雪の拼盘 SnoWy PaLace

Christmas Tags 2011

2012-02-12T14:30:00.004+08:00

Snowy creation.

They are all for you,
in Christmas.

Merry Christmas 2011.

May your wish comes true...

xoxo
lil' Snowy

Chocolate Muffins 玛芬

2011-11-02T07:00:00.000+08:00

这是简单而绝不可能失败的巧克力玛芬食谱！

This is a simple muffin recipe that has never failed! It turns out very tasty and chocolate lover should not miss this. It can be ready in 30 minutes so it's very convenience to those who are busy and has limited time to cook.

Okay, let's see what you should have at home to make these muffins. Below is the ingredients yield for 9 muffins

* INGREDIENTS *

1 cup wheat flour

面粉

1/2 cup and 1 tablespoon caster sugar

幼塘

3 tablespoons baking cocoa

可可粉

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

苏打粉

1/8 teaspoon salt

盐

1 egg

蛋

1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons sour cream

酸奶油

3 tablespoons water

清水

3 tablespoons milk

低脂牛奶

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

植物油

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

香草精

3 tablespoons semisweet chocolate chips

巧克力片

* METHODS *

In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt.

In another bowl, beat the eggs, sour cream, water, milk, oil and vanilla.

Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.

Fold in chocolate chips.

Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full.

Bake at 325 degrees F for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

Give it a try this weekend. I am sure you will love it~

I'm going to make them more Yum,yum....

"Don't count your Muffins untill they're baked."

xoxo

lil' Snowy

Happy Birthday, to a timeless classic.

2011-10-27T17:13:00.008+08:00

Dear friend,

I have a simple calculation on how long we will be friends.

You can count the stars in heaven plus the sand on shore and multiplied it by the heartbeats, then you'll get the result as 'forever'...

Don't worry, this is just one day of the year we celebrate the amazing person you are.

Happy Birthday! to a timeless classic, who will never go out of style !!

Best Regards,
lil' Snowy

Eat Dessert First

2011-06-20T09:58:00.005+08:00

As what I said, I am mad about dessert recently.
Yayayaaa... I know I know...
that's really not good for someone who wants to cut weight *me*

But I just can't control myself to love it ::sobs::

Fine,

Life is uncertain.
Eat dessert first.

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.
.

Diet later.

Haha

Steamed Caramel Pudding
ingredient:
- Caramel (A)-
3tbsp sugar
2tsp water
(dissolve sugar into water)
- Custard (B)-
350ml milk
(boiled and cooled)
2 eggs
4tbsp sugar
half tsp vanilla extract
Methods:
1. Heating and melting ingredient A until turn golden/dark brown.
Pour it immediately into a oven safe bowl/cup/tin
(You'll need to steam it later so make sure the container you're using can be put into the steamer) Keep aside.
2. To do custard, beat eggs and sugar well with hand mixer. Add milk and vanilla extract and beat again.
3. Pour the custard onto the bowl/cup/tin.
4. Prepare the steamer. Steam the pudding until wiggly texture
*can use a tooth-stick to test*
5. Put into refrigerator at least 30 minutes, or overnight for better taste.

Simple, isn't it?

Yum-yum

=)

xoxo
lil' Snowy

Sweeten Your Home

2011-06-17T15:06:00.011+08:00

It's Friday
and Sunday is Father's day!!!
Guess what? I can't go home - gotta stay in Penang :(

My parent will be away from Ipoh this weekend so no Father's day celebration, which also means no cake Duhh, my dessert has gone. ::sad::

Thought can try the new cheesecake from Secret Recipe...

Please don't get me wrong, I don't mean Father's Day is just a day that we can eat cake :P

Nvm, going to make one myself since I am so mad about it. So you just wait and see if I update any dessert pictures in any of my blog posts later.Haha.

No Father's day card in this post. Not going to make one. But I'll share you a strange conversation between me and my lovely Daddy yesterday during my lunch time.

(my phone was ringing - I am using " 21Guns" as my mobile ring-tones. And Ooooh, Daddy was calling me...)

Me: Halo, Dad? Anything? (Straight to the point. My Dad will not call me just for fun, not like my Mom does)

Dad: How to spell you full name?

