...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.

Crochet...

Crochet - is an technique allowing to make fabric from yarn or a thread using a little hook:) The difference between crochet is different from knitting in that there is only one loop you work in crochet, were in knitting you use multiple loops simultaneously. So I personally find crochet simpler.There aren't so many complicated plots when you have only one loop to handle. nevertheless you can still create many many different patterns and you can make anything you want. The only down side is that you have to use more material than you do with knitting.

More origami !!!

SO I have some pond :) very cute. And I have a pic with micro fauna and macro flora ;)

Aha! :) dodecahedron, modular origami

There it is. Finally my first modular origami (not of my own invention of course;) !!! The big one I had help with, you know folding all this little elements :) . And I attach the scheme some if someone wants to follow my origami path you are most welcome. If you need more help with putting the thing together write to me or post a comment. Putting together the first one (the small dodecahedron) was really challenging and fool of edges ;) It was fun !

origami attempt

So here is some of my simple origami. Many times I wanted to really start folding paper but I have never pursued on that for long enough. When I look at the modern modular origami I'm always so amazed. Nevertheless here are some simple models made by me. A frog, and an iris flower with a humming bird.

Settlers of Catan going off shore :)

SO this was a pleasant evening. Dramatic change of luck... mysterious islands to explore and golden rivers to find... Destiny played on our nerves and the dice were not always generous ;) There was some creativity involved in that too :) as in how to get your way to WIN! :P There were some losers too ;)

P.S.
Some tried to keep to the statistics but they failed... :P
Nevertheless we had a looooot of fun!!!