Hand, Foot, Mouth Disease (HFMD)

:(( My little girl is infected by hand, foot and mouth disease. We discovered yesterday night. She in fact infected by both her cousins, who are also infected from schoolmate. As soon as we discovered the both sisters infected by HFMD, we already prohibit her from playing together and the both sisters actually even moved out from the house. Anyway, it was too late. 

I will be back to post my outstanding bentos after my girl is recovered. 

Granny's Birthday

It was hubby's granny's (maternal side) birthday on early July. She is 73 years old this year. She is recovered from battling a cancer. Im so proud of her. Although I do not have much interaction with her, but she is a lovable and approachable granny. She would talk to me when she visits my MIL. I too, will talk to her. =)


On her birthday, all her children threw her a warm birthday party at home. I love the family gathering. Love the home cooked food as well. LOL.

I ordered this homemade carrot cake for her birthday. She loves it, as it is not too sweet and the nice decoration on top. The decoration was based on my request. =)

Happy birthday granny! Im happy to see you happy and smiling. =)


By the way, today is my birthday. =) I will be having dinner (only both me and hubby) later after work. My girl is not joining. No peaceful dinner if she joins. LOL. However, hubby taught her to sing happy birthday song to me last night, in mandarin and english version. She then trying to sing the song again and again. Her version of birthday song is, "shen ri kuai le". LOL. She learnt about "birthday" during granny's birthday early July. When I asked her what do we have when having birthday? She said cake and flower! LOL. 

Blog Template

Arrghhh.. Something wrong with my blog template. I am not sure if this is only happens to my laptop or everyone. The photos I posted to blog some appeared SMALL size. I don't know why. But it looks okay when I viewed from my handphone. I am looking for new template online but I could not find one which I like. Anyone knows where can I get nice blog template which relates to bento? :))

Homemade Chocolate Chip Muffin

OK. Another non-bento post. :)

I was having good chat with my sister in law on her coming business plan, and out of sudden, we talked about muffin! Then she got me chocolate chip muffin recipe from her friend who are selling muffin in Singapore. I went to the baking supplies shop to get all the ingredients. On last weekend, we baked muffin.

First batch of muffins were overflowed and burnt a bit at the top and the chips were all collected at the bottom of the paper cups. FAILED.

Second batch of muffins were too little in the cup and the chips again were all collected at the bottom of the paper cups. FAILED.

Despite the “FAILED”, it was actually taste not bad. :)

I am not satisfy with the results and want to try again. I try again day after.

This time, it is baked perfectly!!! I am not claiming the credit, and I shall contribute the credit to my mother in law instead. She pointed out my error and that’s why I can bake nicely this round. What we did wrong in the first and second batch was too much of baking powder. My sister in law was scooping 2 teaspoons with full of mountain, instead of 2 FLAT teaspoons of baking powder.

Nice one. Hubby loves it so much, as not too much chocolate.

I would love to try double chocolate muffin, with the chocolate melting from inside out! Omg…yummylicious!!!

Strawberry Dipped Chocolate & Marshmallow Dipped Chocolate

I am “playing” with chocolate again! I bought two packs of Korean strawberry from Jusco last weekend and I think it is great to dipped with chocolate. Thus, I melted the milk and white chocolate separately and dipped the strawberry with chocolate. Then, sprinkle some colorful sugar balls on top and voila!

Besides using strawberry, I also using marshmallow. All kids love marshmallow. But I don’t. Haha. Thus, I made this out fun and interest. :) Dipped the marshmallow with melting chocolate and sprinkle with colorful sugar balls. Let it dry and pack in the nice gift bag and tied it. Looks nice isn’t it? :)

Handmade Food Picks

Another little project. Handmde picks! OK. I got this idea from Simply Cute. It is an easy DIY project and since I also have those cute buttons that I bought from MyCraft Tree, why not I utilise it rather than letting those buttons collecting dusk in the storage box?

