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Knot a friendship bracelet

Crafts | 13. August 2008

finished friendship bracelet

When I was about 7 or 8 years old a friend of my family taught me how to make a knotted wristband. I started off with a simple stripe pattern to get the hang of the techniques. Over time I got more adventurous and tried more complicated patterns.

Knotting friendship bracelets was pretty big when I went to school. We gave them as a present to our friends, hence the name friendship bracelet. The more bracelets you had tied around your wrist the more friends you had. A little bit like facebook in a pre-internet world.

Making bread

Food | 30. July 2008

My mum made always bread herself, so I’m quite familiar with the process of bread making. I never really made it by myself as it looked like quite a bit of work.

A few summers ago I found a very interesting recipe for bread in a newspaper. It’s called ‘No-Kneed Bread’ and it’s very easy. With this recipe I made bread quite a few times and it was just delicious. Unfortunately, since we moved I haven’t made a single bread and I thought this would be a good occasion to get back into bread making and to introduce you to the ‘no-kneed’ bread recipe. This is my version of the ‘No-Kneed Bread’.

Making silver jewellery (part 2)

Crafts, Jewellery | 21. July 2008

Finished Ring

This weekend I went to the second part of my silver jewellery workshop with Barbara Ryman. It was all about ring making.

Making silver jewellery (part 1)

Crafts, Jewellery | 17. July 2008

finished earring

During my time at high school I used to go to silver jewellery classes every week because I wanted to become a jeweller. I really enjoyed creating jewellery out of metal, wires, beads and everything else I could find. After finishing high school and choosing another career path I pretty much stoped doing anything like it.

A few months ago I realised how much I actually miss working with precious metal and I enrolled into two silver jewellery workshops with Barbara Ryman. The first one is a pendant and earring workshop, the second one will be a ring workshop.

Making Pasta

Food | 7. July 2008

Jamie Oliver has these really nice recipes in his cook books for making your own pasta. Even though I love cooking I never tried it so far. It looks like quite a bit of effort for not a lot of outcomes. But since the outcomes of my weekend tasks matters less then the fun I had a go at it and I made my own ravioli.