Adding walnuts

Have you baked before? I've baked using premixes as well as measuring ingredients from scratch. Premixes are very convenient since the other stuff that you need to add are readily available as compared to, eg. blueberries. Water, oil and eggs for brownies. I like to add walnuts for a crunchy brownie but both DS and DD don't like. Can you imagine a tray of brownies, baked with one half having walnuts and the other without?
Made this book for myself to record the recipes of dishes I've cooked. Meant for DS and DD. While they can cook a meal if the raw stuff is prepared for them, they improvise when unsupervised. LOL!

My sis called me a karang guni when I started collecting boxes. I snagged this box from my niece one evening when she started baking brownies. See the food stain at the top right hand corner? LOL!

900gsm greyboard reinforced Fudge Brownies box. 9 signatures with variant number of folios giving lots and lots of pages. Bound using longstitch so I can keep the side of the brownie box intact.
What are you recording for your kids?
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Randomness

I'm wondering, if I Like my pic in this giveaway, do I get a chance to win this even if it's mine? Odd, right? The thing is, the randomness in the giveaway draws is done by http://www.random.org/. It's a really useful website that can randomnize (is there such a word?) lists or numbers and such.
What I do for each draw is build the list hours before the draw, taking from emails or facebook or from this blog, and build that list. I usually remove myself, DS and DD unless they specifically request to be in. With the list in the random.org site, I then click it a few times to see if it works. The nearest click to the agreed time will be the final one :-)
Anyway, on with the draw....this is a handbound A6 notebook. Fabric covered, hardcover, coptic-bound. Single needle over 7 holes. Some day I'll try the 4 needle method. Four signatures of paper from sustainable forests with coordinating fly leaves.
As usual, leave a comment here or Like the pic on facebook and wait till 30 July for the noon draw.
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Taking notes

I used to enjoy taking notes during lessons, writing in longhand with felt-tipped pens in various colours to highlight the different points. I doodled when I was distracted, or wrote almost verbatim when I wasn't. It was really fun then to fill up pages and pages of fullscap with notes. At that time, I drew more joy in having a stack of neatly written and colourful notes than having a complete set of notes for their contents. Of course, it helped during revision that I could read what I wrote.
If you're a student, I strongly encourage you to take notes. It helps with rentention of what the teacher has said and keeps you focused on the topic. You can even practice your handwriting, whether the speed or the neatness. You'll even get new friends who'll want to borrow your notes.

I've been busy the past week with these notebooks. All hardcover coptic bound notebooks with a mixture of white and coloured pages. You can't see it from this pic, but I like the book on top in bottom right pic. This group has pictures of patiserrie cakes that are so pretty, like a menu. Printed paper is from Tang's Art, if you're wondering.
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