Thursday, August 31, 2006
11:06 AM
Window shopping in Bremen
At first we have a clothes and accessories shop:
Then my favorite, a toy shop, I think Ulla would like this shop too, already for their gorgeous carrousels and doll house furnitures etc.:
Then a This & That shop:
and a gorgeous old fashioned sweets shop:
Then a lovely tin & enamel shop, all you can buy there is made out of tin, like signs, boxes etc.:
a tourist & souvenir shop, where you can by mementos of Bremen
a doll shops with puppets on a string etc.
and a tea shop with some fairies and christmas bubbles etc.
That's it for today, there are many more gorgeous shops in the "Schnoor Quarter", but I couldn't take pictures of all of them. What would you like to buy?
posted by Carol @ 11:06 AM
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
11:37 AM
Bremen's historic "Schnoor Quarter"
posted by Carol @ 11:37 AM
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
9:51 AM
Bremen, the German city where I live
This last weekend my cousin from Toronto, Canada came to see us with his son and he also wanted to see our historic town center, so we went there on Sunday and I did the tourist thing for you and did lots of photos, because I thought that maybe some of you would like to see it as well.
Bremen is a very old Hanseatic city, constituted in the 8th century. It is a port city, situated along the river Weser, about 50 km south from its outflow into the North Sea. Bremen is one of two towns belonging to the state of Bremen (official name: Freie Hansestadt Bremen (Free Hanseatic City of Bremen), referring to its membership in the medieval Hanseatic League), the other being Bremerhaven. Population: 663.000. The metropolitan area (Bremen-Oldenburg) has a population more than 2,37 million.
I best start with pictures of our medieval town/city hall being build in the 13th century and being restored in the 15th century and then constantly until today. It's the only European city hall that has never been destroyed and it belongs to the "UNESCO World Cultural Heritage" because it's absolutely unique and authentic. 
It has a lot of fascinating details, so I zoomed in the picture to show you some:
Isn't it gorgeous? Medieval people have had so much more imagination in building houses than nowadays! Here is another picture from the left side:
and these fellows, I'm sure you all know them, are standing at the left side of our city hall:
Ignore the people please, there are always people taking their pictures with the "Bremer Stadtmusikanten" (The town musicians of Bremen) because of the famous fairy tale written by the Grimm Brothers.
This is our Cathedral, called the "St. Petri Dom" build in the 13th century. It has a so called plumb basement (Bleikeller) where plump for the roof top works has been stored and dead people, like a roofer who fall of the roof top during his works in the 14th century can now be seen as a mummy, preserved through the plump containing air in the cellar. Spooky!
Okay, looks like blogger won't let me post anymore pictures in this post *rolls eyes*. So I'm going to post more about my medieval home town in one of my next posts if you like.
posted by Carol @ 9:51 AM
Thursday, August 24, 2006
12:49 PM
Studio Friday
The question of studio friday http://www.tinesparkles.squarespace.com/studio-friday-drop-off-zone-/this week is who everyone takes their inspiration from - an artist of traditional media, multimedia, craft world, living or dead.
Well for me there are two artists on the net that are inspiring me with no end!
One it the fabulous "Pamela Garrison" http://pamgarrison.typepad.com/ to whom I have already dedicated my last post!
And the other one is the miraculous "Ulla" http://ullam.typepad.com/ullabenulla/
who has inspired me to try different things like for example the papier marché theatre easter eggs I've posted in march.
So I wanna thank them both very much for sharing their wonderful art and ideas with us and for encouraging us to go and try to make our own kind of art!
posted by Carol @ 12:49 PM
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
1:26 PM
The upside of the rainy weather
is that one can do other things than gardening or relaxing in the garden for a change. On Sunday, a very rainy day, I have rediscovered my other creative side and have created a new collage. I've had a break from collage for a few months, but I've kept collecting papers, fibers, brads, stamps, ideas, inspirations etc.. Seeing that I have this obsession for birds, nests and eggs for a long time now it was clear to me that this would be the theme for the first collage in my new crafting corner upstairs in my loft room. So this is what I came up with and I hope that you'll like it:
and for a closer look:
Another thing I've tried to do a few weeks ago was a banner because seeing all the lovely banners for example at Pam Garrisons inspirational site http://pamgarrison.typepad.com/ and also from her article in the last Somerset studio zine I wanted to own one too. The only problem is that I can't sew so I've created this little banner from cardboard:
I know it's nowhere as gorgeous as Pam's, but bear with me please because I'm just a beginner! At least it was fun to work on!
posted by Carol @ 1:26 PM
Monday, August 21, 2006
11:04 AM
A garden overview for Sue!
