Congratulations Sweden,

Congratulations Sweden. In Saturday at least 2 of my favorite countries will sing on European Song Contest. After todays first semifinal Sweden went further to final on Saturday and Denmark is already together with other 5 big countries, since they won last year.
Unfortunately Estonia is out  for this year, even thought that I thought they had one of the better songs after some years. It is bit sad, that I do not see, my own home country in final, but hopefully they have better luck next year. That will make perhaps, that next year Estonia will  choose bit better song.
Now, we will have to wait until Thursday to see, what semifinal 2 will bring with it. When it is Finland and Norway's turn.

Love,

Ingrit

Eurovision 1 semifinal - Estonia - Tanja and her Amazing,

Today it is that day again, when we can start to follow the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.  This time it is in Copenhagen, since last year Denmark won ESC in Malmö.
Today's one of the performance comes from Estonia - Tanja and song Amazing. I hope of course that the song will get one of the places in final on Saturday, but in the same time, never don't know, what might happen. I have not listened other songs, so I do not know, how it is. It just will be time to see, what will happen.
In those days, I miss little my time in Denmark only. Specially on Saturday, because, then we was many Estonians who met and had good evening together. Here, nothing like that have been during the last 4,5 years I have lived in Sweden. It is bit sad, but here I have not met that warm togetherness, what was in Denmark. We had good food, everyone made small bet who is the winner and so on and on.
Have a nice afternoon and we will meet again after first semifinal,

 Ingrit

New Embroidery pattern from Husqvarna,

Yesterday I was after some weeks again in the Jönköping. It felt very good but made me also very tired after. It has been a while since operation and it's complications.
Now I am waiting the time, when I can start to sew and embroider again. Hopefully on couple of weeks again, I can start to make my handwork again. Missing it little, but soon again :)

This new pattern, what I got home yesterday comes from Husqvarna Viking. Embroidery card 269 -  With all my Heart.

Here is also updated list of patterns what I have:

Husqvarna Viking patterns:

Card 269 With all my Heart
Card 263 Line Art Flowers 
Card 257 3D Flowers
Card 253 Elegant Cases
Card 252 Yarn Art
Card 247 Most Popular Lace
Card 237 Quilting for the Holiday 
Card 231 Textured Quilting II 
Card 229 Majestic Seasons
Card 227 Christmas Creations
Card 222 Cross Stitch Harmony
Card 215 Hoop! Sew! Go! 
Card 214 Towel Magic
Card 203 Special Techniques Butterflies  
Card 202 Cutwork Finesse
Card 200 In Full Bloom
Card 197 Embellish with Yarn
Card 193 Wing Needle Embroidery
Card 186 Mega Madeira Borders
Card 182 Felting Art Embroidery
Card 180 Mega Blossom
Card 178 Mega Decór  
Card 163 Dimensional Decorations
Card 162 Blooming Flower 
Card 153 Colors of Autumn
Card 137 Swedish Santas 
Card 128 Flowers and Fashions
Card 117 Mega Borders
Card 78 Kitchen & Garden II
Card 74 Fuzzy Wuzzy Bears
Card 68 Beautiful Baltimore
Card 47 Butterflies

Pfaff patterns:

Card 452 Handbags and More
Card 436 Grand Dream Yarn Quilting Special Techniques
Card 429 Elegant Pop-Up Flowers
Card 424 Endless vintage cotton lace

Inspira patterns:

Towel Time!
Kitchen Art
Endless Elements
Flower Fun
Elegant Bottles
Easter Friends
Fantasy Flowers
Playtime
Mega Florals
Christmas Eve
Cross stitch borders
Baltimore in Bloom

Soon I will update the list with some other patterns as well. I just need bit time. After I start to feel more better, I will fix my school and after that, I take patterns and when my handwork. 

Easy bread,

Last week I got one easy recipe for bread, from one TV program I looked. The recipe was look quite interesting, so I wrote it down and decided on weekend to try. It was as easy as they promised it to be.

Ingredients:

1 kg flour
9,5dl.  lukewarm water
2 tbl spoon sugar
2 tbl spoon salt
18 gr dry yeast it is same as 75 gr. ordinary yeast
1 egg

Mix flour, sugar, salt and dry yeast very well through. Add water and mix it very well through. You do not have to knead the dough. Cover with plastic and let it stay in fridge over night. Next day around lunch take it out and let it warm up to rooms temperature. Take a baking tray and cover with baking paper and lightly with flour, because dough is not very hard. When dough has became to rooms temperature, you can divide dough for 2 equal portions or 12 smaller buns. Cover the breads or buns with whipped egg and bake them 1 hour in 200 degrees. 

Bon Appetit!

Have a nice spring day,
                                          Ingrit

Sweet braid,

In Sunday I finally took time and baked after a while again. I really felt good to do it, since I love to bake. Unfortunately there is not many, who would eat it, else I would love to bake much more often.

Ingredients:

600-800 gr. wheat flour
4 dl.  water or milk
60 gr. butter
4 tbl spoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
50 gr yeast
1 egg

200 gr. hazelnut cream
150 gr. dark chocolate
200 gr. dried apricots

crush yeast to the bowl and add sugar. Mix it until yeast has melted. Add salt. Under the time warm up milk or water up to ca 35 degrees and add it to melted yeast and sugar mix. Melt all the butter and add it to the mix. Mix it through and make sure that all sugar is melted. As a last add flour little in a time and mix it. Knead until dough is fast. If you can, take it out of bowl and let it stay in the counter about 1 hour. After that divide it 3 equal shares.

Roll all shares in equally out in squares. Chop the apricots and chocolate . Cover each square equally with hazelnut cream and chopped apricots and chocolate in full length. Roll it up. Braid the rolls and lift to the baking pan. Whip up the egg and cover the braid. Let it stay out another 35-40 minutes. Heat oven up to 200 degrees and after it has stand out, bake it 35 minutes.  After that it is ready to eat.

This braid was filled with hazelnut cream, chocolate and apricots, but it can be filled actually with anything you want. This dough was quite sweet, since I had used sweet yeast and little bit more sugar, but this same dough can be made even to salt pastry. Just use ordinary yeast and little bit less sugar and little bit more salt and salty filling. 

Enjoy it with good cup of coffee.

Have a nice evening,
                                     Ingrit