Bake 4 ..

Jayne will be taking her Primary School Leaving Examination on the 6th October to 12th October, which is next Wednesday till the following Tuesday.

Other than being there for her, her daddy and I were thinking of what we can do to show her our moral support during this period of revision, before THE day.

Something that we loves to do as a family, one of our favourite "chore" in the kitchen is BAKING.

As Jayne loves to spread her bread with Nutella, we decided on the the Quick and Easy Nutella Walnut Cake recipe from I can Bake, written by Agnes Chang.

This time we baked her a twin-cake ! It means Double Happiness, and the Love for her from her daddy and me.

We wish her all the BEST in her forthcoming examinations and enjoys these 5 days just like any ordinary day in her life :)

Have FUN, Jayne. These are 4 you...........

Besides knitting........

With those knitting UFOs flying around, i love to have plants at home

Even though flowers dont last long

is this moment counts

Spaghetti with mentaiko sauce

This was our dinner last night - Linguine with Mentaiko Premix Sauce. Jayne and her daddy loved this home-cooked spaghetti so much that they asked me to cook again. I was very happy to see them enjoying their food, and it never fails to bring a smile on my face !

I've to thank Erin for this, it was from her blog that i read about. She was so kind to tell me where to buy this premix sauce and how to prepare the dish. I copied down immediately.

I'll definitely have this for dinner again as is simple to cook, takes little time to prepare, and most of all, my famly loves it :)

This little birdie

While i was busy counting the rows and stitches for this gauge, i heard chirping outside the window - this little yellow bird standing on one of the bamboo pole, cleaning his feathers, enjoying himself in his bird-eye view.


the next moment i rasied my head looking out of the window, there he was standing at the window panel.


Upon seeing this, i thought to myself, it might be the warm weather that made him went under the shade of the window, poor guy !

Hence i quickly removed a pot of plant from the glass container nearby, poured water in, thinking that this little birdie might need to cool down, and i think that he knew there will be a bird bath as despite that i was so close to the window, he doesnt seem to mind and was waiting for it.



True enough, he flew in, and settled himself there, oh my, i was so excited ! My DIY bird bath works :)


Slowing he made his way in, nearer and nearer .... guess he must be feeling so at home !

See he was again chripping away resting on the bottom of a standing fan, together with those reuse, recycle milk bottles containing rain water that i've been collecting on raining days, this sky water is a good supplement for plants.

Now he was on the table, on my knitting magazine, looking around.

I've so much fun watching and recording this little guy made his way in and out of my house. Jayne was happy to see the tape, however she is hoping that our little friend will come visiting again while she is at home.

......Happily

Looking at these shoes, .. YES.. we are in the Ice Skating Rink,

While Jayne and her daddy happily enjoying their rounds, I am happily knitting away.......

This is a place that I'll knits without worrying of the warm air, not-so-good-feeling of holding the wool cotton yarn and the double pointed needles.

June to July

Before it rolls into August, I've better update my blog.

Hello my friends, how is everyone ?

Baking and going to the beach has been putting back as the weather lately is at 35deg C most of the day - hot hot hot !!

We took a short trip on the second week of June school holiday to Gentings Highland in Malaysia to enjoy the cool weather - wonderful wonderful wonderful !!

I still do Ravelrying, queued items like the Drops pattern 101-31 Jersey with short sleeve, V neck and lace pattern in Muskat, a 100% cotton yarn.

Abi, a tunic length sweater with pockets and cables details by Berroco #303 (sorry, the copy and paste link is broken at the moment)

I'm going to knit Abi in my favourite colour - Green. Is a new colour tone, hence not in the store yet, coming soon.

I've the Evening Shrug by Whitney Van Nes, in Rowan Wool Cotton on my needle now, is a really easy shrug to knit, keeps me company, mindless knitting helps in way too in such warm days !

Just a while ago in Ravelry, Veera's lastest little green cardigan, Celery, caught my attention. She uses 2 skeins of Malabrigo 3ply light fingering sock yarn for the beautiful Celery. Oh how i love it :) I cant wait for the pattern to come.

Building Our Dreams

We were building our dreams with our hands on the beach on the Family-Get-Together Day organised by Jayne's school.

It was a bright sunny Saturday morning, everyone was excited and looking forward to use our hands on the sand and water.

Welcome to my castle

Labrador Nature Reserve

We had a lovely Saturday evening in Labrador Nature Reserve.

Surrounded by hugh old trees

The Green

The Labrador Jetty

and the shore

A very beautiful place

CNY Bakez

Jayne's favourite cookies

Choc Raisins cookies

It's nice to have someone loves to bake at home

She is enjoying every moment

Together with the CNY goodies

恭喜发财

Thank you gifts

Nice cotton yarn *Happy Dancing*

A package of very artisic napkins

Jayne's favourite Hello Kitty Pinkies

She loves to draw and she sure can draw very well.

Look at the doodle by her 4yr old daughter on that cute postcard.

Like Mother Like Daughter

All these came in this morning from my friend, I. For thanking me for the thank-you-for-the-get-well-gift present that I send over.

She is so kind to do, we thank you once again.