Vintage Cake Pops Ice Cream Parlour

A friend is having a larger family get together today and asked me for ideas on how to offer little sweet things 'buffet style'. The main focus was: kids should love it. I started by educated guessing that kids like ice cream and colours. Since I am always fascinated by cute things that are a little vintage looking, I came up with this Vintage Cake Pops Ice Cream Parlour.

Vintage Cake Pops Ice Cream Parlour
As you know, for me, the idea is not enough. When it´s in my head, I have to build it. With the help of a friend who is good in DIY things the booth was set up. I painted it with some light spring colours and filled it up with cake pops sweets that I tried to look like ice cream. Unfortunately the weather still does not want us to enjoy real ice cream. I am especially proud of my 'accident cone' that looks like someone has dropped it.

Vintage Cake Pops Ice Cream Parlour
Vintage Cake Pops Ice Cream Parlour
Vintage Cake Pops Ice Cream Parlour
Vintage Cake Pops Ice Cream Parlour
Vintage Cake Pops Ice Cream Parlour
Vintage Cake Pops Ice Cream Parlour
Vintage Cake Pops Ice Cream Parlour
Vintage Cake Pops Ice Cream Parlour
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Easter Bunny Cookies

As a birthday present I got Bunny shaped Cookie cutters and I wanted to create something special with them. My only problem: Today being the last day of the Easter. So I had to hurry, bake the cookies and apply the fondant decoration. Time pressure and my impatience when it comes to making tiny things is usually not a good combination. But today, maybe because of the sun, it worked extraordinarily well. As a reward, because Easter is almost over, I can eat them all. Yummy.

Easter Bunny Cookies
Easter Bunny Cookies
Easter Bunny Cookies
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Happy Easter & Bunny Side Up

Start your Easter Sunday with a smile, even if it is gonna snow again (as it is around our home right now). I will show you some images of my latest Easter decoration, hope you are gonna like it!

Easter Decoration
Last friday was Good Friday in germany and so we did what all Germans are doing, when living in our area: driving to Holland, because there ain't no holiday and shops are open there! First stop was the always trusted flower shop in Roermond and she delivered the most amazing flower wreath ever. I mean: look at those colours!!! Didn't she do a great job? The wreath is now prettying up our front door, I feel a little sorry for it, because of the bad weather....but it is gonna change someday soon.

Easter Decoration
And I found this great cake plate from Rice, I decorated only with Easter stuff, not with cake. But it is so pretty, that I wanted to show it to you anyway. Next time it will come with a cake on top. Promised.

Easter Decoration
The Albert Heijn supermarket could deliver the M&M's in spring colours. So it was clear, that i had to try out some nice cookies with them. They are yummie, yummie soft and crunchy with the Peanut inside and I have now so many cookies that i don't know when I shall eat them all up. If you come by, you will get a cookie to eat right away!

Easter Cookies
Of course: what would be Easter without Verpoorten? Hm? This is a long tradition in our home and every year is tastes better, it seams. Although it is always the same recipe?! I doubled the recipe, because in the afternnon I am gonna visit my friend Anna and we are gonna try out to bake some cake with the homemade Verpoorten. I expect good results! maybe drunken results, hehe!

Easter Decoration
I didn't find nice twigs anywhere, but had some ornaments which I wanted to hang up somewhere. That's why I used some wired hangers and decorated them.

Easter Decoration
Love the story of the "haeschenschule" with the very tall teacher and the small student. I guess the story is only well known in Germany. But it is popular here, especially again around Easter time!

Easter Decoration
Easter Decoration
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Best B'day Ever

Long planned and well prepared was today my birthday party. I have seen this funny pop-up cake stall on the internet and was eager to build one of my own. Wood and colours I got from the DIY store in the Netherlands and I am proud to be able to show it today. Fully loaded with cakes and stuff.

Pop-Up Cake Stall
I finished the cakes yesterday and the guests had to decide between caramel brownies, cherry-raspberry-coconut slices or leopard print cake or peanut butter or banofee pie or rhubarb streusel or three chocolate cake. Hmmm, I for myself love the cherry vanilla custard tart. Yummy sunday to you, too and thanks all of the friends for today's visit. As I said: Best B'day ever.

Pop-Up Cake Stall
Birthday Cake Party
Leopard Print Cake
Blood Orange Cake

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Happy Pancake Birthday (to me)

Well, well, I am turning 46 today, and it seems like that it is gonna be the first birthday where I have to release my car from snow. but, I am always so so so happy on my birthday and the breakfast I had was worth while to take a picture to show it to you. The hubby made fresh pancakes for me and he presented them as a tower on the plate with the maple syrup dropping down...yummy! yes, the hubby knows what brings me in the good mood and I started my birthday with a stomach full of pancakes!

Pancakes
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Deck the halls with spring colours

I could hardly believe my eyes when I was looking outside my window this morning - it was snowing again and everything was covered already in white! Come on! It is the 17th of march today and everybody is waiting for warm weather, sun and the daffodils to start growing in the garden. Nobody wants snow any longer.

