Kaastengels cookies {Batang keju}

Christmas is around the corner. For my darling son he can't wait for this coming christmas. Keeps looking around the house to get the clue where mommy and daddy hide his presents. But for me  I don't want the Christmas season to end. It is just too fast. What I love about Christmas is I do enjoy sketching, painting and designing while doing those kind of stuff the Christmas music is in the background. I never get tired listening Christmas songs. I will miss those moment surely.

I bake Kaastengels cookies for Christmas. It is made of lots of cheese. In my country this cookies is a must to bake during the holiday. Very tasty and crunchy. 

 Kaastengels Recipe:

Ingredients:
125 gram margarine
125 gram butter
2 yolks
salt
350 gram flour
200 gram cheese (finely grated)
50 gram grated cheese for top garnish

 Directions:

Mix butter, margarine, salt and yolks together. Until everything blend well add flour and grated cheese gradually. Mix them well. I like to use speed no 2 on kitchen aid mixer.

Roll the dough and cut. The size of the stick is variety. I like to make them not to thick or long.

Glaze them with yolks and sprinkle the cheese on the top.

Bake at 350F for 30 minutes.

BOO!

Here is a story from halloween. I wish I could post this on time. Our Halloween day is just like most other american families that have kids, my son chose to dress up like a ninja. We did carve a pumpkin with my husbands help.

While I was working in illustrator for the halloween, I also made a homemade apple pie. One thing that I love the most about fall season is the chilly weather it is just so good to smell the aroma of baking. 

Enjoy your fall! 

Beautiful Monday!

Hello Monday,

My son is always not fond of Mondays as it is the first day of the week. Time to go to school!!

Anyway, often we think about why “I can’t” why I can’t sing as good as others, why I can’t be a doctor, teacher, engineer like those people. Why I can’t be as good as them.

“I can’t”, “I can’t” keeps feeding us daily. We know it is not healthy for the soul. I often compare and talk to myself with many of the word “I can’t”. So today PAUSE…. I need to think the word “ I can”

So here is the illustration for you. I hope you all enjoy your beautiful Monday!

Hello Weekend!

Couldn't be happier that today is FRIDAY! As it means it is family time! 

I hope you all enjoy spending time with family - Have a good weekend Everyone! 

Thinking about bunny and carrots .....

I meant to post about Easter on the Easter day, but unfortunately I didn't have time. Our Easter was beautiful we celebrated daddy's early birthday at granny's. Happy Birthday Daddy, Hope many blessings in health and prosper to you!

Now about the sketch, I have been doodling for sometime but due to many reasons I wasn't able to finalize what I was planning. This time I think about bunny, carrot and the most of all is about Easter. While my son and his friends made eggs coloring and played at the park I managed to do some doodles. Don't laugh at my doodles, I know it looks like kids drawing right LOL.

In the process of finalizing the pattern I didn't follow my sketch exactly. I keep changing from one design to another. Anyway so far I am happy with the result. I know it is very basic shapes. But I promise I will be back doing more advance design :)

Here the final Result of 'EASTER PATTERN'.