Happy Children's Day

Today is Children's Day. Yesterday, I "volunteered" to help out with a special project for the sunday school children, i.e. to assist the children as they decorate cupcakes with icing. Actually it was my best friend who got the lobang for this job and called me to involve me. I thought, hmm...since i have Jamie Oliver wannabe dreams, and there are a few kids there that are really cute and fun to play with, I decided to do it...oh, plus can skip sermon...not that that's really something I like to do...but i wasn't feeling very attentive last weekend.

Anyway, it was fun! Two of the mommies baked the cupcake themselves. They were delicious! I'll tell you how I know later. The icing was I think made from butter, and then colouring was added. Yellow is the natural colour. But, there was also orange, pink, blue and green. Very nice.

The kids were suppose to decorate their own cupcake, then put it in a plastic box with two other small cookies, seal it up, have a happy children's day message written on top, and then bring the self-made present home.

Easy enough job??

First "customer" I got was one of my favourite boys. He is my potential paige boy, so naturally, i treated him very well....hahaha. Anyway, the children were told to think first, what they wanted to draw. So, I told Reuben to think hard what he wanted to draw. After awhile, he was clueless, I offered some suggestions. And of the few, he picked CAR. He wanted to draw a car on the cupcake.

Great?! I have no idea how to draw a car using

icing pencils?! Seriously, it was difficult for a former art failure student. Okay, I'll start with one long straight line to draw the car bottom. That didn't go too smoothly, 'cuz for some reason, the icing pencil we got had a very tiny opening, and made the icing very very difficult to flow out. After some struggling, and eventually, cutting the hole to make it slightly bigger, we carried on with the drawing.

To cut the long struggling story short, I couldn't draw a car. In the end, I drew one big box, with two wheels below. Reuben being the nice boy, kindly said, it's okay, car difficult to draw, let's draw a bus. Boring bus it was...haha...then i told him to draw in windows for the driver, and he subsequently added windows for the passengers as well.

And here's one in collaboration with my best friend. I started it off. It looked like a baseball with buttons. But, she made it look a whole lot prettier. Man.....i really have zero art-sense.