Christmas Cards 2013

Now that all the Christmas cards are on their way, I can finally write about them. This year I played with cut-outs and made multy-layered snowflakes. All the designs were based on photographs of real snowflakes!

The colours were my choice, of course, but I tried to keep them ... wintery.

I just wish there was some real snow!!!

Home-made rowing machine

Just to make things clear - I did not make a rowing machine.

MrMojcek made it.

I just helped with the design, ideas, details, and execution :-)

 And I use it!

Penguins!

... and more curtains! These were made for the kids' room.

And I love the continuous pattern - you can hardly notice where one curtain stops and the other one starts.

Enough curtain posts for now -  I'm off to watch a film.

Poirot's Curtain :-)

Lego Advent calender

This year I decided to make advent calenders by myself. I even asked the kids what kind of calenders they wanted - sweets, toys, or activities.

They chose toys.
Of course.
But the old one added that he didn't choose activities because he would be getting those anyway :-)

So ... I bought two Lego sets, distributed the bricks into 24 packets (and cut the instructions accordingly) and now they're opening one packet at a time.

Surprisingly, they cheated only once so far :-)

More curtains...

No, I'm not obsessed with curtains but I just don't like staring into the empty darkness - or dark emptiness - late at night...

These are the ones I have recently installed in my work/hobby room.

Chocolate and coconut truffles

You know the feeling when you just have to eat something? And you want it to be good and homemade? Well, I do.

So last week I felt inspired and made some Chocolate and coconut truffles. Main ingredients are crushed biscuits, butter, chocolate powder, icing sugar, vanilla, rum and, obviously, coconut.

They were gone in no time!

Seeing hexagonal...

... but not revealing the Christmas-cards mystery just yet :-)
 

But I'm glad that 24 cards are finished so that I can finally clean the table and start working on something else.