Howling at the Moon

 Every now and then I make some piece of clothing, mostly for my daughters. The finishing touch for me is to sew on the leather label with my name. I order the custom made labels on line, but find them quite expensive, so I am looking for an alternative for a while now and thought about pyrography. So I ordered a pyrography pen, that arrived yesterday. The only thing I have to find now is inexpensive leather to cut little labels from. To practice a bit, I tried my best on this charcuterie board, that I already had.  Not that bad, for a first attempt, but I will use another wood variety next time. This board is made of bamboo and I guess pine will do better because of its softer consistency.     ~*~ My Apple Sauce with Fresh Ginger & Pumpkin Spices was featured by All Things Kitchen !      

   In the context of Baby Presents for Expecting Colleagues I made this dinosaur this week.      Pattern : Rex the Dinosaur from Amigurumi Treasures by Erinna Lee Yarn : various colors by Ricorumi   ~*~   Another baby present, Daisy-Mae the Pig , was featured this week by Pieced Pastimes and Oombawka Design !         

 One of my favorite delicacies with apples (after Dutch Apple Pie) is apple sauce. Especially when it's ice cold and there's fresh ginger and pumpkin spices in it. Today I found a couple of apples in my fruit bowl that were starting to get some wrinkles so it was about time to eat them or to use them for something else, so I made apple sauce. What you need 4 apples 50cc water ginger and/or pumpkin spices, if you like What to do Peel the apples and remove the core Cut the apples in little pieces Bring to a boil with the water Let cook for about ten minutes at medium heat Add ginger and spices and mash all ingredients Let cool off in the fridge Eat ice cold ~*~ The Swiss Roll with Mango and Mascarpone that I made a couple of weeks ago was featured by Slices of Life !     

  And here's another one in the series "Pregnant Colleagues': Daisy-Mae the Pig! This one is for a colleague who's expecting a little girl.     Pattern: Daisy-Mae the Pig from Amigurumi Treasures by Erinna Lee (good news: Amigurumi Treasures 2 is in the making! Love it!)  Yarn: various colors by Panduro     ~*~   My King's Day decorations were featured by Creative Jewish Mom and French Ethereal !      My Scrunchies were featured by Oombawka Design !

  Stash Buster 11   My daughters (11 and 13) had vacation a couple of weeks ago and before the pandemic started, my idea was to go to Finland this vacation for my dream holiday: a sledge dog tour. I'm not really into dogs, to be honest, but there's something about huskies (huskies more than malamutes, because of the shorter hair) that I really like. Maybe it's their ever smiling face or their enthusiasm, but I realize these are features lots of dog breeds have. Maybe it's because they so much look like wolves, which are my favorite animals. I'm not that spiritual, but when someone says 'totem animal', I think wolf. Anyway, due to known circumstances there was no sledge dog tour this year, but I wanted my daughters to have a nice vacation anyway, within the limits of pandemic measures. In our country that means, among some other things, no more than one visitor in your house at a time. So my oldest asked her friend to stay over for a couple of n...