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DIY: Rubber stamps and giveaway reminder.

Hi! :) First, I just want to remind you of my pretty giveaway I’m currently having on my blog, so don’t forget to enter it. :)

Some month ago I started making some rubber stamps out of rubbers one can buy in a stationery store and used a simple cutter for doing this. For a first try, they became quite good, but I wasn’t completely satisfied. Then, I discovered this awesome turorial on the Internet which helped me a lot to enlarge my knowledge about techniques and tools for making rubber stamps. You should watch this tutorial, it’s great! :)

I bought such tools at a handicraft store and yesterday I tried making stamps for the second time and they became MUCH better than the first ones. :)

First, I made a draft on paper, then I drew it with a pencil onto the rubber and cut out the different parts. :)

Do you like them? :)
Wish you a great day,
Love, Lu

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You can win something!! :)

Hey ladies and gents,
as I have promised, here is my second giveaway to celebrate my 100 followers!!! :) I’m so happy and of course totally proud about having so many readers who are interested in what I’m creating and doing, I appreciate this a lot. :)
To thank you for this, here’s a little present for one of you, consisting of:

– A handmade pouch, which can for example perfectly be used as a pencil case,
– A camera brooch,
– A roe deer necklace and
– A hair bow. :)

To enter the giveaway for having the chance to win, here’s what you need to do:

1. You have to be a follower of my blog.
2. Tell me in the comment section of this post what you like about my blog (If you are a follower, there has to be something that you like XD) and if you have any suggestions, tell me what else you would like to see here on my blog.
3. Leave your e-mail adress in the comment section so that I can contact you in case you win. :)

I will determine the winner Sunday evening, you have to submit your post by 6 p.m (GMT) on this day. ;)

Good luck! :)
Love, Lu

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DIY: Lu’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Hi! :) I was highly inspired by the delicious summer jam Ellen has sent me, so I decided to find out how to make jam myself and my mother told me how to do so. :) Today, Flo and I went to the market, bought some fresh red currants and a pot of lemon balm (you can’t imagine how fresh and summery this smells). Because I wanted to make LOTS of jam, I also went to the supermarket and bought strawberries and kiwis, some of my favourite fruits. :)

 
 These are the ingredients I used (I just forgot the limes on the photo).
I made two different kinds of jar, so here are the ingredients for the first one:
– About 3,7 pound of strawberries (German: 1,7 kilo)  
– About 1,5 pound of kiwis (German: 0,7 kilos)
– Fresh lemon balm
– 5,3 pound of preserving sugar (German: 2,4 kilos) 
For the second jam, I used:
– Fresh red currants
– Lemon balm 
– Lime juice
– Preserving sugar (the proportion between sugar and fruits has to be at a ratio of 1 to 1)
First, cut and wash the fruits. Here, I first made the jam with strawberries and kiwi, the other one I made afterwards.
Then, chop the fresh lemon balm and add it to the fruits.
Next, mash everything and weight the mixture. Take sugar at a ratio of 1 to 1 and put the fruit mixture and the sugar into a pot where you heat it until it comes to the boil and then it has to boil for 4 minutes (Concerning the other jam, the mixture with the red currants only has to boil for one minute.). During that time, you have to stir up, so don’t stop doing this. :)
What is very important, before filling them with the hot jam (you have to do this directly after boiling), you have to clean the jam jars with hot water so that they become sterile.
After you filled the jars, turn them around, so that the vacuum between the jam and the jar’s cover disappears. Thus, the jam keeps well much longer. :)
Of course I decorated the jars with some cute handwritten labels and some pieces of fabric. :)
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2nd giveaway coming soon!

Hey ladies, how are you? :) I’m so glad to see that there are already 99 people following my blog, and because I had promised to make the next giveaway as soon as there are 100 followers, I’m already preparing this for you. :) There will be some absolutely cute things to win, more about that in a few days… :)
Love, Lu
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Update: There ARE now 100 people (Thank you so much!!!) and I’ll soon annouce my second giveaway. This is so awesome, it made my day! <3
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