My girls decided to make small gifts from salt dough. Do you know this miracle? It’s a great alternative of plasteline or play d’oh. You can dry or bake it and the result is pretty hard and resistant. In this tutorial I will show you how to make a keychain from dried salt dough.
Flan is a charming little Spanish dessert! It’s easy and fast to make and it tastes sooo good! And if you also like coffee, well then, this recipe is for you! I’ll show you how to make traditional coffee flan as well as a few alternatives.
Looking for original gift bags? Just make them yourself!
This year’s Christmas cards are inspired by the poinsettia plant.
Nice giftbox easy to make. Pick a paper with some nice pattern to bring it to the next level.
Baking cookies at Christmas is like a national sport in my country. Housewives compete over who baked the most types and the most ridiculous amounts of each type. The Linzer cookies are something you always find on a Czech Christmas table.
We are all big fans of Totoro in our home, especially Mina who would love to watch this beautiful Japanese tale every day. She wished a Totoro cake for her birthday and it was up to me to deliver.
If you ask me, one of the greatest Austian inventions is the Sacher cake. So why not make Sacher cake pops?
Lately Lily has been measuring everything by how many times we have to go to bed until the event comes – birthdays, holidays, Christmas… my mom started making the girls these simple and effective meters which help them grasp the time concept better.
There’s never enough creative activities once the autumn weather arrives. This spring I needed lots of them because with the new baby’s arrival we were also visited by a series of kids’ illnesses which meant spending a lot of time indoors.
Food was one of the reasons I enjoyed staying with my grandma. There’s one particular dish that I will always remember. It’s called povidlové knedlíky (plum marmelade dumplings) or also pěry and they’re filled with special kind of thick plum jam called povidla and coated with ground poppy seeds and powder sugar. It’s usually eaten as a …
“Braaaains!” – does this quote sound familiar? If so, maybe you know the movie that inspired this Halloween brain cake. We don’t really celebrate Halloween at home but we won’t miss an opportunity to put costumes on, make an original cake and have some fun. And so I bring you my first Halloween tutorial for …
This map is a great way to teach kids (and adults) some geography. It’s a blind map on which you pin flags, names of the countries, cities, rivers….I went with the map of Europe but you can choose any part of the world. The main part of the map are the country flags that stick …
Before our new addition to the family arrived, I managed to sew the gilrs some new summer dresses. And because of our new addition to the family I didn’t manage to get more then one pair of the dresses photographed. Anyway, here are the dresses, our girls like them a lot and maybe you’re looking …
Koláče (read kolache) are a traditional Czech pastry traditionally baked at Easter or kermis, nowadays any time. They are made with yeast-dough and filled with marmelades, poppy seeds, cottage cheese and povidla (thick plum marmelade without gelling agent).
If you find yourself in South Morava and you are looking for an easy trip in the nature where you can take even a city pram, Nosislav is the place to go! Moreover, if you’re a geocacher, it’s a double win.
If you’ve known my blog for a while you probably know that I make my kids birthday cakes. My oldest daughter is especially demanding, this year she came up with the idea of the “penguin cake”. And it was up to me to figure out how to make such a cake at home with usual …
These flower buds are easy to make and they’re great for decorating – hair accessories, dresses, cushions…or in my case – a handbag.
For this summer I made a handbag that looks like those fashion baskets that people like to take to the beach.
If there’s something I don’t want my kids to eat it’s those nut-chocolate spreads that have minimum nuts in them but plenty of sugar and aromas. fortunately, my children don’t eat it very often but it’s still their favorite crep ingredient, so I decided to make it at home and healthier.
