Its Labour Day today so we had a long weekend, which was awesome.
The highlight of this weekend is catching up with my girlfriends over high tea…it was my first time and i must say i really enjoyed it.
My lil girl came with me to join the girls while the boys stayed home and chill…

The food was amazingly presented…these lil bite size munchies looked soo yummy!
I must say tho, when i first saw it i didn’t think i was gonna get full eating those dainty size food but it was actually quite filling.
I had a boring English Breakfast Tea, but the other girls were more adventures and tried the more interesting tea.

My lil girl certainly enjoyed the morning, and so did we….im really glad we decided to catch up,
its been a while and this just reminded me that we should really do this more often.

Anyway, here are some of the pics i’ve taken from our High Tea, and i just have to say that they are really as yummy as they look…

Vivien’s Honeydew Green Tea

Winnie’s Lavender Grey Tea

my lil girl trying a sip of my tea, i asked her to lift her lil pinky like how it should be done when you are drinking tea…but she was having none of it….LOL

I think this one is either Karen’s Trim Latte or Viv’s Mocha…

actually i think this one is Karen’s…if im not mistaken, so the above must be Viv’s….lol

my girl looking longingly out the window before she pleaded for me to let her play outside the cafe…

and she made this awesome little bracelet from her hairclip and Aunty Viv’s comb….how cool is that?

and copying Aunty Karen applying her lip-gloss from her i-Carly cellphone with mirror & lip-gloss inside LOL

being silly with Aunty Sarah & Aunty Karen…

and lastly, of course we polished off all the food…that lucky last mini muffin went to my lil miss…

dare we say that Spring is actually here?
im a bit worried that as soon as we say it we’re gonna jinx it and get the horrible weather again…LOL

anyway, i know i promised to post some photos from the Spring Festival, so now that i have a spare few minutes
im gonna share some gorgeous tulips pictures from the botanical garden the last time we went.
They were in full bloom and so beautiful….and they add a wonderful splash of colours all over the garden…
i really wish we can see them more often than just a few weeks in a whole year…

We decided to have a family brunch today and we had a wonderful time…
My dear hubby ordered his usual fave brunch food - the eggs benedict, i have a very yummy steak sandwich,
Miss C ordered from the kid’s menu - a ham and grilled cheese toasted sandwich, while Logan intently watched us enjoyed our food…LOL

It was such an awesome day….we are were blessed with a nice sunny day (the weather forecast for today was crap….im glad they were wrong!)
the food was tasty and we really enjoyed the nice and relaxing environment in the Espresso Garden Cafe. Well in short, life was good….

Here are some snaps from our brunch, which should serve as a reminder that we should really do this more often….

we have not had much of a Spring so far…and specially today, i think that we had all 4 seasons in one day!
one minute it was sunny, the next minute it was hailing and it looked like a storm was just about pass….and then it stopped and the sun comes out again!
i just wished whoever is in charge of the weather up there makes up his/her mind! LOL

oh and i’ve heard that the weekend is gonna be the same….the forecast is saying its gonna rain with gale northwest wind *blech!*

well i figure that maybe we should just put spring in a jar and enjoy it inside our house to hold on to until the weather makes up its mind! LOL
so here is my ’spring in a jar’….took these shots today in between the horrible weather when we had a brief sun burst.

Today i got invited to a baby shower as well as a farewell morning tea for a friend of mine from work.
We had a lovely catch-up….we talk a lot, catching up with gossips and lots of yummy food….what could be better than that?

Its always good when i get to go out and break out of my boring daily routine….and i really enjoyed catching up with my friends from work.

For this baby shower I put together goodies basket for my dear friend, it has a selection of stuff i have collected for her
ever since i found out she was pregnant. However, along with the goodies i want to give her something a bit more special and personal…
so i put together one small thing specially for her. I know you would probably guess that i made her a baby hat or a beanie right?
Well not this time…i will probably knit a hat for her baby boy when he is here,
but this time i put together a home made baby free range towels in the egg cartoon.

I got the idea when i saw a similar thing in a gift shop a while back….it was from a company called “babycupcakes” from Australia,
I have always wanted to try making it coz it looks so simple and very cute….so i decided to give it a go a couple of days ago.
I also included her official due date and her name in the ’special instructions” note inside the egg cartoon….
this was not included in the original design of baby eggs by “babycupcakes”, i just thought adding them in will be more personalized for her.

Btw, I’m a bit bummed that i forgot to take pics of the whole goodies that i prepared for her…
i finished wrapping the whole thing pretty late last night and i didn’t get a chance to take pics of it this morning
as i was in a hurry to go so that i’ll make it to the baby shower on time LOL
But luckily i remembered to take some pictures of the home made gift i made for her, so here it is…

When i want to get out of a rut, the first thing i do is get back to basic and just do what i love doing….macro photography.
Shooting macro relaxes me and usually it gets my creative juice flowing again.
So naturally the one lens i simply cannot do without is my macro lens and its almost always attached to my camera.

When it comes to shooting macro for flowers, one thing that always grabs me is white flowers…
they are so beautiful and they grab my attention everytime because of the simplicity, the purity and cleanness.
Its like a blank canvas…you can do whatever you want with them and they will always look beautiful.

So today im going to share a few shots of white flower macros simply because taking these pics brightens up my day.

and of course while we are in the subject of white flowers, i cannot possibly leave out my all time fave white flowers…..daisies!

oh and i also caught someone having his lunch….

even weeds looks beautiful when they’re in white…

and lastly, they also brightens up your home…

Hopefully these pics bring some enjoyment to you, as much as i enjoyed taking pics of them.

Well we are officially in 2010!! Yay!

I just wanted to say that its been a good start of the year so far…
I was able to spend some time to reflect what has happened in 2009 and what i want to do this year…

Im grateful that we all have been given a chance to start fresh and getting another chance to get it right this year.

On another positive note, I have been able to do a few things that i haven’t been able to these past couple of weeks.
I have a new website on the works, im aiming to get it done by the end of this week…can’t wait to launch it soon!

And also i have been really into still-life photography lately….
i like the clean & fresh look in still life photos, and the simplicity….plus i just love flowers
(especially daisies and hydrangeas…i think they are very photogenic) so that’s what i have been taking pics of lately.
I have to say that its very refreshing to have the motivation and energy to pick up my camera again
eventho its very sporadically at the moment, just when the mood strikes me.

Anyway, i want to share a few of my current still-life snaps, taken all around my house for the past couple of days…

All pictures edited with my Sweet Treat Lightroom Presets and Actions.