listening..

.. to his songs - that's what I'm doing the whole day
while I'm working through my paper piles today. I
love the oriental touch in his songs. This one makes
me dreaming...

fish casserole

.. that's my meal for today :) My son never wants to eat
fish, so I only cook fish, when I'm alone. Normally I'm
pretty lazy and buy ready fish casserole, which I only
have to put in the oven. But yesterday I've bought fresh
pollock and created my own. I buttered the casserole, put
the fish in the casserole, salted, peppered, then covered
with chopped garlic, mozzarella, tomato and onion cubes,
some more salt, olive oil on top of it all and off in the oven
until the mozzarella turns brown, spread some chopped
parsley and chives afterwards and served it with rice.
Yumm...



Hope, you had a great weekend. I'm wishing you a great
start of the new week tomorrow!

what a day

It has been a busy week for me. It's school holiday.
Because my boss is having a holiday too, I worked on
the B&M store each day except for today. So, I thought
my son could finally invite friends to play today and he
did. Two of his friends were here the whole day long.

I made some fresh ice tea (green tea with lemon and
sugar) for them. Since it was still hot (hot ice tea..
funny :)), I served them in mugs. And since I only have
some boring blue Ikea mugs, I needed something to
mark them, so that the boys won't mix up their mugs.
I then made wire tags with their initials to hang on the
handle.



I wanted to make some crepes for lunch, but I didn't
have enough eggs. I decided to take the boys to the
supermarket, as I didn't want them to do something
crazy at home. So I sent them out of the door, I went
out myself, closed the door, put my shoes on and...
gosh! I didn't have any key in my pocket! Arrrghhhhh!!
Something must be wrong with me - I have never locked
myself out of my apartment for the last 20 years and
suddenly it happened twice within a few weeks! And of
course, I haven't deposited a second key to a friend.
Again, I had to call the fire department *sniff*

So, that was the bad part of the day. But! There was
luckily also a good part of the day as well :) I got two
sales and.. I was three times on Etsy front page today.
Unbelievable!! That has never happened to me before..
Thank you, moonovermaize, 3FUN and joojoo! Also my
big thanks to rawartletterpress, felicitycrew, joojooland
(yes, it's the talented Afi, who runs joojoo and also the
PersianGarden), Lori411 and slinkymalinkicat, who
have brought my items to the front page in this month!

Oh,.. and my showcase on Paper 'n Stitch is up since
last Tuesday.

i'm back

..and am still exhausted!


On Friday we drove to Wildhaus in rain (well, I did't
care much - after not driving a car for at least 3 months,
I enjoyed it regardless of the weather). On Saturday
we had a wonderful sunny day after the fog had gone.
And yesterday the morning was cloudy, the afternoon
was sunny, but as we were on the road, the sky was
getting darker the nearer we got to Lake Constance -
the rain had said farewell and welcomed us back.


Although compared to the last choir weekends it was
a high emotional one, as always there was plenty of
yummy food, laughters and of course also enough work
in the kitchen, which was done in no time with many
helping hands...


This time we had a member, who could share some
exercises of her kinesiology knowledge as a warm-up.
We got a new song for our next gigs (a tiny Christmas
'tour' ;)), which we've finished learning in that time
but still needs lots of fine tunings, of course.
And as per usual I had lots of heat while singing - while
the others had to wear pullovers and socks, I sat there
barefoot in my T shirt...


My boy was sometimes bored, but most of the time he
enjoyed it. He was either spending his time with us singing
and doing the exercises, helping in the kitchen, or busy
on his own - playing with his game console, reading,
tickling the girls or playing soccer with the choir director.

Hope, you've got a great weekend too!

changing

Changing weather, so I'm changing my banner too :)
My Etsy shop and here. Well, actually the reason was
I was browsing my banner folder, wanting to have the
same one for PaperNStitch. Yes, for the first time in
2 years I'm doing marketing outside Etsy - running
from 10/27 to 11/22 (now that I finally have enough
stuff in my shop ;)).

