We ♥ DIY braided wool

Me and some of my student were thinking about making some headbands and belts from wools...earlier in the classroom. It's pretty easy and can be for kids or adults too. You just need some colorful wools (you can use some fabrics to if you want too), some rubber strap, yarn for seewing and seewing needle too.

You can put it on your bag so it will look prettier :)

For belt :)

For fun belt :)

For headbands or for costume party :)

 For these 4 pics above, pick the colors, just braid the wool and at the end of it, you just tie the wool.

Small headbands, you can make it one or two layers :)

For these headbands (look at the 2 pictures above), you just braid the wools, and at the end of it, you just sew it manually to the rubber strap, it's easy :)

It's always nice to make something instead of buying :)

Crispy and delicious Asparagus and Potato tart

Me and my mom just love to try new recipes. This time we tried this crispy asparagus potato tart from Jamie Oliver's recipe.

My pic is not as nice as Jamie's pic :p

Let me copy paste what's on that site :)

 Ingredients:

• 500g potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 500g asparagus spears, woody ends removed
• 200g filo pastry
• 100g butter, melted
• 100g freshly grated Lancashire cheese (we changed Lancashire cheese to cheddar cheese since we couldn't find one at the moment)
• 100g freshly grated Cheddar cheese
• 3 large organic or free-range eggs
• 1 x 284ml pot of double cream
• ¼ of a nutmeg

Put your potatoes into a pan of salted boiling water and cook for 15 minutes. Meanwhile blanch your asparagus in a separate pan of salted boiling water for 4 minutes, and drain in a colander.

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas 5. Get an ovenproof dish. Layer the sheets of filo pastry in the dish, brushing them with melted butter as you go and letting about 2.5cm hang over the edge. You want to get the pastry about five layers thick. Put a clean, damp tea towel over the top and put to one side.

When the potatoes are done, mash them with the cheeses. In a separate bowl, mix together the eggs and cream and stir in your cheesy mashed potato. Grate in the nutmeg, season well with pepper and mix together. Spread the mashed potato over the filo pastry, then bring up the sides of the filo and scrunch them together to form a rim. Take your blanched asparagus and line them up across the filling, making sure you cover it all. Brush all over with the remaining melted butter and pop into the preheated oven for around 20 minutes, or until golden and crisp. Allow to rest for 10 minutes. Serve just as you would a quiche for a quick lunch or supper, with a salad.

Wanna try? :)

♥ Haruka Nakamura's "Arne"

I got this video from make it easy blog. I think the blog is lovely and the music too :)

Check Haruka Nakamura's Myspace

A movie showing life in the Dutch East-Indies ♥

 

Love this! :)
Found this on YouTube, you can check it on my channel too :)

I ♥ colorful salad :)

I love to eat salad because it's easy haha...and I love to mix the ingredients, it's a fresh healthy food. And with salads, I can make it colorful too (with it's own natural color of course), it makes me happy to eat it :)

Here are some of the salads I've made. I took some pics so I can share it with you, and of course the recipe too :)

Ingredients :
(the amount it depends on your taste)

-You can use fresh lettuce and mix it with mizuna (japanese greens), or you can mix red leaf lettuce  with oakleaf leattuce. But my faves at the moment are fresh romains and arugula.

-Fresh strawberries

-Fresh peeled mandarin orange

-Boiled chicken (and chop the chicken)

-Some parmigiano cheese

-And strawberry dressing.

How to make the strawberry dressing (and the amount it depends on your taste):

6-8 large strawberries
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar or freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 cup water
1 clove garlic
1 teaspoon honey

Just mix all of them and voila....you will have a nyummy colorful salad :)

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And here is another simple salad recipe that I got from Pepenero restaurant. I made it last week, it's one of my fave salad at the moment :)

Ingredients :

(the amount it depends on your taste)

-Fresh rucola

-Fresh pears (cut into slices)
-Some pine nuts

-Italian pecorino cheese or you can use parmigiano (cut into slices)

-And honey dressing

How to make the honey dressing (and the amount it depends on your taste):

-Honey

-Red wine vinegar

Try it...you'll love it :)

♥ Haila's, Mayuko's & Adriana's

First day of school...Haila, Mayuko and Adriana gave me this cute drawing ♥

"This is miss Kyra..." Haila said :)

"Miss Kyra..." by Mayuko :)

By Adriana :)

 Simple things that kids can do to make you happy (hug Haila, Mayuko and Adriana) :)

i ♥ love letters

This one is my fave ♥

These are some of the love letters from Bill Saphiro's Others People's Love Letter. Here's the link and this too.

♥ La Blogotheque's

Beautiful artist...Beautiful singer...Beautiful band...Beautiful songs...Beautiful videos...Beautiful colors...

The Take Away Shows :)

With Chryde as the founder of the website La Blogothèque and Vincent Moon as the video maker (he's an indipendent filmmaker)...voila...here comes the so called Take-Away Shows (or the French title Les Concerts à Emporter)...existed since April 2006. Check the web La Blogotheque and this one too .

I always love to watch The Take Away Shows videos...these are some of them.

The video of Phoenix, Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes was directed by Vincent Moon. I love the way Vincent Moon uses warm and contrast colors with only white text as the title in his videos. Check Vincent Moon's web.

The video of Tenniscoats and Jamie Lidell's was directed by Colin Solal Cardo...love the colors too, check Colin Solal Cardo's web.

Here's La Blogoteque's channel on Youtube.

Oatmeal raisin cinammon cookies :)

I love cookies that's a bit chewy and i love cinammon :) I just made this...wanna try this simple recipe?

Ingredients:

3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tbsp vanila extract
1 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp ground cinammon (depends on your taste)
1 tsp salt

2 3/4 cup oats
1 cup raisin

Directions:
1. Heat the oven to 200 degrees celcius.
2. Cream together the butter (softened), sugar and brown sugar.
3. Beat the egss till fluffy.
4. Gradually, beat all the ingredients (until salt) into the butter mixture.
5. Stop, then stir it while you put oats and raisin into the mixture.
6. Drop by spoonfull, put it in a pan and put into the oven for 8 - 10 minutes (or a bit more).

Do Fun Stuff with Music compilation for kids...for good cause :)

Music compilation for kids by Ryan Marshall. The idea was inspired by his step-son who loves music and has Smith Magenis syndrome

He made the video too, feels like dancing with the kids :) check Pacing The Panic Room



So Long I'm Six from The Panic Room Videos on Vimeo.

  

Mini Leia & R2D2 ♥

The cutest little Star Wars Cosplayers i've ever seen. It makes your heart melts :) I found this pic on this web .

I ♥ doodles + broken white = tote bags :)

I always love to make doodles, so I thought why not make something from it.

Wanna have new simple tote bags?

I've made some for you...it's only for Rp.60.000,

For more info and order, just email : kukywakukywa@gmail.com