3D Doll cake

Today is my very first Attempt for a 3D cake. I'm lucky to have someone who is willing to let me try the doll cake for her niece's birthday. Here's the doll head, the top was covered with fondant. I did not cover the cake with fondant as I find it too sweet, unless that person is going for more look than taste, otherwise, I will try to use fresh cream as much as possible.

And here's the whole cake, (of cos, only the skirt is edible) with the head in place.

The skirt was a blackforest cake with vanilla sponge cake. I was kind of worried as it's quite wobbly, so hope that nothing happen during the transportation. :P

Artist in the making

Last 2 days, we went to Melaka for a short trip. We had a enjoyable trip. The photos are not with me, will upload them later. Nothing much there except we went for a short trishaw ride for the gals and I went for buy some handmade noodles and the famous Gula Melaka for my cooking. May do some ondeh-ondeh.... but today, I've got to do my 3D doll cake first.

Before I show you the pix of my doll cake and later the trip, here's my little Artist in the making:

Wishlist

I have lots of things that I wish to buy / do in my mind, instead of remembering them hard in my head, I've decided to list them out and see if I can fulfill them and hope my the other half will have a chance to come upon this and help me to fulfill them....(hiak hiak hiak):

- Attend Wilton Cake Decoration Course 1, 2 & 3
- Fondant modelling tools
- Attend Cake Baking Stage 2
- Fondant Rolling Pin
- Silpat Mat
- Novelty Cake Pans
- Attain Driving License (On-going)
- Castle Cake for Rachel (Oct)
- Princess Doll Cake for Renise (Jul)
- Bread Maker
- Microwave Oven
- Fondant Rolling Pin
- Expand my colour choice
- More cake pans

Hmm...so far I can only think of all these.....will I be adding more to the list?? Haha, I don't know. :P

Life After work

It's the end of 3rd weeks since I've started work....Life is not much difference, in fact, better I would say :P

I've got the freedom to go out now without the baby and my gals especially Reyna is now used to be with my mum and I can have more free time for myself. Life is not so stressful as no more screaming at the gals and preparing food (though I missed those times).

One thing I'm guilty was I realised how much my gals had grown these 3 weeks and ever since I'm working, the attention spend on Renise is much much lesser as nowadays when I reached home, Reyna will start to clinch onto my, giving me no chance to even eat my dinner and naturally, the whole nite is like that and hence the attention to Renise is lesser.

Rachel is not that bad as during this March holidays, I've started to give her some writing to do and make sure she do it correctly, but doing this, she somehow feels that she have our attention, but for Renise, as she's still yet to write and she's attending art class on Sat, I didn't want her to do too much colourings till she got so bored with it on Sat. I'm still thinking how I can keep her occupied during the day and later at nite, I can come home to view her work.

skype

Oh yes, I've uploaded Skype. For those who wish to add me, my nick is vaness813rs. :)

Newborn

Today, I went to Gleagles Hospital to visit my just gave birth colleague. Her baby gal arrived in this world yesterday.

When I was there and saw the baby, it gave me a urge to have another baby. Babies are so cute!!! and worst, deep inside me still hoping for a boy, hence there's a urge. Anyway, I've got to hold onto that plan first. Whether or not we are going to have the 4th child, we need to get some "rest" and have to plan properly as it will not be easy to handle with 1 in "terrible 2's" and 1 in "terrible 3's" stage... this is no joke. With all the whimping and screaming, it definitely drove us crazy.

1st Driving Lesson

I just had my first driving lesson last Sat. I was so excited.... so worried that I will be so slow and have a trail of cars following behind me, but I was very heng...hahaha...most of the cars managed to give way to me and I would say my speed not that slow lah... :P

I'm abit gan cheong when I first started off driving, not very used to stepping the accelerator and brake lightly (as Daytona will just step hard on the accelerator and off we go) that's why I always jam brake and created a hard stopping. Hope I will do better next time. Haha, but hor, I think I got eyes, hand and legs coordination problem...haha, dunno where to concentrate :P

I hope I will perform better this week. And guess what? Haha, so proud of myself when I drove to my mum's place myself last week. :P