Hey, to everyone who was looking forward to calling me Miss Lazy - sorry! I'm not renaming this blog. No, the paper isn't finished - but I received an email from the professor I'm writing it for that it's not due by end of September, but by end of October! Yay for me! This message was so incredibly motivating that I read around 30 pages (with tiny script!) and took some more notes last evening (for said paper). So, I'm not really lazy, right? In fact, I will in a few minutes go back and finish the book I'm reading for the thing.
That reminds me about yesterday evening, when I was sitting on my bed doing the studying stuff, and it was just hilarious - I was drinking Croatian (non-alcoholic) beer which my sister had brought back from her last holiday (she didn't like it), eating Japanese peanut snacks which Babs had sent, and reading about English sonnets. What fun! Multi-cultural study time! (Oh yeah, and I was listening to Nick Cave, so that's Australian music thrown into the mix!)
I should do this more often, it was good fun. I don't necessarily need to drink beer (I rarely do, actually), but I'm sure I can have some cultural mix-up fun more often. :)
Anyway, the actual change of plans is - I will finish the one book today, and start working on the other paper I need to do tomorrow. And I need to email my thesis professor that I won't be writing the one term paper I said I'd maybe do - it just didn't work out with the first half of my holidays being again taken over by emotional chaos and most of the other half with getting over it. (Yeah, I'll actually give him that explanation...he'll understand, he's cool ;D).
No worries friends, your time to call me lazy and be nasty about me not writing anything much will come, next spring and summer when I write my thesis. I'll need all the incentive and motivation I can get to stick to the writing...you'll help me out, right? ;)
And now, some food, and then back to my lovely sonnet (the paper is about translations of Shakespeare's sonnet no. 66, and my own ideas on translating it, if anyone's interested).
Mittwoch, September 20, 2006
Montag, September 18, 2006
A package from Melbourne
Last week on Tuesday I received one huge package. Ok, I received several packages, but one was huge. Like, really big. And inside, there was another big thing. A big brown paper bag. I immediately knew what was inside, and immediately thought Pei might have gone a bit crazy:
See that heap of fabric? See all that fabric? O_O
Look at all these! I think Pei, together with Babs, has enlarged my fabric stash by at least a third! And yep, I didn't have any patterned fabric before...now I have LOADS! These will make a lot of pretty things! :D
Next item up is also fun. Pei said she'd send me a kangaroo shirt, and I should send her a No kanagroo shirt (one of those funny touristy ones we have here). Well, she had herself a deal. And here's my pretty Australian roo shirt (hers isn't nearly as pretty, I blame the lousy tourist industry here!
I already declared this to be my official thesis writing shirt. As in, when I'm wearing this shirt, I'll mean business! :D
Then there were also some great postcards. Genius me took pictures of them still in the bag, but in return I'll later on show pictures of what I've done with them.
See those sunsets in the back! Just perfect!
Next, some delicious Australian goodness: Tim Tams! And see what sort of flavours she chose for me, how can a girl resist? (Honestly, I don't know how I've kept my fingers off them for a week!)
Get that? Creamy Truffle Temptation! Whoah!
And now, in the spirit of keeping best for last, look at this here:
It's the absolute fabulous final goodie bag! Owl Number One - Koo! Very well wrapped but still stylish - Pincushion! And in the background, but no less important - Funky Letter!
Yep, this is the part where my insides went a little soft, as did my brain, and I was turned into Super-Sop for a few hours. The pincushion is the most beautiful thing! Small and delicate and so well made...I don't even want to stick pins in there! And then the owl - the brown fabric is the softest ever, and he's tiny...both of them joined Sammy. What can I say! Thanks so much Pei! Still quite stunned over here!
I hope I can manage to do some 'action shots' at some stage, so the kind people at GYS get some happy interesting pictures that they seem to crave so much. I'll have to enlist the help of some friend (or sister/brother) and get some cultural landmark shots, crazy happy grin included. :)
Anyway, this was fabulous! I can only hope she likes my package as much, when she wrote she had received it she hadn't opened it yet! Ayeee! *looks hopeful*
See that heap of fabric? See all that fabric? O_O
Look at all these! I think Pei, together with Babs, has enlarged my fabric stash by at least a third! And yep, I didn't have any patterned fabric before...now I have LOADS! These will make a lot of pretty things! :D
Next item up is also fun. Pei said she'd send me a kangaroo shirt, and I should send her a No kanagroo shirt (one of those funny touristy ones we have here). Well, she had herself a deal. And here's my pretty Australian roo shirt (hers isn't nearly as pretty, I blame the lousy tourist industry here!
I already declared this to be my official thesis writing shirt. As in, when I'm wearing this shirt, I'll mean business! :D
Then there were also some great postcards. Genius me took pictures of them still in the bag, but in return I'll later on show pictures of what I've done with them.
See those sunsets in the back! Just perfect!
Next, some delicious Australian goodness: Tim Tams! And see what sort of flavours she chose for me, how can a girl resist? (Honestly, I don't know how I've kept my fingers off them for a week!)
Get that? Creamy Truffle Temptation! Whoah!
And now, in the spirit of keeping best for last, look at this here:
It's the absolute fabulous final goodie bag! Owl Number One - Koo! Very well wrapped but still stylish - Pincushion! And in the background, but no less important - Funky Letter!
Yep, this is the part where my insides went a little soft, as did my brain, and I was turned into Super-Sop for a few hours. The pincushion is the most beautiful thing! Small and delicate and so well made...I don't even want to stick pins in there! And then the owl - the brown fabric is the softest ever, and he's tiny...both of them joined Sammy. What can I say! Thanks so much Pei! Still quite stunned over here!
I hope I can manage to do some 'action shots' at some stage, so the kind people at GYS get some happy interesting pictures that they seem to crave so much. I'll have to enlist the help of some friend (or sister/brother) and get some cultural landmark shots, crazy happy grin included. :)
Anyway, this was fabulous! I can only hope she likes my package as much, when she wrote she had received it she hadn't opened it yet! Ayeee! *looks hopeful*
What fun!
I was just about to start writing my stuff about kwoozy's package from last week (she received mine today! Yay!), when the doorbell rang, and of course, when the postman rings, that means we get packages. And with we I mean myself. ;)
Guess what! My third swap package arrived! That's all of the first three! Wohooo! This one was Lori's, fresh out of Oklahoma! So much fun stuff!
Anyway, I'll write about kwoozy's package, and then about Lori's, and then I'll collapse (approx. 2 hours of sleep tonight, I know I've said it before many times, but -> NO MORE COFFEE! Argh). And then, after collapsing for a while and thinking nothing, I'll hopefully study to avoid my new title of Miss Lazy Slob. Some work ahead of me. :P
Guess what! My third swap package arrived! That's all of the first three! Wohooo! This one was Lori's, fresh out of Oklahoma! So much fun stuff!
Anyway, I'll write about kwoozy's package, and then about Lori's, and then I'll collapse (approx. 2 hours of sleep tonight, I know I've said it before many times, but -> NO MORE COFFEE! Argh). And then, after collapsing for a while and thinking nothing, I'll hopefully study to avoid my new title of Miss Lazy Slob. Some work ahead of me. :P
Sonntag, September 17, 2006
Study? Do sports instead!
