February 2021 on #Instagram

hand carved stamps
"Inspired" by the dreadful weather (and because I had lots of rubber scraps from last crafting class lying around) I made some stamps this afternoon.
First picture: a bit strange the cloud - I only like the rain inside it.
Second picture: better cloud
Third picture: coloring the clouds made me think of a raindrop that can be colored as well.
Fourth picture: colored some raindrops in rainbow colors!
Will see what I can also do with those stamps. For now I only decorated my agenda with it.
And right now I have to catch up with all the things that I actually have to do today 🙈

stamping clouds!
I decorated a matchbox to put in my new stamps from yesterday and made a little "thank you" card for a friend!
By the way, today it's not raining outside for the first time since a week! 😆

🥧 meets 🐸
Have some fun and make yourself smile 😊
(Apple turnover that opened during baking, decorated with two soaked raisins)

Mandala collage
In yesterday's crafting class I put all kinds of papers on one table and just told the kids they could do whatever they wanted but assembling some of the papers to a new picture and explained the basic idea of a collage. It has been gift wrapping paper, paper we decorated in class, old photos, calendar pages and all kinds of scraps.
I like seeing what comes out when you let kids being creative without an adult giving advice.
Some didn't had an idea right away and I mentioned that mosaic is kind of collage too, so we had quite some mosaic style pictures (swipe over to see the kids work) one boy was inspired by Christmas paper and made a forest and one other wanted to build a theater and I think that's a great idea, even when it's no collage!
Great thing for the teacher: if you don't have to lead the group through a project you have time for your own art work 😉

Horse collage 🐴 inspired by Clare Young

Having all the paper scraps out from mondays crafting class, I tryed this out. I liked it so much I had to do it with the little ones in today's crafting class. The kids were on fire to find the right papers! Unfortunately with the curfew hours we have less time in the evening and not all could finish their animals (I send them home each with a handful of scraps) and I only managed to take 4 on photo.

November 2020 on #Instagram

Moon 🌕+ bat 🦇

Halloween project from last year!

Converting quince into ...

Got a lot of quince and what you can see on the first photo is only the outcome from half of them!

I like quice better when adding apples - the taste is still strong but more pleasant (my opinion) - so here I took the same amount of apples and pears as quince, boiled them all together, got 1l of clear juice to make jelly (left 4 jars), smashed the boiled fruits through a colander and got about 3kg (!) of purée 😱 1kg made 5 jars of jam and the reminding I cooked with lots of sugar to a jellylike mass (german: Quittenbrot, spanish: membrillo), jet it dry for one day and then stamped out very sticky hearts. 💛 Rolled in some more sugar they are very yummy sweets! Way too much for our family (we would be on sugar choc until Christmas), so I filled them in little paper bags and distributed them to all our friends and neighbor's - It's the right time to cheer up others, don't you think so?! In this way: have a lovely weekend everybody 😘

Tried out a new mask model!

It's made from two fabric circles, easy to sew and should avoid foggy glasses.

Sounds great, doesn't it?

I don't wear glasses and maybe that's my problem with this mask, because I breathe directly into my eyes (very discomforting)- but son number 2 who needs glasses in school really likes this model and I made some in his colours (white or grey).

So I will stick with the mask model I already made during the first lockdown, but if you want to give this one a try look at YouTube for "no fog circular mask tutorial" or follow this link

Hemming two stretchy trousers for a friend today!

For once I didn't had any problems with my twin needle and got 4 really nice and extensible seams.

They are looking so nice! 😍

Anyone else who gets excited about neat and even seams?

🍎🍰 Fancy apple cinnamon cake for son ❤ number1 😋
4layers: hazelnut cake + apple filling + hazelnut cake + cinnamon-mascapone-creme

I 💙 scarves!
A big one like that I wanted to see since a while! Inside fleece and outside jersey - very cozy!
Only it isn't very practical if you want to do something while wearing it as it is in your way every time you bend forward. So I will wear it mainly for walks 😉

Christmas/advent time couch table decoration 🌲🕯🌲🐿🌲🕯

Again our cat's sleeping in the background! 😴

I left the squirrels and the little manikin from the autumn table. I think hey fit also in the winter time!

Have a lovely first advent weekend 🕯