Tuesday, October 31, 2006
8:21 PM
HaPpY HaLlOwEeN!
You know we don't really celebrate Halloween here in Germany, but tonight we've had a fair share of "trick or treat" kids ringing at the door and of course we gave them sweets. My daughter has made us this Jack-O-Lantern (with two different sides/faces) out of the pumpkin that I've had for display on my patio table and I've used the content of the pumpkin for a tasty soup. Now we are watching the Halloween episode of Charmed lol so at least we also have had a bit of Halloween feeling tonight! Boo!
~*~*~ Happy Halloween! ~*~*~
posted by Carol @ 8:21 PM
7:50 AM
Cones and banners
So here is what I have produced over the last weekend. I've just recently discovered how much I love making Christmas cones. Oh and look, I'd just about finished it, when a little blue bird came to nest in the aqua colored angel cone :D
A silver cone, very festive, don't you agree?
Another fun thing is making Christmas banners:
What's about you, have you started to craft for Christmas yet (only 7 weeks left btw ;-) ) and will you share your ideas? I for one would love to see them, because I can never get enough inspirations!
P.S.: Btw, while visiting Tea's blog today I saw this cool new counter that she had on her site, where you can see how many people are online and from which country they are. I found this very interesting and had to install one too!
posted by Carol @ 7:50 AM
Saturday, October 28, 2006
11:28 AM
Oops, some missing!
These flip sides were missing, but no chance for me to integrate them in the last post, well that's blogger lol
posted by Carol @ 11:28 AM
11:07 AM
Matchbox Ornaments
posted by Carol @ 11:07 AM
Monday, October 23, 2006
1:51 PM
Butterflies, bouquets and swaps
The butterflies have more or less neglected the flowers in my cottage garden this year, although I've planted some plants and flowers, like the buddleja davidii and sedum autumn joy and phlox etc. just for them (yes okay and because I like them too I admit lol) . Now they are suddenly coming :D they love to drink from my sweet grapes that I have initially left on the vine for the birds to pick and eat. Click on the photos to see the bigger version if you like!
The "Inachis io" (we call it "Tagpfauenauge") is resting on the warm house wall, isn't it perfect?
If you look closer you can see how the "Vanessa atalanta" (we call it "Admiral") is sipping out of the grape like with a straw!
The color of the pansies and of the sedum in the picture below is my fave autumn color:
Seeing how much I love roses and garden bouquets I also had to take a picture of this bouquet in the photo below. It was a present for my mum, all flowers, berries and herbs were picked by our friend in her cottage garden:
I also wanted to share with you my glass vase of "House Doctor" in the next photo. I'm totally in love with the things they design and so happy that they sell their gorgeous goodies in my fave shop "ROSENROT" here in Bremen. I also bought some of House Doctor's gift wrapping paper and gave my mum a few hints about what I would love to get for Christmas and my next b-day he he
Lastly I like to show you the collage below that I have made for a swap with my German friend Nicole of www.smalltreasures.blogspot.com just so that you can see that I'm also creative from time to time ;-)
And for the case that you like to see what I have created, bought and send to my friend Niki from Somerset in return for her lovely, nostalgic rose and magazine swap parcel you can go over and have a look at her blog http://nostalgiaatthestonehouse.blogspot.com/ , she has got her parcel on Friday and has posted great pictures of the content on her beautiful nostalgic blog! :D
posted by Carol @ 1:51 PM
Friday, October 20, 2006
10:32 AM
Short sunny autumn days
Dear bloggers, friends and readers,
after several complaints about my blog taking too long to load I've decided to post pictures not in size BIG anymore, I'll chose size MEDIUM instead, let's see if this helps, I hope so! I know it takes long to load when you are still on a dial up, but normally it should be okay with broadband/fast internet. For me it always loads within a few seconds. Please let me know if you are still experiencing any major loading probs. Thank you!
First of all I wanna thank everyone who has attended my little rose-tea-party, it was such a pleasure to welcome so many of my dear blogging friends and neighbors at the "Boxwood Cottage" ! :D Now let's go and continue the tour through my little cottage garden back yard:
I still have a lot of blooming flowers, the Cosmos on the right in the picture below is a big flowering bush now:
"Augusta" Luise has got two more beautiful and scenting blooms:
I've sowed this Hollyhock for the next season, but it has decided that the time is too long to wait and to flower already right now:
Two birds of a little bird bath which is hanging from my maple tree:
The sedum is kind of glowing in the warm fall sun:
If blogger is nice and likes me today you should be able to enlarge the pictures by clicking on it!Happy weekend to everyone who might pop in here! xox
posted by Carol @ 10:32 AM
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
7:01 PM
Rose tea party and freshly picked flowers
Today I cordially invite you to a *~* Rose Tea Party *~* at the "Boxwood Cottage" tomorrow afternoon to celebrate that I've finally found a name for my little house and garden!
