I think this is the first Valentines Day that I gave roses to a girl?? Excluding those Ferrero Rocher roses that I used to fold in school. Wow its been quite long since i last blogged! i've been extremely busy trying to make sure that this valentines was a success and before this weekend, there was Chinese New Year too! Its also the first chinese new year that i did not wear new shoes. Because i wanted to change the shoes. Of which was a nice change and i learnt quite a lot about taking care my leather boots.
This valentines, as i prepared flowers for my valentine, I planned way in advance to give her a home-grown bouquet of flowers! Midway asking friends if that was a good idea or to buy a bouquet. Making one would definitely look less appealing as one that was bought, but it seems much cooler to make your own! like..."why not grow your own?!"
And so after much deliberation and last minute planning, i bought the bouquet of roses in case the flowers i wanted to grow wouldnt turn out good. So the bouquet above is a contingency plan! of course if it works out, my valentines gets TWO bouquets! yay! So in the end, i gave both bouquets as you can see that the second one turned out good! For the record, she LOVES the bouquets!!!
All the photos were taken haphazardly as I rushed through my friday picking up the flowers and making the second bouquet of homemade flowers. Quite happy that the bouquet turned out really nice and it was a hit on
mum's Facebook post! Even the photo that i took didnt come out focused as i was so hard pressed for time that even with driving around, I had absolutely no break after my friday lesson! it was particularly hectic as i squeezed messages in between with my friend Alicia as to how to prepare my Valentine's Day gift. It was really something new! Aaaaand the valentines day gift is the one below! A Totoro shaped fruit tart all homemade! :D and after making the tart, i gave her the Totoro cookie cutter :P it has another piece for the imprints on it such as the eyes and the tummy!
The Totoro tart was particularly difficult to make because i screwed up big time, instead of putting it into the freezer, i put it into the oven, so guess what got burnt. haha i also added sugar in when i wasn't supposed to do so, making the biscuit layer extra sweet! oops.
This valentines was a really really fun valentines weekend!! :D Best weekend ever!
Let's all always treasure our loved ones. :)