march

March is almost over. Did you notice, that I was VERY
chatty this month? 31 posts including this one - my
record!! So, I'll try to keep it short this time ;)

I wanna show you the video taken by my boy at the open
studio day we've visited last Saturday. He was attracted
by the feet :)


More photos are to be found here and here

I didn't take any photos of the inside of the studios, but
I do wanna share my most fave artists there:
Dale C. Schaefer (too bad his website is still empty),
Matthias Holländer and Susanne Kiebler. You can see
some photos taken by another visitor here.

alter ego

Inspired & motivated by Laura's words, I've
decided to make a second blog. A photo blog.
Colors 'n Patterns is about collecting inspirations,
which attract my eyes.

The reason why I don't put the photos just as
a new series in here is because I want to show
the photo as they are, not in square format as
here and to organize them differently. I'm
having fun to keep it alive these days and I
hope, I don't loose the fun too soon (I get
bored easily - you know that ;)).

The first photo was my organic waste of the
morning. The colors have attracted me.

Original in Colors 'n Patterns

you make my day

I've got the "you make my day"
award from Ale aka Ixela a few
days ago (maybe even weeks -
slow me!!) and from Suse aka
Revoluzzza before. Thank you!!

It's hard to choose 5 blogs to pass this award on.
Actually I'd love to pass this back on to Ale and
Suse. Ale makes the most beautiful collages of
photos of items, as she features other Etsy sellers
in her blog, and she is a lovely friend, who has
helped me in building the EST-Googlemap. Her
jewelry are beautiful and sometimes cute :) Look
at her shop or more in her gallery on Flickr.
And if you don't know Suse yet, I've written a bit
about her here. Yes, you do make my day, Ale & Suse!

But ok, not to make it into a ping pong game, I've
chosen 5 more blogs to pass the award on (even
though I'd like to pass this to more people on -
far more people make my day than just 5):

1. To my dear friends on Etsy, who make my
day in one and another way again and again.
Thank you, girls!!
Ira aka Iragrant, Renate aka Kreativlink,
Mitsy aka Artmind and Alisa aka Treasurefield.

2. To moonstitches, who always makes
my day with her photos and blog posts, whenever
I see/read it. I've found her gallery on Flickr
and went to read her blog. Her blog was the very
first blog, that I've read! Thanks, Alex!

Have a lovely new week, you all! *hugs*

knots in my head

Days went so fast and I realized, I haven't
done many things lately. I know, I'm a
procrastinator - a BIG one! I have to make
new things for my shop, but something is
preventing me from doing so. I have a long
queue of mails, which need to be replied, but
I'm simply not able to do it at the moment
because of the knots in my head. And my blog..
I have also neglected it - arghh..!! Instead
I've done things, that was not first priority
(or maybe they were?? I don't understand
the psychology of mind anyway..).

I've always enjoyed curating treasuries.
Not enough, that I can make two (the real one
and on the test Treasury West), I thought,
I'll make one to promote the European Street
Team. Glad, that QueenBLingerie let me
use the favorite list of EST-shop to prepare
the treasuries. I've started "Shopping Trip in
Europe" as theme to be able to present each
member. First I've made a map of EST on
GoogleMap, since I'm bad in geography. That
way, I have an overview of the countries.
I was happy, Ixela was agree to help me with
the map.

That was still not enough though. I thought,
it would be nice to have a tool to be able
to browse EST sellers by category e.g., since
I try to mix the items in my treasuries lately
(so it might be a help for the next themes or
if we promote our team somewhere else).
So, I've started another project: shop catalog
(still under heavy construction).

I like the idea of the EtsyMiniBlog, which is
administrated by dottyral, littleputbooks,
liskidder and schOOLOcker. So, I have asked
for littleput's permission to use their idea of
using the comment area as kind of a request
form and the idea of using the EtsyMinis
for the catalog - not to feel guilty using them :)
I've also asked an Etsy admin, if I can modify
the look of the EtsyMini, since it needs a lot of
space otherwise. Finally I've asked Kreativling
if I could modify the EST banner. Now, having
all the permissions and positive feedbacks from
EST members, I can go on. In March I'll start
turning the criterias into pages. Once the frame
is finish, it's ready to accept requests to fill
the pages.

Doing all that (regardless of 1st priority or not)
has helped to loose some knots in my head.
I've started to make some collage ACEOs on a
pizza board two days ago. Yes! A pizza board!!
It's adhesive and clean, that's why I thought
I have to use it instead of throwing it into
the recycle bin :D I've used some papers
I've got few weeks ago to decorate it.
Although I didn't have special intends while
making them, I think, they reflect my mood
on the past days :)







And my fish.. I've sent him a few days
later than planned to Etsy, but I hope he has
swum across the ocean safely and is now
happy among his friends. This is his back.

night owl

Oh my, I should have been in bed at least
3 hours ago. But as usual, something has
kept me away from my bed.
I've strolled on the web to keep up with
blogs I love uhm.. I've neglected this lately
and found me mentioned in Minderjahr's
latest post. Thank you, Suse!

Minderjahr is a famous German blog.
Suse writes about life in Berlin (and more)
in such a sanguine way. Berlin way maybe? :)
I've first 'met' Suse aka Revoluzzza on Flickr.
I really love Flickr btw, as I've met so many
talented people there.
She creates lovely items! I love her adorable
and dangerous dolls. She sells them in her shop.

While I was writing this, my boy has called me.
I went there and he told me something.
Guess what it was?! He had an idea, which colors
I should take for my next brooch!! :-)
He's such a sweatheart. He wishes me
good luck each time I list a new item just
like today .. uhm, yesterday (CET time :o))!


I have another one finished actually,
but it isn't well balanced - so it's mine :D
Oh well, this night owl has to go to bed now
or it will turn into a zombie!!

going public

Hmm..
I kept my blog private up till now,
as I use it as a document only.
Also to practice my English ^_^

But as I'm going to list my trifiori items,
I think it would be nice
to let the shop visitors see behind the curtain.

New terrain - big insecurity!
Not knowing, if I'll still feel free to write then.
Not knowing, if it's interesting for others to read.
Not knowing, if anybody will read anyway.
Not knowing, if my poor English is comprehensible.
But without trying, I'll not know.

So, I've decided to make my blog public.
With all that fuzzy feelings.

Welcome, everyone!