While here can you help me to decide where to put my little white iron table with the green polka dot tin vase filled with fresh picked garden flowers?
Here?
Or better here?
Here isn't that bad either, or?
After that we can go to have a little tour through the garden, starting with the front yard:
More garden tour pictures in my next post! Hope you enjoy your stay at the "Boxwood Cottage"!
posted by Carol @ 7:01 PM
Saturday, October 14, 2006
11:40 PM
Welcome to the Box-Wood Cottage!
Since I've bought it and moved into my little house in February 2005 I was thinking of a pretty name for it. I so love houses and gardens with names, I think it makes them more special and beautiful, don't you think so? But I didn't came up with something really appropriate until I talked it over with a close friend and my mum yesterday. My friend told me that in England it is common to call a terraced house (small row house like mine) situated in the suburbs near to the fields and woods a cottage too because "cottage" just means "small house" or small country house. Well my house is small for sure (it's only 4,50 metres wide) and I live in a very green suburb only 2 minutes away from the fields and woods. Then all of a sudden my mum said that she had a good idea and stated that what I have the most of all in my garden, in the front and also in the back yard, is box wood, so why not call it "Box-Wood Cottage"? Oh my yes, why hasn't that crossed my mind before! I knew at once that's it! My little house has a name :D! *~* Welcome to the "Box-Wood Cottage! *~*
This following picture is from June this year:
So what do you think about houses and names and the name I chose for my little house?
P.S. Blogger is playing up again and won't let me post anymore pictures in this post. You can see more of my box wood pictures in my archives for example on 7th June 2006.
posted by Carol @ 11:40 PM
Friday, October 13, 2006
10:15 AM
Inside decoration etc.!
I've the feeling that I've bored you a bit with all of my garden and flower photos lately so I've decided to show you something else today. I think this glass bowl with dried rose petals of my garden roses has something very photogenic (you can click on the photos to enlarge them!):
So has this small iron-glass table with some glass decoration and an autumnal candle (scenting like baked apple with cinamon) and some tiny rose hips.
We have some close friends staying with us at the moment and my friend has sewed this cushion for me as a gift! :D
She has also gave me all these old books and music sheets etc. from and old oncle of her who has died, which are great to use for collages etc.:
Oh and I'm very happy to tell you that I've got my first issue of portals zine in the mail this week, can't wait to study it.
http://portals-zine.blogspot.com/
posted by Carol @ 10:15 AM
Thursday, October 12, 2006
12:03 PM
Autumnal garden photos
At this time of the year I also like some orange color in my garden, especially combined with blue and purple:
I love pansies and violas in spring as well as in autumn:
These are the last flowers of my "Claude Monet" rose for this year:
The vine grapes in front of my living room window are very sweet and tasty now and I love it when the leaves are getting some reddish color:
This grass is new and also has reddish leaves:
Well, despite of the season my summer flowers are still going strong:
We have wonderful warm fall weather at the moment so I think they will still bloom for some time :D
posted by Carol @ 12:03 PM
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
11:24 AM
All things shiny!
posted by Carol @ 11:24 AM
Thursday, October 05, 2006
9:24 PM
I've got mail!
