Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Few Pendants + Magnolia Card

My days are still so busy but I have finally put together some of the pendants. Still have few more to make, but they will have to wait until next week.






















Last night I was in the mood for some stamping, gluing and paper cutting - while I was chatting on the phone for quite some time, this card came to life. I like it and at least that hour and half was well spent in more than one way.




























(Front and inside page of the card)
Paper: Basic Grey - Sultry; Stamp: Magnolia; Prima flowers; buttons; Ribbon: Rayher; Nestabilities Big Square Die used with Cuttlebug; Sakura Glaze Pen,...


Monday, March 23, 2009

On My Working Table...

Past week or two were quite busy for me. I can't really tell what I was doing, but everyday there was something to do and somewhere to go.
I took some time for myself this weekend while Nina was away with school and I played with clay again. That's what's on my table at the moment and what I'm working on (the other part of the table, which you can't see on the pic, is of course a total mess!) :)























When I am done, I should have quite few pendants that will look like this one - except for the shape, color, pattern on it and ribbon :))























Blog Awards

I got few blog awards recently. One is from Phoenix/MagDesign - check out her blog, her latest polymer clay creations are just lovely! Thanks a lot for this one, Phoenix.
The same one was awarded to me by Hali. She is a super mum who finds the time (I believe there must be some kind of magic involved ;) ) to create a lot of beautiful stuff of all kinds.
















Another one is from Moi/ChezMoi - check out her blog, too, it's worth it. Her paperwork is wonderful and she is good with polymer clay and other things as well. Plus, she is a great friend. Thanks a lot for this one, too!















Now I should nominate few people to pass awards on. I'll do this the easiest way and nominate all of you who are on my link list on the right on my blog. So, that's done. Put them on your blog and pass them on, if you like.

Have a nice day and thanks again for the awards!

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Stamp Carving Again

I needed a flower stamp and although I have quite a few it came to my mind I could carve one. It has been a while since I carved stamps... after carving the first one, I did the second and the third... After quite few hours I run out of rubber and ended up with a pile of new stamps! :)




Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Cookie Like PC Bracelets & Some Computer Stuff


In my previous two posts I tried something new with blogger (at least new for me!) - that's scheduled post publishing. And guess what? It works just great! :)

All you have to do is get your post ready and then change the date and hour at the bottom of the post editor, tab "Post Options" (Možnosti objave). When you click the "Publish" (Javno Objavi) button, your post becomes "Scheduled" (Načrtovano). And when the scheduled time arrives, your post will be published - while you are sleeping or shopping or jogging or watching tv or making love or having coffee with your friends or writing your next scheduled post or whatever it is that you are doing at that time.
The other thing I tried is called Gimp, great software for quick (or not so quick) image manipulation. Usually I use Photoshop for editing my photos and other things, but my computer has some troubles with it lately (Photoshop burns A LOT of memory and my computer is rather old, that's why I had to find replacement for it). I discovered that Gimp is better as far as memory consumption is concerned - while it can do most of the things Photoshop does. Anyway, I downloaded Gimp and started using it and although it is very similar to Photoshop I had quite some troubles using it. Well, I still have some problems - I can't find things I am looking for and I still feel quite lost in there. The reason for that is really simple, I believe - not intentionally, I downloaded the Slovene version of this program! It is a good translation, well done, but it seems so funny and strange... and it's soooooo annoying! And it's sad that I don't feel comfortable using a program that is translated into the language I hear, speak and write daily.
Rounded corners on the photos in the past few posts are done in Gimp. I love them better that way. What do you use for editing your photos, if anything?

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Fimo Color Mixing...



... all afternoon and now my hands really hurt from all that clay conditioning!













Sunday, February 22, 2009

Makaroni - Makroni - Macaroons... Whatever

Obljuba dela dolg, zato danes objavljam dokumentirano ustvarjanje makaronov, makronov. Ali macaroonov... ali kakorkoli bi me že temu rekli.

Osnovni recept za testo:
110 g beljakov (približno 4 jajca)
30 g kristalnega sladkorja
125 g fino mletih madnljev
225 g sladkorja v prahu

Dan ali dva pred nameravano peko ločimo beljake od rumenjakov - če so večja jajca, vzamemo 4, drugače pa za vsak slučaj 5. Rumenjake poljubno porabimo, beljake pa pustimo v odkriti skodelici v hladilniku (menda zato, da čimveč vode izhlapi, ali nekaj takega). Dan prej lahko pripravimo tudi poljubno kremo, s katero bomo napolnili makarončke.

Ko nastopi dan X, začnemo:






















1. Skozi drobno cedilo presejte mlete mandlje (če so olupljeni, bodo makrončki brez tistih temnih pikic; jaz sem kupila že mlete, z lupino). Če so preveč grobo mleti, jih lahko zmeljte v moko v kavnem mlinčku. Odmerite 125 g.
2. Prav tako posebej presejete sladkor v prahu in odmerite 225 g.
3. Zmešajte skupaj mandlje in sladkor. Uradno naj bi jih sicer še enkrat presejali, ampak jaz sem ta del kar preskočila.
4. Odmerite 110 g beljakov.






