Sue has sent me lovely e-mails with photos of her London city flat with a gorgeous ickle patio and garden (where she lives with her husband, a dog and 3 cats, one of them looks like our Sammy!) and of her country cottage in New Forest, Hampshire where she has created a delightful garden from what was a field before. Unfortunately she has no time for an own blog at the moment. In all her e-mails she wrote how much she likes to see views of my garden. Well my garden is quite small so it has not to many views but here are a few up-to-date shots of my terrace and back yard. So Sue here is for you and of course everyone else who likes to see more views of my garden:
posted by Carol @ 11:04 AM
Saturday, August 19, 2006
12:44 AM
New rose book and ripe grapes
First of all I wanna show you my favorite shot of the week:
And then I like to show you some pictures of my new rose book which is full of lovely photos, tips, recipes and creative ideas with roses. My friend and neighbor Ulla gave that to me as a gift because I have watered her garden and fed her cat while she was in vacation. I haven't expected such a lovely gift and I like it a lot! :D
And because some of you liked my little bird feeder with grapes in my last post so much, I took a photo of one of my birdhouses, also with grapes:
This is what the Geranium (Pelargonia) in the above photo looks like close up, the color is perfect, don't you think?
and this is a close up photo of the grapes in the birdhouse photo. I think they also look perfect now:
Have a wonderful and relaxing weekend dear readers (or in my case I should better say watchers, because I don't write too much) and blogging friends and neighbors!
posted by Carol @ 12:44 AM
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
11:22 AM
A few more shots
posted by Carol @ 11:22 AM
Monday, August 14, 2006
10:59 AM
This and that
from my weekend.
First off all I've got such nice mail from Joy on Friday. She has sent me a lovely handmade, collaged card and an ATC to thank me for her pink swap parcel. Joy thanks a lot, I really appreciate that you took the time to write me and I like your art very much! :D
Then I have a new Sammy picture to share, which my daughter took:
And this is what I've got myself from a voucher that I had won in our garden center, it's a bit autumn/fall like already, but that's how feel too, although we've had quite nice weather this last weekend with temperatures around 21 deegree celsius and we could even sit outside for barbeque in the evening:
and a beautiful new Echeveria:
a regular garden visitor:
a turqoise/aqua impression:
and an evening impression:
I've had a really nice weekend and I hope you too!
posted by Carol @ 10:59 AM
Thursday, August 10, 2006
10:46 AM
Second array of roses
My "Rokoko" rose is flowering for the second time now, yeah!
so is my David Austin "Heritage" rose
I've just had to cut some to take them inside, because the weather is quite cool and rainy at the moment, really autumn/fall like
Cosmos is blooming quite well now:
so are my Morning Glories:
Other roses are getting fresh sprouts and buds now, well I guess the summer will come back again sooner or later.
posted by Carol @ 10:46 AM
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
10:51 AM
Another day, another swap!
The Pink Swap!This delightful swap, as posted before, was organised by Sandy from Arttealife.blogspot.com and I enjoyed participating very much! Yesterday I found my gorgeous swap parcel from my dear Australian blogging friend Mrs. Robyn on the stairs in front of my house when I came home from work. I knew at once that it was the pink swap parcel, because it was packed in pink paper! What a joy do receive such a parcel! Here are all the goodies:
I could't take single photos of everything this time, because my batteries went low, but I think one can see all the lovely things quite well on this picture. There is a big pink and white tea towel, very elegant pink garden gloves, a crotcheted doily, a rose scenting soap bar, two pink bath lotions, an enchanting little tarte form and a beautiful vintage card called "The pink of perfection" and a self made pink tag. I like it very much and I'm going to use it all Robyn and I'm very thankful for your friendship and generosity. Oh I just love 2 swap! xox
posted by Carol @ 10:51 AM
Saturday, August 05, 2006
11:28 AM
More of mum's garden
As requested by Maria I'd like to show you some more pictures taken in my mum's garden :
I love my mum's Phlox, it's perfectly clean white and fresh:
You can click on the following pic to see it in a bigger version:
Of course she also has a wonderful pink Phlox:
As beautiful and perfect as the Phlox grows in her garden, the many different hydrangeas do too, I love this light pink one:
Here is another picture of it that blogger won't show at the mo *rollseyes*:
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/6301/mumshortensie2mp4.jpg
This is a blue hydrangea together with the white sort "Annabelle" in her frontgarden:
and here are some flowers from her patio/terrace:
posted by Carol @ 11:28 AM
Thursday, August 03, 2006
2:57 PM
Why?
