Month: January 2015

Neuschwanstein Castle – Or: A Special Adventure

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Schloss Neuschwanstein – oder ein Abenteuer ganz besonderer Art   How about a little story for those among my readers who love adventures? It goes like this: Once upon a time there were two sisters. One day they said to each other, “Let’s go to Neuschanstein (Germany’s most famous tourist destination).” It was a cold winter day and a few days earlier it had snowed. When they arrived at their destination, they noticed that due to the snow many things were different than usual – some roads had been blocked. But when they saw how many other visitors set out on an arduous and quite dangerous quest of seeing the castle in its greatest splendor, they took courage. Bravely, they climbed over the barricades and soon found themselves on a road, which had a snow cover that had been trampled by many feet and which had turned into one long stretch of slippery ice. But such dangers could not deter the sisters. They clawed their way along the mountains slopes up the winding road and …

Gardens and Winter Afternoons

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Von Gärten und Winternachmittagen My sister and I wanted to go on a little photo shoot. For that, however, we wanted a nice little backdrop. While there are many beautiful places within an hour or two hour driving range, we didn’t have enough time to go somewhere far before the sun went down. When looking into things to see, if there was some nice place closer by, we discovered that mere minutes from our home, there’s a castle with a garden that’s considered unique and a great sight in the region. So, we set out to find the famed garden, and lo and behold, our expectations were exceeded and we spent a nice hour in the sunset of a late winter afternoon. Meine Schwester und ich wollten auf eine kleine Fototour gehen. Dafür suchten wir allerdings noch nach einer geeigneten Umgebung. Während es zwar viele hübsche Ziele in einem 1-2 Stunden Radius gibt, hatten wir nicht genug Zeit, so weit zu fahren, bevor die Sonne unterging. Also befasste ich mich mit der Frage, gibt es …

David Against Goliath

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David gegen Goliath I’m well aware that the way the story goes, you’re supposed to favor David and really opt against Goliath. I’ve understood this and the message is clear to me. In my present case, however, I hope you’ll show a little leniency with me that for once I would favor Goliath over David. After all, he promises a lot more sweet delights than David. At least when it comes to my two chocolate Santa Clauses that I haven’t yet had the time to devour as there have been so many other good, delicious things to enjoy over Christmas. Ich bin mir der Tatsache sehr wohl bewusst, dass, wenn es um die Geschichte von David und Goliath geht, wir alle für David und gegen Goliath sein sollten. Das habe ich soweit auch ganz gut verstanden. In meinem gegenwärtigen Fall, hoffe ich jedoch, dass ihr mir ein bisschen Kulanz entgegenbringen werdet, wenn ich sage, dass ich diesmal Goliath vorziehen würde. Immerhin verspricht er sehr viel “größeren” Genuss als David. Zumindest, wenn es um meine Schokoladennikoläuse …

Hybrid Hub: Milk Cartons in a Carrier

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Bastelecke: Milchkartons im Träger   Happy new year to all of you. Before moving on to new topics and projects, I’d like to share my last Christmas project of the season. A couple of weeks ago, I made this little carrier with milk cartons. I made the cut file in my Silhouette Studio, printed some of the papers from my Holly & Pine kit, then had my Silhouette Cameo cut out the entire shabeng. Here’s how that turned out: Frohes neues Jahr euch allen. Bevor ich mich aber neuen Themen und Projekten zuwenden möchte, würde ich gerne noch mein letztes Weihnachtsprojekt dieser Saison mit euch teilen. Vor ein paar Wochen habe ich nämlich diesen kleinen Träger mit Milchkartons gebastelt. Die Schneideschablone habe ich mir dafür in der Silhouette Studio Software zusammengeschustert. Dann habe ich alles auf den Papieren meiner Holly und Pine Kollektion ausgedruckt und das ganze dann mit meiner Cameo geschnitten. Und dies ist dabei herausgekommen: