Crafts & Cooking

Karina continues to be the person in the house that is most interested in crafts etc.

The other day, she decided she was going to make butter from heavy cream.  So she poured a bunch into the mixer and started mixing away!

Eventually it curdled.

Then she separated it from the whey.

She put it into cold water to wash out any remaining whey.

Eventually she formed it into a loaf and added salt.

And here's the butter, which was yummy and we ate with crusty bread.

She also is willing to help out around the kitchen.  Elvin was making hand pies filled with curried ground beef.  Karina eventually took over making them...


Including basting them with egg wash.  They were yummy!

She is also into crocheting.  She decided she was going to make a jelly fish.

It had a disc shaped head and various tentacles.

And this is the finished product!

There are other things Karina likes to do.  One is that she wanted to paint white the stand she uses to hold her houseplants.  She wanted it to match the rest of the furniture in her room.

She also works on her diamond dots picture.  She got it for Christmas last year but only earnestly worked on it this summer.

Xiao also got a couple, that are smaller and simpler to do.

His is of a little monkey.

And here is the finished product!