Oops, for some reason blogger has moved my profile, links and archives all the way down to the bottom of the page!
posted by Carol @ 2:57 PM
I'm so happy because I've finally got my bird swap package from Cerri, USA yesterday :D ! She has got me the prettiest vintage things! Oh Cerri what a treat you've totally spoiled me and it's all so lovely and was definitely worth the long wait! It must have taken you ages to get that all together for me. You just have the coolest stuff in th US, started already by the beautiful pink paper and paper tinsel the parcel was filled with.Thanks a million dear Cerri! xoxP.S. The swap was kindly organised by Delila of http//sepia-art-studio.typepad.com blog btw!
Here are some detail pictures:A lovely bird card:
A vintage japanese tea cup filled with yummy tea bags (and those cute little card board doves):
3 beautiful, big, vintage bird cards, that I'm planning to use for collage art tied together with a lovely vintage lace ribbon:
These gorgeous, vintage bluebird buttons:
An enchanting little porcelain bird:
A cute little bird stamp and a couple of hand made tags pulled together with lovely pink ribbon and flower:
Teeny, tiny little eggs in a little fabric bag with a nice vintage label:
A hand sewn fabric bird:
Vintage wood birds with a little bottle of glass glitter to glue on them (they also came in such a wee fabric bag with vintage label)
http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/8687/woodbirdsglitteric7.jpg
Blogger won't let me show the last photo, so that's why I've posted the URL
posted by Carol @ 1:40 PM
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
10:07 AM
What's blooming
in my garden in the summer month of August?
Well there is the Phlox in the border:
and another new Phlox:
Anemone hupehensis:
Deliciously scenting Sweet peas "Matucana"
another Penstemon:
and still Echninacea purpurea
Campanula medium blooming for the second time:
Cosmos, Roses etc. in the big border:
posted by Carol @ 10:07 AM
Thursday, August 31, 2006
11:06 AM
At first we have a clothes and accessories shop:Then my favorite, a toy shop, I think Ulla would like this shop too, already for their gorgeous carrousels and doll house furnitures etc.:Then a This & That shop: and a gorgeous old fashioned sweets shop:
Then a lovely tin & enamel shop, all you can buy there is made out of tin, like signs, boxes etc.:
a tourist & souvenir shop, where you can by mementos of Bremen
a doll shops with puppets on a string etc.
and a tea shop with some fairies and christmas bubbles etc.
That's it for today, there are many more gorgeous shops in the "Schnoor Quarter", but I couldn't take pictures of all of them. What would you like to buy?
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
11:37 AM
9:51 AM
This last weekend my cousin from Toronto, Canada came to see us with his son and he also wanted to see our historic town center, so we went there on Sunday and I did the tourist thing for you and did lots of photos, because I thought that maybe some of you would like to see it as well.
Bremen is a very old Hanseatic city, constituted in the 8th century. It is a port city, situated along the river Weser, about 50 km south from its outflow into the North Sea. Bremen is one of two towns belonging to the state of Bremen (official name: Freie Hansestadt Bremen (Free Hanseatic City of Bremen), referring to its membership in the medieval Hanseatic League), the other being Bremerhaven. Population: 663.000. The metropolitan area (Bremen-Oldenburg) has a population more than 2,37 million.
