Advent calendar

Advent calendar
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Counting down to Christmas with an Advent Calendar. Put in little surprises for your little ones to open each day up till 25th. Each at $9.90

The season for giving

Christmas is 2 mths away. Are you thinking of what to get for your gal pals, wives, mums, gf? These earrings are up for sale. Of course I've not forgotten about the kids. I've made a couple of hair clips for that it's useful to keep them pretty. More design are on the way.

Pinata for sale

Barnyard pinata for sale.

Strawberry Pull-string Pinata for sale.

Pinata can be custom made to a design of your choice.

Strawberry theme birthday party

My gals love strawberry and being a strawberry shortcake fan myself, I wanted a theme related to strawberry but not wanting it to be too girly cos most of the kids are boys. So just sticking to the fruit was good.
The invitation card has strawberries on the cake. I made 10 cupcakes and add a punnet of fresh strawberry and a jelly as center piece.

Kids love pinata and of course it was in a shape of strawberry. I had it with black seeds but little did i know that the seeds were actually white.

For the gifts for the children, I made name tag out of the shape of a strawberry. Some scrapbooking incorporated in it.

Planning the party was fun and therapeutic when engaging myself in activities like making the pinata, gifts and cooking.

Strawberry Pinata

Strawberry Pinata
Originally uploaded by orion024

Is this pull-string Pinata sellable?

Thai Tom Yum

Gary loves Thai food for it's spiciness and sourness. This tom yum soup has loads of ingredients but lack it's spiciness. There will be more Tom Yum soup for the next few weeks.

Nonya Fare

Last Friday I invited my half peranakan friend Julia over for a nonya fare. It's my first time attempting to cook these 2 dishes - bakwan Kepiting and buah keluak.
These 2 dishes are Gary's favourite and we only get to eat it once a year at my aunt's place.
Lots of time is taken into preparing the nut. Soaking, scrubbing and hammering the nut to dig out the flesh. This recipe that I tried is from a friend's mum whose peranakan cooking just thinking of it makes your drool.
I will be trying out more peranakan dishes as I've a big tub of Rempah ready in my freezer. Wait for more posting.

Popiah Party

I love the popiah my aunt makes. At each sitting, i can eat about 3 with lots of stuffing. Gary ever had 6 at one go. Mind you it's not those small spring roll. He loves turnip while i love tulip.

My first attempt wasn't a popiah party but buang kwang as one of our dish for dinner. My success spur me to throw my own popiah party. Made my own chilli and garlic of course.

Here's a photo of what we had for the popiah party. Ever since, if there's any gathering, I will make popiah.

Is popiah party your kind of party?