Travel log: Haunted house
One of the places Margot showed me around was an old derelict villa located on the outskirts of Cologne. While I was alone inside of the (admittedly locked) villa, she learned from another visitor that...
View Articleimm: Akademie für Handwerksdesign Gut Rosenberg
One of my favourites each year is Gut Rosenberg, an academy for handcraft design. I loved their minimalistic booth design and the upcycling approach of the work they showed. "Black isn't everything"...
View ArticleThursday inspiration
For a (hopefully upcoming) project I was browsing through my photos from last summer in France. There was a small town with lots of closed shops. But they had kind of street art on the shop windows -...
View ArticleFriday food photo
Those beautiful small onions inspired me to a mediterranean lunch with my son. We had roasted onions, roasted artichokes (with some hot Australian 'Tomato Ketchup for Grownups) feta cheese cream and...
View ArticleChandeliers
Do remember my post about the beautiful chandeliers I had seen in a café? Ellen and I started to create own ones for a new project. Here is my first one - a very small one, but larger ones will...
View ArticleSilent Sunday
Petra Paffenholz just started blogging, and she invented not only a very personal style, but also the 'Silent Sundays'. I love the idea - silent sundays are rare for me. Or I didn't look at them the...
View ArticleMonday morning macro: Typography
I love old glass bottles. Here are some from Italy, nearly a hundred years old. And still beauties ..._____Ich liebe alte Glasflaschen. Hier sind drei aus Italien, fast hundert Jahre alt und immer noch...
View ArticleTravel log: Fühlinger See
After last week's haunted house, the Fühlinger See is located, a wonderful alternative program to scary old ruins. Strictly speaking there are several small lakes close to each other - a huge area,...
View Articleimm: Kreativlabor Innenarchitektur HS Coburg
Well, and this definitely was one of my highlights during the imm interior fair: the creative lab of the interior design academy Coburg. The students not only developed several upcycling products, made...
View ArticleThursday inspiration
The fleemarket saison has begun. Last weekend, I found the first pop-up book I ever had - and how I loved it! It was way too expensive to buy, but I was allowed to take pictures -and theys brought back...
View ArticleFriday food photo: Sorrel
Spring - and finally green is everywhere. I found some sorrel on the market and made a quick detox smoothie with some oranges and kiwi. Tastes best while sitting in the sun!_____Endlich Frühling, und...
View ArticleWeekend projects: Frida
I rarely have free weekends and time for painting, so this is an ongoing uncompleted project. I love this well-known photo of Frida Kahlo (one of my heroines) and I'm trying to make it a large...
View ArticleTravel log: Along the Rhine side, part 1
One of the things I love most here in Cologne is the Rhine, best early in the morning. Sometimes everything looks like painting by Monet ..._____Eines der Dinge, die ich an Köln am meisten liebe ist...
View ArticleFotoausstellung - wer will mitmachen?
Meine Lieben, alle zwei Jahren findet in Köln begleitend zur photokina das "Photoszene-Festival WallPaper" statt. Ellen Muck wird in ihrer Halle eine Gruppenausstellung für 7 Fotografen veranstalten....
View ArticleBusy
For the last days, this was one of my favourite workplaces. I spent a week in Majorca and wrote about 100 pages. It's much easier when the sun is shining and nothing interrupts you. I even choose a...
View ArticleFriday food photo: My kind of place
I spent a wondful working week at Majorca, and one of the highlights was a biking trip to San Servera and it's market (you'll see more during the next days). One of my favourite places was a very...
View ArticleSilent Sunday
Sunday morning at sunrise, is there any time that is more silent and peaceful? I spent the perfect silent hour at the sea side, thinking that like Petra on her blog, I should make every Sunday a silent...
View ArticleMonday evening macro
The last weeks were a bit nerve-racking, but I'm back home again, hoping to have more time for creative things, cooking, taking pictures - and some more sleep. These are three new roommates - and this...
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