Two things I made lately.


a lavender wand and a collage

I had to crop (part of) the lavender very early this year. The
weather (and the fact that I didn't trim them this spring) made
them grow enormously and blocked half of the pavement.
But then, the buds are not yet well developed. Normally people
would cover the buds. But I thought, I'd rather cover the leaves,
which also have great scent. Also, normally people would use
ribbon. I didn't have any suitable ribbon, but stitch yarn in
lovely colors. It took a lot longer to make, but weaving is like
meditating.

I loved my mom's ikan pepes. She used averrhoa bilimbi
and they makes her ikan pepes so special. I miss Indonesia
a lot at the moment, especially the food (of course, my son
would say, only food in my head lol). Looking at what I
have in the fridge, I decided to do my own take on ikan 
pepes for lunch..



... and failed shamelessly! lol I don't know - either I used
too much lime (as substitute for the bilimbis) or my tongue
hasn't been able to taste everything right. I could taste the
hotness of the chilli, although it was not as hot as I expected
using two chilis, but I couldn't taste the sourness at all - only
the bitterness (the last rice cakes I ate yesterday was also
bitter instead of sweet). Weird!

But at least I had some fun with my kitchen waste while I
was waiting for the fish to cook ;-)

features

Uh, oh, I had so much to tell in my last post, that I forgot
to mention some blog features *blush*

1. if you wanna see, what I've sent Estella for the swap,
just take a peek in her post.

2. an interview with me in handmade2.0. A. has been
watching the handmade trend since 2003. Her blog is a
great source not only for events, but also for tips, news
and more - all around handmade, of course. Most of the
posts are in German, but sometimes also in English, like
this tip. handmade2.0 is also on Twitter.

3. Rasa of happyment has featured my Colors v.2 in
her window shopping on Etsy series.

Thank you!!


a thank you card I've made for a returning customer

I'm wishing you a lovely weekend!

next step?

Three sides of the walls in my son's room are now
yellow. He wanted to have the slope in dark blue,
as if he lay under the night sky. I rejected it,
since it would make the whole room looks dark
and besides there are no straight edges, which
separate the ceiling, the slope and the wall.

First I got the idea to make a blue segment of
a circle or something similar on the sloop, which
would soften on the border. Maybe a 4 or 5 steps
gradation to white. Since I'm a visual person, I've
got to play with my idea in Photoshop.

Well, the idea was great as an idea, but in I didn't
like it in Photoshop. Not for a children's room.
So I try to make a hard edge. Simply a blue circle.
Still it's like something is missing. Then I tried
something. I like it a lot. Now I only need the okay
from my boy to make it real.



The idea came after we've visited an exposition
yesterday. We were on the way to get the bus, as
we saw something amazing in Galerie Geiger. They
always have interesting expositions - I normally
only watched it from outside (I knew, my heart
would cry and say "I want, I want", if I go in ;)).
But this time we went in, as my boy wanted to take
a closer look.

I didn't regret it at all. They are showing some
work of a talented artist, Marion Eichmann. Oh
well, of course my heart cried. Esp. the installation
and the collages were SO beautiful!! I love those
cartoon-like art and her work is simply filled with
so much love and details. I wish I have some Euros
left to spend... *crying*

If you have an opportunity to see her work live,
please do! So many lovely details to see, that you
couldn't see it online. The exposition in Konstanz
is going on till 14th Januar. Highly recommended!!