Christmas Eve – we are running around the house to get everything ready.
The table is set – with plates and glasses.
I bought some lanterns from H&M planning to use them outside in the summer. For now they are the decorations along with green leaves/spruce, red berries and beautiful apples, and not to be forgotten small mushrooms carved in wood. This is nature and Christmas spirit for me.
Creating a very special gift for someone special this year. Needless to say, he is a big Doctor Who fan.
I found this key locker cheap and decided to turn it into the famous police box ‘Tardis’. How hard could that be?
First thing – the color. After some searching I located a very blue spray paint in a nearby shop. The weather has been wet – so I decided to spray paint inside.(never ever do that again – I’m still cleaning up small blue particles everywhere)
I covered 2/3 of the glass with blue silk paper using decoupage glue.
I found the signs online (300dpi) and printed them. They were attached to the box with decoupage glue under and on top.
Finishing of the last details, 4 days before Christmas Eve my Doctor Who Police box project was finished. All the shapes of the box is not correct, but there is no doubt of the inspiration.
December is finally here, and I started baking the first Christmas cookies of the year This one is a favorite – cookies with dark chocolate and almonds.
I started off by chopping the chocolate.
Then mixed chopped chocolate and almonds together with flour, coconut sugar and the rest of the ingredients.
Formed small cookies out of the dough….
And put them in the oven … In a few minutes they’ll be ready
It’s become a tradition – and such a great one it is!
Every November I run around to find the last gift for the calendar. The rest has been found or made during the year.
While buying the last gift I found this great wrapping paper/bags in ‘Tiger’ along with the shimmering ribbon. All gifts were wrapped in this and hung on a white hanger with a silver star.
I added small gifttags with numbers and it is now ready to be brought home by my parents.
This table surely has seen better days – so I had to wash it down and remove a bit of the old painting first.
After that it was ready for black spray paint. I planned it all to be black, but then the idea of keeping the inside of the legs white.
So I put on some tape on the table legs and afterwards painted it white
During which the outside light dimmed and I forgot to take pictures.
The final result is here though:
Fairly quick and easy since I am using an already mixed blend.
Basically Stone Age bread is oil, seeds, nuts and eggs – and no flour. It gives the bread this absolutely crunchy taste – somewhere in between a snack and bread.
So I added eggs and oil to the blend and stirred it for a while (by hand – to honor the Stone Age ;))
Then poured the mix into small bread forms. Since the bread is so heavy and full of taste, I like to make them small.
Baked the breads for 50 minutes or so… Until they were done
It’s the day – the very day of the Halloween Party. I hurried home from work, because I knew this costume might require some time.
I have been Worning on details for days – but to be honest found the inspiration to the make up on the way home in the train.
I decided to go with purple and green makeup and spiderwebs painted to each side of the eyes. The details could have been better – but I was not prepared to use liquid eyeliner that day.
The dress was dressed up with a big elastic belt – with spiders hanging from it – and I had cut up some spiderweb stockings for gloves. Along with adding extra spiders to my hat.
My sweet friend invited us to a Halloween party for grown ups. Still with costumes and all. I offered to bake/make cupcakes in some kind of Halloween theme.
Found some great inspiration online on Pinterest. And decided to go with the Spider cupcakes.
First off I baked a lot of chocolate cupcakes – full rich bitter chocolate, to avoid it becoming too sweet with the cream topping.
Then I started to spread out all of the Oreo minis – and with some white sugar glacing painted eyes on the heads of the spiders. The pupil was small dark chocolate pieces.
The legs was made of liquorice rolls that I unfolded and cut out.
By then the cakes had been done for hours – do yourself a favor and clear out the day for things like these. It’ll steal away your time
So I made the cream topping – Danish ‘Flødebolle’ topping… Oh, so good. Added some red and yellow colors to get it in the right Halloween theme.. Then decorated the cupcakes. You can see the final result here:
