Christmas decoration

Christmas cards continue...

Christmas cards...

and one more

and one more card

Number 3 ;)

Christmas cards continue

Christmas cards, the creative process

this is how I make cards


and this is my workshop :)

winter brings

I know it is not yet exactly winter. For me this time of the year is usually quite busy. There are always small and big happening in my life that keep me occupied. Apart from that I usually start thinking of approaching Christmas and the time I'm going to spent together with my family. Before that however there is a nice tradition of sending Christmas greeting cards... Since few seasons I have been trying to make these cards myself. I feel this is more personal expression of my regard and feeling for the people I'm sending my greetings and best wishes to.

A totally new project :)

3 kg of grapes, 3kg of sugar, 10 L of boiled cool water, 5ml of liquid yeast culture ;)

One incubation bottle, a cork and a glass pipe

It is supposed to become wine in about 3 months :)

...bracelet with crystal beads

...more Swarovski

...Swarovski continue...

My first attempt on Swarovski beads

Shadows

"Lake night"

:) our chili :)

:) long time no see ... :)

Earrings ...



pendant,

Earings

...From the top, beautiful green glass beads, lower fimo, and last fimo flowers (if you look carefully through my latest posts you might find a match for them ;)






These are made from natural beads, meaning they come from some exotic tree... Unfortunately I do not know from which exactly cause I received them from a friend who traveled through South America.

Fimo beads, and what you can make of them

FImo flower cane, including how to make a colour gradient

Here are all my canes of fimo as for now :)

...flowery fimo....

More Fimo !!!! :) Butterfly rulezzz ...

A couple of broaches and some buttons :) , this is a medow
This are the buttons :)
here are the butterfly resting...
another broach with butterfly

Some more broaches with flowers ... And below is a very nice blue leaf broach....

Fimo, butterfly :)

Here is some nice output of 3 days of work :) ya ya claying and polishing takes time ;)
But is worked out very nice at the end so here it is, my new creation :)

FOOD !

So here is a little recipe that I have in use quite often :)
Aubergine; egg plant; brinjal

1 aubergine 500g-800g
3 cloves of garlic
onion (tennis ball size or equivalent in smaller size ;)
1 table spoon of sesame
2 chilies (preferably fresh, but powder will do)
1 mounted tea spoon garam masala
½ tea spoon black pepper powder
(optionally you can use basil fresh or dry)
salt to taste

Bake it in the oven for 50min-60min at 180-200°C (depends how strong your oven is)

Let it cool down. Later peel it, if it was backed enough the skin will come of very easily (careful not to burn

yourself ;). Sometimes it is easy to cut is in half first and then stat peeling.

After you peel dice it (you can chose you personal favor cut ;)

Heat up olive oil on a non-stick pan. Fry the sesame seeds, after it cracked nicely add onion (be careful not to burn the sesame seeds) . Fry onion till soft and translucent, add mashed garlic, reduce heat/flame. Fry shortly add spices (chopped chilies, garam masala, black pepper, salt, and basil). Fry with spices for about 30s-1min, add the chopped aubergine. Fry everything for at least few min (till you will feel the nice smell). After that there are two ways , some like it dry some not. If you like dry fry it for a while till aubergine picks up some golden shades. If you like it saucy then add about 300ml of water (about 1 and ½ glasses), cover it up and cook for another 10-15min. you can thicken it up with some flour if you want.
ENJOY!

Crochet animals :) so cute

crochet, swirl with pattern atached :)

It is an easy one but time consuming, not to mention all the mistakes and do overs I had to make:) took me almost 3 days, I did not count the hours.