The cranes are back

Always a great sign: The cranes are flying back north. We have missed their loud calling.




As spring is here now, I tried to make ice cream and it worked out fine! Even without an ice machine.

I used a slightly moderated recipe from Matthew Evans "The real food companion".
If you want to try it, you won't regret, I think.
You need:
300 ml whipping cream
3 eggs (seperated)
60 g treacle
50 g maple syrup
1 pinch of salt

Whisk the cream til soft peaks form. Mix the treacle and the egg yolks til well combined. Add it to the cream and stir well. Whisk the egg whites til soft peaks form, add the maple syrup and the salt. Slowly add the egg white to the cream and stir well.
Put into a container and into the freezer. After about an hour, take it out again and stir well. Put it back for another 3-4 hours. Enjoy! :)

What else was I doing during the last days?
Making art of course. Nothing special, but my ever continuing journal journey.


More kitchen and cooking stuff of course, like spelt buns...

Or colourful smoothies...


Looking back on times we had cats. (We have lost so many cats over the years now, that I really can't stand having one anymore, but of course I miss it, especially in spring, when the hayloft used to be filled with kittens.)


Have a great time, everyone!

Just finished

I have just finished my "wreck this journal"#8. I don't know, what makes me so addicted to this kind of book, but it seems to have same kind of magic in it. A safe space, that tells me: "No faults, just trust the mess and express your self."

And I do.





Pages Pages Pages, can't believe I have done all of them!










Sometimes I work together with my daughter Svea

The flow of creativity

I am ever so thankful for all the teasures from paper swaps.
I love to browse through my paper stacks from all over the world and use bits and bites here and there in my collages.



My daughter and I had a crafty sunday yesterday, our studio was filled with sun and creativity and that's a wonderful feeling.



Svea now makes her collages with more consciousness. This piece is called "the mother" and she refers to the fact, that I am sometimes a little bit over-protecting, that's why she calls me "mother of sorrows".


I love what one can do with tea, ink and old letterpress stamps.



I am still doing a "wtj" ("wreck this journal"). This is #8. To work in a wtj just gives me the feeling to play, to take it easy, to loose myself in a creativity flow without censoring.





Talking about paper swap: last call for the April swap, who wants to join?! Just send me an e-mail!