How cute is this Puppy Love Cross Stitch Kit? It is a DIY kit so you’d get to cross stitch on your own! I am thinking to make the body a little bit long to look like dachshunds :)
(via Renegade Handmade, Store)
Category: DIY
Happy Memorial Day!
I hope everyone had a nice long weekend… I know it’s almost over now, but Happy Memorial day! :) It is summer time here already, it has been super nice and warm, I went to the Prospect park everyday besides doing house work and my work, I love that we live so close to the great park.
Speaking of Summer… Randy got me an ice cream maker from Cuisinart and so I made my first ice cream this weekend! It was fun and yummy! I thought for the Memorial Day post, I should share my ice cream making-of :) Enjoy!
First one is (sugar-free) strawberry ice cream. I modified the receipe to make it healthier…
Using fresh strawberries and lemon.
Slice up the strawberries and squeeze the lemon. (Note: I should have sliced them smaller because ice cream maker does not make them smaller)
Add 1/3 cup of Splenda (usually a regular sugar, but that’s gonna make me feel so bad so I used sugar-free here) and mix them together well.
Let it sit for 2 hours….
In a mixing bowl, mix 2 cups of soy milk (love soy milk!), 1/2 cup of heavy cream, 2/3 cup of Splenda and juice from the strawberries. (Note: I modified original recipe of 2 cups of cream, 1 cup of whole milk, 2/3 cup of sugar here… to make it healthy)
Light pink… pretty color :)
and here it is, the ice cream maker!
Turn the maker on and put the mixed milk, let it go for 25-30 min….
getting harder…
Put the strawberries 5 minutes before the ice cream is done…
and yaaaay, my first ice cream ever!!
(see, the strawberries are a bit too chunky…)
It was so good. Soy milk makes this more like sorbet, but it’s perfect for summer and low carolie so I don’t have to feel really bad every time… :)
I also made frozen yogurt. This is really easy and so good, I will be making this all the time, I’m sure…
In a mixing bowl, mix 2 cups of yogurt, 1/4 cup of Splenda, 1/2 cup of soy milk (or regular milk). *you can add chocolate or berries or anything you’d like to make a special frozen yogurt.
and have the maker do its job…..
and after 25-30 minutes later… enjoy frozen yogurt!
DIY :: Neck Warmer
I started crocheting this neck warmer since thanksgiving holiday and it’s been done by the end of Christmas, but I just haven’t had a chance to take pictures… and now, here it is! It’s not perfectly done, but it keeps me warm and I like the color so it’s all good. I wear it out often and I am proud of it!
This happened by accident (haha), but the neck warmer has wider side and narrower side.
When I wear from the wider side, it comes around my shoulder so it’s actually like a mini poncho:
and when I wear it from the narrower side, it comes around my head and keeps my head/ear warm, too:
Single stitches all the way. Nothing complicated :)
DIY :: Wood Type Shadow Box
I posted about this shadow box display a while ago and wanted to make my own… and here they are! I did make my own display.
The background I used is my letterpress print – I used vintage letter “S” and printed over and over again.
These number 3s are just sitting on the bottom of the shadow box.
For this, I had to put the letters together, taped together on the back and used double-sided tape to place the letters in that space.
(I wish I had a better lighting and so the pictures would turn out a little better…)