Ok, so the paper plan didn't work out - even though I did write a very motivated almost 2 pages for the first one this weekend! Guess I'll have to work a little faster. I'm not giving up yet! I'll manage to finish it by Wednesday, and if not, you can all call me Miss Slob. In fact, I will temporatily rename this blog if I don't finish it. That should be some incentive...
Instead of doing much studying this weekend, I went for this huge dinner with my family today. We were just the usual five of us, but we ate a whopping lot. Phew!
And (not because of the dinner but because we're super-motivated) my sister and I will tomorrow sign up for some courses the sports institute of our university is offering. I've got a shortlist here of 5 things I'd be interested in (2 of which my sister can't do because they're at the wrong time for her, but for me they'd work, heh), and tomorrow morning (that's one big AM, we're meeting at 8, brrr) we'll sign up for at least two of them. How's that for going-for-it? ;)
And, ahhh, the studying will come, it will come. I'm hopeful. :)
Also, my write-up of the lovely package I received from kwoozy will follow soon. I waited several days before sending her an email about it and still went all soppy and whatnot, it's almost embarassing - OK it is - but my writeup should really be fine. No more self-help-book rhetorics, I promise! :P
And I'll post the much needed pictures...
Instead of doing much studying this weekend, I went for this huge dinner with my family today. We were just the usual five of us, but we ate a whopping lot. Phew!
And (not because of the dinner but because we're super-motivated) my sister and I will tomorrow sign up for some courses the sports institute of our university is offering. I've got a shortlist here of 5 things I'd be interested in (2 of which my sister can't do because they're at the wrong time for her, but for me they'd work, heh), and tomorrow morning (that's one big AM, we're meeting at 8, brrr) we'll sign up for at least two of them. How's that for going-for-it? ;)
And, ahhh, the studying will come, it will come. I'm hopeful. :)
Also, my write-up of the lovely package I received from kwoozy will follow soon. I waited several days before sending her an email about it and still went all soppy and whatnot, it's almost embarassing - OK it is - but my writeup should really be fine. No more self-help-book rhetorics, I promise! :P
And I'll post the much needed pictures...
Donnerstag, September 14, 2006
What happened this past week
Haven't posted a lot lately, and this post will large still be without pictures because I feel soooo lazy today!
Last week Monday (the 4th) my sister came back from Paris, and she didn't only show me the fab things she bought for herself, but she even brought me something! Supercute silver-and-blue necklace! Yay, my sister knows what I like! :)
Then on Tuesday she left again for Carynthia. Ain't she great? ;D
Last week Wednesday (the 6th) I started sorting through the huge pile in my room for things to (hopefully) sell on the market on Sunday. In the process, I found these two crafty sand things: sand art - filling coloured sand into a frame, once belonged to my mum and she never ever used it in the last ca 15-20 years, AND Make your own sand bottle - bought by myself, or for me by my parents, on our holiday to Cornwall, now *does the maths* 8 years ago and I never used the stuff myself either.
Well, last Wednesday my parents went out, so I took over our dining table again and used up these two things. The super sand art frame thingy didn't quite turn out as planned (I just wanted to pour the colours into layers, which would have looked nice with the colours I had - anyway, I messed it up by shaking the frame too much and did something completely different in the end) but the sand bottle does look nice. :)
I still haven't closed these two things properly, I probably should, before I pour sand all over the place...
Anyway, pictures will follow! (Already took them last week but too lazy to post.)
On Thursday my sis came back again!
Also, Monday through to Thursday, I had to do my first online registrations for next uni term - probably the last where I will really take lots of courses...
It was the first time we had to use this online system, and I was sort of worried that it would be a huge mess, system failing, trying to call the secretary, being on hold for ages because 50 students are calling at the exact same time - but none of it happened! I got all the courses I needed, and most of the courses I wanted (I gave up one of the places I got because someone else needed it more and I didn't really need the credits anyway), and now there's just two days of registration for me to go which shouldn't be too stressful. No more compulsory courses to sign up for. Te-hee!
On the weekend with my sunflower-induced hayfever attack I made two necklaces, no pictures yet either (not even taken yet). A very nice white one using some of the blue beads I received from my friend T, and another one in three shades of blue (very simple).
On Sunday was the market, for which I had to get up shortly past 5am. Jeeee-sus! It's just not for me. My sis and I managed to make our way somehow, and we even sold some stuff. Not such a lot, but we made around 40€ each, which isn't too bad for mainly sunbathing (ok, the sun got too much later on, as already mentioned, but still - sitting around, drinking hot tea in the morning and cold water in the afternoon, being visited by friends - well at least my sister was - doesn't sound too bad). Ok so we were dead tired. BUT! I also bought something, taking 5€ from my earnings...I didn't venture far or I would have bought far too much junk, so I just took a look at our neighbours place - in fact, she asked us several times to watch it while she went to get something to drink etc. And what did I discover! A fabulous tea set, a lovely bowl, and some other nice stuff. We-helll, I went and bought the tea set for 3€ (6 cups, stove and tea can!) and the pretty bowl (dark brown on the outside, light turquoise crackle glaze on the inside) for another 2€! Another incentive to start frequenting second hand stores...
We went home at 4pm, pretty much exhausted. The rest of our family had a late lunch prepared, and aftereating that together I had a shower and a short flop on the couch, but we were off again at 6pm for our family game of pool billard. O-m-g. Have I ever been so tired? Yes, I know I have, and far worse...but I usually didn't try to hit little balls with a long sharp stick at those times. HOW I managed to still be so fab that my mum wouldn't believe that I only ever played pool before for like 5 times or so (the "fab" is entirely my description, in comparison to other people it surely wasn't - I just had some probably waking-dream induced bright moments) I don't know. Every time I sat on one of those fantastic chairs they have, I sort of folded in and forwards, and felt like a balloon losing air. And why the hell I drank beer when I was already feeling like something wet and floppy I don't know either. But hey! It was fun! We laughed one hell of a lot! We had good food! It was a wonderfully nice evening! It reminded me why I love my family!
But as soon as we got home (and I had checked my emails for one last time :P) I fell into my bed and slept like a stone that has been hit on the head with a baseball bat and injected with morphines and what-have-you.
And this week, yes, this one, I will officially name Christmas Week. Five (!!!so crazy!!!) packages on Tuesday, another one and a new notebook on Wednesday, another package (yeeees, the Amazon one) today...whoah. I'm still keeping all the stuff that I so far got in the envelopes etc - I have no idea where to put things in an orderly fashion - because after the market, where not all things were sold of course, my room is again just a little bit messy, but I'm working on it.
Yeah, the Amazon package...amongst other things, I now have 3 new craft books (actually, what means 'new', these are amongs the first ones I personally own...other than them, just one for those friendship bracelets which I bought at least 10 years ago and the book with decorative patterns inside from a few weeks ago...all others that we have here at home technically belong to my parents and are mainly for children's stuff).
