next week...

On Tuesday Dec 21st, 2010 on 8 pm we have a gig
with another choir at the Theater. You can have a peek
of what we're going to sing (but without the band) on
YouTube now.

a long day

It was a long day (after a stressy week). School, work
and choir performance for me and for my boy it was
school, visiting his friend, accompanying me at work and
choir. He took this bit of video of us (if you want to hear
and see more, you are welcome to our next concert in
summer ;)).


(Do you recognize the song? And have you found me? ;))

I'm wishing you a great weekend!

on a gray day

I've collected colors on my way home from work today.
Tonight: a gig with the choir.

Happy Weekend to you all!

looking forward

The flyers, the posters and the tickets for our next gigs
are ready. We will sing at three different places and three
great musicians will be accompanying us. I'm looking
forward to those gigs! I'm practicing diligently at home
under my son's supervision - he's an expert since he
knows the songs quite well from the choir weekend :)

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!

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!

past days

Days passing and I haven't been able to keep my promise
last week. Here are some photos of the past days..


Our visitor has introduced Ligretto, Connect Four,
Rummykub and another 'handmade' one with numbers
(I don't know the name though) to my son during her
visit.


Some collected troves on the way home.


Lampworking, when there's time.


Enjoying 'piccolino' with my visitor in an ice cream parlor
at the harbor (the Oktoberfest music from the next
restaurant has ruined the short holiday feeling though) -
one thing you have to try, if you are here.


Our last station that evening - Dixieland music, that's
rather my kind of music :)


Fun swap - thanks, Estella! I love the urchins!


Singing! The choir is heading a performance in 2 weeks,
so we are practicing a lot and we spread fliers and posters
in town.
My sister and her family will see and hear me singing for
the first time. Exciting and frightening *lol* Frightening,
as I still remember the black out I once had on the 3rd
day of my big dance performance, when my family came
to watch. Well, my sister was an expert on stage since she
was young - Balinese dance, ballet, guitar, piano (maybe
you could understand my nervousness now? *lol*).
If you wanna give me a support or simply see, either I
can do it right this time, just order a ticket here ;)

Last not least a Trifiori necklace. I'm not sure, I like the
color. It's too skin-like for me, I like the glass color as rod
better, but maybe someone will love it ;) I'll list it tonight.
It's now listed here :)

weekend

The choir weekend was great. The weather, the new
songs we've learned, the food, the view, the air... The
girls enjoyed the lemon curd and also my lentil spread
(used as dip for tortilla chips), which I've made using
the leftover of the Laksa soup.

My son was such a sweetheart. He sat next to me and
sang with us on Friday and Saturday. He helped the
other girls preparing breakfast, setting the table and
he baked a foccacia focaccia for dinner on Saturday.
And he read a lot. Asterix :)
Here are some impressions.


finished making the dough for foccacia


Left: watching the full moon rising. The silhouette of the trees and
the ski-lift looked like a fort. Right: the view from our bedroom.


A morning walk - isn't the view amazing?


The destination of our walk.


A cute, tiny house. I wonder, if it's also a summer cottage.

At home a nightmare was waiting for me - the result
of three days no weeding plus rainy days: the bindweed
had taken over the back garden, the rosebuds are full of
lice, the peonies were crooked and slugs are crawling
over the aubrieta. So I've been working in the garden
again these two days, between rainy sessions during
the day. Staking the peonies, planting even more garlic
around the roses and I decided to take a herbicide to
fight the bindweed (I'm not sure it helps for long). But
there are also good news: everything I've planted are
growing too, including the sweet potato, which has now
tiny white roots.
Well, almost everything. I hope, soon the lemon basil
and bilimbi will grow too (two ingredients I need for
Laksa ;)). I've brought the seeds from Indonesia a few
years ago. There my mom has them in the garden.



Oh, btw I was completely wrong about the house the kids
have built - it was meant for slow worms, not fairy nor
lacewings nor gnomes! Lucky worms :)

happy weekend!

