i miss my grandmother

sitting on her patio

reading, eating, working

taking care of my cuttings and seedlings

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she would have loved to see the sun bringing all her plants back to life

warming the little lizards

smell her blooming trees

hear the birds sing

i hope she still can somehow dream of all this

feel it from afar

 

new season - new things 

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taking new pictures of some of our pieces

it should turn into a kind of lookbook

first up - EMBOSSED LETTER PENDANTS

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new glass bead colour combinations

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new haircut

(not shown)

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new sun glasses

guess what - got these from CELINE at TK MAXX

yay

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new planting

lots of it

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new shoes

actually those i´m wearing standing dangling on my supersoft mattress

are vintage ballet slippers i just wear indoors

since they are so lovely

(and the shirt you almost can´t see with a print by me is 0941)

a couple of pictures to document my greedy shortbread habit

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also some of my lovely finds from last weeks fleamarket

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the only way to really keep me from biting my nails

is nailpolish

o well

ESSIE is my favorite kind 

and now all colours are available here in Germany too

but i probably should switch entirely to "healthier" brands like BUTTER or SCOTCH

but till then i indulge in all kinds of red and coral 

those go so well with this summer kind of weekend were going to have

my grandmothers (and greatgrandmothers) tulips 

very Sixties

and classy till the end
(i bet they would look great being carried around by Don Draper
in his new checkered sports jacket)

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want even more petals?

go HERE

on this very April-like Sunday

- sun, rain and hail - 

i started reading A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD

and after just a few pages i decided i like it very much

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and i really liked the ZEIT MAGAZIN from last week

those recipies sound and look amazing

also not suitable for the histamin intolerant

but maybe i pop one of these wonder-pills

and try them anyway

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shortbread is something i can and do eat

lots and lots

and it´s so easy to make

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here´s how i do it:

125g butter, soft

1/4 cup + 1 table spoon icing sugar

1 cup flour

1/4 cup starch flour

salt - i like a lot

cream the butter with the icing sugar

quickly add flour and starch flour

knead lightly

form two balls, flatten them with a rolling pin

cut into 6 wedges

transfer to a baking tray - chill for an hour

bake 20 to 25 min at 160°C

some things i love to add to the dough:

salted butter from the Ile de Re - it´s divine

dried cranberries and caramelized salted and peppered chopped up almonds

crushed fennel seeds

aniseed

caraway

white tea (1 - 2 bags)

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(these additions work for me but probably not for everybody with histamin related problems)

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the butter biscuits over at THIS IS NAIVE look very tempting