thank you for your sweet comments on my last post

now i´m thinking of having you all over

we would probably make a good eating team...

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i´m almost done with my christmas work

(well, i still have some ideas up my sleeves)

you can find a first sneek peek of my new cards HERE

(thanks to a LINK found on dear RIKEs site

they´re going to be printed ecofriendly - yay)

and - they are available for wholesale (just let me know if someone is interested in a line sheet)

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found my favorite SANDALS on the fair in Paris

perfect for picking flowers and all other things

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TINY BOUQUET #16 YELLOW IS NOT MY FAVORITE COLOUR

E was visiting for a bit more than two days

and we did spend a lot of time eating  - that´s almost all we did actually

and reading ELISABETH DALHOUSIE and FLAVIA DE LUCE mysteries in the sweltering heat

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as promised i made the LEMON VERBENA BLUEBERRY PIE

(couldn´t find a small enough dish, so the top turned out kind of shattered)

i won´t tell you the very small amount of time passing by 

while the pictures of the baking tray full of blueberry and cream biscuits and the one without them were taken...

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we also had melon granita, pasties filled with pumpkin, zuccini and all kinds of cheese, 

roasted sweet potatoes and radishes with spelt, she introduced me to Chinese cabbage

and i came up with "pie without the crust" - it´s kind of awseome

so far we had mascarpone with blackberries (thank you for that, dear Stephanie) and roasted peaches with ricotta

topped with herb sugar

we just couldn´t bake or eat another pie, so we just had the topping without the crust

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TINY BOUQUET #15 BEES DELIGHT

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E left in our grandmothers sandals

now i´m waiting for K to come to have an other feast

this sunday i listened to the comedy radio play DER HOLLEDAUER SCHIMMEL

a Bavarian classic from the 50s

it really is the best - i was laughing from the beginning to the end

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and it reminded me i made a TINY BOUQUET #14 ANDENKEN AN MÜNCHEN

(using a vintage cup saying so - unfortunatly you can´t see that)

this was a couple of month ago

and while i worked on it

i told W about some setbacks and got a bit carried away

so i´m sure he thought i lost it when i started to add pretzel sticks

to give it an OBATZTER look (a Bavarian cheese cream eaten in beer gardens)

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and i made an apricot caramel cake - turned out so sweet my teeth hurt

if E comes visiting tomorrow i´ll give this  BLUEBERRY LEMON VERBENA PIE a try

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also we worked on an other little piece:

a little dancing bowl

it even has a nice ring to it

and the loveliest hammered finish

my little sister E asked me to put up a post for her

(she´s probably overestimating my readership though...)

she´s very ambitious

so she doesn´t only want to study fine art

but also dancing at the same time

in Köln/Cologne that is

and now she´s looking for an apartment there - this is were you come in

does anybody know about something there?

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she´s quite nice and fun

and even though she dances like a baby

she doesn´t need diapers any more and eats solid foods (well, mostly)

and i´m pretty sure she´s going to paint you

in oils

and be thankful eternally

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have a nice weekend everybody

phlox season
(tiny bouquet #13)

being little this meant holidays spent at my grandmothers house

such a special scent

now at my bedside table (if i can stand its intensity...)

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also dried lavender

the first thing i picked from her garden

right after moving in

to cover the harsh IKEA smell in the bedroom

when i asked her if i can cut a few last sprigs

she said i could have everything around here

stressing every single word

made me almost a bit uneasy

maybe she knew

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wanted to make caramel candy

followed the instructions but this time it just didn´t set

(this was my first encounter with evaporated milk - crazy stuff - what do you actually do with it?!)

but i´m going to use it for cake fillings, maybe with apricots, blue berries, apples...

and licking it from a spoon once in a while of course

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christmas in merry progress

my postcards on one of my favorite blogs: SEND MORE MAIL

also: i want to live in ENSUITE

and spend some time with the two shy girls of BORNAY