Homemade Pizza from scratch

Last week, I was watching FoodTube with my boyfriend, and watching Gennaro to teach how to make an easy pizza dough... then I said ok let's make it! 

Luckily, I bought the same yeast as he used at our local supermarket but I bought the plain flour is not white one is whole wheat one. I thought should be ok! 

Now I can remember the ingredients, here we go:

500g    Plain Flour

1 tsp   Salt

7g      Yeast

325ml   Water 

1) Mix well the Plain flour and salt first

2) Mix the Yeast into the water 

3) Make a well on (1), then add (2) in

4) mix well then start kneading 

5) Cut them into 4 smaller doughs

6) Cover with damp cloth or film for 2 hours

Of cos, please go to watch Gennaro's one on Foodtube! hehe

As I said I bought the whole wheat flour so the dough was a bit dried, not look like Gennaro's one, so we added a bit more water in.

I made the dough on Mon night and thought to prepare for our Tue night dinner, but my boyfriend could not wait,... so we baked our first pizza at 1:30AM.... we baked for 7 mins, but it should be better to bake maybe 10 mins....

On Tue night, we made 2 pizzas and each for 10 mins! YUMMY!!!!!!! 

I love Pizza, from now on I can make my own! YEAH! 

love, love k

First post in 2015 - Miniature Leather DIY

Hello my blog, I feel sorry that I was too busy and lazy not keeping up my blog! 

Last year I was busy for my aromatherapy study, exams and practice. Now I have finished the major classes and exams! 

I still have some paper need to write and practice my aromatherapy skills on 8 clients and 7 treatments each. I am working on it but it is slower than I expected! >.<

Since last year April, I have started to order handcrafts from a Japanese website, Felissimo. They have so so so many good stuffs (Handcrafts, home products and fashions).

I bought their handcraft catalog, Couturier, at convenient store for some times but I was afraid to buy as thought their system is difficult to understand, didn't want to spend money,... lot of excuses! hehe 

After a year, I have stocked up some amount of handcraft sets on hands!!! Recently and finally I finished all 12 miniature leather DIY. Felissimo has a lot of good ideas for beginners. Use the set I am going to show for an example. 

Each month they send you a set with pre-cut leather, thread, instruction, pattern and felt. The felt that can let you try to do all by yourself to pracitce. This is a One-year series, it means once you order the first one, from next month to 12th month, they will send to you automatically and deduct the cost per month, NOT in advance! They usually charge shipping fee as 10% of your total purchase but now if you buy over 10,000Yen, you get free shipment (at least to Hong Kong) :P

Here are the little items I made! They are so cute! ^_^ 

If anyone want to try, I highly recommend! ehehe 

PS: I am working on another new project from Felissimo but not in leather! Stay tune! 

Love, love k

TESTING

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Sewing a clutch bag

I have been busy with my aromatherapy study, but in between exams. I got a kind of free days during June after a heavy mid-term exam of Essential Oil Pharmacy! LOL 

After the last sewing class, I have been dig out my fabric, threads and tools etc I got years ago and also took out my mum's Singer "Vintage" sewing machine. Right after my EOP mid-term exam. I immediately started sewing. I picked this pattern:

Free Pattern & Tutorial from Charm Stitch

My good friend was coming to Hongkong from US for a week. So I wanted to make her something. So Let's begin! 

I have been Pinterest a lot, Youtube-ing a lot to see how people do sewing. So I set up my workplace, sewing machine, iron, fabric, cutting boards, roll cutter, etc........

1) Cut out the fabric & iron them

2) Opened the sewing machine and started to putting the thread in... BUT... everytime I used this sewing machine, I could not remember how to put the thread & the robbin in... I needed to ask my mum how to put them on. Now, I cannot ask my mum anymore (T_T), but luckily I found on youtube! Oh Thank you very much! 

So I started to sew,... another BUT... when I sew the right side together and the lining together I got a problem and I broke the sewing needles... luckily still have one more spare part!!!! @_@

Turned out it dose not look good at all and already 3am, so I gave it up for that night morning. 

Next morning, I search on Youtube to see if anyone would teach more clear how to sew when passing by the zipper. 

Found this one

So, I repeated to cut the fabric and iron them. Second time, I changed the lining fabric to a much lighter colour.

So, here is the comparison picture! LOL

Close-up on the good one:

The day I met her & her 2 kids we went to Ocean Park. 

What's a sunny day! 

I got some sun burn as I forgot to put on sunscreen on my arms and back! LOL

Share with you here - the Sleeping PANDA! They are so cute! 

Although I have been quiet on blog & Facebook, I bought some other handicraft to try! Stay tune for my next sharing! :)

love, love k

Sewing.... again

I went to a 2-hour sewing class yesterday at Cheung Sha Wan. I had some sewing experience but not well and I normally learn by watching online in the last few years! haha I found this class with a beautiful fabric and good price. so I give it a try! 

I am amazed by the new sewing machine that is so so so advanced comparing to mine (that is 30+years old Singer that my mom bought it because of me LOL)! The one I used at class was Brother QC-1000 (HKD21,900). From now on I NEED to sew more!!!!!!!!!

昨天去了長沙灣一間手工藝店上了2小時車縫小袋班! 之前上網看人家縫袋很多，其實自己也弄過(不太美)。見布好靚，而且不太貴，所以又去學吓! 

開始車時，才發現現在的衣車實在太先進(今日上網看，原來部衣車成$21,900)...... 我屋企那部是媽咪當年因知生我係女而買Singer衣車! 把手我車得不大好，因為跟我開車一樣，不可以車一直線! LOL 從今起，我要車多d!!!!!!!! 

love, love k

Pandaman

Panda is one of the cutest animal. 

I have been thinking to knit a panda for a long time. 

Recently I saw a Top-down Gingerbread Boy on Ravelry (*free pattern).

After I finished the bottom part, I felt like I am making a baby! 

So adorable already! 

I stitched the eyes and nose; and then crochet the ears! hehe

love, love k

Baby Elephant for Yu

Knitted Animal is BACK! 

This is an order that I received last year. Yes last year! The buyer said "NOT RUSH"... then I was really lazy and slow down...............

Finally I made it and passed it to her today. It was my pleasure to make 2 Organic toys for her 2 children. I made a white bunny for her baby Yui and this time made an elephant for her baby YU.

and...

this mother of 2 is a writer and recently she has a new book released and she gave me a signed one! YEAH!

love, love k