Making of ... meat products

Ok, I know the slaughter part was brutal, but I had to post it in order you know the whole story...
This part is much nicer. It is about preparing all that yummy meat products. Basically, you need the meat, lot of garlic, paprika and different seasonings. Plus you need cleaned intestines to make sausages and headcheese.

And you need some machines like a meat grinder and a sausage machine of course...


I told you, lot of paprika...


You have to make a knot at one side of the intestine so the filling stays in.


You can wrap the meat with some fat parts to give it better taste while roasting.


This is how you fill the intestine with the mixture.


You put the sausages in hot water (not a boiling one) for like 7 minutes and they are ready for a future preparation.



It begins with cooking not so atractive parts of pig´s meat, and ends with a headcheese.


And here are the happy boys cheering to a good work:

DIY heartshaped collage

I found it on some blog, but originally it is from Warren Heeath photography via here

So this is an image that striked me long time ago. So when me and my boyfriend had a 1 year anniversary, I decided to make something similar from our photo memories of that year. I wish we also have such a white bedroom to hang it there....

I started with developing all the nice pictures of us, because as most of you, I store mine mostly in computer... Sorry for the quality, but it was late evening when I took them...

I cut out a heart shape from 2 theatre posters attached together. Then I arrange the photos on it, and started to stick them on the paper one by one. It took over me one hour...

And here is the final result. Still do not have the right spot for it. If I find it, I will show you a picture... Have a great white weekend!

DIY ribbon bow

It´s my dad´s 60th birthday, and I got him a big surprise. To make it look even better, I needed a huge ribbon bow. I couldn´t find any that met my expectations, so I decided to do one myself. I bought 10 meter long ribbon and started.

I turn to internet to find a way how to do it. And I found one I thought would be perfect for my purpose. Here is how I did it, and all I needed was scissors.
I took like 6 meters of ribbon, folded it in half and then I continued folding it from one side, ended up with this:

Then I needed to cut the edges....I was very unhappy to destroy such a nice ribbon, but was hoping it will bring me the desired final product.

Then I tied the folded ribbon with a small piece of ribbon I cut in half, and prepared it before.

The last think was to adjust the folded parts.


And, the final touch, I attached it to the rest of the ribbon simply by tying the knot.


And one of my first DIY projects is complete. Easy.
To see it attached on my surprice gift, please come back soon!
have a great weekend!