My New Favourite Thing

So I got me a new hobby.
As I’ve always loved crafting, it was only a short hop to scrapbooking and rubber stamping. First I discovered the cute projects at Stampendous.com in my search for inspiration for my last year Christmas Cards. (I have quite a large family, so it’s impossible to buy a suitable gift for everyone, that’s why everyone gets a handmade card.)

Anyway, I am all new to this hobby and I still don’t have all the tools and stuff I’d need (yeah I know, just another excuse to spend a whole lot of money…) but it’s so much fun and somehow therapeutic. You don’t have to think really hard about anything, you just sit there, cutting things, adhering stuff, measuring and stamping… It’s really meditative.

I’m going to post some of the cards I made recently, here’s N° One:

That’s a square card which I CASEd (Copy And Steal Everything) from someones blog. The crisp and simple design looks great!

Btw I really love it when people (most do) have a Copyright Sign over their images since I save them to my inspiration folder and afterwards I can’t tell where I got the idea from. So if this picture looks familiar to you, please tell me where this is originally from so I can link to the other blog.

I made this for a good friend of mine who moved out of town and will be spending the next semester in Granada as Erasmus student. I’ll really miss her and so the saying on this card was just what I wanted to say.

Supplies:

SU Priceless Stamp Set
White Square Card ( x ), Lime Green Cardstock, White Linen Paper
Versamark Amethyst Ink, Versamark Lime Ink
SU Flower Brads from the Hodgepodge Hardware Silver Kit

The people who rob my bank account on a regular basis

As promised, I’m going to present some sites to you that I’m particularly fond of.

Today it’s the online shop of “Impressionen Versand”, which is a German retailer for fine clothing, shoes, jewellery and home furnishing.

Each season their catalogue is delivered to my home and twice a year I have to convince myself to throw it away immediately since I know that if I open it, I’ll find so many lovely things that I’m going to be bankrupt for the next two months. So that’s already all the bad things there are to say about Impressionen.

They also have an online shop which has just recently had a makeover, so now I expect it’s going to be even easier to find the things you’re looking for. Their concept is to offer special things, beautiful design and fashion with a twist to communicate a certain lifestyle of lightness and joy with a “nordic touch”. For me, it’s already soothing to look at their photos. The light in them is always so special! In my eyes, the photographer is a genius.

They also ship to other EU countries*, except for the bulky items (those have a little truck sign in the article description). In Germany, Austria and Switzerland (where they have their separate catalogue) they also have a 24h Express Service. And by the way: If you’re looking for a special item, I highly recommend the search, because only selected new articles are to be found in the regular shop (I guess this is for style reasons).

So have fun online shopping and I’ll be here, lusting over some items, including:

* Edit: Unfortunately the site is NOT available in English, so you’ll need some German (www.dict.cc)

Made it!

As you might have realized, I wasn’t exactly dedicated to update my page in the last time.
For those of you who know me it’ll be clear why. For those of you who don’t:
I’ve been spending my time at University a lot, I had some kind of “crash course” for consecutive interpreting, which takes up a whole semester and in the end you’ll be put up for an exam (5 minutes consecutive English into German). It’s the point where it’ll be decided whether you’re going to be allowed to begin interpreting after 4 semesters of basic studies in translation. So this very exam was today aaaaaaand – I passed!
Well, I have to admit that it was quite close since I was so nervous that I couldn’t really concentrate on the audio file. Btw Kudos to Nathalie, Damaris and Janina for such excellent speeches!
Now all of us can finally sing: Bye bye stress, bye bye nervousness…!
There won’t be any lectures until October, which means lots of time to relax, aaah that’s great!
I’m also planning to post more entries (I really dunno why I always blog in English…) about my new hobby, about websites worth visiting and many other things.
We’ll see how well I cope with that mid-year resolution
And now I’m going to get ready to party, yayyy!

Who’d you vote for?

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So folks, who should become the next Head of State of the “U S and A” if it was up to you?
(I already voted, of course, for Obama.)

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