The Bowl on the Laundry Basket

    I´m sure you will all agree with me when I say that even if we first thought that with blogging it would be all about ourselves, we learn very fast that actually it´s all about connections, friendships and learning from others. For me blogging is also very much about inspiration – both, about

Indulgence versus Restraint

    As I have often confessed here, I regularly indulge myself with baked goods or goodies how I like to call them. 😉 This month I´m happily exploring the wonderful world of scones. If you are in doubt how to pronounce scone the right way, here´s a funny little poem that illustrates how it

Things I Bought Today

  Not long ago, when I posted about my Summer Companions, my dear friend Sarah (no, I´m not talking of myself in the third person…yet 😉 ) from over at Travels with Choppy very perceptively mentioned in response to my comment that I take my camera nearly always with me except when I shop for

Summer Companions

  I can feel that summer is coming to an end here in the northern hemisphere. It seems to come earlier each year and instead of gently drifting of to autumn it will be winter all of a sudden, at least that´s what happened in the last years and I don´t have reason to believe

Parlez-vous français?

  Do you speak French? Or are you planning to learn it? I´ve been on and off the train “Learning French” for the past two years – well, more off than on, if I´m honest. 😉 And to be even more honest with you: I was quite fed up with myself for not already being

Some Impressions of My Week

    If you ever wondered what I do when I feel bored – this is it! I simply sketch everything that´s right before my eyes. These sketches are some visual impressions of last week. They are not “Oh my God! What an awesome week you must have had!”-kind of sketches, but simply show you

May Challenge – Happy Mother Goose Day

  Lately I have felt a bit low creative-wise. I know this can happen, but I don´t have to like it 😉 That´s why I´ve come up with the idea to challenge myself, to get back on the horse so to speak. Nearly every day there´s a World Day in appreciation, awareness or commemoration of

Poker Face

A couple of months ago, I sent my dear friend and author Mary Cathleen Clark an email attached with one of my drawings and asked her, if she would like to write something that would go well with it. And she came up with this one hell of an awesome poem! I didn’t post our combined

A Chinese Character

  This new portrait study gives you a hint as to where I want to travel to someday 😉 I´ve always been fascinated by Asia, especially China and Japan and remember with startling clarity giving impressions of a japanese dancer before family members when I was very young. In order to do so, I borrowed

Animal Quick Sketching

  The summer holidays started this week and the whole family went to the Berlin Zoo to celebrate! 🙂 We had lots of fun, fantastic weather and stuffed ourselves with delicious ice cream! It was also a little premiere for me, as I tried myself the first time on animal quick sketching. It came as