it has been quite a year

.

a lot is going to be different in 2012

i hope it´s going to be a good one for everybody

.

thank you all for visiting

and an even bigger thank you

for making my dream come true

by all the support of my little jewellery career

you are the best

.

have a great new years eve!

thank you so much for your lovely comments and mails

they really ment a lot

.

we gathered all twigs and leaves dear to her from her garden

her beloved Virginia Creeper berries and her carefully treated olive and yew tree 

to be with her at her good bye

now i take care of her italian olive tree

and we put a picture of a wreath made of its leaves on her memorial card

.

a cookie recipe she made on her last day

and paper withes

i got the bulbs - along with a hundred of other kinds - when everything happend

they started to bloom on her stormy funeral

.

i still can hear the hunting horns bid their farewell

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it´s starting to snow now

before everthing happend

i took christmassy pictures of some of my jewellery

.

and i decided to post then anyway

since i´d love to work on some last minute pieces for you

work certainly has healing powers

.

LITTLE EMBOSSED PENDANTS

TINY STAR NECKLACE

THREE DOTS NECKLACE

she has left us

on a very stormy Wednesday noon

.

we held her hand and said our goodbyes

she never was alone in this week of her farewell

E sang to her for hours and hours

.

we are so very sad to have lost her

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but she spread her love for dance and music wide

.

and her way of following her heart affections and dreams

of pursuing the things she loved at any age and any circumstance

staying interested in so many things and people

and keeping an independed and strong mind

of living love in her own way

hopefully lives on in all of us

.

TANZE IN FRIEDEN

dance in peace

on Wednesday, very early in the morning

my grandmother had a massive stroke

she´s going to leave us in the next days

we´re hoping she can go easily and peaceful

and an everlasting barn dance in full swing is waiting for her

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i lived in her house for the last 5 months

feeling like i´m the elderly lady and she´s 28 years old

this busy she has been

the plans for her Wednesday would have been

teaching dulcimer class, baking for St. Nikolaus 

and playing the hunting horn

at princess Gloria of Thurn und Taxis´Christmas market

followed by leading a dance class for elderly persons

and attending a folk music meeting

in the next couple of days

today i´m starting to show you some of the WSAKE jewellery

sort of a gift guide

.

so here we start of with a new version of the HAMMERED EMBOSSED PENDANT

there are two new options avaiable

iron and brass

embossed and hand carved

of course custom made if you wish

(see carving tools above)

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if you´re interested in a pendant with more then 5 letters

we can probably work something out now

since i realized how much the light blue DOT CARD

looks like a snowy wintery sky

they´re now available HERE

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the tiny sheep seem to like it too

(don´t look to close, K...)

my new - last minute - FLORAL CHRISTMAS CARDS are in the SHOP

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did a lot of writing with all kinds of christmassy twigs and leaves

two kinds of holly, mistel toe and fir (again)

printed on a heavy matte 350g card board

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have a nice weekend everybody

POLADARIUM arrived!

(as presented in the Süddeutsche Magazin gift guide )

i´m so lucky two of my polaroids are shown in this calender

!!!

you can get it HERE

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currently i´m trying to turn a huge light bulb

- probably from the 50s - 

into a snow globe

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and a tiny bit of gold

i like it most in it´s undone look

still trying to take pictures of the CHRISTMAS CARDS

in evening light

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working on DARK MOON iron pendants

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hosting quite some geraniums for the winter months in my apartment

some of them had to cut back a little to fit in

so every room is filled with delicate smelling arrangements

.

more floral christmas cards coming soon

it´s so complicated to take pictures of fancy glossy silver paper

so i will try some more

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my CHRISTMAS CARDS are here!

find them in the SHOP

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TREE OF LIGHT

WHITE CHRISTMAS

O TANNENBAUM

COOKIE CUTTERS

a few things i tried

but didn´t work out

pretty though

a custom made PEBBLE RING

(if your size isn´t available - we can make you a special one)

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some remains in a cobweb - picture taken on halloween

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a wooly delivery from my favorite STORE

.

a picture of me sitting cross legged on the floor and a bracelet made of too strong pills

as an homage to my pain killers and physiotherapy 

a year ago one of the many things i hadn´t done for a very long time

was sitting on something different then a big ball

so thank you both

(and please don´t turn against  me pills!)

happy halloween everybody

.

