Hej,  Katja from the inspiring maedchenmitherz Blog is doing a cute Online class in the beginning of next year.  You have time until 14. November to join her giveaway and your chance to win a spot in the class.

Go over and check it out. She also have some great creative tutorials.

P.S. Darling Readers from all over the world. Please can you send over some good weather today. It´s raining here and we don´t need any more drops. It´s Martinssingen today so the children want to stay dry and walk with there lanterns.

Our little one has a cute hedgehog lantern. I´ll show you pics tomorrow.

xoxo

you could lighten up there family life.

This woman rocks. I can tell you. Even if i´ve just known here since some month in the big blogging world all i can say about her is:

Jamie is big hearted, funny, talented and very creative.

She and her family have had  some  hard month behind them and life isn´t that easy  in these days, too. If you are interested. Read her story.

Darling Jamie is running a Silent Auction until Friday and this is what you can get:

So go over to her blog and do a bid if you love and like Polaroid, Buttons and Vintage wooden thread spools.

She also offers custom embroidery  like this woodgrain tree trunk:

This would be a great present for a loved one.

And as a tribute to a blogging friend enjoy some great music.

Some bits of music that i like/liked the last month/years. This time very related to my country: germany

Roger Cicero

Tim Fischer

2Raumwohnung

Fettes Brot

MIA

Enjoy!!!

Yesterday + today is very music related. I´m importing my about 200 CD´s to iTunes. It´s just great and fun. Haven´t listened to some of the albums since 5-10 years.

P.S.: i´m working on updating more often. To pretty up the blog and i have a give-a-way on my mind.

xoxo

Wanted to share some eye candy  with you.

This beautiful porcelain is handmade by Samantha Robinson, Australia. Go and visit. Her HPdesign is great too.

Yummie cakes and cookies from Cocoa & co kitchen.

And doesn´t this ANORAK look like a great artsy magazine not just for children?

What is your eye candy this week? Share!

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but for those 500 pencils i would love to be one.

How would it look like to draw with the Norwegian sky or a Drizzly Afternoon?  It could inspire to everything.

Imagine how it would be recieving 25 coloured pencils every month for 20 month.  Maybe i would display them like this. Or find new ways and ideas.

I would definetly have much fun with these pencils, colours, names and stories.

What about you?

How time is flying by. I have to tell you this vaccation is one of the best i ever had so far. Three weeks behind us and one week still before us. I´m the lucky one with international parents and in-laws. My mother is from sweden and my father in law was born and grown up  in Brazil.

My husband and i love to travel and we often can choose between Sweden or Portugal as vaccation destination. Our parents have houses there. So this summer we planned a roadtrip to Portugal. Our son stayed with his grandparents and we got on our way. 6 days just for us as a couple and Paris, Biarritz, Bilbao, meet up with some old friends and so much more on the way.

We drove about 2300 km in 6 days. Included many visits, best croissants and baguette ever, cheese, good wine, crocheting on the road, ocean, ocean, ocean, friends…….

I will let the pictures tell the story:

So the last picture is the view that we have every day since our Roadtrip ended. It will be hard to leave. But still 4 days of vaccation. Tomorrow we go to Porto. Vila Nova de Gaia is on the other side of the Rio Douro. Where all the great Portwines come from.

xoxo

and best summer wishes from Portugal.

Do you love where you live and do you like the earth?

I do!

Do you have kids, or do you want to have?

We have a kid and we want to have more kids.

Do we have 10 more years to waste, pollute and destroy our planet?

No. We don´t have that time. But maybe the following film trailer  gives  us some questions and answers.

Have you seen this great  and thought-provoking video?

For a sustainable future.

Yesterday Jan Bargen a friend  from study period started his 2500 km long biketour from Lisbon to Luxembourg to raise money for 2 projects at the Peace and Research Center in Tamera/Portugal.

If you are interested have a look at his website.

For more info´s about the projects and the Peace and Research Center.

So if you like the idea and want to support him, spread the word or donate what you can afford.

For a world with Peace.

Just for all of you who always wanted to know: who´s the woman behind this blog

Take a look!

Because this Summer i do solemnly swear you will get to know me a little bit more.

Home again. But not really back again. This month was filled with 18 days at a children hospital, fever, infections, surgery, more fever, worries and waiting for the pathological results.

We had luck, prayers and guardian angels around our little one.

So the result was just a Cat-scratch disease. Even if he hasn´t been scratched by a cat it can come from fleas or ticks.

So now we are at home since thursday, but still had some Dr. to visit because the fever came back and he was vomiting. We had to cancel our first holiday to sweden. Such a long journey would be to stressfull for all of us. Hopefully we can travel to Portugal in three weeks. We are soo in need of a holiday and recovering.

After all this sickness, hospital time beeing healthy has come in a center view.

So i wish you health and take care of you.

xoxo