Happy Sunday
Today's "Happy Sunday" is a bit different than usual because there isn't much to say about this week except for one word.
VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The last seven days went like this:
Monday: ugh, 4 more days of work
Tuesday: ugh, 3 more days of work
Wednesday: ugh, still 2 more days of work
Thursday: ugh, still still 1 more day of work
Friday morning: ugh, 9 more hours of work
Friday evening: MisterT and i both came home at around the same time, and the first thing we screamed was "vacaaaaaaaaatiiiiiiiiiiooooooooooon", followed by a silly "happy dance".
It is actually a stay-cation, but the only thing that matters is that we don't have to go to work, and instead can spend some time together and do whatever we want.
We plan to do nothing, but i want to take the opportunity to do intensive spring cleaning and decluttering and work on new items for my shop. My parents will be here for a week or so, and we are going to Marseille later next month. Moreover I will be able to wear all my colorful socks all the time, which is great because i love my fun socks but unfortunately am not allowed to wear them at work.
Today was the first flea market of the season, and as always i went very early in the morning and later in the afternoon.
We had scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast, i made a cheesecake, finished two custom orders, took a nap ( or two), enjoyed looking at my new bouquet of gorgeous red tulips, and i wore pink socks :)
Doesn't sound very exciting, but this is what a perfect lazy day looks like to me!
Hope you all have a happy Sunday, too!
VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The last seven days went like this:
Monday: ugh, 4 more days of work
Tuesday: ugh, 3 more days of work
Wednesday: ugh, still 2 more days of work
Thursday: ugh, still still 1 more day of work
Friday morning: ugh, 9 more hours of work
Friday evening: MisterT and i both came home at around the same time, and the first thing we screamed was "vacaaaaaaaaatiiiiiiiiiiooooooooooon", followed by a silly "happy dance".
It is actually a stay-cation, but the only thing that matters is that we don't have to go to work, and instead can spend some time together and do whatever we want.
We plan to do nothing, but i want to take the opportunity to do intensive spring cleaning and decluttering and work on new items for my shop. My parents will be here for a week or so, and we are going to Marseille later next month. Moreover I will be able to wear all my colorful socks all the time, which is great because i love my fun socks but unfortunately am not allowed to wear them at work.
Today was the first flea market of the season, and as always i went very early in the morning and later in the afternoon.
We had scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast, i made a cheesecake, finished two custom orders, took a nap ( or two), enjoyed looking at my new bouquet of gorgeous red tulips, and i wore pink socks :)
Doesn't sound very exciting, but this is what a perfect lazy day looks like to me!
Hope you all have a happy Sunday, too!
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Happy Sunday
My week in review:
1. We had to buy a new mixer. But technically i did not break my no-shopping promise, 1. because MisterT was the one who purchased and paid for it ( he does not want to participate in my no-shopping experience, but that's ok, he rarely buys stuff anyway) and 2. because our old mixer had been broken for several months and we needed a new one badly.
2 . I made chocolate muffins ( aww, so super easy now that i don't have to stir the ingredrients by hand any more )
3. My 1-year employment contract got renewed and turned into a permant contract.
4. Look who came by for a visit on Saturday morning right in front of our living room window:
That cute little guy kept observing MisterT and me for 2-3 minutes while we were sitting at our desks- just enough time to grab my camera and take some halfway decent photos through the window blinds. Then he got either bored or annoyed by the paparazzi and rushed away within a second.
5. I received my tax refund. 537,07€ are not that much, but not bad either, and every cent extra is highly appreciated. Thank you Sweeto for doing my tax return every year!
6. Spring flowers and blossoms are finally beginning to bloom after a very long and cold winter. I did not have the opportunity to take photos yet, but all those beautiful shades of yellow, white, green and pink fill my little heart with joy. It looks wonderful!
7. We had Mister Hang for dinner again, but this time i could not manage to eat the full serving so we ate the leftovers the following day. It does sound gross for sure, but cold duck meat tastes delicious.
1. We had to buy a new mixer. But technically i did not break my no-shopping promise, 1. because MisterT was the one who purchased and paid for it ( he does not want to participate in my no-shopping experience, but that's ok, he rarely buys stuff anyway) and 2. because our old mixer had been broken for several months and we needed a new one badly.