I best start with pictures of our medieval town/city hall being build in the 13th century and being restored in the 15th century and then constantly until today. It's the only European city hall that has never been destroyed and it belongs to the "UNESCO World Cultural Heritage" because it's absolutely unique and authentic. It has a lot of fascinating details, so I zoomed in the picture to show you some:
Isn't it gorgeous? Medieval people have had so much more imagination in building houses than nowadays! Here is another picture from the left side:
and these fellows, I'm sure you all know them, are standing at the left side of our city hall:
Ignore the people please, there are always people taking their pictures with the "Bremer Stadtmusikanten" (The town musicians of Bremen) because of the famous fairy tale written by the Grimm Brothers.
This is our Cathedral, called the "St. Petri Dom" build in the 13th century. It has a so called plumb basement (Bleikeller) where plump for the roof top works has been stored and dead people, like a roofer who fall of the roof top during his works in the 14th century can now be seen as a mummy, preserved through the plump containing air in the cellar. Spooky!
Okay, looks like blogger won't let me post anymore pictures in this post *rolls eyes*. So I'm going to post more about my medieval home town in one of my next posts if you like.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
12:49 PM
The question of studio friday http://www.tinesparkles.squarespace.com/studio-friday-drop-off-zone-/this week is who everyone takes their inspiration from - an artist of traditional media, multimedia, craft world, living or dead.
Well for me there are two artists on the net that are inspiring me with no end!
One it the fabulous "Pamela Garrison" http://pamgarrison.typepad.com/ to whom I have already dedicated my last post!
And the other one is the miraculous "Ulla" http://ullam.typepad.com/ullabenulla/
who has inspired me to try different things like for example the papier marché theatre easter eggs I've posted in march.
So I wanna thank them both very much for sharing their wonderful art and ideas with us and for encouraging us to go and try to make our own kind of art!
1:26 PM
is that one can do other things than gardening or relaxing in the garden for a change. On Sunday, a very rainy day, I have rediscovered my other creative side and have created a new collage. I've had a break from collage for a few months, but I've kept collecting papers, fibers, brads, stamps, ideas, inspirations etc.. Seeing that I have this obsession for birds, nests and eggs for a long time now it was clear to me that this would be the theme for the first collage in my new crafting corner upstairs in my loft room. So this is what I came up with and I hope that you'll like it:
and for a closer look:
Another thing I've tried to do a few weeks ago was a banner because seeing all the lovely banners for example at Pam Garrisons inspirational site http://pamgarrison.typepad.com/ and also from her article in the last Somerset studio zine I wanted to own one too. The only problem is that I can't sew so I've created this little banner from cardboard:
I know it's nowhere as gorgeous as Pam's, but bear with me please because I'm just a beginner! At least it was fun to work on!
11:04 AM
Sue has sent me lovely e-mails with photos of her London city flat with a gorgeous ickle patio and garden (where she lives with her husband, a dog and 3 cats, one of them looks like our Sammy!) and of her country cottage in New Forest, Hampshire where she has created a delightful garden from what was a field before. Unfortunately she has no time for an own blog at the moment. In all her e-mails she wrote how much she likes to see views of my garden. Well my garden is quite small so it has not to many views but here are a few up-to-date shots of my terrace and back yard. So Sue here is for you and of course everyone else who likes to see more views of my garden:
Saturday, August 19, 2006
12:44 AM
First of all I wanna show you my favorite shot of the week:
And then I like to show you some pictures of my new rose book which is full of lovely photos, tips, recipes and creative ideas with roses. My friend and neighbor Ulla gave that to me as a gift because I have watered her garden and fed her cat while she was in vacation. I haven't expected such a lovely gift and I like it a lot! :D
And because some of you liked my little bird feeder with grapes in my last post so much, I took a photo of one of my birdhouses, also with grapes:
This is what the Geranium (Pelargonia) in the above photo looks like close up, the color is perfect, don't you think?
and this is a close up photo of the grapes in the birdhouse photo. I think they also look perfect now:
Have a wonderful and relaxing weekend dear readers (or in my case I should better say watchers, because I don't write too much) and blogging friends and neighbors!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
11:22 AM
10:59 AM
from my weekend.