Me:... (was stunned and don't know how to react)
Dad: Halo? (to make sure I am still on the phone)

Me: Dad, same surename as yours (Remember I am your daughter?!)

Dad: Ok. Your Name?

Me:... (I was thinking to call Mom later to complain about this)

Me: 'L' - 'I' - 'P' and 'L' - 'O' - 'O' - 'I'

Dad: Ok... (silent for a minute. I guess he's writing it down on a paper...)

Dad: your IC?

Me: Dad... Hmmmm... (not telling the numbers right away) Are you going to sell me??? (was kidding but a bit nervous still)

Dad: what's your IC number? (ignore my worries)

Me: xxxxxx-xx-xxxx (Sigh)

Dad: Ok then...

[conversation truncated]

In fact, I strongly feel that he would hang-up the phone if I didn't stop him and ask why...

Sure thing, he's not going to sell me *relived*

But I rang to my sister right away to tell her that our Dad actually forgot my name ::sobs::

As usual, there are laughter coming out of the phone. She just can't stop (Sigh again)

wei

What is so funny?
.
.
.

You think Dad will remember yours?! :-\

*I am an evil sister lol*

Missing home a bit. So post a recent card here to cheer myself.

Give away to a couple who just got their new house and new home, hope this card can further sweeten their home. And also they'll get married soooon on September!
Yay! Lovely, lovely and...

LOVELY!!
Congratulation!!!

a house is made of walls and beams;
A home is built with Love and Dreamssss...

xoxo
lil' Snowy

生日小皮包卡片

2011-06-11T22:31:00.000+08:00

很久没有发布新的卡片了，真对雪の拼盘感到有点抱歉 :p。

这是最近一时兴起制作的生日小皮包卡片，一打开便看到礼物和花瓶，还有附上小小的留言卡。

弧形的小吊饰挟住卡片两侧，打开时，吊饰会往上移。

Goodbye

2011-04-30T00:04:00.007+08:00

Wednesday was his farewell lunch;Thursday was his last day of work. He was one of my colleague the same team as I. Thank you for being a good guidance, mentor, colleague along the way - since I joined the team and I truly appreciate all the helps and supports given by him =)

It is sad to have someone left the team; it also means that we are losing someone in this big workplace family... I am sure we're going to miss him...

Uhmmm...ok, now back to the card...

I never made a farewell card before, so this is my ever FIRST farewell card. I forgot whose idea to ask everyone dress in blue on the farewell lunch. So I use the blue color as the theme for the farewell card as well.

Card Stock in light blue - folded in three; patterned paper - some leftover patterned paper I used in one of my winter holiday card; Martha Steward doily border punch; blue rhinestones at the bottom of card; Rubs-on from Cosmo Cricket - the {BYE} word is from a Rubs-on not hand writting; Clear stamp from Unity Stamp - the little tree

I used color pencil to color the tree and Tim Holtz stickles to bring-up the image * Blink Blink *.

Simple but sincere card, doesn't it *wink*

You and I will meet again
When we're least expecting it
One day in some far off place
I will recognize your face
I won't say goodbye my friend
For you and I will meet again

~Tom Petty

xoxo
lil' Snowy

=)

Dreamer's Dream

2011-03-18T18:26:00.013+08:00

I know I have almost abandoned my lovely blog. It's been long time since I posted the winter Christmas cards. I made some paper craft once a while and I took the photo for each of them before I give them away -- sending my love away *wink*

I keep all photos inside my laptop and always think that I may have some time to post them all onto here...(someday, just don't know when :P)

Well,It's now year 2011 and It's a brand new year! It could be a lil' bit late to tell you my new year wish here as it's now already in March ::shy:: Still I want to say, life is always good so long as you look at the light side - that's my quote of the year :)

A friend of mine supports me with a simple word "Be Positive" when I throw him a frown face. Somehow that simple word gives me strength and positive charges when I feel stress out, and that also reminds me to give myself a smile. Sometimes we will never know our saying actually gives impact to ppl around us - either good or bad, even though it looks insignificant . Word of encouragement & compliments are things we need to give to all our friends and family that you'll never know when those sayings would help them build up their confidence and hopes and also keeping their smile on their face.