I know I write too long in brackets - often longer than outside them. :P
Anyway, I now have two books on t-shirt reconstruction and one on making books. Well...guess I'll start with the t-shirts as the bookmaking stuff requires more tools, and I'm not the richest student around (especially not after all these packages...yikes). Anyway, I think with the t-shirt books I'm quite well-employed for the refashion plans (both the books and my soon-to-be-implemented plans will receive extra posts sometimes).
And after writing this exhausting report (why am I so lazy today? is it the approaching change in weather? I can only hope so...) I will run myself a bath and then laze around some more with my books and then sleep.
Which means that tomorrow I will type with fury so I can keep my promise to myself and finish a paper per week from now on. Wish me luck! :)
Last week Monday (the 4th) my sister came back from Paris, and she didn't only show me the fab things she bought for herself, but she even brought me something! Supercute silver-and-blue necklace! Yay, my sister knows what I like! :)
Then on Tuesday she left again for Carynthia. Ain't she great? ;D
Last week Wednesday (the 6th) I started sorting through the huge pile in my room for things to (hopefully) sell on the market on Sunday. In the process, I found these two crafty sand things: sand art - filling coloured sand into a frame, once belonged to my mum and she never ever used it in the last ca 15-20 years, AND Make your own sand bottle - bought by myself, or for me by my parents, on our holiday to Cornwall, now *does the maths* 8 years ago and I never used the stuff myself either.
Well, last Wednesday my parents went out, so I took over our dining table again and used up these two things. The super sand art frame thingy didn't quite turn out as planned (I just wanted to pour the colours into layers, which would have looked nice with the colours I had - anyway, I messed it up by shaking the frame too much and did something completely different in the end) but the sand bottle does look nice. :)
I still haven't closed these two things properly, I probably should, before I pour sand all over the place...
Anyway, pictures will follow! (Already took them last week but too lazy to post.)
On Thursday my sis came back again!
Also, Monday through to Thursday, I had to do my first online registrations for next uni term - probably the last where I will really take lots of courses...
It was the first time we had to use this online system, and I was sort of worried that it would be a huge mess, system failing, trying to call the secretary, being on hold for ages because 50 students are calling at the exact same time - but none of it happened! I got all the courses I needed, and most of the courses I wanted (I gave up one of the places I got because someone else needed it more and I didn't really need the credits anyway), and now there's just two days of registration for me to go which shouldn't be too stressful. No more compulsory courses to sign up for. Te-hee!
On the weekend with my sunflower-induced hayfever attack I made two necklaces, no pictures yet either (not even taken yet). A very nice white one using some of the blue beads I received from my friend T, and another one in three shades of blue (very simple).
On Sunday was the market, for which I had to get up shortly past 5am. Jeeee-sus! It's just not for me. My sis and I managed to make our way somehow, and we even sold some stuff. Not such a lot, but we made around 40€ each, which isn't too bad for mainly sunbathing (ok, the sun got too much later on, as already mentioned, but still - sitting around, drinking hot tea in the morning and cold water in the afternoon, being visited by friends - well at least my sister was - doesn't sound too bad). Ok so we were dead tired. BUT! I also bought something, taking 5€ from my earnings...I didn't venture far or I would have bought far too much junk, so I just took a look at our neighbours place - in fact, she asked us several times to watch it while she went to get something to drink etc. And what did I discover! A fabulous tea set, a lovely bowl, and some other nice stuff. We-helll, I went and bought the tea set for 3€ (6 cups, stove and tea can!) and the pretty bowl (dark brown on the outside, light turquoise crackle glaze on the inside) for another 2€! Another incentive to start frequenting second hand stores...
We went home at 4pm, pretty much exhausted. The rest of our family had a late lunch prepared, and aftereating that together I had a shower and a short flop on the couch, but we were off again at 6pm for our family game of pool billard. O-m-g. Have I ever been so tired? Yes, I know I have, and far worse...but I usually didn't try to hit little balls with a long sharp stick at those times. HOW I managed to still be so fab that my mum wouldn't believe that I only ever played pool before for like 5 times or so (the "fab" is entirely my description, in comparison to other people it surely wasn't - I just had some probably waking-dream induced bright moments) I don't know. Every time I sat on one of those fantastic chairs they have, I sort of folded in and forwards, and felt like a balloon losing air. And why the hell I drank beer when I was already feeling like something wet and floppy I don't know either. But hey! It was fun! We laughed one hell of a lot! We had good food! It was a wonderfully nice evening! It reminded me why I love my family!
But as soon as we got home (and I had checked my emails for one last time :P) I fell into my bed and slept like a stone that has been hit on the head with a baseball bat and injected with morphines and what-have-you.
And this week, yes, this one, I will officially name Christmas Week. Five (!!!so crazy!!!) packages on Tuesday, another one and a new notebook on Wednesday, another package (yeeees, the Amazon one) today...whoah. I'm still keeping all the stuff that I so far got in the envelopes etc - I have no idea where to put things in an orderly fashion - because after the market, where not all things were sold of course, my room is again just a little bit messy, but I'm working on it.
Yeah, the Amazon package...amongst other things, I now have 3 new craft books (actually, what means 'new', these are amongs the first ones I personally own...other than them, just one for those friendship bracelets which I bought at least 10 years ago and the book with decorative patterns inside from a few weeks ago...all others that we have here at home technically belong to my parents and are mainly for children's stuff).
I know I write too long in brackets - often longer than outside them. :P
Anyway, I now have two books on t-shirt reconstruction and one on making books. Well...guess I'll start with the t-shirts as the bookmaking stuff requires more tools, and I'm not the richest student around (especially not after all these packages...yikes). Anyway, I think with the t-shirt books I'm quite well-employed for the refashion plans (both the books and my soon-to-be-implemented plans will receive extra posts sometimes).
And after writing this exhausting report (why am I so lazy today? is it the approaching change in weather? I can only hope so...) I will run myself a bath and then laze around some more with my books and then sleep.
Which means that tomorrow I will type with fury so I can keep my promise to myself and finish a paper per week from now on. Wish me luck! :)
Sweettooth Thursday III - Keiko Green Kiss Matcha Mapan & Ginger Matcha Mapan
Yep, I'm still working on that very successful shopping spree two weeks ago. :)
These were the second part of Keiko treats that I bought myself (along with the chews from last week). These little treats were actually available in several more flvours, but I stuck with these two for the moment.
Don't you just love the packaging style?
Anyway, these are once again very 'simple' things: The ingredients list just almonds, honey, matcha (green tea powder), wheat wafer for the pale-faced ones, and almonds, honey, matcha (green tea powder), wheat wafer ginger, for the other one. So I guess no baddies inside these!
Anyway, so these are simply two wheat wafers (Oblaten, for you German speakers - there's probably still none but who cares! :D) with this creamy almond-honey-matcha paste between them. And you just bite into them and chew this sweet stuff, enjoy the taste of honey and almonds, the light hint of green tea (and maybe a hint of ginger with the second one), let it melt away in your tongue, and start over.
The matcha taste isn't very pronounced, it's rather subtle, and if you want to really get it, you better be a slow eater. I guess you could also just wolf them down and be done with it, but what a waste that would be!
I have to admit to being and almond (and honey!) freak myself, and I like my green tea when I manage to have it, so I really enjoyed finding these goodies. Again, they're a little expensive (they're portioned at 40g and I got mine for €2,50 each - which could have bought me three 100g chocolate bars at the next supermarket) but I think for a piece of goodness to treat yourself to sometimes, they're not bad. They're definitely slow food, and with a subtle combination of ingredients, so I'm not surprised they're sold in our tea shop (ignoring the fact there's actual tea in there :P).
Actually, on the subject of tea in there, maybe these would also work as an afternoon pick me up (as advertised on the chew packaging), who knows. Not sure. I probably shouldn't test these in the evening when I'm more lively by nature anyway. ;)
As you may have guessed, these are also made by Keiko, the company on which I didn't find much information (I'll review some better supported candy next), but I decided to check Wikipedia for the entry and found the information that Keiko is a Japanese female given name, and means something like "happy/blessed child". I suppose that at least explains the female deco and the intended effect of their products, right? :)
These were the second part of Keiko treats that I bought myself (along with the chews from last week). These little treats were actually available in several more flvours, but I stuck with these two for the moment.
Don't you just love the packaging style?
Anyway, these are once again very 'simple' things: The ingredients list just almonds, honey, matcha (green tea powder), wheat wafer for the pale-faced ones, and almonds, honey, matcha (green tea powder), wheat wafer ginger, for the other one. So I guess no baddies inside these!
Anyway, so these are simply two wheat wafers (Oblaten, for you German speakers - there's probably still none but who cares! :D) with this creamy almond-honey-matcha paste between them. And you just bite into them and chew this sweet stuff, enjoy the taste of honey and almonds, the light hint of green tea (and maybe a hint of ginger with the second one), let it melt away in your tongue, and start over.
The matcha taste isn't very pronounced, it's rather subtle, and if you want to really get it, you better be a slow eater. I guess you could also just wolf them down and be done with it, but what a waste that would be!
I have to admit to being and almond (and honey!) freak myself, and I like my green tea when I manage to have it, so I really enjoyed finding these goodies. Again, they're a little expensive (they're portioned at 40g and I got mine for €2,50 each - which could have bought me three 100g chocolate bars at the next supermarket) but I think for a piece of goodness to treat yourself to sometimes, they're not bad. They're definitely slow food, and with a subtle combination of ingredients, so I'm not surprised they're sold in our tea shop (ignoring the fact there's actual tea in there :P).
Actually, on the subject of tea in there, maybe these would also work as an afternoon pick me up (as advertised on the chew packaging), who knows. Not sure. I probably shouldn't test these in the evening when I'm more lively by nature anyway. ;)
As you may have guessed, these are also made by Keiko, the company on which I didn't find much information (I'll review some better supported candy next), but I decided to check Wikipedia for the entry and found the information that Keiko is a Japanese female given name, and means something like "happy/blessed child". I suppose that at least explains the female deco and the intended effect of their products, right? :)
Mittwoch, September 13, 2006
Excitement overdose
Ok, another Etsy package arrived...
Now I'm missing one more with what will be my new uni bag inside...plus an Amazon package is to arrive either tomorrow or Friday...
I'm drowning in exciting new stuff!
And then I went out and finally bought myself a notebook.
(...)
I've been without my own computer for more than 3 years now, I think (I try to forget :P), and had to pester my family all this time. Finally, my own piece of electric gadgetry again, yay! No internet yet (I told my father we should wait with installing this so I actually do my writing and don't get tempted to much), so I'll still sit here for that, but yay! Sitting on my comfy bed and writing my papers! Yay!
And new wool for my mum to knit me my yearly winter jumper! And one ball of yarn for me to finally learn how to knit, and to remember that I know!
Also, I think one of my swap packages finally arrived at its destination!
So yeah, I'm a little overexcited about everything right now...I'll hopefully post something about it all tomorrow, when another sweet review is due as well. This blog has been sadly lacking in pictures these past few days - I'll have to remedy that.
Now I'm missing one more with what will be my new uni bag inside...plus an Amazon package is to arrive either tomorrow or Friday...
I'm drowning in exciting new stuff!
And then I went out and finally bought myself a notebook.
(...)
I've been without my own computer for more than 3 years now, I think (I try to forget :P), and had to pester my family all this time. Finally, my own piece of electric gadgetry again, yay! No internet yet (I told my father we should wait with installing this so I actually do my writing and don't get tempted to much), so I'll still sit here for that, but yay! Sitting on my comfy bed and writing my papers! Yay!
And new wool for my mum to knit me my yearly winter jumper! And one ball of yarn for me to finally learn how to knit, and to remember that I know!
Also, I think one of my swap packages finally arrived at its destination!
So yeah, I'm a little overexcited about everything right now...I'll hopefully post something about it all tomorrow, when another sweet review is due as well. This blog has been sadly lacking in pictures these past few days - I'll have to remedy that.
Dienstag, September 12, 2006
Christmas come early
Well, we have blue skies, lots of sun, sunburnt me...and 5 (in words: FIVE) little packages arriving at my door!
O_O
*stunned silence*
There is one huge envelope from Kwoozy (aaah!) and 4 packages from my shopping spree last weekend - on Etsy. (I guess all those people I bought things from should feel hugely thankful to Meshell whose blog introduced me to that page!)
Well, I will further my training in composure and restraint and will again only open them after my shower.
And then I'll probably further my training in WRITING IN FREAKING HUGE LETTERS WITH LOTS OF !!!!!!!!
O_O
*stunned silence*
There is one huge envelope from Kwoozy (aaah!) and 4 packages from my shopping spree last weekend - on Etsy. (I guess all those people I bought things from should feel hugely thankful to Meshell whose blog introduced me to that page!)
Well, I will further my training in composure and restraint and will again only open them after my shower.
And then I'll probably further my training in WRITING IN FREAKING HUGE LETTERS WITH LOTS OF !!!!!!!!
Montag, September 11, 2006
September Sunburn
Yesterday my sis and I were at a market. We here call them flea markets for some reason, in the UK they're called car boot sales, no idea how other people might call it. There's one held in our district every year; we went last year and decided to go this year as well.
And it was *freakin' hot*!
Ok, at 5.30 am it wasn't, it was pretty cold, but once the sun reached our little place, we were more or less cooking for the rest of the day. The consequence: we now both have a ridiculously strong sunburn on arms and chest, my arms haven't been this dark in years (I'm naturally fair-skinned and, as mentioned before, a lazy stay-at-home) - and today I have a headache, so still not many emails written, I think I managed two or three. They will come though!
I'll write about the exciting pool billard we played with the rest of our family afterwards (how I still managed to hit the right balls half-asleep I don't know) and other fun later on.
Must sleep soon. *huge yawn*
And it was *freakin' hot*!
Ok, at 5.30 am it wasn't, it was pretty cold, but once the sun reached our little place, we were more or less cooking for the rest of the day. The consequence: we now both have a ridiculously strong sunburn on arms and chest, my arms haven't been this dark in years (I'm naturally fair-skinned and, as mentioned before, a lazy stay-at-home) - and today I have a headache, so still not many emails written, I think I managed two or three. They will come though!
I'll write about the exciting pool billard we played with the rest of our family afterwards (how I still managed to hit the right balls half-asleep I don't know) and other fun later on.
Must sleep soon. *huge yawn*
Freitag, September 08, 2006
Hayfever
It's a beautiful and warm start into September, and a final attack of hayfever announced itself in the past few days. Well, today it struck with full force, and my head is consequently incredibly fuzzy. Which again means that everyone who's waiting for replies to their emails will have to wait a little longer - can't write much sense like this.
Will go back to mindlessly putting beads on string and hoping for colder weather. And rain. Lots of rain.
Will go back to mindlessly putting beads on string and hoping for colder weather. And rain. Lots of rain.
Donnerstag, September 07, 2006
Sweettooth Thursday II - Keiko Green Kiss Matcha Chews
These are part of last weeks bounty of sweet treats. Actually, I found several things made by Keiko, but I already tried these so they'll be reviewed first.
I first tried green tea sweets only a short while ago - maybe a month - so I was glad to come across several more. The first ones I had (which will probably be reviewed some other time) were hard candy, so I was delighted to find these chews.
As you can see in the picture, 1) the packaging is cute and stylish at the same time 2) the individual candies are wrapped in one of those starchy papers that you can eat with them and 3) there must be a third point because Western people just love the harmonious flow of that, so I'll just repeat how cute the packaging is - look, even on the individual wrappers...and such a beautiful green! Ok, enough about the decorative aspects. How do these taste?
I have to admit that I never had matcha tea before, and green tea only in the one variation I so far bought (which I love). I wouldn't even know where to find Matcha in this town. But well. Even though green tea isn't the same as any other green tea, there must be some similiarities, right? Right.
The important thing with these is that they're quite hard at the beginning (at least mine are, I suspect all are, because one whole bag of flukes would just be too much bad luck for a girl with a lucky turtle). Anyway, you've got to have these in your mouth for a while, to let the starchy paper melt away and to soften up the whole thing. The good thing is that the softening works very quickly, and then you get the beautiful taste of green tea. And you can chew your heart out for a couple of minutes, which is a bonus for me. Here we again reach a negative - it really does only last for a couple of minutes (if you do chew, I suspect that if you just use it like hard candy it will take a little longer to vanish). Here again another good thing - the aftertaste lasts you for a while. No more chewing, but some lovely green tea taste left anyway. Mhhh.
The packaging says something about them being the perfect perk-me-up. I just had one so if I feel any more awake until I finish writing it probably works. ;)
The company, as I said, is called Keiko, go to their American site here. (The link given on the packaging is apparently not current anymore.) It's a Japanese company, and the chews are made in Japan (says my bag, at least, not that much info on the site). They're speciality is, quite evidently, matcha, which they sell as the green tea powder that it is, but also use for all sorts of sweets, like the chews I just reviewed.
They have loads of stuff I haven't bought yet, because, I have to admit, these aren't that cheap. My bag of 50g cost me €3.90, and I guess there were around 10 or 11 pieces in there. Not that many! But tasty nonetheless. :)
For all my Austrian readers (hehe, who am I kidding), I got these at Heissenberger in my lovely hometown, but I guess all of their stores might carry these. For all other readers, I have no clue, sorry, but I guess you could write them via their email address and ask. They seem to exist in the US and Canada, at least, and I admit I haven't checked for other countries. You might also be able to order them online.
I admit I'm not as hot on these as on the ginger (stupid pun, sorry, not intentional), but they're certainly nice and fresh, and as a form of portable green tea, they're great! (More intense than the hard candies I tried, definitely.)
So, I hope I found you green tea lovers something new to try out! Enjoy. :)
I first tried green tea sweets only a short while ago - maybe a month - so I was glad to come across several more. The first ones I had (which will probably be reviewed some other time) were hard candy, so I was delighted to find these chews.
As you can see in the picture, 1) the packaging is cute and stylish at the same time 2) the individual candies are wrapped in one of those starchy papers that you can eat with them and 3) there must be a third point because Western people just love the harmonious flow of that, so I'll just repeat how cute the packaging is - look, even on the individual wrappers...and such a beautiful green! Ok, enough about the decorative aspects. How do these taste?
I have to admit that I never had matcha tea before, and green tea only in the one variation I so far bought (which I love). I wouldn't even know where to find Matcha in this town. But well. Even though green tea isn't the same as any other green tea, there must be some similiarities, right? Right.
The important thing with these is that they're quite hard at the beginning (at least mine are, I suspect all are, because one whole bag of flukes would just be too much bad luck for a girl with a lucky turtle). Anyway, you've got to have these in your mouth for a while, to let the starchy paper melt away and to soften up the whole thing. The good thing is that the softening works very quickly, and then you get the beautiful taste of green tea. And you can chew your heart out for a couple of minutes, which is a bonus for me. Here we again reach a negative - it really does only last for a couple of minutes (if you do chew, I suspect that if you just use it like hard candy it will take a little longer to vanish). Here again another good thing - the aftertaste lasts you for a while. No more chewing, but some lovely green tea taste left anyway. Mhhh.
The packaging says something about them being the perfect perk-me-up. I just had one so if I feel any more awake until I finish writing it probably works. ;)
The company, as I said, is called Keiko, go to their American site here. (The link given on the packaging is apparently not current anymore.) It's a Japanese company, and the chews are made in Japan (says my bag, at least, not that much info on the site). They're speciality is, quite evidently, matcha, which they sell as the green tea powder that it is, but also use for all sorts of sweets, like the chews I just reviewed.
They have loads of stuff I haven't bought yet, because, I have to admit, these aren't that cheap. My bag of 50g cost me €3.90, and I guess there were around 10 or 11 pieces in there. Not that many! But tasty nonetheless. :)
For all my Austrian readers (hehe, who am I kidding), I got these at Heissenberger in my lovely hometown, but I guess all of their stores might carry these. For all other readers, I have no clue, sorry, but I guess you could write them via their email address and ask. They seem to exist in the US and Canada, at least, and I admit I haven't checked for other countries. You might also be able to order them online.
I admit I'm not as hot on these as on the ginger (stupid pun, sorry, not intentional), but they're certainly nice and fresh, and as a form of portable green tea, they're great! (More intense than the hard candies I tried, definitely.)
So, I hope I found you green tea lovers something new to try out! Enjoy. :)
Swap No. 1 - The beautiful package from Babs
It took me a day, but I think I can now write about what I received in my package from sweet and sunny California.
When I saw the package in the mailbox, I almost couldn't believe it - I hadn't thought it would already be here! But it was! And then I showed some of the most restraint I've ever shown and took a shower, cooked lunch, ate lunch - and only then sat down to the table and slowly slowly opened it.
I knew what would be in it: A t-shirt, some sweets, maybe some fabric. But I didn't know exactly what sort of t-shirt, which sweets, and whether there would really be fabric.
Well, looky here:
It's all here! T-shirt, fabric, sweets, postcard, and (!!!) lucky turtle charm! Oh my God! Such a lot of stuff! :D
I immediately tried on the t-shirt and it fit perfectly - perfectly, I say, probably better than most of the t-shirts currently in my wardrobe (yep, gaining weight sucks, but covering it up with a fantastic t-shirt like this which is fitted yet HIDES IT ALL is the best thing ever). I also love the print! Babs sent me some pictures of t-shirts she could get and which would be sort of my favourites, and I picked out two...and this was one of them. So lovely. It looks even better real than on the picture - and while I usually worry whether print t-shirts won't look funny when worn, this one doesn't. :)
Four pieces of fabric, I'm so in love with these! And look how they're tied up nicely! :) There's the fiery pink one, then one with a white, green and lilac circle print, a blue one with some gold flower print (very subtle, very nice) and a lovely brown one - I do not usually fall for brown, but this is such a great print! I know you can't see it that well in the picture, but I'll post some better ones soon.
The sweets are of course all great! I told Babs that I liked anything with nuts (esp. peanuts), and that's what I got. Plus! POCKY! I have Pocky! I didn't even tell her about that, I think (or did I? Maybe I did after all...) yet here it is. After reading about it so much I will finally eat some myself. :D
And here's the sweetest and tiniest bit:
My mum noticed this before I did (cunningly hidden in the fabric) and was completely fascinated. She thought it was the cutest thing ever, and for a short while (very very short) I thought I'd offer to give it to her. But yeah, I didn't. Instead, this lovely tiny lucky turtle now lives in my purse and already helped me today to find the perfect pair of shoes! Thanks little Japanese turtle!
And thanks Babs! Receiving this package just felt amazing! :)
Oh yeah, about how wide my grin was...approximately like this:
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When I saw the package in the mailbox, I almost couldn't believe it - I hadn't thought it would already be here! But it was! And then I showed some of the most restraint I've ever shown and took a shower, cooked lunch, ate lunch - and only then sat down to the table and slowly slowly opened it.
I knew what would be in it: A t-shirt, some sweets, maybe some fabric. But I didn't know exactly what sort of t-shirt, which sweets, and whether there would really be fabric.
Well, looky here:
It's all here! T-shirt, fabric, sweets, postcard, and (!!!) lucky turtle charm! Oh my God! Such a lot of stuff! :D
I immediately tried on the t-shirt and it fit perfectly - perfectly, I say, probably better than most of the t-shirts currently in my wardrobe (yep, gaining weight sucks, but covering it up with a fantastic t-shirt like this which is fitted yet HIDES IT ALL is the best thing ever). I also love the print! Babs sent me some pictures of t-shirts she could get and which would be sort of my favourites, and I picked out two...and this was one of them. So lovely. It looks even better real than on the picture - and while I usually worry whether print t-shirts won't look funny when worn, this one doesn't. :)
Four pieces of fabric, I'm so in love with these! And look how they're tied up nicely! :) There's the fiery pink one, then one with a white, green and lilac circle print, a blue one with some gold flower print (very subtle, very nice) and a lovely brown one - I do not usually fall for brown, but this is such a great print! I know you can't see it that well in the picture, but I'll post some better ones soon.
The sweets are of course all great! I told Babs that I liked anything with nuts (esp. peanuts), and that's what I got. Plus! POCKY! I have Pocky! I didn't even tell her about that, I think (or did I? Maybe I did after all...) yet here it is. After reading about it so much I will finally eat some myself. :D
And here's the sweetest and tiniest bit:
My mum noticed this before I did (cunningly hidden in the fabric) and was completely fascinated. She thought it was the cutest thing ever, and for a short while (very very short) I thought I'd offer to give it to her. But yeah, I didn't. Instead, this lovely tiny lucky turtle now lives in my purse and already helped me today to find the perfect pair of shoes! Thanks little Japanese turtle!
And thanks Babs! Receiving this package just felt amazing! :)
Oh yeah, about how wide my grin was...approximately like this:
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Catching Up: Some things I got lately
Here's a couple of things I bought before I left for my holidays: 
This extremely cute cup...I know I have enough teacups, but this one was just too sweet to pass up...I found it in the homeware department of large supermarket...where I usually never go. I guess I'll better stay away in future as well if I want to save money (and space, at that). :P
And then I also found this:
It's actually an originally English book translated into German. My translation back into English: Knitting - Hot trends for cool girls. Now, it's evidently aimed at teenagers, a group I no longer belong to (and I don't really think of myself as 'cool'), but:
1) It's for beginners 2) It's easy stuff 3) The things still look great!
Evidence:*
I do hope that this will be a further incentive on my personal long hard road to knowledge of knitting.
And here's a few things I got on my holidays (all in one shop, lol):
Things I bought myself: Teacup and the two pendants. Things my mum bought for me: The bracelet.
This was a small shop in Hermagor, a town we passed through when on our way to the Garlitzklamm. It was fun, the shop is run by a couple from the Netherlands who used to visit Austria in their holidays and always dreamt of moving here (they love mountains - and the Netherlands have so few of them). They managed just that about a year ago and now own this great shop which sells all sorts of things - wooden toys for kids, souvenirs, glassware, herbal teas, things made with semiprecious stones...a very nice and light shop. :)
And here another shot of my beautiful new teacup (yes I know, another one :P) for your viewing pleasure:
And finally - two sets of beads I received from my friend (I shall call her T, she's the one I had my crafting Wednesday with and who is now in China) for my cat-sitting over a weekend. As if taking some time to cuddle her cats wasn't reward enough! Look at these, they're beautiful!
*(Note: This isn't me, it's a picture from the book. I have no idea about knitting yet, except knowing that whenever I try it ends in failure. ;P)
This extremely cute cup...I know I have enough teacups, but this one was just too sweet to pass up...I found it in the homeware department of large supermarket...where I usually never go. I guess I'll better stay away in future as well if I want to save money (and space, at that). :P
And then I also found this:
It's actually an originally English book translated into German. My translation back into English: Knitting - Hot trends for cool girls. Now, it's evidently aimed at teenagers, a group I no longer belong to (and I don't really think of myself as 'cool'), but:
1) It's for beginners 2) It's easy stuff 3) The things still look great!
Evidence:*
I do hope that this will be a further incentive on my personal long hard road to knowledge of knitting.
And here's a few things I got on my holidays (all in one shop, lol):
Things I bought myself: Teacup and the two pendants. Things my mum bought for me: The bracelet.
This was a small shop in Hermagor, a town we passed through when on our way to the Garlitzklamm. It was fun, the shop is run by a couple from the Netherlands who used to visit Austria in their holidays and always dreamt of moving here (they love mountains - and the Netherlands have so few of them). They managed just that about a year ago and now own this great shop which sells all sorts of things - wooden toys for kids, souvenirs, glassware, herbal teas, things made with semiprecious stones...a very nice and light shop. :)
And here another shot of my beautiful new teacup (yes I know, another one :P) for your viewing pleasure:
And finally - two sets of beads I received from my friend (I shall call her T, she's the one I had my crafting Wednesday with and who is now in China) for my cat-sitting over a weekend. As if taking some time to cuddle her cats wasn't reward enough! Look at these, they're beautiful!
*(Note: This isn't me, it's a picture from the book. I have no idea about knitting yet, except knowing that whenever I try it ends in failure. ;P)
Catching Up: Holidays
I promised some pictures from my 5-day-holidays with my parents.
They'd planned to stay for two weeks in an apartment belonging to a family friend, located in Carynthia, at around 950m altitude, on a lake (called Weissensee). They tried to convince me and my brother to come visit them, and while my brother preferred to stay at home (he's usually out and about almost every weekend because of swimming tournaments or stuff like that), I decided to got for the second week.
Now, it was simply fantastic...fresh air! All that green! Beautiful but autumny cool weather! Ahhh...
In those few days, we did some hiking, went around the lake on our bikes, went swimming for very short periods (lake at around 18°C, refreshing but COLD), lay around lazily soaking in some sun, played some minigolf (or crazy golf, as it's called in the UK I think), had lots of good food, and in the evening sat around our fun electrically heated tiled stove and watched TV or read our books or wrote some stuff (for example, I tried to get some start on that paper writing business that I keep on talking about but delay doing wonderfully).
It was extremely relaxing. I loved the fact that I was out and about in the air such a lot, here int he city I'm the worst stay-at-home (although I'm working at it :P).
Ok, and now that you read all that stuff about how nice holidays are, here's some pictures to show the beauty of the location....
I went for a short cycle on my second evening and enjoyed the silence, good air, and a fantastic sunset.
On the second whole day I was there, I went hiking with my dad. This is part of the way we had to walk (picture taken from the ship we took to get back to where our bikes were).
The day after, all four of us went to the Garlitzklamm (Klamm= fume or gorge in English). I took loads of pictures of waterfalls and the waterway. The trail was quite an adventure, lots of climbing etc...
Here's the view of the gorge from the trail we took back to the car, which ran quite high above. You can't see the water, but you can see where the thing runs, sort of.
On Saturday we first had bad weather, so we played crazy golf and then, when it cleared up, went for a boat ride with a rented electrical boat. Mhh, beautiful.
Goodbye-shot of the lake from the one bridge that exists across it, immediately before we left. Beautiful, isn't it?
I have lots more pictures and I hope I'll put up some of them someplace else soon. Knowing myself, it might take a while though... ;)
They'd planned to stay for two weeks in an apartment belonging to a family friend, located in Carynthia, at around 950m altitude, on a lake (called Weissensee). They tried to convince me and my brother to come visit them, and while my brother preferred to stay at home (he's usually out and about almost every weekend because of swimming tournaments or stuff like that), I decided to got for the second week.
Now, it was simply fantastic...fresh air! All that green! Beautiful but autumny cool weather! Ahhh...
In those few days, we did some hiking, went around the lake on our bikes, went swimming for very short periods (lake at around 18°C, refreshing but COLD), lay around lazily soaking in some sun, played some minigolf (or crazy golf, as it's called in the UK I think), had lots of good food, and in the evening sat around our fun electrically heated tiled stove and watched TV or read our books or wrote some stuff (for example, I tried to get some start on that paper writing business that I keep on talking about but delay doing wonderfully).
It was extremely relaxing. I loved the fact that I was out and about in the air such a lot, here int he city I'm the worst stay-at-home (although I'm working at it :P).
Ok, and now that you read all that stuff about how nice holidays are, here's some pictures to show the beauty of the location....
I went for a short cycle on my second evening and enjoyed the silence, good air, and a fantastic sunset.
On the second whole day I was there, I went hiking with my dad. This is part of the way we had to walk (picture taken from the ship we took to get back to where our bikes were).
The day after, all four of us went to the Garlitzklamm (Klamm= fume or gorge in English). I took loads of pictures of waterfalls and the waterway. The trail was quite an adventure, lots of climbing etc...
Here's the view of the gorge from the trail we took back to the car, which ran quite high above. You can't see the water, but you can see where the thing runs, sort of.
On Saturday we first had bad weather, so we played crazy golf and then, when it cleared up, went for a boat ride with a rented electrical boat. Mhh, beautiful.
Goodbye-shot of the lake from the one bridge that exists across it, immediately before we left. Beautiful, isn't it?
I have lots more pictures and I hope I'll put up some of them someplace else soon. Knowing myself, it might take a while though... ;)
Mittwoch, September 06, 2006
Waaaah!
Oh My God!
I just went to collect the post from the mailbox....and O_O there is this small package inside, and and and...I got my first swap package! From Babs! It's already here! *bounes up and down*
Now, I must contain myself and take it slow, take pictures etc, instead of just ripping it open!
Gaaaah!
*happy*
Update 2 hours later:
Guess who's a lucky girl? I'm a lucky girl! Very lucky! Very happy! I'm extremely happy I found out about GYS...I can honestly say that in the past four weeks, this has changed my life (sounds cheesy, but it has). Thank you Babs and all those others who are and will be swapping with me! It's the best thing ever!
Detailed write up of what I received and how wide my grin was a little later when I've calmed down...
I just went to collect the post from the mailbox....and O_O there is this small package inside, and and and...I got my first swap package! From Babs! It's already here! *bounes up and down*
Now, I must contain myself and take it slow, take pictures etc, instead of just ripping it open!
Gaaaah!
*happy*
Update 2 hours later:
Guess who's a lucky girl? I'm a lucky girl! Very lucky! Very happy! I'm extremely happy I found out about GYS...I can honestly say that in the past four weeks, this has changed my life (sounds cheesy, but it has). Thank you Babs and all those others who are and will be swapping with me! It's the best thing ever!
Detailed write up of what I received and how wide my grin was a little later when I've calmed down...
Number 3
Yay! My first three swap packages are sent! Not yet received but sent! Oh goody!
Now, patience until they arrive. :)
Anyway, this means I can now set up some new swaps. A huge SORRY to those people I haven't even emailed back yet, it's been a bit chaotic these past few weeks, so much stuff going on. I'll get back to you soon, and I'm looking forward to swapping with all of you, it will be lots of fun! :)
And now I'm finally going to tear myself away from the screen (so many nice crafty blosg to look at! So many new crafty books I have found and would order from Amazon if I shouldn't leave now!) and will do something useful for the upcoming flea market where my sister and I will again try our luck - we made some good money last year, after all. Plus, more room in my room! Perfect! :D
Oh, and sleep. I need sleep. I do nothing all day but I'm sooo tired. Mmmh.
Now, patience until they arrive. :)
Anyway, this means I can now set up some new swaps. A huge SORRY to those people I haven't even emailed back yet, it's been a bit chaotic these past few weeks, so much stuff going on. I'll get back to you soon, and I'm looking forward to swapping with all of you, it will be lots of fun! :)
And now I'm finally going to tear myself away from the screen (so many nice crafty blosg to look at! So many new crafty books I have found and would order from Amazon if I shouldn't leave now!) and will do something useful for the upcoming flea market where my sister and I will again try our luck - we made some good money last year, after all. Plus, more room in my room! Perfect! :D
Oh, and sleep. I need sleep. I do nothing all day but I'm sooo tired. Mmmh.
Samstag, September 02, 2006
Some finished projects
There were and still are some unfinished projects lying around, but I'm going to concentrate on those that were, which are now finished. :)
These two pretty things are from the papermache bowl making session I had with my friend, uh, way back (2-3 weeks :P) on that crafting Wednesday.
I used old newspaper (quality paper, these bowls are tabloid-free!) for the papermache, and painted the bowls with a few layers of the only white paint I found in my cupboard (gouache). They look quite nice the way they are, but I guess I'll add some varnish so they don't die completely should clumsy me ever pour water on them.
I have some other bowls still half-finished, because I'm doing more papermache work on them with this extremely thin paper, which looks fantastic but takes ages. I guess I'll post them later.
I'm still thinking whether I should decorate these any further. I could add some glamour with stick-on jewels or by threading beads through them (that's the nice thing about them being paper, I can actually do that) or something else. But for the time being I better concentrate on finishing the rest of them. :P
Ok, and here's some bead stuff (of course). The bracelet was made on the first Friday of crafting (when I bought my first bead mix), the two necklaces were made at around 4am when my friend was here, when all my brain was still able to do was put beads on string.
I actually made these necklaces to fit my wardrobe (...). Yes, it's come that far. :P The violet and light pink pearl thingie (pearls!) should go well with a new jumper I bought (these nice plastic bead pearls were bought in London, so they're cool, plus filled with fond memories, that's my excuse) and the black and blue lovely thing will go, well, with all my black and blue things (of which I have a lot, hehe).
Ok, and the last for today doesn't actually fit in with 'finished' projects because, well, they're just sort of drafts in actual existence (right?). I was just playing around and am not very sure of them, also, I don't wear earrings myself (no matter what kind I try, my ears just don't like them :-/) - if they were for me they'd probably finished quite fast.
I like them both. Sadly I have only one of the leaves, else I could make a pair which I would at least try to put in my ear, even if I'd have to take them out again immediately. I also like the other one, weird plastic thingie with some small pearly beady strings. I could call it Urban Trash Glamour or something weird like that. Maybe I could actually make a bag charm or somesuch like this. I'd have no hesitations whatsoever to put stuff on my bags! :D
Well, that's two posts for today, and oddly enough I am getting tired around midnight again, which is good. I'll hopefully continue with a holiday report and some assorted other stuff tomorrow. :)
These two pretty things are from the papermache bowl making session I had with my friend, uh, way back (2-3 weeks :P) on that crafting Wednesday.
I used old newspaper (quality paper, these bowls are tabloid-free!) for the papermache, and painted the bowls with a few layers of the only white paint I found in my cupboard (gouache). They look quite nice the way they are, but I guess I'll add some varnish so they don't die completely should clumsy me ever pour water on them.
I have some other bowls still half-finished, because I'm doing more papermache work on them with this extremely thin paper, which looks fantastic but takes ages. I guess I'll post them later.
I'm still thinking whether I should decorate these any further. I could add some glamour with stick-on jewels or by threading beads through them (that's the nice thing about them being paper, I can actually do that) or something else. But for the time being I better concentrate on finishing the rest of them. :P
Ok, and here's some bead stuff (of course). The bracelet was made on the first Friday of crafting (when I bought my first bead mix), the two necklaces were made at around 4am when my friend was here, when all my brain was still able to do was put beads on string.
I actually made these necklaces to fit my wardrobe (...). Yes, it's come that far. :P The violet and light pink pearl thingie (pearls!) should go well with a new jumper I bought (these nice plastic bead pearls were bought in London, so they're cool, plus filled with fond memories, that's my excuse) and the black and blue lovely thing will go, well, with all my black and blue things (of which I have a lot, hehe).
Ok, and the last for today doesn't actually fit in with 'finished' projects because, well, they're just sort of drafts in actual existence (right?). I was just playing around and am not very sure of them, also, I don't wear earrings myself (no matter what kind I try, my ears just don't like them :-/) - if they were for me they'd probably finished quite fast.
I like them both. Sadly I have only one of the leaves, else I could make a pair which I would at least try to put in my ear, even if I'd have to take them out again immediately. I also like the other one, weird plastic thingie with some small pearly beady strings. I could call it Urban Trash Glamour or something weird like that. Maybe I could actually make a bag charm or somesuch like this. I'd have no hesitations whatsoever to put stuff on my bags! :D
Well, that's two posts for today, and oddly enough I am getting tired around midnight again, which is good. I'll hopefully continue with a holiday report and some assorted other stuff tomorrow. :)
My name's Sam
It was the first Saturday of my new found energy for crafting (following the Friday of Reawakening). It was late. I was tired. I was also lonely, and felt quite fed up with whatever. And because the blues did not go away, I had to make this lovely blue rabbit. Meet Sammy:
He came into being thanks to kwoozy's incredibly simple and lovely pattern, and he looks the way he does because 1) My only sewing skill is sewing slightly wonky straight lines 2) I chose stretchy velvet for this masterpiece (where not even straight lines go straight anymore) 3) and I will blame the rest on tiredness. :P
He only received his eyes and nose yesterday evening when I finally convinced myself that it couldn't get any worse, and lo and behold, his face turned out rather cute! (If you're looking from the front that is.)
For the sake of completeness I took a picture from the side. Kwoozy, this is what I talked about when I called him a humpbacked bunny-seal hybrid...
For some reason, his back legs are only half there! Dang the machine that ate my fabric! I want to make another one (or more?) and next time I will definitely use simple, non-stretchy cotton, and might also forsake the sewing machine and hope for better luck using my hands.
I think I have to add this: He may look funny, and I may poke fun at him and myself, but I really love this little thingie. My first handmade stuffed animal. <3 He's now watching over me when I sleep (since he received his eyes yesterday, no good watching when eyeless), and I will see his friendly face every time I wake up. :)
Btw, Sammy's name came about because the German word for velvet is Samt.
He came into being thanks to kwoozy's incredibly simple and lovely pattern, and he looks the way he does because 1) My only sewing skill is sewing slightly wonky straight lines 2) I chose stretchy velvet for this masterpiece (where not even straight lines go straight anymore) 3) and I will blame the rest on tiredness. :P
He only received his eyes and nose yesterday evening when I finally convinced myself that it couldn't get any worse, and lo and behold, his face turned out rather cute! (If you're looking from the front that is.)
For the sake of completeness I took a picture from the side. Kwoozy, this is what I talked about when I called him a humpbacked bunny-seal hybrid...
For some reason, his back legs are only half there! Dang the machine that ate my fabric! I want to make another one (or more?) and next time I will definitely use simple, non-stretchy cotton, and might also forsake the sewing machine and hope for better luck using my hands.
I think I have to add this: He may look funny, and I may poke fun at him and myself, but I really love this little thingie. My first handmade stuffed animal. <3 He's now watching over me when I sleep (since he received his eyes yesterday, no good watching when eyeless), and I will see his friendly face every time I wake up. :)
Btw, Sammy's name came about because the German word for velvet is Samt.
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