Oh dear bloggers and readers I just have to share with you my latest marvellous swap parcel. It is a private rose and magazine swap which I'm doing with Niki of the delightsome blog http://nostalgiaatthestonehouse.blogspot.com/ Click on the pictures to enlarge:
All was beautifully packed with gorgeous fabric fibers and little fabric rose heart tags and beautiful rose postcards:
Niki has made me one of her wonderful vintage rose fabric bags with an old postcard in the center and a pretty pin cushion also from vintage rose fabric:
If you are intrigued now, go have a look, because Niki is selling her wonderful bags from vintage fabrics and other charming vintage goodies here: http://www.nostalgia-stonehouse.co.uk/
This is the backside of the bag:
And it is also beautiful from the inside:
Thank you so much dear Niki it was a real pleasure to swap with you! Your rose collage is finished and I'm just waiting for some new magazines to come out to put them in your parcel and then I'll send it to you! xox
I'm now planning on having a cosy afternoon at home tomorrow with a cuppa of the delicious chocolate and cinnamon tea which I've got from Nature Girl in my chocolate swap parcel while reading my lovely new English magazines :D
posted by Carol @ 9:24 PM
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
9:32 AM
More photos of my early fall garden
posted by Carol @ 9:32 AM
Sunday, October 01, 2006
9:26 AM
My early fall garden
posted by Carol @ 9:26 AM
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
8:21 PM
You know we don't really celebrate Halloween here in Germany, but tonight we've had a fair share of "trick or treat" kids ringing at the door and of course we gave them sweets. My daughter has made us this Jack-O-Lantern (with two different sides/faces) out of the pumpkin that I've had for display on my patio table and I've used the content of the pumpkin for a tasty soup. Now we are watching the Halloween episode of Charmed lol so at least we also have had a bit of Halloween feeling tonight! Boo!
~*~*~ Happy Halloween! ~*~*~
7:50 AM
So here is what I have produced over the last weekend. I've just recently discovered how much I love making Christmas cones. Oh and look, I'd just about finished it, when a little blue bird came to nest in the aqua colored angel cone :D A silver cone, very festive, don't you agree?
Another fun thing is making Christmas banners:
What's about you, have you started to craft for Christmas yet (only 7 weeks left btw ;-) ) and will you share your ideas? I for one would love to see them, because I can never get enough inspirations!
P.S.: Btw, while visiting Tea's blog today I saw this cool new counter that she had on her site, where you can see how many people are online and from which country they are. I found this very interesting and had to install one too!
Saturday, October 28, 2006
11:28 AM
These flip sides were missing, but no chance for me to integrate them in the last post, well that's blogger lol
11:07 AM
1:51 PM
The butterflies have more or less neglected the flowers in my cottage garden this year, although I've planted some plants and flowers, like the buddleja davidii and sedum autumn joy and phlox etc. just for them (yes okay and because I like them too I admit lol) . Now they are suddenly coming :D they love to drink from my sweet grapes that I have initially left on the vine for the birds to pick and eat. Click on the photos to see the bigger version if you like!
The "Inachis io" (we call it "Tagpfauenauge") is resting on the warm house wall, isn't it perfect?
If you look closer you can see how the "Vanessa atalanta" (we call it "Admiral") is sipping out of the grape like with a straw!
The color of the pansies and of the sedum in the picture below is my fave autumn color:
Seeing how much I love roses and garden bouquets I also had to take a picture of this bouquet in the photo below. It was a present for my mum, all flowers, berries and herbs were picked by our friend in her cottage garden:
I also wanted to share with you my glass vase of "House Doctor" in the next photo. I'm totally in love with the things they design and so happy that they sell their gorgeous goodies in my fave shop "ROSENROT" here in Bremen. I also bought some of House Doctor's gift wrapping paper and gave my mum a few hints about what I would love to get for Christmas and my next b-day he he
Lastly I like to show you the collage below that I have made for a swap with my German friend Nicole of www.smalltreasures.blogspot.com just so that you can see that I'm also creative from time to time ;-)
And for the case that you like to see what I have created, bought and send to my friend Niki from Somerset in return for her lovely, nostalgic rose and magazine swap parcel you can go over and have a look at her blog http://nostalgiaatthestonehouse.blogspot.com/ , she has got her parcel on Friday and has posted great pictures of the content on her beautiful nostalgic blog! :D
10:32 AM
Dear bloggers, friends and readers,
after several complaints about my blog taking too long to load I've decided to post pictures not in size BIG anymore, I'll chose size MEDIUM instead, let's see if this helps, I hope so! I know it takes long to load when you are still on a dial up, but normally it should be okay with broadband/fast internet. For me it always loads within a few seconds. Please let me know if you are still experiencing any major loading probs. Thank you!
