Howling at the Moon

 Last year I made a seed heart for the birds in my garden for Valentine's Day, but this year I went even further: I made a cake.  The cake is made of coconut oil and bird seeds and is decorated with fruit and nuts. And it's so easy to make! Just melt the oil in a pan and add the seeds. Stir until evenly divided. Fill a cake silicone molt with the oil and seed mix and let cool off. To make the oil solidify again, put the molt in the fridge. After the oil has turned white again, you can take the molt of the fridge and start to decorate. I used pine cones, alder branches, peanuts and seeds.  ~*~ My cyanotype flowers were featured by Slices of Life  and The Cottage Market !

 After making Ming the Cat last week, I came in a sort of repeat modus and planned to make more creatures that I already made before. Like this one: Mackenzie the Seahorse. Pattern: Mackenzie the Seahorse from Amigurumi Treasures 2 by Erinna Lee Yarn: various colors by Katia and Scheepjes ~*~ Ming the Cat was featured by A Labour of Life  and My Big Fat Menopausal Life !

 Every now and then I stumble upon a nice workshop that I would like to follow. 'Who would like to go along with me?', I then ask in my Facebook group of friends. There's always someone who wants and the nice thing about it, is that the composition of the group is always sort of a surprise. People that I would have never asked in person, because of my assumption that particular person would not really be interested in a workshop like that, react very enthusiastic. And sometimes people come along because they like the others in the group. This weekend I went to a workshop for making cyanotypes of plants. This time my husband's cousin came with me. And that's exactly what I like: we don't see each other very much, but she has the same age as I do and we go along very well, actually. But I would never have thought about asking her to go with me.  Anyway, this is what we came home with: To get the image you impregnate aquarel paper with a chemical mix of carefully m...

 A friend of mine will be delivering a little girl in a couple of weeks, so I pulled up my crochet hook again and made Ming the Cat again.  Pattern: Ming the Cat from Amigurumi Treasures by Erinna Lee Yarn: various left overs from Katia and Scheepjes ~*~ My handmade Christmas Cards were featured by Ginx Craft! My shawl was featured by Two Chicks and a Mom , The Cottage Market ,   Shabby Art Boutique  and Pieced Pastimes !

 For a while now I'm a soprano in a classic choir and in the last months we did a couple of recitals. Because of corona restrictions it wasn't always easy to sing, due to keeping distance, a reduced orchestra because just a certain amount of people was allowed, choir members that do not want to take any risks and postpone singing together until corona will be finally disappaered (if ever) et cetera, so every recital we could do under such circumstances was a real gift.  A couple of recitals were sung in churches and as time went on, it became colder, but because we are expected to wear a sort of festive clothes we are not supposed to cover in winter coats to keep warm of course. So I  crocheted this two meters long shawl, that I can wrap around me.  The original pattern was written for a cardigan by Lakeside Loops, which was not very difficult to alter to a shawl. I love how it turned out!  Pattern: Eva Crochet Cardigan  (free pattern) by Lakeside Loops Ya...