first zucchinis

Yesterday we had the first zucchini from our own garden
for dinner. They have grown quite a lot. The biggest one
(the left on the photo) was about 40 cm long and 7 cm in
diameter on the thickest part - we gave it to our former
neighbor, who has invited my son to play with her grandson.
We ate the smaller one, approx. 30 cm long and 6 cm thick.
Yummy! It's much better than bought ones. It's not the
one on the photo though - that will be our dinner one of
the next days ;)



Soon I can reap coriander seeds. The strawberry plants
have lots of flowers and fruits and everyday we can pick
some berries. I wonder, either the potatos are big enough
to dig out.

We are not the one, who enjoy the garden. The bees are
having fun these days, as the oreganos are blooming.


As you can see on the 1st photo, there are bind weeds
all around. I really need to work in the garden today.
And portulaca are also growing wild there (upper right).
I know, they are considered as weed too, but as we can
eat them as salad, I let them grow ^_^

rain

It's raining this morning (like the last days). Not really
motivating. I wanted to do some errands with my bike
and now I have to go by bus. I don't have a rain coat,
as I don't like it - my glasses would still get wet and I
can't see anything. So I prefer an umbrella, but that
means no biking today.

No gardening as well. Oh my, I've neglected my garden
since I've started lampworking again. The zucchini plants
have taken the most advantage out of the rain. It grows
and grows, covered almost all my other plants - potato,
sweet potato (my poor sweet potato rarely grows - they
need sun!!), marigold, salad,.. Look, how my garden looked
like just a month before and how it is now.


A rainy day is a perfect day for lampworking though, as
my tiny studio won't get hot as on sunny days. But first
get myself ready, then I hope to grab a treasury to show
you what's in my poster sketch for some days now, before
finally going to do my errands and then lampworking
afterwards. I'll make a new experiment today :)

Talking about treasury, one of my last Ts was featured in
Sarah & Olivia's blog along with seven more beautiful Ts.
I love reading their comments about the Ts :) I've never
seen, someone done this before - featuring Ts, without
making them nor being included therein. What a sweet idea!
Thank you, S&O!

Last not least if you are a fan of penguins and/or plush,
I wanna invite you to Akiyo's giveaway. But of course, I
hope I'd win a mini penguin myself *lol*

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 :)

moon over paris

Uh oh, I'm not a multitasking kind of girl - I started
to make my Etsy shop awake again, but my blog is
neglected ever since, even if I've written in my shop
announcement to watch this space for update *blush*
I've erased this phrase again, since I don't think I have
much time to blog the next days or weeks, since I'll
have visitors one after another. My first visitor will
come tomorrow. Busy July :) Hope, I can show you
some photos once and a while.

Remember those round beads in this post? I just listed
a necklace with one of them - Moon Over Paris *phew*
It always takes me SO long to list a new item. I'm always
overcritical about the photos, the description, the price...
- simply about everything. I've taken some photos
yesterday (e.g. this one), but I was not really satisfied
with them. The golden shine of the bead didn't come
out well. So today I've taken some more photos with
darker background and I like them better.



A few minutes after the listing..


I used to collect those moments of 'first FP appearance'
(oh, and also screenshots of my treasuries *lol*) as I just
started my shop. Such a freak! *lol* I stopped this habit
(and a bit later the one with treasuries) very quickly, but
today it's a coincidence that I just couldn't resist ;)

I'm wishing you all a Happy Weekend and leave you a
link to dig :)

encounters

I love to work in the B&M shop. It's mainly because of
the interactions I have with the (potential ;)) customers.
Like on Saturday.

A woman came in, started to look at the jewelries. Her
little girl (maybe 4 or 5 y.o.) came in afterwards, went
straight away to the table with some little porcelain angles
(they are perfume sprayers). She was amazed and asked
her mom to come and see them. While doing that she
always kept an eye of me :)

They strolled to the back part of the store, where the
body care products are. The girl wanted her mom to
show her things there. I asked the girl, if she wanted to
smell something. Yes! Her mom told me, her daughter
loves perfumes. I asked again, which one she'd like and
either she wanted the perfume on her hand or on a piece
of paper. She said the one with flowers, pointed to the
lavender one (luckily, cause all labels have flowers on
them ;)) and said, she wanted it on paper. I asked, either
she wants to spray it by herself, and she did. She took a
smell at the small paper and put it on her pocket. They
looked around for a while, the daddy came also in, then
they said goodbye to me and walked outside.

While walking the girl was arguing about something with
her dad. Outside the mommy said something to her
husband and he then gave the girl a big tube with
something inside. The girl came back to me in the shop.
They were on the aquarium that morning and she simply
wanted to show me the (plastic) fishes in the tube before
they really went. So sweet of her!

It's not only with kids. The other day there was a man,
who talked about design, passion and Zeitgeist with me -
a very interesting small talk. It made my day.

I remember nearly everyone, who has come to the shop
and had a small talk with me. It's like an invisible connection
between us. I have some very neat conversations with
people through Etsy too, but somehow it's different, if you
meet the people in real, and I just need it. I guess, I'm
somehow antiquated ;)