My favourite new colours .. pink and orange. Looks cheerful and happening.

From Razzle Dazzle Cookies

Traffic seems a little lighter these days and I’m so relieved! It’s the end of the year and people are taking their kids and parents and maids to Disneylands and Hong Kong and Bandung and wherever else my kids have been itching to go, that we have not gone before.

But the most important thing is that the traffic is lighter. Mega important since I’m a Just-In-Time person when it comes to clocking in at work. I can tell you this. The time between 8:00 t0 8:05 can be dissected into many time zones, the most popular and hectic is known an injury time.

Anyways. The whole point of the post is to tell you that I woke up late today at 6:44am and yet managed to swipe at 7:59am. Phew! Major relief!

Ooohh .. the baby pram cookie (see picture) are ordered by Noreen of Little Favors for her client’s cukur jambul.

Let me tell you this. I normally sketch my designs on paper and plan everything. I make a note of how many colours I need, how much flooding icing and how much piping icing. The bags and the box and the ribbons. Very well-planned, even I was impressed sometimes.

But nothing beats sitting in front of a tray of blank cookies with icing bag in hand and start to decorate. This is where the actual differs from the plan and sometimes it works and sometimes it sucks. But for the pram, I was mighty happy.

I’ve always struggled with the prams but I am so glad that the design took off. The ruffles by the side of the prams look contemporary. Hehhe! *feeling smug*

100 of these cutesy little cookies were requested by Nurul for her baby girl, whom I had the pleasure of peeking in the car when Nurul came to pick them up.

Pretty lass and such wonderful mother too.

Azhad Muhaimin is my Mak Ndak’s first grandson and I wanted to do something special to commemorate this event. So, I made 94 pieces of this. Salah kira la, that’s why it’s 94 instead of a round 100. Haha.

Anyhow. Initially Mak Ndak wanted to have the full name written and I said, alamak .. panjangnya. So, we settled on Azhad.

Would’ve been swell if we were there but at the kenduri day, we were jumping off our boats to swim to shore, for lunch before another snorkelling session at Pulau Redang.

So, glad to know that the cookies were a hit and I wish we were there.

Baby pram. I didn’t like that I outlined it again, sedikit messy. Must improve. And I now know better things to do with the wheel.

The Milk Bottle. Notice the slightly mottled effect on the bottle. Yup. I thought I’ve done this enough, but somehow my icing was a little too runny and when it dried, it mottled. *hangs head*

Shyamala called and informed me that the class was overbooked and that 9 students have committed to the class. Yikes! *nervous*

Farah, my florist friend tagged along since she wasn’t sure of the location.

There were 9 alright and there were 2 young guys, Ehsan who’s done a fair bit of cake deco and Fakruddin who does fruit carvings. The girls were Farah, Su Chin from Singapore, Hasniza and alamak, I forgot the names of those gorgeous and gregarious ladies. Yikes! Must remember to write down names. I know the faces, but names escape me. Story of my life, eh?

Anyway.

The theme was Baby Shower so I kept the colours pastel, lilac, pink and sky blue. And the cookies were pram, milk bottle, heart, round for bib, rattles and squares for monograms.

Girls, hard at work.

Farah & Niza ( I think) .. concentrating.

Ehsan, who has such steady hands and great designs to the envy of us, gals.

Cookies Pictures Ahead!

These were Ehsan’s

One of my demo cookies. Alamak, the wheels’ a bit senget.

Su-Chin’s artsy cookie.

One of the prams we made.

Fakruddin’s replica of CakeConnection‘s logo. Good job!

Just my demo cookie, for those who do not prefer a lot of icing on their cookies.

Since Farah was curious how to make basketballs, baseballs, tennis balls or golf balls, so I demonstrated a baseball. This shined cos it’s fresh and super wet.

Fakruddin’s lot.

Another plateful of delights.

A trayful of such great attempts from first-timers at cookies. Good job, people!

I was very intrigued with the way she spelled SHAQUILL. Unique and sure is interesting.

