Friday 7 September 2012

Lift Up & Add Light



"arts & crafts"

I am back home for now & in between my travel & home, I am finishing my projects left behind.

I am doing projects from a few inspirational sites & things. One of the few, is an inspirational shabby chic style crystal chandelier inspired by neiman marcus lighting which I am doing for my dining area.

With a little time to stencil, my new shades and re-painting my chandelier to white and cleaning the crystals and putting em’ back from an old to a new look. 
Between me & the world is a window of opportunity. i don’t take that responsibility lightly. I wanted to take my summer time as much as I can finishing my projects, once winter comes in it will be hard to paint in a cold weather.

Between my travel & home, I have to take advantage of finishing what I’ve started.

Let’s get to it, & i will post more of my projects pretty soon! 
below  is the final look of my project. see yah & thanks for visiting me!!




Project Inspired by Neiman Marcus Lightings






All set & painted






Summer is almost over and one of my project is done, my dining area’s make-over is almost complete. merci my friends for visiting & merci my friend gemma for the vintage crochet dining table cover. 

here's the story, i knew ghe since my childhood days. her best friend florci is my best childhood friend, they both live in washington state.

 ghe's mom made her the crocheted dining table cover & runners when ghe gave birth to the twin boys, soo cute when they were little. time has passed by & the boyz are in college now, they are both in their sophomore years. 

i went to washington last week to visit my friend florci and her family. ghe & i went around the area to see the garage sales. i was about to buy the crochet dining table cover from one of the garage sales, ghe asked me if i wanted one, she said she has about three of them. i said sure why not, we went to her house and she showed me all her crochet stuff. 

they were all made beautiful by her mom and with care it was preserved for many years, one of gemma's heirloom. she gave me three pieces and i will make sure that i will take care of them too, a promise!

many thanks gemma, appreciate your kindness. 
blessings!! 






Love the stencil design, do you? Contemplating on adding more crystals to the lamp. What do you think?

Thank you for the great summer fun & visits, I hope to see you again!


Cheers!!! 

Tuesday 4 September 2012

ON A TRAVEL TOUR, STAY TUNED MY FRIENDS


On a vacation travel tour for a few weeks,  FROM august 24, 2012 – September 30, 2012; 'Will be posting my travel photo shoots as soon as I get home. 

Thank you friends for all you patience.





A recipe specially made for you:



Aug 20, 2012

Ingredients
·        1/2  cup sugar
·        3 tbls butter
·        3 tsp ground lavender
·        2 teaspoon grated orange rind
·        1/2  teaspoon vanilla
·        2 large egg whites
·        1 1/2  cups all purpose flour
·        3/4  teaspoon baking powder
·        1/8  teaspoon salt
·        1/4 C toasted almonds
·        Optional: 3 oz.  Melted semi-sweet chocolate
·        cooking spray
Preheat oven to 325.
Beat the first 5 ingredients at medium speed of a mixer until well blended. Beat in egg whites. Lightly spoon the flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a k knife. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; gradually add flour mixture to sugar mixture, beating until blended. Stir in almonds.
Turn biscotti dough out onto a floured board or other surface to work on. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray; with lightly floured hands, shape the dough into two 5 long rolls;  move to the baking sheet and flatten the rolls to a  1 thickness.
Bake them at 325 for 30 minutes. Remove the rolls from the baking sheet, and cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack.
Cut each roll diagonally into 7 – 1/2 slices a good sharp knife. Place the slices on baking sheet. Bake the slices at 325 for 15 minutes (the cookies will be slightly soft in the center, but will harden as they cool.
Remove from baking sheet; cool completely on wire rack.
If you want dip one end of the cooled biscotti into the melted semi-sweet chocolate and place on waxed paper to cool and harden.