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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Our Saturday

It is Saturday today and both mummy and I were "grounded" because daddy had to go to work. Mummy decided to just stay at home with me. We did arts and crafts in the morning... haven't been doing this on a regular basis (supposed to be every Friday) because we usually go grocery-shopping on Friday afternoons.

Well, we did something "nutty" today. During Chinese New Year, we ate a lot of nuts. Mummy kept some of the shells for this purpose...

Small and big peanut shells and pistachio shells

Gluing the nutshells onto the drawing block with UHU glue was quite tricky so mummy did most of it for me.

There... done! Can you figure out what they are?

I just did most of the painting, with a bit of help from mummy (she did some touching-up)...

Painting the clouds... (large Shangdong peanut shells)

Painting the flowers... (pistachio shells)

Done! Nice or not? Hehehehe...

The final product, after some enhancement work using a marker pen



Ladybird, bumblebee, rainbow caterpillar (entirely my idea) and flowers...

Later in the day, Koo-koo came over for a baking session with mummy. They made egg tarts. It was their very first attempt and the tarts turned out quite well...

Egg tart garnished with kiwiberry and grapes

Mmmmm.... yummylicious!

When I was younger, I never liked the custard and ate only the crust whenever I had egg tarts. I even told Koo-koo "Last time I only eat the yellow part. Now, I eat everything" :) I greedily gobbled one and asked for a second piece. As expected, I couldn't finish it and left the remaining quarter for mummy.

Posted by ChloeRuoyi at 11:01 PM
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19 comments:

  1. PeteApril 16, 2011 at 11:46 PM

    Nice piece of artwork. Love the little bumble bee!

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  2. Mummy MoonApril 17, 2011 at 1:37 AM

    Very nice art work!! The colorful caterpillar is just too cute!!

    Alamak, all my peanuts fr CNY gave to the guard house abangs!!
    We still have some CNy pistachio and almond ( with nuts ) yet to finish.. I am going to do this art with the kiddos! Yan Yan has been asking for painting time. SHe wants to do some hand prints painting actually. I bet she will like this one more.

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  3. HayleyApril 17, 2011 at 1:52 PM

    Wow! So creative! Never know the nut shells can be used this way~

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  4. LindaApril 17, 2011 at 9:26 PM

    NICE nice nice nice nice... very nice... I like the 3D effect. Something new to me which I shall do it with my girls one day.

    The egg tart looks yummy... though I am not a fan of egg tart myself... :)

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  5. Mummy GwenApril 17, 2011 at 9:49 PM

    Very nice artwork. :) I never thought of using the nutts' shells. The egg tart looks so yummy.

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  6. Shenny's mommyApril 17, 2011 at 11:35 PM

    Good idea indeed.

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  7. Small KucingApril 18, 2011 at 2:09 AM

    i used to do that too when i was young

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  8. teatea8April 18, 2011 at 8:06 AM

    nice nice NICE!!!!! Bravo Chloe!

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  9. yvonneApril 18, 2011 at 9:56 AM

    Wow! I like to see Chloe's arts and steal the ideas for my kids. They are so simple and yet very creative. I've never thought of keeping the nuts' shells. and use it for this purpose!!

    p/s: in your previous art, my girl enjoys the egg carton art - the caterpillar, especially.

    Thanks for sharing, Chloe. And, more please...

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  10. VickylowApril 18, 2011 at 10:33 AM

    Oh very nice and beautiful art she made. I love the ladybird, bumblebee and rainbow caterpillar most. Mommy is so creative.

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  11. mommy to chumsyApril 18, 2011 at 12:36 PM

    wow, so creative!! what a nice craft time with mommy :)

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  12. Alice LawApril 18, 2011 at 1:58 PM

    Nice pieces of art, I love especially those little critters! How imaginative little Chloe is, proud of her!

    Lovely egg tart, congratz for able to finish the whole tart, it must be really delicious!

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  13. Yee LingApril 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM

    Wow..i like the piece of art work..sooooo nice especially the flowers...so cute.

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  14. AliceApril 18, 2011 at 2:36 PM

    very creative oo.....however at the end of day, both mummy and daughter enjoyed it. what a heartwarming way to enjoy the weekend! :P

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  15. mNhLApril 20, 2011 at 4:51 PM

    That's a creative piece of art. Time to collect those nut shells. haha

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  16. YannieApril 21, 2011 at 11:43 AM

    This is a very nice piece of artwork, yes, I am going to keep all the nut shells from now on. Thanks for sharing. By the way, the egg tart looks yummy too.

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  17. cre8toneApril 25, 2011 at 4:38 PM

    Creative idea... I like ur art work so much!

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  18. ChinneeqApril 26, 2011 at 9:38 PM

    this is such a beautiful craft!! where did u get this idea from?

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  19. cre8toneMay 4, 2011 at 6:46 PM

    Thanks for sharing this idea in your blog...
    My son enjoy his time making his own groundnuts art work..
    :)
    http://cre8toneartist.blogspot.com/2011/05/nut-house.html

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