Snowballs and more snowballs

This is the lovely snow ball I received today made by Miss Hideko from Japan, I`m just so thrilled that I was able to swap with this accomplished embroiderer. I been eyeing her work for sometime and had always hoped to be in the same RR to get some of Hideko`s work. Now I `m very happy! Love it.

 This is my tone on tone in Orange

 Yes red and green finished this week.

This is the last one for today. I will swap this one and hope that it will be girly enough for Kristie she loves pink and cream .Now looking at it I think it needs a few more beads. Nicki Lee can you see that beautiful piece of lace in the middle? It just screamed to be on there and I thank you again for sending it to me, as you see it got used for the perfect spot on this snow ball !

Getting ready for the Wedding

 Gifts from Kansas. My friends son is getting married this weekend in Hawaii. So I made two dishtowels that my friend will give as a gift with home made Jalapeno jelly

 This will be the Wedding Garter that the bride will  give away, the one I made for the bride will be posted this weekend, she has not seen it yet!

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My new toy

Not sure yet what will be the first thing I will bake in this but Macaroons sound just wonderful to me.

Something new Kaiserbroetchen

I was looking for a new recipe and this is what I came across at
http://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/1153991221641997/Kaisersemmeln-Kaiserbroetchen.html

 I used 100 grams of spelt flour and baked it for a total of 25 minutes, I also choose to make it 8 rolls and next time will just flatten them a little more. Love the taste and density of the dough, my hubby said oh bake these for our next BBQ for the hamburgers! Why not , they will be fresh and I know whats in them,and I don't mind the extra work,so it will give me something to blog about.

New Fabric book page

 The completed page

The lace on the left side here is from my Mom`s curtains that she had left over,everytime I look at this I remember how many hours we walked from store to store looking for the perfect curtain and lace for her bedroom. I`m not even sure that she still has this curtain.

This bow was on a satin evening dress and it was just the right thing to add to my page.

This is what I have been working on today, it has been a while since I made a page and it was fun to just go and put it together without over thinking and planning it.

Last pair done

This is the last pair of socks that I had to make for the Christmas Sock and Chocolate Gift giving for a mentally ill person in a group home in Germany.These white socks are for Nicole and it was my own design I came up with.

Butter Brioche

Lots of sweet butter was used to make this yeast butter dough for the Brioche.Now that's why I`am not the skinny girl! Done with baking for today,time to rest.