We Love Living

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I am extremely proud to be able to tell you that our house is featured in the Oct issue of the German „We Love Living“ magazine (available Sep 19th). Having a story in a magazine across 10 pages about us and our house has been a long time dream. Wow!

We Love Living Feature

It’s been so much fun working together with the people from the magazine, special thanks to Carolin, Shanti, Marion and Peter and thanks also to the models Julia, Caro and Dani. So, what can you expect? Fun and stylish interior pictures, entertaining ideas about our „Pie Eating Contest“, exciting short-takes from the house and much, much more. I hope, that you will like it!. For most of you who live outside Germany, here´s a little sneak peak of the article.

We Love Living Feature

We Love Living Feature

We Love Living Feature

We Love Living Feature

Jersey Soft Ice Cream Van

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Just one hour flight time from Duesseldorf on the beautiful island of Jersey, I bumped into an original vintage Jersey icecream van. I think it’s a perfect start for a vacation. However, the friendly icecream man was just closing and on his way home, so I did not get my Jersey Soft, but he promised to be back tomorrow.

Jersey Soft Icecream Van

PopUp Tearoom, I just love afternoon tea…

… and so does Silvia and Guido. When Silvia asked me, if I would be able to pop up our tearoom in her garden, a new idea was born and a couple of days later somewhere in Düsseldorf an afternoon tea party was held.

PopUp Tearoom - Cake Buffet

PopUp Tearoom - Cake Buffet

PopUp Tearoom - Cake Buffet

I went there with a car fully packed with cakes and cookies, plates, cutlery, garden tables and chairs with cushions and so on…I wanted that all guests feel welcome and at home at the lovely surrounding of Silvia’s and Guido’s garden.

PopUp Tearoom - Victoria Sponge

PopUp Tearoom - Carrot Cake

I created a cake list which should cover the sweet tooth for 45 guests plus kids. Besides the freshly baked rhubarb crumble I prepared delicious scones just in time for the arrival of the friends.

PopUp Tearoom - Caramel Bars

PopUp Tearoom - Blueberry Cheesecake

PopUp Tearoom - Cinnamon Cupcakes

Most fun I had was with preparing the stationery for this event in advance. I created a lovely placemat and napkin rings, different stickers for the cake buffet with Silvia’s and Guido’s name on it. And please look at the cookies in shape of a teabag, with personalized labelling as well. The kids just loved that stuff.

PopUp Tearoom - Placemat

PopUp Tearoom - Cookie Tea Bags

PopUp Tearoom - Napkin Rings

PopUp Tearoom - Apple Pie

No tearoom without beautiful flowers in vintage vases!

PopUp Tearoom - Flower Decoration

The response of the guests was overwhelming! They did like it a lot and I had to fill up the buffet again and again…it was a great experience for me and there was enough time to chat with some of the guests.

PopUp Tearoom - Stationary

PopUp Tearoom - Cherry Cake

When they found out, that I have the next pop up tearoom date already set, they told me that they won’t miss that date and wanna join again. The tearoom closed late that sunday, but it was a fantastic day for everybody! Thanks to Silvia’s & Guido’s friends!

PopUp Tearoom - Stationary

If you live in the Düsseldorf/Cologne area, drop me an email if you want to join a PopUp Tearoom event.

How can you pimp up the storage room?

I mean, is it even possible to turn a boring blue wood room into something cute and nice?

Storage Room Pimping

Well, first there was the window and the door…with the ornamental wood border, which I found at the fleamarket, this was a start for sure. But even more worse was the plain side of the storage room. To give it some kind of a nicer character it took me some frames, a painting, hooks, metal signs and a lot of logs and some wine boxes.

Storage Room Pimping

But now I do really like it. all this small items gave the room a real face lift and kind of have the image of allyear around fleamarket at our house. Which I find great!
Oh, dear! what will the neighbours think about that?

Storage Room Pimping

Is this Guerilla Knitting?

Well, I don’t really know. But at least my husband thinks it is as these things suddenly appear at our house. However what I know for sure is, that this will not be my last project regarding that matter.

Urban Knitting at our House

It all started when I found this great PomPom maker in a store in Cologne (thanks to Marius). After finishing all my inventory stock in wool during the first evening, I was overwhelmed when I hung up the pompoms at the tree on our porch.

PomPom at our House

It looked great, but still kind of empty. That’s when I thought, that also the trunk and the twigs of the tree needed some spruce up with the help from the knitting needle.
And there another idea just popped out: Wouldn’t it be kind of nice to have some crochet flowers ranking around our street number? And after days were I was busy with working on that porch project at the front door, and people were wondering what I am doing there?!, I can finally show you the first results of my guerilla knitting, or yarn bombing or knit the city, or whatever name you wanna give….

Urban Knitting at our House

Urban Knitting at our House