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Last Christmas, I gave you my heart..

January 2, 2012 / 12 Comments

What better present to gift your spouse than your heart? Or love for the matter.

I kinda ran out of ideas on what to get the husband for christmas. He is a rather simple person and has everything he needs and I unfortunately am not able to fulfill his only wants which are all the high end, highly desirable watches that are at least a 5 digit figure. Or a Porsche car.

My husband has got expensive taste.
(yay! It means im ‘expensive’ too! Sorry, couldn’t resist slotting in the comment!)

So while he was on reservist, an idea struck me and I embarked on a love project filled with yummy m&m’s!

More than $50 worth of chocolates.

I bought a love-shaped container from candylicous and decided to put in the chocs to fill up a heart shape within the container in a single color. I seriously has no idea if it’ll work but I tried it anyway!

Loads of colorful chocs. My mum thought I was mad when she saw me sorting in the dark in my room (after I have put baby jerry into bed).

Do you know how many colors are there in a packet of m&m’s?

Six! I think the peanut or was it the pretzel flavor only has 5 colors. And I was a tad disappointed that I couldnt find my usual favorite peanut butter ones.

Before I was even done sorting, my containers were all filling up! Here’s the end product!

If you wanna know, I painstakingly used a spoon and slowly put in the m&m’s to make the heart shape, and its quite a challenge getting the round m&m’s to stay put when I drop them. I started layering the chocs in the background in colors and creating the heart slowly as I fill up the colours. After I was done, I realized I should have seen it coming and just use 2 major colors to create the contrast and keep the other side all mashed up. Would have been a lot more interesting since the contrast here isn’t as good across the various colors. But I was too lazy to re-do everything so I attached a sweet note and called it a day.

I think it’s the best gift the husband got.. But it sets him in a dilemma.. To keep or too eat.

What ya think? Nice?


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Hi there! Thanks for popping by. I'm Cherie, a ftwm (full-time working mum) to 3 lovely kids (2 boys & a princess) and my motto in life is to BE HAPPY. Sure, life isn't all that smooth but it's the mentality that counts, no? This blog documents my life. Or rather, snippets of my life that has passed me by. I love capturing life memories in the blog and being able to read back and laugh at myself (or anyone). I love to eat (A LOT), travel and paint my own nails so the blog is mostly about that. Is that considered lifestyle? Of cos, the family is also very much an integral part of me so there would be loads of memories about the husband and my kids - Jerry (9yo), Jerome (7yo) and Leia (2.5yo) and everyone else that's close to me. I like documenting the kids' milestones, their growing up years, their achievements (and sometimes, mine), and my struggles and battles with motherhood. It sure ain't easy. I love seeking out good food and travelling, is trigger-happy, love new gadgets, love exploring new places and strives to live life to the fullest. I aspire to travel the world as much as I can, to soak in the different sights across the various continents and visit all the Disneylands in the world (almost there!). Have fun reading and do drop me a comment to say hi! Love, Cherie Lim Find me on Instagram.

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