First of all, Christmas was wonderful. I got to spent a lot of time with my boyfriend, his family and my brother. We had full tummies all the time and the decoration did it's best to spread a jolly mood on everyone. I hope you got to spend a great time too.
And then holy moly! Pinterest! I just discovered this cool thing! It might be a old book for you but it's a whole new world for me!
I never really understood why one should use pinterest. All I saw were pinned pictures, no source, just the picture, so why should one save a picture? a single picture? my PC could just bookmark the page instead. Obviously I was wrong, completely wrong.
I just was never lucky enough to find something through google that lead me to pinterest that actually had a source linked to it. But what I know now is, MOST things on there are linked just fine. I just never knew how to use it. The last big dissapointment was this lovely brooch:
I've fell in love with it when searching for inspiration for my first granny blanket. This flower made me nervous. It's so marvelous but a pattern was nowhere to be found. Meanwhile I've tracked down this lovely brooch to the original creator (the picture should lead you back to her flickr page) and I made a blanket with a dahlia granny square, so no more trouble there. But sill this brooch wants to be made by me. I want to try to find out the pattern myself, it shouldn't be too hard, but it will take a few tries and a couple of errors. But that's just fine for me.
But the point of this post wasn't drooling about the flower brooch, it was pinterest is soooo cool. I've spent way too much time over christmas procrastinating over there. Started too many boards already and searched through too many boards of others
you might have noticed I've also added the 'pin it' button to my blog just before christmas as well, so it's easier now for you to pin my stuff directly from the blog if you want to
take care, I hope you're feeling well and your new years party won't be too strong for you ^__^ Diana
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7/02/2013
my June 2013
most of the time this last month I was ill in bed. I reached very high when the universe asked who wanted to have a cozy little summer flu. Nevertheless, feeling like a walking dead didn't stop me from taking some pictures.. here we go, my June:
1. B is for…: Berlin! the city I live in, isn't she beautiful?
2. A moment: in every crocheters life, and so in mine, making the last stitches in a granny square..
3. On my table: is my favorite sweet: Maoam!. I have no idea if this internattionally known stuff, but I like sweets like these .. I have a very sweet tooth in general, but this kind makes it water more than other sweets
4. After dark: well, the sun just set, it's the view from my balcony
5. Environment: being at work, traveling, today my environment was a small city called Schwedt, it's quite nice there
6. Transport: well, a car (found in an Überraschhungsei/ a kinder surprise)
7. Bright: papaver .. they bloom everywhere this time of the year, I love it!
8. An animal: my co-driver ^__^
9. From down low: the Berlin poplars are blooming at the moment, which makes certain areas look like winter, all white, I tried to capture a little of that magic in this picture
10. You!: well .. no idea why there's no picture, I guess I just didn't find the time?
11. Something funny: all day I was thinking about this, quite hard actually, but nothing funny crossed my way, until I parked at home and right in front of me there was this dark purple car, a Trabbi express, weird
12. 11 o’clock: pm, I usually read, in June I was reading Drachenseele by Angela Planert, I wouldn't recommend it, It didn't rock my socks, but it was a nice, fluid read, I need to admit it
13. Kitchen: in my kitchen I have a cookie jar..
14. Texture: on the road again, I saw a few textures, the strawberries I ate in the car, the roof of my hotel, the octopus tentacles we had for dinner
15. From above: I've been on a little congress over the weekend which was at the baltic see. I also went to see my sortof hometown Rostock and then suddenly from above there came a super storm
16. Family: this is always hard for me, I don't have my family with me in Berlin..
17. Centered: one of my favorite and sooo simple summer dishes: sweetheart cabbage sauted with mango (and salt and pepper)
18. Street: hmm, it must have been empty ^__^
19. Currently reading: as I've already shared my currently read book (at 11 o'clock) I read the city mag with some icecream on the balcony, heaven!
20. Cute: and the flu got me! I had pretty high temperature and it also was the hottest day of the year so far .. the cutest thing that happened that day was the thunderstorm that cooled the air quite noticeable
21. Lunchtime: a light lunch, some pasta with pesto. being ill doesn't mean you couldn't eat properly right?
22. Enjoying life: my first visitor .. sweetheart brought me flowers .. he's such a romantic sometimes
23. Last: piece of cake, rainbow cake in particular. my favorite cake when I was little
24. Negative space: according to fatmumslim, who started this challenge negative space is to have a lot of space around your photographed object, here a strawberry
25. Sharp: a knife would have been to simple, right? so no picture
26. Empty: an empty box of strawberries, the only good thing about being ill was, that I was able to get my hands on my favorite strawberries (They're coming all the way from my home area and are always already sold out when I get home from work)
27. Into the sun: on the balcony, a shot through my basil into the bright sky
28. Red: and on my balcony there are also some red eyed flies sitting on my mint
29. In my bag: sweetheart came by to have breakfast with me, he found heart shaped whole grain bread rolls, isn't that the cutest bread roll you've ever seen?
