Here’s my first project of the year! A 4 tier cake for my girlfriend’s baby shower.
Ingredients:
1) Diapers
2) Ribbons & embellishments
3) Lots of love!
My girlfriend loved it! This is a very interesting yet useful gift which can also set as a creative centerpiece for the baby shower.
Note: I take orders but only for New York City area. Contact me if you are interested! :D
Price may vary depending on the ingredients.
Do you agree with what it says there?
In a week of ideas brainstorming, sketching out my thoughts and playing with different art materials keep me in good spirits all the time.
I have always love art, design and creative things since my early childhood. I have so many coloring books and my mom will recall and say how much time I spend everyday coloring them. Later when I went to kindergarten, I will color all the images even in my Math book, hahaha! I remember one time the teacher was holding up my book and told the class how nice my work is and they could do the same. Man… do you think they’re cursing behind me that i gave them trouble? My favorite session/class was always the art & craft and music class. I paid attention on my artwork and I was thrilled every time when my piece was chosen to be put up on the wall. I have a drawer at home where I keep all my art and craft stuff and also my collection of cute things.
Somehow, later in high school I found out I was very interested in Science and decided to go ahead to pursue my study in this field. However, right after I finish high school, I think I want to be a designer…. OMG, what a confused soul…. Because of financial purposes, I was only able to study briefly in Art & Design during college.
I was lucky enough to find a job in a home fashion company where I work as the home fashion coordinator/ personal assistant of my boss who is also the creative director of the company. I love my job. It was always busy and dealing with urgency of production but I love that I was involved in creating beautiful things. I spend most of the time flipping through interior design magazine looking for ideas and whenever my boss came back from travelling to different countries, I am sure the first one she hand those magazine she bought from overseas. When she went shopping for decorative pieces for our company exhibition, she would ask me to go with her, I treasure those experiences.
New York is the capital city of the design world but it is way too competitive for international student to find a job in design. As much as I love it, I am a very practical person too. I want a career that will guarantee me a job and income…. ^_^, after all it’s a huge amount of money and energy for me to support my study here. HUGE!
Of course, how can one do something that they don’t like? Am I lucky enough to have happen to love both Art and Science, hahaha! So there I go with the Health Science, my other lover.
This is as well extremely competitive but in admission and academic wise, the demand of job is high.
I had a dream that time…I want to have a stable job which will guarantee my income and later on I would still find a way to engage my self in creative business.
So many years in such an academic demand field….I have long put away all my art and crafty tools away, although I have a whole box filled with those things but it had been quite dusty.
Sometimes, I think fate is a funny thing…you never know how it takes you by surprise ….
One day, by accident I saw something that inspire me….that calling upon my soul to once again to put on my creative cap!
Recently, I bought some art materials and I’m thrill to start my gear, hehehe!
Anytime a trip to get away from the city is definitely refreshing to the soul and body. Pictures speak a thousand words… Here’s some of the pictures of the BBQ trip to Bear Mountain, a state park at New York upstate, rising from the west bank of the Hudson River. I feel so lucky to be able to enjoy this beautiful place and I’m very thankful to all of those, my friends who had working hard in putting their efforts together for this vegetarian BBQ gatherings. Not only the foods were great but knowing that we are enjoying food without hurting lives and environment is even better!
We heard about global warming so much in fact some people say they feel numb about it already…but we should not because indeed we are really in a state of EMERGENCY now. Human has been abusing the only place that they can live in – the planet Earth.
Below is an excerpt from The Huffington Post:
Eating As If the Climate Mattered, by Bruce Friedrich
United Nations environmental researchers released a report that everyone who cares about the environment should review. Called " Livestock's Long Shadow," this 408-page thoroughly researched scientific report indicts the consumption of chickens, pigs, and other meats, concluding that the meat industry is "one of the... most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global" and that eating meat contributes to "problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity."
I was talking to my brother on the phone the other day, he said there’s a release of a list of countries that may sink or swallowed by the increasing water cause by the melting of the arctic's ice. Many activists have go around and passing the message that recycling are not the only or the fastest solution, what actually help the environment to recover faster is the decision made on your plate! If only everyone will leave a piece of meat, even just once a week, it will make a great impact. Human tend to start react only when the problems are right in our face. We are smart creatures, that’s why we are able to predict and already foresee the consequences of our actions, we can change because we care.
