Tutorial : Snowman Cookies

Before I start talking about snowman(s), here's two pictures of my phone!

 It's wearing bandages (plastic surgery) because it's sick! Physically sick.

I changed the screen protector, and the person who helped me do it didn't put it up properly. It was jutting out at the edge, which causes it to open up easily when I place it in my pocket. It looks super ugly and is a bit annoying sometimes. So I decided to tape on some adorable matching blue panda tape! Don't they look adorable? Even the panda ghost looks adorable! Moving on.

What are snowmen made of?

 A little bit of unsalted butter, a little bit of sugar.. 1 cup of each to be exact.

An egg and a couple more yummy goodness :

1 tsp vanilla essence

1/2 tsp salt

2 1/2 cups flour

Mix them all together till they magically becomes dough, place them in a plastic wrap and chill in the fridge. Keep it in the fridge for about 2hours or more. I had mine in the fridge for a whole day because I wasn't free then. Just in case you'd like to know, the above is the recipe for regular sugar cookies! We'll be using this to make Snowman Cookies! While waiting for the dough, you could start on making the icing.

 All you need are :

4 tbsp meringue powder

1/2 cup water

7 cups icing sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

2 tbsp vegetable shortening

Firstly, get a huge bowl. Then, beat the meringue powder and water together in the bowl till it seems white, fluffy and bubbly. It's also suppose to form peaks when you use a spoon to dip in and raise it up. Somewhat similar to soap bubbles in a bathtub! If you have an electronic beater, you could use that too. I don't have it, so I had a little help from my maid - She's awesome. Once you're done, add the other ingredients and mix them together. They'll have a thick consistency. Lift your spoon up and the icing should fall back in slowly (up to your liking actually). If it falls in too fast then you'd like it to, add some more icing sugar. It it's too thick (falls back slowly) add some water - this is suitable for flooding. When you're done, get a couple of people with nothing to do, like them :

 I got my sister and my maid to help out! We're mixing all sort of colours with the icing in separate bags.

 Pink!

 Blue!

 Halfway mixing purple.

All the bag of coloured icing. Colourful eh? We mixed "Egg Yellow" and "Blue" to form the green colour above. The fun begins after you mould and cut your dough into different shapes (Circles of 2 sizes, squares and rectangles). Let the decorating begin!

Sister at work

 

Pieces of Snowman Cookies

 My first Snowman Cookie is done! Simple.

 My other Snowman Cookie. I love this one the best! The scarf is my favorite!

 Sister's bikini snowman.

 That Snowman Cookie is wearing a dress. Decorated by the sister.

 The scariest snowman ever made. This is done by our maid.

 My heart snowman!

 My baby snowman with a bow tie!

Maid at work.

 

 You could play mix & match with these Snowman Cookies. I made a spider snowman! I love his scarf and hat!

 Baby Snowman Cookie got shocked!

 Yummy yummy. I ate the snowman's head for supper. That is all for today's post! Thanks for reading! Have a very snowman-ish Christmas everybody! Love you guys!

Love Is A Verb

Hey everyone! How's everyone doing? Since I've finished form5, I've had more time to spend with my primary school mates and high school mates. Some of which I haven't seen for 5 years! Anyways, on one of the outings with them, I went to pyramid and came to a booth called 'Love Is A Verb'. I also came to know about it through church, so I decided to visit it. This event is organized to fulfill the wishes of orphans, old folks and disabled people - some of which who only wants some groceries, diapers, educational toys/books, etc.

This picture was taken last year.

This picture is ALSO taken last year.

Forgot to take a few pictures of my own. Anyways, all you had to do was to browse through those wishes hung on the xmas tree with the details of the wish-er, pick one, go shopping and come back with the gift! It's that simple! As for me this time, I've picked one that says she wanted a necklace. And I thought "Hey! I could make her one!"

 And I made her this, something with her name on. Remember the mini booklet keychains I made before? It's the same thing, except I place this on a necklace.

There are more pages than what you see above of course, but I didn't upload everything. I hope she likes it. I'm not sure if handmade stuff would be something she like though, so I also got her something that is not handmade by me. Packaged both necklaces together.

