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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Crafty Felt Ideas

Its been a really long while (probably since high school days) that I've played with felt. Was reminded again of this craft (tks to elaine). It was good fun to be excite again over this craft. They are actually quite easy to make. All you need is some coloured felt, thread, needle and a good template :) Of course a little patience putting them together also helps but you can conveniently double up watching tv/soaps or even waiting at the airport longue!! hehe

Since its Xmas Season, made some gingerbread mans to be hung on the xmas tree as decorations. As you can tell they can make great xmas gifts too :)


The 'ball was rolling' and couldn't help myself from exploring other fun xmas decorative ideas. Though I confess there is one outstanding snowman yet to be made. Will get there soon - opps...maybe next year.

They are also great as a feature patch work on a favourite bag.

Poor M, couldn't say no when I asked her for a her favourite shopping bag. Fortunately this is a favourite character Totoro - so she finally gave in willingly!!

They also make great brooch pressies too!


opps, who's his brown friend?? Stay tuned for the next post! :)

Dōngzhì or Winter Solstice Festival 2010











Master Prince is all into this festival, but only because he loves eating tong yuen.

It was an eventful day for him....

He had to 'beg' M to make the gingery sweet syrup.
He had to waited patiently the whole day for me to came back, even then I was later than usual, to make the tong yuen balls.
Discovered there was plenty of flour in the kitchen - plain, self raising, tapioca, sago, wheat, corn but unfortunately no glutinous rice flour.
It was drizzling then.
So DH got roped into getting the right flour.
In the meantime experimented with the other flours - nope, can confirm they all do not work! :(
Finally, the right bag of flour arrive and immediately went to work. Master Prince was all happy to roll & shape them; gleefully he fished cook the cooked tong yuen out. Finally the got his wish.....



The long awaited and most wonderful tasty bowl of tong yuen in Christmas colours :)

Yes, after a whole day of major anticipation he had double helpings - two huge bowls of them!!! Does that mean his age doubles up too with each additional bowl consumed??? lolz


For more information on this festival, read more at wikipedia.

Recipe to make the tong yuen mosey here.