Vánočka is a typical Czech pastry traditionally made at Christmas. It could be compared to the Spanish mona or the French brioche, although Vánočka is even better. It is rich in butter and eggs, lightly sweet and if you make it right, it smells and tastes fresh for two or three days (if it lasts that long). …
Winter and snow have come and the cold weather gives many of us dry skin and cracked lips. Here’s a lip balm that protects and makes the lips super soft.
Whether you have snow or not, december is a great time to start with the winter decoration. Therefore, here’s a tutorial on three different paper snowflakes. You’ll need very little, just some paper, pencil, ruler, scissors, glue and something to hang the snowflakes on. And if you add some hot tea or eggnog you can …
Scrunchies and hair clips are being consumed like bread in our household. When our girls get a new batch we miss half of it within a week and we find some of it in most unusual places. They care just a little bit better about hair accessories I make for them like head bands or …
My attitude towards Christmas changed in time. I used to love this magical season when I was a child, later my excitement shifted rather towards the New Year Eve’s celebrations. And now, when I’m older and have kids, I’m excited about Christmas again, probably since summer. At our home, the season starts just before advent …
More creative ideas for children (and adult children;-)
The autumn weather always comes in November. And that’s the perfect time to start thinking about comfort food which – in my home – means cinnamon buns among other things. And we don’t spare on the butter-cinnamon filling.
Probably every household has a never ending supply of toilet paper rolls and so there aren’t enough projects to recycle them. I would like to show you how to do this little fire breathing dragon project with your children.
After I’ve made several handbags ranging from envelopes to a really big bag that can carry all the things I need for my kids, I wanted to try something less usual.
It took me a long time to publish this project but I think it’s worth the wait! I wanted to create a funny way for my kids to see whose birthday was coming up next.
Easy and fun way to have your kids entertained for a while, especially when you want to teach them to color while staying within the outlines of the picture.
If you have kindergarten children, autumn might be the season of cough and runny nose in your house. We fight the cold by doping ourselves with our own fruit in summer and continue with it in September as much as we can. Once we run out of our own fruit, we get oranges and …
When I was little, almost all the girls had such a plastic basket (today it’s already one of those vintage toys) that was hard to destroy and we all just loved it. I remembered the basket when I was making this bowl because the plastic it was made of was exactly as flexible as the …
One of my favorite dishes ever, a summer hit from seasonal ingredients
What is better than a box with chocolate pralines? I say, a chocolate box with chocolate pralines!
If there’s a housework I really dislike, it’s the bathroom cleaning. I don’t like it especially because of all the vapors from the bleach and other cleaning substances. I try to substitute them with homemade detergents such as these toilet bombs.
Chocolate pralines are a great gift and even more so if you make them yourself!
We are spending the summer break in the south where the tap water has been replaced by lava and a five minute walk to the store feels like a whole-day-march in a dessert. The seaside is much better, however, the weather has an effect on the skin and the hair and that is why I …
Here’s the new addition to our terrace garden – the pallet planter! Between the household, the family and the rest of the field I never had enough time to take care of our strawberries which needed especially constant weeds removing. And so we decided to move the strawberries to a planter with a substrate in …
As I already said, I really don’t like all the vapors and chemicals in the usual detergents, bleach etc. I try to make most of the cleaners we use and this time I would like to show you how to make an ecological and skin-friendly grease remover. I use it especially to clean the kitchen.
