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Etsy Store Update + Year End Sale Coupon!

It’s been a while since I have updated the store. Husband has been kind enough to take some shots of the items when playing around with his camera.

Christmas really comes early this year as we have already packed and given away our 1st gifts (teachers & classmates).

And to get you started on your christmas shopping, here’s a 10% off coupon code (Yes! Including Olfa items): xmas2011

Valid till 31 December 2011 and applicable for all items listed on Etsy.

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Ben-I-am

Feeling a little peckish on this cool rainy afternoon. A sunny side up, perhaps?

Nah. What about grilled cheese sandwich instead? Yums!

Bleu cheese? But but but… they don’t have ‘eyes’, right?

I will just have some Singapore Noodles (whatever that is!) with extra chilli please? Oh, make it ‘seafood’ noodles (that green thingy is a fish from a $2 fishing game we bought from Daiso)

Benji wants something posh! Green Eggs!

Do you like green eggs and ham?

I do so like

green eggs and ham!

Thank you!

Thank you,

Ben-I-am!

Green Ham with ‘rind’

Benji’s all-day breakfast special sandwich!

Special ingredients revealed

Last week, we bought Benji a set of Ikea kiddy cooking utensils (although he liked the kiddy kitchen set more!) and we have been cooking ‘ice-cream’, lego bricks and whatever that fits the pot. Yesterday, I popped into Daiso and picked up a small frying pan ($2!), and a pack of assorted felt fabrics.

Today, we spent a quiet afternoon indoors ‘cooking’ up a storm – Benji’s nursing a terrible cough. Cut up some easy shapes and the only ‘3-D’ effect was some wadding stuffed into the egg yolks. The ‘noodles’ yarn came from a ripped up old crochet project. Nothing fancy like the felt food that my friend made for her little girl, or even the $15 Ikea felt food toys. But it is fun to make food on boy’s request So who says you can’t sew for boys, eh?

Butter!

One thing led to another. And now I have… or HAD this. BUTTER!

I spent the night reading about butter-making, and was intrigued by the simplicity of it all… Just add cream and shake? Unbelievable. And do I seriously want to shake a bottle for hours and hours and hours? My arms are already sore from plucking my boy from trouble (literally) and is butter really worth losing my limbs for? :p But hey, it sounds really easy with a KitchenAid mixer. (hint).

While raiding the fridge for an afternoon snack, I noticed that I STILL had that half tub ofcream left over. What the heck. I dumped the content into a plastic container that used to contain some Chinese New Year goodies, and screwed on the red lid.

When I started shaking it, I went: uh oh… I don’t have enough cream to work with! It was just coating the side of the jar Dammit…

While lamenting this fact to my hubby & equally unsympathetic son, I noticed that the cream was curdling! That gave me HOPE. I shook some more and then I heard the legendary ‘blop’! And we’ve got BUTTER! And I only shook that thingy for less than 5 mins!

There was too little buttermilk to be saved, and I yielded less than a palm size of butter. I added some honey (a little too much) after ‘washing it’ and glad-wrapped it before I left it in the fridge.

Just had it with some toast – and what a lovely light taste! I didn’t salt the butter but next time, I promise I will flavour it better :>