Cheese cake again

I had made many cheese cakes with various flavour before, now it was the time to rethink it with hazelnut. Lucky I am I have a real hazelnut bush in my garden, so I had not to surf the net after photos. Well, I searched the bush and the ground beneath it, but I found only a few lame bunches of hazelnut. Our dog is a nut addict and devoured all the fallen hazelnuts. So much for the hot caramelized nuts at cold winter evenings...

Bench variations

About two or three weeks ago I made a bench with drawers. At first I wasn't sure the white-stained wood-blue color combination, but I found beatiful brown-blue flower pattern on the net and I was immediately convinced of the color trio.  

I liked so much the result I tried more color variations, too, and I even made experiments on the number of drawers.

Some months ago I realized I have to manage my furniture plans much more organised. From that time I print all the parts onto card paper and put them into their own envelope decorated with elevation draws. I numbered the paper parts and the elevation draws similarly, so I always know which part is which. Though the preliminary works are more with every first piece of furniture, making the remakes are always far more convenient and simple.

Making scones

August is the month of experiments. I have a lot of new plans in my mind and in my idea book. Now I try to make them one by one. This time I show you a preparation board and a bread box.
I love this blue floral ornament style named gzhel. It originates from Russia and they use it for ceramics. I used this blue design for the flour box and the rolling pin.
The bread box was my first try to make my own miniature hinges. I'm just whispering these are not the results of my fist attempt (and not the second...). At last I find the right materials and the right dimensions. Now I can make furniture not only with working drawers but working doors, too. As I imagine!

Sponge cake

This sponge cake is the most simple and the most complicated one at the same time I've ever made. At first I design the paper pieces of the cake pan on my computer, then plotted them in the correct scale. That was the time when I got shocked realizing how tiny these pieces are! Bot I'm not the type giving in and the result was worth all the efforts and time. 

Let me introduce you my little sponge cake just from the oven. The frame even burnt my finger!

Apricot cake

The spring frost killed all the apricot flowers in my garden, and all over Hungary too. Now the apricot is the most expensive fruit on the markets, it's almost luxury! So the real apricot cake remains only a sweet dream, but fortunetaly I can make it in miniature. I covered the cake with almond slices and powdered sugar. Now I have to eat some sweet, anything...

In bread making mood

Inspired by the breads with lettering about what I posted a few days ago, today I made only various breads and other bakery goods and placed them nicely into a rectangular wicker basket. I think there is no room even for one little croissant in the basket. But in this case the fullness is not reprehensible at all.

Vanity table

First of all I would like to thanks all those very useful tips about fake mirrors you left a few week ago for me. Since then I  got mirrored acrylic sheets I need to make one of my old plans, a vanity table. Of course in shabby shic style, again. All the drawers work, I used metal beads and wires, some black and copper paint for the drawer pulls. I lined their interiors with lovely green floral patterned paper.