some pictures i took in Paris 

using my old little digital camera

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as you can see i spent most of the time eating pastries

from LADUREE, POLAINE and ROSE BAKERY

Rose Bakery was my favorite - the green tea cake with raspberries was beyond amazing

(although i didn´t react so good to all those eggs it was totaly worth it)

i went to their smaller store and fell in love with its industrial furnishings and most kind and funny shop girls

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i used the Paris guide from THIS IS NAIVE

and from PHOTISSERIE

(but i didn´t buy anything from Repetto and those kitchen stores...)

and i was very thankful for all of your tipps - although i didn´t have the time to check them all out

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staying in a very not pretty Etap hotel for the last two days

i really saw the beautiful and the ugly of this crowded city, delightful and a bit repelling

almost frightening

my little Laduree bag looked quite misplaced there

but that special Paris light is bewitching everywhere you go

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now i´m a bit broke 

(it was sale season after all and i could not resist some pretty things...)
eating plain noodles with pepper + salt now, watching a breadstick VIDEO

back from Paris

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just a quick post for a HUGE thank you

for making this happen and taking me along to Dana of TANNHAUSER

(here she is on HAUPTSTADTMUTTI)
coming up to her back in May was probably one of my smartest moves so far

i was delighted to meet her - and the CROSS STITCH BUNCH - again at PLAYTIME

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as soon as i´ll catch up with work

i´ll put up more Paris things here

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until then - find me on the KID´S WEAR BLOG sniffing at supermans muscles

and Dana and John conquering the world with a rocket + castle
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and the wild guys on PAUL & PAULA

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lookbook picture by FLANNERY O´KAFKA 

and here they are

the CROSS STITCH BUNCH

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thank you for your warm welcome

(and your food suggestions - i´ll everything)

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since i spent so much time with them lately i gave them names:

VERY CROSS DEER

KNIGHTLY PONY (he´s my favorite, looking like dressed up in those mediaeval horsecoats but being very friendly)

BLUNT HEDGEHOG

STUNNED DRAGON

POINTY PIG

FOXOLOTL

FROGLEGGED MAN
PITCHFORK ROOSTER
and SQUARE CHICKEN

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maybe maybe maybe i´m going to Paris next weekend

do i have any Parisian readers with suggestions what to do there

when i sneak away a bit from the fair

this trip would be so last notice i don´t have time to do a lot of research

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