A smell you adore

That's simple.... Fresh cake, this One is rhubarb streuselkuchen... The BEST

someone that inspires you

let's get on with the pictureaday challenge - day 7 someone that inspires me. I needed to think about this one quite a bit. And I want to tell you about Ilka. Ilka makes clothes. She made a wonderful wintercoat for me this last winter (which sadly was worn only once because the day I got the coat, winter decided to leave...) and every time I visit her in her atelier I see all the fabrics and her vintage sewing machine and I suddenly want to start sewing again. In case you live near Berlin her atelier is in Zeuthen.

Hello

Still here, still knitting a little. 

I don't really know where to start. I missed blogging and I feel the need to tell you what kept me so long, what basically made my whole online life sort of disappear. It's pretty personal though and not very happy and you all know this should be a happy place. 

So I don't really know where to start. I found the "pictureaday" challenge on another blog and I feel like it could get me going again. 

 

Todays challenge is "me" so I just show you me. I bought new sunglasses on Thursday and shared the pic on Facebook and now I'll share here as well. And as you can see I'm good at posing in front of cameras ^__^

 

Ludwig Pattern - at last

Hi my loves, I know you waited and waited and waited and now it's finally done :)

Ludwig has gotten his mane (just in time for the winter season) and the pattern is all written up.
You will find the download link below. I will keep this pattern a freebe until New Year's so if you ever want to work it, download now ;)

p.s. I find he looks like Lionel Richie in the "Hello" video, what do you think?

download now

drop everything and watch this

Poussière from Poussiere LeFilm on Vimeo.

just found this in my news feed, you need to watch it, it's so sweet!!!
source

Aaaaaargh

Aargh - not as much pirate like but more in a dammit what happened way.
Time is running so fast, I have no idea what happened. It's already autumn out there and Ludwig still is mane-less (even though a man would really warm his head).
Well during the last couple of weeks I worked like crazy and needed to travel a good amount of the time (I would share pictures of hotel rooms, but you know what they say: a hotel bed is a hotel bed is a hotel bed). Then I got sick (pretty bad cold with fever and everything) and now I have a week off and decided to let you guys know what's up over here and finally post the last bits of the Ludwig pattern and now it's raining like crazy, it's all dark and grey and I can't take proper pictures for the pattern. It almost seems like the universe doesn't want me to finish this particular pattern...

I do my best! I promise

because I feel so bad for not letting you know what's going on, during a last few weeks I got plenty new subscribers (hi everybody ^__^) and they didn't had anything new to read, I mean you subscribe to a blog and you want to READ, don't you? And all my loyal "old" subscribers didn't have anything to do around here as well, I am so sorry! And all of you who wrote, thanks alot, I'm really doing fine, it's just time flying by soooo fast, I mean it's autumn by now, I even made candles yesterday, because you know, when it's cold outside you want a cuddly home ( I have no idea where to place them, in my new flat I seem to miss candle area, but I will sure find something sooner or later)

so again, I feel bad for being so quiet and Ludwig will have hair ASAP

hugs, Diana

Be Late For Something Day

Modern living and society puts incredible pressures on us to meet challenging deadlines, observe rules and regulations, and to regulate our lives by tight schedules. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just stop for a little bit and see what happens?
Be Late For Something Day encourages you to take a step back from your schedule and intentionally be late for something – remember that things can go on without you, and maybe it’s not all quite as important as you thought; after all, you need some ‘me time’!

In 1956, Les Waas founded Procrastinators’ Club of America. Shortly after, the club’s committee designated September 5 as Be Late for Something Day to promote the positive parts of procrastination. “Most people think they don’t have time to stop and smell the roses—this day tries to alleviate that factor,” Waas says.

found here and here

my dear friend Garfield is pretty good at this:

and as I am not very good at this my life drowns in work the last couple of days and Ludwig will have to wait a bit longer to have hair, sorry for the delay