No lovely, sunny weather today. But maybe it's better
for the journey to the choir weekend, as we have to
drive for 1,5 hours by car (although I don't like to drive
if the street is wet). It's good for the plants for sure, as
I can first water them again on Sunday evening.


I've planted two strawberry plants in a container on the windowsill -
just in case ;)

While the strawberries are growing, some 'enemies' are
coming (oh, garden crime time ^_^). My neighbor told
me, that they couldn't enjoy strawberries, as they were
always gone before they could pick them. Hmm... these
kind of 'enemies' or human kind? ;)


A blackbird crow far, far away and lice on my pansy (and rose too)

I'm wishing you all a great weekend! I'm sure, we'll
have ours :)

P.S. I just look out the window again: the sun's shinning :)

hello spring!

Yesterday's concert was great! Full house! The tickets
were already sold out half an hour before the concert
begin and many more people wanted to come in, so
they started to sell tickets for standing places. We
were all very motivated and definitely in a good mood.
I was VERY nervous at the beginning (not quite normal,
but it must have something to do with my outfit *lol*),
but as we started to sing, all was forgotten. It was one
of out best concert, I think (despite all tiny mistakes :)).
I didn't take any photos, but just check out our site
often and keep an eye on changes there.


I didn't have time to make a bigger one like the last time
(the old application was ruined after the laundry). Even
this mini one was just ready on time - I finished stitching
it half an hour before the concert has begun. Ooops!!!

Meanwhile spring has taken over the mood in the house
(just like outside, even if it's still quite cold) :) I need
colors!!!

singing

If you wanna hear me singing with my choir, there's
a chance on Saturday ;)

Do you recognize me on the flyer? :)

The rehearsal was just finished about an hour ago *phew*
I need to go through the notes again tomorrow (we'll sing
about 18 songs by heart). I also need to take a look, either
the temporary application on my shirt from the last
concert is still looking okay after the laundry. Lots of work.
So, I'm wishing you a Happy Weekend now and (hopefully)
will be back on Sunday to tell you, how the concert goes :)

before going to bed II

Ha! I forgot last night, that some friends on Flickr have
also posted their answer to my 16 things about me. So
please have a look:

bu&bau (it's in Portuguese though - so, I don't understand
a word..)
VagabondJewelry
paperfection


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I'm trying another format for my text. I made it narrow,
because of my habit to read from spot to spot and I wanted
to post in poet style (which I didn't do though). Now, after
more than a year, I realize, I talk too much *lol* and in this
format the posts are stretched out to the length, which I
sometimes don't really like.

Hmm.. so what about, if I make my post wide? Will I still
like it? Well, I'll try it for some days. Maybe a full week, if I
manage to post each day. We'll see :)

The choir session was great. We're working hard for our
concert on 21st March, but still with fun :) We sang a bit,
partying a bit (celebrating a birthday of one of us) and sang
a bit more.
So I'm going to bed now with In The Mood in my ears ;)


Love how they performanced it :)

choir weekend

Last weekend I was away with my choir. We went
to the Northern Alps. I simply love the surroundings
of the house, where we lived. The mountain, the
valley, the air and not to forget the food!! We
have a member, who loves to cook. She always
prepared something special together with some
other members. It was Asian food this time -
a 6 course meal!!! Oh, so yummy - I
ate too much for sure ^_^


More pictures..

It's always like a short holiday for me, even if
we mostly worked very hard during those days
till late in the evening and went nowhere, but
only for a short walk. We worked on our songs
as well as on our choreography, as we'll be
having a concert next week.




I couldn't stand to take some pictures around
the house, as I saw some 'kitschy' motives.
Well, not kitschy actually, but I've seen them so
many times everywhere and still they are so
tempting :)



Before I left for the weekend, I've listed my
entry for the EST weekly challenge, which was
hosted by creationsbyeve. The theme was
Africa.