30. Handwriting: a very simple but effective way to make new friends :)
and with this I'm leaving you for today, have a wonderful week friends ^__^
p.s. I guess this month will be filled with lots of updates on my flower granny blanket, I make good progress at the moment
2. A moment: in every crocheters life, and so in mine, making the last stitches in a granny square..
3. On my table: is my favorite sweet: Maoam!. I have no idea if this internattionally known stuff, but I like sweets like these .. I have a very sweet tooth in general, but this kind makes it water more than other sweets
4. After dark: well, the sun just set, it's the view from my balcony
5. Environment: being at work, traveling, today my environment was a small city called Schwedt, it's quite nice there
6. Transport: well, a car (found in an Überraschhungsei/ a kinder surprise)
7. Bright: papaver .. they bloom everywhere this time of the year, I love it!
8. An animal: my co-driver ^__^
9. From down low: the Berlin poplars are blooming at the moment, which makes certain areas look like winter, all white, I tried to capture a little of that magic in this picture
10. You!: well .. no idea why there's no picture, I guess I just didn't find the time?
11. Something funny: all day I was thinking about this, quite hard actually, but nothing funny crossed my way, until I parked at home and right in front of me there was this dark purple car, a Trabbi express, weird
12. 11 o’clock: pm, I usually read, in June I was reading Drachenseele by Angela Planert, I wouldn't recommend it, It didn't rock my socks, but it was a nice, fluid read, I need to admit it
13. Kitchen: in my kitchen I have a cookie jar..
14. Texture: on the road again, I saw a few textures, the strawberries I ate in the car, the roof of my hotel, the octopus tentacles we had for dinner
15. From above: I've been on a little congress over the weekend which was at the baltic see. I also went to see my sortof hometown Rostock and then suddenly from above there came a super storm
16. Family: this is always hard for me, I don't have my family with me in Berlin..
17. Centered: one of my favorite and sooo simple summer dishes: sweetheart cabbage sauted with mango (and salt and pepper)
18. Street: hmm, it must have been empty ^__^
19. Currently reading: as I've already shared my currently read book (at 11 o'clock) I read the city mag with some icecream on the balcony, heaven!
20. Cute: and the flu got me! I had pretty high temperature and it also was the hottest day of the year so far .. the cutest thing that happened that day was the thunderstorm that cooled the air quite noticeable
21. Lunchtime: a light lunch, some pasta with pesto. being ill doesn't mean you couldn't eat properly right?
22. Enjoying life: my first visitor .. sweetheart brought me flowers .. he's such a romantic sometimes
23. Last: piece of cake, rainbow cake in particular. my favorite cake when I was little
24. Negative space: according to fatmumslim, who started this challenge negative space is to have a lot of space around your photographed object, here a strawberry
25. Sharp: a knife would have been to simple, right? so no picture
26. Empty: an empty box of strawberries, the only good thing about being ill was, that I was able to get my hands on my favorite strawberries (They're coming all the way from my home area and are always already sold out when I get home from work)
27. Into the sun: on the balcony, a shot through my basil into the bright sky
28. Red: and on my balcony there are also some red eyed flies sitting on my mint
29. In my bag: sweetheart came by to have breakfast with me, he found heart shaped whole grain bread rolls, isn't that the cutest bread roll you've ever seen?
30. Handwriting: a very simple but effective way to make new friends :)
and with this I'm leaving you for today, have a wonderful week friends ^__^
p.s. I guess this month will be filled with lots of updates on my flower granny blanket, I make good progress at the moment
6/02/2013
recap May 2013
oh boy, what happened to flickr? I'm not sure whether I like the new design.. anyways another month went by, and in May I picked up the challenge to post a picture a day again. Haven't done this for 5 or 6 weeks I almost forgot that it's actually a lot of fun. I always try to take the picture the day of the specific challenge, which makes me see life a little more open-eyed and also it's like a little diary. Did you write diaries when you were little? I used to, but never sticked to it for longer than a few weeks. I also felt a little weird writing : "dear diary today nothing spectacular happened" growing up quite a lot of days were normal average fun days, but not SPECTACULAR!!, you know what I mean? Now I write a diary again, and always try to only write one little sentence, the first thing that comes to my mind when I lay in bed and think about the day that just ends. This is a lot easier and I realize that life doesn't need to be spectacular, it is the small things that make a life unique
so my pictures in may:
1. I bought this!: raspberries, soooo yumm! I'm glad we finally reached the warmer months of the year and berries in all shapes and sizes are available on the market
2. Morning ritual: breakfast .. usually I eat my cereal, and do you see the spoon? it's the same spoon I learned eating with when I was little, I love this spoon
3. This is really good!: pasta! even better pasta with freshly made pesto genovese
4. In my cup: iced coffee with cream, mucho crema, yumm!
5. Paper: post its
6. Broken: while working I drive through eastern germany and today I spend my lunch break wandering around, seeing this tree in the front clearly broken I couldn't stand but not taking a picture. This one is not filtered or edited, the colors are original, isn't the color scheme kinda like a Burton movie?
7. Something beginning with F: being in Leipzig for a big congress, on the way into town I came across this wall art, is it graffiti when it's clearly painted?
