Kawaii 可愛い

It’s been such a long time since I went for any cutesy snack making/baking class. The last in 2019 😜 with Jenny.

Che-che asked me why do I need to go for class when I can always learn a plethora of stuffs from YouTube. She’s not wrong but sometimes I feel for some things it’s better to go for class and learn the 技巧.

Went for dumplings class at The Vanilla Bean. Shirley from Kneadtoonspire is the instructor. I had been following her Instagram for quite some time so it’s time to see 老师 in person. 

Not going to talk much about the class, just putting in the end product pictures here. 

                                    我的作品

老师的作品

The boiled dumplings

Had an enjoyable time away from home; away from housework. Once in a while getting day off is really good for me. 

I hope they will like the dumplings and hopefully I’ll have the time to 展开我的才华 , to experiment with more cutesy designs. But alas my kids are so old now ……

The stationery in US

When we knew we would overstay the new school term in USA, we had to get stationeries for lil’ one so she can get some work done here in USA and perhaps “live lesson”? with the rest of her classmates? 

To be fair we only went to the comparable Dollar Store to look for stationeries. So maybe there are more choices in Staples, Target or Walgreens?

Testpad / Writing Pad

It’s really weird to see their testpad with 3 holes and the lines seem so huge compared to ours. Maybe that explains why Americans handwritings are always so huge? 

Pen

She wanted to get pen but they sell in bulks of 5? And mind you, there no such thing as gel pen or Sarasa or whatever. If we’re stuck in Japan, we’d go crazy since we have better excuses to buy stationeries. haha! The pens are like those I used when I was in secondary school. 

If she uses pen, then she’ll need correction tape right? Lo and behold, there no such thing as a correction tape or even the fast drying correction fluid. They carried the old brush correction bottle. Oh my! 

Pencils 

Decided to get her pencils instead. After all as loads she gets her work done, her teachers can’t blame her for using pencil right? It was then a choice of the wooden pencils or the mechanical pencils that comes in 5s. We settled for mechanical pencils but they use 0.7mm HB lead. This is just so weird… I wouldn’t have paid attention to stationeries if not for the situation we were in. But it certainly is an eye opener. 

Eraser

Having being so used to the soft Japanese erasers, it was a struggle to use the huge and hard polymer eraser

Anyway, some pictures to show you what we got. Perhaps if we had gone Staples there would be more choices?