Sunshine & happiness

Lemon cake

Ingredients

• 4 egg
• 10 decagramme flour
• 12 decagramme sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 8 decagramme margarine
• 1 lemon's grated zest and juice

Mix the albumens with a pinch of salt and beat it with a mixer until fluffy.
Mix the yolks with sugar and add the lemon's zest & juice and margarine.
Beat it with the mixer and add the flour and the baking soda gradually.
Add the albumens to the paste and mix it.
Butter the pan and pour the paste into it.
Bake it for 30 minutes at 180 degrees in a preheated oven.

Smiling whale calf :)

The bow springs

Not beige but bow

made from this unfolded coil

Buttons

You would never think how many ways buttons can be used:
(and these are only a few examples)

as decoration

as bookmarks

as cute vintage stuff

as a birthday cake :)

as a belt 

(it probably takes days to make a belt like this)

as jewels

as flowers

as a picture

as a frame of a picture 

 as a clock!

Having seen this brilliand ideas, I hunted for some buttons in my mother's sewing kit.
I found these beauties:

Spring tomorrow

pic from here

The Year's Jewel

"Cross-stitch" ring designed by Fanni Vékony

By moving the tiny red balls, anyone can design their own new pattern.