this is my favorite TINY BOUQUET #11 ROADSIDE so far

very nice ruderal plants along the industrial area streets indeed

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since we talked about showing your face a lot

here´s an other bit of mine

hiding behind a curtain

to not disturb mama cat and two kittens feeding on the patio

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it looks like i got adopted by those tiny stray guys

they are super shy and wont come near me

but they like my food and act like my patio is theirs now

hissing like crazy when i want to come out too

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a new favorite cookbook

do you like it too?

 

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

work is crazy right now

food is the only thing keeping me sane

it always is

because i´m afraid i´m loosing it every time i get hungry

driving my bike becomes dangerous, things slipping from my hands, oh so grumpy mood...

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so thank you dear blog world for a few new soothing additions to my repertoire:

Fräulein Texts SWEET POTATOE CHIPS 

(do not let them get brown or you´ll end up like me nibbling the good orange stuff from brown burnt rims)

Heidi Swansons RHUBARB ROSEWATER SIRUP makes an awesome granita (as do those little green melons)

also i´m drying rose petals for her ROSE PETAL GRANOLA

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yesterday i got sentimental and made focaccia with grapes

 made it with my roommate a lot while studying

we tried every variation Jamie Oliver suggested

our favorites were tiny tomatoes + mozzarella and cherries, brown sugar + butter 

or stuffed with rocket, onions, gorgonzola, parmesan + herbs

yeast is not that good for my stomach but i just had to eat some

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any comforting food suggestions?

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TINY BOUQUET #10 BROKEN JAR

very disappointing leaking little pretty doll house jar

full of roadside weeds

the best kind

W really can make everything

missing pieces of a Rolls Royce, a dome for your steeple including a weathercock

my bed (and soon bed side table)

so this bowl was a trifle for him to create

also i have to add "unfinished" is not his thing

his work looks kind of perfect, like he´s some human machine

he asks ten times if i really want it to look that way

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we´re hooked now with coming up with goods for the kitchen and table

after all creating those kind of things is what silversmiths actually did do 

(well, for really posh tables of course)

not so often anymore

which is a shame

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so here´s the first glimpse of the DELICIOUS BOWL

can i tell him you like it, too - because i do

also: is "mmh..." really an international expression of culinary delight?

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two long gone TINY BOUQUETS

#8 WHITE MEADOW (WEIßE WIESE in German)

#9 NECTAROSCORDIUM (very onion-smelly)

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hopefully i grow old just like these columbine leaves

looking more beautiful every day