You may ask me: So what actually is your wish of the year?

Ooops Sorry, I forgot I was trying to tell you my wish of the year in the first place and now I jump to another topic...lol

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving.
And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

My wish for the year is:
All of our dreams will come true
::greedy::

Smile~

xoxo
lil' Snowy

圣诞礼物

2011-01-15T22:17:00.002+08:00

圣诞节交换礼物，送给其中一位同事。

这是另一份巧克力的作品。有点像某某颁奖典礼的奖座。哈哈！

Best Wishes。

Merry Christmas~♪

2010-12-26T04:15:00.011+08:00

I sent some greeting cards to my foreign friends every year in November to December. Sometimes I feel that making a greeting card is not as hard as you think -- if you had every materials get prepared then you are good. To make a simple Christmas card as below, you need to prepare:

A:- 3 Martha Stewart snowflake punches

B:- red & green threads tied with 2 lil' bells

C:- a reindeer card stock (reindeer clear stamp with black ink-pad)

D:- Christmas theme patterned paper (edge of paper was cut by using patterned scissors)

E:- a dark brown card stock (folded)

F:- a piece of music book (tears with hand)

All you need to do is arranging materials in the way you like ♪

And if you can get some stickers on it, it would be perfect~!! ;-)

I know this is a quick one...
Hope you like it

All I want to say is --

Merry Merry Christmas!!!

xoxo
lil' Snowy

Let It Snow!

2010-12-22T18:33:00.009+08:00

I am back!

I spent two weeks in Dublin, Ireland on first visit and It was a business trip. It was a short notice and I had to be prepared for travel to Dublin within 3 days. Anyhow, it was a great experience that is my first time be in a winter season with a lil' bit of snow. The weather was freezing cold, so most of time I stayed in room :-P.

The trip to Dublin has delayed my greeting cards delivery to my foreign friends - I should have bring it to Dublin to post, but the time is too rush. And also, it delayed my Christmas post on this blog - this is really not an excuse, I swear...

Christmas is coming soon, on this coming weekend! I have to post something before it reached. I made a few Christmas greeting cards before I left Malaysia. It took some of my after-work time to get it done. In this post I;ve selected a card that suit the title - Let it Snow!!

xoxo
lil' Snowy loves snow...

All About Flowers - Thank You

2010-11-07T23:48:00.011+08:00

~ Kindness is the language
which the deaf can hear
& the blind can see ~

It was a long weekend. My parents went to JB and so I can't back to Ipoh. I was planning to stay at Penang home alone however it was a surprise to see my sister on last Saturday. She came to Penang to visit me. Although it was only a few hours, she back to Taiping on the same day, I feel so glad to see her.

Speaking of which, I was starting my craft project again on Sunday. It was a gratitude card and I captured some photos while making it. This time I'm gonna make a tutorial here to show you how to do a simple Thank You card. The theme is flowers, because the recipient loves flowers - I think so. Here are materials we need to prepare for the tutorial:-

You may click on the image to enlarge

1. First thing you need to get is always card stock. You need a 6'' x 4.5'' greenish card stock (folded) and a piece of patterned paper in 5.5'' x 4'' - I used K&CO patterned paper.

2. Then you need some embellishments: a brown stitched ribbon in 6.5'' length, 2 mini gold brads, a frame die cut, some leaves die cuts, & some pink spiral roses.

3. Since this is a gratitude card, you need to get a "Thank You" clear stamp with a clear block and black ink pad.

After you had everything ready, you may start to make the card.

1. Adhere you clear stamp on the clear block. Gently dab the ink pad on the clear stamp and make sure the ink covers the whole image.

2. Position your block over the patterned paper and press it down with even pressure. Lift the block straight up and you’re done! Remember to clean the stamp with stamp cleaner afterward.

3. Put the mini brads on the die cut and adhere the die card on the stamp image with double sided tape. It should result as the image shown.

