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Self Portrait with Animals

It’s crafty Saturday ! While I was working on cute bookmarks (soon more about them), my hubby was adding some animals and other cute things to a photo of us that we will use for the promotion of our book.

Self Portrait with Animals

Sweet & Happy Birthday Placemat

Since visitors for the first PopUp-Tearoom at my house this fall will mainly celebrating a birthday I had to come up with the appropriate placemat for the table decoration. I went through a lot of stationary material for inspiration. I am far from perfect of drawing something from scratch (especially living things) but with a little inspiration I am quiet good in modifying it for my own purpose. So after a rough overview sketch, I made a hand drawing and did the coloring in the computer afterwards. Whilst doing this, I got more and more comfortable with fall colors and I think I have finally accepted that summer moved on.

Sweet Happy Birthday Placemat

The Knitted Lampshade

After 1 week holiday around England’s coast staying at Lyme Regis, the Duesseldorf airport welcomes us with heavy rain! This is really what makes you feel bad. And since I had my most beloved Cream Tea every day, I felt that I can’t do any baking today. Too many calories to count for…that’s why it was clear that I need to start a craft project. With the help of my friendly hot glue gun and an old sweater out of the winter cupboard I got started: A new dress for the lampshade.

The Knitted Lampshade

Well, well, I finished it and want to share the result with you. But with only the grey sweater, I felt that it needed something else, that’s why I added the crochet and the pompom border at bottom and top. But still it looked kind of none finished, that’s why I added a rich pompom in the middle and attached a heart out of buttons in matching colors. Now that’s what I call a pretty enriched lampshade after all, right?

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And the heart of buttons turned out so nice, that I am thinking about doing some X-Mas ornaments with this technique. Could be in red color then? Or green maybe? We will see!

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The Porch is the Living Room

Finally it`s summer. No complaining, just countless days of sunshine. These days, our porch literally becomes the living room. So it needs a proper ‚lighting‘. I came up with this ‚chandelier installation‘ from a piece of a tree and a vintage bunting. The only thing missing is the cake. But let´s eat healthy for just one day. Enjoy the sun.

Summer Outside Decoration

Summer Outside Decoration

Crafty Cat

I wanted to have a cat in one of the photos of my baking book. The only problem being that the real life cat that I am ‚working‘ on is still way too shy for posing. So, I simply made this crafty one out of some very cute fabric that I found in Tokyo. She is now sitting on the porch, relaxing after the photo shoot in the kitchen.

Crafty Cat