Kitty Cats

I can't knit, but my Mother can, and she keep surprising me with her talent. 
This is what she got out of a bit of left over yarn... Meow! 

Copy Cat

The big blog craze amongst Danish bloggers at the moment is to decorate little porcelain tins with bamboo lids. I got myself a few of them when I was in Denmark last week, they are bought at the Danish Shop 'Søsterne  Grene'. Here is my version

You can see more creative variations here and here and here

Smurf bag

I have done a little sewing whilst in Denmark, I've been making quite a few scarfs to sell in my shop (Copenhagen Blue) and a while ago I bought this cute little piece of fabric on ebay and  finally made it into a little string bag to keep all Felix smurfs.

Teany weany bunting

A while ago I bought this little box of masking tape on ebay - I have seen similar idea's on other blogs that inspired me to make this cute little bunting.

Lucky Stars

Lately I have been addicted to making origami lucky stars, I found a video on YouTube and followed the instructions, very easy! I bought the paper here.

I'm not quite sure what to use them for yet! Do you have any idea's?

Twinkle Twinkle little star

I got this brilliant idea from this lovely blog. Our kitchen window is facing the front of our house but we never bothered to have a blind or curtain. But in the dark months we always feel we could do with something to give us a bit more privacy, so this was the perfect solution.

All I had to get was some d-c-fix from Homebase, a star punch which I found on ebay, a bit of patience and voila our window was transformed.

White chocolate and liquorice almonds

When Malene was over last week, she showed me how to make these yummy treats, they are very much inspired by the very expensive Summerbird, liquorice almonds :-)

Have a go, they are very easy to make...

All you need is:

Almonds

Good quality white chocolate

liquorice powder 

Cocoa powder

Roast the almonds on a baking tray in the oven for about 5-6 min at 170˚
cover them in melted chocolate
let them cool quite a bit before dusting them with a mixture of liquorice* and cocoa powder.

*I use Johan Bulow liquorice powder, due to its strength in flavour I mix it with cocoa powder, if you choose to use a different make you might not need to mix it up.

Also if you're not keen on liquorice, try to dust them with cocoa powder on its own, I'm sure that would be nice to :-)

Enjoy

Cranberry Heart

I made this inexpensive and easy heart out of fresh cranberries and a bit of wire

God Jul

1st Sunday in Advent

Though I live in UK I have a strong desire to keep alive Danish Christmas traditions, and one of them is to make a Advents Krans (Advent wreath) Usually we make ours of a wreath made of fir and each year we decorate it different. This years theme is very traditional red and white - As you can see on the pictures we light all the candles at once! I know this might not be the right thing to do, but personally I think it looks prettier this way.

Transformation

I once bought this little mirrored chest of drawers or make-up table if you like. One of many furnitures I pick up in charity shops or even in skips! Now it finally found its right 'home' after being painted in a lovely eggnog colour.

Ophelia's room........

Back to the 70's

We did it, and we are still married!! Though Alistair is still not very keen on the retro wallpaper, Its now up, and its groovy.....  (to our surprise, it only took us about an hour to do)

Most important, Ophelia LOVE's it and think she has the most amazing room ever.

Ophelia's room before: click here

Shrinkles (Shrink Art)

Lately Ophelia and I rediscovered 'shrink art' - Its lots of fun, and you can make so many different things:

Pendants for necklaces

Brooches

Earrings

Cuff links for Daddy

Little drawings to glue on letters and pictures

What du you make out of shrink art?

Ophelia's Room

Ophelia's got this wonderful girlie room, but she has a wish about swapping the kitchen to a 'Make up' table. So this coming weekend Alistair and I are going to put up wallpaper on one wall and pack away the play kitchen. I already have an old make up table in the basement in the shop, it just need a bit of tlc.

It's going to be a surprise! So Ophelia & Felix are spending the weekend at my Sister & Estebans's place.

When they are away, we are going to do the makeover, wish us luck cause we have never done wallpaper before!

PS The wallpaper is amazing, 60/70's retro flowers.....  

PPS Alistair absolute hates it :-s

PPPS But I LOVE IT

My old 'Dukke Molly'

Best Friends

Meaow

Jewellery overload....

Cosy blankets

Pizza any one?

 Grandma's cross stitch

The Princess bed

Felix's dressing up!