4. Adhere the leaves die cut around the frame.

5. Adhere spiral roses on the paper. You may use tweezers to hold it for convenience.

6. If you think roses are not enough, you can actually add on some fabric flowers & adhere rhinestone on the flowers.

7. Now you're almost done by tying the ribbon.

8. Finally, adhere the patterned paper on the card stock. And, taadaa.... this is the finished card.

I'm hereby to remind you thanksgiving day is coming soon, although this card is not meant for thanksgiving, don't forget to express your gratitude to your beloved family & friends.

Happy November
* winks *

xoxo

lil' Snowy

October Card -- Congratulations

2010-10-26T01:39:00.010+08:00

Well, I'd say this will be the only post in this month, because there are many things keep me busy and I dont even have time to take a breath. I'm so sorry.... As a recent update about myself, I am now carrying a heavy workload working long hours most of the time, sometimes it's fun and satisfying, but sometimes I feel like going crazy... And-Yes! I am really Crazy - Crazy busy!

Anyhow, I am glad that I completed this task which was given by my dear colleague YueMae. This simple request is to make a wedding greeting card! Although I've got a lot of work to do, I able to complete it while I was waiting a business user to reply my email in front of my desk. Since YueMae request to have a bigger card to fit in whole team members' signature and greetings, I decided to fold a piece of card stock into thirds, and folded the first side into half again, so the card can stand like a ladder and we have a wider area to write anything we like.

I used Martha Stewart doily border punches which is my most favorite punches to make two layers of doily lace at the bottom of the card. Then tie a ribbon with a mini handmade flower.

Using silver embossing powder to make the embossing effect for the 'Mr.&Mrs' print on a small card stock then put on some mini star brads and adhere it on the card. Although this is not my first time doing the embossing effect, still I am not did a good job. Some silver embossing powder went off the words. Also I used the clear stamp to stamp the Congratulations words - and put some glitter glue to make it looks glittering *^^*

It looks simple. You can try this & I bet you will like it ;-)

*Thumbs up*

xoxo
lil' Snowy

I Love Martha Stewart Punches

2010-09-29T23:33:00.013+08:00

I know I blog very infrequently here but other authors in this blog are totally inactive as per expected (gosh...). I did some craft work the other day (perhaps few weeks ago?? I don't really remember when...) however I was not able to get my photo ready. I'm so sorry, but I promise, really, I will update it as soon as I have finished my edition to those photos, all right? *wink*

Today I am going to blog about Martha Stewart product. Yes, as you can see from the subject of this post, they're Martha Stewart punches!!

Well, Martha Stewart is a woman who is smart, intelligent, capable, passion in activities...blah blah blah..you can google Googles if you'd like to know more about her, above all, I admire her talents and her wonderful creativity, especially her craft ideas.

The first Martha Stewart craft product that I own is a border punch or I should say an edge punch? It is a "Punch Around the Page" set (set of two) with an edge corner and an edger. You can punch your paper corner first with edge corner and then use the edge punch to connect the pattern from corner to corner and it results a nice finish piece! Due to limited budget at that time, I only managed to get myself an edge punch at first. I got myself the edge corner the other day as well. I show you the finished piece with loops around the paper in the image below. Of course, there are many other choices of pattern which are totally fabulous!

You probably love to know where I bought these. I bought the combo and the embossed zig-zag border punch online and the doily edge border punch at Micheal's Craft & Art, ME, US. As per expected, buying from craft shop is cheaper than online (shipping fees is exp!!!), if you prefer touch and feel the items you'd really enjoy shopping in craft shop rather than online. Make sense?? xD

Due to my laziness, I simply copy this image from Martha's website
you can click the image and it'll link you to the site with more details ;-)

** Here's my Martha Stewart collection **

Well, this is my first loops pattern combo -- edge corner and edger

Following by
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border punches - doily edge & embossed zig-zag

I love the doily edge among the all because it's really lovely~

★＾▽＾★

So now you know why my pocket has a hole??

