10min. Madeleine

Typhoon is coming.. It's windy terribly outside...D-:

Today I found a nice recipe for beginner!

Madeleine & Cappucino :-)

It took only 10 min. before baking. It was very easy even for me!

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Ingredients
  100g flour, 1-2 tsp baking powder, 75g sugar, 100g butter, 2 eggs

Direction
1. Melt butter.
2. Preheat the oven to 180C.
3. Combine flour and baking soda.
4. Combine eggs and sugar with a whik in another bowl.
5. Add flour and baking soda into eggs bowl, and mix well. 　
6. Add melted butter, and mix well slowly.
7. Pour into molds, and bake for 12min. That's all!
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Easy & Yummy!

Remade Dress

I tried to remake clothes for the first time! I have forgotton to take a before photo...what a silly!
This was a dress with boat neck and baloon sleeves that I made 3 or 4 years ago, which looked no longer out of date!
I removed the sleeves and cut neck line to make it wider, and made a bias tape from the sleeves.
I binded neck line and arm holes with the bias tape, and sewed my waist line with an elastic
thread.
I'm going to wear this dress as casual with a pair of leggins and a parka. :-)

can you see this elastic waist?

also goes well with this dressy cardigan

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the last black berries.. see you on next summer!

Steamed Cakes

A water-lily from Thailand bloomed!

Even though it's Sunday today, my husband has gone to his office... :(  Japanese people really work hard... When I had been a worker ( a kind of public worker),  I took only 2-3 days off a month.  At last, I was exhausted and got some troubles on my health, and I quitted my job. Now I'm a happy homemaker, thanks to my husband.

Mushi-pan, Steamed Cakes

I do love cooking, but I'm not good at baking caks and cookies.  I can only make a few kinds of them, and these on this photo above are the ones of them, Mushi-pan, steamed cake. It's very easy to make, and very healthy with a little oil.

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Ingredients
1c flour, 1/2c sugar, 1tsp baking powder, 1tsp oil, 1c milk

Direction
1. Combine flour, sugar and baking powder in a bawl.
2. Add oil and milk into the bawl.
3. Pour into cups, and steam for 15min. That's all!
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They look brown because I used brown sugar.

New Sofa Cover

black in black... where is my dog?

I had wanted to get white covers for this sofa, which is dark and looks too stuffy in this season.....

So I went to a furniture store where I purchased it to ask about that.

They answered
 'About 50,000yen in amount, and it will take about 3 months'!!!!

Who can believe???!!!

Soon I measured each parts of the sofa, and drew plans, and purchased 10meters of fabric. (costed about 10,000yen)

I did it!! Yay!!!

Cute marimekko fabric :-)

Nanso fabric. Cool sheep

 

I feel refreshing, and I think it's summery! 
My room became brighter than before. I am so much satisfied with the result. :-)

I saved as much as 40,000 yen. I'm very proud of ME! :-)

4/2010 Boyfriend Trousers #107 from Burda

'Boyfriend' Trousers from the pattern of Burda. 'Boyfriend' styles are very popular also in Japan, but a slightly different each other, I think.　 Japanese Boyfriend pants have no tuck in the front. 

I thought it seemed to be complicated and difficult for me to make, but not so much actually. :) 

 These are loose, relaxed and very comfortable!!   Perfect for this season!

I love these details on waist; these double gold buttons and a wide waist band. So I won't wear belt with this.

Free Pattern Information!

Tex Style Depots is one of my favorite online fabric shops. They sell really good quality products, and they often offer us free pdf patterns. They notified me by e-mail that they have released new patterns today! New patterns are for a sleeveless blouse and flower necklace.
You can check them out HERE!  And HERE are other patterns for autumn and winter.

Click a banner where I circled in red to download patterns 
Click a button in yellow to see instrctions.

OH, please note that they have only ONE SIZE, size M in Japanese size.

I wonder if you could understand my explanation.... becayse my English is not good enough :-(
PLEASE  LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS!!

Enjoy sewing !! ;-)

Marine T-shirt

Recntly I have been trying to reduce my fabric stash...　This is very rough and thin linen & cotton jersey fabric. I have kept it away because it seemed to be a little difficult for me to sew well.  To use it,  I decided to draft very, very simple pattern for it.

I really love the dorman sleeves, which is very easy to make  and is perfect to hide my fat upper arms... :)

And I made a bow brooch from the scrap.
It can be moved anywhere I like.  I also love put it on the back.  It's cute, isn't it ?  ;)