Month: July 2013

Paul – the Big Box Fan

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Remember Paul? I told you about him the other day. Well, this is Paul: Or well, to be a bit more precise: it’s Paul’s nose. Because Paul has an affinity for boxes. Big boxes. The bigger the better! Fortunately, my brother-in-law just got himself a new office desk chair, and that came with a huge box. Ginormous, when speaking in cat’s dimensions. And so little Paul was more than happy to be locked up in his box, spending a good portion of the day trying to figure out how to get out of the box. And when he’d just succeeded, he was just as happy to start all over again. Who said crazy cat? Oh well, I guess that was me the other day …

What Candy Has to do with Cream Cheese

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“Plop” made the little wine-gum candy, and landed himself in a pool of cream cheese. What he was doing there, I wondered, but then, I guess, you can’t really blame him for having lost his way, and actually trying to make the best of his situation. It was us, after all, who’d dropped him at the dinner table (what’s candy gotta do at the dinner table anyway, right?). So, no later than now is the time to find out how well candy and cream cheese go together.

Shoppers Dream

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I love all things pretty. No wonder that I love stroll into any kind of store that sells interior design and decoration products. Esp. since where I live, decor products just aren’t on people’s agenda as much as in Germany. So, I love to look around in those kinds of stores, get inspired, start dreaming about what ifs … and then usually have a pretty rough awakening: too sad that luggage on airplanes is so limited. It means that I can’t buy any of the pretty beauties of any stores, because I simply can’t take these things with me. So, while I love to go look at things in stores like this, I’m usually just as happy to leave places like that as quickly as I can’t, because I can’t help dreaming …

scrapbook layout, school

P2D – School Days

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The www is so full of inspiration, and the fun is, you can just use whatever you find as a launch pad to jump start your page and go from there! For today’s post, I found this lovely paper layout “Blues.” I loved the grid design, and yet, it’s so packed with embellishments, layers, and things to discover. Just the very things I like about a scrapbooking page. So I took this page as inspiration for a page of my own …

Stories from the Fire Department

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Fire stations. They should actually be the safest places when it comes to protection from fire – not only are they crowded by lots of professionals, they also have all the equipment ready at hand. But look what happened today in the little town of Kandern, South Germany …   Kandern, shortly after 12 pm: The sirens in town go off. I’m not paying much attention, since it’s common practice in Germany that every Saturday at 12 o’clock the sirens go off just to check their functionality. Except that today isn’t Saturday … Five minutes later: Someone from the upper floors of our building is yelling down to us that they can see smoke rising a couple of blocks down. Fire? Five minutes later: We have dinner plans for an Italian restaurant in town. We set out, but only two minutes after leaving, we’re approaching this scene: Smoke is wafting shortly ahead of us. We walk faster, and quickly approach the town’s fire station. That’s when it dawns on us:     The fire station, …

Freebie Friday: Find Joy – Part 4

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We’re moving on swiftly, which means that today it’s time to share the first set of elements with you. I hope you’re enjoying what you’re getting so far, and if you’ve missed the previous parts, just check out the tag “freebies” and you should find lots of stuff available for download. As always, don’t forget that my terms of use apply, which in short means you can only use any of my products for personal scrapping needs only (no sharing, no commercial use). And now, have fun and happy scrapping!

Independence Day the German Way

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Now, let me make things clear: In Germany we don’t celebrate the 4th of July on the 4th of July. As a matter of fact,  we don’t actually celebrate the 4th of July at all in Germany, since it’s an American holiday. This year, however, was different. This year, we didn’t just remember that somewhere in the world people are happy about the 4th of July, this year we actually decided to make it a happy occasion for ourselves (of course, there were enough Americans around to have a good excuse for that, too). And so we had blue, red, and white ice-cream and a whole lot of fun.