The Changing Seasons – March 2020

It’s time again for the wonderful challenge The Changing Seasons hosted by my dear friend Su from Zimmerbitch!   I think you’ll all agree that March 2020 will be a memorable one for all of us. The ongoing worldwide Corona/Covid-19 crisis has had an enormous and unprecedented impact on all our lives, and I’m not just talking the

The Changing Seasons – October 2019

  It’s time again for the wonderful challenge The Changing Seasons hosted by my dear friend Su from Zimmerbitch!   HALLOWEEN Having shared with you the artwork by my students at the end of September where we were already busy crafting things for Halloween (back then it was still unfired and unglazed), I thought I’d show you how

The Curse of the Lost Postcards

  At the beginning of last December, I´ve send quite a lot of handmade Christmas cards to friends and family because I wanted to surprise them with something especially made for them and because I rather enjoy painting these small motif cards that are mainly done in an hour or two. Unfortunately these two seem

The Changing Seasons – October 2018

  It´s time again for the wonderful challenge The Changing Seasons hosted by my dear friend Su from Zimmerbitch! “Creative” shopping At the beginning of October I felt the deep and irresistible urge to pay my favorite DIY store a visit. 😉 It´s part of the second largest department store in Europe after Harrod´s in London and it

The Changing Seasons – July 2018

  It´s time again for the wonderful challenge The Changing Seasons hosted by my dear friend Su from Zimmerbitch. Although Germany didn´t even make it into the final sixteen of this year´s World Championship (having won it last time definitely added to the shame), people still had fun watching or playing football themselves. Though it sometimes looks

The Changing Seasons – February 2018

  It´s the end of the month and thus time for the wonderful challenge The Changing Seasons invented by Max at Cardinal Guzman and now hosted by my dear friend Su at Zimmerbitch. The month of February started for me with noticing that my passport was soon going to expire and I quickly went to

Squirrel Appreciation Day

  Today is the International Squirrel Appreciation Day, and how better to celebrate it than by sharing with you some of my favorite photos I´ve shot over the years in a near-by park. Here´s a way to show your appreciation for these lovely animals: go for a walk in your nearest park, forest… and deposit

Show Your Laptop the Love It Deserves

    It´s almost a year ago that I got myself a new laptop, a MacBook, and I freely admit that I absolutely love it! I´m not considering to marry it, like some guys I know do though. 😉 When I was confronted with the quest for a new laptop sleeve that should adorn it,

Pulled From the Archives: Last Minute Low-Budget DIY Christmas Presents

  Due to recent events I still find myself in rather a low place at the moment and although I kind of promised myself to never do this because I consider myself an endless fountain of creativity and inspiration 😉 , I now have decided to pull some earlier posts from my archives and reblog

Last Minute low-budget DIY Christmas Presents

If you´re anything like me, you´ll wonder how fast Christmas is upon us every year anew, too;) As a rule, I try to make as many selfmade presents as I possibly can, ´cause I myself like these kind of presents the most 🙂 So I´ve come up with some last minute DIY Christmas Present ideas