Last pieces of summer

10. September 2010

I didn’t expect to still get currants and strawberries this year, but I found both last weekend in the supermarket around the corner and was all excited.

Biscuit, a mixture of sugar, cream, cream cheese and curd and on top the berries. Unfortunately it only last two days.

At the moment it looks as if the project “new kitchen” will gain momentum in the next few weeks. We already have a new kitchen table and there is this kitchen cabinet on eBay I’m watching, that looks really promissing. And I’ve saved some money and made space for new things. Let’s see what will happen. Enjoy the last few summery days!

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pink II

3. September 2010

Whenever I end a post with a spoiler like “And what I’ll do with this and that, I’m going to tell you next week” it never takes a week but a month or more. I promised to show what I wanted to do with one of our walls in our hallway more than two months ago and it took me until yesterday to get it done. But here it is: Another art wall.

Some of these prints waited to be hung up for months now and they just waited for the right place. But when I finally had decided where to put them up our walls, it took me like forever to arrange them. I tried so many layouts, cut out little models out of paper and arranged them on a sheet of paper because there were already so many holes in our wall (of all the nails I had put in and then out again). And when I thought I had found a layout that looks good, I started putting it up to the wall just to find out that it looks different on the wall. I was really frustrated. So yesterday I said I’d try it for the last time and if it wouldn’t work out this time, this wall would stay blank. I didn’t make a model this time and just gave it a try. I put up the two bigger ones in the middle and just hang all others around them quite intuitively and this time I really liked it.

The pink door already added some colour to our hallway, but for me, it wasn’t enough.  But now with the prints up the walls, I really like it.

Okay, here are some links to where I bought the prints:

The two viking melamine plates are by herzensart (viking in the rain and viking wood). Three of the mid-sized photographies are from one of my all time favourite etsy shops Wren & Chickadee (The Colors of Summer,  Squirrel Love and The Memory of Flight). Then there are two smaller drawings from ChildlikeWisdom (Life in the stories – A little canary and a very similar drawing that isn’t available at the moment, it was called Deer face) and one small photography by Roadside, called Accordion Music. The upper bigger print is called When will it stop… and is by Laura Amiss. The tree print on the right is by Annette Mangseth, who sends her prints in the most lovely envelopes you have ever received! And the two bigger photographies are called Seagulls and I stand each day on the shore (which is my favourite from all mentioned prints and photographies) from etsy shop honeytree. All Frames are IKEA Ribba frames.

That’s it! Hope you could find some inspiration. :)

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The Mallorca Post

25. August 2010

We’re back and we spent a wonderful and very relaxing week in Cala Millor on Mallorca (I looked it up how Mallorca is called in English and it seams to be Majorca which sounds weired for me, so I’ll just keep the Spanish name Mallorca). We started last Wednesday, arrived there in the late afternoon and left this morning with a flight at 8 a.m.

We actually intended to have a beach-only-holiday and so spent the first two to three days lying at the beach, swimming in the sea, sleeping, eating and doing just nothing. Cala Millor ist quite a touristic little town at Mallorca’s eastern coast and the beach is framed by hundreds of huge (and pretty ugly) hotel buildings. We were quite lucky that our hotel was at the end of Cala Millor’s bay and our part of the beach was a lot less crowded.

Nevertheless: Still very touristic.

After our first few days and some sunburns we decided to see some more of Mallorca and booked a round trip. So on Sunday we took off early in the morning and took a trip to the west coast and ended up in Sa Calobra.

Sa Calobra is best known for the wonderful bay we stayed at. All though there were lots of tourists (wikipedia says, there are sometimes more than 30.000 a day!), it still looked like heaven on earth. It’s such a pitty that these places are so crowded and it get’s hard to see it’s beauty because of all the people and tourists. Yes, I was one of them, I just wish there would be a place like this for every single one of us. :)

We left Sa Calobra by boat and went ashore at Port de Sóller, took an old wooden cabel car to Sóller and then switched to a wooden train to Palma. We had a great guide the whole day, Sebastian, a born Mallorcan and a very relaxed and calm person.

