Pimp-a-soup

When I'm lazy, I like to take simple cup-a-soup (you know those "just add water" powder soups?) and then add some filling to make it good. And well, today's lunch is one of those pimp-a-soups. It's asparagus soup with some ham and mixed vegetables.

Can you say fast, simple and delish?

Or you can just call lazy. It's up to you ;)

Home-made cuteness!

Yesterday was a looong day. You see, robert is moving away to study dentistry as an exchange-student in dublin for three months, and when he comes back he will just re-pack, and then we'll be going for our long backpacking trip for another two and a half months - so he's renting out his apartment for six months. And it turns out many were interested so we had viewings of the apartment for everyone interested all day yesterday.

Anyway, during these viewings i realized robert had found an old gift when cleaning i've given him a while back. It's the home-sewn onigiri (=japanese riceball. Very common with smiley faces on them in anime for some reason) plushie i made a few tears back <3

I haven't seen him in ages!

I should sew a big one as a decorative pillow when i move to a real apartment! :) that would be really cute haha :D

//Wayu

How to bake a cake - the easy way

1. Let your mother or someone else bake the delicious cake.

2. Whip up some cream and add some vanilla or vanilln powder for the taste and put it on the cake.

3. Add candies and fancy writing in chocolate sauce

4. Take credit ;)

//Wayu

knitting a scarf

I got back from stockholm on sunday, and well, I quickly realized when I got of the train that I didn't have my scarf - it turned out that I had forgotten it at my parents place (I was there for dinner on sunday as usual).

So, I bought some yarn at my local store and decided to knit a scarf. Not that it will be ready before I get my scarf back. Not even close. But the yarn was cheap and I thought I'd try. This way I can relearn to knit again, and maybe I can even try doing some fun pattern or something in the future, and then finally I can start knitting sweaters. Anyway I thought I'd begin somewhere.

The yarn I'm using. Just a cheap acrylic yarn with a mix of white and pink colouring.

 Since I wasn't keen on just making a regular pearl stitch scarf I decided to try out a version of the double moss stitch. It's not very complicated, but it's not the regular scarf pattern either. So, I thought it would be a good idea to try first.

How much I managed to knit yesterday. I'm not going to lie - I'm not super fast, this may take a while...

I'm not quite sure it will be pretty enough to be a wearable scarf. (I'm already questioning the color-choice...) I'm also pretty sure I made it a bit too wide for a scarf, but whatever, time will tell :) At least it's something to keep my hands busy when I'm watching series on the computer.

//Wayu

Mending pants and breaking bad

Right now I'm mending my jeans for the first time. Usually, I've just been buying new ones, I don't know why I haven't even tried to mend my jeans before, I guess having patches on the insides of the thighs would look weird, or so I thought.

Yet, here I am, mending my jeans cause I'm tired of buying new jeans all the time when mine break. This time, I'm trying the mending thing.

I've never done it before, yet I know some different ways to do it, so I've been trying them all to see which one works best. At the same time I've been watching Breaking Bad. It's a series that's been going on for a while, yet for some reason I've never seen it. So, this time I decided to start watching it. And it is awesome! It's exciting and thrilling yet, it has humor and drama in it as well. It is just a great combination - I understand why my friends have been talking about this series so much!

After watching the first season, trying every possible way to mend my pants and fighting with my sewing machine for ages, I finally made a fix that I was okay with. 

The inside of the pants with the final fix.

The outside of the pants directly after sewing the patches on.
They are not too visible but I plan on making them even less visible.

The patches are visible, but not too much and it feels good wearing them too. I plan on using sandpaper or something to make the fabric a little lighter in color and after a few washes and walking in them for a while I'm thinking the color will start to match the rest of the pants even more.

Either way, it looks good and it feels comfortable when I'm wearing them so I'm happy. This way I can take my time to buy some more jeans, after all I have way too few of them.

//Wayu

Knitting and designs

Here in sweden it's pretty darn cold during the winter, yet i don't have too many warm sweaters to keep me warm.
I always seem to have trouble finding cute knitted sweaters, and so i rarely buy them, even though i should.
Now, for some reason, quiting biting my nails and knitting have somehow been connected many times for me. I guess i need to keep my hands busy and knitting does that.

So, combining these two ideas i thought "what if i knit my own sweater?"
And though that may surely be a good idea, i rarely knit, i should say that the last time i knitted was probably three or more years ago. So i don't remember much of how to knit. Surely, as i relearn it will come back pretty quickly. But then there's the biggest problem - i have never knitted anything as complicated as a sweater before...

Either way "impossible" is not in my vocabulary! Anything can be done with a little practice and help from the internet.
So while in class today i sketched up a fairly simple sweater with a few design twists to "cuteify" it :p (picture above).

At first though the design had a different colored body and arms, but i soon decided it would be too complicated for a first try sweater, so i simplified it even more to a same colored sweater with only the top ribbing in a dofferent color and a separately knitted heart at the front. The twist will then be the lace. I'm planning o using crochet stitching for that and found a cute pattern, but in worst case i'm thinking about just buying some lace and applying it. It would work too.

Either way it will be a lot of work so i'm kind of not expecting it to be finished before next winter haha!

I'm also thinking about what colors to use... I've been thinking pink for the details (heart, ribbing lace) and a light brown/ kaki beige or maybe grey for the body...

what do you guys think?

//wayu