such a busy weekend, keeping me still busy

it was so nice to meet some of you in a quite beautiful surroundig

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a sweet girl asked me to make her a BEATEN BRACELET in silver

and it turned out so pretty i decided to put it in the shop, too

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it´s still ever so grey and dreary

so the picture of a  lovely little surprise form JULIE turned out really dull

though it made me very happy and i can´t wait to put it to use

when making her berberis caramel candy

thank you so much!

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those cookie cutters need a bit of scrubbing to get rid of the rust

and i´m afraid the dog is a German sheep dog

who needs a bit of pink icing to get rid of its brown past

he can peacefully retire here

the bunnies are really fun, too

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also some custom made FESTIVE PENDANTS

i´ll do whatever you wish for :)

it´s pretty neat when all those tiny pieces are stored away

in MUJI soap and pill boxes for a Christmas design market tomorrow

so in case you´re in Regensburg stop by at DILLYDALLY and say hello

i´d love to meet you

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since i´m not used to real life contact to customers (only digital)

to guzzy myself up and make me presentable

i even tried to pluck my eyebrows with a pair of tweezers i normally use to douse candles

well...

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when i read the description of this piece by Martin Margiela for H&M

"oversized cashmere sweater" i thought "i want to go to there (yes, i really like 30 Rock)"

and this must be an interesting fact for those rheumatic ladies out there:

i was this close to start sweating in there 

and i was only wearing two undershirts and one woolen kidney cozy under it

so i´m keeping it

(isn´t this TABLECLOTH awesome?!)

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a little something for a friend who´s cat just died

TINY BOUQUET #27 MOURNING CATS

yes, those two are quite hideous... but maybe they have a cheering effect

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also i´m waiting for not so dark weather to take pictures

of some nice things i got

some ladys were so nice this week
and put lovely post up saying kind things about WSAKE:
ALMA wünscht sich was
JULIE is happy about a lot of mail in her postbox
TINE is in a Christmassy mood
and a golden LIGONMAG
 you are the sweetest and i say thank you with the last hydrangea in the garden
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just when i was thinking about coming up with some minimalistic lamp ideas
for my apartement
i found this quite contrasting floral chandelier on the fleamarket
but maybe living with both styles is the golden way
to deal with any kind of mood
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here are some things i found and liked this week:
 a lovely HAT from Wiksten i don´t have time to knit right now
looking for gifts at BASTIS RIKE and in MY WHITE ROOM

(two gift guides with awesome things: ALMA and TINE)
and an other magazine: ARTIG & FEIN

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KISS ME






 

my days are spent quite boring lately (well, actualy almost always...)

after hopping out of my cosy bed

there is a lot of work at the computer and never getting done enough

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feeding the cats

and petting one of them - she loves it very much now

walking between my feet which makes getting along rather complicated

she´s very pretty with her single white whisker

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then i feed myself

almost burned those QUINCE SCONES

which made sense after my mother filled the whole house with smoke

since apparently something got stuck in the chimney

(not so cosy in my bed this night due to wide open windows to get the burnt smell out)

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finally the BLACK AND WHITE CHRISTMASCARDS arrived

looking good and ready to send out

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have a nice Sunday night!

we just put quite a few merry little things in the shop

- find all of them in the CHRISTMAS SECTION -

lots of cards, FESTIVE PENDANTS (embossed with kind words), TINY GARLANDS (made of iron twine and vintage glass beads)

and i dug deep in my archive of printed goods

and decided to offer a little COOKBOOK on Christmas sweets and a whole bunch of greeting cards

i printed back in art school

it´s a semi-automatic silkscreen print

meaning after a lot of fiddling and adjustments and putting in the paper by hand

you push a button and the screen + squeegee do the printing on their own

even though i became allergic to the chemicals involved i LOVED printing

so i have quite a bit of boxes full of prints i thought i would share with you

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the BLACK AND WHITE CHRISTMAS CARDS do still give me a bit of grief

they arrived yesterday from the printer

their edges fringed and awful but they are going to be reprinted and should be ready by 15.11.

now i have to come up with an idea for a thousand greeting cards

i probably cut them into tiny gifttags

and ideas?

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take a look at the lovely ZIERRAT UND GOLD gathering

there are amazing pictures to find at those places: NINA, JULIE and SUSANNE

i wish i could have been there...

my sisters say my moodswings are my most annoying habits

meaning me getting into a bad temper

so i try to avoid things making me angry

like watching political discussions and reading articles on some topics

they make me want to roll around on the floor kicking and screaming sometimes...

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but i think they are okay with me getting angry this morning reading Sarahs post on SAIPUA

women´s rights always get me started... 

so i try to listening not to closely to news on Mitt Romney´s campain

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also i thought of one of my professors saying in the first lesson

places to study graphic design for girls are a waste (at least two thirds of the class being girls!)

because we would all become mothers at some point

and then we would stop working anyway

like this would be our fault if we would choose to go this way

when really it is all about money - more money for men

becoming a mother and stopping working for a bit 

(there are still not that many and affordable oportunities for childcare for small children) 

equals no career in a lot of cases

it´s not like we can wait until we´re at the peak of our career in our late forties

get a young husband and start popping out those babies

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the most disturbing scene in Mad Men for me 

was after Peggy had fired a guy making an offensive drawing of Joan 

she told her now everybody thinks she´s just another humourless bitch

it´s still like that - we´re meant to laugh about it

when this business isn´t funny for sure

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grewing up my sisters and me were always told girls could do anything

(my dad thinking they could do it even better)

and with parents splitting housework and child care equaly

it is kind of hard to step out in the real world

and i actually sometimes do not know what to do

so probably starting to sing like those awesome girls is a good start:

YOU DON`T OWN ME

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also: an arrangement for my grandmothers grave

and another guest at the cat food station

very much respected by those felines