First of all I wanna thank everyone who has attended my little rose-tea-party, it was such a pleasure to welcome so many of my dear blogging friends and neighbors at the "Boxwood Cottage" ! :D Now let's go and continue the tour through my little cottage garden back yard:
I still have a lot of blooming flowers, the Cosmos on the right in the picture below is a big flowering bush now:
"Augusta" Luise has got two more beautiful and scenting blooms:
I've sowed this Hollyhock for the next season, but it has decided that the time is too long to wait and to flower already right now:
Two birds of a little bird bath which is hanging from my maple tree:
The sedum is kind of glowing in the warm fall sun:
If blogger is nice and likes me today you should be able to enlarge the pictures by clicking on it!Happy weekend to everyone who might pop in here! xox
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
7:01 PM
Today I cordially invite you to a *~* Rose Tea Party *~* at the "Boxwood Cottage" tomorrow afternoon to celebrate that I've finally found a name for my little house and garden!
While here can you help me to decide where to put my little white iron table with the green polka dot tin vase filled with fresh picked garden flowers?
Here?Or better here?
Here isn't that bad either, or?
After that we can go to have a little tour through the garden, starting with the front yard:
More garden tour pictures in my next post! Hope you enjoy your stay at the "Boxwood Cottage"!
Saturday, October 14, 2006
11:40 PM
Since I've bought it and moved into my little house in February 2005 I was thinking of a pretty name for it. I so love houses and gardens with names, I think it makes them more special and beautiful, don't you think so? But I didn't came up with something really appropriate until I talked it over with a close friend and my mum yesterday. My friend told me that in England it is common to call a terraced house (small row house like mine) situated in the suburbs near to the fields and woods a cottage too because "cottage" just means "small house" or small country house. Well my house is small for sure (it's only 4,50 metres wide) and I live in a very green suburb only 2 minutes away from the fields and woods. Then all of a sudden my mum said that she had a good idea and stated that what I have the most of all in my garden, in the front and also in the back yard, is box wood, so why not call it "Box-Wood Cottage"? Oh my yes, why hasn't that crossed my mind before! I knew at once that's it! My little house has a name :D! *~* Welcome to the "Box-Wood Cottage! *~*
This following picture is from June this year:
So what do you think about houses and names and the name I chose for my little house?
P.S. Blogger is playing up again and won't let me post anymore pictures in this post. You can see more of my box wood pictures in my archives for example on 7th June 2006.
10:15 AM
I've the feeling that I've bored you a bit with all of my garden and flower photos lately so I've decided to show you something else today. I think this glass bowl with dried rose petals of my garden roses has something very photogenic (you can click on the photos to enlarge them!): So has this small iron-glass table with some glass decoration and an autumnal candle (scenting like baked apple with cinamon) and some tiny rose hips.We have some close friends staying with us at the moment and my friend has sewed this cushion for me as a gift! :D
She has also gave me all these old books and music sheets etc. from and old oncle of her who has died, which are great to use for collages etc.:
Oh and I'm very happy to tell you that I've got my first issue of portals zine in the mail this week, can't wait to study it.
http://portals-zine.blogspot.com/
Thursday, October 12, 2006
12:03 PM
At this time of the year I also like some orange color in my garden, especially combined with blue and purple: I love pansies and violas in spring as well as in autumn: These are the last flowers of my "Claude Monet" rose for this year:
The vine grapes in front of my living room window are very sweet and tasty now and I love it when the leaves are getting some reddish color:
This grass is new and also has reddish leaves:
Well, despite of the season my summer flowers are still going strong:
We have wonderful warm fall weather at the moment so I think they will still bloom for some time :D
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
11:24 AM
Thursday, October 05, 2006
9:24 PM
Oh dear bloggers and readers I just have to share with you my latest marvellous swap parcel. It is a private rose and magazine swap which I'm doing with Niki of the delightsome blog http://nostalgiaatthestonehouse.blogspot.com/ Click on the pictures to enlarge:
All was beautifully packed with gorgeous fabric fibers and little fabric rose heart tags and beautiful rose postcards:
Niki has made me one of her wonderful vintage rose fabric bags with an old postcard in the center and a pretty pin cushion also from vintage rose fabric:
If you are intrigued now, go have a look, because Niki is selling her wonderful bags from vintage fabrics and other charming vintage goodies here: http://www.nostalgia-stonehouse.co.uk/
This is the backside of the bag:
And it is also beautiful from the inside:
Thank you so much dear Niki it was a real pleasure to swap with you! Your rose collage is finished and I'm just waiting for some new magazines to come out to put them in your parcel and then I'll send it to you! xox
I'm now planning on having a cosy afternoon at home tomorrow with a cuppa of the delicious chocolate and cinnamon tea which I've got from Nature Girl in my chocolate swap parcel while reading my lovely new English magazines :D
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
9:32 AM
9:26 AM
