It’s Scrapbooking Time

I was in Erkrath yesterday for a „Backen mit Love “ book signing event. I basically moved in there for the afternoon with all my Valentine`s Day stuff. We turned the event into a scrapbooking workshop and it was a blast. Thanks to the lovely people from Buchhandlung Weber who invited me and have such lovely furniture. It was very easy to decorate everything nice. Thanks also, to everyone who came chatted, scrapbooked or bought the book. I still can´t believe that we are already in the 2nd Edition.

Valentine's Day Crafternoon Party

Valentine's Day Crafternoon Party

Crochet Spider Web for Halloween

As we move closer to Halloween, creepy things start popping up around the house. This morning I have noticed these spider webs in the garden. They must be from a very strange spider switching to orange crochet web style to fit into my Halloween decorations.

Halloween Crochet Spider Web

Halloween Crochet Spider Web

Halloween Crochet Spider Web

Halloween Crochet Spider Web

The Knitted Lampshade

After 1 week holiday around England’s coast staying at Lyme Regis, the Duesseldorf airport welcomes us with heavy rain! This is really what makes you feel bad. And since I had my most beloved Cream Tea every day, I felt that I can’t do any baking today. Too many calories to count for…that’s why it was clear that I need to start a craft project. With the help of my friendly hot glue gun and an old sweater out of the winter cupboard I got started: A new dress for the lampshade.

The Knitted Lampshade

Well, well, I finished it and want to share the result with you. But with only the grey sweater, I felt that it needed something else, that’s why I added the crochet and the pompom border at bottom and top. But still it looked kind of none finished, that’s why I added a rich pompom in the middle and attached a heart out of buttons in matching colors. Now that’s what I call a pretty enriched lampshade after all, right?

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And the heart of buttons turned out so nice, that I am thinking about doing some X-Mas ornaments with this technique. Could be in red color then? Or green maybe? We will see!

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Crafty Cat

I wanted to have a cat in one of the photos of my baking book. The only problem being that the real life cat that I am ‚working‘ on is still way too shy for posing. So, I simply made this crafty one out of some very cute fabric that I found in Tokyo. She is now sitting on the porch, relaxing after the photo shoot in the kitchen.

Crafty Cat

Crochet Breakfast

For a yummy and healthy sunday breakfast, I recommend a decent amount of peanut butter and sunny side up egg on toast. In order to avoid too many calories, everything is done crochet style. But why am I doing this ? I just came back from a vacation in Japan and „crochet food“ is on a total different level there. I even bought a book about it. Of course, I can not read anything but the pictures are super cute and crochet patterns are ‚international‘. So there will be more crochet food coming your way.

Crochet Peanut Butter

Crochet Sunny Side Up Egg