What I need are, cute buttons, super glue and the comb for the stem. Hubby helped me cut out all the comb into pieces. Then, I rubbed the edges of the comb to the sand paper to smoothen it. Then stick the stem onto the back side of the cute button. And here you go... the results! :)

Xmas collection picks

Little ducks collection picks

all my handmade picks!

Cute isn't it? I only bought one comb which cost me less than one ringgit. I did not buy more than one as this is my first project making food picks. I will be making more if I bought the buttons from MyCraft Tree again.

Bento Giveaway

Oh..oh...do not be misleading. I am not hosting a giveaway, but I am participating instead. :) It is my first bento giveaway I am joining. It is hosting by Bento, Monsters, to celebrate her 200th post! Congratulations to Ming. :) She is a loving and creative mother of two boys. What amazed me is, she does total of 5 bentos, 2 lunch bentos and snack bentos for her two boys and another yummylicious lunch box for herself. Her lunch box always makes me drooling. And and and...what's more? She does cute bentos everyday! Oh no...I cant imagine making 5 bentos everyday and 4 of it with all the cute one!

Here are all she is going to giveaway, a lunch box, 3 packets of picks, 1 packet of onigiri wrappers and 1 packet of plastic food cups (can be used as barans). I hope I can win this giveaway of course!! :=p Anyway, why not click here to participate this fun giveaway and give yourself a chance to start with this fun making bento-ing hobby? Good luck everyone! :)

Chocolate Making

I found a new hobby, chocolate making! LOL. Okay, the new hobby comes in when I visited a baking supplies store near my office. My intention was to look for any interesting cookie cutters and accessories for my bento making as usual. Then, I noticed that they have supplies all stuff for cakes making, cupcakes making, muffin making, chocolate making, you named it!!! I was attracted to a small poster on how to make chocolate. :D I did not buy the chocolate making stuff YET. But after I walking out from the store, I kept thinking of making chocolate. I watched youtube on how to make chocolate, I googled on how to melt the chocolate, how to make lollipop chocolate, etc. Ah, few days later, I went back again to the store and I told the lady boss that I want to make chocolate and what things that I should get for a beginner like me. And I walked out from the shop with all these :-

·         One kg Beryl’s milk chocolate compound

·         One kg Beryl’s white chocolate bar

·         Cartoon characters chocolate mould

·         Chocolate moulds

·         Plastic bag in cone shape (10 pcs)

·         Piping nozzle

Back home, I told my niece that I am going to make chocolate. She looked at me with bright eyes and smiled!

I did not make the chocolate that night. I was tired after all day work in office. So, I kept this project to weekend. I made three types, marshmallow dipped chocolates, cornflakes or almond filling chocolates, and 3D cartoon characters chocolates.

Marshmallow dipped chocolates. I did one and the remaining was done by my little niece, Chloe. She was very happy to help me of course!

Cornflakes or almond filling chocolates. It is yummy!! J

Lastly, the 3D hello kitty, melody, rilakkuma and rabbit chocolates! This is the most tedious work among all. Firstly, the mould is not the plastic one of which I can easily remove the chocolate after formed. Secondly, I have to “glue” the front and back to form 3D. The amount of “glue” applied cannot be too much or too thick. Otherwise, you may see some gap in between. This was what happened on my first project. LOL.

It was fun making chocolates and trust me, I will be making more. ;)

Handmade Baby Gift Card

I love handcraft but I am not a crafty person. I adore those handmade stuff. One day, I thought of making little cards for my customers who buy breastpump and handmade baby booties to thank them. I’m bad in drawing and writing. The only way to make my little card looks interesting is using craft supplies such as ribbons, fabric, paper flowers, buttons or appliqués. Then I came across MyCraft Tree. I fall in love with their novelty and theme buttons. Thus, I placed an order with them. Good service and fast delivery I must say. :)

Here are three of many little baby gift cards that I made with the buttons.

I named this Little Boy’s Giffy.

 This is My Boy's Shirt. :)

And last one is Teddy & Family.

Don’t you think they are lovely? Which one you like? I have more to share with you guys. Stay tune!