Sesame Street - Ricky Gervais & Elmo

Nighty Night 2

Swedish Lullaby-kolybeln shvedskaya

Nighty Night!

Corner View: 'Reflection'

Don't you think this ceramic vase i made

looks a pool were you have to look into?

(or maybe a bad hallucination,

and an evil eye pops up in the dark green..... 

LOL) 

Happy Corner View!

Screen Print: 'Olifant'

I love screen printing

And I love that our house is finally coming together

And I love macarons and lemon tart

but that is another story..... 

Happy ☀ day!

Appeltaart's Ceramic Room

Building my Magic Theatre

in Porcelain. 

Week 1

☂

Baby dress is good for sleeping too

↑

Guusje on her way to the espresso machine at 6.15 in the morning with new dress.

Thanks Pops...

Happy ☀ day

Sew a dress

While I worry about my Japanese friend in Tokyo,

I try to get a little distraction.

(Sweetheart, my thoughts and prayers are with you!)

⦁

I'm really not much of sewer.

Luckily for me,

I like the baby style dress.

I dream of Petit Bateau's baby wear for grown ups.

Picture this:

My brand new Star dress,

skinny jeans,

ballerina shoes,

little cardigan.

Not bad at all, right?

(Note to myself when I read this back in 20 years:

Dear Mrs. Appeltaart,

You can be proud of yourself 

and seriously impressed.

you can wear this dress

in side out

and still look good!

Do not forget:

sometimes it pays off

Not to be lazy)

Dear Daphne,

Thank you for being my style guru!

xo G

Have a happy day!

(and a special kiss for you, Miki!)

⦁

Corner View: 'Communication'

I like cards

from the time

I was young

they remind me

of the child

I was

I was,

and still am,

so happy

with

a simple card

in my postbox
or hidden in my book,
found just before
my late evening read.

These cards are invitations

for children's party's

something I never ever liked
as a child,
or even now.

I wished we could invite everyone around!

Luckily

there is whole life after

children's school party's!

(I like the card above so much,

I think I will try to make

those dolls in fabric

I know 

making and sharing 

them with my own Pop

will make me happy

anytime!)

Have a lovely CV All!

X Guusje

Multi Color 'Happy Woods' screen print

I was asked to make a 'Happy Woods' screen print

with red in it.

It is always a complete surprise for me,

how the screen print turns out.

I think 

I like it!

Happy Sunday!

x Guusje

Circus Wall P'Animals

yesterday's inspiration

is

today's interpretation

The Wall P'Animals are in the Circus.

Hopefully they are treated well in their Play-mobile Circus Trailer.

(They are So famous now, 

they only settle for the very best Hay,

Mineral water

and Organic fruits)

The Lantern's are lit,

the firework in the air.

All ready to go!

50 by 60 cm

Off White Aquarel Paper

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Have a great Weekend!

xx Guusje

Festivals

Don't you just love the idea

festival season

is only

a couple of months

away.....

Winchester's annual Hat Fair

Maybe

we just have to go back

this year

with a great act of our own!

'Appeltaart in Wonderland!'

x

Corner View : 'Woods'

City Gals have to make their own woods!

Go on and Find the girlfriends!

Where would we be without trees?

Happy Corner View!

Screen Print made to order

Off white Aquarel Paper

60 by 80 cm

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This moment

Do you see those little ducklings?

They're mine!

:-)

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Corner View: 'On my Kitchen Counter'

There are tins,

lots of tins!

For CV I have put a few together

Happy CV!

Glad to be back

♥

xGuusje

Macrobiotic foods & baking

There is nothing better than healthy baking,

ones in a while.

My children do taste the difference

between butter and healthy oils,

sugar, little sugar and non sugar.

But even though they love the caramel taste of unrefined cane sugar,

I try to use as little

as possible.

Deco (have a look for inspiration!!!) is a well known health cook in Japan

I never heard from her,

but my sweet neighbor Miki

knew all about Macrobiotic cooking

and Deco's kitchen.

When she returned to Japan,

she was kind enough to send me this little cookbook

that I couldn't buy here.

The Banana Cake

dry:

200 ml whole wheat flour

400 ml unbleached wheat flower

1 ½ tbsp Baking Powder

½ tsp Salt

½ tbsp Grain Coffee Powder (i use Lima Yannoh instant Vanilla)

wet:

5 banana's (4 mix, 1 decoration)

50 ml Canola oil (i used rice bran)

150 g silken tofu

100 ml Apple juice

vanilla extract (don't forget!)

Optional (I do to add debt in taste) : Chopped walnuts

Dissolve grain coffee powder in heated apple juice

Puree 4 bananas, remaining wet ingredients and coffee juice

Add wet into mixed dry ingredients and chopped nuts

Decorate with sliced banana

Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees

Cover with aluminum foil and bake for a further 15 minutes at 200 degrees.

Note: don't over-bake, it will be very dry.

Next time: 

Brown rice waffles

or Yomogi & Azuki bagle

or

Millet and Coconut Doughnuts?

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