One Bookmark, Five Books and a Loaf of Bread

Lets begin with the bread. I tried a new kind of meal, new for me that is, made of dinkel (twhich is the Swedish name, is it the same in English?). Dinkel is a kind of wheat and supposedly the original kind, which were used thousands of years ago. It has kept a number of good qualitys from those days I've read. So I thought I'd give it a go. I used a very easy recipe, with only 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 of honey, 2 tablespoons of oil and then 3,5 dl of water. An yeast of course, 20 grams. Together with 500 grams of dinkel it transformed into a wonderfully aromatic loaf, compact in a good way and so tasty. This recipie will go into my own recipie book, for future use.


Then I went out the door and fetched my book package (free package and delivery if I could go get them at a local store). These are the books I got:

• Hanne-Vibeke Holst - Min mosters migrän
  This book is in Swedish, translated from Danish, and all about what it is in our society that separates female from male and the results of this. Hanne-Vibeke Holst writes about her own life and that of her relatives. It is supposed to be really good so I am looking forward to reading this book.
• Keri Smith - Living out loud
  I think I like Living out loud the best of these books, I love the design and the text is so inspired and inpireing that I had to begin reading it as soon as I held it in my hands.
• Kumiko Sudo - Kokoro no Te
  This book is full of those 'Handmade treasures from the heart' that the title speaks of. I'm not a fan of the fabrics used in the pictures, but I do think I'll like to use a few of the patterns.
  
• Sherri Haab - Designer style handbags
  I've been wanting to sew a bag for myself and here are all the pattern I'll need for a year or two!
  
• Cathy Zielske - Clean&simple scrapbooking, the sequel
  My scrapbooking needs some guidance. I've liked what I've done so far but it's been all over the place and I thought I'd focus my designs a bit more. I find that I like to put emphasis on the pictures themselves, much as Cathy Zielske does, so why not let her help me out?

Of course I had to make myself a bookmark now that I got all these new books! Maybe tomorrow I'll make a new one for each of the above.