Happy Valentine's! 
I made some little red velvet truffles and cupcakes ♥ 


And also some specially designed red velvet cakelets : Sachiel the third Angel (from Evangelion) ! 



I thought of making chocolate initially but was inspired by the idea of Angel's from a friend (follow her here: Chiaki's Blog). Since this is also an all-time favourite series since childhood of a friend, I've decided I could make some white cookies/cakelets in the shape of some Angels; and red velvet became my choice! Red velvet: the red inner flesh and blood of the Angel...oopss sounds more like Halloween? ;D 
Red velvet cake + truffle + white chocolate + Evangelion = appropriate, perfect for Valentine's! 


Lovely Orire (Pullip Ayanami Rei) modelled with these lovely cakelets! ♥ 


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Just some basic red velvet cake ingredients to batter~ But I think I added a little too much cocoa powder? Coz the colour turned out to be darker lol

Make some cream cheese frosting while the cakes are having a sauna in the oven ~

One part for a whole cake, another saved for some cupcakes~ Cupcakes are done for now; but cakelets and truffles are not!

Crumble the whole cake~

Mix the crumbled cake with the prepared frosting~

Roll into tiny balls (for truffles), roll and shape into Sachiel shape (for the Sachiel cakelets)! Not very neat work :P And they look more like meatballs, no?


Place them into the fridge to harden about 2 hours~ 


Melt some white chocolate melts in double boiler. 
Cover the truffles and cakelets with the melted chocolate, and let them to set!


Before the chocolate sets, just add some decorations for some love! 
And ta-da~! 


Red Velvet Truffles ♥   and Cupcakes~     For someone special who loves Evangelion, and who brought me to like this epic series too; Sachiel the third Angel as red velvet cakelets ! ♥      Was supposed to use chocolate chips as the eyes, but I've forgot to buy them DX Heart-shapes work well anyway lol      This is how it looks like inside! Gore-y, red and fleshy isn't it? ♥   

My white chocolate coating doesn't look very nice but presentable, and most importantly tastes yummy and feel loved! :'D

Labels: Cooking, food, homemade, My Kitchen, My Laboratory, Work in Progress

Spring Festival is just around the corner; oops I mean tomorrow! 
Happy Lunar New Year! 


Not like I really care actually lol, and right now I am away from home, which makes me don't really feel the 'festivity'. The only thing that makes me care about the Spring Festival is my family and I really miss them :( 

What I miss are cookies and the food my Mom cook for this season! And I cant have them D: I can buy some similar cookies and ingredients from Chinatown though, but meh, don't have the time to do all of this. 

Well, but I still want to bake something! Love baking although I am not a good baker ;P So I managed to squeeze some time to bake one of my favourite cookies, Peanut Cookies! These addictive cookies are buttery-soft, crumbly and full with peanut goodness. I have plans for other snacks as well, but still haven't had the time to get the ingredients. And since I managed to get some yummy unsalted peanuts off the nearby grocery shelves, it was viable to make Peanut Cookies. I have basically all the other ingredients needed at home in my Laboratory (kitchen) :D 

I just googled up some recipes but didnt follow the amounts they specified. Just took a gist of the basic ingredients. Note, this is my first attempt making peanut cookies ;; 

Unsalted peanuts 
Plain flour 
Icing sugar 
Butter as shortening 
Salt 
Sunflower oil (my own choice since that's the only oil I have in my Laboratory other than Olive Oil, Truffle Olive Oil and Vegetable Oil...) 
 Egg 

Frying the peanuts~

Flecks of brown appeared~ 
Blend to pulverize~

I used blender coz I dont have mixer/processor D: Scary ... but it works! Then again, never try doing this using $15 blender! Use a high powered and reliable blender to blend such food if you are planning to use blender. 

Mix all dry ingredients~ 
looks like marble*

No pictures of mixing with oil and butter :P

Roll out cookies and decorate with a half-peanut! Glaze with beaten egg! Peanut babies~



... 


And out from Oven! 

Golden brown peanut babies ...!


This recipe is so unhealthy lol. But I thought this was only once in awhile occasion I would make this cookie, so it's alright. I have even stop having peanut butter on my bread. 


... 


Ta-da! Ghetto photoshoot! 


Coffee doesnt really fit in here, but I am just showing off what I have used to contain my cookies in! Yup, in that airtight and empty coffee tin!

And they actually turned out quite yummy! I am proud of myself haha



Wishing you a wonderful celebration and prosperous and healthy year ahead ~* 


Yummies into the mouth~!

Labels: Cooking, food, homemade, My Kitchen, My Laboratory

It's Part II of my Animangaki experience!
I...
cosplayed as
I mean
I CROSSPLAYED
as
...
..
..
.
Zidane Tribal
of Final Fantasy IX


;___;

and I failed like no tomorrow...I hate myself for ruining the character himself and I spoiled one of my dream cosplays...

Anyways...just wanted to post about the progress and photos of the cosplay actually ;_;

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Edging done~



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Sewing started!



