Valentime's day

As my little cousin calls it, and to be honest, I think Valentimes has a better ring to it..

I hadn't originally planned to give out little sweet goodies, and I have no idea what motivated me, it just seemed like a nice and inexpensive idea, who knew I'd end up wearing red all day!

The cookies weren't made from scratch, I bought a cookie mix from the grocery store, to which I had to add 1/2 cup of unsalted butter and a tbsp of water, very easy. It is from the President's Choice brand, which never disappoints. The ingredients list is readable and no weird stuffs in there so that's great of course. They were tasty although incredibly sweet, two is plenty for a fix!

For the boxes I used the same tutorial as before (video link).

Origami bowl

In honour of a movie night, I brought a few snacks over and thought I would rather put them in some sort of origami "bowl" (as I've been re-affirming my love and amazement for it) than to use my friend's dish ware that would take up more space in the sink. Luckily, I was able to find a super cute boxy bowl origami tutorial online which proved to be incredibly useful and I can see myself folding more on many other occasions!

For the tutorial, my suggestion is don't look at #10 because it might be a bit confusing, just look right to #11 and it'll make #10 clearer.

CUPCAKES!

Here are my most successful cupcakes as of yet! I really have to flatter myself this time, they came out so great and delicious. The occasion that called for them was my younger brother's birthday, I wanted them to be a bit more original so I created origami cubes and paper cranes to use as toppers. I got the idea from a tutorial through whipup.net.

Also, I found a really great tutorial through craftzine.com of how to make origami boxes and I used it to create boxes to keep the cupcakes in as well as for a small gift I prepared for my brother.

I got the image from a flickr account called Amirugumi Kingdom and coloured it in with wooden pencils and ink as I don't have a colour printer.

I used the excess cardboard to make separators, makes it look nice and fance. yesitsaword.

Ahh how eclectic. love it.

If only I had better writing!

mini paper crane, movable fingers key-chain and a wrist guard for a budding guitarist.

Making these boxes was really easy and fun, I suggest you learn, it's super useful.