Domino Bear

Here's Domino Bear, 9 1/2 " tall. Just born today(31st May 09, Monday. He is rather manly looking but with a cute manly face. Love the color of his fur. Initially have trouble sewing it as the fur kept caught together with the string. He is fully jointed thus have moving head, arms and legs.

Domino is actually a replica from Daffie. See how different each bear came out. Initially I lost the original ear template, so I have it substituted with another one. Maybe that's why it looked so different.

Marble Cake

Made Marble Cake yesterday morning. My girls said it is moist and lovely. Why not try it yourself??......

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar

1 cup butter, softened (250 gm)

2 - 3 cups cake flour (here's the tricky part, see below step 4 .............)

1 cup milk

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 eggs

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 180 deg and grease a loaf pan, set aside
2. In a large bowl, using electric mixer at low speed, beat sugar and butter until blended. Increase to medium speed and beat until light and fluffy.
3. Add vanilla extract, salt, eggs and beat medium speed until well mixed.
4. Using spatula or wire whisk - mix in the flour 1/2 cup + 1/4 cup milk at a time until 2 cups + 1 cup milk are fully mix into batter.
5. Remove 2 cups batter to a medium bowl. Using wire whisk, beat 1/2 cup cocoa into batter until well blended. As for the remaining of the vanilla batter, using wire whisk, beat in another 3/4 cup of flour.
6. Pour in batter in alternate portion into greased loaf pan. Using satay stick or a large spoon, twist through batters to obtain marbled effect.
7. Bake for 1 hour using 160 deg. (check your cake if its done by poking with satay stick, stick must come out clean especially the middle part) Every oven cooks differently. Cool cake in pan and on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan and cool completely.
8. Enjoy your marble cake.

Chairo, Daffie and Pinko Bears

Check out my new Hug of Bears this May. Meet Chairo - born on 26th May 2009, tuesday. He is 13" tall, 230 gm. He has jointed head, thus, he can moved his head left and right. His body and limbs are soft and huggable as well. He also has crystal eyes............

Meet my very first furry critter - Daffie - born on 24th May 2009, Sunday. He is 9" tall and weigh about 160 gm. I like his fox fur color, aqua. For joints, I used cotter pins. Different from the cloth bear.

Meet Pinko - born on 26th May 2009, tuesday. She is 9" tall and weigh about 190 gm. She is made from acrylic fur. Very soft and pinkie cute.

Check out the diffence between Daffie and Pinko. They are made from the same template but yet they turn out looking different. Hahaha............ but of course, the material is different too.

Crystals Beads-Bear

Meet MAPLE : weight 370gm, Height 15" born on 17 May 2009, sunday. She has cherry blossom motif on her right body side. I use japanese beads for the stem branches and swarovski bicone beads for the flowers.


Here's BLOSSOM : weight 220 gm, height 12" also born on 17 May 2009, sunday. She has sakura motif cloth on her body, instead I sew the words on her left thigh. This bear is for my niece's 21st birthday this weekend. Hope she likes it. Her right hand has a bracelet with a lock and key hanging on it. See below for closer details.

Blossom has a swarovski pearl & bicone bracelet with key and lock on it.

For my niece's 21st birthday!

Cranberry Cake

Today is a school holiday.......my girls are revising their work for the coming exam this week. We intend to stay in and not go out for lunch. With some cranberries left in the bottle, I decided to try this new recipe which I found from the internet. The girls said it is moist and nice compare to the last batch of cranberry cake I made at school.

So, try this one out, you may substitue them with mix dried fruit instead or add abit of nut for that nutty flavour.

I uses a bund pan but felt that the side gives abit of a crisp which my younger girl dislike. So next time I will try a square pan instead and cut the side off. By the way, best to grease the pan first and sprinkle flour on it for easy taking it out.

Here's the ingredients:

• 1-1/2 cups dried cranberries (soak in hot water for 15 minutes)
• 1 cup butter or 250 gm at room temperature
• 3/4 cup granulated white sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup orange marmalade
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour (sift flour)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder (sift baking powder together in flour)

Method:

1. preheat oven to 180 - 200 deg C and grease a 9 x 5 " loaf pan.
2. drain thoroughly and pat dry cranberries on paper towels and set aside
3. beat butter + sugar on medium high (electric mixer) till light and fluffy for 3 to 5 minutes.
4. Add eggs + vanilla extract + orange marmalade + sour cream - beat low speed until combined.
5. using hand whisk, combine together baking powder and flour, add flour mixture to wet ingredients, 1/3 at a time, mixing until blended.
6. Fold in cranberries.
7. Pour into prepared loaf pan and bake for 35 mins to 1 hour depending on your oven. Use a satay stick to test if the cake is done.
8. Cool the cranberry cake to room temperature before cutting to serve.

Best Wishes

To all Mothers who strive to keep the house a warm and loving place for their loved ones. May the Lord blesses all Mothers with strength and love, good health for the wonderful work done.

St.Bernadette Mother's Day

Check this picture out from the church decoration for Mother's Day. I did this with Ee Lin and it turns out beautiful. She has been spending lots of time at home doing the swan. Don't they look like real swan in a beautiful flower garden with water flowing out??

Yummy Flower Cookies

Yummy Flower Cookies done by my girls.....................

This is what Marilyn was talking about. Aren't they pretty? They are sweet and yummy too.........

My 1st Bear

Meet Sakura Bear, 11" - born on 26 Feb 2009, Thursday - my 2nd bear

Meet Chirpy Bear, 12 1/2" - born on 13 Feb 2009, Friday. My very 1st bear that I make.

Bear's Huggie@STC

Name of Bear: MICHAEL, 32 cm and 180 gm - by Eiko

By Queenie -
Comment : Thanks for a truly enjoyable session of bear making, it is really truly wonderful that we share our experience as mothers as we sew, what a great way to exchange ideas on parenting as well as learning a new skill. Looking forward to the next bear making. - Queenie

Name of bear : SKY, 13" and 200 gm - By Sharon

Comment : it was so wonderful to view our bears thru the computer - sharon

By: Josephine
Comment : It is truly awesome to see our very own self-made bears on the internet. Thank you "beary" much for your patience and guidance....... Really enjoyed the 'bear making' sessions with you gals.....jo

Name of Bear: MAGE, 32cm and 190 gm -By Marilyn
Comment : We have indeed enjoyed this wonderful experience together, thanks to Veralynn - a very generous lady. You have made us proud mothers again. Hey, Lady, thanks so much for your lovely flower cookie. I took a small portion and Geri 'walup' everything. We loved it!! Yum Yum. Let us all bring our baby bears for a group photograph with our instructor. This one can use for our album (to see again and again when old age). - Marilyn

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All the above bears are born on 6th May 2009, Wednesday

With 2 sessions of Teddy Bear Making Workshop, the parents at STC have re-kindled their sewing talents and created these lovely bears for their daughters and even, mother-in-law,

Some of them have already planned on making more bears during the June school holidays.

Hey ladies, I'm so proud of you gals and hope to have more time teaching you to make more bears for your lovely girls and boys or even mother's. Way to go............you have my full support and lots of kisses..........XOXOXO

We still have Jenny's bear not featured yet.