I’ve been attending the cake decorating class offered by Wilton for two weeks now. It has been a pleasant class and I’ve enjoyed them a lot. I think the class is kind of intense with a lot of preparation done ahead. I talked a friend of mine, apparently the class’ format has changed and sounded like the new course has more hands on experience to compare to the old course. So far, this is the first cake that I’ve decorated in my second class. Here is the picture:

The cake turns out pretty nice, don’t you think? hahah.. but I think I might have won the the title of “The ugliest cake” in the class but I’m still proud of my accomplishment
I’ve another class to attend tonight, I’ll be decorating cupcakes that I’ve already made. Will upload more pictures to let you see how it turns out.
Update: Picture of my cup cakes…

What does a two years old boy ask for when going fabrics shopping with you? oh… of course, his favorite character – Thomas and friends fabric! Nathan picked up this fabric for himself when we go fabrics shopping for Noah’s quilt. He wants me to make a pillow case for him out of the fabric. Well, making a pillow case it’s not that hard and this could be done easilyin an hour or so if your sewing machine would cooperate with you. Unfortunately, my needles broke and it was my last one. I have to delay the project until i get my needles! But i think the pillow case turns out pretty nice with the Thomas fabric and the green.

It’s new year again!!! Well, I got to have something new at home for the new year right? So, I decided to rush out doing the table cloth just to welcome the new year! Happy New Year 2010 everyone!

Finally, we decided to buy a tree this year to make Christmas more cheerful in the house. I guess especially for Nathan, he is very excited about the tree. The gifts that he has received so far, he has put them under the tree. Maybe he doesn’t know what is inside and that’s why he could resist the temptation of opening up the gifts. After all it’s his first year of Christmas that he really “know” what is going on. I’ve been busy creating some crafts myself. I did the stockings for three of us. Mine is taking the longest time since I quilted some difficult pattern using my friend’s pattern – Wendy (check out her wonderful works using the links). We’re ready for Christmas morning to capture the joys and excitement from the little one. Of course, we’ve been constantly telling him that Christmas is all about Jesus and not about tree and gifts . Here are some of the pictures of the decoration I’ve done around the house. Not that much, but maybe next year we’ll include some of the handmade crafts that I could make with Nathan. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everyone! Another year has passed by…

This is a Christmas gift for a dear friend.

The previous post mentioned about the sandbox but without the sand. So, finally we ordered 2700lbs of sands from Lowe’s. Hubby did a great job by asking for a discount. Somehow he is better at that than me, I’m the nervous person when comes to bargaining. Anyhow, the sand was shipped to our house yard, a few feet away from the sandbox, because the forklift was too big to enter the backyard. So, how do you move the 2700lbs of sand from one place to the other? Wheelbarrow would be a good answer. But the problem is that we didn’t have one. So, Nathan’s toy car comes in handy… well, better than moving bags of sand by hands!!! Also, with the little help from the 2 years old!! 

Finally, I got to play on it…

Daddy has been busy on Sat, July 18, 2009, building a sandbox for Nathan with Tom’s help. After almost the whole day, the finished product is up. We’ve not filled the sandbox with sand yet… I’m pretty sure that Nathan would enjoy it very much for years to come. Here are some pictures of the sandbox: