Cakes, cookies, crackers serving ways

It may be too late for Raya, Christmas or even Chinese new year, but here are some things I painted for your next table serving ideas.

ordinary tins, painted, ideal for crackers, biscuits and such

My friend Shidah serves her keropok/tumpi/rempeyek in this beautiful tin. Kak Masnah uses it as a vase for her table centrepiece floral arrangement.



cake stand, tissue box and cookie bottle holder in pink and green

You can have a matching table set for serving cookies and cakes.



cake cover

Plain glass cake cover can be made more attractive with some flowers painted on it.

You light up my life.......

Sorry, not you darlings.... but these pretty candles. There is actually a special candle medium that you have to use when painting candles. From my experience, no varnishing required but leave it to cure couple of days before handling/using them.

Jansen's painting tapestry florals

I learned from my friend Aniza to paint Jansen's painting style and attempted on a 3-leaf screen. It took me couple of practices to get into the style and it was enjoyable doing the screen. It turned out beautiful, so says the customer, my dear Kak Masnah. She loves it. Look even better at her house complement by her beautiful house and nice collection of decorative things.

Family day gifts

My family of 14 siblings and our children have our annual Family Day since a couple of years ago. During these special times we normally exchange gifts. my gift to my siblings last year were tea-towels with hand painted teacups and teapots.








In 2007, my gifts were more personalised; bringing them down to memory lane as I have their childhood photographs, photographs of our old house in Kedah and such all printed like stamps and decoupaged on to a box, enhanced with minimal painting. unfortunately I have lost most of the pictures when my laptop was stolen. Here are some that I still have to show.

China Storage

As an extension of the topic 'Teacups and Teapots-I like coffee I like tea' in 2007, here are more ideas of such paintings. This time I painted for June an impression of teapots and teacups on a shelf of a cabinet to store chinaware; also randomly display of chinaware on a cupboard door and a row of teacups/teapots/vases in a frame.

The Larder

Do you have a walk-in larder or pantry? Or simpler, just a cabinet or cupboard to stock all your non-perishable grocery. Even better when you can paint on its door! Here are pictures of randomly displayed bottles, tins and boxes on a larder door.

Kitchen with a difference.

You can change your kitchen with a wave of a magic brush. Of course in this case the magic does not come in a split second but it is in the desire of the owner for painted cabinet doors and the passion of the artist [in this case, yours truly] to design and paint them. So voila! From modern designed black doors, its now cream, antiqued and 'trompe l'oeil' (a french term meaning 'trick of the eye') to look like a cabinet within a cabinet.



The doors under the sink are original louvers. The third door was actually plain but I painted it to look like lattice to complement the other 2 doors.

On the long doors, Yatie wanted a topiary design and since she loves roses, we decided on a rose topiary in an urn to coordinate with the rose borders on some doors.