I was watching a discussion about the environment and how going for meatless diet can help on the TV the other day….the thing is even if someone say they don’t care about the environment, the problem is now all the antibiotics that left in the animals’ bodies when they were slaughtered had taken a toll on humans’ health… Research has shown that the toxic found in the animals are way much higher than the pesticides found in the vegetables ( for those who say “oh, the vegetables are full of pesticide too..”).
Many times I heard people says, “Oh well, so many others are doing it, even if I change, not going to help much.” Just imagine if all of us think like this? Who’s going to do it?
Scientific research has proved that many animals are as smart and sensitive as we are. For more interesting facts, go to http://www.goveg.com/
My youngest brother is an environmentalist. I am so proud of all that he did and his perseverance. I remember last time when he asked me to bring my own bag to do shopping. I told him I still need the bags for my garbage/trash can. He told me that I wouldn’t need that many. So, I make an effort to bring my own beautiful ^^ reusable shopping bag from Whole Food, every time I went for groceries shopping. At first, we keep forgetting to bring it with us but now we are used to it, for almost 2 years now, I feel good whenever I save those plastic bags. Whole Food will refund $0.1o for every purchase that we made without using their paper bag or plastic bag, and the Chinese supermarkets were equally happy when we took out our own bag, they even asked us where to get the pretty reusable bag, hehe. We only take the plastic bags when we are really running low on supply for our trash can. ^^
Yummy vegetarian skewer! Enjoy food without cruelty! Go Veg Go Green…
Yummo!
Chatting away with my ex room mate, Emi…..just like old time.
Ivan and Ryan, both are veggie babies since they were in their mothers' womb.
More pictures of the trip here.
Please try from today onwards, be a vegetarian for at least once a week…
Eat Better, Feel Better!
Joyce's creations, image taken from her website.Funny, I didn’t know my childhood best friend is into baking. Joyce if you are reading this, yes, I’m very surprise…which I shouldn’t be probably because we haven’t been in touch for such a long time until Facebook brought us back! ^^ I mean during all these time anyone can change right? My memory of Joyce Siew is a very studious, discipline, and somewhat serious person…:P hmmm… also very artistic. She used to draw beautiful My Little Ponies for me to hang in my room. But never thought she’s into baking.
We were best friends during elementary school. We spent a great deal of times together. Our parents know each other. I remember so vividly those time when I stayed at her place during Christmas and all those other days when we would spend the whole afternoon at her house playing Monopoly, or Hopscotch at the front yard.
Such a long time ago, I’m very glad to find her again at FB. Believe me or not, my parents would still ask me sometimes, “Oh by the way, are you in touch with Joyce Siew? where is she now?”
If you are interested in cupcakes and stuff, visit her websites at Teamo. Her creations are beautiful! This really give me encouragement and inspire me to keep going with my experiment and my project, though it is not bakeries.
Congratulations Joyce! (not sure if this is a little late, I have to find out when did she started this business) Anyway, keep it up!
I don’t remember how many times I watch this by now. I’m the kind of person who usually do not watch a movie twice. I got this DVD from a friend, watched it a couple of times at home and again with a friend who I thought may not like it for the fact he is 85, but to my surprise, he loved it! The reason I thought he would not enjoy it because at a big picture, it’s a love story but actually there are inspiring parts in the movie.
Very entertaining and well written. I like the four of them, the sophisticate Kate Winslet, the pretty and funny Cameron Diaz, the handsome Jude Law and the hilarious Jack Black.
The two women who were heart broken exchange house for the holiday, unexpectedly found their love…
I like all the earrings they wear! hahaha, yes, being an earrings lover, I noticed that!
As sentimental as I am…the words that Kate Winslet says in one part totally touch my feelings. Sometimes I think those who marry their first love/boyfriend are so lucky but then if I’m one of them, I may not be able to feel it when I watch these love stories which make it more interesting…. So, I mean I can cry with them, melt when their heart melt, jump and said “yes, totally true!” when they give an analogy to the situation they are in….and all that 0_0
It also makes me appreciate so much on what I have and to also get a clear picture of what I need.
Some quotes from the movie, "You should be the leading lady of your own life” … “i know how you can actually ache in places you never know you had inside you.”
Enough said, I just love this movie…. the settings are very nice too and the score is great.
