Chocolate OD - Oreo Brownies

Time for some baking! I found a marvelous recipe for Oreo brownies on Craftster the other day and I just knew I had to try it. I think they turned out quite well, and Keith loved them. They're extremely chocolate-y!

If you'd like to try them yourselves, the recipe can be found in this post. Since I couldn't find any Brownie mix (in Sweden we still like to bake from scratch!) I used this great brownie recipe. Go on, try it, you know you want to!

Also, there's a great giveaway going on over at Handmade Giveaways blog - check it out for a chance to win a cute little coin purse!

Happy 2009!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a wonderful holiday. I certainly did - and I got lots of crafty Christmas presents! Fabric, books, a glue gun (can you believe I haven't had one until now!) and paints and supplies to try carving lino. I'm looking forward to using some of my new supplies in my crafts this year.

One of the presents I got from Keith was this great book - a huge encyclopedia of embroidery stitches with great and detailed pictures!

I couldn't wait to get started on some embroidery so this is what I designed to practice some new stitches:

I'm sorry about the poor photo - can't wait 'til the light returns here to the far north! :-) I promise I'll get a better shot of the finished piece. Anyway, I designed a little sampler to help me try some new stitches, and I wanted it to be something inspirational for the new year... I scanned the pattern for you if you'd like to make one too! There are a lot of straight lines to make trying new stitches really simple - if you do decide to make a new year's sampler yourself, I'd love to see your result!

Click for a larger view of the pattern: