Sunday, December 24, 2006
Including Wenky's Triops Diary - Day 13!2 domestic activities today - baking a lemon cheesecake (Yx and XW were doing that, I can't bake for nuts), and decorating a gingerbread house that Wenky and DL each bought from IKEA some weeks ago. Had to stick the pieces of gingerbread together to form the house using melted sugar, and burnt my right index finger! Yx and I did the decorating of the house later on, using home-made icing in various colours. Yay!! First attempt at making icing and it was nice! So there you go, some pics of the house:
Adding the roof patterns ... this is one of the worst parts, it involves very fine motor coordination!
Roof done at last, but still drab!
Starting to look good - Yx added the beautiful blue icing patterns, the pink ones, the candy cane above the window and the chocolate bits, while I did the orange window frames, the marshmallow border and the "snow"-covered ground.
The front door with a lane lined by M&Ms and candy cane signposts! (You can see the melting roof here ... read below for an explanation)
The nasty thing is, our humidity in Singapore is crazy - the lovely gingerbread house started absorbing moisture, and started to soften! You can actually see the roof starting to wilt downwards on the right. OMG ... we hurriedly finished it up, took some shots and sent the poor thing into the ICU (the fridge).
We also experimented with DIY yoghurt this weekend! Muahaha ... Yx was given a starter culture by an Indian friend, and seriously this stuff is good - it tastes better than the commercial stuff. =)
At the back: I loved the yoghurt so much, I bought a 4L bottle of milk to make EVEN MORE.
In front: (Left) The completed yoghurt (Right) Orange-flavoured yoghurt (added orange cordial)
And lastly, more pics. We made this silly basket which turned out to be nice. No one really celebrates X'mas, but it's all really an excuse to be naughty with things. The cones are great, they've had a long history. 1/3 of them were from Madison, Wisconsin in 2005 (where Yx claimed she never did see any cones around her place there, but when I got there they somehow materialised everywhere *ah-hem*), the rest were from various places in Scotland. Worth honorary mention is that giant cone in the middle, which I believe the 2 women (Yx and mom) POACHED, SWIPED, NICKED, STOLE from the royal botanical gardens at Kew. =D
And amidst all the fun today, only 1 person was glum - "Why can't I play with the cakes too??"
Wenky's Triops Diary - Day 13!OK, so much has happened since I last updated 3 days ago! Of course, the little things have once again grown even bigger (Mr. Meanass is about 5cm long now I think)
They've also laid their second batch of eggs, and this time I isolated them properly. Here's a pic!
Going to dry them out, so hopefully I'll have plenty more to hatch and rear next year. Would be cool to throw them at nasty ward sisters or add them to the con's coffee.
Wenky
11:38 PM
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