this week

I'm working on different things at the moment. It's hard
to concentrate myself on one project, when there are so
many things need to be done. So, sometimes I find myself
out of focus.



Then I realized, I need some kind of order to get things
done. Sometimes the most boring and unbeloved things
like ironing or washing dishes can help me to get focused
again. This time it's spooling the thread I use for my
packaging (up till now I had to search the end of the
thread in the chaos, if I forgot to let it hang out after
I cut a piece of it). It's kind of a meditation (and sport
for the biceps LOL).



Last task for today was listing my new Trifiori necklace.



I don't know why I didn't make the necklace earlier.
Probably because I didn't want to let loose the beads.
I love the colors so much and I was afraid, I couldn't
re-make them. I've been wanting to make them ever
since I watched the France film Brodeuses (Perlen-
stickerinnen in German), but I couldn't find the right
glass colors (now you might understand my obsession
in mixing blue and green glass last autumn ;)).

So, today is the day. Today I'm ready to let the beads
go. I might not be able to re-make them. But I'm sure,
there will be many other beautiful colors to come.

Have a beautiful weekend, friends!

over

Yayy, my school was finally over last Friday! Now it's
time to catch up with everything else that I neglected
the past weeks - friends, shop, blogs, garden and the
housework.

Two weeks ago a girl from my class has given me some
trouts - smoked and fresh ones - to thank me studying
with her. So, today I cooked trouts in a sauce mix of
tomatoes, chillies, rhubarb, lemon, lemon balm and
parsley. Yummy!



The recipe was a modified version of my mom's recipe,
in which averrhoa bilimbi is originally used for the sauce
(my mom got the great idea to use rhubarb instead).
The fish and the sauce mix are normally wrapped in a
banana leaf. Since I don't have any (I'm still thinking
of planting a banana in my garden just to have the leaves
for my Indonesian cookery :)), I put everything in a
casserole instead.

The next task is my garden. At the moment the spiders
and ants are about to take over my garden. Look at those
garden spider babies in my lavender bush! There must be
over a hundred of spiders - yikes!



I planted carrot and peas a few days ago, but on Friday
I got some veggies and herbs (and some chocolates) from
the girls in my class - so sweet! They simply know how
to spoil me :) My garden is now full (and so my stomach ;)).

a week gone by

.. and Etsy has been working hard to improve TEast.
Now we could link our lists using a single address and the
rank of hotness seems to change into a better one, even
if there are sometimes glitches regarding to empty lists.
If they will provide a button or permanent link from our
shop to our lists, TEast would be a great tool for our own
gift guides, wish lists, etc (this is my gift guide for mother's
day ;)).

The new T is coming and the old ones will probably be
gone. While it's great not to wait until the indexing is done
on Flash, I'll be missing seeing this though - I always see
a calm face in this, which always makes me smile.



But not only on the T scene, old ones have to make place
for new things. I've been working in the garden yesterday.
Haven't planted anything new yet, but I've removed dried
plants, cut plants in shape, weeded and collected things to
photograph.


More here.

Hope, you had a great weekend.

wind from the east

Etsy has given the link to the new Treasury East. I've
played around and made four ("happy weekend", "Say
It With Flowers", "night life" and "o*w*ld?")! I've made
all lists that I had in my saved sketches while playing
around with ideas (yes, I'm addicted ;)).

I don't know, when they'll launch TEast officially. I think,
it won't be sooner than the launch time of the "new" Etsy
(the wider Etsy). There are still a lot to be improved and
think over. I think, most of the curators don't like the
idea of having a never-ending treasury and an unlimited
amount of treasuries (although it's really great, not to
wait for opening time, I like the challenge of grabbing a T
or TWest). And one thing I already know now: I'll be missing
the "old" Etsy. I like the slim look better, since my eyes
can catch most things at one glance.

My summary of the TEast experience:
1. limitation supports creativity and boundlessness
makes one dull
2. new doesn't always mean better
Still.. it's a fun thing ;)

I'm wishing you a Happy Weekend!

music

Just wanna drop this link as a reminder for myself ;)



If you could watch arte on TV, One Shot Not is up every
Thursday night. Lisa Hannigan will be there next week
among others. Remember her? She was mentioned in
many blogs last year (or maybe even two years ago?),
because of her lovely, creative videos (and of course great
music too!). I like this song underneath.



You could watch One Shot Not videos up to seven days
after it's on air. They always invited great musicians (e.g.
Sting - one of my all time favorites). So, don't miss it ;)