105. Golden flower

At one of my uncles' birthday party I used the golden paper wrapped around a beer bottle's neck to make this flower (which basically remained in shape because of my fingers holding it):

104. Snow-flower #4: Drawing on snow

This flower I drew into the freshly fallen snow on my mother's balcony:

103. Lemon peel

Last week I made my first own orange-lemon-jelly =) From my work not only several glasses of jelly arose, but also this flower:

If you also would like to have a try at making sweet orange-lemon jelly you can use this easy recipe:


Sweet orange-lemon jelly:
750ml fresh orange and lemon juice.*
500g jam sugar (2:1)

*The amount of lemon juice depends on how sweet resp. sour you want your jelly to be - my ratio was about 4 (orange) : 1 (lemon).

Peel some lemons and oranges with a zester. If you don't have one (like me) use a peeler (peel off only the outer peel, not the white one) and cut the peel into thin strips.
Then cook the peel for about 10 min in plenty of water. Pour away the water afterwards and keep the peel.

Mix the cold juice with the jam suger and heat it (in a large pot!!) until it's boiling (while constantly stirring). Keep it boiling for 4 min, stirring constantly.

Fill the jelly into a boiled out jelly glass, put some of the peel into it, close the glass and turn it upside down. If you repeat turning the glasses once in a while, that helps the peel to spread equally.

If you want the jelly to become bitter, you only have to cook the peel with the juice (and not in advance). Like that you can also decide how bitter you want it to become.

You can also try to add other flavours. For example, I added some elderflower (Holunderblüten) syrup to half of the juice. And I think, that coconut syrup would taste delicious, too.

102. Eisblumen

Last week I visited my mum and there I finally found something I had searched for the whole winter: A frosted window (in Germany we use the term Eisblumen - ice flowers). I had even thought about how I could "make" one on my own, but then I found those beautiful flowers on the front window of my mother's car:

101. Wax

Back in Germany I spent a really nice noon with some friends, from which resulted these flowers, carved into warm wax (from the leftovers of my Christmas wreath candles):

100. Snow-flower #3D

And another snow flower, this time a plastic one (not as easy to make as expected):

This one I made during a short walk through the amazing winter lanscape of the French Alps.

99. Snow-flower #2: Finger-flower

Another snow-flower, this time made with my hands:

98. Snow-flower #1: Ski stick stamp

3 Weeks ago I was on ski holidays. One week before I had made a quick one-day course (which had been the second time in my life to stand on skis - the first one was when I was between 2 and 3 years old). This was a week full of fun with lovely people.

The first day on the piste I realized that I could use my ski sticks as a flower-stamp:

Unfortunately it is not that easy to take fotos of snow surrounded by snow. But I think, one can at least distinguish the contours.

97. Hair!

It has been quite a long time since my last post - almost one month. During this time my project was neither forgotten, nor a really significant part of my daily life. It was more like "At least some flowers a week - if not, that's ok, too".
Maybe one day I will wake up and feel the same motivation like on my first day of this project, when making a flower every day was more important to me than now. At the moment, I am glad if an idea for a flower comes along, but if not, that's ok too.

This flower I already made some weeks ago (the day after my last post). Some might find it a bit disgusting to use hair for making art - but I think, in art history, there have been many artists with much more disgusting utensils...

In this sense: Let the sun shine in and feel the flower power of Hair =)

96. Licorice bouquet

I don't really know why I restarted my project just now, during one of the most stressful weeks of this semester... I should have known that this wouldn't go well... So today I am already one day behind (grml....).

Well, at least this evening I found something I could make a flower of: Some licorice leftovers from a package of sweets. Sometimes I like licorice, but not too much and not all the time - so it wasn't too hard for me to cut it into pieces and make a bouquet out of it instead of eating it. Maybe tomorrow...

95. Earrings #2

After I had spent most of the day preparing a presentation for next Thursday (which takes much more time than I had expected) I decided to take some time off to make some beaded jewellery. I found this picture of earrings and immediately fell in love with them. After some thinking I had figured out how they had to be made and started working.

This is the result:

BUT: This is not the only result =) While making the earrings I found out that it was possible to put a bead into the earrings. And, because of their shape, the bead didn't seem to fall out.
This fact offers great possibilities!! Now I can modify my earrings according to what I am wearing!

So those are the numerous different looks of my new earrings:

94. Pancake. Or: A new beginning.

This pancake should actually be the first flower after my break. I was making pancakes and all of a sudden I had the feeling that it was the perfect time to start again. I was really happy.

The next day I forgot to make a flower. This was so shattering that I gave up again. I was so upset because I wasn't even able to follow my new decision for more than one day...

So now here's my second second try. Maybe this time it will work. Hopefully!

93. Beaded flower #2

This was a Christmas present for one of my best friends. I think, it even looks more beautiful than the one I made for me =)

I also have to show you the present I got from her: A beatiful small pencil case embroidered with an edelweiss. I love this case - I even bought a fountain pen to have something to put into it =)

And this was a present of another friend. She is from China and knows origami (obviously much better than I ;) ). She made this wonderful flower. Every time I look at it I wonder how it is possible to make something that beautiful out of one single sheet of paper!

92. Christmas-Songbooks

After a break which became somewhat longer than planned I am finally (hopefully) back again =) (Here you can read about the cause for my break).

Here is a project from last year, before Christmas: I made several songbooks with Christmas carols for our traditional family-singing on Christmas Eve. I used my beloved stamped-out flowers instrument to, well, stamp out flowers, and used those flowers to decorate the songbooks. Here is one of them (the one where the flowers really look like flowers, not like stars ;) ).