She wanted these in purple, green and blue. I had a bit of issue with the placing of the name. So, they started out like these.

Then, I received a lightbulb moment and decided to write SHAQUILL sideways in whimsical placed characters and I guess they did work, I guess. *beams*

To Farida, thanks so much and hope the party went swell!

It’s back, folks

I will be doing another Cookie Class at CakeConnection on Saturday the 13th June 2009.

It’s slated at 10:00 to 12:30pm and although I’ve earlier agreed to have the classes once every 2 months (due to a lot of cookie appointments), apparently there’s been quite a lot of queries on these classes ever since CakeConnection was featured in the Star recently.

Anyhow. It’s Baby Shower theme!

Yay! I’ve collected quite a hefty collection of baby cutters and I’m eager to do this theme. I’m thinking milk bottles, rattles, maybe one-sies, bibs 9from round cutters) anf of course prams!

See you there!
earlier has rescheduled the cookies classes that I conduct to once every 2 months to accomodate for bigger demand as we

These cookies were to be delivered as part of a Mother’s Day flower bouquet by Farah the Florist yesterday.

I wish you all a Happy Belated Mother’s Day to all you gorgeous mommies out there. To the new mom receving these cookies, have patience but above all, try to have fun while you’re at it. Haha. 4 kids on, I think I should know what that’s all about.

These are perfect for baby showers or the more popular cukur jambul ceremonies for newborns, particularly the Malays. Cukur jambul ceremonies are typically done on the 7th day a precious child is born.

Onesie with sugar flower accents

Aliya turned 11 yesterday, 9th January 2009.

She’s ecstatic to reach this age. I’m actually aghast to realise that I have a daughter who is 11 years old. Never mind that she’s about 1 cm shorter than me and will easily overshoot me in about a week. Never mind that she can now wear my shoes and is smirking all the time too.

Aliya eating her cake.

Happy Birthday Aliya!

This is so out of character for me. But diah & bear’s invite just tugged at me.

Family day. The topic.

What should I blog about?

We, as a family never have a designated family day. Because every day IS a family day. But of course these days, when the girls are bigger and Ariz is off diapers and can more or less behave himself reasonable well for a 3 year old, our weekends are more structured.

I think we struck cinemas off for a good 8 years of our marriage and we’re back in the business. I’ve always loved the big screens. I remember going to the cinemas every Friday night when I was at Uni. And now, we go as a unit, all 6 of us. Caution though. Pick your movie. HighSchoolMusical-ish works wonderful. Madagascar’s always a great pick. Pick your time. Do the 11am shows and they’ll be eager-beaver, otherwise you’d end up guiding sleepy kiddos out of the cinemas.

I read Lollies‘s family adventures in the wild. It’s funny how her being away in a barren desert,far, far away from our tropical land, has been to all these nature-infused attractions. And we have not.

I’m almost ashamed of ourselves. I think families evolve.

First, then the kids are younger, we frequent tthe pets/animals zoos/sanctuaries/petting zoos and places like that. Then we’re at the cinemas where they can appreciate magic being played in front of you, apart from reading them in books. Then I guess, once they’ve gotten slightly older, nature walks/treks/camps should start to be included.

I guess we’re almost there. If I can convince Ariz to wear his shoes all the time that he doesn’t need to pick every single thing on the floor/earth to be investigated. If I can convince Ariz that creepy-crawlies are there to creep and to crawl. So leave them be. No need to be stomping on them. I cannot tell you how many dead insects he has stomped upon. It’s almost he hunts these, completely unperturbed by them.

Of course, the girls need to realise that animals and nature are good things. Things crawl and things creep and no need to scream your lungs out for Mummy or Daddy to come rescue you from that little beetle on the wall, minding it’s own business.

You think we’re ready for nature?

Mamachak again ordered these for her newborn’s Cukur Jambul ceremony.

She wanted a variety of baby stuff, but I could not the right cutters so, I could only managed these.

More bibs.

Prams. I only did 4 of these as these were pretty big and prone to break.

Onesies.