yaitemita: Christmas Cookies

I am a little late with this blog, but I would like to share my Christmas bakery pictures with you.

My roommate Isabel who is a really good cooker and baker and I were making cookies as gifts for our friends and families this year.

The decorating was the funniest part! :) We just used dark chocolate, some almonds and sugar topping (coloured on some of the cookies).

We made simple stars...

decorated trees....



snowman...

Santas...

some cuties...

and several animals :)

What do you think?

I also made a special one for my boyfriend because he loves sailing:

It was such great fun do make them. I adore baking!

Did you guys also make some Christmas cookies??







yattemita: Camomile Face Steaming

Last week I tried some beauty stuff. I had heard about camomile tea used as face cosmetic,
so I remembered that camomile was indeed very good for the skin.

I just took a big bowl and filled it with about two litres of hot water combined with 7 camomile tea packs. Less would have done too, but I wanted it strong ;)

Then I sat down in front of the bowl and held my face over it making sure the steam would reach my face by putting a towel over the bowl and my head. I soon noticed it was still a bit too hot, so I waited a couple of minutes. Then again under the towel and so I stayed for 15 minutes, which was actually a great opportunity for some thinking.

When I finished and dried my face I was really curious about how it worked.

And it did work! My skin was very soft and felt fresh and the pores were cleaned. And I got rid of this annoying spot I had fought with for a while.

I loved the result! So I decided to do this once month from now on, for it is natural and also much cheaper than any special toner or face mask you can buy in the shops. And it's good for the throat and for breathing, too.

Try it! :)

Herbal Wrapping

Last week was my mums birthday and I bought her this great hand cream of L'Occitane (she loves its scent). Of course it needed a nice packaging. And of course I couldn't leave this to the shops staff but made it myself.

I know its not the best and also not the most creative wrapping, but I love the wrapping paper.

Unfortunately I didn't have the time to buy some nice ribbon to make a cute bow, but next time I definately will!

As I said, I really like the paper. There are pics of herbs on it (well, cartoon drawings actually) and a brief discription of each, which tells you how to use it and what it fits with well.

Very cute idea I think. What do you say??

I really enjoy wrapping gifts! What fun will it be to wrap all the Christmas givings!!



tsukuttemita - Almond & Blueberry Cup

This is one of the first things I ever tried making myself:
Almond-cream with fresh blueberries

It is actually more a pudding (not the british one) than some kind of cream. I made it on a spring

afternoon. Blueberries are just SO refreshing! And it was delicious. I shall make this again sometime.

los gehts!

yay! Today I started this blog and I hope

you guys will enjoy reading it!

As I am an university student and

should be studying most of my time,

I won't be able to post daily.

It will more be like once a week I guess.

Maybe on thursdays??

Anyway,

would be nice to see you around here!