a pendant for another necklace I made a long time ago. I thought the technique will work well with this too and decided to use this instead and got to work.

I used a glue gun to attach my rope around the bangle. And then, since I can't crochet, I decided to line the area between the bangle and the rope with some rope chain.

Attach the locks and ta-dah, done!

I love the simplicity of this. I think I want to make more using my other pendants. I'm buying more rope this week and get to work on the others. I think this technique can be used with any flat pendant you may have.

By the way, don't forget to check back again tomorrow for my first Creating Success Around the World interview! I will be having one very talented lady as a guest.

See you tomorrow! :)

I am linking up to the following link parties:

Show Me What Ya Got at Not  JUST a Housewife | Take a Look Tuesday at Sugar Bee Crafts | Tuesday Party at Running with Glitter | Get Your Craft On at Today's Creative Blog | We Did It Wednesday at Sew Much Ado | Your Whims Wednesday at My Girlish Whims | Link Party at Tea Rose Home | Hoo's Got Talent at Night Owl Crafting | Wicked Awesome Wednesday at Handy Man, Crafty Woman | Creative Juice Thursday at Momnivore's Dilemma | Get Your Brag On at Gluesticks | Thrilling Thursday at Paisley Passions |

Success starts next week!

I have some news for you guys today. I'm a little excited about this one :)

I have been working with some lovely ladies from across the globe to bring you:

Watch out for this!

What is this about? It's project initiated by Jill of Creating My Way to Success. She brought together 5 bloggers (including me!)  to feature weekly interviews of talented people from our respective continents. The featured interviews will be posted simultaneously every Wednesday, and it will be followed by a blog hop link party. It's your chance to introduce yourself and showcase your talent to a worldwide audience. And you get to meet other talented people like you too!

Here are your hosts for this project:

From Australasia - Jill @ Creating My Way to Success

From Europe - Yaga @ The Shiny Bubble

From the Americas - Suzy @ Suzy's Artsy-Craftsy Sitcom

From Africa - Adepeju @ Peekadot

And from Asia - Me! :)

Make sure you visit them every Wednesday too to meet their talented subjects, ok? 

What I love most about this project is I get to know more about the ladies I admire through the interviews I'm doing with them. I already have few talented ladies who are based in Asia lined up (if you are one of them... ssssssshhh... let's keep it a secret until your interview comes out ;).

I will still be posting about my usual projects but I think this is something new for you guys to look forward to. Hope to see you at the blog hop next Wednesday!