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Enjoy Punching!

xoxo
lil' Snowy

Mr. & Mrs - to have & to hold

2010-09-04T22:30:00.012+08:00

I have bought a lot of craft materials during my business trip to Maine. My pocket seems to have a super big hole right now. Anyhow, I am satisfied with my luggage filled with patterned papers, clear stamps, stickers, punchers, scrapbooks... Awesome! ^^

Say of which, I still remember there's a wedding greeting card request came to me before I left Malaysia one month ago. I decided to complete the request yesterday with my brand new craft materials. It took about half an hour for me to figure out the design layout of the card. Arghhhh... I really need some inspiration!! The only requirement I am being told is that she prefer a 3D greeting card. So a good idea just came to me and the card came out as below ;P

I like my simple design on the front of the card. I use a white color card stock and a vintage patterned paper from K&COMPANY. Then I adhere three lil' roses and tie a ribbon on the card. The ribbon makes the card looks lovely. The doily punch at the bottom of the card is made with the new Martha Steward puncher I bought at Maine (The Christmas Tree Shop). That doily puncher was in my wish list :D
Finished size of the greeting card is 7''x 5.5''.

I try to make a simple 3D card with a bride and groom in it. I also used Tim Holtz small mask to make the distress ink effect. Here's the inner look of the greeting card :~

~ Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. ~

Tada~

* Mission Completed *

Fun & finished in a day! Time to continue my office work T.T

xoxo
lil' Snowy

可爱的毕业贺卡 CONGRAD!

2010-06-04T08:48:00.008+08:00

这个是在小雪人的面子书亮过相的毕业贺卡系列 -- 可爱版本

现在这里恭喜那些刚完成课程等待毕业典礼的人

或是刚带上四方帽披毕业袍的人

你们实在太棒了~！！

小雪人毕业的事业已经是两年前的“往事”了说

祝你们前程似锦哦~

卡片材料 card materials:

A:- Purple card stock, Purple A4 paper, Tweet 3D sticker, MM slice alphabets, Rhinestones, Brown stitched ribbon, American Craft patterned paper

B:- Black card stock, October Afternoon patterned paper, Rhinestones, handmade convo bear, Punched daisy, Shinning mini stickers, MM slice alphabets

PS: customized card is now available. Please kindly contact me for more information =)
*hug*

紫色系列生日贺卡 Purple Birthday

2010-05-21T11:23:00.005+08:00

紫色，一直以来都是小雪人喜欢的颜色之一

这次的两张生日卡款式是相近的

除了所用的印章图案不同

其他的材料都是一样

Happy Birthday 的字眼用Embosing Powder处理

所以摸上去有凸起来的感觉

色纸的边边则用了Distress Ink

让纸张看起来旧旧的 :)

〈感谢朋友T,第二张卖出了〉

If there's something that you're dreaming of then may it all come true, because you deserve it all...HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=

Friends are like cupcakes

2010-03-20T03:22:00.000+08:00

这是一个直径5.5cm的小挂饰

抓破脑袋才想到如何做个纸质的挂件

挂件另一面是Requestor的英文名字

希望她喜欢小蛋糕 : 9

Materials：

chipboard, patterned paper, flower & you're amazing stamps, inkpad (pink&old paper)

embossing powder(clear), ribbon, pearl bead, hp hanger(pink)

It's a baby girl~!

2010-03-03T22:45:00.004+08:00

三月第一Po

这是做给刚生了一个可爱宝宝的同事
希望小宝宝健健康康、快快乐乐哦~

卡片材料/工具：Patterned Paper from American Crafts, white ribbons, brown and pink cardstock, alphabet stickers, MM slice, flower puncher, scallop border puncher, Jack's World Clear Stamp...

方法：

1. Make card from Patterned Paper.
2.Cut Patterned Paper strip; punch scallops and adhere on card.
3.Cut cardstock using slice by choosing tag design; tie ribbon through tag.
4.Cut cardstock into alphabets using slice; Adhere on tag.
5.Stamped on cardstock and cut it down.
6.Adhere tag, stamps and punched flowers on card.
7.Put on alphabets stickers(small) on card.