First off all I've got such nice mail from Joy on Friday. She has sent me a lovely handmade, collaged card and an ATC to thank me for her pink swap parcel. Joy thanks a lot, I really appreciate that you took the time to write me and I like your art very much! :D Then I have a new Sammy picture to share, which my daughter took:
And this is what I've got myself from a voucher that I had won in our garden center, it's a bit autumn/fall like already, but that's how feel too, although we've had quite nice weather this last weekend with temperatures around 21 deegree celsius and we could even sit outside for barbeque in the evening:
and a beautiful new Echeveria:
a regular garden visitor:
a turqoise/aqua impression:
and an evening impression:
I've had a really nice weekend and I hope you too!
Thursday, August 10, 2006
10:46 AM
My "Rokoko" rose is flowering for the second time now, yeah! so is my David Austin "Heritage" rose
I've just had to cut some to take them inside, because the weather is quite cool and rainy at the moment, really autumn/fall like
Cosmos is blooming quite well now:
so are my Morning Glories:
Other roses are getting fresh sprouts and buds now, well I guess the summer will come back again sooner or later.
10:51 AM
The Pink Swap!This delightful swap, as posted before, was organised by Sandy from Arttealife.blogspot.com and I enjoyed participating very much! Yesterday I found my gorgeous swap parcel from my dear Australian blogging friend Mrs. Robyn on the stairs in front of my house when I came home from work. I knew at once that it was the pink swap parcel, because it was packed in pink paper! What a joy do receive such a parcel! Here are all the goodies:
I could't take single photos of everything this time, because my batteries went low, but I think one can see all the lovely things quite well on this picture. There is a big pink and white tea towel, very elegant pink garden gloves, a crotcheted doily, a rose scenting soap bar, two pink bath lotions, an enchanting little tarte form and a beautiful vintage card called "The pink of perfection" and a self made pink tag. I like it very much and I'm going to use it all Robyn and I'm very thankful for your friendship and generosity. Oh I just love 2 swap! xox
Saturday, August 05, 2006
11:28 AM
As requested by Maria I'd like to show you some more pictures taken in my mum's garden : I love my mum's Phlox, it's perfectly clean white and fresh:
You can click on the following pic to see it in a bigger version:
Of course she also has a wonderful pink Phlox:
As beautiful and perfect as the Phlox grows in her garden, the many different hydrangeas do too, I love this light pink one:
Here is another picture of it that blogger won't show at the mo *rollseyes*:
http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/6301/mumshortensie2mp4.jpg
This is a blue hydrangea together with the white sort "Annabelle" in her frontgarden:
and here are some flowers from her patio/terrace:
Thursday, August 03, 2006
2:57 PM
Oops, for some reason blogger has moved my profile, links and archives all the way down to the bottom of the page!
1:40 PM
I'm so happy because I've finally got my bird swap package from Cerri, USA yesterday :D ! She has got me the prettiest vintage things! Oh Cerri what a treat you've totally spoiled me and it's all so lovely and was definitely worth the long wait! It must have taken you ages to get that all together for me. You just have the coolest stuff in th US, started already by the beautiful pink paper and paper tinsel the parcel was filled with.Thanks a million dear Cerri! xoxP.S. The swap was kindly organised by Delila of http//sepia-art-studio.typepad.com blog btw!
Here are some detail pictures:A lovely bird card:
A vintage japanese tea cup filled with yummy tea bags (and those cute little card board doves):
3 beautiful, big, vintage bird cards, that I'm planning to use for collage art tied together with a lovely vintage lace ribbon:
These gorgeous, vintage bluebird buttons:
An enchanting little porcelain bird:
A cute little bird stamp and a couple of hand made tags pulled together with lovely pink ribbon and flower:
Teeny, tiny little eggs in a little fabric bag with a nice vintage label:
A hand sewn fabric bird:
Vintage wood birds with a little bottle of glass glitter to glue on them (they also came in such a wee fabric bag with vintage label)
http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/8687/woodbirdsglitteric7.jpg
Blogger won't let me show the last photo, so that's why I've posted the URL
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
10:07 AM
in my garden in the summer month of August?
Well there is the Phlox in the border:
and another new Phlox:
Anemone hupehensis:
Deliciously scenting Sweet peas "Matucana"
another Penstemon:
and still Echninacea purpurea
Campanula medium blooming for the second time:
Cosmos, Roses etc. in the big border:
