As I said before, I can not bake, but that won’t stop me. So whenever you see this banner don’t expect it to get pretty xD.

My boyfriend celebrated his 30th birthday the other day. In his honours I organized a little Doctor Who themed party. Some of the yummiest creations I served that night I wanted to show you. And no, I don’t care that you’re probably sick of all the who-y goodness I’m posting recently :p. Blame it on the Doctor obsessed birthday boy if you have to.

Anyway, one thing I made was Fish fingers with custard. (If you don’t know why, please read the explanation you find behind the link or watch the first episode of new Doctor Who series, season 5 ^^). I found the recipe on my favorite ever food blog Bakingdom.

My cookies didn’t turn out as perfect as Darla’s (they came out of the oven a little too flat), but nevertheless I fooled the boyfriend on first sight and it was so very delicious!

The other sweet treat I made origins from this amazing video: Vegan Dalek Cupcakes.

Lately I am obsessed with the idea of baking vegan. I am not a vegan, “just” a vegetarian, but I try to eat at least one vegan meal a day. It’s not much, but a start. I could never go fully vegan (I love cheese too much ^^) but admire everyone who is.
My diet doesn’t allow me much dairy products anyways, leaving out the eggs, too, wasn’t that much of a problem so I kept true to the recipe. The cakes aren’t looking too bad, eh? They tasted great as well. The only downside was that they where a bit crumbly. Adding the frosting was tricky but doable.

And here they are. My Dalek Cupcakes. If you know anything about Daleks you might have already noticed that they have neither weapons nor can the see… the explanation is simple: I just ran out of time. I was cooking all day and it was either making the Dalek vision and weaponry or taking a shower before the guests arrived. What can I say, the shower won ^^.

So.. these are blind, disarmed, demilitarized Daleks. But who needs a death ray when you are so sweet you can easily cause diabetes, eh? xD Seriously, they where very tasty, but half the sugar would have been enough ^^.

At least, this one had a birthday candle to defend himself.

Thanks for reading!

Liebe Grüße, Trisha

A little while ago my friend Iris asked me to make her pyjama pants. Usually I am not too fond on getting sewing requests from friends and family. Don’t get me wrong, I love them all to bits ans pieces and would do anything for them, but I want it to stay that way ;). It’s like this: once you start saying yes to hemming one person’s curtains it can easily pile up to an amount of work I just can’t handle. So, if too many requests pile up I tend to get a wee bit cranky. That’s not good! And since I only have very little free time to sew I have to be egoistic once in a while ^^.

However, I do say yes sometimes. If it’s for a special occasion or something that really grabs my attention, something out of the ordinary, or a really nerdy project I’ll most likely agree to be your personal bitch seamstress.
Anyways, so my friend Iris came to me with the request for Doctor Who PJs, made from a fabric she’s seen on spoonflower. I fell in love with it at first sight (if you read my blog/twitter you might have noticed that I love the show) and so the adventures of the Whojamas began.

It’s the super soft jersey spoonflower offers. I can highly recommend it. The quality is AMAZING!

(sorry for the bad iphone pictures)

 

I used Burda pattern 7534-DL. It was super simple, but beware, the sizes turn out to be a lot bigger than planed. I had to add some extra darts and an additional elastic band to stop the pants from falling off my friend’s hips. And I already used a size 34 (she’s normally a size 36) since elastic jersey like this one is always a bit tricky when it comes to finding the right size. But alas, they are PJ pants after all and PJs need to be huge to be comfy, right?

(picture credit: Iris)

 

They are also a little bit long. But I wasn’t allowed to shorten them ^^. Iris refused to take them off long enough for me to do so. But hey, Iris happy = Trisha happy :D. And now, all 11 incarnations of the Doctor can keep her warm during the cold Finnish winters.

Oh, btw, I was allowed to keep the rest of the fabric for myself, har!

Liebe Grüße,
Trisha

I will never grow tired of posting pictures of my adorable rats.

Speaking of tired…

Lumi looks like a ferret when she’s sleeping, resting her little body on her girlfriends’ butts ^^. What sleeping positions rats find comfortable I will never apprehend.

This picture was taken on Mr. Sew’s Birthdayparty. Lumi could not stand not being the center of attention for one night and was always trying to climb on the table, taking the shortcut via my feet xD.

Liebe Grüße, Trisha

Happy Birthday, Mr Sew!
I love you <3

Deine Trisha

I already showed off what I got for Christmas, but I didn’t show you what I gave away this year. So this is where this post comes in handy.

The number of handmade gifts I made was significantly smaller than the last year. I just hadn’t had the time. But there are a few thing I made, and some new stuff I tried. Like making your own bath and beauty products. I did some researching on the net and was convinced it shouldn’t be so hard (of course I was only looking into projects for beginners). I found some nifty links, ordered a few ingredients online and had a real blast making the following items:

Mango-Coconut Body Scrub and Honey-Vanilla Peeling. Oh my kitchen smelled so good ^^. Super easy and I love the outcome. It’s also great to work natural ingredients such as honey and sugar into beauty products.

Bath- and Showerbars (vanilla scented). Super easy to make and great for beginner. You can find the recipe on this amazing blog.

Bathbombs in different colors. These where the hardest to make. My first attempt went horribly wrong *lol* For the second try I added a little more shea butter to keep it from crumbling away under my finger tips. Oh and don’t get me started on the “Cupcake frosting” I originally wanted to add.. ahem.

After wrapping everything I made fabric baskets, added some personal gifts and gave them way. Everyone loved it (or so they said ^^).

It was really fun trying out something new. The only trouble is, that you need so many different ingredients and these aren’t always cheap. So I was making sure to make the most of it. After all I’m happy with the outcome and might try it again, anytime.

Liebe Grüße, Trisha

P.S. Don’t get too attached to the new header ^^. It’s far from being pretty. But I couldn’t stand the old layout for a minute longer ^^. I’ll re-design the blog .. soon xD

I love baking! I love making cake and sweets, and pastries and cookies. The problem is: I am not very good at it. Ahem. But since practice makes perfect and one should do what one loves I’m not going to stop. Instead I’ll show off some of my distorted desserts and disastrous creations from my little kitchen from hell ^^. Try and stop me, haha!

So, who’s better to begin with than this real beauty: This is Chubby Kitty, Hello Kitty’s lesser known and dissimulated sister. As her name already gives it away: she’s a little chubby, you can tell by the abnormal number of chins. But that is totally okay. Who isn’t? The real reason why no one in her family likes to talk about her is her little problem with alcohol. Maybe that is why she has such a deranged look on her face? I cannot say for sure. But she is very happy! After all she is filled with chocolate and lots and lots of booze!

I made her for NYE and was feeling very fancy. So I bought the smallest ridiculously overpriced bottle of Champagne I could find. It was delicious and could be the real reason why Kitty looks the way she does. After a while into baking Trisha was filled with chocolate and booze, too… one should not taste too much of the filling when one hasn’t been eating anything else all day.

After all I can say: making cake is twice as much fun when you’re drunk!

Chubby Kitty is made from two layers of simple sponge cake. I was following this recipe *klick*.
For the filling I used a simple pudding mix but instead of the required 400 ml of milk I added 250 ml of Champagne. For the frosting I used pre-made vanilla frosting, then draw the kitty’s face on with food coloring. I enjoyed the rest of the bottle while waiting for the frosting to set.

Chubby Kitty was super delicious and everyone on the party enjoyed her charming personality ^^.

It’s my boyfriend’s birthday this weekend, be prepared for more deranged cake making!

Liebe Grüße, Trisha

Despite all rumors, I am still alive and survived Christmas just fine ^^. I know right, Christmas is like a million years ago, but I just now found the time and patience to blog about it. Hey, when I can keep up at this pace I might be blogging about NYE in only a few months time ^^.
Anyways, this was the first year I didn’t celebrate Christmas Eve with my family but with the in-laws which was so lovely. We then drove half across the country to visit my mom and my siblings for the rest of the holidays. We had a fun time, though it was somehow different and didn’t feel as Christmas-y as it used to. Maybe I just turned into one big Grinch, who knows ;). Anyways, I wanted to show you some of the awesomeness I got for Christmas to make you all insanely jealous.