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Props time!
Guess what's this? 8D



.. Working with acrylic board for the first time!



Corn for supper! Healthy supper while working on props and costume ~ ;w;



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Made Zidane's earring :3



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Leather ~



:3 !

Finished this on the day itself... Needs refinement works ;w;

It is
Zidane's Ultima Weapon!! ;w;

I should make his daggers coz it is easier to pose with daggers than with Ultima Weapon... oTL Btw, I failed so much in portraying expression and posing for Zidane... hmm mainly coz of lack of confidence and there wasn't enough time for me to get into the mood of being in the character (since I arrived and changed later...) ;_;
I do not even dare to look at photos taken by photographers oTL I'm so sorry...

Sorryyyy....oTLLL
I don't even know now if I want crossplay anymore or cosplay as Zidane again ;_; but I love Zidane and Final Fantasy IX. My favourite male main protagonist of Final Fantasy series :3 Oh note that I did IX and not Dissidia, even though Dissidia's costume has more details and looks nicer. FFIX FTW, NOT DISSIDIA!
The voice for Zidane in Dissidia is good though ~ =w=

And also, Zidane is pronounced as zih-DAHN

Hmmmm...

Maybe just one photo of my Zidane cos will do...



I think I look okay in this photo..Thanks, Usagi!

Zidane Tribal
Final Fantasy IX

photo by Hexlord


Once again...and always... sorrryyyy
And thank you so much to my family for many help and ideas!! *cries*

Labels: cosplay, event, homemade, sewing, Work in Progress

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Firstly, thank you so much, Blur, for the collaboration again! 8D
Finally got a chance to debut Jennifer's default version.





Stitch I: A Red Yarn ~Jennifer - Cloth Road~ FULL ALBUM on Yam Gallery

11-09-25 Jennifer, ClothRoad ; on Blur's Wordpress


Jennifer
Cloth Road

photography by Blur

Despite of the limited area of the photoshoot location, am surprised of the outcome of the photos 8D








Hope to do more cosplays of Jennifer (:

Labels: cosplay, homemade, photoshoot

C2AGE 2011
looking at Flo's post reminded me to make a post on C2AGE '11 8D ;;

Feels like my creativity in making props and costumes is downgrading even more...
Anyways, on to day 1 ~





photo by Razrig


Jennifer
Cloth Road

Finally debuted as Jennifer, but didn't manage to finish my flower headgear ): Failed badly but I really love the outcome of the costume. Big credits to my mom (: Thank you Flo for helping me put up the ribbons on the hair. Love Okama and Cloth Road, and Jennifer of course (: Been wanting to cosplay as Jennifer for so long. I'm going to be repetitive again blabla..so I shall not go on about my delay blabla 8D Really admires Okama's artworks and designs. He has so many brilliant ideas on costume designs especially oTL Finally cosplayed one of his masterpieces ♥


Please do check out KC's C2AGE Day 1 vid ~
C2AGE '11 Day 1 LINK



Day 2 :




photo by Rox-Windy


Kaname Madoka
魔法少女まどか☆マギカ
Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Thank you to Flo for inviting me! And Celleste and Hammi!! Thanks all for all the help too! Thank you for the shoes and socks, Flo haha. Credits to my mom too 8D And I believe this is the first time Windy has ever taken photos of my cosplay, thanks so much! The outcome of Madoka's costume was a little too big and wide for me...so it was kind of loose(here comes magic of safety pins and tapes!) and made me look really fat D: My second 'Goddess' cosplay 8D Oh oh and I'm loving the red lens so much, Dolly+ 8D


Special credits to Zhen for our epic Sayaka's Witch form /Oktavia von Seckendorff!!! Both you and Flo are so talented Q_Q

Roll over to Flo's blog to see the WIP of our awesome Sayaka!! 8DD
http://round-and-powdered.blogspot.com/2011/06/forty-three.html






Puella Magi
Akemi Homura :: Momo
Kaname Madoka :: Ryukku-K
Tomoe Mami :: Shin/Celleste
Sakura Kyoko :: Hammi


Please do check out KC's C2AGE Day 2 vid ~
C2AGE '11 Day 2 LINK


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Some loots of the day 8D

Cos cards! Mintos-senpai!; Xsaye moe Azu-nyan and her limited card Vocaloid Haruma High Drop Len and Rin (collabed with Lavena); Shiomaru Lambo ; Ryeain Sen; Kikyo Vocaloid Haruma High Drop Meiko(collabed with Ayase) and Potter's...I left it in Flo's bag I think D:
And Razrig's name card!!! the Miku one haha, never got one from him beforeeeee DDDD: finally got it lolol

Wheee~ and polaroidssss!! from Windy!! Thanks so so much!!



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Some WIP photo moments 8D

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and still working on Madoka's only..







18-05-11
Jennifer...


20-05-11
baking golden cookies ~


and cereals ~


for the buttons lol

Labels: cosplay, event, homemade, photoshoot, Work in Progress