Friday food photo
After working way too much during the last weeks, it was time for some photo therapy! I have to admit that I combined aubergine and pumpkin just because of their colors, but with some Ras el-Hanout,...
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I had a great breakfast meeting with Barbara this week, and one of the topics we had was the determination of who we are. One of her business clients had called her a 'professional freak' and we loved...
View ArticleMacro monday supershortfilm
Much more amazing pictures from the beautiful macro world you'll find here -mehr Bilder aus der wunderschönen Macrowelt gibt es hier:bei SteffiMacro Monday I heart macro
View ArticleTravel log: Venice at sunrise
Hard to believe, but just a few weeks ago, we were in Venice. We stayed in a small fisher's town about an hour from Venice. So when we got up around 5 am, we managed to be right in time in one of the...
View Articlenewest addiction
I found a new way to keep myself from concentrating on my tax documents. I came across boldomatic a few days ago, but was too busy. But yesterday during my lecture about selfmarketing, I fully realized...
View Article(No) Friday food photo
One should assume that I ate last week. Well I did, but I didn't even have time to take a picture. I even missed the national chocolate day on october 28th - but here are at least two pictures from our...
View ArticleLines and grids (along the Rhine)
Robin blogged an absolutely great 'architectural tour around Manhattan' this week - it was hard not to jump into the next plane to NYC.This is one of the most thrilling areas in Cologne when it's about...
View ArticleMoments of Zen
Yesterday, I drove 600 kilometers to spend a day in Baden-Baden on a fair. Lots of people, lots of impressions, lots of conversations. So today, I took my bike, my camera and shut down my brain for a...
View ArticleTravel log: Rialto market, Venice
We not only wanted to see Venice in the early morning light, we also wanted to see the Rialto market without hordes of tourists. In the end, we arrived at the market around 6 am, and the marketeers...
View ArticleWednesday patterns
I'm too late with my leaf patterns for Michaela's pattern Wednesday - leaves were last month's topic. But I wanted to combine Pop Art wallpaper patterns with Victorian dresses for a while, and I added...
View ArticleTypo Thursday
I love: letters, numbers, typo. Thus, vintage measung tapes are kind of pure joy. Plus, they tell stories: on the back side are ads from the Seventies for low fat margarine or extra narrow washing...
View ArticleFriday food photo: Rialto market, Venice
Just now, literally all my plans for next week were nixed in a minute. What always calms me down is food and cooking, so guess what I'm doing now. While my tomatoes gently are roasting in my pan, I'll...
View ArticleSaturday night: nachtkonsum, Ehrenfeld
A fleemarket, at night, in a large hall. You have to line up and to pay an entrance fee. This needs getting used to, and somehow, I didn't. I liked the ambience, but I don't have to come back. Anyway,...
View ArticleNew work
Somehow, I rarely show the things I'm creating in Judith's studio. Here's a new series of tea mugs._____Irgendwie komme ich nie dazu zu zeigen, was ich bei Judith im Keramikatelier mache. Hier ist eine...
View ArticleMacro monday
Much more amazing pictures from the beautiful macro world you'll find here -mehr Bilder aus der wunderschönen Macrowelt gibt es hier:bei SteffiMacro Monday I heart macro
View ArticleTravel log: sunset in Pellestrine, Italy
A place I fell for at first sight: Pellestrine, just an hour away from Venice. We saw a lady carrying a deck chair to the promenade for watching the sunset. I easily can imagine spending my evenings...
View Articlenot NYC
When I posted about the crane houses recently, Karen - quite rightly - commented that Cologne is nice, but not NYC. Now I'm using '#notNYC' as a hashtag on my tumblr blog and love it: it inspires me...
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