2 . I made chocolate muffins ( aww, so super easy now that i don't have to stir the ingredrients by hand any more )
3. My 1-year employment contract got renewed and turned into a permant contract.
4. Look who came by for a visit on Saturday morning right in front of our living room window:
That cute little guy kept observing MisterT and me for 2-3 minutes while we were sitting at our desks- just enough time to grab my camera and take some halfway decent photos through the window blinds. Then he got either bored or annoyed by the paparazzi and rushed away within a second.
5. I received my tax refund. 537,07€ are not that much, but not bad either, and every cent extra is highly appreciated. Thank you Sweeto for doing my tax return every year!
6. Spring flowers and blossoms are finally beginning to bloom after a very long and cold winter. I did not have the opportunity to take photos yet, but all those beautiful shades of yellow, white, green and pink fill my little heart with joy. It looks wonderful!
7. We had Mister Hang for dinner again, but this time i could not manage to eat the full serving so we ate the leftovers the following day. It does sound gross for sure, but cold duck meat tastes delicious.
DIY: Coin Purse Makeover with Paint and Washi Tape Birds
My inspiration was this super cute wallet by Natural Life:
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| Photo by www.naturallife.com |
Sadly, the shop does not ship internationally, so i had to create my own birdie wallet with paint, washi tape, paper and Mod Podge.
Happy Sunday
My week in review:
1. We celebrated our 2nd anniversary.
2. Yesterday I found a cent and immediately had a feeling that this was a lucky cent, and that i should play the lottery. Well, it was indeed a lucky cent and i won! No odds yet, but it will probably be somewhere between 7 and 10€.
3. MisterT also won the lottery ( another one): 9€, hooray!
4. The final order of Washi Tape has arrived. One can never have enough rolls, but i think i have a great basic collection for now.
Poor MisterT spent 113 minutes at the customs office to pick up the parcel. I'm definitely done shopping from overseas for a very long time now!
5. My red glitter heart shoe stickers made it into the Etsy Finds newsletter this week, which brought me 1539 pageviews on tuesday and another 600 on wednesday. My items had been featured in the newsletter before, but this was the first time it led to a sale- three sales, to be exact.
6. Later that week one of my cake toppers appeared in the Etsy Weddings newsletter, which brought me less than 20 page views. Strange but interesting difference.
7. Our travel documents arrived and they came with a little "gift":
My first thought was "Oh no please, we don't need that crap", immediately followed by "Ooooh, that briefcase is going to be an awesome travel craft kit!". Not so much for a short city trip, but for extended vacations, road trips and on the plane. And it's perfect for taking some supplies to my workplace, too.
So, stay tuned for a little makeover :)
1. We celebrated our 2nd anniversary.
2. Yesterday I found a cent and immediately had a feeling that this was a lucky cent, and that i should play the lottery. Well, it was indeed a lucky cent and i won! No odds yet, but it will probably be somewhere between 7 and 10€.
3. MisterT also won the lottery ( another one): 9€, hooray!
4. The final order of Washi Tape has arrived. One can never have enough rolls, but i think i have a great basic collection for now.
Poor MisterT spent 113 minutes at the customs office to pick up the parcel. I'm definitely done shopping from overseas for a very long time now!
5. My red glitter heart shoe stickers made it into the Etsy Finds newsletter this week, which brought me 1539 pageviews on tuesday and another 600 on wednesday. My items had been featured in the newsletter before, but this was the first time it led to a sale- three sales, to be exact.
6. Later that week one of my cake toppers appeared in the Etsy Weddings newsletter, which brought me less than 20 page views. Strange but interesting difference.
7. Our travel documents arrived and they came with a little "gift":
My first thought was "Oh no please, we don't need that crap", immediately followed by "Ooooh, that briefcase is going to be an awesome travel craft kit!". Not so much for a short city trip, but for extended vacations, road trips and on the plane. And it's perfect for taking some supplies to my workplace, too.
So, stay tuned for a little makeover :)
DIY: Washi Tape Glasses Case Makeover
Etsy Crush: Draft Snake
The draft snake i bought on Etsy has finally arrived.
