Making soap – Update
Body Care
A few month ago I made my own soap for the first time in my life and I really enjoyed it. In the last few weeks I tried out a few more recipes and did my own variations which I would like to share with you here.
Knot a friendship bracelet
Crafts
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
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
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
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.