Flee market treasures

Autumn is when my flee market season starts. You have them all over Munich and sometimes you can get real treasures like the 2 dishtowels I found that have never been used. They are perfect for Christmas to decorate the oven or I think about sewing them together to use it as a pillowcase:

What I like about flee markets is the fact that you can get really nice things that sometimes even aren't produced any longer nowadays for a good price. And you can turn pieces that might look odd at the very first impression into great pieces just by changing the color.

I look so much forward to showing you the final decoration.

Kram,

Isabell

Preparations for winter

I'm very structured and I can plan things up into the tiniest detail at work ( because it's my job). But when it comes to my private life, I'm just the contrary. It seems like all that planning energy goes into my business life and there is no or little energy left for home for that. So I have started to make "preparation for winter" lists for our home. And one of the things on it is to stow away my bicycle, which I've managed to do today, as well as Tim's bicycles.

Photo: 1zoom.me

It feels really good to be able to cross out some private to do's on that list and be unstructured again for the rest. :)

Have a really good night!

Isabell

FRIDAY!

What a week! I'm so happy that it's friday! I've spent most of my time in the office at 38 °C without air-conditioning (as we have one of the largest projects for a big company right now), then in the Registry Office or in a photo booth creating horrible passport pictures, looking for nice thank you cards, editing wedding pictures and the rest of my time I tried to get some sleep. I didn't know that you had to change so many things after your wedding! Still many things to change but at least half of it is done. The only thing that is strange for me is to answer the telephone with my new last name, I need to fully concentrate and still I tell or write my old last name. But I guess I will soon get used to it.
Just a few days left and I'm going to Sweden and Denmark for the wedding of my Danish friend and I'm looking for a dress, as she doesn't want her guests to wear black and all of my dresses are either black or white! :) I found these dresses:

Photo:Zara

This one is nice too:

Photo: asos

or that? But this one might bee to close to white?

Photo. Zalando

I will need to go to the city tomorrow... I'll show you my choice :)

Kram,

Isabell

Old friends and Sushi

I've met one of my oldest friends today after at least 8 years. We've been 8 friends at high school, 4 couples and none of us is still a couple. We used to be together everyday after school, then we all finished high school and all went different ways. The only one left from that time in my life is my best friend who lives in Copenhagen. It's strange to see someone after all this time, someone you knew very well a long time ago, but you can't tell who he is nowadays. He has gotten quite old ( I guess he'd say the same thing about me :)) and he's been working for a consulting company the last 6 years, so I think that's why. It was a little bit strange in the beginning I didn't know where to start to tell him what has happened in the last 8 years. Such a long time and so much has happened... but after a while it felt somehow familiar. Why do we loose good friends on our way through life? He was really the one I could talk to when I was sad and he would always help me. He was the one who convinced me to eat sushi in high school so therefore we went to a sushi place today.

Photo: mux

I wonder how it will be in another 8 years, what will I be able to tell then?

Kram,

Isabell

Long days

At the moment there are very long days for me. It come home very late and after work I continue "working". My best friend has her 30th birthday on friday and I've been scanning all her baby and childhood pictures from at least 30 photo albums and then I had to adjust all the colors and I create a DVD with music for her, showing her entire life until now. But I finished it today, I'm very satisfied with the result and I know that this present will make her really happy. It's good to give something as a present when you know people get really happy, it's worth all the effort and long days.

And I got my lamp from Bolia today, as I was in a hurry to finish my DVD project I just took a picture with my mobil phone to show you how it looks. I'll take some more pics this weekend and show you!

Have a nice evening!

Kram,

Isabell

Home remedy to relieve a sunburn

After all this cold weather, when you needed to stay inside because it was raining all the time my skin seems to have become very sensitive to the sun. Tim and I went to a lake in Northern Munich called "Feringasee" today and as it was 29 °C finally so of course I wanted to get tanned. The tan from Bali has already disappeared thanks to the North Pole Summer and the result of that is that I got a terrible sunburn on my shoulders and on my nose and it's sunday, so all the shops are closed. But I still remember a home remedy for sunburns: plain yogurt. Fortunately I have it at home so I hope it will relieve the sunburn a little bit. 

Photo: wunderweib

Have a nice evening and be careful with the sun!

Kram,

Isabell 

Natural hand care

When the weather is cold outside my hands often feel dry and I have a hand balm near my computer at work, ready to be used. But I remember a simple tip from my German grandmother: She always used olive oil and sugar and made a peeling out of it. So therefore I'm going to try that now:

Take 2 cups of brown sugar and add 2 table spoons of sea salt, olive oil and if you don't like the smell of olive oil some drops of an essential oil like lemon balm oil.

Photo: welt.de

Mix it all together and use it like a hand peeling, rinse it off. It's also a very nice present, if you want to give something self-made as a present. In addition to the natural hand care I also like these very much:

Photo: compagniedeprovence

Kram,

Isabell

Wake up

I don't have an alarm clock to wake me up every morning, I use my mobil phone. The problem is that when you are still drowsy, it happens to me quite often that my mobil phone falls down, so I was actually looking for an alarm clock on the internet, when I came along this:

Photo: cdn.shopify.com

It's called "Alarm Dock" and it's a wooden dock suitable for the iPhone and the best thing: you can even pull your iPhone connector through the Alarm Dock to charge it. Because that's the second thing that happens (not as often as the mobil phone crash test) is that I forgot to charge my mobil. I think it's a nice idea and looks like the alarm clocks from the seventies.

So have a good start of the day!

Kram,

Isabell

Dessert Chocolate

My colleague just came back from her holidays in Southern France and she knows that I like mousse au chocolate very much so she bought these 2 French chocolates for me which are special chocolates for desserts. I haven't tried to prepare mousse au chocolate yet, but I'm curious to try it.

My brother will celebrate his birthday this weekend, so I will try it and I'll show you the result. I can't decide whether I should take the white chocolate or the praliné...

Have a good evening!

Isabell

Paper designs from Jurianne Matter

For me it's always cozy with some candles during winter. The first thing I do when coming home after work is: brewing some tea and lighting some candles. I think it's my way to calm down after work, some sort of a daily ritual.

As I want to add more colour to our apartment, I was looking for some lanterns on the internet, where I can put a tea light inside. I found very nice paper designs from Jurianne Matter, a graphic designer from the Netherlands:

Photo: juriannematter

Photo: juriannematter

But not only the lanterns are very nice, I also like the other paper designs very much:

Photo: juriannematter

I can also imagine it as part of the decoration for our wedding....

Kram,

Isabell