Friday Findings: Hair

artandghosts

swanbones

razorberries

ohmycavalier

munieca

lizacorbett

MarmeeCraft

Lloyd

matilou

amberalexander

carambatack

heidiburton

atwhim

Autumn, or Not?

Nature is confused, nowadays. The greens are turning fiery red, as they should, but the temperature during the day is still over 30C (86F).

The remaining tourists, Scandinavians for the most part, are in a bliss, and so are we, after the terribly hot summer that we endured under the airco, it is perfect, right now, the abnormally notwithstanding.

It is also quince time, this is the neighbours tree.

In Spain quince is used to make 'dulce de membrillo', which is not a dessert, but is eaten on bread at breakfast. It is delicious with young cheese and walnuts.

You all know that I can't cook, but the making of dulce de membrillo is so simple, that even I can manage. Here is the recipe:

Wash four or five quince's (that makes about a kg) , quarter them, extract the seeds, but don't peel them. Put them in a pan with the juice of one lemon and cook them till soft (about 20minutes). Put them in a colander and let them drain for several hours.

Mince them in the food processor, weight them and measure the same weight of white sugar.

Put the fruit and sugar in a big microwave dish. It will foam a lot while cooking, so make sure that the dish is big enough. Nuke it for 15 minutes at 700 watt. With a wooden spoon, stirr it thoroughly. Repeat this 3 times, one hour in total. At the end it will be thick and beautifully carnelian red. Pour in a wet flat dish and let it cool. The next day it will have the consistency of cheese and will keep for a year or more in the fridge. Enjoy!

A Little Make Over

We have been thinking about it for a while, to change the soulless model with a real life model (me) for the necklaces. Not all pieces are modelled by me but we are now changing all those soulless pictures to new ones. Just changed Mysterious Beads, and will be busy for a few more days to change them all.

Before:

After:
Much better, don't you think?

Friday Findings: Elks

This week's Friday Findings is inspired by Heli's Elk, she posts every friday lovely interviews (Friday is my day), this week you can see my day, you can check it at her blog.


HeliS

trystbykerry

rebeccashapiroart

touchthedutch

LoucheLab

klausindustries

jeffjewkes

electromanana

simplyneckties

circlebbart

Life and Sport

It looks like life is back to normal again, Blogger is back they removed the block. We are actually surprised as YouTube has been blocked for months (still is).
As we had the feeling it will never come back we got into a blog-block our selves and with this post we are going to get rid of that!

This spring the municipality of our little town built a park but very different than usual. It is a sport park, where you can find all kind of fitness machines, and free to use for everyone.




The location is on the side of one of the main roads, so traffic passes by while you work out but with a lovely green view of the mountains.

We never thought that anyone would use it, but the Turkish desperate housewives seem to be very desperate to loose some weight and many get up early to do some work outs!

And we? I would love to say that we get up early every morning to work out for an hour...

The truth is these pictures are from a few months ago, after 5 minutes mum run away...

and never went back....

Easy things can get difficult

Due to unknown reasons, Turkey has banned the use of blogger.com since Friday afternoon. Because of that we not only couldn't reach blogger but of course also not our own blog and millions of blogger blogs.Sometimes this country is hard to understand. We are now writing this through a friend who was so kind to offer her help (thank you JealousyDesign!).

Leaving comments is impossible at the moment for us, so please forgive us for our neglection of other blogs, hopefully we will have soon another solution or maybe they will remove the block (or so we hope). We can see the blogs through proxies but not everything can be done that way (like posting blogposts and comments).We are going to get some help from a more technical person, and hopefully we soon can enter all blocked sites in another way (besides blogger also youtube and many other sites have been blocked).

Please keep your fingers crossed, Turkey is going downwards the past few years, we are hoping for the best...

Friday Findings: Computer Art

It's so funny to see how computers have taken a big part of our lifes these days, but also how artists get inspired by them. Here some of the many arts of Etsy inspired by computers...


willowcreeksigns

lilypang

kaylah7

GeekGear

fing

contexto

capitolagirl

bullfight

Aula46

rosiemusic

Messy Times

This picture might give the wrong impression at first glance, nothing bad happening only a last renovation (for this year). This year we have been pulling out the old rotten wooden floors to exchange with tiles. The last room is my mothers room and as she isn't home her room now looks like this...



Althought it looks pretty bad, the hard work will be done in 2 days. Then only the fun part will be left: redecorating.

And of course where there is action there are always some curious faces dying to find out what is going on...