mini-holiday

Few days off, heading to the dutch neighbors.

I so wanted to go out for a nice dinner, but we just could not find a vegetarian and reasonable priced menu in all these restaurants. Finally we ended up in a dark student bar and had some super cheap and awesome onion-soup. Yes.
That kind of where you get 3 layers: 1st thick melted edamer cheese, 2nd slices of baguette and when you dig deeper you find that thick, savoury onion soup.
Makes an excellent base for some single malt.

potato harvest

Every year I try planting something on the balcony/window.
I never suceed in the sense of really growing a lot.
It rather seems that every plant will make it to just survive and be a little fruitful, and then they die.

So this year we tried planting potatoes in a plastic bucket on the balcony. The plant looked quiet impressive. And this is the full harvest. It made me happy anyway. Because the commune said, it will not function. Ha, look at these babies.

After 16 beautiful years, r.i.p. my friend.

summer antipasti

simple things are the best.
red peppers, oven baked until soft, peeled, mixed with good olive oil, seasalt and oregano.

floral stiched card

where the love is

no summer holidays this year
but longer weekends
friends, bikes, food, horses, babies, sun

presummer

offline weekends with friends

and dog
and kids
and the whole coffee equipment

biking along rivers
always

many seminars and trainings
politics and work

Maxie Wander s book. The women speaking about  the ideal of equal rights in socialism contra their real lifes. Very self-consious.

In the beginning a poem from an old song. Good morning beautiful one ... the poem goes on with praises about the beautiful ones features and body.
He is waiting for her.

The poem ends: when she is not coming
he will grab a knife and stab her in her heart.

visitations and drinks

last months a friend from iceland visited me, got to know him 8 years ago on the shetland islands, and now he visited me during a europe-trip. Good talks, after all this time.

Also, a friend of mine from kindergarden-childhood-school-yooth-time visited me. We hung out a little in a village near-by, which is really old and beautiful.

Made some rhubarb-sirup and we created our summer drink 2013:

rhubarb-rose-secco

50% rhubarb (fresh rhubarb, cooked until soft, strained, reduced with a little sugar)

50% rose-secco (rose-champagner)

mint leaves

wanderlust

coral stationary

Got lately inspired by colour-coordinated office supplies. Category: make useful beautiful. So I tried to make a present for a friend of mine.

The stationary consists of:
- different kind of pins
- pens and pencils
- a small notebook
- small envelopes with matching cards
- giftstags
- a stamp
- sticky dots
- carabiner
- clothespins
- paperclips

1 covered the notebook in craft paper and applied a swallow, consisting of cut triangles of neon-coral sticky foil.
2 used the same foil to make stickers for the envelopes and to give the pencils a trim.
3 had some nailpolish in the same colour, with this  I painted a few of the pins and clips.
4 From an old catalog I used a few pages and sewed them together and glued the appliances onto it.

Auftragsarbeit

The company a friend of mine works for got a new homepage:
http://www.fairway-communication.de/
Scissor-cuts of the staff´s faces are made by me.

I am dept-free!

Today, I finished paying back my student loan to the state.
Celebration!

wohaharrr, flammkucheninferno!

So I planned to make some spelt bread. Big fan of spelt. But the dude said to the dough, no: let´s make pizza. No tomato sauce at home, but cream. So we get the flammkuchen invention going with what´s in the fridge:

1/4 wheat flour

3/4 spelt flour

yeast

salt

lots of good olive oil

hint of sugar

make yeast dough, let it sit long, knead long, roll out ultra thin.

First one is feta cheese mixed with cream and herbs. Slices of onions. Thin slices of paprika. Rucola after baking.

Second one is cream, lots of thin onions, goats cheese, herbs and honey. Yes Honey!

Third one is cream with pesto. Thin sliced mushrooms, Hint of garlic. Parmesan cheese. Rucola after baking.

Into the oven straight at 250°C, yes.

beetroot and goat cheese chips

 before

after












beet root, sliced
with olive oil and salt
covered with thin slices of goat cheese
in the oven until crisp

old/new cupboard

Finally finished this:
before:
old cupboard from gdr-times which used to be my family´s for ages










after:
sanding
grey colour
olive oil
old knobs I found on the streets of Malta back then