forced W to go hunting with me

for lovely coloured twigs and berries in the park

so i could make a seasonal arrangement

actually i wanted to include some spooky bones

but the only ones i found in our garden

were tiny relicts from our bunnies

(now the hole thing has to stay outside

due to the ever so sticking goldenrod seeds)

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also i added my creepy feet in traditional oberpfälzer stockings

and a new BOOK with bones on it

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whoohoo

just a quick post before heading out in the rain

for a bit of acupuncture

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as always i´m way too late in making christmas cards

this time i had about 10 different motives

and now i´m choosing 4 to actually be printed

on glossy silver card board

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to add something bright to this grey day

i think i´ll turn those quinces into compote

not in the best mood today

has someting to do with work stuff, foggy suburbs and a bit of back pain

almost killed a plant by drying it out completly

and i thought i´m more the root rotting kind

.

but my basil cuttings thrive pretty and bloom

didn´t know that this was possible with perennial plants

until RENILDE told me

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and to fight off the fog and cold

i´m wearing my MUKU (have a look at their adorable childrens clothes) scarf today

(hopefully W doesn´t try to steal i from me again)

THEY said those scarlet runner beans are so beautiful

i would have to take a picture

right after i opend the pod

so that is what i did

.

and then i got a nailpolish called peridot

which goes very well with EMBOSSED PENDANTS

and geranium leafs

really don´t like working on my computer right now

so much better to glue together cardboard, saw letters and paint them

.

or producing custom made PENDANTS

i thought embossing was hard so W was doing most of it

but it turns out i´m a natural

please order some more

it´s so much fun

and my physiotherapists say it´s better for me anyway

.

did you find the tiny spot of geranium in this post?

i´m salting

again

a few years ago i tried to recreate Benvenuto Cellinis Saliera

in salt and pepper

now i´m working on a more Christmassy project

one more day and autumn is supposed to arrive

after those unbelievable sunny days

almost got a sun stroke yesterday

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make this TOMATO SOUP right away

but double the amount

since you´re going to love it that much

.

dozens and dozens of peonies produced one single seed

put it in soil right away

please do not tell me growing peonies doesn´t work that way

because i already see myself as a successful flower farmer here

it´s going to be that luscious pale pink kind...

a weird combination of vanilla sour milk to go with red berry compote

sparklers

and the new HAMMERED EMBOSSED PENDANTS

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don´t know how this happend

seems like i can´t separate the projects i´m working on right now any more

...

this was the last time i didn´t swap sunflower oil for melted butter

when baking a cake

i really don´t like the taste

.

but the cream cheese peanut butter frosting to go with it is AMAZING

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some days start off foggy 

but all turn out to be unbelievable sunny

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found those geranium twigs rippes off on the street

and of course had to save them.

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a necklace made of tiny beads made of wood

found in a fair trade store

i got W to work on some fake brass crystals

he doesn´t like it since it´s fiddly work

but he seems to enjoy to get out his electronic Black & Decker file once in a while

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when my absolute flower hero over at SAIPUA

wrote about COLLECTING BEGONIAS

i fell in love with those plants

now my appartment starts looking like a green house

but i´m not going to stop

wanna swap some leaves?

.

LITTLE FRAME NECKLACE now available in brass

on a string of vintage twine

new LITTLE EMBOSSED PENDANTS 

.

i´m clearly no early adopter...

when even W asked me if i "have a facebook"

sounding like it´s actually a book

i thought it´s time to "get a facebook"

:

so HERE you can find WSAKE

and ME, too

the BLACK PENDANT NECKLACES are now listed in the SHOP

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did you ever cook pasta in vegetable juice?

quite easy

you just have to add a bit of cheese and some toasted nuts

.

to get lots of free fruit

drive around the suburbs

in front of every garden you can find baskets with apples, pears, ...

i got those - needed a change after so many apples from my grandmother

another round of grey pictures

of the broches and necklaces.

.

actually there is quite some colour in my everyday life

but when it comes to work

i´m totally drawn to greys and neutrals

.

on the other hand 

i just got crazy sparkling christmas lights on the flea market

retracing inspiration

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where do things come from?

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obviously triangles are all over the place

and i had to put this ancient triangular punch to use

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but there are also those black brooches W made decades ago

and S used to wear so often

maybe that is why i made W forge iron

and heat it black