Powerful Blue {Monday Picks}

Here are some Europena finds, crafted in beautiful and powerful blues. Click in the pictures to go the shops!

More European finds at fleurfatale´s blog! :)

Funny and Cute: Popin' Cookin'

Recently, I found these videos. They are surprisingly addictive and entertaining!
What is Popin´ Cookin? It is a Japanese DIY sushi-candy making kit. This product is very affordable and safe for children.

Enjoy the videos!

Have a great weekend!

Pictures source: 1, 2

Medium Hairstyles 2011

Medium Hairstyles 2011

My Creative Space: More Rings

This week I have been working on new rings. One of them, the Pegasus ring, was the one that I entered on the last week EST Challenge. Here they are:

Enjoy more creative spaces at www.kootoyoo.com

Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe

Today I bring you a yummy recipe I tried this weekend: Lemon Meringue Pie. It´s delicious!


Ingredients
1 pie crust, baked
300 g white sugar
3 g salt
355 ml water
65 g cornstarch
80 ml water
4 eggs, separated
120 ml lemon juice
4 g lemon zest
45 g butter
2 g salt
100 g white sugar


Directions
Preheat oven. Combine 1 1/2 cups sugar, salt, and 1 1/2 cups water in a saucepan. Place over high heat and bring to a boil. In a small bowl, mix cornstarch and 1/3 cup water to make a smooth paste. Gradually whisk into boiling sugar mixture. Boil mixture until thick and clear, stirring constantly. Remove from heat.
In a small bowl, whisk together egg yolks and lemon juice. Gradually whisk egg yolk mixture into hot sugar mixture. Return pan to heat and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in grated lemon rind and butter or margarine. Place mixture in refrigerator and cool until just lukewarm.
In a large glass or metal bowl, combine egg whites and salt. Whip until foamy. Gradually add 1/2 cup sugar while continuing to whip. Beat until whites form stiff peaks. Stir about 3/4 cup of meringue into lukewarm filling. Spoon filling into baked pastry shell. Cover pie with remaining meringue.
Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes, until meringue is slightly brown. Cool 1 hour before cutting.


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I hope you like it!

Pictures source:1,2,3,4,5.

Those Tiny Details...

1. Macro flower experiment, 2. Macro Flower: Cuba Gallery, 3. Macro Water Droplets : Cuba Gallery, 4. Dandelion Seed Macro

In our lives, we are surrounded by so many beautiful and small details, things we cannot see at first sight with our own eyes... things we are missing...

Today my mosaic is dedicated to all the tiny little things that fill this world with beauty.

More mosaics at www.artmind-etcetera.blogspot.com

Geek {Monday Moodboard}

This weekend, I created this treasury called GEEK.

It inspired me to post these geek finds made by fantastic European artisans. Click on the picture to go to their shops!

More finds at FleurFatale´s blog!

Have a great week! :)

Strawberry Recipe With Meringue

Here´s a delicious recipe that I wanted to share with you: Strawberry Cake.

Ingredients
517 g yellow cake mix
315 ml orange juice
4 eggs, separated
3 g grated orange peel
0.8 g cream of tartar
250 g sugar, divided
475 ml whipping cream
715 g fresh strawberries, divided


Directions
In a mixing bowl, combine cake mix, orange juice, egg yolks and orange peel. Beat for 4 minutes. Pour into two greased and floured baking pans; set aside. In a mixing bowl, beat egg whites and cream of tartar on medium until foamy. Gradually beat in 1 cup sugar, a tablespoon at a time, on high until stiff glossy peaks form and sugar is dissolved. Spread the meringue evenly over cake batter. Bake at 176 ºC for 35 minutes or until meringue is lightly browned. Cool in pans on wire racks (meringue will crack).
Beat cream until stiff peaks form.
Mash 1/2 cup of strawberries with remaining sugar; fold into whipped cream. Loosen edges of cakes from pans with a knife. Using two large spatulas, carefully remove one cake to a serving platter, meringue side up. Carefully spread with about two-thirds of the cream mixture. Slice the remaining berries; arrange half over cream mixture. Repeat layers. Store in the refrigerator.

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I hope you will enjoy this recipe.

Have a great weekend! :)

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Pictures source:1,2,3,4

My Creative Space: Hearts And France

This week, I have been working in simple designs with hearts and charms.

More creative spaces at http://www.kootoyoo.com/

Button Shoes

Today, I would like to share with you some few amazing shoe designs made with buttons. Would you wear any of these?

Found it here.

Found them here.

Found this one here.

Found this here.

Found these here.

If you want to see more button creations, visit P8´s blog!

Colorful Days [Photo Mosaic]

1. Colors are the smiles of nature :) [Explored], 2. . colors, 3. Paint the Room, What Color?, 4. Any Colour You Like

Waiting for Spring, waiting for colourful and happy days, waiting for beautiful things to come...

More mosaics at www.artmind-etcetera.blogspot.com

Happy Valentine´s Day!: 10 Romantic Movies

Happy Valentine´s Days!

I hope your day will be great :)

And If you are thinking of having a romantic evening watching a movie, here are 10 romantic movies recommendation for you to enjoy:

1) Moulin Rouge

A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources.

2) Titanic

Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship.

3) The Notebook

A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences.

4) The Fountain









Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.





5) Spanglish









A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.





6) Pretty Woman







A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.





7) Notting Hill

The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.

8) My Big Fat Greek Wedding

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.





9) Bridget Jones´s Diary

A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.





10) As Good As It Gets

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship.

Have a great day and week!

Pictures and text source: imdb.com

Original Wedding Proposals: Videos

Picture source: xcitefun

Valentine´s Day is next Monday so I thought I would share with you some ideas on how to prepare an original proposal.

Here you have 4 ways to propose in an original way:

1) This guy stops the time for his girlfriend...

2) A creative proposal on a rooftop...

3) In Disneyland...

4) In the park...

I hope you have enjoyed the videos, have a great weekend!

My Creative Space: Medieval Earrings

This week, I´m entering the EST Challenge, which proposed us to create something that would fit the middle ages. So I made these earrings with medieval touches: Royal Earrings.

See more entries at Kim´s blog.

For more creative spaces, visit http://www.kootoyoo.com/

Hair Bangs

1. Bangs!, 2. bang bang , 3. Bangs, 4. Bangs~

I have always liked wearing bangs and my hair was gowing very long so I decided to wear them again. And here is the result:

If you are thinking of getting bangs, HERE you can find a lot of styles and ideas.

Have a great Wednesday!