Abigail, the duck

I would like to introduce you to Abigail. 

Abigail likes the afternoon-tea, biscuits and flower-bouquets.

First and foremost, she likes the English weather - which is no wonder as she's a duck.

However, this is also why I bring her to England today - to my friend Vivien who will spend some time with her in London, watching the raindrops and the pretty British park-lakes.

 

edit: She's home! (With a real old-fashioned English garden in the background.) :-)

Long time no see...

So, what happened in the meantime? I've been abroad doing a placement on the island of Fuerteventura and not doing any tinkering (which I really missed during the time). 

However, plans for knits were made in the hot Fuerteventura sun - e.g., I am currently knitting a wrapped sleeves-scarf (see the original right here). You can now also follow the process of any knits at ravelry (if you like you can follow me here). 

However, here's what I did this weekend. I visited the designPavillon which is a Christmas Market for Design (which you can see here) in Hanover. 

There they sold so wonderfully cute things and it was so difficult to decide for only a few things!!

xD

Here's what I bought:

(as you may notice I possess an affinity for animals and red stuff) 

Bambi-necklace: Glückspilz Schmuck

Little Red Riding Hood button: Käselotti

heart-letter stamp: Frau Börd

heart ring: from Gina Tricot (not from the design-market)

red nail polish, colour: "Going to the Opera": from H&M (not from the design-market, either)

(I just thought they fit so nicely to what I bought...)

I can also recommend Anique (see here) as I nearly bought one of her necklaces, as well, and it was only due to my fault of money that I did not. 

Last year my sister bought an Alice in Wonderland-necklace from her.

So, next time you will again see more of what I did.

Until then, stay warm and take care! :-)

And thanks for reading.

For a Friend

Wishing her well.

Whitening Action! :D

It just comes to my mind that a before/after comparison would have been nice at this place, however this photo will also do without it: 

The stool used to be my Grandma's. It took a bit of discussion with my dad before I was allowed to paint it white.

I also renovated a cabinet for my sister's new flat, however the photos will come some time later since she simply took it with her just after the paint had been dry for about a few hours!! Well... -.-

A new Notebook

Soon I will start my placement in a hotel. As notebooks are always quite useful (but most of them look boring) I decided to design my own. 

I painted the cover lime green. 

The background picture is from a magazine (German Glamour?!).

...and for the pages I again used my lovely birdy stamps. :D

Marbles Bag

How time passes! The son of a friend started school this week and therefore we had a big party in the park with lots of games, good food and presents.

The present I made him was this marbles bag (including some cool marbles, that is). 

Seeing as he has a preference for green and likes cats, I hope that he likes this bag, as well. :-)

(I especially like the cool pin which says "school-kid". Not my creation, though.) 

Short White Pullover

You may ask, why I sew a pullover this time of the year, however, 

1. there has never been sth that resembles a person's associations about the word summer, 

2. it's a summer pullover (because it's short and light). 

:D 

AND it's a summer pullover because I will take it with me to Fuerteventura where I will spend Autumn this year due to a hotel PR placement. (I'm not allowed to use the swimming-pools, so don't go "ahhh"). ;-)

However, in case you want to knit a pullover like mine, this is the basic pattern (I've used one I found in a German knitting-mag called "Rebecca"): 

simply use a rib pattern (one left, one right, one left, one right, you get it) for one row, then do one row right knit stitches only. After that you repeat it until you have the length you need.

Thanks go to my mum who (again) helped me a lot and whose ideas were the crochet as well as the ribbon. :-)