Footprints

It's been an absolutely crazy week......with the hours in the clinic and the hours preparing a party I had to turn down a couple of orders :(

My apologies....

My parents just celebrated their 40th, Ruby Wedding Anniversary... Imagine that!

You see, we have the best parents in the world!

I might be a little biased ~heehee~

They provided us the best home when we were born, the best toys when we were little (excursions from Klang to Kathy's Toys in Jaya Supermarket PJ were a weekly event), the best gadgets when we were teens (and tolerated our tantrums!), the best education (all of us ended up doing medicine abroad) and most of all unconditional love, support & guidance. And we were very lucky as if ever we stumbled they awaited with open arms without judgement. But of course a couple of hours of nagging if we deserved it ~haha~

So us kids, my 2 brothers, sister and I decided to throw them an intimate and very special dinner with their closest friends and relatives. We wanted to create a warm ambience in the Ballroom so we used Ruby red rose balls, water and candles. Buying the flowers at the florist created a bit of unease for me as they were quite inefficient and unfriendly, but they managed to deliver the fresh flowers to me after some negotiation. Thank goodness I had so many helping hands the night before the party, to help me prep the flowers. We wanted to keep this all a surprise to Ma but she ended up helping me do the floral arrangements because we were running out of time... and Ma's an expert home floral decorator! We finished in the wee hours of the morning...~yawn~

Ma plucking out damaged petals and trimming the stalks with my aunt (wearing blue)

I'll show you the pictures of the final arrangement in my next post.

My other project was the gifts for the guest...what else? cupcakes! I'm too predictable... Again, thank goodness I had so many little elves to help me assemble the motives of gold rings and lace hearts.

These intricate lace hearts were difficult do initially as I had to figure out what nozzles to use to cut and print patterns on each white heart to create the lace effect. But once I got it it was a breeze. And the gold rings were yellow fondant cut outs painted with 18K edible gold dust.

And the most fun and interesting part of this whole week for me at least, was creating their 4 tier 40th Anniversary cake. My sister came up with the main concept, I chipped in some ideas and executed it, so I can't take full credit for it :)

It was the first time I worked with dummy cakes for the 1st 3 tiers, the last tier was a scrumptous brandy fruitcake (Ma's famous recipe)... so again it took me a few tries to figure out how to do it well. But all those hours were worth it at the end!

I'll post all the pictures later this week.

So have a lazy Sunday you guys, I'll be on snooze mode all day :)