A little of everything
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A magazine holder
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Landscape
with the troll family.
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Daddy troll is about 31 cm high, with the
hat. The plate is made of particleboard in the bottom and Styrofoam to
get to the countryside. Green granules (such as model builders use)
covers the ground. Stones and wooden branches are glued on top. The
faces and and hands are made of plastic clay. For the bodies, I have
used figure wire (plated steel wire) and stuffing. The clothes I have
sewn from felt, cotton fabric and thin leather. Hair and beard are made
of lamb fur. The blueberries are dried peas, which I dipped in paint
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Balls I painted and put on fur as hair.
Ears are small leather pieces.
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Easter
Hat made of thick white cardboard which II then painted and decorated.
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One more Easter Hat.
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A clock with rainbow
colored figures.
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My daughter's door plate when she was
smaller.
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My son's door plate when he was smaller.
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Another door plate.
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Model of a cannon where the tube is about
27 cm long.
I made this when I was at the adult technical engineering training school, many years
ago.
The cannon tube, the round axle and wheels, I have lathes, while the
spokes in the wheels and wheel axle, I have milled. Then I took the
metal parts to my dad who run a weapons workshop at the time, so he
made them black. I did by the way, three of them. The second I gave to
my brother. The third cannon tube is completely in brass. All the
pieces are in a box somewhere in the garage and is not assembled.
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Two candlesticks I have lathes.
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A book that I have decorated. All the parts
I cut out with Craft Robo. I glued them on and fixed them with
decoupage
varnish. My daughter got it as a Christmas present. She is writing her
favorite recipes in it.
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These
thermos I have decorated with vinyl stickers that I cut using my Craft
Robo.
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Patchwork
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Big patchwork pillow.
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The back of the pillow.
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Blanket and pillow for the doll prawn and
doll bed.
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T-shirt transfer
I use Flock or flex when I make my t-shirt transfers. I cut out the
pattern with my Craft Robo and then iron it on the t-shirt.
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I used a Celtic pattern for these two
t-shirts. Thanks to mgibbs, UKScrappers for the nice template..
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Here is the other one made with the same
pattern.
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Nylon stocking flowers.
Form a loop of the silver wire, then pull over a colored piece of nylon
stocking and stretch it properly before you attach it with a thin
copper wire that you wind hard on the stem so that the sock will not
loosen. Cut off the nylon stocking. Make more of these petals and then
put them together with stamen and a pistil (bought ready-made) to a
flower. Attach a steel wire to the flower with a thin copper wire.
Finally wind a green or brown slightly sticky paper tape around the
stems.
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Yellow
Freesia, iris, a white hollyhock and a daisy.
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Gladiolus
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Orchid
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Fine wood knot I found
when we were out on a hill nearby. I drilled small holes that I put the
flowers and branches in.
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Flower wreath. |
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Stone trolls
I have in my whole life been fascinated by stones. Even when I was
little I picked small beautiful stones when I was out in nature.
Nowadays it is the larger stones that interests me. Stones that can be
beautiful to have in the garden. I usually bring home a few stones in
the trunk when we are driving around in the nature in summertime.
These stone trolls I made some years ago. They are glued together with
epoxy glue and then lacquered.
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Casting
in concrete and hypertufa
I have over the years many times tried to cast in concrete but then
most "useful" things like concrete plinths etc. Now I have finally
tried to cast "fun" things like birdbath and flat
stones of rhubarb leaves, and made pots of hypertufa (mixture of
cement, sand and peat).
This will definitely be repeated next year. It
was fun! And what awesome results! |
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Juice and purée
Every autumn I take care of what the garden provides. My special pan
that steams the fruit and make the juice to come out in a tube in the
bottom is my best friend when taking care of all the fruits and
berries. I make fruit-syrup from many different berries as red and
white currant, gooseberry, raspberry, rhubarb and ornamental apples. |
This year's (2008) harvest of ornamental apples. This is the only apple
variety I have but you can make really good apple-sauce of them.
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The apples are cooked by steaming in the special unit and the juice
comes out in the bottom of the pan. Then I boil the juice up with sugar
and pour up in bottles. |
When the apples have become soft, I squash them. Then I boil syrup and
add atamon and stir it into the sauce.
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Since ornamental apples is so acidic it need quite a lot of sugar.
It became many cans this time!
I keep them in the freezer.
Mmm, delicious!
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Here is a bucket of gooseberries. I will make fruit-syrup
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When the fruit-syrup is ready, I put the left overs in small boxes and
put in the freezer. Perfect for a pie!
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Cakes
I have baked many cakes but unfortunately I often forget to take a
photo of them. Here are a few that I did remember to shoot before they
were eaten.
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Two of six cakes I brought to work when I
turned 40.
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Birthday cake I baked for my husband a few
years ago. Much appreciated by all guests.
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Candy
Every Christmas I make several varieties of candy. Chocolates, Fudge,
jelly, marshmallows and toffees. Here is a selection of what I usually
do
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Liquorice- and cream caramel Fudge
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marshmallows
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Apple sause jelly
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Raspberry jelly
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Orange jelly
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Lemon toffee
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Chocolate Fudge with roasted almonds
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Chocolate dipped nougat and marzipan with almond
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Chocolate dipped dates and marzipan
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Pistage and almond nougat with chocolate top
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