Thanks so much in participating in my Free Giveaway posted on 24 Nov.

Today is Lulu’s pâtissier friend Adriano Zumbo’s “Zumboron” day. Every year Adriano celebrates his birthday by baking up around 60 types of crazy flavour of macarons.

Last year he had Fish & Chips, Tabaccoroon, Toothpaste, Sichuan pepper etc….This year is even more crazy – Fried Chicken, Salt & Pepper Calamari, Banh Mi Burger macarons.

Believe it or not, they taste quite yummy and it is like eating a savory snack with a hint of sweetness.

Both Fried Chicken and Salt & Pepper Calamari are crunchy as you can tell from their look. The Fried Chicken one tastes like grill chicken with herb stuffings and the Banh Mi Burger one tastes like McDonald’s cheeseburger!

Lulu arrived pretty late and missed out a couple of interesting ones - Margarita pizza, ramen and Green apple pie…

Lulu’s foodie friend Lily’s choice was relatively “conservative”  (Haha) - Pandan & Coconut, Passionfruit & yoghurt, Blueberry lavender and Salted butter caramel.

Still have Blackened Vanilla and Peach Ice Tea in the box and can’t wait to try them tomorrow.

Lulu's crazy choice of macarons

Lily's Macarons

Inside the Fried Chicken Macaron

Wanted to try them all!

Here is the complete list of this year’s flavours… Dare to try Vegemite and Eucalyptus???

1. 70% Chocolate
2. Baklava
3. Banana
4. Banh Mi Burger
5. Blackened Vanilla
6. Blackcurrant
7. Bloody Mary
8. Blueberry lavender
9. Butterscotch caramel
10. Cheesecake
11. Cherry Coconut
12. Chestnut & passionfruit
13. Choc banana
14. Choc mint
15. Choc orange
16. Cinnamon doughnut
17. Coffee
18. Custard crunch
19. Eucalyptus
20. Fig & Honey
21. Finger Bun Fried Chicken
22. Gin & Tonic
23. Ginger
24. Green Apple pie
25. Hazelnut
26. Lemon
27. Liquorice
28. Margarita pizza
29. Mandarin
30. Mandarin & Tonka
31. Mango Black pepper
32. Maple syrup pancake
33. Milo
34. Mont Blanc
35. Musk
36. Palm sugar
37. Pandan & Coconut
38. Passionfruit
39. Passionfruit & yoghurt
40. PB & J
41. Peach Ice Tea
42. Peanut Caramel
43. Pecan Danish
44. Pistachio
45. Ramen
46. Raspberry
47. Raspberry & Beetroot
48. Raspberry Shortbread
49. Redskin
50. Rice Pudding
51. Rose
52. Salt & Pepper Calamari
53. Salted butter caramel
54. Salted milk choc caramel
55. Salted butter popcorn
56. Strawberry bubblegum
57. Toasted marshmallow
58. Vanilla Ecstasy
59. Vegemite

Christmas is coming very soon! As I promised in an earlier post, I want to do a give away to thank all of you for supporting me!

You may have already seen my mini X’mas cake for my students, now not only you can win this and you can build it the way you like!  Just simply use PVA glue to stick the accessories on top.  Hope you will have fun!

The gift includes: (Please see the photo below, the completed cake is for your reference only)
* Everything is handmade by Lulu!

1x Cake base with cake lace on top of doily
1x X’mas tree biscuit
1x Large Holy leave and 1x Small Holy leave
1x Strawberry dusted with icing
1x Blueberry dusted with icing
1x Ginger bread man
1x Macaroon
1x Placemat

To win this, you must be 

1. My Blog Follower  - Please leave me a comment on this post after you subscribed

And to increase the chance of winning this, you may do all the followings, and leave me a comment on this post for each action you have done.

2. Like my facebook page
3. Follow me on twitter
4. If you have previously bought from Lulu’s Miniatures or my Etsy Store
5. Write a blog post about this giveaway, please leave me the blog post url

If you have done all of the above, you could submit 5 comments (1 for each action) and you will have 5 chances to win!!!

The giveaway ends on 15th Dec 2011.

Thank you and Good Luck!

Lulu will be having an early X’mas party with the students this Sunday! Yay! We will be doing BBQ and everyone will be bringing a dish and a gift for a draw.

Students have already advised what they will be bringing:

Creme Caramel, Curry triangles, Garlic prawns, Salads, Assorted meat skewers, Sausages, and other BBQ meats.

You can tell from the above food order that Lulu is a big fan of desserts  haha

Here is a sneak peak of Lulu’s gift for the lucky person

Are you ready for your X’mas parties and gifts?

X’mas is coming up and Lulu is working on these little cakes with X’mas colours for her students. They haven’t been finished yet! Will continue to work on them tonight.

Don’t worry if you are not Lulu’s student, Lulu will be having a FREE GIVEAWAY soon. Please keep an eye on my blog or my Facebook Fanpage!

Lulu has been recently interviewed by Sorren Galiza from Living My Passion. Sorren believes that we should live our passion because it is our purpose and it is the reason why we can stand proud and thriving to be the best that we can be.

If you have time, please visit her website to get more inspiring ideas! Love Lulu

2 weeks ago Lulu was so surprised that a renowned health food and skin care company asked for her help on visual merchandising for their lanolin products at the Sydney International Airport. There were 3 windows that needed to be displayed. They told Lulu that they wanted to create a sheep farm with imageries of Australia, and Lulu instantly visualised a few scenes in her mind and agreed to help.

Thanks to this opportunity Lulu remembered that she had actually studied visual merchandising at the fashion college!

The most important aim for the vendor is to ensure that the window display could bring out their products, and only an eye catching display would attract the customers’ attention. Lulu had to balance these two things and decided to use a cute cartoon sheep image for the sheep farm. She also thought that the sheep farm should be “outdoor” and hence the sheep are on the grass and with clouds hanging from the top.

It has been very exhausting preparing all the materials and travelling here and there, and there were so many challenges not to mention here. However it has been a very good experience and a lot of people like the window displays. Thanks so much for K, J, D’s help on the day and without you guys Lulu could not make this happen. 

Recently there are 3 TV commercials on Cadbury milk chocolates using miniature dollhouse as the theme. Lulu likes the patisserie one very much, how about you?

Cadbury Made in Miniature

Why Sydney is still so cold in October? Lulu needs some nice hot food to warm herself up before summer arrives. Hotpot would be a good idea! There are so many choices: thin fat beef slices, veggies, different types of meat balls, mushrooms, tofu and more! Even the cat is drooling on the yummy food. Waiter, please give me a bottle of Tsingtao beer!

If you want to pig out with Lulu, workshop is available now > see here 

To see more pictures go to here