Category / Tanglong Making

Happy Chinese New Year!!

Previously I made 2 types of tanglong from red packets. Read here and here. Then I made another 2 types but due to time limitation, I didn’t take picture of the process. Here’s the tanglong decoration at my house.

Pineapple tanglong duo in the living room.

“Hulu” which is calabash in English duo at the front of the porch. Sitting in the middle is the 2-tone tanglong which I decided not to make more as it’s really waste of time lol.

3-star tanglong duo in the middle of the porch.

Best Wishes in Health & Prosperity. Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Here’s my pineapple tanglong making process. Gotta keep this post short as I’ve got limited time to make a few of these!

Last Sunday I decided to start my tanglong making after dragging it for so many weeks. I just don’t have the time to do all this anymore with my busy work schedule.

I purchased this book of Tanglong Making #2 from Kinokuniya at RM18 a few months ago. I won’t recommend anyone to purchase this book as the instruction sucks. They skipped a few steps and it’s really annoying to keep taking off staples! At the middle of the below making process, I decided to ditch the book and do it myself. Thank goodness my crafty brain still works lol.

I took down 2 boxes of red packets from the top of my cupboard. This 2 boxes is just 10% of my collections. There’s still loads more. I love red packets. Giving out “angpao” is a good thing for the giver. There’s 2 types of giving “angpao”. First is as married people and second is as superior giving out to his/her subordinates. I don’t do the first one as I’m not married but I do the second one which is giving “angpao” to my staffs. I did that every year and not sure about this year as my current staffs is a pain in the a$$. I have stuffed thousands of RM into their pockets and yet they still don’t appreciate it. I was thinking to double the value of the angpao this year but I might not give them at all. Ok I’m rambling again. I’ll tell you why in another post.

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