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1. Yay, cake and a companion cube ^^. No really, I got a new video card. So much needed! All my video games are finally running without errors and graphic glitches. I can also finally make use of my full HD screen. It’s a whole new world ^^. With it I treated myself to Portal 1 & 2 and am a wee bit addicted (hence the picture).
2. The Dressmaker’s Handbook of Couture Sewing Techniques. It’s an amazingly detailed step by step handbook that explains many cool tricks in sewing. I can’t wait to put it to good use. So far I could only study all the great pictures ^^. I’ll let you know when I tried out some of the techniques described.
3. Come Fly With Me on DVD :D I love the series. I am the biggest Little Britain fan there is and can quote all the jokes by heart. Come fly with me is as much fun as LB, maybe even a little more… I’m not sure yet.
5. This super cute Shirt I got from my friends from Finland. It’s a pro vegetarian shirt from Animalia, the Finnish federation for the animal protection. Ystävä means friend, ateria food in Finnish. So, Pigs are my friend, not my food :D So awesome!

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5. Behind “door” Nr. 24 of my advent calender I got this crazy cute iPhone cover. Isn’t it amazing? I’m very much in love with it.
6. Another great crafting book I got is Steampunk Softies. I might give it a proper shout out in a Steampunk Sunday post. It is soo cool and very inspiring!
7. New fancy fabric scissors. I haven’t tried them yet but they look extremely fancy. I need some free time *sigh*. I miss Frau Pfaff! I miss sewing. Irgs, too much work and no play makes Trisha go ARGH!
8. Cupcake cup measurements. I always wanted some! I’m so tired of always converting cups to gramm or ml. It’s so easy to bake now and über cute, too.

I’m so thankful for everything. I have AMZAING friends and family <3. What was your favorite Christmas gift?

Liebe Grüße, Trisha

The Sews are wishing you a wonderful, quiet, and peaceful Christmas and some awesome free days with your loved ones! Don’t drink too much ;) Have a lot of fun!

Frohe Weihnachten, Trisha

Yay, it’s December. And that means: Christmas time. For many reasons I am not in the slightest mood for Christmas. There is only one thing that I am totally thrilled about and that might hopefully cure my from my Grinch-ness soon… Christmas calenders ^^.

This year, as last year, I participated in the Christmas Calender swap at Natron&Soda. A few days ago the mailman brought me a huge box. What was in it? This amazing, glitter-y, Hello Kitty-y awesomeness from Milktea.

*pling pling* I LOVE IT! I am so excited to open all these lovely presents.

Have a look at the first two presents I got.

You can see the calender and all the little presents I made for the swap on Lyen’s lovely blog.

My friend and former roommate Dana also got me a Christmas calender :D We have this tradition since we where living together. And now, 6 years later, we still send each other calenders every year :D

I yet have to find a nice place to put all these sachets.

Look, they even have has wonderful Zombie jokes inside ^^.

Do you have a Christmas Calender? What was in it today?

Liebe Grüße, Trisha

I was feeling a little creative today, so I decided to postpone work (I will so regret this tomorrow ^^) and sew a little instead. This tutorial by my friend Max California popped up in my pinterest feed and I had to give it a try. It’s so super easy. I made each skirt in under an hour.

I made this skirt from a pink leopard pillow case. Since I had so much trouble finding a fabric with this print I just bought a cheap duvet cover set ^^. It’s 100% cotton, so why not :D.

The black lace at the hem is the cherry on top of the very tacky look I was shooting for ^^.

The second skirt is made from a purple batman fabric I got from ebay for only 1€. I love the odd color and of course, he is my favorite comic superhero.

The fabric is so odd ^^. I don’t know what happened. I love it to pieces.

And again some lace, for… you know.. more awkward awesomeness ^^

Okay, back to work now.

Liebe Grüße, Trisha