Aidilfitri 2011

Pancake-making Video

This was taken earlier this month on a Sunday morning when I realised I never had our pancake-making sessions recorded. The girls love making pancakes from scratch so I've stopped buying pancake mix since. I hate to think that eventually, they'll grow out of the little joy of making pancakes so imma treasure this video.

Pancake-making Morning

Is's Black & White Tea Party

It's term break and I was twiddling thumbs so when Is said she wanted to do a black and white tea gathering at her new place, I jumped.

We got hardcore with black and white right down to food so she and husband whipped up squid ink pasta, Fau our resident baker made choc cupcakes and I had the table set up. (all photos courtesy of Is)





















Her new place is pretty awesome. Chic and spacious, totally in favour of the kids. She had a black and white backdrop for the kids to pose at but it was so damn hard to get them all to take a decent pic together.









Thanks Is, for the party!

S'more Office Tea-Party

Hello. It's been a while. And I'm back for a little bit since I'm having term break from my night classes. We had a Smore Office Tea-Party yesterday. Additional cupcakes by my colleague, Fini.

Blocks of Pink, Green and White

I don't carry a proper camera anymore so excuse the quality. This was taken on 12th Feb, after a birthday party. These two were still partying on the way home. I just had to snap from my mobile.

Pink 5th Birthday

I have to thank Nat for helping me out with not just taking photos yesterday, but entertaining the little ones as well.




The thing with "two-dollar" shops is you have to consider the item's value. There are single cellophane gift bags and there are fabric reusable bags. Which is worthy?


Vanilla Cupcakes (with cream cheese frosting) done by Fau.
Please excuse the cake pops. They were done well by Fini until I tried my hands with the candy-melt coating. (Reminder to self: stick to props and deco).



My friend, Fildza couldn't have been more timely with her NY holiday trip so she got back with the pink m&ms for me.

I swear by drinks name-tags ever since I did them for the younger un's birthday picnic. No mix-ups.



Full view of the table should be something like this:

BUT it's missing the chalkboard. Was hijacked but Nat didn't notice when she shot it.


And what was I looking forward to the whole time:

The monstrous 6-layered Butter Cake with Buttercream Frosting baked by Fau (not just pretty but light and fluffy too. yums).

I'm a bit bummed out that I forgot to take a proper photo of the invitation card. This is all I have from my mobile device:

I decided to draw her has the ballerina to talk her out of a cartoon-character themed birthday and she was sold.

Fini's 2011 Birthday

The FFFs (Fini, Fida, Fad) are my three workmates who I muck around with so without realising, celebrating each others' birthday at work turned into a tradition. Yesterday we had an excuse to have another lunchtime picnic for Fini's birthday celebration.







I adore tiered serving plates but I didn't adore the idea of lugging the one I have at home, to work. I'm not sure if anyone did this before but I figured I could achieve the tiered-effect with the disposables we have at work. Only thing, we didn't have a bigger plate for bottom tier but it worked pretty okay (for now) and I would definitely apply the same trick again next time.





I guessed she might like what we were doing for her so I had these speech-bubble cards done way earlier. So yah.. putting words in her mouth hands.



When you have a knack for rustic, raw and unpolished look + been looking at too many wedding blogs = you dress milk tin cans with lace ribbons. I don't know much about flowers but they sure make anything look pretty.

Featured on La Mode Outré

Was really nice of La Mode Outré to shoot the girls. They're the most amazing photos of them ever! So crisp with perfect contrast levels and captured at their best moment even though the girls were shy. Read up on it!

Dressing Kids Up – Tip #14

Dressing Kids Up Tip #14 – The wallet chain.

You don't say boys can't accessorize. The wallet chain gives fierce touch to outfits. Small addition that can go from zero to hero. Farrel is hero.


Photo courtesy of Andi and Ria.

Mommy Went to The Flaming Lips Show

I went to the Flaming Lips show with fellow mommy to primarily catch The Raveonettes (so I thought that's the closest to Jesus and Mary Chain live) but I became a new fan (it's never too late!) of The Flaming Lips cos I was blown away by the work of art we all turned out to be. So this was why Q Magazine named them one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die". The entire set was absolutely trippy without having to consume anything. From the visual efx to the confetti to the giant balloons to the lighting to the orange dancers to the Zorb (my favourite moment: seeing wayne rolling right above my head) and all other props. I was visually mesmerised that I think it made up for all the shows I missed in years. Never mind that my knees ached like nobody's business after standing for hours but it was little damage from what I had expected from a standing show since audience was pretty docile (I didn't even think these two mommies would be strong enough to be up front-ish) but we subconsciously weaseled our way through gaps cos there was surprisingly no moshing. Only from this video, I realised that was quite a tremendous size of audience at the back of us who unlike me, I think did not need more than 2 days to recover from the fatigue.

Photos courtesy of Is:

Dressing Kids Up – Tip #13

Dressing Kids Up Tip #13 – The plaid shirt.

Every boy must have one cos it's the perfect balance of casual and formal (if you're wondering if t-shirts are too casual or plain shirts too formal for certain events). But then again, who pays attention to dress codes? It's just something I cooked up cos I found this pic of ayubi too cute:


Photo courtesy of aries.

Halloween 2010

A supposedly casual mommies' meet-up turned out to be an almost spontaneous halloween party.


That was the best I could do from: