Photos on the road

On the way home today I had to try a few tips Magiske foto  has on her blogg

I took the pictures trough the wind shield while the car was in motion, the result is maybe not what she meant.

But I like the pictures

I specially like this picture with the contrasting colors of the shiny red car and the bright green trafic light

In this picture I got the driver to pull over.

Have a nice evening

Our gift baskets this Christmas

We are making edible and non edible things for our gift baskets that we give away for Christmas when we go see our friends.

Some of these items aare linked to Norwegan  post and some English, I have writen if they are in english or norwegian

Tea calendar-English
One tea bag for each day before Christmas, differnt teas and little words of wisdom

Home made bath bombs-English

Cake or Cookie and frosting mixes-Norwegian

Home made chocolates-Norwegian

Cup cake liners-English

Earrings-Norwegian

Home made sugar sugar"cubes"-Norwegian

Home made Herbsalt-Norwegian

Chocolate fudge-Norwegian

Concrete tea candle holder and a match box-Norwegian

My bedroom

Just wanted to show off my bedroom, and that I have managed to make a collage with the pictures. I have always wondered how people did this and now I know. I tried piccasa, but it didn't allow me to upload the pictures, so I could only use single pictures on my blog.

My son "Sam"

"Sam" made this chime for his sister when she was a baby at a ceramics course at a after school activity. I think it is the sweetest thing and it even has a nice sound when shake it gently.

For norwegian press here

And I got this cup:)

Bottom

Inside

Lime curd

I have probably mentioned it before, we do love lime, spesially hubby.
So I thought to try to make lemon curd with lime instead.
For Norwegian press her

You need

1 tbs grated lime peel

5 stbs lime juice

50 g rams butter

1,5 -2 dl sugar or use what I used sukrinmelis, unfortunatly I do not know what it is called in english

I heated this in a small pot until the butter was all melted, then added

2 eggs

2 egg yolks

Stirred this in on medium heat

The curd is finnished when it thikens, remove from heat and let it cool.
Put it in clean a clean jar it wil keep for a few weeks in the frige.

Some of my youngest sons ceramic production from when he was 8 years old.

Home made Baking cups

The ones on the plate in the back was baked with the origami paper and the ones in front was
baked without.
Just wanted to show how I made baking cups, I used grease proof paper and oregamipaper

I am letting the pictures speak for it selves

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Baked some with  colored paper and some without

Bath bombs

Home made bath bombs wraped and labled

My children made these a few years back, they are easy to make,

I wore the gloves for hygene sake.

For our Christmas gift basket press here

I used

2 cups of baking soda(Arm & Hammer)
1 cup of citric acid  
1 tsp lavender scented masage oil
2 tps water  (if you want color, you can replace some of the water eith food coloring,)
I also added a handfull of lavender buds( home grown and dryed)
Mix everything until it becomes grainy, if it doesn't add a tiny bit of water until it does. be carefull or you get a bubbely messy mass of nothing
I line som kling film in a mold and fill it with the filling, You want to hard pack the filling into the mold.
Wrap the klingfilm around let it dry an harden a few hours. Befor you gift wrap  or use them

Raided mother in laws garden

I picked larch branches from one of my mother in laws trees and brought it home and decorated my hall with it

Baking cups/Cup cake liners

 

I went to Oslo the other day and bought Wilton baking cups and they where quite expensive about

12 US $ for 15 pc. When I got home I saw that they where the same size as most of the origamipaper I have and thought I can make this.

Wilton baking cup

and it fit exactly in between two plastic cups that I have

Here I use a pice og grease proof paper

fold it around the cup

Put another cup on top to press into shape

here are some that I made