I finally have some time to post this. I have received my package from gatheredthreads a fed days ago

First everything together:


My favorite is definitely the peacock fabric that she designed and printed herself. I do love everything else too, of course!

A closeup of the bumpy texture of the pleather


and a closeup of the trims:


I really like all of them! I'll probably make hair bands out of some of them this evening:)

oh, gatheredthreads, btw, spoonflower shipped the fabric on Friday so it should arrive soon:)

I was sure i posted this yesterday but obviously i didn't. Anyway, the two kits I received this far:

A sewing kit form Calabaza:



It has everything I need to learn to make nice shirts, tunics and possibly dresses:) I'm going to order some fabric from spoon flower, and can't wait to get started:) She explained what I have to do to change the pattern for a bigger bust, which was why I never dared to start sewing anything with darts:)

And the scrap booking kit form mom2em



I asked for one because I want to make a photo album for one of my best friends who is getting married and is moving to another country. I think she's going to love it(if I do everything correctly:)) because mom2em send sooo many wonderful things. I'm pretty sure I'll have enough supplies left over for some projects for myself. i didn't want to get into scrapbooking (i don't need another addictive hoby:)), but seeing all the nice papers and accessories... will I be able to resist:)?



Unfortunately the package was damaged a bit. For some strange reason the postman decided to stuff it the mailbox (they are definitely not supposed to do that - where I come from, they are supposed to check if anyone is home and hand the pacakge to someone directly or leave a note for the receiver to come get the pacakge at the post office). The sticker alphabet sheet was the most damaged one and also the album fell apart. I saved most of the stickers (I hope) and I'm pretty sure my boyfriend will be able the fix the album with some two component glue:)

Thank you both!

[The dough]

Potica is a traditional Slovene special occasions cake. It more or less has to be baked on every holiday there is, and there is no easter breakfast whiteout Potica. (i don't know if you have this tradition, but you have to eat A LOT on easter Sunday morning in Slovenia:)) Basically potica is just sweet bread filled with different kinds of stuffings. My favorite is the walnut version. Slovenes are pretty proud of the potica and every girl basically has to know how to make it and this year me and my sister decided that we want to try and bake one. But to give it a little twist, we baked tiny version of the traditional big cake. And they turned out great:)



There are some recipes on the Internet in English, but I'm not sure if they are any good(Every household has it's own recipe:)). If anyone wants to learn how to make the one I made, I can translate the recipe. It's a lot of work, but seriously delicious in the end!


*the recipe*

The dough
600 g of flour
20 g of yeast
2 egg yolks
1,5 dcl of warm milk
2 tsp of rum (or some rum extrtact)
a pinch of salt and some sugar for the yeast

Stiff the flour in a bowl and make a small hole in the center. In it you should put the yeast with some of the warm milk and approximately a spoon of sugar. Leave it until the yeast rises (5-10 minutes). Than start kneading the dough and add all the other ingredients. Knead the dough thoroughly and than let rise at least twice (when it doubles in size, knead again and wait until it doubles in size again).

In the meantime prepare the stuffing (filling?)

For it you will need

400g of ground wall nuts
60 g bread crumbs
1-2 dcl warm half and half
120g butter
150 g brown sugar
2 tbsp of rum
1 egg

Mix the wall nuts, bread crumbs and sugar. Pour the butter and half and half over them and mix throughly. Leave to soak for 30 minutes. Add the egg and the rum.

Now you have to roll the dough until it's very thin. Than spread the stuffing over it in a layer a bit thicker than the dough. Roll it like a jelly roll, but very carefully. Put it in a greased cake pan. In Slovenia we have special cake pans made out of clay, but they are similar to the ones where you bake marble cake in. (You can also just put them on a baking tray. But in these case it's probably best if you spread a little egg white on them before baking)
Before you put in the oven, you should again let it rise for 20 minutes. Than put bake it in an oven preheated to 220 °C for about 45 minutes (or if you are making tiny versions like me, 25 minutes:).

