Part

Hello dear friends!
First of all I'd like to wish all of my friends abroad a very happy Easter! Ours is on May 1st so we still have a long time to go.
Also I would like to thank everyone for visiting my blog and leaving a comment too on the previous blogpost about Our Syrian Friends. This was the first time my blog had more than 500 views and lots of comments on one blogpost and that makes me very very happy.

This week's word for Our Beautiful World  is

part

chosen by dear Wendy of  Wen Sylvestre Mixed Media Art.
I am                                                                         part
of a crafty group that was started and organized by Anna of In My Closet 
Anna has been our leader and inspiration. She has gathered us many a time in her cozy kitchen and we have learnt many new techniques or worked on items for charity.
This time it was to learn how to make pom poms and make a pom pom bunny for a charity suggested by Lia of  Meandmamacreations (Filoptohos Adelphotita Perithalpsi in Katerini for my local friends)
This is what I made, my                                       part.

I made a bug in the colours I loved in a combination of blue and orange. Doesn't it look like the Barcelona team T-shirt colours?
That's how we started.Anna had lots of threads and wool.

 She gave us the pattern.

 And we started wrapping around it.

In the end that's how my bunny turned into a bug!

And here are all the bunnies and bugs together! There is even a piglet and a beaver among them!

(photo by Happy Deck)
As usual we had plenty of great food that I forgot to take a picture of (unbelievable), but I really tasted almost everything!
And I had many great surprises. Here are some!
Evangelia of Happy Deck brought me a giveaway win I had won on her facebook page. It's a bookmark and a fridge magnet and a card all made by her. You can find them in  her shop .

 I also had a beautiful surprise gift by Dimitra of DimitrArt for my birthday! Isn't it gorgeous? Thank you so much Dimitra!

I am really really proud and happy to be

part

of this group of ladies! It brings the best out of me! And the last couple of years these ladies have stood by me in all my adventures!And I am grateful!
You can find all the rest of the blogs who participate in this week's prompt of Our Beautiful World  here and you may add your own blog with the same theme.
And don't forget to do the best you can on your

part

to make a better world.

Sweet

This week's word in Our Beautiful World  is

sweet

and was chosen by sweet  Wendy of WenSylvestre Mixed Media Art.
I have recently had a lot of people at home for dinners, lunches, brunches and coffee to celebrate our wedding and my birthday so I decided to give you the recipes of some sweets/pastries I made.
Key Lime Pie

I tried this first time in the States at Dede's,a friend's house and it was amazing!
I found Martha Stewart's recipe here.
But I am making it a little bit different!
So here is my recipe for a 40cm x 30cm pan.
2 packets of digestive biscuits
a big cup of melted butter
3 tablespoons of brown sugar
6 egg yolks
3 cans of sweetened condensed milk.
the zest of 6 limes
the juice of 6 limes
Turn the oven on at 200 degrees.
Put the digestives in the mixer and make them powder.
Melt the butter and add it to the biscuits along with the sugar, mix well and lay in the tray.
Mix the sweetend milk, the egg yolks, the juice of the limes and the zest of the 5 limes in a bowl and lay over the biscuits.
Put in the oven for 15 minutes. It shouldn't get burned or look wrinkled. It should stay even and soft looking.
Take out of the oven immediately,sprinkle with the zest from the 6th lime.
Let it cool and put in the fridge.
You can make it a day before the party.
I don't bake the biscuit as Martha says and I don't add cream on top.It is too much for me. You can also make it with lemons instead of limes but I love limes.

Puff Pastry with chocolate

This is so very easy.
You need two puff pastry pieces and some chocolate spread.
You put one pastry piece on the oven tray. Spread chocolate on top.Put the other pastry sheet on top. Cut any design you like and twist each piece twice. Spread some egg on top and bake for 10 minutes in 200 degrees. I made one as a Christmas tree for Christmas.

Red berry blue berry chocolate chip muffins

Copying my recipe based on my friend Marabeth's recipe from the States.

Materials
2 cups flour
Half a cup of sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
Half a teaspoon of salt
¾ cup milk
1/3 cup vegetable oil (or olive oil)
1 egg (or 2)

Extra materials
Chocolate drops, blueberries and redberries deep frozen.
Preheat the oven at the top and bottom up to two hundred degrees. Put a little vegetable oil in each muffin tray or a piece of paper.
Mix in a bowl all dry ingredients, in another all liquid materials. Add the dry materials in liquids. Mix well with a fork.
Add any other material that you want as chocolate drops or pieces of fruit.
Put a large table spoonful into each compartment of the muffin tray.
Bake for about 20 minutes.
It makes twelve cupcakes.

I have also made pavlova recently with meringues, cherries and whipped cream, so very easy also.

Now if you don't feel like baking you can still go to the pastry shop and buy some sweets. We tried Konstandinidis the other day and they were delicious although rather expensive.

Or you can even have some cupcakes from Terkenlis, like the ones Kikitsa brought me or petit four from Gatidis like the ones Evangelia brought me, or carioca from Papaparaskevas from Xanthi like those Elsa brought me, or chocolate biscuits in the shape of a heart like Lina's. They are perfect for a

sweet

Saint Valentine's morning.

 Or you can simply have some strawberries with whipped cream

and some sweet bubbly Araldica Moscato d'asti wine like this one that Christina brought us!It was so

sweet

and delicious!

We really enjoyed it!
Enough with all those

  sweet 

things . I think I need a diet!
Why don't you link something sweet in Our Beautiful World too?

Bright

May your days be merry and bright....
Wendy of  Wen Sylvestre Mixed Media Art  chose the word

bright

for Our Beautiful World.
Christmas was exceptionally bright in our city this year.
Not that I liked the decorations. I found them kitsch!!!! Still they brought extra light in the nights of the city.

One evening, the last of Asterokosmos (Starworld) the Christmas village inside the International Trade Fair grounds, we decided to visit it to see a shadow puppetry performance.
We were met with these lights.

Inside there was a Fun Fair for kids.

It made us dizzy even looking at the people on them so we didn't take the rides!

I liked the carousel...

and this walk through pathway.

 But inspite our bright smiles

we found that almost everything in there although bright lacked taste.

At least we were compensated by the shadow puppetry performance by Agapios Agapiou!

Why don't you join us in Our Beautiful World with something bright this week and link to the blog there?

Our Beautiful World

It's been a couple of years now that I follow a blog introduced to me by my dear friend Wen of Apple and Appricot from the Netherlands. It's

 Our Beautiful World, 

a blog where people from around the world link their blogs according to a word that is given as a theme every week.
Today I was introduced at the blog as a contributor.  You can see it here..
If you would like to follow Our Beautiful World please do!

Kirsty of Handmade Little Things,

Ros of Mikey's Mum, 

Mandysea of A teacup of Scrapisms, 

Wen of Wen Sylvestre Mixed Media Arts 

and I will be happy to see you there.

Also if you are from a country apart from the ones already represented (that's the U.S.A., the U.K., Australia, the Netherlands and Greece) you may collaborate as a contributor too.
My first blogpost on Our Beautiful World will be this Sunday! I am so looking forward to it!