粉红季节 MM THINK PINK SLICE

2010-02-26T15:42:00.007+08:00

说实在的，Making Memories (以下简称为MM)实在太了不起了。世界上有如此这般的工具实在是、实在是、实在是…… 太棒了！！ \(≧▽≦)/

这个系列的还是让女生疯狂的粉红色系。除了机器本身是粉红色，包装盒子、使用手册、连切割板上的MM标志也是粉红色的。虽然我不是很迷粉红色的人，但是这真的有够可爱的了~

说了老半天，你也许还不知道我在说着什么东西……
没错没错，就是下面这个粉红色系的电动刀模机，塔哒～

电动刀模机的功能就是把各种的设计图案从美工纸上完整地切割下来作为手工饰物。所有的设计图案都输入在一张设计卡里。每次使用电动刀模机前就要把设计卡插入机器里然后再做选者。图案的大小也是可以调整的。MM售卖各种不同主题的设计卡，每张都会根据主题而加入不一样的设计图案。

看起来很棒吧？这是一套的，还附有两款的设计卡:
BASIC ELEMENT & THINK PINK

这款电动刀模机的一小部分盈利会捐赠到抗乳癌协会为有需要的女性加油打气哦!

粉红色的THINK PINK 设计卡里除了26英文字母、数字和符号，

还特别加入了一些关于女性的设计：

THINK PINK SLICE

更多有关MM的产品可以到它的网站上找到：http://www.makingmemories.com/

YouTube 上能看到示范：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43r8s1ATI0g

你一定会很喜欢！

那么, 我先开动咯～　(♥´ω`♥)

xoxo
lil' Snowy

Dear Daddy

2010-02-23T20:55:00.001+08:00

老爸，生日快乐 :)

农历新年贺卡 Happy CNY

2010-01-31T22:06:00.007+08:00

距离华人农历新年还有两个星期

很多家里已经开始忙着办年货了

这时也是开始准备新年贺卡的时候

再见可爱的牛牛年，虎虎年尾随而来

今年的新年贺卡点子不多，总离不开梅花、竹子、春……

说到梅花和竹子还有松

这三位梅松竹可是所谓的 —— 岁寒三友

因这三种植物在寒冬时节仍可保持顽强的生命力而得此名

梅花寓意吉祥、品质高洁；竹子寓意坚挺的性格、不屈不挠的精神；

松树因其树龄长久，经冬不凋所以寓意长寿

小雪人喜欢梅花，所以贺年卡上少不了粉红艳丽的她

春节嘛，当然要来个花开富贵喜迎春啦~~~

当然，还要来个恭喜发财

这个一定不能少~

总有起风的清晨，总有温暖的午后，

总有灿烂的黄昏，总有流星的夜晚，

总有一个人在祈祷世界上所有的美好全部属于你们！

祝大家虎年快乐，心想事成！

告别卡

2010-01-24T23:53:00.004+08:00

相熟的同事们一个接一个地离职了。

公司里的人事变化巨大得让人感叹。

唉。

这张告别卡是为即将离去的女同事所制作的。

祝她在中国的发展一路顺风。

小小印花打洞器

2010-01-20T23:18:00.002+08:00

嘻嘻！
我也拥有了6个小小印花打洞器。这是她在香港旅游时的其中一样手信。她说那里能买到便宜印花打洞器。这类型的只需要大概RM10就能买到3个。

以后，制做卡片就可以添加合适的印花咯！

雪人杂货（二）Kreaxions 造型打花器

2010-01-06T22:15:00.005+08:00

是的，又是打花器篇

对上一篇有人留言提到Kreaxions这个牌子的打花器

小雪人稍微研究了一下Kreaxions, 它是荷兰来的朋友 ;p

特点是一个打花器可以打出四种花型

上个月回怡保，碰巧在Kinta City看见Kreaxions在大众书局书展旁摆柜台

小雪人在好奇心驱使下，凑上前去看有什么好康的东西

现场有demo如何使用该产品的打花器

配合其他的工具更能轻易制作美丽的卡片

当然，小雪人不会放过这购买的机会

一个打花器要RM39.80

我咧，买了两个

身上本来就没什么钱了，现在报穷

选择很多，每一个我都很喜欢

可惜不能把全部带回家

接下来又继续收集了几个普普的打花器

看着喜欢就顺手买回家了

哇~~败家天后啊~~！！

接着收到好友粉红猪猪的香港手信。

是两个较大的打花器（大概知道最近我对这个有点疯狂）--〉“发”和“喜喜”

很大一个，所以打印起来很费力（必要时要用脚 O_O ）

算一算，目前收集到的接近二十个……

再接再厉 ;p