Create some cool jewels

Get your hands moving and your crafty juices flowing. It's time to add this cool bracelet to your spring collection. DIY lover Isana Tse Chi-hung shares the six simple steps you need to take to create a beautiful bracelet of your own.

Tse - a freelance graphic designer - is a long-time do-it-yourself fan. She has been hooked on DIY ideas since her first needlework class at secondary school.

Tse isn't afraid of a challenge, whether she's making a handbag, a pillow or her own wedding dress from scratch. She even spent half a year designing and sewing several dream wedding gowns, which included a traditional qi pao and a gown made from denim.

'It's so much more exciting than buying all the things you need,' she says. 'You let your ideas run wild and turn what you see in your mind into reality.'

What you need

Small pieces of colourful fabrics, 10-12 x 1cm diameter beads, 6 x tiny beads, some flat shells or buttons, pair of findings (fastenings), needle, nylon thread, scissors, glue, pencil.

Go to Bead Street (Yu Chau Street) and Button Street (Ki Lung Street) in Sham Shui Po to shop for these materials. You might be able to get pieces of sample fabric for free.