A view from underneath a willow tree at West Lake
Very common view of West Lake, Hangzhou
Me and the spring flowers .....
Will write on my backpacking adventure to Lijiang, Shangri La and Kunming in Yunnan soon.....
Monday, May 4, 2009
Good bye Hangzhou...
These are my final photos before I bid farewell to Hangzhou on 1st April 2009........
Baking local delicacy
I guess you must be wondering why I wrote quite a bit journal updating my latest activity today. The main reason behind it is that it was done while waiting for my "kuih bakar" in the oven....LOL.....On my recent trip back to Kuantan, my mother in law gave me the mould for making this local delicacy since she is no longer using it. I have been wanting to have this mould so much but could not find any near my home. I never knew that my MIL keep a piece in her kitchen. I am so happy that I inherit hers now ....ha....ha........this is the outcome....guess no so bad for the first timer!!
Very simple recipe...I just use 8 whole eggs, sugar, small portion of flour, coconut milk, a small bowl of sugar and pandan syrup extracted from blended pandan leaves. Mix altogather and pour into the mould. Set the temperature to 150-200 then baked it for 15 minutes. That's it!
My WIP for April/May 2009
These are some of my latest WIP......enjoy!!!
Finally, a colorful biscornu......
This is the RE for my Mother's Day card exchange, in fact, I had finished stitching them and need to assemble it on the card....the dateline is on 06th May....and I have not finish the final pieece....arrgggghhhhhhhhhh................
Swap with Nina
As promised, I would like to share with all of you the package I received from Rita in Hungary for Swap with Nina. Rita stitch a very lovely pinkeep and small scissor fob for me. Her works is very fine and exquisite. She also send me a card printed with colorful roses. Thanks Rita for all the nicest stuff you send me and feel very lucky receiving them!
My partner for the swap is also from Hungary. I stitched a floss tag and one small scissor fob for Carol. I send her some cotton fabric, my hand dyed floss, small coin purse and an earring hand made by a native in ShangriLa, Yunnan. I was really behind dateline. I hope the package had reached her safely. I have to apologize as my piece does not really turn out so well since I am stitching them in between my travelling and moving back to Malaysia. Yeaaahhh...lesson learned!! I should not sign up for the swap in the first place.....
Update on my LHN "COMFORT"
As I said earlier, I had made quite a good progress on this one. I am not sure whether I should make this piece into a pinkeep or just sew it togather with hardboard and frame it. I don't usually set my final piece when I start stitching them ..LOL.....
Now I may need to dig the boxes for my Coffee & Tea Thead Pack and start choosing which fabric to stitch them. On the other hand, Diane had just introduce the Little Women Virtue Series in February, they are so very sweet!. Of course, that would be my next pick for my future stash (but not so soon...maybe much later this year....). Got to make full use of my Coffee & Tea thread pack first before I start buying new set. I always adore Diane's creativity!!
