My friend Lar taught me how to make Vietnamese spring rolls. And my family can’t get enough of it. Aside from the rice vermicelli noodles and the rice wrappers, most of the ingredients are not set in stone. You’re not going to mess up if you don’t...
I have this book, Collage Lab by Bee Shay, which is an invaluable resource for my mixed media explorations and experimentations. What’s even more fun is that I can do the experiments with Mica and Rinoa. It’s never too early to train them to push the...
When I told the girls we were having chicken nuggets for lunch, they both screamed “Eowww!”. After watching the very first episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and seeing how processed chicken nuggets were made, they vowed never to eat chicken...
My weekend sewing project – the Insa Skirt from Sewing Clothes Kids Love. This is a two-layer skirt, with the upperskirt bunched up in several places with elastics to give the skirt a textured, romantic flare. This is also the first wearable garment I’ve...
Spent a day in California beach hopping from Dana Point Beach, to Newport Beach, to Huntington Beach. Funny thing is that before we left for California, I knew we would be going to the beach. I just didn’t think the weather would be nice enough for us to...
