31.12.12

to a new and very happy year!
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i made my annual account
and it was almost as awful as i thought it would turn out
but your orders (especially around Christmas time) 
put a silver lining to an otherwise disastrous calculation
but i guess this is what working freelance is about
you have to wait if it takes off or stop it
not stopping yet
maybe the new year gets better
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found a sleepy lady bug in the TINY BOUQUET #28 NEW YEARS EVE
this certainly means best of luck
the flowery wall painting is the only pretty thing
in this suburb i live in
and it fades away more each time i walk by
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a little package from TI made me very happy
next to a wonderful smelling tiny wreath 
there is a small vintage stamp saying "gold"
it´s so lovely - thank you so so much!
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BUCKWHEAT BUTTER COOKIES with white chocolate
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i´m so lucky to have met all those lovely and kind people
with a little help of this blog in 2012
so this makes up for a financially bumpy road

thank you for all your support
you are the best!

22.12.12

this morning i finished the last orders and put them in the mail
such a busy week
with so many surprises in my mailbox
some waiting under the tiny pine Christmas tree
some opend right away - like RIKEs wonderful package
a tiny tree to stamp my wrapping paper and a wreath stamp (she knows me so well...)
thank you all - i´m over the moon!!!
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can´t wait to open this beautiful little box from OLGA
presents for my sisters and myself
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finally got to make JULIEs berberis candy
it´s delicious
(thank you for the recipe and the ingredients)

whoever designed this fun moon cookie cutter
is a great artist, it´s my favorite
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now i want to wish everybody a lovely Christmas time
may it be merry and bright
i´m going to white torture my sisters with my Holiday samplers now
(since i started to watch Homeland a few days ago i know how it´s done
additionally i´ll turn up the radiators real high - they are not used to this warmth
since they have to heat with coal)
for making me buy my own Christmas gifts
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some things i liked:
a FLORISTS HOME
a CARVEN JACKET (not available in my size...)
DECEMBER ROSES (Saipua again - can´t help it)
Rike´s HANDMADE post









14.12.12

have you seen the wreaths over at SAIPUA - aren´t they most beautiful?!
HERE is a tutorial
now the one from the last post has to go to therapy because of self esteem issues
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got a lovely surprise package form NINA
(will show you what´s actually in there some other time)
but the bees wax candle alone made me very happy with its lovely smell
(also: golden raffia and a wooden mold with a squirrel looking like a monkey)
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she also found a recipe for tiny SNOWBALLS
the big ones are from MILAS DELI
very delicious and both gone in an instant
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and i have to thank you for your orders
yesterday i had to tape my fingers to bear a few hours of filing
next to a wood burning stove
having quite some trouble to get the workshop warm
since someone forgot to fire it up in time...
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my work area looks kind of weird
it´s kind of makeshift but awesome
since i work standing not sitting
and W built it with all kinds of found things
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the sun comes out
and makes my vintage glass walnuts shimmer golden in the light
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have a lovely advent weekend everybody
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two gift guides i like: 
EVENCLEVELAND






7.12.12

today, a year ago, my grandmother died
the way she always wanted, almost in an INSTANT
gone so fast
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now my goal is to always make her the most beautiful WREATH (in her opinion)
on the whole graveyard
this one turned out a bit too monutonous for my liking
made of her favorite berries, cuttings from her yew tree (poisonous, but soft and easy to work with)
and some flowers i dried after shooting them in a VASE
(a good excuse for being a severe flower hoarder)
next time i need to get a bit more adventurous
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a quite unusal christmassy picture of her
dressed up as St. Mary
although at that time she was kind of a wild tomboy
with a even wilder nickname - Waldl
playing the guitar, winning ski races and all
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we miss her very much
there is so much i want to show her
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since we gathered so many twigs and berries
i made an other wreath - for the living
don´t know where to put it yet
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 either my mum gets it or i find a place in my flat for it
there´s not much room left
since i went overboard with all the decorations
that was what i wanted to do when it happend last year
and i think she would have liked it
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cold and snowy






 

2.12.12

now i´m - allowed to listen to tacky Christmas songs
and decorate the kitchen (birch wreath inspired by NINA)
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since it´s getting quite cold
i try really hard to lure the little black ones into the house
but they are not very adventurous
even though they do not like the snow
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it´s also time to make a (lot of) wish(es)
so here we go:
these BOOTS in black
this COAT in olive and this CARDIGAN
and since i´m literally living in those since October i might get another of these JUMPERS 
(looks good in "tan", doesn´t it)
a MEMOIR by Grace Coddington
the Sprouted Kitchen COOKBOOK
i admit it  - i do love FRIENDS
the BOOK about the Makers Project
i wish W could make this BRACELET for myself
time to come up with ideas and actually make some furniture for my bedroom and kitchen
(all i know so far is that brass and marble should be involved)
a festive KINFOLK magazine (already arrived thanks to a...)
the BLANKET from Zierrat und Gold
CHRISTMAS CARDS by Hanna Konola (swapped last year, put up now) - also JOULUKALENTERI
a closet full of these WIRE HANGERS
meals shared with sisters and friends
to be continued
probably
...
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have a nice first Sunday in Advent