A Visit to Fully Booked

I can literally live in a bookstore, that is if they allow me, it's haven for me, i know alot of people can relate. And when we went to Greenhills yesterday, i get to reminisce the feeling of being inside a bookstore again. (here i go again) with the kind of job that i have, i don't really have much time to go or even have time to stay there for a while. Anyways, i just found out that there is another series of books that people are going gah gah over, and which just tells that THAT'S how i am detached to the book world nowadays. Its the books by Stephenie Meyers, the vampire lovestory saga. I don't know why i kinda likevampire books or movies, something in them that makes me fascinated, except Anne Rice books, it gives me a chill from my insides, i mean i like vampires because of fascination but not to the point that i can already sense someone dark watching me hehehe well that's how good A. Rice is.
Anyways i already started to rearrange my book shelf for that 3 vampire books, and hopefully next payday my wallet will spare some money for me *starts doing the math*

A Cake for Flor

Flor just got home from the hospital about 2 days ago and it's her birthday today, so after coming from work i decided to make a chocolate cake for her. Coz i remember when i was making a chocolate cake with lots of marshmallows she really liked it, so i throw a bagful of marshmallows on her cake and i made another cake the same one just that i made it square , for my kids, i know that once Flor put her cake on the table my kids prolly will not have enough to eat. So the square one is solely for them.

A Taxi Ride with Rosebelle & Aaron

The traffic was heavy, we have a 4 yr old & an 8 yr old, a teenager whose getting our attention by telling jokes and two women who loves to talk(one was me), we were on our way to Greenhills. It was chaos! I started taking pics and it gave a moment of silence, i found that nick of time of silence precious!

Computer Crashed!!!

I was JUST about to email all the powerpoint files i made about cupcakes & cake designing, just that i got lazy and watched dvd instead. The day after that my pc crashed and i can hear that little voice inside my head, who likes to blame me all the time, saying ' told you so'. I think thats her favorite line.
So without a pc for a few days is not my worry really, but its more of like i can't really make my son NOT to download games from the net, it's becoming habitual already, that i have to think of another strategy, thats my college son, he seems to be getting a little selfish lately, not considering how others will be affected with his actions. *breathes deeply*.
He was able to retrieve my files tho, so im happy with it. And he helped his uncle to reformat the pc, i hope he learns this time.

The Kobey Bryant Shoes Collection

This is hubby showing off the new Kobey rubber shoes that he wore for the 2008 Olympics games in Beijing. This particular collection has a number 10 imprinted on the side, Kobey's jersey number for the 2008 Dream Team.

The last Kobey Shoes that he has is still inside the box, untouched.. i think this is the one they call Black Mamba. Not to mention he has the same shoe with a different color. And he has an eye for that new shoe again. .

His first Kobey shoe was bought from Singapore i dunno what it's called but it looked like a robot with totally blackshiny skin and no strings at all.

Don't make me start telling his Kobey's jersey collection.

Weird Memory

I am VERY VERY forgetful, like turned-the-cabinet-inside-&-out-looking-for-keys-just-to-find-out-its-inside-my-pocket, forgetful. Sometimes i hide my wallet to places i can't remember that i end up buying a new one. Or money that i save for emergencies, i would put it inside somewhere that nobody will ever find, EVEN me. BUT it boggles my mind why there are certain dates that i cannot forget, dates like one of my highschool best friend's bday, which is Sept.
6, her name is Flordeliza,, it's like whenever that day comes im always wishing that if only theres a way to communicate with her.
And the Heavens heard me that Flordeliza got my number and exchange txts msgs since early this year and when Sept 6 came i greeted her early morning. She said that she was SO suprised and happy that i remembered her birthday, we haven't seen each other since after highschool and that was 20 yrs ago and i can't even remember what her last name was, and there i was greeting her on her birthday.
I made a special person of my highschool life happy and after 2o yrs of remembering her every Sept 6 i am able to greet her Happy Birthday finally.

Carrot Cake

Last Bazaar i have request for a mango cake and carrot cake, thats why i made a carrot cake the other day, and i was suprise to find out that my kids actually love it. If i can still remember the last time i bake one was last New Year, uhmmm and at that time they didn't even want to touch it, i wonder is it because we have like 3 cakes on the table that time or they really didn't knew that it was a carrot cake? Creamcheese frosting is a knock- out and i drizzle a generous amount of melted white chocolate on top, so prolly that gave it a kick to them. Nevertheless, i am again a happy mother :)

Logo sticker

i talked with my sister's hubby early this afternoon and since he is very good at doing ads i asked him if he can make me a logo for my pastries, SO he is really very good at that and he ask me about putting up things that i want to be in logo, so its 4 am and i'm here browsing.

cookie cut outs II

It was a bit soft for cutting through the cookie dough was just good enough to leave a mark on the dough and i used a knife to really remove the shaped cookies. So im going to think of more harder material to use.

