kitty-kat

Yesterday evening he came in after playing on the balcony carrying a mouse ... we live on the 7th floor. I have no idea where he found it (I think I don't really want to know either).
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Farmers market

It was farmers market this saturday. I drank my first new wine, something between grape juice and wine. Yummy!

"New Wine"

Artichoke

Yes, a padded badger next to sausages. I don't know why.... :D

Egg noodles

Fruit liqueur

Germans like painted pumpkins.

You also can buy several brushes and scrubbers.

Christina

Bad Dürkheim

I wanted to go to the flea market in Bad Dürkheim. I walked with my husband over the place but I didn't find anything pretty to make a photo of. It was just a normal german flea market with old stuff, most of the time ugly stuff.

So we decided to walk through Bad Dürkheim and I took some pictures. 

This shows a statue of a winemaker with a basket on his back at the grape harvest.

Bad Dürkheim is a city on the Germany Wine Route.

This is the park next to the hotels.

At the "Römerplatz" (Roman Place)

I was surprised to see this little one! I thought parkometers were "extinct"!

Myriam, our friends and myself will go to Bad Dürkheim next weekend because then there is the biggest wine festival in the world. Of course we will make some pics for you.

Christina

Postcards 2

As you know I'm a postcrosser. Here are some cards I received the last weeks:

From the United Kingdom

From the USA

From the Netherlands

From the Netherlands

From Germany and my favorite!

Also from Germany

I just found out that there also exists a community of bookcrossers!

www.bookcrossing.de

www.bookcrossing.com

And of course the link to the postcrossing website:

www.postcrossing.com

Christina

How to make your sister happy (or: sew a skirt)

My sister bought some cloth and asked me to sew her skirts. 
When she buys skirts they don't fit in the length most of the time.
I made a pattern out of tracing paper. I measured around her hips and the length the skirt will have. I added 3 cm (about 1 inch) to the hem and 1 cm (about 1/2 inch) to the waistband.
I divided the pattern into half.

But first of all I serged the cloth and washed it. 

After ironing the cloth I folded it and pined the pattern on it. Then I cut the cloth.














I pined and sew the long sides together.























Here I serged the seam.
















          I ironed the hem twice and sewed it.

Because my sister hates zippers I took an elastic band and pricked a safety pin trough. 

   With the safety pin I put the elastic band through the waistband. I fixed the band.

Voilà! 

Christina

It's baking time ... again

Who doesn't love muffins? Jawohl, no one! So far, I've only tried sweet muffins or cupcakes. So I figured, it's about time to make some savory muffins. To be honest I was kinda lazy, instead of grabbing my muffin recipe book from the top shelf, I just googled "herzhafte muffins" which simply translates to savory muffins. Lazy as I am (I'm sorry, I'm working on that :) I picked the first entry which directed me to the following recipe. 

I altered the recipe a bit and only used the basic stuff for the dough: 

• 80ml olive oil 
• 250 g curd cheese (Quark in German) 
• 75 ml milk
• 300g flour
• 2 eggs (medium sized)
• 300 g cherry tomatoes
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 125 g diced ham
• 1/2 piece of mozzarella

Preheat your oven (200°). Cut the tomatoes and the mozzarella. Mix oil, milk, eggs and curd cheese. Add the flour, mixed with the baking powder. After that, add the diced ham and the pieces of tomatoes and mozzarella (I kept some ham, tomatoes and mozzarella for the topping). Don't forget to flavor the dough. Mix mix mix.

Put the dough into a baking pan and add the leftover ham, tomatoes and mozzarella on top. Bake for about 25-30 minutes.

Tada!

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my polaroid and me... part 2

A couple of posts ago I was whining about how my polaroid decided to put ugly brown stains on each photograph. So yesterday I gave it another shot :) and took two more pictures. 

As I predicted: huuuge brown stain

The second one..

No stain? What's happening?

 I do not have the slightest idea why the second photo is stain-free. I guess my polaroid just does what it wants. We'll see how the last photo will turn out...