Happy Halloween

A few years ago nobody celebrated Halloween in Germany. Halloween came to Germany from the US and I think it's a great thing that the world gets more international and celebrations are shared and adopted among the entire world. The world would certainly be better if we would celebrate more together…

I will be invited to a Halloween party tonight and am looking for something to bring to the party. Everybody invited should bring something and I'm the one that was chosen for decorations. I've seen this bat mobile on Martha Stewart's website and I really like it:

Haven't decided what to wear tonight yet, maybe I choose to be Morticia Addams from the Addams Family, that's quite easy.

Happy Halloween to everyone!

Isabell

At Home

Today I have a day off and I'm currently enjoying a late breakfast with some magazines at home. I've already bought a couple of Christmas special magazines. I'm one of the biggest Christmas fans in the world. As soon as it starts to get darker outside and the weather is turning from sunny days into cold storms and finally winter and snow, this is my favorite season of the year. BUT after Christmas I'm fine with having Spring again immediately :)

Normally I like red, green and gold as they are the traditional Christmas colors but I might decorate the entrance in white and silver this year as this is very nice too. 

Have a nice day !

Isabell

Royal Copenhagen Blue Fluted Mega/Musselmalet Mega

You know that I like dinnerware and porcelain. This summer when I was in Copenhagen for my yearly visit, I couldn't resist. I've been in a Royal Copenhagen outlet and bought these 2 tealight holders from the Blue Fluted Mega series. They are quite expensive but I really like the style and porcelain in white and blue is very classic.

I've also painted a cup with this pattern for my friend's 30th birthday which you can see in this post: Musselmalet Mega - DIY. It takes certainly many year's to paint it like the original one :)

Have a really nice day.

Isabell

New furniture

We've already lived 6 years in this apartment, but still some rooms still seem to be unfinished and needed new furniture. I've bought a couple of new things this summer to finally have some rooms ready, I'll show you bit by bit. For the bedroom I've added a small desk with a chair and finally long curtains in grey and the rest of course wood and white, my favorites which you can see in the entire flat. :) Before that I had a black desk back from the time when I still was a student and one of these typical office chairs. I'm happy with the result:

Back in autumn time

I know, it's been along time since my last post… but I'm back now from my summer holiday. I truly needed it, the new job had been more stressful then I thought it would be. I'm happy to be back and I'm looking forward to autumn, to all the colors and season of apples, pumpkins, plums and baking.

picture: lantliv.com

The picture you see above is Swedish buns with cinnamon, it's called "Kanelbullar" in Swedish and I'm going to bake them today and this week and use different recipes. I'll get back to you with the winner ;)

Have a lovely sunday!

Isabell