And that is all! Merry Christmas everyone! May you have an awesome time!

Oh! Hold up! I forgot to tell you something! There's something happening this Friday, Saturday and Sunday! Check out the Christmas Production - ChromeHeart by City Harvest Church! Trailer : http://www.chc.org.my/chromeheart/ . It's going to be an amazing production. It's our very first production in our new church building, and it is also the biggest production we've ever had! Enjoyed those previous productions we've had? This one will be BETTER. Really. It will blow your minds off! So make sure you come by early alright? I'd suggest at least an hour early as the seats are always taken up real fast! Let me know if you'd like to join me on any of the dates above. Thank you! Also, I'm helping with props!!! *smiles*

Old Photos

So my sister - Jessica Lew, has this Picassa Web thing where she uploads all her pictures for backup. And I've found tons of treasure!

Okay, not that treasure. I wish it was though. Nahh.. these are better.

 Check Roxy out! My little baby, not even a year old. Now, she's already FIVE years old!

 This is her a little older. Her fur looks pretty bad doesn't it? She's so much prettier now!

A couple of years back, my family and I went to Kuantan to visit my aunt. She brought me out to the market in the morning and we bought a RM1 chick. We were planning to bring home and play, then send it back to the market the next day when my family's leaving. In the end, we didn't have the time to purposely head back to the market, so I got to keep her! She was adorable. I named her Chick Chick at that time.

 So adorable! I was always with her at that time and she began to think of me as her mother. When I use my fingers and tap the food at 1 area, she follows and eats there. When I tap another area with the same kind of food, she abandon the one she was eating and follows my hand. When I tap the water, she drinks water! Ain't that cute?! She grew up to be a very pretty chick - full baby yellow with brownish leopard patterned marks only found at her neck! Not a lot of them, but good enough to look like a collar.

Some old pictures of mine :

I can sail a ship!!! I really did! (Not the whole journey though)

My hamsters - Blue & Berry

 Oh! And I went out yesterday with Xiang Ting and Jen Sion. Jen Sion has grown so so very tall. He must have a secret to that! As for Xiang Ting, I haven't seen her for 5 years now and she's still the same! Well, maybe she's grown a little crazier than before.

 That's us last time.Anyways, we went to have lunch at "The Hungry Hog" in ss15. Both of us ordered "Three Little Pigs" which are burgers with bacon, ham and pork patty! Jen Sion ordered "Bangers and Mash" which are mash potatoes and sausages. We also ordered dessert! Check out the menu.

 Bacon Ice Cream! The taste wasn't much on the bacon, but on the honey. It was actually quite okay.

Three Little Pigs

Bacon Ice Cream

That's all for this post! I can't seem to arrange the pictures properly. Wanted to put the ice cream picture below the menu picture. Oh well. Thanks for dropping by! Have a lovely day!

Emerge Junior 2011 !

 What's that? It's the props for Emerge Junior 2011 ! A kids event held by City Harvest Church filled with activities, games and of course, workshops! Definitely something worth going! The theme this year was "Not just a kid!" It was held on Friday to Sunday (The one that just passed).

 We made all these awesome sign boards to decorate the hall! I love how they all look! They're all so realistic and they're all made by us! Yay! My favourite among all (I'm not sure who did this) was :

 THE BIG APPLE SIGN! They were one of our sponsors for this event.

Anyways, the story of Emerge Junior 2011 begins here! It's going to be a pretty long post, so grab your snacks, drinks and sit tight! Enjoy reading!

DAY ONE

8am and the teachers + volunteers arrived to gather for a briefing before everything starts. There will be games by Mary and Mei Ling first, then continued by Praise and Worship. We call this Session 1. I was one of the person dancing for Praise. It was really fun and I enjoyed it a lot! I got to act all silly and jump around like no one cared! Especially loved the song I'm Not Ashamed! Anyways, we were supposed to put on some make up, but I didn't know how, so the beautiful Jen May helped me! And I loved it! My face was super shiny!

My eyes look horrible (one big and the other small), but I still love the picture somehow.

