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Giveaway Winner and a Happy New Year
I’m sorry that it took me unexpectedly longer to pick up all my trails. But I am happy to notice we all made it into 2013 safely! It’s wonderful to welcome a few new faces here, and I’m glad you were...
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Sweet Sunday – Brioche with chocolate drops
The new year is going slow for me, blog-wise. My part-time job is very demanding at the moment, until mid February. I hope I’ll be back to my sewing table by then. Two brand new tobacco pouches are...
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Some more sweetness and a challenge
My brioche seemed to have made a grand impression on some sweet teeth of you, so of course – how could I withhold this deliciousness – I am sharing the recipe with you. But be sure to link to your...
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New tobacco pouches in my shop
It’s my day off today, and I contentedly slept until 11am, had two cups of coffee (that might have been too much, I became overactive), and started sewing and photographing rightaway. Here are the...
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A plea to spring
I’ve been in bed for a week with a nasty flu which, apparently, everyone around here is having. The nice thing about sharing this dreadful illness – you can challenge each other. Who’s had the highest...
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The end is nigh
Don’t worry, dear reader, I am not proposing yet another apocalypse. This kind of end is a good one. A prosperous one, to be precise. For the past 24 days I have been working on a habit, as part of my...
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Frosty winter magic
Taking a hike through the Harz mountains was one of the things I enjoyed most on an otherwise rather disenchanting weekend. Fortunately there’s always a rise after every slope.
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Flowery fuchsia – handmade skirt and scarves
The sun came out for a few days, but took its leave again today. I’m working on some colorful new wrist warmers and loop scarves to strive against the grey sky. Even though it might snow again this...
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Snail Mail lavender sachets
Remember when I was pondering about these lavender sachets last year? I even promised that they’d be in the shop soon, and I deeply apologize for the misleading. It took me a while to pick up the...
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Sweet and action packed carrot cake
What else is there to do, when it keeps snowing outside at the end of March (!), and you’ve already recreated your entire family as snowmen, took out your sled to every hill in the neighborhood,...
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Happy birthday
to me. Today I turned 30. And yes, despite all my good intentions to not make it such a big deal, there was a little wistfulness in those last days of my twens. Before welcoming the new possibilities...
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An inspirational weekend in Hamburg
Thanks so much for all your lovely birthday wishes! The first week being 30 has been great – but actually not very different from being 29. What was I expecting? We spent another very inspirational...
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Wedding stationery
Close friends of mine are getting married in May, and I was thrilled to give them a little hand when it came to some individual touches. I can hardly imagine the stress and pressure a young couple is...
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Fruit tartlets
I made the big mistake of trying to buy strawberries on the evening before our bank holiday last week. Needless to say there weren’t any left, so I had to come up with a good alternative, since there...
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Short trip to Antwerp
After the sunniest Sunday ever we spontaneously decided to take a short trip to Antwerp, even though the weather report wasn’t very promising. Unfortunately I had forgotten my DSLR (merely a proof that...
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Grey spring days
It’s been very depressing lately to focus on the weather. I don’t know about you, but over here it’s been raining for days now. After that first week of sunshine last month it suddenly turned dark, and...
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My Masterpiece – strawberry brownie tart
The year is filled with plenty of birthday parties, as most of my friends are turning 30 this year. For one of my oldest and closest male friends I prepared a chocolate strawberry cake, that...
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On tiptoes
Very slowly I am finding my way back to a creative streak. The machines have been gratefully running all week and I am stocking up my recently yawning void of Etsy shop bit by bit. Even though summer...
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A weekend in Amsterdam
On our little roadtrip through Holland we made another stop in Amsterdam to visit dear I., met the most welcoming hosts who provided us with lodgings at the very last minute and had almost three days...
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The musical Monkey
There he is, my version of Jerry the Musical Monkey, doing all sorts of monkey business. You can find the pattern by Rebecca Danger here on Ravelry. This was a gift for my best pal and his sweetheart,...
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