Wilton@ICCA

Before we enrolled Jianyi in her Wilton course, she took a few cake decorating classes in Cake Connection, located in Jaya One. They were a good introduction for her but after going for the Wilton classes in ICCA she noticed that the tutors conducting the Wilton course are more informative and disclose more trade secrets.

So if you want to get into cake decorating you should consider their classes. Fees are a bit steep though...so are their merchandise.

Passion is....

At 11pm. After a long day. Jianyi starts on her 1st 'serious' cake

Edible dusts from CakeConnection at Jaya1 and wires from Ikano (with lots of help from Shannon who shuttled us around. Thanks Shannon) Jianyi was ready to start on her sugarpaste flowers. Finally!

It was late by the time we got back home but Jianyi was eager to get started on her first 'classic' cake. I guess that's what passion is....

When time no longer matters

Putting your heart into it

When perfection is non-negotiable

Finding joy in what you do

When marks and grades matters not

Impatience when held back (we scouted for days for the materials)

Flawless

Pride in her art work

Satisfaction while working

Happiness all the time

This is the end result......... a beautifully decorated cake for Jianyi's greatgrandmother's 87th birthday.
Kent and Jianyi took turns carrying the cake that weighed at least 10kg all the way from 1Utama carpark to Shogun....up the escalators and dodging the weekend/CNY shopping madness.

Jianyi with Tai-Mak, Pohpoh, Aunty Meng, Aunty Ann and Aunty Julie

Jianyi and uncle Weng Hwa.

Thank you for believing in Jianyi and encouraging her (and the oven too :)

A Creative Week for Jianyi

On Tuesday, JY baked a beautiful butter cake, iced it with buttercream and decorated it with cute little flowers and her signature ladybug for Swathy's surprise UPSR Party. The kids had fun showering her with confetti.


Shannon bought her a yellow(Swathy's favourite colour) t-shirt and made a banner.

Thanks Shannon for the party idea.


It is important to celebrate life's little victories.

Shannon dropped us off at Ikano after the party and JY headed straight for her clay project after a meal at Ikea. She planned to complete her orchids in time for her grandparents' wedding anniversary.


And she did it!


Simply gorgeous!!





JY's pohpoh and kongkong proudly posing with their anniversary gift.





Thank you for coming all the way from Karak and preparing our all-time favourite Bak Kut Teh.




On Friday, JY wanted to bake a "I-am-Back" cake.


She took a 1 year leave from aikido and surprised me one day by saying that she has decided to continue with aikido.


Thanks to Facebook she has been in contact with Patrick sinsei and Colleen and they have asked her to visit them one friday during class as they miss her terribly. And that made her reconsider joining aikido all over again.



Here is a close up of the aikido bear. Her fingers are so nimble, it took her less than 10 minutes to complete it.


It has a blue belt just like its creator.







Now JY has got her Mama into helping her with her second clay project.
A behemoth of a project! 28 Joachim orchids!
She has taught her grandmother to roll on the clay onto a floral wire and prick it with the clay apparatus. Mama seems to enjoy it. I am glad.


Miss Joachim