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Strawberries at table

It took me some time to continue with my strawberry posts because technical problems prevented me from showing you my table decorations. Simply take some green paper napkins as a base for those fabric strawberries. These are sitting in a small mold of bast fibers. For the mold you need 3-4 fibers of 50-70cm length. […]

Strawberries

Strawberry fans will love them – these lovely fabric strawberries. These long-life berries will stay much longer than summer and they’re nice for all sorts of decorations. Whether you’ll sew them by machine or by hand, they’re done in a few minutes. Here’s a free download pattern for leaf and fruit. Take one or two […]

Dessert with ice cream

A perfect combination for the tinkering donkey – vanilla ice cream with strawberries and some delicious mint chocolate thins. An eye candy among desserts. I saw it on theeverybesttop10.com and tried it immediately. For a large group of guests the “ice boxes” should be prepared the previous day. Thus the melted chocolate spread on the […]

A new old shirt

Oops, accidents happen. In spite of my great care I got a large spot of window color in the front of my t-shirt. Neither stain remover nor several washes could help. Fortunately the tinkering donkey loves the marine style for summer clothes and there was a peace of white dotted red fabric left over from […]

Cheese muffins

Days are still becoming longer and every now and then there’s the chance to stay outside for a light dinner. You will surely enjoy the lovely cheese muffins seen on lecker.de. Serve them with a fresh beer or white wine and you’ll have a wonderful snack. For 12 normal sized muffins or 24 mini-muffins you’ll […]