I’m a jinx

Guess what happened two days ago when my mom, our British friend James and I were driving through the countryside?

A car ran into ours!
In my defense, I wasn’t the driver.
Well, I reckon that might be enough of bad luck for years (hopefully) to come. Today I had an appointment with the chiropractor and he helped my aching neck after the two times whiplash. So now I’m able to turn my head better than the last two days.

While we’re at the subject: there are two cute little “escape the room”-like online games called Jinx & Jinx 2. They are both quite easy but I love them for their humour and the cheerful layout.

Anyway, as I’m with my mom at the moment, today we did a little shopping tour and I got me some expensive adorable boots for autumn and winter – at least one thing I can look forward to wearing in the next time, even though I still wish summer would come back again.

Now a picture that has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote, but I have to show it to you anyway (I love love love this picture! Thanks bro for capturing this perfect moment!)

Starring: me, René & the cutest dog the world has ever seen – Buck!

It’s already six o’clock, I gotta go and dress up for a girls night out (I’m gonna wear my new boots! Yay!) See ya!

Handmade

To give you some more pleasant pictures than the ones I posted earlier today, here are some pretty cards I made in the last days:

That’s one I made really quickly, using the ideas of this card by Andrea Walford.

Supplies:

SU Priceless Stamp Set, Saying by Inkadinkado
Sky Blue Card, SU Polka Dot Designer Paper, Wasabi Green CS,
White Linen Paper, White CS
Versamark Cyan Ink, Versamark Black Onyx Ink
Brads and Metal Accent from SU Hodgepodge Hardware Silver
Scallop Scissors, Needle

This card was inspired by the Gift Card Holder from Andrea Walfords Tutorial. I love the little ladybugs, they’re so cute! If anyone is looking for the supplies list, let me know by posting a comment and I’ll get back to you.

This is a card I made for my mom because she wasn’t feeling so well. I guess the cutesy apples and colours cheered her up I made it with my beloved Tart & Tangy Mini Stamp Set and the layout ideas from… Andrea Walford! (NOOOO I hear you scream in amazement)

Now last but not least the famous popsicle card I made for my brothers birthday:

This is an idea perfect for the Tart & Tangy Stamps, CASEd from Lynn Larson. It looks great in person and is such a fun card, easy to make and absolutely lovely looking.

Now that was the first series of my leisure time activities photos, I hope you enjoyed them!

The Big Bang

The good news first: We’re alive.
The bad news:

Do I need to say more?
Well, I guess you’re wondering how I did that. We were going to visit Renés sister in Bremen (north of Germany) and help her move to another city where she’s got her new job. So we rented a car at Sixt (my advice people: NEVER RENT A CAR FROM SIXT – NEVER). We only got 30 km from Heidelberg, which is approximately where the picture was taken.

To make the long story short: We were driving on the left lane, the traffic was dense and in front of us was a white transporter. Some small car cut into the lane before him and we couldn’t see that. The transporter guy then had to make an emergency stop. When I saw that, I slammed on the brakes as hard as I could and the next things I remember is hearing René screaming “Scheiße” (= fuck) and knowing that we won’t make it anymore, then this picture of the back of the transporter with the red lights approaching incredibly fast and finally the cushion flying into my face. So that’s how I managed to total the car.

Airbags are really useful stuff, I tells ya.
And I didn’t know that explosives are used to open an airbag, so I was totally convinced the car was smouldering. We instantly got out of the vehicle and the transporter guy called the police and stuff. Then we waited for the ambulance, the police and finally the breakdown lorry. I’m sure we produced a huge traffic jam.

Anyway, this was a day I’d happily delete if only I could…*
But as I said: on the positive side there’s that nobody was injured seriously (just whiplash and bad bruises for René and me) and poor Buck was just really confused for some time.

On the bad side there is the fact that the car wasn’t really insured (comprehensive coverage not included at Sixt – unlike at Europcar, for example…), so depending on how much guilt the small car gets for cutting into our lane, it’s getting really expensive.

The lady at Sixt told us that we should consider an amount of eight to twelve thousand Euros… Yep, that was the noise I made, when I heard it, too. For a car I haven’t driven much further than 30 kilometers!! Arrghhhh!!!!!!

So I’d say, an amount like that and the great pic of our stunt car, that should be worth some props, dontchya think?

*Mad props to René for keeping calm in the situation and comforting me!