well, i´m not that into Fall

not yet

so i won´t join the praise of this dooming glorious season

to me it smells rotten

brings the cold (and cold related pains - maybe i need to move to an other climate)
the eternal fog in those areas near a big river is literally depressing
and always worse than expected - it hits me every time

and i can only apprechiate the morbide side o f it

to me sunflowers are only bearable in their dying state

also got some strawflowers at the farmers market

(judging by the looks the lady who sold them gave me, 

those are only supposed to be bought by the elderly)

put them in an odd ice cream vessel from ZIERRAT AND GOLD

and might use them in a couple of months in a flower arrangement for my grandmothers grave

(last time at the hardwear store i found some hot glued on top of some cacti

so i might do something similar - put them onto some bare branches)

to drive all the other ambitious grave decorators mad

joyous times

i guess it´s okay with my grandmother

she used to have tea with rum after her visit to the graveyard on All Saints Day

probably not only due to the cold weather

"dear lord, the things i´ve seen..."

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but i made a FALL GREETING CARD for you after all

and started putting all those bulbs in the soil

got best quality ones from the Netherlands

they seem to burst with life any minute

and those grapes are really beautiful - grown in our tiny vinyard

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went to a excellent exhibiton of HEINZ BRAUN

and i guess my thoughts had nothing to do with the shown work

but i had to urge to create an outlet for the crazy, the unfiltered, not so pretty

do stuff that doesn´t need to be representable
my own delicious secret

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HUMANS OF NEW YORK 

an article on the sadness of gen-y on MAN REPELLER
(guess we should try to achive our personal best instead of the over all best)

WHY INSTAGRAM IS DEPRESSING

(used to get in a bad mood looking at perfect online lifes

even before joining facebook and the blogging world

when i do so now i sometimes reach out to those who seemingly have it all

and tell them how impressed i am

always turns out they´re very human after all (and mostly very nice))

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a nice APRON
awesome HYDRO TERRARIUMS

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oh, in case someone wants some geranium cuttings

i´m cutting down all of my old plants and would be happy to send some your way










 

this clematis is called "My Angel" 

it has the prettiest tiny red and yellow bells

so glad i ordered it this Spring together with all these English roses

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a GOLDSTÜCK

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lately i don´t have so much luck with baking

it´s probably because i´m trying out all these fats instead of cow butter

sheep butter doesn´t work i guess

(does anyone know about that?!)

made shortbread twice and it turned into crumbles

bubbling crumbles - the oddest kind

but nice on top of blackberries

shaken to mush on the bike ride

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and then the thing with the olive oil galette crust...

i´ve mastered it now and am in love with it

already had it with rainbow chard, beetroot and blachberries + feta

the first time i had to eat it with a soon though

but it didn´t matter since i was reading a book a MAIRA KALMAN while doing so

which made me really happy

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GATHER is wonderful, too 

you can learn how to bake a Pyscho cherry pie

good to know

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some fall plants

an odd cactus

and a TINY BOUQET from a confused looking meadow

it was like it thought Spring had started all over

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took the cat to the vet

which is a big deal for a wild creature like her

got treated for worms and all other things a cat needs

i feel very happy she choose to stay with me for a while

swapping her exciting wild life for endless hours on my sofa

followed by an attempt trying to kill that carpet 

again and again

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and welcome to the world, little Theo!

the LETTERED PENDANTS are available in every language

but this is a special collection of pendants in German

WORTSPIEL

i was so lucky to collaborate on them with MME ULMA

so a wie u
gleich
nah / ezu
-sammen
wie
buch &
stabe
so

vielen dank, liebe ULMA - es war mir eine ehre

und euch wünsche ich viel freude an unseren anhängern
auch HIER bei ihr

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RENILDE DEPEUTER´S home by EEFJE DE CONINCK

probably the best bouquet i´ve ever seen: COLOUR FOREST

yes, i do love me some Astilbe...

RUND won - so simple and clear

congratulations, MLLE. BLEU

and thank you for all those other suggestions

greetings and speech bubble words will come soon

but first there will be a very special collection of FESTIVE PENDANTS

can´t wait to tell you more about it

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this summer we got the chance to work on some really special wedding bands

shaped like mountains, made of white gold

(this is a really hard material to work with

after they were finished i had to scale way back with pressure and force

silver is that much softer)

for the sweetest couple - JULIE and Rainer

we tried some too complicated versions first and decided to go with the clearest option in the end

we were so lucky to be a part of their wedding

all the best to you two

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FRÄULEIN TEXT´S yellow California poppies are some of the most pretty plants in my garden

the silken poppy turned into a plage instead

that will be moved to an other bed next year

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Claire Basler´s SPACE

i had no idea empty book shelfs could be that pretty