The Changing Seasons – April 2019

  It´s time again for the wonderful challenge The Changing Seasons hosted by my dear friend Su from Zimmerbitch!   This month is clearly dominated by one theme – flowers! April started with my beloved cactus showering me with its beautiful flowers! This cactus is a descendent from a plant that belonged to my great-grandmother, and is well

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

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

Having Fun With Lego

  A few weeks ago I came upon some of my old playthings, containing mainly of Barbie and Lego. I had three different sets of Lego but since all of the bricks were jumbled wildly together in one box, I couldn´t be sure that nothing was missing before giving it away to charity. So I

More Summer Companions: Shoes

  Last week I forgot something very important on my list of summer companions – shoes!!! Luckily two of my wonderful friends here – Osyth from Half Baked in Paradise and Ann from Muddling Through My Middle Age – mentioned them in their lovely comments in my last post and so I decided to quickly sketch the pairs

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

5th of May – Cartoonist´s Day

Today is Cartoonist´s Day!!! Two of my very favorite cartoonists are Albert Uderzo and Hergé, the first is the comic book artist and co-author of Asterix, the second is the creator of “The Adventures of Tintin“. I did both these drawings a few days ago two honor these fabulous artists and hope they would find their