Jessica Backup

Can’t get enough of creativity and crafts? Well you’re in luck! As a grand finale of an inspiring year, Monthly Makers are presenting the advent calendar 2015.  Filled with DIY-projects, it will start on the first Advent Sunday and continue through December. Join us in the Christmas spirit and create things all through December! Here’s how it works: from November 29th (första advent) the hosts of Monthly Makers will be publishing a Christmas inspired DIY-project every day. December 10th we’ll be taking a short break to present our theme for the month, but after that we will continue until December 21st. Dates: 29/11: Mikaela 30/11: Agnes 01/12: Beata 02/12: Sandra 03/12: Anna María 04/12: Jessica 05/12: Annica 06/12: Beatrice 07/12: Alicia 08/12: Jess 09/12: Beata 10/12: Alicia  presents the theme of the month 11/12: Elsa 12/12: Annica 13/12: Mikaela 14/12: Sandra 15/12: Agnes 16/12: Alicia 17/12: Jessica 18/12: Elsa 19/12: Anna María 20/12: Jess 21/12: B...

Today is a very exciting day , as we’re revealing an AMAZING THING happening with Monthly Makers soon! We’re all giving you clues today, and you can find the next one over at Beatrice’s . Is this the first clue you’re seeing? Click here to go to Alicia’s blog and the start of the trail! Read more about Monthly Makers here  or just check out my entire category . First clue: HERE! Next clue: HERE!  

This months challenge for Monthly Makers is light, which is perfect for the darkness of November. And I’ve made a cloud lamp! I made my first lit cloud a few years ago, but it didn’t turn out great as I used an electric tea light inside the cloud and it simply wasn’t enough to light it up. But I’ve been meaning to try again, and with this challenge and this video from KickThePJ I just had to! It’s like I’m Thor and have my very own lightning. So great. It’s pretty simple, you just grab a paper lantern and then put LED (!!) fairy lights inside it, and then you just glue lots and lots of wadding to it. I also used my felting needle to get the right shape! Super simple and super pretty. What is Monthly Makers? A creative challenge for anyone to be a part of. 12 themes, 12 blogs, 12 months. One theme for every month of the year, one blog hosting every theme. The theme is presented the 10th every month by the hosting blog. To participate, just c...

I just want to make everything into kaleidoscopes right now. So I am. It’s the best and the greatest and I enjoy playing around with it so much. Oh and by the way, yesterday was release date for the new challenge for Monthly Makers! Check it out on Agnes blog here .

Okay, so this cake you guys. Dear lord, this cake. It’s amazing, fantastic, extraordinary, magical and SPECTACULAR. I love this cake so much and have been making it for years. IT’S SO GOOD. It has gigantic cookies for some of the layers, a filling with cream, coffee and hazel croquante and then chocolate and berries on top. This one has white currants from our garden, but it’s amazing with raspberries too. I almost prefer raspberries actually. Anyway, I just have to share this. This is almost a family recipe as my mother found it in a magazine back when she was a kid, in the days before the internet (crazy right?). The magazine had had a competition where anyone could participate with their own cake, and this one won. It’s a damn good cake, so it’s understandable. They had however left out the proportions of parts of the cake so my mother had to experiment until she found the right proportions. And then my grandma started making this too and both her a...