Ordering from the US is always nerve-wracking as it takes weeks, sometimes months to arrive, and you never know if the item is still in transit or simply got lost. I'm 100% sure that the term "snail mail" was created by someone like me, who had to deal with the slowness of german customs repeatedly.
Anyway, it's here and i love it! I'm thinking about ordering two more for our large double door next fall.
Prior to that we used an old towel. The perfect low-budget solution, but an optical nightmare! I should be super-ashamed to share this photo, but I publish it anyway.
Check out the seller's shop HomeDecorAmour. She has some lovely draft snakes in pretty patterns, and i'm super happy with the quality.
Ordering from the US is always nerve-wracking as it takes weeks, sometimes months to arrive, and you never know if the item is still in transit or simply got lost. I'm 100% sure that the term "snail mail" was created by someone like me, who had to deal with the slowness of german customs repeatedly.
Anyway, it's here and i love it! I'm thinking about ordering two more for our large double door next fall.
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Prior to that we used an old towel. The perfect low-budget solution, but an optical nightmare! I should be super-ashamed to share this photo, but I publish it anyway.
Check out the seller's shop HomeDecorAmour. She has some lovely draft snakes in pretty patterns, and i'm super happy with the quality.
Happy Anniversary
to us :)
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Anniversaries are a bit like New Year's Eve. You have all those high expectations that it has to be the party of the year. But all we wanted today was to spend some time together and have a relaxing day.
So we went feeding the ducks and geese, had coffee and cheesecake, hung up our love lock again ( you can read more about it here, here and here), MisterT got another ice cream spoon, and we had a sub for dinner.
Was it an ultra-exciting day? No.Was it a perfect day? Absolutely!
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Anniversaries are a bit like New Year's Eve. You have all those high expectations that it has to be the party of the year. But all we wanted today was to spend some time together and have a relaxing day.
So we went feeding the ducks and geese, had coffee and cheesecake, hung up our love lock again ( you can read more about it here, here and here), MisterT got another ice cream spoon, and we had a sub for dinner.
Was it an ultra-exciting day? No.Was it a perfect day? Absolutely!
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Pink Paislee Color Crush Challenge
...or why i am very close to throwing my stupid Cameo out of the window!
So, this page was supposed to be a quick and relaxing project after work- i calculated an hour max.
Day 1: No more daylight when i finally came home.
Day 2: I searched my stash for the PP paper i had purchased with my last shopping spree two or three weeks ago. Then, no more daylight. You can't choose paper when you can't see the actual colors, right?
Day 3: Aha, the sun was still shining. Chose the Pink Paislee Nantucket Clam Bake coordinating back as the background paper, grabbed a few rolls of washi tape, and the pack of Silhouette's adhesive cardstock.
Opened my Cameo software to create a loop border. Two hours and much yelling later i was finally ready to insert the cardstock into the machine and cut the pattern. Cut #1 big fail. Cut #2 big fail. Cut #3 big fail.
Why on earth are the default settings completely wrong?? Why the hell does that cardstock tear even on the lowest cutting speed. Why is this the most distrastrous supply ever sold??
Cut #4 came out ok. Then, no more daylight. You can't work on a color challenge properly under artificial light, can you?
Day 4: Hey, why not include some sketches with the new sketch pens? Purchased this pattern from the Silhouette Online Store , and let my machine draw. Draw#1 fail. Looks like the white pen is already dried out. Draw #2 in yellow was ok. I quickly wanted to add the words " beautiful Amaryllis", when the software crashed and the design i had worked on the last hour or so was gone. Damn it, Silhouette! Then, guess what, no more daylight-but this time all i had left to do was sticking and glueing everything to the page.
After 4 days, my one-hour project was finally finished... or so it seemed...
Once everything was done, the paper kept sticking to the cutting mat. My precious expensive paper. Not only did the mat ruin the pretty pattern, but now the page is super curly as well. Aaaargh!
I truly love my Cameo, but there are just too many flaws. The software has glitches, many of the settings are wrong, that adhesive cardstock is a catastrophe and the cutting mat is simply ridiculous. Either waaaayyyyy too sticky, so that it ruins the paper, or not sticky at all and the paper just keeps sliding around during the cutting process, which of course ruins the paper, too. Silhouette, please come up with a better solution real soon!
Anyway, i like how the page turned out. Wonderful colors!
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