When Did He Became All Grown Up ???

I'm sure this is a question that all parents would probably ask when your child (whom you still think of as a 3 year old!) tells you that he/she is ready to get married !  Yes?  Well I did....  and yesterday my first born son got engaged !  Hopefully, it'll be another year before he finally gets married and makes me a mum-in-law.  Wonder what my future daughter-in-law will think of me ???  Hahahaha

Anyway, got himself engaged he did.  That boy I gave birth to 24 years ago.  Still young right, but then he's a matured young man and so far has proven to be a responsible man too.  Funny la, to me he will always be a boy ! :D

So, I can't upload the happy couple's pic yet, because I don't have any.  And have not received any from the protographer yet.  Yup, my dear son got a phographer friend of his to be their official protographer for the day.  But I have pictures of the hantaran that I did (of course) except for the 'sirih junjung' which I got our pasar florist to do it (which in the end I did some adjustment to suit my taste and my theme).  I think they turned out pretty well.. I'm quite creative, if I may say so myself! Below are the gits we gave, and those we received in return....

5 sets of gifts from us, Aiman Zarif,
(theme color, silver/grey with purplish-red orkids)

Porcelain 'crystal encrusted' container with silver 'cucuk sanggul' as decor,

for the engagement ring

Close-up of ring container (that's not the engagement ring)

Potpourri Containers

Telekung in a box

Kain lace untuk baju sepasang

Sirih Junjung

(hubs said, its not high enough!)

Balasan from the girl, Sara Aina Mardiah,

(theme color pink/purple with roses and hydrangeas)



Sirih Junjung

(which will be converted to a flower bouquet for me! hehehe)

Samping Songket

Kain untuk baju sepasang

Kek Lapis (Delish!)

Chocalates (Yummy!)

Bunga Rampai

Fruit baskets

(with lots of strawberries, eaten so its not in this pic anymore!)

Cupcakes presentations to express your feelings?

It's wonderful to be able to let your creativity flow and see the wonderful results that comes out from that instances. It is usually a result of an influx of ideas that comes to your mind after going thru images after images that's available in the internet. You would start with an idea but will usually ends with another. And the result, is normally not what you had in your mind in the very beginning. Well, at least, that's the way it usually is with me....

Here's some of my collection of cupcakes for birthdays or hantaran. Not that many yet.. but its a good start. I'm hoping for more, of course....

This was the latest of the Birthday Cupcake wishes set that I've done so far.

Did this for a colleague's girls' day out!

Another Birthday wish, done for my department's unit meeting.

These are my own officemates... :D

Kinda colourful don't you think? My male colleagues complained that it was too floral. Should take this comments into consideration next time I do one, where are guys involved...

A Bertunang wish for hantaran gift, for a colleague of my hubby.

More Birthday wishes,

Above, made for my friend (for her colleague's birthday) is one of my personal favourite. And it was a last minute request... Pressure always seems to give good results!

Below, I did an impromtu set for our 25th wedding anniversary.

Just a little family do, using cupcake casings that I bought from Ikea.

Hmmm, not too happy with the casing actually!

Another family do. Did this last year. my first attempt actually.

Did it for after iftar coffee, so happens it was also hubby's birthday!

The writing for the name is a little fancy right? Sampai some people tak perasan pun yang I actually wrote hubby's name in the cuppies set!

So, another lesson learnt, stay away from too fancy writings.

Somehow, all above are carrot cupcakes!