Crochet covered bottles

 























I'm still enjoying crocheting around all sorts of things.  These days I use small wine bottles and try out different patterns to cover them.  They become lovely vases if you just put one nice flower in them.

I especially love this blue colour!

 

Origami stars and balloons

This weekend I was so fed up with all the chores I had to do inside and around the house, so ... I took a break.  I wanted to try this origami for a long time now and this week I had bought some nice origami paper to try it.  It was a great success!!  The kids and I loved it.  Once you know how to fold the paper, it gets really addictive. 
The stars are a little bit harder for them to make.  But they loved to make the balloons.  At this very moment they are using up the last pieces of paper, making these lovely balloons. They just shouted out they have made 74 little balloons. 
With the stars I am going to make a guirlande.  And for the balloons I still have to buy a string of LED fairy lights and then I just need to attach each balloon around a light.

I found the tutorial for the balloons at folding trees and she also has a nice tutorial to make the wishing stars.   
Tomorrow I will definitely get some more paper.  I hope you will enjoy this as much as we did!!

Freshly baked cakes and brownies

For christmas I bought my teenage girls each a cookbook.  They both love baking.  So this holiday we are often spoiled with delicious and freshly baked cookies and muffins.  Our house smells wonderfully cozy when they are busy in the kitchen and they even clean up afterwards.  Yesterday they made brownies and little cakes with sundried tomatoes and black olives.  The cakes were made in small silicone loaf pans that came with one of the cookbooks, easy to use and so much more fun to look at. 

I really loved the little savoury cakes. For everyone who likes to try it, here is the recipe:

• 2 eggs
• 7 cl olive oil
• 7 cl milk
• 120 g flour
• 70 g grated Gruyère
• 1/2 package of baking powder
• salt and pepper
• 100 g sundried tomatoes cut in pieces
• 100 g black olives without the seed and sliced

You mix everything together and use some of the olive slices to decorate on top. For these small cakes, you only have to bake them for half an hour in a preheated oven of 180 degrees celsius.
Enjoy!!

I'd like to wish all of you a wonderful 2012 with lots of

love, laughter, warmth, good health, joy, happiness and creativity!