Doily Lace Invitation

Unwrapping the invitation

From outside, the invitation looks pretty with lace details. It was cute when I unwrapped and to know its a doily paper. This definitely inspires me to give it a try to make invitation for my cousin's bridal shower.

Classic, Elegant, Beautiful Calligraphy Wedding Invitation

The picture does not do this invitation justice- it doesn't show the texture of the cotton paper, the embossed pattern on the envelope and the slight debossed floral pattern on the inside of the envelope.
Its such a simple and elegant invitation. It just screamed 'Posh event!'.

Chloe's Birthday Cake

Making Chloe's, my very good friend's child's birthday cake was fun for me, even if it was time consuming, I love how everything turn out to be. I tried to draft out how I wanted the cake to be but I just went with the flow and decorate with whatever I had in my cabinets.


Used alphabet cookie cutter for Chloe's name on fondant, painted them with petal dust and glitter. Added fondant daisies (bought China made daisy cutter; fondant cutters and decoration tools can be really steep investments) and glued crystals (again its China made crystals - less than $5 for 144pcs) leftover from Baby J's manyue cake. I really like the effect of little daisies on the alphabet.
The daisies on the cake were first glued using edible glue but after being exasperatingly gluing them, I resorted to use UHU. The hot pink large ribbon was used to cover imperfections of the fondant base and I added more crystals and glued them using double tape.

Oh, I forgot to mention- the fondant cake base is styrofoam so no kids or anyone is eating the cake. Happy Birthday candles were bought from Daisho.
The fondant butterflies are time consuming- dry the cut out butterflies, paint the colors and coat/line the edges with gold dust, then finalize it by putting each butterfly above hot water steam so the colors set and doesn't stain the cupcakes.

Devil's Food Cupcakes and flower petal icing technique learnt from YouTube's goodtoknowcouk. Americolor food gel coloring purchased from Singapore's Bake It Yourself store.

Purchased white cupcake boxes from Loyang or you can try Arkenzy Box.

Cupcakes

Baking is a joy, decorating is something that requires practice and making nice cupcakes for family and friends is something I just picked up. There's so many wonderful blogs with beautiful pictures and great recipes and I am still testing out both recipes and decoration too.

Easy decoration with sprinkles

Piping with 104 Wilton petals and fondant butterflies

Mini Oreo cupcakes with mini Japanese Oreos

Another Watermark Creation

I have previously blogged about Watermark, a card designer and maker, and receiving a card from them is always a nice surprise.

Unique Man yue Gift

A wonderfully packaged photo albums. As explained by Elmo, which I downloaded the Sesame Street podcasts for Baby J, its 'Exquisite'!

Baby I

Seeing my children makes me feel so blessed and I enjoy every bits of them. Baby I was born in July and only a day difference with his sister's birthday. His delivery was not easy but holding him in my arms right after delivering him is truly priceless.

Now that I am lucky to be able to hire a nanny for baby I, readjusted my schedule to work and gasp! a new computer, I can blog again. Yeiii...

Combo Birthday Invitation

I got this invitation inspiration from Lehr& Black. Since my husband and my birthday is only a week plus difference, we celebrated our birthdays together with friends and family.

Paper from Office2000, 150gram Concorde ivory paper (really affordable), and fonts downloaded from some free fonts website.

After few pages of printing to get the right size for the harmonica boxes, its time for the cut and paste time!
To gift wrap or not?

Since gift-wrapping takes some time, and I kinda like the raw vintage look, I decided to keep it simple and stick the paper directly to the harmonica box.

Lace Embossed Invitation

I like this very romantic invi pink mauve+ gray + white color palette with the combination of embossed lace motif.

Trying on Fondant Decoration

Fondant tiered cake filled with hand-sculpted fondant roses (learnt from Cakingcrazy on youtube).

Yummy Devil's Food cupcake! Topped off with iced hydrangea and fondant leaves.

Mini chocolate cupcakes, matcha frosting and topped off with fondant roses (silicone mould)

3rd Fondant cake. No tools needed- I used different lids, round cookie cutters, and toothpick to frill the edges of the cut-out fondant.

2nd try on fondant decoration. Used rose fondant tools to make the roses. My sister made the flower fairies; we you-tubed to learn the how-tos.

My first fondant cake

Fantastic Manyue Gift - A Dollhouse!

How lovely! I was excited when I saw the dollhouse- you can peek inside the windows or open the door or simply take the rooftop off and see whats inside.
Voila! A cute pink tiger, since it is the year of tiger, reading a book, and sitting on top a can. Its even more impressive inside - some delicious, quality, Japanese cakes!

Back Blogging

Its been awhile since I last posted any posts. Personal and work life caught up and bringing up a toddler takes up time.

Will try to post up party pics since Baby J will be celebrating her birthday soon! My sister and I have been busy baking and while she was trying out different techniques in baking, I'm trying out my hands on decoration. Hopefully withing these 2 months, we can whip up birthday cakes for our girls.

Kupu Kipas

How lovely are these fans? I found their booth in WIC (Women International club) charity event, my mom, sis, and me literally ransacked their booth and bought some fans for ourselves. Jakarta is really hot, even though we are hardly outdoors, the fans serve the purpose to block bad UV rays and of course, fan to cool the heat.
The fans come in few sizes, and they range from - embellished with crystals, embellished with lace, hand-painted, ornate silver and gems on the wood frame, and all of the fans comes with silk tassels. Even better is the packaging, the fans have their own fan bag. For the pricier ones, come with hard gift box.
Price? Fantastic enough to make a great wedding/party favor or even as invitation.

Again by attending exhibitions such as WIC, I'm so proud and happy that many local designers are becoming very creative and original!

image source- Kyona at Kupu Kipas

Cowboy Theme Birthday Party

How cute is this invitation? Its a tin can with nuts inside and comes with a straw hat cap.

Baby Benjie is cute and so is the theme of the party. Activities consisted of hat decor, bag painting, and tattoo glitters.

Halloween Party

We were invited for Halloween party at my friend's sister house and we came underdressed. The SMS invitation stated 'costume required' and we party-blooped into the house with normal clothes. They didn't use any EO and they did all the decor themselves, which reminds me that I should get their vendors and share with you guys ;)
There's a children corner with table of fun stuff for them to play with, and a section of story telling space. It was all spooky fun but Baby J was too tired to socialize so we had to excuse ourselves early.