Queen Anne Lace scarf

When I started to crochet, my friend Stephanie had good faith in me as she wondered if I could crochet this scarf for her that she has been wanting like forever. I looked at the pattern and tried a little swatch and it was really super easy.
Since she wanted a particular kind of yarn, she sent it to me. It arrived on tuesday and I finished the scarf on wednesday evening.
I loved making it and I hope she will love her scarf! :)If you want to make a scarf like this, please visit Khebin Gibbons' blog where she shares the great pattern! :)

When the postman rings...

... I know there is a box that doesn't fit in our mailbox!
I love it when that happens. It's like waking up to 'is it my birthday today?' :)
Anyway, a few weeks ago, I entered a blog give-away on the blog of Endless Whimsy.
A super cat lover with two very naughty but very cute cats.
Renovia has even more cats in her Etsy-shop. She has beautiful colored ones in polymer clay. She recently started using porcelain clay to make them and they are absolutely fantastic! They are superwhite and supernicely glazed. I love the one that she sent me! Thank you, Renovia! Please visit her Etsy shop for more designs.

What I found on the attic

Earlier this week, I went to the attic to get my box of samples and book of recipes I have made over the years. I loved the samples that I made in my first year of artschool. These look so organised as a sample. They are just simple engobes. They are brought onto the clay when it's almost dry but still feels a bit wet.
The other set of samples is from my last year in artschool. I made over 30 samples just to find the right glaze for my work. It took me ages but I finally found it!
It became this one. I just love the craquelé effect on it. It makes the work kind of vulnerable.If you want to see the whole work, you can visit this blogpost.

Varietist Muse Zine

A while ago, I was contacted by Cynjon Noah who had been following my work on Flickr. He wondered if I would be interested in being featured in his first varietist Muse Zine.
Here is what Cynjon Noah wrote: 'What's the idea? Basically there are a lot of people tired of seeing the same art/styles over and over again in a lot of the magazines out there....myself being one of them. To counter this monotony, and showcase a wider array of media/artists/etc, I've decided to put together a zine. What will be in it/welcome? Pretty much anything...assemblage, fabric art, street art, collage, comics, sculptural work, occasional tutorials/how-to's, artist interviews...you name it.'
So this is the first zine I'm featured in and I'm really proud as Cynjon made a little jewel out of it!
Click on the picture to see more information, to browse the first pages of the zine or to purchase it via Blurb.

Surprise gift

I made this for a happy little girl. It's a surprise and I hope she will like it.
The elephant is made from all reclaimed goods and the slippers are from the left over yarn from my first crocheted slippers ever! :)

Sand cookies

Last week around this time, I was making cookies to take to our little EST meeting the next day. As I made a small mistake, I didn't have time to blog the recipe so here goes...
This is what you need:

• 125g flour
• 80g butter
• 50g powdered sugar
• 10g vanilla sugar
• A pinch of salt
  
• 1 egg yolk (optional)
• Little bit of crystal sugar (optional)
  

Put the flour in a bowl, cut the butter in little pieces and add to the flour. Then add the powdered, vanilla sugar & a pinch of salt. Kneed it to a firm dough. It will need lots of kneeding so that it all sticks together.
Roll it, put it in plastic foil and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Then unroll the dough. It needs to be plus minus a centimeter thick.
Press with cookie cutters some shapes out of the dough.
This is optional. It gives the cookies a nice brown, yummy crust but I found that it also deforms the shape of the cookies while baking.
Put the sides of the cookies into the egg yolk and then put it in the sugar.
Put all the cookies on a tray and make sure you leave enough room.
Put in a preheated oven for 15 minutes at 180 °C
Tada! :) Enjoy!

What the Secret Easter Bunny wants but will never buy for herself...

This will be the first of a series of questions I asked the European Streetteam participants of the Secret Easter bunny swap. Some of the answers were just hilarious and I want to share them with you so you can have some smiles, laughs and even chuckles! Enjoy! :) I asked the participants: 'Name something you want but will never buy for yourself' Some of them were really clever as they replied:

• not sure...like to pamper myself
• or 'oops, basically i buy if i want :)
• necklaces - because I make them myself!
• expensive things :)

Some people have a long list but didn't know what to answer at the moment of writing.
Some people have a list and are convinced they will buy it as soon as money rolls in.
Some people didn't have doubts and this is what they want: (most of these can be purchased at Etsy so click on the pictures to go to the listing!)

Expensive sunglasses

A bulldog! But I'll never pay for a dog, so many poor adorable creatures just waiting to be adopted, it's a sin to give that amount of money for a dog.

Please click on the picture for some FUN!














A cabriolet car! (I even don’t drive)
She will need a driver with that for sure... :)






















A jukebox

A short tank top & low cut trousers. I found this one on Etsy for you, don't you love it? :)



































Some day I'll book a luxurious spa/meditation retreat for myself .























An expensive ball gown.

A Porsche

Manolo Blahnik shoes

A kiln.I didn't know if it was meant to be a glass kiln or not, but this one looks like the one I'm going to get very soon! :)

A handmade shoulderbag

A ceramic mug

Very sexy underwear

IPhone

A tailoredsewn coat. Not sure if this was what you had in mind but I thought it looked pretty neat! :)

Subrosa's crocheted skirt. Don't know if you had this one in mind but I like it! :)

A piano. Very affordable at TheHouseOfMouse

Perfume. I don't think you quite mean this one, unless you want to smell like a horse! LOL :)



















A yacht.

A diamond marriage ring! :)

A beautiful necklace of Kjoo.

I love this poster! but I don't know if I will order it, I'm scared about the shipping and in what conditions it could be arrive....


































Mmm...someone does count too??? LOL...ok...George Clooney...

A printing press.

A Hermes bag or other designer bag.

A beautiful leather bag. Not sure if this is what you meant but the lock is so superunique! :)