I heart kitsch

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Oh yes I do! And I'm not ashamed to admit it :)

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Quiche

I visited my parents today. My mother asked me to modify her t-shirt so I packed my whole stuff for sewing. 
She cooked a quiche and we drank "Federweißer" something between grape juice and white wine. It was a very delicious dinner.

There are other names for "Federweißer". It's also called "Bitzler" or "Neuer Wein" (new wine) and a lot more different names depending on where you are. You can read more here.
You can buy the new wine in bottles or -like we did- in a plastic canister. 
A quiche isn't quite a german dish but is close to the traditional onion cake you can buy/cook in autumn. So Federweißer and Zwiebelkuchen (onion cake) belongs together. 

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The Red Dress

Today I was up for sewing! A friend gave me her ruined dress. Her washing machine wanted to eat her red dress and she asked me if I could save it. So here the rehab in pics:

My friend is really tall. I hope she will still fit in this...

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Wurstmarkt

Last weekend Chris, two friends of ours and I went to the Wurstmarkt in Bad Dürkheim (fun times!). A must for us since we come from a wine-growing area. The Wurstmarkt or Worschdmarkt (which basically translates to sausage market/fair :) is actually the world's largest wine festival (at least that's what they state on their web page.) It takes place every year around the 2nd and 3rd weekend in September and it really became a tradition for us to go there (my parents used to take me there since I've been a little kiddy).

Chris and I enjoying our Weinschorle

Of course, the most important thing at a wine festival is .. yep, the wine. The main part of the Wurstmarkt, and the part where you get the good stuff (wine), are the so-called Schubkärchler, which comes from the german word for hand-barrow. In this part there are 36 tents where different vine dressers from our region sell their wine. You can decide if you want your wine pure or as spritzer. If you go for the spritzer, you get a 0,5 liter glass filled with three quarters wine and one quarter water. The special glasses are called Dubbeglas, because they have spots on them. Tradition has it that butchers from Bad Dürkheim invented the Dubbeglas in order to get a better grip on them, because normal smooth glasses would slip easily out of their greasy hands.

caramelized almonds, yummy!

 Aside from the (very good) wine you get at the Wurstmarkt there is also food food food! You get all the good stuff from sweet to spicy. And of course Wurst, all kinds of Bratwurst (even a half-a-meter Bratwurst!). In addition to that you find a whole lot of typical food from the Rhineland area where we're from. 

Lebkuchen hearts, ham sandwich, cotton candy and Brezel

All in all we had a super fun time, although it was crammed with people, Chris even got to talk to some nice Americans. Looking forward to next year.
And now, have some more picuters:

top right corner: The Dürkheimer Riesenfass, the biggest wine barrel in the world (what a coincidence). There's no wine inside, but a whole restaurant

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Postcards 3

Today I received four awesome postcards! So I thought I should show you all the new ones from today and last week:

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Squirrel!!!

Just a few moments ago I heard our squirrel (it lives in our garden) squeaking. I had to look what's going!

Our cat was sitting under the elder looking up to the little fella! So here are some pics:

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Tuesday Tune: Rival Sons

Rival Sons

So this week I present you a band from L.A.

My husband showed me some songs and now I'm in love! 

Scott Holiday, Mike Miley and Robin Everhart founded the Band Rival Sons , later singer and songwriter Jay Buchanan joined the band. 

They sound like Led Zeppelin, Free, The Hives and The White Stripes.

Singer Jay Buchanan sounds like Free singer Paul Rodgers and sometimes even like Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant. 

Rival Sons self-released their first album in the Internet: Before the Fire (2009)
Their second album is called Pressure & Time (2011)
The third record was released in Germany today!!! We bought it and listened to it immediately!!! It's called Head Down (2012).
You can read more here.

Every song is great and I'm just speechless how someones voice can sound so awesome!  

Great stuff! 

Christina

Candle light

Fall has started these days and I wanted to light some candles. I had the idea to make some old and empty glasses a bit nicer with mirror stones. So I took my hot glue gun and stuck the stones onto a jelly glass and a vase. 
I stuck also some cinnamon sticks and wooden sticks on a bigger glass. I think I will use it as a vase.
Have a nice day!

Christina

Tuesday Tune: The XX

I just purchased Coexist, the new album from The XX 
and it has been on repeat ever since :)

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If you liked their first album, then you should buy Coexist as well. To me, it sounds like a sequel of the first one, which is a good thing, because I loooove the first album. 
You can listen to Coexist here.

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Their homepage is pretty neat, too, when you stream the album you can see on a map where on earth people listened to it as well.




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North Sea (German Ocean)

I was at the North Sea coast with my friends in 2010. Here are some pics of our vacation. 

The beach of Römö. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rømø

The Pancake House at Föhr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Föhr