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Mother of a 21 year old daughter and a full time secretary.
I love decorating my little cottage and my small garden and just being creative in my spare time. All photos I post here are taken by myself, please don't use them without permission.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
1:01 PM
Let's get cosy


I love beeing able to stay at home all day long and lighting up lots of candles, drinking a hot cup of aromatic tea and listening to Bing Crosby's christmas songs at this dark time of the year. Oh how I'm looking forward to the weekend!


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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
11:21 AM
Today it's time

for another glimpse into my home



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Monday, November 28, 2005
10:48 AM
Indoor decoration



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Sunday, November 27, 2005
12:27 PM
1st of Advent

This my kind of advent wreath.


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Saturday, November 26, 2005
11:12 PM
First snow!

Yesterday afternoon I was hanging my "Let it snow" wood sign at the front door and believe it or not it has worked :D

See:


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Friday, November 25, 2005
12:22 PM
Office decoration



I've made these (amongst other decorations like an x-mas tree) for the office today.


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Thursday, November 24, 2005
3:35 PM
A little decoration


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3:29 PM
Gift wrapping

This was mums present for our friend, I just had to take a picture of it because it looked so lovely.


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Wednesday, November 23, 2005
12:15 PM
Impression


of my friends winter garden


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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
3:07 PM
Frosty Bird


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2:39 PM
x-mas stockings


I popped out my x-mas stockings last week and left them on a basket, when I saw them yesterday I suddenly thought that they would look good on a photo, just like this, lying on the basket, what do you think? I've just been to lazy to hang them up on my stairs just yet.


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Monday, November 21, 2005
6:31 PM
I've got mail!

These are all the postcards I've got so far from the swap. A big thank you goes out to Julie/USA, Wendy/Scotland (for all two cards :D), Robyn/Australia, Peggy/USA, Brandy/USA, Melissa/USA and Kali/Australia!


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10:34 AM
Windows



I've shot these window photos at our friends cottage this last weekend.



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Sunday, November 20, 2005
9:30 PM
I'm back from my trip


Hello I'm back from the trip to see our friends. We've had a very good time and these are all my little treasures, that I've brought home :D Some things I've crafted, some things I got as presents from our dear friend and some I bought in Schleswig and Kappeln, like the stickers, the cards, the golden stamp and the red christmas tin sign. I even sewed some hearts, normally sewing isn't my favourite thing to do, but sitting all together and crafting and chatting was really fun.

And my two Angels have got a new friend, the bottom one, crafted by my friend and partly by myself:




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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
12:58 PM
A Christmas/Winter Collage

Click on it to enlarge the photo! It's fun doing Christmas Collages. I'ts already my second one and I'm currently working on my third one. I'm thinking about giving one of them as gift to our dear friend that we're going to visit tomorrow.

And that's what it looks like when I took the pic with flash, all cold and frosty, doesn't it?


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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
11:45 AM
Don't you just love it

to open your boxes with all the christmas treasures that you have collected over the years? I certainly enjoy it every year. Here are a few of mine:





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Monday, November 14, 2005
12:08 PM
Saved from the frost!


Yep they say it'll freeze at night this week! I'm glad my garden is prepared!


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Sunday, November 13, 2005
10:17 AM
I'm getting in x-mas mood!



We've started with the x-mas/winter decoration outside yesterday. Oh I love that! I'm away for a few days next week/weekend, so I had to begin this weekend in order to be prepared for the first of advent on November 27th.


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Friday, November 11, 2005
10:23 AM
More of Mum's garden decoration

because I like the photos and I think they are worth to show them.


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Thursday, November 10, 2005
10:45 AM
It's complete!

Here they are, the last four pages of my first altered book, no more blank pages left!

It has 52 pages! :D Now I'll have to think about a possibility to close it, because it's very thick. Maybe I'll have to drill a hole in it for a ribbon or even some kind of a lock.


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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
11:22 AM
Everything is ready and prepared for the winter!

Bulbs are planted, leaves are recycled, birdhouses and birdfeedinghouses are clean and ready, plants are wrapped up warm or ready to bring them in quickly. My heat has been repaired this morning. The winter can come! But instead my hyancinthus is starting to blossom again because it is still warm.




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Tuesday, November 08, 2005
11:25 AM
Fall through the kitchen window


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Monday, November 07, 2005
12:58 PM
Beautiful Butterfly in November!

The Admiral (that is how we do call him here) finally came to visit my garden yesterday. I've been waiting for him the whole summer and he comes in November. He was late, but I was so happy that he finally came. It was another warm and sunny fall day yesterday and I followed him with my camera through the garden. Here is the result :D







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Sunday, November 06, 2005
6:13 PM
New Altered Book Collage

"Garden Days"

Yep it's b&w again!

If you wanna see it bigger just click on the pic.


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9:51 AM
Mum's autumn/fall decoration



Does that need any words?


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9:43 AM
Oh my luve



"Oh my luve's like a red red rose"

I think Robert Burns must have talked about a rose like this in his beautiful poem.


P.S.: I took this photo in my parents house.


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Thursday, November 03, 2005
10:08 AM
Time for another glimpse ;-)



This is another corner of my livingroom with open kitchen.


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Wednesday, November 02, 2005
3:47 PM
Dedicated to a friend


I dedicate these two pages of my altered book to my dear friend Gerlinde, who has drawn the cards for me!

If you click on the picture you can see a bigger version.


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Tuesday, November 01, 2005
2:04 PM
Message for Zephyr!

Vicki if you read this - just to let you know - I've been visiting your blog (signed in to typepad first) and tried to comment yesterday and today, but it doesn't work. I love your fall pictures and the new one with the blue water in the background looks superb!


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1:33 PM
Landscape impressions

Alice from Australia @ http://heathhill.blogspot.com/ has e-mailed me that she would like to see photos of Bremen and our landscape, so I thought to post some from time to time.

This is where we've had a nice walk on sunday:





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1:18 PM
It's November,

which at least here in Germany normally is a really dark and wet month. But with all the creative things I have to do this month, I'm sure it will pass very fast. I'am in Robyn's christmas collage swap :D and my swap partner is Ainslie from http://www.suburbansider.squarespace.com/ I'm looking forward to do the collage for her and to get one for the first time even more! Then I have to finish things in the garden and to start decorate it for winter/christmas and then decorate the house too. I love doing that! And last but not least I'm going on a little creative voyage with my sister and my mum from 17th until 20th November and I'm looking forward to that one too of course. We're going to see good friends in the country side of Schleswig Holstein, where it is always lovely. It's the first time my sister can make a journey whithout her kids. She deserves it!


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