All I have to say about Jam Labelizer: this is fun! This website lets you create & print your own mason jars labels, which are not just fun for homemade jam, but f.i. also for salad-jars, cocktail-jars or cake mix-jars. Only the first two designs are free, but the other ones will cost you no more than $5. Though some of you could probably design these in Photoshop for free, this website does save you a lot of time and effort. Sweet right?!

By the same Andy Biggs who created Jam Labelizer, you’ll also find Beer Labelizer!

You probably know by now that Ikea has made a quality statement with their Stockholm collection. Timeless designs that become more beautiful with the years thanks to the use of rich materials of the highest quality: supple full-grain leather, strong walnut wood, hand blown glass and soft velvet. They’ve added some new items to this collection recently. If only it weren’t for my house being quite stuffed with furniture already… The lamp does look a bit familiar, doesn’t it?!

Pictured above: Feedly is my new favorite RSS reader!

I’ve posted about it earlier: on July 1st Google will shut down her long beloved and very popular RSS reader. Incomprehensible, as this is still the most popular method to follow multiple blogs, without having to go to the blogs themselves to check for new posts. The easiest way to continue quick scanning and reading your blogroll must be Feedly. Not only can you adjust the font, colors and way the posts are viewed to your own preferences, you can also tag posts or save them for later. Of all the online readers that I’ve tried, I found Feedly the most user friendly and the most comprehensive. And if you’re going to use it before 1 July, it’s super easy to import your Google Reader subscriptions. In fact, I have to admit: I like this reader way better than I ever did Google Reader.

Before I went on to import my blog-subscriptions into Feedly, I wanted to clean up the list of the 578 blogs I followed daily. These blogs produced over a 1000 new posts a day: too much to follow! So I made an overview of all of these blogs: names, categories, URLs, notes on whether the blog still existed, was recently updated, is easily readable and is showing full posts in my reader (and not just the summary)… Taking everything into account, this list left me with a mere 71 blogs to follow in the future! I have never felt so proud of a long-delayed spring cleaning! There is just one downside: Feedly doesn’t allow me to automatically import my blogroll here on this blog, for all of you to see…

What’s your reader of choice? Or do you prefer to visit the blogs every once in awhile? By the way, what’s your favorite blog recommendation?

Don’t you just love these DIY projects I found all over the web lately…

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Also take a look at my Pinterest boards DIY – Home Deco, DIY – Paper, DIY – Fashion, DIY – Jewelry and DIY – bags for more inspiration and lovely projects!

Did you spoil your mom for mothers’ day? I had a little lack of inspiration this year, so I devoted my weekend to baking a cake for my mom. Oh well, a cake… More a giant banana bread (with whole wheat and dades) in the shape of a heart. For the recipe, check out the website of Albert Heijn, just use absolutely no more than half the indicated amount of sugar and syrup. I added a little game of Ruzzle on top, as my mom is kind of addicted to Ruzzle. I made the game of white marzipan, colored pink with a drop of red food coloring, and some choco letters on top.

Warning: you will most probably end up with your entire kitchen covered in melted chocolate… But we did enjoy eating it!

p.s. ja, ik weet het, de K en de D liggen op de foto’s nog verkeerd om!

Don’t you just love these DIY projects I found all over the web lately…

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10

Also take a look at my Pinterest boards DIY – Home Deco, DIY – Paper, DIY – Fashion, DIY – Jewelry and DIY – bags for more inspiration and lovely projects!