 

I went into the toilet to have a look once it's done. One of the kids - Jeannette, saw me and tapped my hand. I looked down at her and she didn't say anything, but looked up to me with her huge eyes and mouth wide open. She was so cute! I asked her if it's nice and she nods her head slowly with the same expression. So cute! My heart melted! 

These two here are the Praise and Worship leaders! *clap clap* They did an awesome job!

After praise and worship, we had lunch and then workshops. The children would be going to different workshops at the same time, then they rotate to different venues. There's soccor/accessories making where the boys go to soccor and girls to make accessories, baking, dancing, and a science project which I found pretty interesting! I'm sure the children did too! I was in charge of the accessories workshop so I could take pictures of it. I couldn't get the rest as I was here the whole time the workshops were running.

 And I made this for myself ! I love rainbows! I've been wearing it since it was made!

 The beads were put in at random, so long as the colours followed the rainbow when they're all together. I didn't even count to make each colour have the same amount of beads. I like it that way. Lots of kids did theirs with tons of colours as well, some looking very tropical. I like those. Some had the same few colours repeatedly and others did theirs with totally random beads. They all turned out beautiful. Creative children! When the workshop ended, a number of kids in my workshop said they wish they had more time to make more. I was quite happy to hear that! They then went to the cafe for tea break, and then to the hall for Session 2. We had praise again, then lessons carried out. Dini taught the kids about the story of Queen Esther in the bible.

I was acting as Queen Vashti - the one before Queen Esther. And Richard was King Xerxes. Mei Ling acted as Queen Esther. I don't have a picture of her though. The picture above was taken after the lessons. We swapped crowns and I acted as a strong king while Richard acted as a.. urmm.. well.. a beautiful queen? I didn't like how I looked here, my hair was a mess, but I posted it because it's funny! That's all for Day one! 

DAY TWO

Telematch was the first activity on the list! Tons of games were prepared for the kids to earn Jellies! A jelly = 100 points. They would be rewarded to a group as the kids gain points! At the end of the event, the jellies in their team would be split among them.

A couple of games were not played due to lack of time though. One of them was the game involving water balloon. Awwwh. I really wish to see the kids play that. It would be fun. Anyways, after the telematch, the kids had lunch and headed on for workshops. They were split into 2 big groups. One went for candle painting, and another went for keychain making (I was in charge of this workshop). I taught them to make keychains with hama beads, like these :

It went well at first. Chia Huey and I were ironing the pieces together. In a while, the kids crowded around with their masterpieces and the place had a keychain flood! The workshop could've been better. I didn't think we would need tons of iron. After workshop was the Emerge Jr Got Talent, and then the carnival - UNIQ. I was supposed to help Gladys with the Face Painting booth during the carnival, but couldn't because we were still ironing the keychains together after the kids left for Emerge Jr Got Talent. Wish I could have a look at what they did for Emerge Jr Got Talent! After the carnival, some of the kids continued on for service. Pastor Mike came down and he was amazing! Like really really amazing! I felt like crying somehow. Before the service started, there were pre-service games hosted by Anthony and Gladys. The children get to win presents for questions they answered correctly. They win even if they haven't said a word. It's really funny. Tons of kids rushed out trying to get the presents. There was one question where they asked "What do you call your father's father?" and all the kids said "Grandfather" till one girl - Shekinah came out and said "Ye ye". Everyone in the hall laughed! It was really cute!

A few kids performed after that. 3 of them in the picture above sang Bruno Mars' "Count On Me". They were pretty good! One kid played the a song from Pirates Of The Carribean on the piano, and a small group of kids danced on stage in front of tons of people! They were so brave and so adorable! Me being the person I am (having motherly instincts), had tears in my eyes. I am so proud of them all!

As for DAY THREE of Emerge Junior, we all had the service first, then we had the Grand Finale where balloons fall from the 'sky'. When they come out from the service, they continued playing around in the carnival set up for them. The event officially ended at 3pm. It was a great experience! Tiring, but the children's smiles are all worth it!

Here are a few more photos we took :

 Elaine and I in our magic hats!

 We grew mustaches and turned into guys!

 That little boy - My princess

 That little boy - My king

 Jen May and I.

And this little girl's name is Amy.
That's all! Bye!!! Have a great day!