Sans Rival Disaster OR not

Well it turned out good, when it comes to the taste, i had 2 people asking about ordering, hehe they said it was very good. I just have to worry about making it a perfect square then. Which will take like 5 sans rival for practice.

Cookie Cut Outs

I made my own cookie cutouts, since here in the Phils, you don't really have a wide range of shapes to choose when it comes to cookie cutters, i don't want to order online too. So i decided to make my own original designs, i just hope that it will be hard enuff to cut a dough hehe, well i'll find out tomorrow. I'm set to do the cookie dough tonight and ill chill them overnight and will start cutting tomorrow. If it ends well i'm going to do more designs. Oh im sure you'll be asking what the heck is that shape, well it an obvious heart and butterfly, the other one is a flower, it's not a cloud hehehe

Sans Rival Disaster

I was only doing half recipe, i was trying to save some money, but while i was mixing the egg whites instead of putting 3/4 cup of sugar i used 1 1/2 cup instead which was the whole recipe, so it turned out a little bit sweet and the wafer cracked when i was trying to remove it from the pan. But the butter custard filling tastes so good and it somehow matches the sweetness of the wafer, my kids rated it as 6 (10 being the perfect score) i can settle with 6, i bet its the filling that did it. Next time i hope i can remove it WHOLE from the pan.

Sans Rival

If i remember correctly the last time i made sans rival was about 11 yrs ago, so hopefully this is going to be good *crosses her fingers*

In Search of a new Addition to my Bazaar

I've had request about selling brownies just that my brownie recipe seems to not want to cooperate during hectic times, i have made the brownies twice already on the bazaar JUST that it seems that the marshmallows has a mind of its own and wants to melt down on the pan before the timer sets off. So since it happened twice already, i'm about a little nikkyteee about trying a new recipe, what an adventure! I normally try recipes first before have others taste them, not that i'm afraid of rejection, just that its a fab having people saying your cooking is great, and rejection with me seems to go a long way, it was actually when i was.........ok fine fine fine i admit IT, critisisms FREAKS the heck outta me hehehehe

A birthday Cake for Hubby's Mommy

This is a chiffon cake with white icing. This is the first time i ever made flowers using the same icing to frost the cake, normally i make flowers with more powdered sugar in it and i let it air dry first before putting it on a cake. With this one i used a toothpick to make the flowers and then let the flowers slide down on the cake after pointing the toothpick to where i'm going to arrange the flowers to. I just did'nt thought that it would be this easy.

( Rosebelle played with my cellphone the other day, i dint notice that the flash was off, so sorry about the poor picture quality)

BakeSpace

This is another website that i find very interesting. You could check it out if you are head over heels about baking. I have already learned a few tricks here and there, so i hope you can learn something new too. Happy browsing!!
This is the link www.bakespace.com
OH btw a warning on those who are brave enuff to check this website...it's highly addictive ;P

The Joy of Baking

I've always been on a search for a new recipe here and there. One of my favorite site is www.foodnetwork.com, but unfortunately Gale Gand is not there anymore, btw she is the host of 'Sweet Dreams' aired at Lifestyle Network. I have used some of her recipes and they are really good. Anyways, i found a new website http://joyofbaking.com/. This website not only have pictures but it also tells you how the recipe originated and detailed instructions on the correct procedures so the recipe is fail proof. THOUGH i haven't tried any recipe yet, but i'll bake on this week if the budget allows it. The first recipe in line is New York Cheese Cake.

A Love Story

Everybody has one...will you tell me the one you'll never forget? No need to mention names...i would just like to know, how corny a person can get.
Lemme tell you mine first...

When i was 11,the first time i fell in love was with a star and i collected pictures, magazine & posters. I have seen concerts and went to his TV appearances. One time i was on his concert, i had to jump down from one level to another at the back side of the stage, that particular place was so dark, didn't care if the jump will break my bones, all i knew that time was i had to be near...when i finally jumped and was about 10 feet away from him, i stretched my arms and shouted...'I LOVE YOU ***!!!! I LOVE YOU***!!!,. The guard beside him looked to check where that desperate voice was coming from....but he..... didn't. I then realize how impossible it is to even touch him. At the age of thirteen i already knew how it felt to have your heart broken into pieces.

A facial Day with Chinggay

She is going to kill me when she sees this. This was after the bazaar. Chinggay didn't stop talking about every woman deserving a girly day and she went on and on almost half of the day, i told her i still have cupcakes to sell, you know what she did?She helped me with selling them, just so to make me go with her. Fine...ok...i'll go... i'll just post our picture then. Love yah girl ;)
And BTW doesn't she still look puuurrrtty pretty??

Bazaar

It's payday bazaar. These are my goodies and with God's Blessings i am able to sell all of them.