little gifts from little hands

I started my 2 daughters young. To learn to make gifts for friends and familly. I remember when I was at their age, I did the same too. But it wasn't my mom who taught me to do them. The tradition starts from me. As years past, my younger cousins follow suit. Here are some of the things they have made.

Natasha made these for Teacher's day for Sunday school


Melody did this for Auntie Cindy from Sunday School


Melody made these herself when she was 5 years old. For her teachers in kindergarten




I will need to find all the others which my cousins made for me on my birthday and post them later

Young Bonnie and Clyde

I used to love to watch old movies with my dad. There was one movie I loved as a young child called "Bonnie and Clyde" played by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Bonnie and Clyde are real life people who turn out to be bank robbers. But Hollywood made it more of a sweet funny romance, drama movie than anything else.

Since my blog is about things of old..here's my version of young Bonnie and Clyde.








young Bonnie was me, back in the late 1960s with my cousin, Hwee who was a year younger than me. We grew up together. Playing all kind of stuff. Hwee was much into swords and guns. So I grew up more tomboy-ish than anything else. I was never into Barbie dolls.

What a surprise!

Noelle was my cousin's little girl. When she turn 1 year old, her mother ordered a Hello Kitty birthday cake for her. I think this was some years back. Noelle is now in kindergarten. As usual, the parents took photos of their kids. But I like to take candid photos instead. Here's some I took and later compiled for the family. It was funny..read the little captions of text I wrote for each photo.

Nature at her very best

Last week, we went to Cameron Highlands. And visited the rose gardens, vegetable farms, bee farm and also ate fresh fruits, vegetables. Here are some of the breath-taking shots from outside our hotel room's window.

At 8am, morning mist is starting to clear up.




By mid day, mist is gone.








We visited a vegetable farm. Here's the patch for cabbage


And these are a row of cherry tomatoes



And passion fruits, still green.


**side note**
I have to put a watermark to all my photos now. As I start seeing my own photos in other's blog claiming it as theirs! I have also seen my photos being use in some cafe or eating places in Singapore. Without asking for permission to use them.

I love to HUG, anyone, anything?

Jing Jing, our sheltie puppy, is fond of hugging something to sleep. Last night, I managed to capture this on my digital camera.

seen here, she is hugging a chair and resting her head on the legs of the chair...





and this was taken a few months ago...she is hugging the computer table.



And this is her favourite toy : Franklin the tortoise

Gifts from little hearts

My 2 daughters, Natasha and Melody made chocolates filled with butterscotch. And had it wrapped in gold foil paper. I helped them to mould a chocolate wood log and assembled this for them to give to my sister.



and I re did the cake I made for my sister..to give it a more leather skin look-alike..