Just for me... for you... from me.

After sewing clothes for over twenty years, I finally decided to get my own custom labels. I ordered them at Namensbaender and love them!



I actually thought about making a label that would work on both sides - but could only come up with AHA or OHO... if you have a better suggestion, feel free to share it with me.



Yap, I ordered plenty of them - now I only have to sew clothes to use them!

More drooling

I just have to share this with you - the latest German edition of AD:



and the house on the cover... Not to mention the garden in the Provence and the house on Bali that you cannot see. But one day, I swear, I'll have a nook in my house looking just like the one on the cover!

So what I'm doing when I'm not doing something else? Looking into other people's homes (only the ones who make it into AD) and wish I was rich!

More reading

I guess I must have fallen in the summer-laziness mood. Instead of actually doing something, I admire things that were done by others. So I just finished reading "Die Leber wächst mit ihren Aufgaben" by Eckart von Hirschhausen (no joke, this is his real name) and quite liked it. I'll roughly translate and describe some of the ideas given in this book.



1) I've learned that Aspirin is of natural origin - the salicylic acid can be found for example in willow bark. I learned later from Wikipedia that in 1853, acetylsalicylic acid was synthesized, which was less irritating than the original acid and just as effective. The compound was patented in 1899 under the name Aspirin.

2) The monks live in average five years longer than men outside of monasteries, living actually just as long as women.

3) I love this one: The best entertainer in the world is our own cerebral cortex.

4) I have to agree with the author when he claims that in the good ol' days of snail mail, we checked the mailbox once a day - and were disappointed once a day for not getting anything we hoped for. Now we constantly check our email mailbox - and get to live in constant disappointment.

So, drop me a line, reader, and make me happier :-)

Table-shelf

Recently, my little one discovered Lego and fell in love. Everywhere I looked, there were legos in the living room, legos in the kitchen, legos in the bedroom... That's when I decided to make a shelf for his toys that would at the same time be a table where he could build cars and trucks.

I opted for a very simple one. Here you can see work in progress,


a detail,


and the final product:



He's happy. I'm happy :-)

PS. In loving memory of my Dad. He taught me (among millions of wonderful, useful or silly things) that one shouldn't be afraid of grabbing a drill. Even as a girl.