My new hobby : Making jewerly with Swaroski Cystal

When I visited some shopping mall in KL,I usually will stopby Swarovski Shop to look at their cystal, I love Swarovski crystal with their elegant design but I never buy one for myself because I know if I started to get 1, more will comes in the future...

But, recently I have been spent alot of money just for this swarosvki cystal bean from Autria. I'm learning how to do my own jewerly with this bean.The above two samples are my favaroute because I make it for my mom .In manderine, people said" Yong Xin Zhor de Zhui Mei" :)

For some of you who interested to do your own cystal jewerly, please do buy some AB cystal coz I found that the jewerly have this mixture will have better result .Believe me,you spend more for it and you will get better result.

Below is the explaination that I got it from internet and share with you.

"Swaroski cystal contains approximately 32% lead to maximize refraction. In order to create a crystal that allows light to refract in a rainbow spectrum, Swarovski coats some of its crystals with special metallic chemical coatings. Aurora Borealis, or "AB", is one of the most popular coatings, and gives the surface a rainbow oil slick appearance. Other coatings include Crystal Transmission, Volcano, Aurum, and Dorado. Coatings may be applied to only part of an object; others are coated twice, and thus are designated AB 2X, Dorado 2X etc."

Egg Tarts

I'm so angry when drive 1 1/2 hours to Denver and yet unable to buy egg tarts as plan :(

So, I decided do it by myself and the result turned out not bad :)








Ingredients :

• 3/4 cups brown sugar or confectioners' sugar
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup butter or margarine
• 1 egg,beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/3 cups white sugar
• 3/4 cups water
• 5 eggs, beaten
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cups whole milk or canned evaporated milk

Methods:-

1. Combine the white sugar and water in the saucepan and cook until sugar dissolved.Removed from heat and cool at room temperature.
   
2. In a medium bowl, mix together brown sugar and all multi purpose flour,margarine, 1 egg vanilla extract and stir the mixture until forms a dough.
   
3. If the texture too moist, add more flour and if too dry, add more margarine.
   
4. shape dough into small dough and press the balls into the molds so that it covers the to bottom and goes up higher at the sides.
   
5. Preheat the oven 400 F.
   
6. Strain the 5 eggs through a sieve twice and whisk into the sugar mixture.Stir in evaporated milk and vanilla and fill the tart shells.
   
7. Baked for 20 minutes in the preheat oven until golden brown and the filling is puffed up a little big.

Hooray!Start blogging!

I'm so impressed when I got to know that my good friend, Gaik Ling has a blog. She really gave me a lot of encourangement to continue my blog which I created since April'08 .

So, I will try my best using my broken English, broken Hokkien, broken Cantonese as well broken Mandarin to write a " Broken" blog :) Most importantly my reader can understand what I'm trying to say, right?