5. Beljake mešajte z metlicami ročnega mešalnika pri srednji hitrosti, da masa naraste in postane mehurčkasta.
6. Med mešanjem postopoma dodajajte 30 g kristalnega sladkorja, hitrost prestavite na največjo, dokler beljakova masa ne postane čvrsta. Če v maso potegnete z metlico mešalnika, se morajo rezi poznati.
7. Metlice mešalnika odstranite (po možnosti še splaknite, ker se lahko grdo zasušijo) :).
8. V beljakovo maso dodajte del sladkorno mandljeve mešanice in rahlo vmešajte. Če želite dodati barvo, je to pravi trenutek, da se bo do konca mešanja lepo porazdelila. Ker zeleni makroni večini niso bili všeč, sem tokrat dodala oranžno.
9. Nadaljujte z mešanjem, vsake toliko dodajte del sladkorja in mandljev. Na koncu mora biti masa svetleča in gosta "kot magma".












10. Prst globoko pomočite v pripravljeno maso in ga obliznite. V tej fazi še ne priporočam otrok v bližini! :)
11. Sledi meni osebno najbolj zoprn del - polnitev dresirne vrečke. Če je nimate, seveda lahko uporabite kar navadno prozorno vrečko za živila, ki ji prirežete konico. Če jo imate, uporabite nastavek z odprtino približno 1 cm (jaz sem na eni plastični odrezala zobčke, da je lepo okrogla).
12. Na s peki papirjem obložen pekač iztisnite približno 3 cm širok kupček. Ker ni bilo pri hiši dodatnega para rok, žal tega nisem mogla poslikat. Se pa vidi tule, kakšni kupčki naj bi to bili. Kupčki se razlezejo (in znižajo, zato brez panike!), zato naj bodo primerno oddaljeni en od drugega. Količina iz tega recepta zadostuje za ravno dva velika pekača in še malce ostane za pojest kar tako.
13. Zdaj je čas, da pokličete otroke in vsakemu stisnete kupček mase v usta. Če poližejo še skledo, boste imeli manj dela s pomivanjem.
14. Vse skupaj pustite stati na pultu (ali mizi) približno eno uro. V tem času se bo zgornja plast makronov lepo zasušila, vi pa medtem lahko pomijete posodo, preberete kakšno poglavje tistega romana, napišete post na blog... ali pa, če nimate pametnejšega dela, iz primerne razdalje in na primernem mestu spustite iz rok posodico z ostanki sladkorja v prahu in si daste v tem času opravka s pospravljanjem nastalega razdejanja.























15. Pečico segrejete in makrone pecite približno 15-20 minut na 160 stopinj. Med vratca pečice zataknite kuhalnico. Če imate srečo in ste kuharski genij, tako kot jaz :), bo na spodnjem delu makronov nastal obroček. Zgornja plast mora biti svetleča in trdna, da ob ugirzu poči, sredica pa mehka - zdi se, kot da ni čisto do konca pečeno, ampak tako mora biti :).
16. Pečene makrone vzemite iz pečice in jih s peki papirjem vred dvignite iz pekača. Dali naj bi jih sicer na rešetko, ampak ker jaz tako velike rešetke nimam, sem jih dala kar na pult.
17. Ko so ohlajeni, jih previdno obrnite in vsakega drugega premažete s poljubno kremo. Lahko je tudi marmelada, menda so originalni ravno z marmelado. (Moja krema je takale: 2 žlici masla, 2 žlici Philadelphia sira za mazanje, 3 velike žlice nutele in malo sladkorja v prahu)
18. Makrončke sestavite, zložite na krožnik in... na veliko žalost... pokrijte s folijo in postavite za čez noč v hladilnik. Ja, saj vem, grozno, ampak naslednji dan so veliiiiiiko boljši. Prisežem!

Pa dober tek!

Vir: kakšnih 100 različnih spletnih strani in video posnetkov na to temo.

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For all of you who don't understand Slovenian and would like to make macaroons as well, try this page, it has step by step instructions.


Saturday, February 21, 2009

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Art Journal


Started in January... some details added today (and I guess it's not completely done yet)... since the book has about 50 pages, it will be done by the end of 2031! :)























Friday, February 13, 2009

My 6th file in the 6th folder


I was tagged by K to show you my 6th picture in the 6th folder on my computer. A week or so ago I burned thousands of pictures to dvds, so the 6th folder is quite recent... until last week the content of the 6th folder would be a year or two older, but at the moment it holds pics from November 2008. It starts with Halloween pics; I know it's celebrated in October but we finished our party in November :)).













So, here is the 6th pic - kids posing, in this particular photo the girls are showing their crazy fake nails. Usually they pose a bit longer so I can make more pictures but they were in the middle of the game and they were not really in the mood for posing more.





















This photo is also a part of my freshly printed 2008 photo book which I got few days ago (printed in BingBang store). It is my first photo book, it has 98 pages in A4 format and I love it!! When I have time, I will make one for 2007, 2006, and so on... I mean back :). Here are the photos of my book page where the same photo is printed, and also first and last page. As I said, I love it!







































I have to tag 6 more people to show us their photos. Let me see... ummmm...

PolonaP
Lisa Gatz
Tina Holden
Fimolandija
Mayhem
McCrafty

What you have to do is:
- post a 6th photo which is in your 6th photo folder on your computer
- tell a little bit about it
- pass this on to 6 bloggers

Če je treba napisati še po slovensko, pa kar povejte. Sem se nekako navadila, da tule pišem angleško, ker sem tako pač začela... pa že kar precej časa razmišljam o dvojezičnih objavah oziroma o še enem slovenskem blogu - ha, pa še za tega nimam časa... slike pa itak razume vsak, a ne? :)

Btw, today is Friday, the 13th! Be careful! :)

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Thank You Card

A pull-up pop-up thank you card made for my parents for taking care of my sweet Nina for the past few days.