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Oh oh, another site I could easily get addicted to...

Just because...

I have a little Etsy friend living in King of Prussia - to me that place sounds like a fairytale.
And I think my little friend is a fairy too!
She send me these beautiful cards - just because...
I love little surprises although it didn't came as a surprise since she couldn't keep it a secret - now how cute is that? :)
Stephanie has two lovely shops on Etsy:
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I love her designs: they are fun, colorful and above all great quality!
She's having a give-away at her blog so please hurry over there to win some of her gorgeous work & wish her a happy birthday! :)

ArtMind famous...

Seen on the road...
Seen in the museum of fine art...
Seen on Vogue...
Haha, I think these are pretty cool!
I saw them on the blog of Pillowmonster & I wanted to play too! :)
You want to play too? Go here!

Birdie stamp

I finished my birdie stamp! YaY!
I think it's pretty cool! :)
My niece (12) called it a chicken ... It is SO fat she said.
I'm slightly offended! ;)

Playing instead of claying

I planned to do some claying today but instead I have been playing with these lino cutters which I bought many moons ago. I'm making a birdie stamp just for fun. I'm using a kind of soft engraving material, it is supereasy to cut in. How fun it is to make your own stamps. :)
The picture is really bad as I took it tonight with too little light...

Life is uncertain...

I once read on a menu card: 'Life is uncertain, eat dessert first'
Now that is a sentence I clearly understand! :)
We had a street BBQ yesterday and I was on the dessert team. I made a sort of ice cake but since it was difficult to distribute if it was a cake, I put them in little glass cups. I'll share the recipe with you in case you want to try it out.
Ingredients:
* two packages of biscuits (ex. Petit Beurre 200g)
* 3 egg yolks
* 200g powdered sugar
* 3 sachets 'Klop-Klop' (this is a kind of whipped cream powder)
* 18 tablespoons of cold milk
The ingredients on this picture is 3 times the above ingredients. It makes for about 45 cups of dessert.

Roll the biscuits all flat so they become little crumbs and fill the cups with a layer of crumbs.
Mix the egg yolks with the powdered sugar.
Mix the Klop-Klop whipped cream powder with the milk until it is all fluffy. When that is done, you mix both together with a wooden spoon until it is one smooth mixture. Then you take a spoon and fill the cups half way.
Add another layer of biscuit crumbs and on top of that you add another spoon of the mixture.
Finish of with some chocolate beans and put in the freezer to set for 12 hours.

Since I had a lot of egg whites left, I decided to make some coconut-cookies too.

Ingredients:
* 2 egg whites
* 80g sugar
* 100g minced coconut
* 2 tablespoons of flour

The cookies on this picture is 3 times the above ingredients.


Stir on a low fire the eggwhite with the sugar until it turns white and fluffy. Add the minced coconut and flour. Put little bits of the mixture on a baking sheet and bake 20 à 30 minutes in a preheated oven at 175°C. Let them cool off and leave them in open air otherwise they will loose their crunch!

Hmmmmmmm, both recipes are heavenly! :) Enjoy!

Summer challenge

I just listed these bookmarks for the European Streetteam 'summer challenge'.
We try to have fun and challenge each other in our creativity.
This challenge was initiated by Nanouke and since she often talks about the beach, she inspired me to make these beach bums.
You can find all the items made for the summer challenge in Nanouke's blog.