It should look like this in the end, but only grandmothers make poticas this beautiful. You need a lot of experience for that:):

And here are the photos of the wonderful thing princessacademy made for me.

First: some wall decor. One got damaged in the process, I have to fix it and hang them over my computer:)


Than a bracelet. i think I'll make another one like the one I made for her and have a set:)


A crocheted flower hair thingy;) in peacock colors. I really like hair decor:):


and my favorite part: a cute hat and a beautifully shawl. Can't wait till it's cold again:D


and a detail:


I'm sorry the photos are not good, but i'm a really bad photographer:)

I finally received my angel package and I like it very much! I'm really bad at taking pictures, so the quality isn't really good but I hope you can still see what a wonderful package I got from ViciousPrecious

everything together (handbag, beautiful silk, shrinkydink brooch, more supplies:), cross stitch kit, chocolate and a makeup purse made out really cool fabric)


the purse and the broch. Notice the beautiful vintage button on the closure!


and just the brooch, because I think you have to nsee in detail how wonderfully cute it is. Unfortunately, I took 5 pictures and this one was the best one:) (I reall really love Kurt Halsey:)

and finally, the lovely wall art I received from Robinpich! I love it sooo much.



(I let my boyfriend take the pictures because I thought they would turn out better. they didn't. the picture doesn't do any justice to this wonderful hoop)

It will look great on my wall. I have a faux (printed) hoop that says "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it". I think those two together will always give me the answer to "Should I have another cupcake?"

and, i got more cupcake papers so I can bake more lovely cupcakes!
a picture everything together:

I'm still pretty bad with English vocabulary for some specific things:). Is there a word for a thing where you hang your necklaces on:)? Anyway, i made one today and I think it turned out pretty nice.



I first glued and then stapled some fabric to a wooden board and then screwed some of those curved screws(they probably also have a name that I never heard of... they don't teach you vocabulary like that at school:)) in. The fabric didn't tear (because of the glue), I was afraid that might happen. It took me 10 minutes to attach the fabric to the board and then it took my boyfriend 20 minutes to screw all the screws in (but that's what boys are for, right   ?). So all in all: it's really not time consuming and really easy to make(with a little help), it looks nice and I had most of the materials at home, so it was also really cheap. If you need a place to store tons of necklaces, like me, It's really easy to make something like this:)

I finally had the light to take pictures and now I have time to upload them.

So here are all of the great things I got from alwaysinmyroom:

the crocheted cowls and handband. They are so warm and cozy.


lots of supplies for making bags.





coffee, chocolate and paper cups for cupcakes!



I really love everything so much! Thank you again Linda! It was one of the best b-day presents:)

I work at an advertising agency and I had to make and ad for it for a marketing magazine. This issue of the magazine will be focused on paper- like how paper can be creatively used in advertising, different types of paper, etc. I'm actually copy writer and I had the idea of making the building of our agency out of paper- because one of the special things about it is the old church that is now the agency. Since the designer I was supposed to work with was on a vacation and because I'm also kinda crafty(and also studied graphic design, so I felt I'm qualified:)), I decided I'll try and make the house myself:)
And I did it! (I'm really proud since this is my first paper project:))



Well another coworker helped me with the main roof part, and the designer finished all the surrounding elements (the grass and the stars, etc) and took this wonderful picture. That's the only picture I have until now. We're still at work and he has to finish the ad so I don't want to bother him. But if you want to see more pictures, I will:D

ps: here is a picture of the house in real life http://www.mediamix.si/your-business

I finally send my parcel(thus allowed myself to open the one I got from natACT) and found the time to take photos and post it here.

I received: lovely souvenirs form Australia, that are somehow connected to cooking - towels, coasters and fridge magnets; i also got a potholder?(again, i can't remember the right English expression, sorry) and the not cooking related thing, a very lovely necklace inspired by my wist. I wore it to work yesterday and everyone said it's soo me:) thanks again natACT!