8. Shape: round, a mac blush, an orange one to celebrate springtime
9. A snack: during the congress one of the healthier snacks was one of the bananas from one of the other counters
10. Stars: seems like I didn't see any
11. A smile: me :) .. or rather a cartoonist drew a picture of me during the congress
12. Mother: mothers day!!! since I wasn't with my mom this sunday, I was thinking quite a bit about this one (plus I think my mom wouldn't enjoy a picture of herself on the internet) than I came across this peanuts comic strip .. perfect
13. Sunrise/Sunset: evening sun in Tempelhof/Berlin
14. Need: food, it doesn't need to be healthy all the time but bananas, milk and blueberries are a wonderful combination
15. 7 o’clock: me, still a little wrinkly fresh out of bed .. obviously it's been very early, I managed to foresee the future, it still was the 15th
16. Mailbox: I meant to take a picture of one of the yellow mailboxes in Berlin, but I never managed to actually do it
17. Season: oregano and spring meet each other
18. Want: a BBQ .. with my BF in Ulm
19. My favourite view: a good sunset, I love the clouds in all shades of pinks, oranges and reds, so so good
20. Light: still being in Ulm, looking up at the sun behind a cloud
21. I care about this…: a little message between me and sweetheart, we share humor
22. Change: the whole day I've been thinking about things that could change.. until in the late evening I bought something and my change also included the new changed 5€ bill, it still feels and looks wrong, not like real money
23. PJs: well .. I don't usually wear any, soo..
24. Go: the typical traffic light in Berlin, the little guy used to be the traffic light guy in former eastern germany, now some traffic lights still get to have their (much more loved) old/new traffic light guy, cute!
25. Us: a picture from Ulm, I'm having a little fun .. he wasn't aware of this picture until now ^__^
26. Fave thing to do on Sunday: cuddle in bed, breakfast would be awesome too, but someone would need to get up and prepare one
27. Can’t live without: fun!! .. (and m&m's too)
28. What you’re doing now: I went swimming in one of the lokal indoor swimming pools
29. Kiss: isn't this cute? the new menthos edition wants kissable breath
30. Tool: chopsticks, I ordered sushi for dinner
31. Four things: eating out of town .. the appetizer included fresh bread, cream, salt and a knife
I hope you're having a totally awesome June, see you all soon, Diana
2. Morning ritual: breakfast .. usually I eat my cereal, and do you see the spoon? it's the same spoon I learned eating with when I was little, I love this spoon
3. This is really good!: pasta! even better pasta with freshly made pesto genovese
4. In my cup: iced coffee with cream, mucho crema, yumm!
5. Paper: post its
6. Broken: while working I drive through eastern germany and today I spend my lunch break wandering around, seeing this tree in the front clearly broken I couldn't stand but not taking a picture. This one is not filtered or edited, the colors are original, isn't the color scheme kinda like a Burton movie?
7. Something beginning with F: being in Leipzig for a big congress, on the way into town I came across this wall art, is it graffiti when it's clearly painted?
8. Shape: round, a mac blush, an orange one to celebrate springtime
9. A snack: during the congress one of the healthier snacks was one of the bananas from one of the other counters
10. Stars: seems like I didn't see any
11. A smile: me :) .. or rather a cartoonist drew a picture of me during the congress
12. Mother: mothers day!!! since I wasn't with my mom this sunday, I was thinking quite a bit about this one (plus I think my mom wouldn't enjoy a picture of herself on the internet) than I came across this peanuts comic strip .. perfect
13. Sunrise/Sunset: evening sun in Tempelhof/Berlin
14. Need: food, it doesn't need to be healthy all the time but bananas, milk and blueberries are a wonderful combination
15. 7 o’clock: me, still a little wrinkly fresh out of bed .. obviously it's been very early, I managed to foresee the future, it still was the 15th
16. Mailbox: I meant to take a picture of one of the yellow mailboxes in Berlin, but I never managed to actually do it
17. Season: oregano and spring meet each other
18. Want: a BBQ .. with my BF in Ulm
19. My favourite view: a good sunset, I love the clouds in all shades of pinks, oranges and reds, so so good
20. Light: still being in Ulm, looking up at the sun behind a cloud
21. I care about this…: a little message between me and sweetheart, we share humor
22. Change: the whole day I've been thinking about things that could change.. until in the late evening I bought something and my change also included the new changed 5€ bill, it still feels and looks wrong, not like real money
23. PJs: well .. I don't usually wear any, soo..
24. Go: the typical traffic light in Berlin, the little guy used to be the traffic light guy in former eastern germany, now some traffic lights still get to have their (much more loved) old/new traffic light guy, cute!
25. Us: a picture from Ulm, I'm having a little fun .. he wasn't aware of this picture until now ^__^
26. Fave thing to do on Sunday: cuddle in bed, breakfast would be awesome too, but someone would need to get up and prepare one
27. Can’t live without: fun!! .. (and m&m's too)
28. What you’re doing now: I went swimming in one of the lokal indoor swimming pools
29. Kiss: isn't this cute? the new menthos edition wants kissable breath
30. Tool: chopsticks, I ordered sushi for dinner
31. Four things: eating out of town .. the appetizer included fresh bread, cream, salt and a knife
I hope you're having a totally awesome June, see you all soon, Diana
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