weekend baking

sami is curious in how to make good muffins and how to make good icing for cupcakes. while i am curious in making cupcake toppers, inspired by Jacinda from Prudent Baby. so 2 weekends ago (26 & 27 feb 10), we decided to combine our curiousity by baking muffins, then decorating them with icing and some DIY cupcake toppers. and it was just in time for serving at my sister's 4-months-pregnancy pengajian on the next day.

the shawl and the earrings

hurah! finally! nataya's wrap-shawl was done this morning :) i must say it was not that perfect, but i'm pretty happy with the result. this is my first big size piece after the tiny pieces such as the baby booties and caps.



nataya's booties, 2006

to be honest, there were many mistakes here and there on the shawl. but i was too lazy to unknit and redo it :P cause i'm sure people won't notice anyway :D and it's actually a bit oversized for nataya, but still ok-laaa :P nataya seems to love wearing it. and that makes me much happier :)


we went to the mall this afternoon, and the main department store was holding this big sale event. i wasn't interested at first. and nothing seems to be good on the bag & shoes section. but when i was wandering around the accessories section, monet was cut up to 60%. whew.


so i decided to take these two :D

silhouette part 2

as i promise, here are the others :) ready to be printed (maybe) tomorrow. yay!

home-patient

so, sami's got the varisela too. from nataya off course.. actually, since the last weekend he came to Bandung. but he went back to the J-town on the monday because he got some stuff to do at the office. in the afternoon he went to the doctor who told him that he was positively varisela infected. poooooor him. 


he got absent the next day, spending the first week of illness at home in J-town. after his body temperature went back to normal on the 6th day, he decided to go back to Bandung, spending the next extra week at home. 


man, his varisela was awful compared to nataya's. his body & face was fully spotted by the varisela dots. brrr. luckily, i've got this fever when i was around 4 years old so hopefully i wouldn't re-infected. *finger crossed*


anyway, i went lecturing this morning and nataya went to school. while sami stayed at home. i was pretty sure at first that he really wanted to spend the morning: resting a.k.a doing nothing while watching TV or DVD. butttttt what he actually did was being busy in the kitchen. and this is one.. (yes one) of the results: chocolate cake, which was, actually, made to fulfill my craving of one creamy bold chocolate cake. and it turns out, hmm.. well not really like what i want, but well, yeah.. not bad :) thank you anyway, honey :-*



i didn't photographs the other dishes: 2 cups of cream caramels, and dinner cooking: pokchoy in oyster sauce, prawns in sour and sweet sauce.


btw nataya was really excited finding that her dad was still in the house during weekdays. she was waaay tooooo excited. she enjoys the cooking with her dad, playing pretending and hanging out with her dad very much :)

silhouette part 1

i should've been doing my sister's pengajian 4 bulanan invitation layout. buttt, i ended up doing this :D and i think, tomorrow will be sami's turn. just wait ;)