this are the first pictures of a lovely project i´m working on

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as i told you, i met a lot of great people at THE HIVE in Berlin

one of them Dana of the amazing childrens clothing company TANNHAUSER

and after a short talk and two emails we decided to do a collaboration

- WSAKE fine jewellery for TANNHAUSER -

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meet the CROSS STITCH BUNCH

inspired by ancient cross stitch patterns - just like the prints of the collection

(more pictures coming soon for sure - and check out the first glimps of the LOOKBOOK shoot by Flannery O´Kafka)

yesterday they were shipped of to PLAYTIME PARIS and PLAYTIME NEW YORK

i couldn´t be more excited

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since i´m doing a lot of precise sawing by hand

i thought i wouldn´t get any better

but after working on these prototypes

it looks like i turned into a laser cutter

phew

work is crazy right now

food is the only thing keeping me sane

it always is

because i´m afraid i´m loosing it every time i get hungry

driving my bike becomes dangerous, things slipping from my hands, oh so grumpy mood...

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so thank you dear blog world for a few new soothing additions to my repertoire:

Fräulein Texts SWEET POTATOE CHIPS 

(do not let them get brown or you´ll end up like me nibbling the good orange stuff from brown burnt rims)

Heidi Swansons RHUBARB ROSEWATER SIRUP makes an awesome granita (as do those little green melons)

also i´m drying rose petals for her ROSE PETAL GRANOLA

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yesterday i got sentimental and made focaccia with grapes

 made it with my roommate a lot while studying

we tried every variation Jamie Oliver suggested

our favorites were tiny tomatoes + mozzarella and cherries, brown sugar + butter 

or stuffed with rocket, onions, gorgonzola, parmesan + herbs

yeast is not that good for my stomach but i just had to eat some

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any comforting food suggestions?

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TINY BOUQUET #10 BROKEN JAR

very disappointing leaking little pretty doll house jar

full of roadside weeds

the best kind

W really can make everything

missing pieces of a Rolls Royce, a dome for your steeple including a weathercock

my bed (and soon bed side table)

so this bowl was a trifle for him to create

also i have to add "unfinished" is not his thing

his work looks kind of perfect, like he´s some human machine

he asks ten times if i really want it to look that way

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we´re hooked now with coming up with goods for the kitchen and table

after all creating those kind of things is what silversmiths actually did do 

(well, for really posh tables of course)

not so often anymore

which is a shame

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so here´s the first glimpse of the DELICIOUS BOWL

can i tell him you like it, too - because i do

also: is "mmh..." really an international expression of culinary delight?

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two long gone TINY BOUQUETS

#8 WHITE MEADOW (WEIßE WIESE in German)

#9 NECTAROSCORDIUM (very onion-smelly)

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hopefully i grow old just like these columbine leaves

looking more beautiful every day

 

actually i´m a graphic designer you know 

so i put a few more of this kind of projects on my website 

including my thesis 

BENVENU - Abhandlungen ueber die Goldschmiedekunst und Sculptur

a new edition of the first handbook for goldsmithing

by the famous Renaissance man CELLINI

including posters and work sampling

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i really loved working on this

and dreamt of becoming a book designer

but then i couldn´t let go of jewellery design

now i wish i could do both

anyone?!

BENVENU - posters / BENVENU - book 



oh - i still have a few left over silkscreen printed ACANTHUS, KRANE, 3D
and V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (with a layer of fancy golden rub-off ink) posters
and SILVER PITCHER post cards
in case anyone wants to decorate their home 
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here you can see:
DRIVING (i left out the wavy looking step - it seamed to disturbe people not familiar with this technique)
RENAISSANCE SILVER PITCHER (since those are mostly fused-in, i rebuild one with silver necklaces instead)
NIELLO (Cellinis poem about the beauty of Tuscany written in wire, quite too much unruly to actually use it for Niello though)
UNROLLING
and the master himself
you´ll find work on alchemy, fusing, secret alphabets, enamel,
casting stones (and how to find them in a kranes stomach), casting huge sculptures (and enjoying a little salad after the devilish work is done)
and a lot of violence and murder
 in the book


i could get on and on
as is said - i LOVED it 


there`s a portrait series of at least 40 different hammers in the book
even though everone told me this is boring and way too much
but it isn´t!
those silver and goldsmith were forging all their life
their apprentices taking care of the hammers all day long, keeping them in shipshape
and those tools are so beautiful




ok - i stop now

 

a quick weird post

before a little sunny dinner on the veranda

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inspired (like a lot of bloggers) by ELISABETHS post

on showing your face on your blog

(RIKE is even smiling at us quite animated now - nice)

i think i only showed pictures of tiny me so far

and i still don´t feel comfortable showing too much

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BUT here are some paintings E (that´s my talented sister) made of me