On Monday we decided to visit the small nature reserve next to our hotel, Punta de n’Amer. It was quite a funny experience since it was like being at a totally different place and nothing like Cala Millor. It took about one hour (and Max would now say: Only because you had to stop every second step to take yet another photo!) until we reached a little beach bar, where we sat down and drank our first (and only ;)) Sangria.

Next to the beach bar was this defense tower. We climbed on top of it and had a great overview on the whole bay of Cala Millor. The funny thing is that we just went to this little trip because we didn’t know what to do on that day (I still had some of my skin burned and on top of that an allergic reaction, so that I couldn’t swim or lie at the beach), but it was by far the best day of our holiday and the best experience. The round trip had definitely the more spectacular places to see and much more to discover, but on this little trip to Punta de n’Amer, we were on our own, just the two of us and nearly no other tourists.

I was quite stressed the last few months from work and several other things and this sometimes even influenced our relationship. If you’re stressed and chippy from work, you sometimes let this get to other parts of your life, too. This holiday brought as back to our “safe harbour”. We could be who we are and who we were most of the time within the last seven years.

See that? Happy. :)

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Too much stuff

1. August 2010

I’ve been really unhappy with our appartment for the last few months. I planned several reworks, painted walls, moved furniture around, bought new stuff but it never made me happy. It didn’t feel like home anymore. Unfortunately I’m really sensitive when it comes to our appartment and not feeling good with it and it defenitely affected my general mood. A few days ago I talked to a friend of mine and she told be about this book by Karen Kingston, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui. I don’t want to review this book or say anything about Feng Shui, but reading it definitely made me realize, what it was that made me so unhappy in our appartment. There is just too much stuff. When I received my first real pay last autumn after years of living with only a minimum of money, I started buying all the things I could always only dream about. But instead of throwing things away when buying new stuff, I also kept the old stuff and the drawers and boxes in out appartment grew. When I wanted to take pictures of the three cushion covers I recently sewed, I had serious issues finding only a few centimeters of wall I could place the eames in front of. I talked to Max about that and he totally agreed: We need to clean our appartment. We don’t need additional space or new furniture or new things. What we need is throwing things away or selling them.

I started yesterday evening, doing something, I had chickened out of for months: cleaning under our bed. Everytime I didn’t know where to put things (like the second balance we never use, or cardboard boxes of TVs or monitors we didn’t want to throw away, and a thousand other things), I put them under the bed. I removed the mattress, folded the cardboard boxes (they belong in the “throw away” category ;)), put the balance into the “sell”-box, removed all other things that don’t belong there and hoovered the floor AND the bed. Today I re-organized the cabinet next to the bed. It already was quite tidy, or at least the shelves you could see through the window. I had so many books stuffed in there that I will definitely never use again. I directly put them up in our online marketplace at work for free. And now there’s space again. Space for a few more magazines, more books and more fabrics.

And if I now at this part of the room: I’m happy with it!

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even more pink

27. July 2010

First of all: Thank you so much for all your lovely comments! I know, this is my blog and I should blog about the things I like and as often as I would like to. But if this was only about me, I could do this offline in a diary or by just taking pictures and saving them to my computer. So yes, this is mainly about me and the things I like, but I wouldn’t have half the fun I have if there weren’t people like you who read my posts and give me feedback. And that’s why I think that this blog is also about you and why I wanted you to tell me, what you would like to have on our blog. :)

Okay, now to the trigger for today’s topic: The weather (this promises to be a boring post, doesn’t it?)! Since it’s really rainy and rather cold at the moment in Karlsruhe and it’s quite hard to shoot good pictures if the light is so dimmed like today, I flipped through some photos I shot a few weeks ago and found these two from our balcony.

I struggled with our balcony nearly every year. In spring I always bought plants and flowers en masse and when it came to July/August, I got tired of always having to water the flowers every day. Furthermore I found it quite dull, despite all the plants that had grown. But the floor was grey, the walls have this dirty light yellow and the rest is in this horrible dark brown. So that was how it was all the years and this year I finally made up a small plan: less flowers and something for the floor. So I bought this pink plastic rug (it’s by House Doctor) and less flowers, a small cherry tree and these two pink lanterns and now it looks like summer even if it’s raining.

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