I'm a full-time mummy

With the recent craze of people queueing up at 12 midnight waiting at McDonald's outlets to get hold of the latest Despicable Me Minion toys from the Happy Meal set, I definitely couldn't be bothered to join in the minion craze. But my 2 kiddos love em' so what has a mum gotta do? Talked about the things I had to do for my children!

I actually ended up making these minions from toilet paper rolls. Tried googling loads of sites for template that I can just download and print out but nope.. no such luck... so I hand draw them myself. To be honest, I have phobia of drawing things as I'm not good in drawing but because I love my kiddos and mummy promised to give them minion toys... sigh...

What you need:

• 2 piece of A4 colored paper (yellow and blue)

• Empty toilet paper rolls (I used 3 rolls)

• Scissors

• Double-sided tape

• A black marker pen

What to do:

1. Cut the yellow colored A4 paper according to the length of a toilet paper roll (enough to cover the entire roll)

2. Put double sided tape across each corners of the yellow paper cut-out.

3. Tape the yellow paper cut-out to cover the toilet paper roll.

4. Cut the blue colored A4 paper about 1/3 of the height of a toilet paper roll to make the overalls jeans for the minion.

5. Repeat step 2 for the blue colored paper and tape it around the toilet paper roll from the base.

6. Use your creative hand drawing skills and start drawing the minion face and everything else using the black colored marker pen (I printed a sample of the actual minions faces so I can refer to them when I draw mine)

7. Repeat the above steps for the next minion(s).
   

The expressions on my kiddos face... priceless... and worth embarrassing my hand drawing skills...

The end results in close-up shot!

I hope you enjoy reading my tutorial and do give it a try! :)

It's been quite a long time since I last cooked for dinner since my kind MIL is taking charge of cooking the dishes for dinner all this while. But for this post, I am sharing my next dish, which I got over the Internet as MIL is taking the day off to enjoy herself and I thought time to get my lazy buttocks to do some cooking hahahaha... So here goes my post on Fried Tofu with Pepper & Salt:

Ingredients:

1. 1 block of firm tofu – cut into 1” cubes
2. ½ cup of cornstarch
3. Salt to taste
4. For the salt & pepper dip: 1 tsp of Szechuan pepper (I used black pepper) & 2 tsp salt

Methods:
* Dry the tofu with some paper towel. Sprinkle it with some salt.
* Heat oil in a hot wok until surface seems to shimmer slightly.
* Lightly coat tofu pieces in cornstarch.
* Gently lower the tofu into the hot oil – it is important not to coat the tofu in advance of heating the oil, or it will become very moist and sticky.
* Fry the tofu until they are lightly brown and crispy, remove and drain the oil on paper towel.
* Arrange tofu on a platter and serve immediately with the salt and pepper mixture.

Outcome (AFTER BITING HALF ONE OF THE TOFU):

To view my other recipes, feel free to hop over to my Recipe Library page for more info!

I actually received a set of handmade soaps from Laven Soap after winning a logo designing contest on my mummy FB group that I joined last year and promised the owner that I will do a product review for her handmade soaps, so here it goes:

Description from the product page:
"LavenSoap Bath and Body is dedicated to creating handmade soaps that are gentle and moisturizing to naturally clean the skin. Our soaps are handmade from scratch using cold process method in small batches, retaining all the natural glycerin within, unlike mass produced commercial soaps. All of our products are handmade using all natural ingredients such as vegetable oils, butters, milks, organic salt & sugar, vegetable waxes, beeswax, with the addition of botanicals and clays as natural colorants and pure therapeutic grade essential oils to scent.

Not only do our products smell good naturally, they also offer the many wonderful therapeutic and medicinal benefits and qualities associated with the essential oils, clays, plants and herbs they contain. No animal fats, artificial colours or fragrances, artificial preservatives, chemicals, sulfates or parabens are added in any of our products. You will have no worries using LavenSoap's products knowing that they are natural and safe for your skin."

I received the following items for my prize selection:

* DIY Soapmaking Kits - Clays or Powders

* Soy Milk Soap (Unscented) => 2 bars

* Coconut Milk Soap (Unscented) => 3 bars

* Almond Milk Soap (Unscented) => 2 bars

*Christmas Lip Balm => 1 piece

It took me over half a year before I can get to trying the soaps out and the first one I chose to use is the Soy Milk Soap. I just want to share how the product was nicely packaged, wrapped up in a nice glittery pouch. I like the simple product info on the soap as well.

When I unwrapped the soymilk soap, the first thing that impressed me is the cute little touch on the soap, one side showing the brand name, the other side the type of soap you are using. It has been weeks now since I started using the soap and yes, I can still see the wordings on the soap! It's nice to be reminded of what soap I'm using as I happily lathered on to my body and scrubbed away thinking, 'Hmm.. nice soap, what soap is this?' and I just flipped the soap and see the wordings.  

The soap size is just nice to fit in the palm of my hand, it does not smell (I chose the unscented type) and I like that the soap does not crumbles/cakes off at all compared to the commercial soaps I used before. I also noticed that my skin is not as dry as it used to be and can't wait to try the other 2 soap types I got!

Btw, I also like that they also sell DIY soapmaking kits, something I've wanted to try (which is why I got it for my prize selection as well) but with 2 kiddos and 3rd one coming in 3 months time, I do hope to be able to try it out one of this day!

You can find more info at Laven Soap's Facebook page.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I won the products by Laven Soap from a logo designing contest and promised to share my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.