(since pictures couldn´t do their colours justice i changed them a bit)

she actually did a lot of those

while i was quite immobilized by back pain

there´s even one of me taking a bath (sold)

an other time i have to show you her "early masterpiece" grumpy me

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also some pictures from a photo booth

i look a lot like W in his crazy hair time in those

(well, his hair is always crazy)

and really shocked by the flash

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where are you?

a more cheery TINY BOUQUET for my mothers birthday

(although it looked a bit teary from all the heavy rain)

made of geranium flowers and turned purple columbine leaves

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and a bit of food

i used a yeast alternate for making this bread

which turned out not that great, since it would have needed a 30 degree Celsius environment for 24 hours

and it was very cold instead

but it had sour cherries in it so it was okay

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started to take new pictures for the SHOP

since i don´t like the messy look that´s going on over there

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AND: thank you for all your nice comments lately

you are the best

 

today would have been my grandmothers birthday

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went into her wild garden and made her an equally free spirited TINY BOUQUET

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as a teenager she wrote "my ideals" on the back of the left picture

- music, hiking and Bavarian mountains -

she took it for photography class

so maybe this messy weedy flowers are to her liking

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the other picture seems even older

i think it shows her fathers hiking equipment

(the little paper corn flower i found on the flea market this weekend

somehow reminded my of those pictures)

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i miss you

be quick

go out in the woods in the next couple of days - don´t wait any longer
(and check for ticks afterwards)

or it´s too late for SPRUCE TIP HONEY

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i went out in my garden right after reading the post by FRÄULEIN TEXT

and also i wasn´t so sure about the whole thing

when my appartment started to smell like mountain pine bath additive

i couldn´t be more pleased with the result

such an unusual woodsy taste and rich dark colour

already had it with my morning spelt porridge

and i bet it would be marvelous on the Raisin Scones from GOOD TO THE GRAIN

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there´s a different version (in english) over at HUNGRY GHOST

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TINY BOUQUET #5 PINK WEED
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enjoy your weekend!

 

lots and lots of colour and sun spots
for your summer
also some pansies for TINY BOUQUET #4
find the glass bead necklaces HERE




 

a bit of powder blue today 

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thought i would make no more glass bead necklaces

but then summer came

and i longed for a bit of colour and dug deep into my bead archive

you can find them HERE

they´re all one of a kind

some of the beads over a hundred years old

collected on flea markets and fairs

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although i visited great stores like DO YOU READ ME

and visited amazing exhibitions

(CY TWOMBLY, ANTHONY MCCALL)

i´m really sorry i somehow missed PACIFIC STANDARD TIME)

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also there´s a tiny glimpse at a lovely CARD from BASTIS RIKE

i´m still searching for the perfect place to put up her PRINT

thank you again for this beautiful surprise

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reading the blog of one of the girls i met in Berlin

i found this WHITE CHOCOLATE GANACHE PIE

and had to make it right away, throwing in some frozen blueberries

danke, JULIE! 

 

 you know how much i love shortbread

so this all kinds of weather sunday

- cold, rainy, sticky and sunny -

i tried a new variation adding elderflower and rose petals

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i would not recommend the rose petals

somehow their scent disapears while baking

but a teaspoonful of rosewater might do the trick

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find my go to shortbread recipe HERE

and add the carefully picked tiny flowers

(don´t wash them or you´ll loose all this delicious pollen)

right before rolling out the dough

when taking the scones i made using lemonade out of the oven

(following this RECIPE from the Vintage Tea Party Cookbook)

i realized my shoes were matching my grandmother´s potholders

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dark dark peonies

actually those were white and cut fresh from the garden

read this POEM by Mary Oliver while smelling them

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a blurry picture of something exciting

(and my new favorite sweater from COS -

K can´t look at it, the turquoise gives her a head ache)

hopefully more about that soon

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TINY BOUQUET #4 CARDINAL RICHELIEU

(it´s the name of the rosebuds - most lovely scented)