Birthday gift for my host kids

I am so grateful for the chance to live together with my current host family. I have been living in Denmark for almost 2 years now and with them it has been 1 year and 2 months. My host parents have 2 kids, a boy and a girl named Caspar and Frida. When they had their birthdays, I also would like to give them something that I made by myself.

Caspar loves Lego, robots, all boy stuff, whilst Frida loves all things related to princess stuff. Well at the moment I could make animal-shaped paper quilling. Caspar loves everything with dinosaur and Frida loves rabbits.

Here are what I made..

And this is for Caspar..

When I gave the one for Caspar, it is actually a card. I wrote him something like:

''Dear Caspar, this dinosaur represents you as a lovely, happy and strong boy. I hope you remain the same forever. Hugs''

After he read that, he started to be teary, as well as my host mother and host father hehe. And I am so weak when it comes to see people starting to be teary, so I began to be teary as well. Quite awkward but well they love it and I will always remember that moment :)

Giraffe paper quilling

This is what I made for my girlfriend's cousin, whom at that time moved in to Nairobi. I figured to give her something made by myself, to remind her about her home country, which is Greece. I found out that she likes giraffe, so I made one...

At the top right side, you could see that there is a blue-and-white small house standing right next to Greek flag. Also right next to the house there is the lemon tree. So yes those are things to remind her about Greece. I did not have that much of green paper back then so I just colored the hill with a colored pen. It looks very childish, but well what matters she likes it hehehe.

Little monkeys paper quilling for my soulmate :D

So it was my soulmate's coming-up birthday which would be in the last week of January. This was gonna be the second paper quilling for January, as previously I have made one for my host mother. I usually make something based on what they like (because it is gonna be a certain thing that they would like it, well at least in my theory :P). So I was trying to list down the things she likes. It was kind of difficult to decide as she likes many things hehe. But well I managed.

Since she loves monkeys, purple, and banana, I the decided to make a paper quilling art for her, with a form of purple-colored monkey, with a banana hehehe.

Here goes the beginning of the process of making..

It took me time to decide how the monkey head would be. Well that one is orange-colored, yes. It is mostly for me, since I like many colors such as green, brown, and orange. So that orange monkey represents me (hehehee).

It looks like it's dancing, eh? Nope it is not dancing. In fact, it is trying to hand over something to the next monkey I was about to show you :). But then I got confused to decide between a heart, or a banana. Look look...

After thinking and thinking, I then decided to just go for the original idea, the banana (since she loveeees banana a lot!). So it looked like I (as the orange monkey) hand over a banana (to represent the birthday gift) to her (the purple monkey).

This is the result....

More bananas yaayyyyy!!! :P

She loved it! Horrayyy!!!