Happy New Year 2014

Happy New Year 2014.

Thank you for stopping by and for spending time looking at my photos, it's well appreciated!

December 2013

December, my favorite month of the year.  This December was all about the family, my son came home from Denmark with his wife and two sons and stayed for 3 weeks. I love being a grandmother!  Here you can see some of what we did this month!

Cake decorating for my friends in the photography club

My grandsons favorite Christmas cookies

We've been making gingerbread house for 27 years!

Traditional Icelandic Leaf bread

Many kinds of cookies and gingerbread cookies on a stick to decorate the Christmas dinner table.

The Christmas dinner table.

Ballerinas I made as Christmas presents for my family and friends.

Merry Christmas to you all!

Graduation day.

My niece graduated as a Lawyer today.  

Her parents held a beautiful reception for their wonderful daughter.

Congratulations Fanný Heiða.

The Lawyer

Delicious

Cup cakes for the children.

                                           

My sister used Hrafnaklukkur (Lady smock) to decorate the table.

Summer

Finally it's summer here in North Iceland and we've had unusually warm weather after an unusually hard winter. The extreme in the weather is very strange but I'm enjoying the warmth we are having now so I'm not complaining. I tried a new very refreshing drink today. Lemon, lime, sparkling water  and mint mmmmmm.  

I also made my first macaronis, tasted delicious too.

Fresh lime and mint leaves.

Refreshing in the sun.

Macaronis in the making.

Ready to enjoy.

Mmmmmmmmmm.

Party

My daughter and her friend taught six year old girls to dance last winter at Point dansstudíó in Akureyri.  When the season ended in May 8th we decided to invite all the girls to our home to say goodbye. We enjoyed very much preparing and making goodies for them.

Mikado sticks dipped in pink chocolate

Cup cakes with hearts............

......rice crispies, melted marshmallows and m&ms.....

and fruits.........

made the girls very happy :)

Pink milk and pineapple juice

The pink milk was very popular

Sitting and playing.

Everyone got a Hello Kitty tattoo......

.....and a goodbye present to take home.

The girls were very happy when they left!

Quality time :)

As you have seen in my earlier blog I went to a seminar to learn how to decorate bowls. My daughter made one bowl a few days ago as a present for her boyfriends mother. I decided to try something else......

.....I decided to decorate a glass bottle and see how it would turn out. it's a bottle we use to serve water. 

To bad I forgot to photograph the bottle before I decorated it.

      The bowl my daughter made for her boyfriends mother  :)    

The water bottle.

Beautiful roses.

Have a nice day :)

       

Easter fun.

Died eggs, decorations,  flowers, delicious food, family and friends, that's what holidays are all about.

                  

 

Easter decorations.

Few years ago I was asked to publish my pictures in a magazine called "The housewife". It's an old fashioned magazine but with great interviews, ordinary people and very good recipes. Some of the following pictures are from that time.  

Hope you have a nice day, 

Agnes

Chocolate eggs wrapped in  golden folio

My grandmother had those wonderful cups

Easter cup cakes. 

Inspiration

Yesterday I took my daughters and my daughter-in-law to a seminar to learn to decorate porcelain.

My sister is an artist and she was the teacher.  To make a long story short, we had a great time and each of us decorated one bowl to take home and got materials to make 2 more.  I was very inspired and I'm looking forward using what I learned to make a lot more and in fact I can't wait to start!

Thanks a lot Auja :)

My sister Auja teaching us to decorate porcelain bowls. You

can see her work at whendecorating.blogspot.com

We were 8 women eager to learn :)

My daughters at work.

 My daughter-in-law, looking very professional :)

The final work, nice don't you think?

Thank's for stopping by :)
Love,
Agnes