House Entrance Spring Decoration
That is why I started working on the spring deco inside the house, trying to just ignore what the weather is doing outside. I brought the ladder in, hung up some birdcages and wooden letters, put mom und child hedgehog in place and feel suddenly not so winterly any more. Lot´s of spring inside!

House Entrance Spring Decoration
House Entrance Spring Decoration
House Entrance Spring Decoration
House Entrance Spring Decoration

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Crochet Flower Garland

Well, I really have had to hurry with this garland! Since the weather forecast says that the winter is coming back later today with lot of snow and minus temperatures again - I wanted to keep the spring feeling and hang my new garland in the window.

crochet flower garland
It was raining the whole day yesterday so I had enough time to put all the flowers together and decorate everything...I am gonna try to ignore the snow and think forward of all the warm days that will come very soon! have a nice sunday to all of you! I will do that too, maybe with some cake in the left hand and a nice hot cuppa tea in the other.

crochet flower garland
crochet flower garland
crochet flower garland

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New Bunting & Vintage Table Runner

Oh my gosh, it seems like forever, since I posted some pictures on my lovely website. The reason for that was not, that I am the laziest person in the world, no, I was really down with the flu, but it seems like everybody has that at the moment. But Friday was the first day, when I felt a little better and I immediately turned into crafty-Andrea.

Vintage Table Runner
I can show you my new bunting, made out of different sized doilies and my new tablerunner, made out of left over fabrics and lace. I dyed everything with black tea before I got started, to get a more vintage outcome and the different patterns and colours would be closer together and match nicely.

Vintage Bunting
To turn the Saturday into the best day since weeks, the sun was shining and I could enjoy the first latte with marble cake sitting outside in the sun! love that!

Vintage Table Runner
Vintage Table Runner
Vintage Bunting
Vintage Bunting
First Cake and Coffee on the porch
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Happy Valentine's Day !

My hubby is getting a supercute gift, which I secretly finished last week already! Well, the original idea I had in mind, seems to be unworkably. I wanted to scratch our both initials in some wooden bark. but: how do I get the tree inside our house? and: how should I wrap the tree up?! so, at the end I decided to embroider everything, and I am quite happy with the outcome!

Valentine's Day
But of course I need a supercute valentine's card as well! at the end I loved 3 cards and could not decide. That's why I ended up buying all 3 of them and thinking it over: I am gonna use the one with the cats! I like it the most! hope you do agree with my decision?

Valentine's Day Card
Valentine's Day Card
Valentine's Day Card
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Valentine´s Day Miniature Cookie Etageres

Valentine's week starts today with "crafty Monday". You guessed it, this might be the first of many Valentine´s Day related posts that I am planning to do. Last week I have already finished these cute miniature cookie etageres but the things that I wanted to put on them were still missing.

Valentine's Day Miniature Cookie Etageres
Valentine's Day Miniature Cookie Etageres
I think it´s kind of boring if there are cookies on a cookie etagere. So I had to find something else that would also relate to the overall Valentine`s Day theme. I thought sweets would be nice but at first I did not knew where to find them. During a shopping weekend in London I accidentally went into a sweet store on Columbia Road which had exactly what I was looking for.

Valentine's Day Sweets
Valentine's Day Miniature Cookie Etageres
Valentine's Day Miniature Cookie Etageres
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Vintage Lace Curtain

Ever since I saw this in London as store decoration at Spitalfields market, I knew I wanted to make such a vintage lace curtain for our porch door. The only problem was to get enough lace and doily pieces together. But, Thanx to my lovely colleagues Nina and Christina it did not take very long. In order to make it look vintage, I dyed every cutting or collar individually with black tea. After drying I sewed everything together. You guessed it. I love it.

Lace Curtain
I actually love it so much so, that I am already wondering how all the other windows would look like with something like this as a curtain.

Lace Curtain
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Season Closing Baked Apples

This is the weekend, where even I have to admit that the Christmas season has ended. However since we still got some new snow yesterday, it´s a good time to make some baked apples, for old times sake, of course, with a little 'christmassy' rum flavored filling.

Baked Apples
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Our House in Swedish "Allt i Hemmet" Magazine

A very cool post-Christmas surprise. Yesterday, we received a couple of copies from Swedish "Allt i Hemmet" magazine which featured our house in their Christmas 2012 special. Click on the pic to see all pages.

Our House in Allt i Hemmet Magazine Schweden
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New Year, New Ideas

With the new year, new ideas pop into my head. This is great, the only problem with them is that they are around Christmas. So even if it´s already mid Jan, I keep working on Christmas ideas. I have found out that the only way to stay 'in the mood' and keep them coming is by still having the seasonal decoration up. My husband keeps asking when we will be removing things, but they need to stay as long as the idea book Christmas 2012 is not closed yet.

New Year New Ideas
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New Year's Resolutions

When my husband took this photo of cookies in front of Grandma's Pie shop all his good new year´s resolutions were gone. He thought he could stay away from sweets in Jan 2013.

Cookies
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