[ DIY - Notebook ]

Hi guys,

I've been really busy with school the past 2 months. And I'm happy to say that I just finished my bachelor thesis. I'M SO HAPPY~~ To celebrate this, I'm going to share a fun and easy DIY project with you guys!

Some history:
I have always loved drawing and handcrafting since I was a little girl. Sometimes I would be drawing and creating stuff all day long! And yes, I've made some awesome sheeets. Like 3D paper food lol.  It was my dream to go to an art school (qq asian parents). Just like cooking/food, crafting, DIY etc. is a big passion of mine. So, y'all can expect more awesomesauce DIY projects on my blog!

What's on today's menu? cute DIY notebook!

What you need:

* An ugly notebook

* Cute scrapbook paper

* Scissors

* Glue

Bought this note book at Action for € 0,99!

I used some vintage scrapbook paper. I really like the colors and patterns <3

You can use all kinds of paper (newpapers, scrapbook paper, wrapping paper etc..)

Step 1

Put some glue on the outside of the notebook and glue the scrapbook paper onto the notebook

Step 2

Trim off excess paper

Step 3

Be creative! I used different colors and patterns. You can also decorate your notebook with stickers, but I like it clean and simple!

Step 4

Eat some chicken nuggets!

I told you it's a super easy project! I think making a sandwich is harder than this project.

Have a nice day!

Ka Wai

[ Fooodies: Restaurant Massada ]

AYE mates!

This is my first "restaurant review". It's not very different from my usual food review, but in my restaurant reviews I will also talk about the service, the interior etc.

OK let's start!
Massada is a steakhouse located in my hometown. The restaurant is in a prominent place! It's in the center of a mall, so it's hard to miss this building (unless you're walking with your eyes closed).
What I really like about this restaurant is its shape. Massada has a shape of a cylinder or a cookie box lol. The tables are placed in a 360 degrees circle and the restaurant kitchen is in the center of this circle. So it's like a CIRCLE-CEPTION.

The inside is decorated with beautiful wooden tables, chairs and benches. I don't know how to describe their style, but it reminds me of a 18th century ship. There's stained glass on the ceiling, old school yellow lamps and hanging sailor-sea-decorations.

So I went there with my boyfriend and friends a couple of days ago. The staff was really nice and the service was great! It was a bit busy that day, because of the nice weather. Nevertheless we were helped almost immediately. I just hate it when I have to wait 10 minutes to get a menu card or a drink... If it's like this I can better get it myself.

After we ordered our food they gave us something to snack on!

Yup, it's fresh bread! Damn I love dem bread! If I don't get bread when I go out for a dinner it feels like something is missing.

It's like an Ash without a Pikachu, a Plato without questions, Starbucks without its hipsters, fries without salt...
It's just wrong! 

Am I the only one who thinks this like this?

I NEED MY BREAD. Here's a poll to see how you guys are thinking lol.

>>> BREAD POLL~ <<<



I ordered their famous spareribs - like always! The spareribs menu has a side salad and a portion of fries! Their spareribs are one of the best I've ever eaten. The meat is juicy, tender and it falls off the bones.The sauce is sticky, sweet and thick. It has a nice smokey flavor and the portions are BIG!

My friend ordered the mixed grill!

Mantik choose a 3-course meal with: onion soup, spareribs and a coffee coconut panacotta. Mantik really liked his onion soup. The soup was rich and flavorful and they placed a piece of toasted bread with melted cheese on the top!

The coffee coconut panacotta wasn't that great though. The panacotta itself was yummy. It was creamy, jiggly and it had a subtle sweet coconut flavor. The black coffee foam on top of the panacotta ruined the taste =(

We don't like the taste of black coffee! 

In summary: the food was great! But what are the prices?

I only paid €14,50 for a spareribs menu. Mantik paid €22,50 for a 3-course menu?! Come on, €15  for a menu with loads of yummy meat, fries and a salad?! It's super cheap!

Yummyness~

Price

Their website: http://www.massada.nl/

Have a nice one!

Ka Wai 

[ Recipe Book?! ]

Hey y'all!

How are you guys doing? I'm ok ok, busy with lots of stuff like school and my bachelor thesis.
Anyways.. I'm writing this post because I have some exciting news! Well, I think it's exciting. I'M EXCITED!

Like I said in another post [birth of fooodies], I tried to make a recipe book in 2008. I was in my cuteness-for-the-win-phase. So the layout of my recipe book was really colorful, cute and messy? haha

I have some printscreens for you guys

Ok as you can see, lots of hearts, cute images, different fonts, butterflies and stuff!
I'm very proud of my recipes, because I only used Microsoft word and PAINT to make these. And if you're familiar with word and paint you will know I spend hours and hours to create a page!

I've put so much effort in making those decorations on the side. Every little heart or paw you see there is a single image, so I've moved, rotated and resized all those images like a thousand times to get the right composition. LOL I can't believe I did that.

It took so much time to make a page, so I felt a bit discouraged. I lost my motivation to continue with my recipe book.

In 2009 I started taking an interest in photography and I figured nobody wants to buy/read a recipe book with a messy and cuteness-overload layout. Ok some people would, but most people do not and it's not professional! =p

So I created other recipe pages with Stock photos (?) which took less time to make.

It still had some cute elements, but it was more "mature looking" (I guess whaha).
After this my inspiration for my cooking book was GONE, PASSÉ, FUTSCH,WEG for a couple of years. It kinda bothered me, because I've always wanted to make a recipe book since I was little *cry me a river*.

Uhm.. How did we end up here? lol


Three days ago, I suddenly had a great idea for my recipe book! Since I'm active on Flickr again (I had a break from Jan 2010 - Feb 2014, personal reasons derp) I thought I should make a recipe book with "REAL" photos. Photos taken by me!


I love photography. I find it easier than Word/Paint and I've noticed that photography is a great source of inspiration for me. I JUST LOVE IT!

I'm not good at photoshop and graphic design stuff, but luckily Mantik is. He was very enthusiastic when I told him about my new plan. And he told me he would help me with the layout and design thingies and I'm going take the pictures and write the recipes.

So these are my plans. What do you guys think? Do you want to see some sneek peeks? No? I don't care. HEREYOUGOOOO!

I'm so happy and excited~

Have a nice day y'all!

Ka Wai

[ Cute Vitamin Ballpen ]

I bought some vitamin ballpens on Ebay a couple of weeks ago.
And my package just arrived!

When I saw these on ebay I thought they were the cutest pens ever (lol everything is cute to me). I really liked the facial expressions and the bright colors ^^ They were also really cheap! I actually won the bidding lol and the shipping was FREE. I only paid €1,22 for six pens.

Nobody would think those vitamin capsules are ballpens. I also tried them out and they write really nice. They're much more comfortable to write with than I expected. They will also make great birthday gifts!