' Fabulous Food Friday

Hello!!!

It is almost unbelievable how quick time flies sometimes! This week seems to be over before it even properly started! 

So, as I promised here are some recipes from my mum´s sweet table. 

I already shared the recipe for world´s best cookies - well some of world´s best cookies anyway! Have a look right here for the recipe.

The apple cake recipe is from here. 

And you totally need to know how I made the blueberry twisty things, because they only need two ingredients and are super easy to make but look completely awesome! 

You just need a roll of refrigerated puff pastry (the frozen one will work just as well!) and some blueberry jam. Or any other jam you love, we used blueberry because of the color and because we love blueberries and because of nostalgic reasons (going blueberry picking was such a childhood favorite thing to do for mum and myself, too!).

Take your puff pastry, spread blueberry jam onto one half of the pastry and fold the other half over. Cut into stripes. Mine were about 1/2 inch wide. Then hold on end and carefully twist and put onto a baking tray that you lined with baking paper. Pop in the oven (preheated) at 180°C for about 15 minutes. 

See, super easy - I told you! And oh so lovely!

All ready to be enjoyed!!!

Have an amazing weekend everyone!!! Filled with a lot of creativity and hopefully some pretty little blueberry twists!

' Whimsical Wednesdays

Hello everyone!!!

Welcome to another whimsical Wednesday on our blog! You might wonder who that girl on the photo is - it is Storm Stina! If you don´t know about Stina yet, you should totally get to know her. Stina is a sweet little girl who loves to collect things down by the beach (in fact she is collecting everything that is waiting to be found!) and who loves spending time with her granddad Hansen. 

The lady behind that great little girl is writer Lena Anderson.

We are big fans of little Stina, so naturally when lovely Sally added Stina postcards to her shop we had to have some! 

Look, aren´t they just super cute! Tiny pieces of great artwork!

I never really told you that I´m not only doing a lot of sewing and needlework but also have a deep love for painting. So what better way to fill an empty canvas with a childhood favorite?! I just had to sit down and do a little Stina painting...and showed it to Sally. And as things sometimes are - Sally fell in love, so she had to have the painting! 

I couldn´t think of a better home for it! So we did a little swappy thing - and Sally got kind of fully mad and sent us the most awesome package full of lovely goodies and treats!

May I introduce our new little friend - a chocolate colored maileg bunny!!! (I always wanted one and Sally sent it along and I´m still over the moon with it - and so is Jamie!)

Look at those cute little bloomers!

And we got the greatest print ever for making a pancake cake!!! (I will show pictures as soon as we make one!)

These lovelies still make me want to squeak with delight! They are teeny tiny bottles that are just big enough to hold one daisy! So super cute!

So here goes another huge Thank You to Sally!!!

And Sally, you will be happy to read that we found a shop a couple of days after your great package arrived that carries the most awesome shabby bits and pieces and we managed to find a tiny vest for our new bunny friend! 

Doesn´t it look great?!

And we also found a little friend for the bunny! We just couldn´t leave the shop without that little mouse!

So everyone is happy now! We are happy that we found the little mouse and the mouse and the bunny are happy that they can be friends now! 

Have an awesome Wednesday! And make sure to hop over to Sally´s blog - it´s such an awesome place! And she has the best shop ever, too!

' Birthday bunting!

Hello everyone!!!

We hope you all had a fantastic Mother´s Day yesterday! We had pretty horrible weather, but we had cake and hot chocolate so things were okay!

I promised to give you some tutorials for the sweet table from Friday, so let´s start with the fabric bunting!

You will need:

fabric scraps, cut into stripes of various length (you can make them as long or short as you wish)

paper wire (or any other wire or thread to hang your stripes)

your sewing machine

You simply take your fabric stripes, fold them in halves with the right side out and sew along the folded edge with a quarter inch seam allowance. Don´t forget to backstitch at the start and end point to secure your thread. 

Do this to all your fabric stripes. 

Now it´s time to arrange your stripes as you like. Just have a play around to find out whatever arrangement you like best! 

String them onto your wire and that´s it. All ready to be put up and look pretty!

Also we got news on Clara´s journey! She visited Helena in Sweden and had an awesome and super happy time with her family! Hop over to Helena´s blog and read all about it and enjoy the beautiful photos she took!

And as usual you can read all about Clara´s previous adventures here!

Have a fantastic day everyone!!!

' Fabulous Food Friday - my mum´s sweet table!

Hello to our sweet readers!!! 

We hope you all had a great Father´s Day yesterday and hopefully a "day off" today, too! We got lucky and had lovely sunshine so most of the day yesterday was spent outside!

As it is Friday and "food day" we want to show you what we did for my mum´s birthday last weekend! 

I always wanted to set up a proper sweet table and never really got around to make one - until now! And oh my this was so much fun! Jamie did help a big lot, so thank you my little darling for giving mommy a hand with making everything lovely for your grandma´s birthday!

We will give you the recipes and tutorials during the next blog posts, today is all about getting an overview and enjoying some eye candy!

We had a lot of different little foodie treats. I really wanted to keep it in a nautical - rustic - kind of style so we had blueberry puff pastry sticks to remind mum of lovely afternoons down by the sea, picking wild blueberries.

Some of the lovely lemon-y white chocolate cookies that I already showed you here! We still think they are like little bits of heaven! 

Some homemade chalkboards so mum´s birthday guests knew what we served them! The left one was for the apple cake, the right one for the blueberry sticks.

Here´s the yummy apple cake. Why we made apple cake for her? Childhood memories - in our family every kid seems to be growing up with loads and loads of apple goodness in the form of cakes and tartes and cookies and pancakes...!

Easy peasy grisini for those who aren´t all that fond of sweets! And also to remind of the loveliest ever holidays that mum spent in Italy - on her own, with my dad, when I was born and hopefully with Jamie soon, too!

No birthday without flowers! And what could be more rustic and charming than a bouquet of "Jamie-picked" wildflowers! They look like teeny tiny white stars!

To complement the nautical side of her sweet table we had these little charming gingham patterned pinwheels! Aren´t they just lovely?!

And a beach bucket and shovel to serve yummy mascarpone and apple (I told you we are a very apple loving family!!!) cream with a nutty almond topping!

Last but not least - some home-baked bread! There´s nothing better than bread straight out of your own oven! This is pure happiness!

Here´s a close-up of the canvas painting I made. It features all the places from children´s books from fabulous writer Astrid Lindgren! 

And here you can see the itty bitty bunting we created!

It has been so much fun setting that table up and I´m sure there will be many more sweet tables in our future!

Have a great weekend and hopefully we will see you back all well and relaxed on Monday!