But I'm wandering.. back to the banner. Well, I didn't
have a bigger version of the last banner. As I saw my
very first banner (well, actually it's a pre-version of
my very first banner on Etsy), I fell in love again with
it. So, I decided to take it as my new banner. Icy cold
is all that I can say ^_^

So, let's take a Hokkaido soup to get warm again :)

Wanna make one? I can't give you an exact recipe - as
you know, I never follow any. But these are in this
soup: Hokkaido pumpkin, potato, onion, water, vegetable
stock, cream, salt and pepper (pepper! Normally I never
put it in pumpkin soup, but my son wanted it so and it
tastes just great!). As decoration on the soup I have
a borage flower, a Jiaogulan leaf and some chive.
Guten Appetit! :)

t.t.t.

Two things I love today..


left: a ring, that is big enough at least to be worn on
my forefinger. Shall I keep it or shall I list it? Hmm..
right: a stack of fabric I've bought this summer. All
cotton or wool, except for the flowery one. I normally
don't like poly fabric, but it looks so gorgeous, that I
couldn't resist. They were all marked down, either rest
pieces or sorted out. Hope, I have enough courage to
sew myself something this winter.

Talking about winter.. is it also suddenly winter where
you are? It's kind of crazy to have 7°C just after 17°C
about two weeks ago.. (or was it three weeks ago? Time
flies too fast, that I cannot keep up!)


Anyway.. three weeks ago my son told and showed me,
how one of his friends always draws himself. I then asked
him, how he would draw himself, and also, how he would
draw me. These are the results. I was looking quite grim,
eh? And he said, my glasses are because I'm sitting too
much in front of my computer *nudge, nudge* LOL

Look at those shadows of the Calamondin (which is blooming
at the moment and those flowers have one of the best
scent!). Oh, how I love autumn...

teal or not teal

I mixed glass again yesterday. This time I got a better
teal than yesterday. More blue rather than green. Also
darker than the standard turquoise that I have. Not
sure, I'm happy with it yet. I think, I still want it a tiny
little bit darker.



As you can see on the right photo, the glass rods look so
different than the finish beads. As rod they look rather
transparent. Playing with the heat, it'll turn opaque.

Mixing glass is a time consuming procedure, but I enjoy
it - it's like a meditation :)

mixing

The last two days I've been mixing colors of my glass.
The difficulty of mixing glass (at least as an unexperienced
person as I am) is that you can't see the result immediately
like mixing watercolors. And sometimes glass changes
it's color depending on the heat, so even if you can see
the color of the glass rod, you'll never know, how it
comes out as a bead. Very tricky!
On top of that I'm a creative chaotic person, so the
result of my experiment is random. If I'm succeeded,
then it would be some kind of one-of-a-kind color ;)

I have some color combos for my Trifiori necklace in
mind, for which I e.g. don't have the right teal ready.
So, I tried to mix it myself. On the first day I got
dark blue with a hint of green (the darkest one you see
on the photo) instead. Yesterday I got hm.. how should
I call it.. dark mint? It's the flower bead on the middle.
The color I have in mind should be a bit more blue than
this. Somewhere between the three colors on the front
left triangle. I'll continue mixing on Saturday.



Speaking of flower.. the choir will have a tiny gig on the
celebration of the Constance in Flowers tomorrow night.
Four songs. I'm looking forward to it. Since I missed the
choir session last Monday because of the parents-teacher
meeting at school, it feels like I haven't been singing for
ages..

I'm wishing you a Happy Weekend now, as I won't be
online tomorrow. Ah, maybe tomorrow morning...
I hope, I'll be able to grab a TWest tomorrow morning.
Another thing to look forward to ^_^ Jetty - one of my
fave photographers on Etsy -, has listed two new prints
in her shop today. I tell you, I have two sketches ready
with her caterpillar - SO inspiring, yes!! It'll be hard to
pick one of them, as I just made one on the main T this
early morning.
(edit: I did it - just in case you're curious ;))

Anyway.. have a great weekend, my friends!

the truth

Do you wanna know the truth the reason why I've chosen
yellow for this necklace?



Well,.. I've picked the wrong glass rod - that easy LOL
I thought it was light green. On fire finally I realized,
I got the 'wrong' color. But 'coincidence' can be so
lucky - I'm really loving this electrifying yellow.

a dance

I've uploaded some more videos of the Indonesian
Night on YouTube. This one is my favorite dance ever
since I was a child. It's called Tari Saman, originally
from Aceh.