Swarovski round beaded bezel pendant

This is what I am working on at the moment. I will probably be listing it on my etsy shop soon

WORDS OF THOUGHT...

Give & never give up. Do & never be done. For success 


is not an end but a way & passion does not come, it is 


generated from within...

Chocolate-coffee with cream

Give a pinch of sweetness and warmth to those cold winter days with this luscious coffee and chocolate drink


Ingredients
(makes 4 servings)

* 200 ml warm filter coffee
* 70 gr. cacao powder
* 300 ml milk
* 100 gr. sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon self raising flour
* 1 cinnammon stick
* orange peel
* 200 ml whipping cream (refrigerated)
* 50 gr. bittersweet or semisweet chocolate (grated)
* 1 tablespoon confectioner's sugar


Instructions

In a medium saucepan whisk together the milk, cinnammon stick and orange peel.

Bring to a boil over low heat until milk has just begun to tremble.

Let milk cool for 6 minutes and then drain.

In a seperate saucepan whisk together the sugar, flour and cacao powder and add the drained milk to it.

Stir on low heat for 15 minutes.

Add the warm filter coffee and boil on low heat or 2 minutes.

Beat the whipping cream until it forms stiff peeks.

Add the confectioner's sugar while beating and then the chocolate (grated)

Divide into 4 cups and top with cream.

Paper sailboat decoration made using wine cork

In the greek islands the sailboat is used as a christmas decoration.

This lovely sailboat was made from my son's kindergarten teacher.

I absolutely love the cork material she used on it.

Just a little something medieval I'm working on

Christmas scented dessert

Ingredients
(makes 4 servings)
* * * * * *
-12 ladyfingers (Ladyfingers are light and sweet sponge cakes roughly shaped like a large finger. They are called   savoiardi in Italian (meaning "fromSavoy")
- 30ml orange liquor
- 250 gr. dried fruits ( apricots, plums, raisins) in big chunks
- 300 gr. light cream
- 2 tablespoons confectioner's sugar
- 3 tablespoons crushed roasted almonds
- 3 tablespoons orange marmelade
- 2-3 cloves
- 2-3 pieces cardammon
- 1 cinammon stick


Instructions
* * * * * * * * 
Heat the marmelade with 3 tablespoons water and add the cloves, cardammon and cinammon. Add dried fruits and leave to soften for 1 or 2 hours. Remove the spices. Beat the light cream with the confectioner's sugar. Cover the bottom of a bowl with half of the ladyfingers soaked in the liquor. Drain the dried fruits and place on ladyfingers. Break the rest of the ladyfingers into chunky pieces and drizzle with the syrup from the dried fuits. Place them in the bowl on top of the dried fuits and top with the cream mixture. Drizzle with the crushed almonds.

NOTE OF THANKS to repubblica.it

Vorrei ringraziare il republicca.it rivista italiana per ricordare meei miei lavori sul loro sito e vi ringrazio peolpe italiano per aver visitato il mio sito. Sono molto appassionato di Italia, perché la famiglia di mio marito è italiano. Se vedi qualcosa che ti piace e volete contattarmi potete farlo attraverso la pubblicazione sul mio blog o contattarmi tramite craftluxuries.etsy.com. Chi acquista dal mio negozio Etsy sta sostenendo la mia famiglia composta da 2giovani ragazzi che sta attraversando momenti difficilieconomico. Ho cose tanto per spedire, cercheremo di fare del mio meglio al distacco, poiché più che posso e dare al mondotutto quello che posso dal mio mondo dei mestieri artigianali, ricette, tutorial e altro ancora.


Un sentito ringraziamento e Buone Feste!


I would like to thank the Italian journal republicca.it for mentioning me and my works on their site and thank you italian peolpe for visiting my site. I'm really fond of Italy because my husband's family is Italian. If you see something you like and would like to contact me you can do it through posting on my blog or contacting me through craftluxuries.etsy.com. Anyone buying from my etsy shop is supporting my family of 2 young boys who is going through difficult economical times. I have so much things to post, will try to do my best at posting as much as I can and give to the world all I can from my world of handmade crafts, recipes, tutorials and more.

Warm thanks and Happy Holidays!