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!

Magical lights!

It's been a bit quiet on my blog but I have been really busy lately.  I'm using all my free time to crochet these lights.  I think they are perfect for my christmas gifts this year.  These purple ones are a gift for my mom.  She adores purple.  So these will probably match perfect with most of her outfits. It's not my favourite colour but I must admit they turned out all right.

More candle holders

 

I have made some more candle holders.  This time I used a nice ochre colour.  Although it's more of an autumn colour, I love to use this colour also in winter time.  It adds an even warmer and cozy touch to the candle light.

 

I don't know if you can tell, but for the right one I've used just simple granny squares.

Because I'm enjoying myself so much crocheting, the other day I bought some more really nice colours.  So I'll be making lots more of these.

Celebration!

 Today, I made this cake for my family.  I was inspired by a dutch magazine I bought this week.  There was a picture of a beautiful pie in it with these words written on the pie : WE ARE SO GOOD TOGETHER.  And indeed this is how I feel when I think of my kids and husband. 
Lately we've been a very busy family, even during the weekends.  And today, we were all at home so I decided to treat them well and I wanted to celebrate us just because we are a family. 

Of course my cake didn't look as pretty as the one in the magazine.  But they didn't care!!  We really enjoyed our little celebration today.

I hope you had a lovely weekend too!!

Fair at the waldorf school

We had a very busy weekend.  It was the anual fair at the children's school.
With a bunch of lovely and very talented women we come together once a week to sow for this fair.  These are some of the things we made this year.

 

Of course we don't earn anything by selling this because the profit all goes to the school.  But we gain so much more.   Every week while we are working, we drink cappuccino, eat cake and have loads of fun.  There is always lots of laughter but also room for tears. It is so nice to be part of this amazing group!!

Ladies, thanks for being you every week again!  I think we did really well this year!

Crochet light

Yesterday I had the most perfect day. Over here it was a holiday.  Finally a day off without any obligations!!  So I slept in, had my favourite drink, a cappuccino with cinnamon, and did some crocheting. I'm trying out some new things.
Every year when the days get shorter and the nights longer, I have the urge of lighting my house just by using lots of candles.  It's so cozy!  So this year I'm crocheting around glass tealight holders or glass jars. 

These are the ones I made yesterday.  I still have to practise a lot more and I'm trying out different patterns.  But I really love how the light shines through it.  So I will be making a lot more of these lights, I'm totally hooked. 

I hope you are all having a great weekend too!!

Felt dog

                                    Isn't he cute?

For a while now my kids keep asking for a dog.  I really love dogs, especially this one, but I already have enough work with my children.  Everybody is trained over here and I'm not yet ready to start over again with a puppy.  So for now, I made them this dog!!  He doesn't need a lot of care, only a bit of dusting.  

I don't know if you can tell but it's a beagle.  Of course it is not the same as the real thing, but he definitely stole my heart!!