Dorayaki

Part of the contents of Christmas Gift Bags 2016.

A nice yummy snack that is also very much adorable!

Has been quite some time since I last made these cuties.

I used to draw faces on the cling wraps with markers

(started out as marking the fillings).

And since Burger King came out with the chicken fries again for Christmas,

I had all the reason to go through with this idea.

At first the idea was to decorate them with the stickers I had saved

the last time they had the chicken fries.

But since they came back with more chicken fries,

I helped myself to those sticker 'generously'.

Boy, do I just love how the cuties turned out.

So thanks to Burger King as the great sponsor of the decoration.

Anyway, I am not a big fan of the chicken fries.

In fact, I hate it.

I think it's too hard and yucky,

and I believe they were previously sold as chicken tenders.

But now there is not an inch of tenderness in it anymore.

(I still love their burgers much better.)

Okay. I shall now lead the way to the recipe

of this yummy, yet simple snack.

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Crochet Beeeeeeees

Cute little bees flying your way today~

These were included in my Christmas gift bags last year (Time flies like bees too, and it's already 2017!!). Do check out our previous post for those Christmas Gift Bags too~!

Actually I found this crochet pattern a long time ago at the my usual site in search of cute amigurumi patterns. But since I never seem to have both yellow and black yarn in stock, I never put my hands into making them despite their cuteness. Until last year.

Well, I got fed up waiting and decided that it can't be that bad for a cute little bee to not have normal, realistic colors. Am I glad to have myself make the first.

I couldn't put my needle down once I got started. You could probably tell just by looking at the picture.

It is really easy to make as well. Probably take about 15minutes for one? Maybe 30minutes including all the weaving and sewing. Perfect for beginners!

Just look at how cute they are~

Since its pattern is really simple and symmetrical, I eventually flip the pattern and to give them a nicer face (instead of butt). Compare the photos with those below.

 

I believe you are itching to pick up that crochet needle and start crocheting away. So check out the pattern here!

 Or if you would prefer to purchase it, you can buy some here~!

Christmas Gift Bags

This year's Get-Together was much earlier than the previous years, and it kinda got me really nervous. Thank goodness I had been really active in the card-makings and finished all the birthday cards for November and December ahead of time.

The assembled gift bags that include a crochet bee accessory, a dorayaki and a tiny card. Haha so this is a post that uses up all my labels.

The cute bunny gift bags was bought on Qoo10.sg and I simply can't resist. I know I have some gift bags stashed away somewhere in my stationery stocks, but it can't hurt buying something new 'once in a while', right?

Made some really simple mini cards with printed Hello Kitty pictures. Realizing at the same time that, simple things can take up a lot of time when you make a lot of them.

Will be posting the recipe and crochet pattern separately really, really soon. So stay around~!