Good old ‘Home Sweet Home’ geek style

F. sends me fun craft stuff to my del.icio.us account (which is very appreciated btw) like this ‘Home Sweet Home’ pattern he found. Here is the first one I made for J. with DMC green 911.  I have been debating for a while if I should add anything, like a couple of hearts or a “swooshy thing” at the bottom, but the geeks I know said it looks fine like this.  I’ll go with the IT crowd then and start a second one for F. This time it will be faster, cause although I used this neat tool to calculate the size, I didn’t really trust the result after my experience with the Eeyore-pattern (post to follow) and wasted quite a bit of material to be on the safe side.

Finished project: birth sampler 1

Summer 2008 was the baby summer with Carl Jakob (Belgium), Emily Sophia (Germany), Daniela (Ireland) and Sarah Louise (Switzerland). I still haven’t mailed everything (or finished, that is) but I am confident that this will happen before the kids have the right to vote in their respective countries.

Here is the first birth sampler I made, C. is a big ‘Sendung mit der Maus’- Fan and doesn’t appreciate baby colors. I am quite happy with the result and glad I ordered the little booklet, a lot of us grew up loving the show so I am sure I will get good use out of it.

Finished project: toy lobster

Couldn’t say no when S. asked me if I could make him a toy lobster that he had found here. It looked like fun, and S. is a huge lobster fan. Here is the result before I sent it to its final destination in Bordeaux – by the sea.

Those were my first English instructions that I used, and it turned out to be a lot easier than I thought thanks to the great instructions made by Molly.

How about an action shot, S.?

Cheesecake with cream cheese substitute

Although I still haven’t found a shop that sells cream cheese here, I found a substitute that works quite well: St. Môret (too salty alone) with ricotta and fromage blanc, some extra sugar and a bit of flour (too much fromage blanc?). for the base, I used crumbled palets bretons. Anyway, the hot rasperries covered up eventual flaws nicely.