found a hydrangea with lace rimmed flowers i was looking for a long time

in the home plant department of a quite depressing garden shop

where not even the herbs would smell

i got one just like this once from my roommate for my birthday

but it soon died - i hope this one is more robust

it´s future place in the garden is still coverd in ivy though
and i gave up upon removing it myself
my back says no - now i´m thinking of bribing someone into doing it for me

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somehow i still like to wear dark blue corduroy trousers

almost like those dungarees worn while showing off some snowdrops at the age of three

some things don´t change

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playing around with different kinds of flour

rice, buckwheat and sweet chestnut - a cake made with olive oil and goat milk

it has a most absurd nougaty texture

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after knitting this WIKSTEN HAT three times so far i got an OTHER ONE

it is quite cold after all again
a post about TALKING ABOUT FOOD made me dream of an Astrid Lindgren summer
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finished THE BELL JAR for my reading group
left me almost paralysed, shockingly touching
somehow i was worried the season finale of GIRLS would end just like that

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my story for REMEDY QUARTERLY is now ONLINE in case you´re interested

reading your most kind words

made me already start some new "projects"

it will take a while, but i´m very excited about working on them

thank you all

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TINY BOUQUET #31 TWISTED RIVER

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winning an awesome silk scarf from the amazing girls of HUI HUI

made me a very happy fellow

it´s such a beautiful treasure

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the sun - oh my - i´m so in love with her

it´s going to be more cloudy and cold the next few days

but she was out for some long days now

which i spent in the garden with my new best enemies ivy and mahonia

ripping and chopping away until my feet started to shake

no end in sight though

my uncle will come round with a chain saw and a huge axe soon

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an abandoned nursery in my neighborhood is going to be torn down

so we set out to save at least a fraction of a huge sweeping bed of Chinese anemone, limonium and tulips

our family has kind of a rescue habit

once we didn´t only take the hydranges, ferns and peonies but also the vintage wrought iron fence

before they could throw everything away

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my first roses

almost being 30 is probably a good time to start trying to grow some

i choose WILLIAM MORRIS, SWEET JULIET, REINE VIKTORIA

and only one rosa gallica ROBERT LE DIABLE

the other ones are apparently "blooming constantly" which has a very nice ring to it

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i had now idea that i into primroses

but standing in a hothouse full of them

made me fall for those cuties

and i want at least a thousand of those frittilaria uva-vulpis

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this brass olive branch wreath is probably my sawing masterpiece so far

we´re working on a quite clean and abstract collection

and this is the whimsical counterpart

it needs to be lasercut, since no one could pay for those hours of sawing

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these SHOES or those SHOES? 

at the end of last year i thought of a project

involving all kinds of things i like

(besides making jewellery that is)

flowers, food, books

and somehow combining those things

so here is what i came up with

a picture essay on Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving

- my very own and clearly non- academic take on this novel -

full of bears, loggers, giant women, more or less likely weapons

impending mud season, deadly do-si-doing

all kinds of true and ever lasting love

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and who can´t help but fall in love with Ketchum

writing angry faxes

armed at all the times in case of "critters" and mad cowboys

dating a wrestling girl friend called Six-Pack-Pam

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with one of the main characters being a cook

there were lots of tempting recipes hidden in this book

including a fateful bit of honey in the pizza crust

but i opted for a pancake recipe

inspired by the loggers breakfast in the river driver town of Twisted River

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100 g spelt flour

50 g buckwheat flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tbsp cane sugar

pinch of salt

roasted chopped up almonds

250 ml milk

frozen blueberries

maple sirup

mix the flours, baking powder, sugar, salt and almonds in a bowl

pour in the milk

mix until well incorporated

let sit for a bit

heat up the blueberries until hot and sirupy

heat up a non stick pan

and laddle in the batter in small batches

to bake small fluffy pancakes

add more flour in case the batter is too runny or more milk in case it´s too firm

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somehow i can´t find an end when working on projects i love

so i though i just had to press publish and move on

but at first i want to thank W for being a perfectly patient and hungry assistant

Franz for his collection of fixed-blade knifes to choose from

NINA for the lovely tin box

and E for her insights even though i didn´t follow her advice

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i already have some more books in mind to work on

but i´d love to hear your recommendations

could also be a movie, poem, song...

my - well, actually not "my", because they belong to themselves - cat disapeared

cat girl took off almost three weeks ago and now her brother starts to stay away too

it´s weird since they seemed to love it around here

and they would never miss their bowl of warmed milk at the neighbours
somehow i think they try to find a way to escape winter (wish i could, too)

it´s the sadest thing
(trying to cheer myself up with this CAT VIDEO)

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and i collected quite a few more food intolerances

especially cow milk and almost all grains

my belly feels already so much better

but i´m afraid the food supplements drive my stomache crazy

spent some time at the emergency room last weekend

because it felt like someone was stabbing me from behind

it seemed to look like gall stones

but then they didn´t find any 

- i was already thinking about asking if i could keep them after they´ve retrieved them -
and i went home again

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a few days later i got a full blown cold
still here in bed with me
not the flu, but awful enough
living of tined peaches, rice-noodle soup and white tea
waking again and again to the sound of snow shoveling
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some things brightened my days though
a nice interview over at GOLD.PAPER.TALK
a bit on magazines and typography and me (wearing a Peter Pan COLLAR - found via BASTISRIKE)
- thank you, dear Marleen -
a beautiful package from OLGA
and some of our pieces on an exciting journey
also some WSAKE rings in the new LUNA magazine
(W was kind of confused by the article
"does this Mila person actually wear our rings?!")

MIMA posted an interview with WSAKE 

and wrote some very nice words about us - thank you so much, Indre!

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my days are spent planing and working on prototypes

and to clear my mind i think about the garden

what has to be done

and where to plant what

(including California poppies from NINA)

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another tiny custom made golden thing - a knuckle ring

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yesterday i went to a carnival ball

dressed up as my own cat in the very last minute

but i would love to come up with an actual costume

maybe i´ll give the welding outfit from FLASHDANCE a try...

adorned with a few blue bulbs

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snowy and cold