Oreo and cereals mini cheesecake

I hear that the Oreos are some sort of top of the nutritional pyramid for kids. Ore rule, or so  it seems. I did like the commercials, but I was never curious to try them.

Up until recently when I bought a 4-pack. Of course I couldn’t test them just like that, so I tried some sort of a cheesecake, put together with whatever else I had in the fridge…

Tulips, tulips, tulips…out of an egg carton

I was telling you in one of my posts that I am determined to reuse, recycle, upcycle all the stuff I have gathered around the house.

When I made the Oreo cheesecake I used the last two eggs and I got left with the egg carton.

I usually throw it away, but today, I looked at it and I saw…tulips! 

Duct tape bag out of a kitchen towel

Since I have started to seek relaxation time and my way out of the day to day routine by crafting, I’ve started bringing out from my storage boxes and drawers all sorts of potential materials for my future craft projects, so I’m in dire need of some organization of my craft creation corner.

Besides that, one of my goals is to stop throwing away so easily the things which, at first sight, I might think I would not need anymore.

When I brought the sea coast in my bedroom, I had some scraps of fabric left and I keep moving them around. So, in the spirit of upcycling, I took one of them out, laid it on the table and waited to get an idea of what to do with it…

M is for Maria (I)

Maria’s Mom and I have known each other since we were just toddlers. Our Moms worked at  the same Institute  and we used to go together to the Christmas parties thrown for the employees’ children, to the Zoo, in the park to ride the carousels… We did become friends ourselves when we grew up… 10 years now?!

Then Maria came along. Maria is a beautiful and cheerful, smart and very curious child.

Last time the girls came to visit me, Maria painted salt dough Christmas tree decorations and she helped me to make some pizza. I cannot find the proper words to tell you how delighted she was to paint without restrictions and how many slices of the pizza she made she managed to eat!

And since the girls are due to visit me again, I wanted to prepare for Maria a new activity.

I have asked Maria’s Mom to send me a photo of Maria’s favourite place in the house. 

Are headbands still in fashion?

I have always liked the thin headbands, made from plastic. A while ago I used to have lots of them in all sorts of colors and I used to wear them two or three at a time, matching them with whatever I wore.

The sea coast in the bedroom

In my small apartment, the bedroom is also – how else?...small. Therefore I painted it white as it is well known that white enlarges a space, makes it look more airy. 

But because I love the beach, the seaside, in my bedroom one can find little pieces of the coast. 

Bead, bead on a string.

Do you also keep little nothings around the house hoping that one day you will use them again?

I do that. Everything I have used for upcycling mysister’s dress were things that were not used anymore, but saved “for later” – maybe I’ll use them sometime… The same with the plastic jar I have used for my first upcycled flower pot.  I am planning to start reusing – in different ways and for different purposes-  all the little nothings  I have saved along the time… to stop having them well hidden and give them a new purpose.

Recently I went through all my cases and boxes and I ran into some old wooden beads. Long time ago they were a necklace whose string decided to not want its destiny anymore. The string left us, but the beads stayed. I keep looking at them for some days now, thinking what to do with them, as their colour perfectly matches one of the shirts I love.

So I took some cotton string and cut 4 stripes of about 2 meters each and I folded all of them in half.

Old dress, new dress

“You take it, sister. I am not wearing it anymore…look, it is stained…maybe you can do something about it” said my sister when I was “shopping” through her wardrobe.

Now came its turn. I took three shirts nobody wears anymore for different reasons: one is burnt with the iron, one is too large, the other has ruffles and is no longer cool.

Elastic sheets, line up!

I love elastic sheets. They are the only ones which resist without piling up underneath me during the night. However, I hate that they are soooo difficult to fold without clumps.

Until today! Since I have managed to organize all the plastic bags in the kitchen, couldn’t I use the same method for the elastic sheets? Let’s try it:

Cearceafuri, alinierea!

Imi plac foarte tare cearceafurile cu elastic. Sunt singurele care rezista  fara sa se adune ghemotoc sub mine in timpul nopții. Nu-mi place insa la ele faptul ca-s extrem de greu de impachetat fara cocoloase.

Pana azi! Dacă tot am reusit sa pun la punct toate pungile din bucatarie, n-aa putea folosi aceeasi metoda si pentru cearceafuri? Sa incercam: