Joining Soulemama today for (this moment): A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
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Freitag, 12. April 2013
Sonntag, 17. Februar 2013
Honoring our bellies - Weekending
Things are getting back to normal around here. We are back in Cologne, Aaron is alive and kicking as usual, only I am still fighting a cold still but our energy levels are definatly reloaded. Just about in time to do some last baby preparation activities.
When I was very pregnant with Aaron my friends daughter painted a wonderful dragon on my belly so we wanted to keep up that painting tradition and came back together for it again today. Only today we had a few more participants.
I absolutly adore the coloring pencils we used this time. They are Aarons normal pencils he uses to draw with a lot on paper. Giving them a little water turns them into water colors though. Size and shape are perfect for little (and big) hands, they never break and last forever. Genius, really! ( And I am not getting any money for saying this ;-) ) For belly painting you just dip the top in water and off you go! Just wipe it off with a wet cloth any time from the skin and if any color got into our clothes just give them a normal wash. No mess what so ever!
I hope you recognize the beautiful butterfly on my belly. Aaron got a fire brigade because he loves the "tutatata" as he calles the blue light hooter nowadays. My friends daughter wanted a flower herself and her brother (and my godson) asked for a monster truck... I tell you we had a very busy and funny sunday afternoon. How has been your weekend?
Joing Amanda from "the habit of being" for weekending
Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2012
Same, same but different...
Für die richtigen Tassen habe ich mir dann bei Pinterest noch viel Inspiration geholt. Und bin dann auch fündig geworden. Leider kann ich für das Bild keine Quelle finden, da der Link nicht funktioniert, sonst hätte ich gerne dem Urheber Kredit gezollt.
Vor dem entgültigen Design habe ich noch viel herumprobiert und mit Farben experimentiert. Letztlich ist das Türkis mit dem Marker entstanden, das Grau aus Schwarz-Weiß Mischungen aus dem Töpfchen mit Farben die ich noch hatte:
Mal sehen, vielleicht stelle ich mir so nach und nach ein ganzes Service zusammen...
P.S. Not joining Ginnys for Yarn Along today, since there was not a lot of knitting going on last week. Instead I designed my own mugs. I am still dreaming of my own, hand pottered dishes, maybe one day I will own it but until then I want to at least serve coffee in simular mugs from now on...
And how do you like this old and redesigned teapot I found in a store for handmade items last week? It looks almost like a doodle with a marker and it's brilliant I think! I really have to start looking for plain thrifted dishware.
Mittwoch, 21. März 2012
Yarn Along - Spring Blessings
Knittin and reading. My favourite things to complete a perfect day. So I am joining Ginny on Wednesdays for Yarn Along to share my passions with you. Come and join in if you like!
Despite having attended my grandmothers funeral last weekend there has still been enough time and peace for some knitting. Spending time with my mum always means there is time to knit, time to be creative. I found some funny things she has come up with over the last month, like this cosy knitted lamp shade. Made with her own handspun yarn of course... I did sign up for some privat spinning classes with her during the easter holidays, I can't wait! Especially since I have found this great spinning inspirations here (in German, but its worth it just checking out the images!)
How is my own knitting doing? Well, there are still some sheep to be sent off... and there are a few babies due this summer, so I started a kicking bag like this one with that handdyed organic yarn I showed you last time.
And somehow blogging is bringing me back to my roots it seems. I started to rediscover all that Waldorf stuff from my childhood. I feel like I never really appreciated it enough when I was a child, it had always just been there, for granted. Now, having my own child and wanting to provide for him the best, I return to what my mum used to do for us. Being at her place I explore all her books and find lots of inspiration there. Like the seasonal corner. I really want to get into that and make some sweet little dolls so I can prepare a small corner in our house that features the season outside. Btw, Marta is showing a very sweet daffodil doll here this week. So thats what the book "Jahrenzeitentische" is all about. Here you can find an English version of that book.
In one of my mums magazins I also found an amazing articel about wool art (not felted). How do you like the shepherds mobile and that beautiful fairy? I am in love!
Our beautiful calender made it official, "Frühlingsanfang", yesterday spring has started!
And spring it was over here with lots of sun and flowers:
Yesterday I was fortunate to get paid for spending a day contemplating. (Being a protestant,) I work as a social worker for the Caritas, a catholic social service organisation. One of the benefits of working for Caritas is that we get some extra (paid) time off every year for contemplation, bible rounds and days in a monastery etc. I love to use that offer to find some peace within the rush of the week. And yesterday was one of those days that I spend with some co-workers talking about blessings. We read some old irish blessings, some bible quotes and we wrote our own blessing. Here is mine, translated into English as good as I could. I wrote it for you so I hope you can feel the blessing.
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Freitag, 10. Februar 2012
{this moment}
Some time back, Soulemama came up with this wonderful tradition:
{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. -
Samstag, 28. Januar 2012
First Art
Inspired by this book, we continued to check out the kitchen shelfs today and came up with something very amazing: aluminium foil. We had a blast! There is so much to do with this stuff, wrapping, squeezing, rolling, picking, hiding, throwing, covering, sculpturing...
Did you know you acctually see light through aluminium foil? I didn't.
And for those of you who might get stomache pain to see the waste of such very hard to recycle material, I know, I though about it too. But then again, its a one time experience for him, I will not let him play with stuff like that everyday. Most of what we played with can be reused in the kitchen ( I need it to cover my baking because our oven is not working quite right).
First Art - the book I was talking about gives lots and lots of ideas for art experiences with toddlers and twos. I am going to show you all of what we play out in the next month, it so much fun!
Edit: Aaron rarely tries to take objects into his mouth, still I had to supervise all his actions in this project carefully as there where small pieces of foil everywhere. So please make sure to be extra cautious!
Edit: Aaron rarely tries to take objects into his mouth, still I had to supervise all his actions in this project carefully as there where small pieces of foil everywhere. So please make sure to be extra cautious!
Samstag, 14. Januar 2012
Knit-Street-Art
I have always been in love with all kinds of street art, be it graffiti, stickers, wood, tapestry, painting, (some) tags, etc. To discover a new, great piece of art at some grey wall or dark corner can really make me happy. In the last month I discovered yet another streetart media: knitting! Lamp posts are suddenly wearing colorful scarfs, traffic lights are showing off the hottest yarn left-over pieces and chains pretend to be soft and cosy cowls... Discovering the latest street fashion is so much fun! Thanks, secret knitters!
And this is what I found today, walking through the streets of Cologne:
Some, not so secret knitters, the Collectiv France Tricot show their street art work here. Unfortunatly (for me) most of it is in french, but the street art pictures don't need any words to impress.
And this is what I found today, walking through the streets of Cologne:
Some, not so secret knitters, the Collectiv France Tricot show their street art work here. Unfortunatly (for me) most of it is in french, but the street art pictures don't need any words to impress.
Donnerstag, 15. Dezember 2011
Leinwand recycled
Dann kamen mir all die alten bemalten Leinwände in den Sinn, die seit Jahren auf dem Schrank verstauben in dem wir unsere Materialen im Bürgerzentrum aufbewahren. Heute, vor der Arbeit, bin ich direkt dort vorbei gefahren und habe sie allesamt mit ins Büro genommen. Und, statt die anstehenden Hilfepläne zu schreiben, habe ich mich dem Recycling gewidmet.
Zuerst empfand ich es als absoluten Frevel in bemalte Leinwände zu schneiden, aber dann fühlte es sich richtig gut an, etwas Neues aus all dem Material zu zaubern.
Hach, und gerade bekomme ich noch ganz viele andere Ideen, was ich mit den verbleibenden Resten der Leinwände machen könnte. Ein tolles Material!!! Ihr dürft gespannt sein...
Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2011
Lebendiger Adventskalender
Sonntag, 13. November 2011
My love for drift wood
Here in Cologne I am very lucky to live near the big river Rhein. After some rainy days you can find great pieces of drift wood along the shore and I love getting inspired by what the river offers. Some examples of what I have done last time:
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