Europe for Charity

All the proceeds will go to the flood victims in Pakistan. Go and take a look please.

By Renate on September 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Diverses | No Comments »

I can do cute too …

See? At least one is very cute. By my standards … :)

By Renate on August 19th, 2010 | Posted in Diverses | 5 Comments »

Not on purpose, really!

I woke up with the best intentions today. This will be the house-cleaning day I proudly told on Twitter. And well, it’s needed, I tell you …

Maybe I was too ambitious, too energetic (mwuahahaaa). Anyway, the vacuum could not keep up with my energy. It broke. After only one room done. I didn’t do it on purpose, I swear! What do you think? Shall I take that as a sign. It cleary tells me that I’m simply not meant to do any cleaning …

By Renate on August 18th, 2010 | Posted in Diverses | 6 Comments »

Scented Witch

Don’t know wether I said it already (of course I did, but once more will not hurt) - I’m not a girly girl. Not pink. Not cute. Not sweet. Not even nice most of the time. Neither my look nor my personality.
Let’s face it.  I’m a  grumpy little witch. The grumpy part gets worse with the years! Oh I could tell you stories …
But anyway, still I want to smell good. But you can imagine, it’s hard to find a scent that fits. So I’m on a quest now to find the right perfume. So far I ordered from ForStrangeWomen (yes, love the shopname!) and just today my samples from Wiggleperfume ( I like that shopname too! :) came.
Everything I got smells good! But how can you decide when there are so many options? Now I want to try all the scents! I don’t think going on this quest was a good idea … See? I’m grumpy again! ;)

By Renate on August 10th, 2010 | Posted in Diverses | 4 Comments »

Fantastic Blog Post

I know, I know …. I’m a bad blogger.
But well, here! I have a new cutting mat.
Now if that’s not a great post … :D

By Renate on August 4th, 2010 | Posted in Diverses | 10 Comments »

Kreuzspinne

Deadly! Well, not for us humans …
Now that I think about it, I never made a spider journal. Wonder why … :)

By Renate on July 31st, 2010 | Posted in Diverses | 2 Comments »

Sewing Machine Troubles

I could go  with the lost stitch on pic nr. 1. At least, that looks somewhat … artistic. But what she (the sewing machine) did afterwards is just unacceptable.  I understand it’s a problem with tension. I don’t mind changing the “top” tension, but she (the sewing machine) better not forces me to fool around with the one on the bobbin!!!

Any sewing masters out there who can explain to me what happend there? It worked fine. All I did was change  stitches …

She (you know who) just ruined what could have become the coolest journal ever! Well, maybe not the coolest, but anyway … ruined. Bah!

By Renate on July 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Diverses | 5 Comments »

Fresh Supply

The only problem with it - which one first? :)

By Renate on July 21st, 2010 | Posted in Diverses | 6 Comments »

Desire and Reality

We are in the middle of a gigantic, superenormous, unbelievable hot heatwave. 30°c indoors at the moment, that’s 86°F my american friends … HOT! At least, much to hot for my taste. And we don’t have airconditioning here. In supermarkets, yes, there it’s cool. But well, you can only spend so much time chatting with the frozen peas…

Anyway. I take long reading sessions in the pool (bathtub) to cool down. It works. But it would work so much better if instead of here:

I could do it there!

Universe - I’m so ready for the lottery win! Hear me? :D

By Renate on July 16th, 2010 | Posted in Diverses | 6 Comments »

My creative process

Or - from Sun to Brain Cell.
I had my share on blog interviews. And most of the time the question “Tell us about your creative process” came up. I never had a good answer for that. It’s just what happens …
But well, today I made this book. I started with the idea to draw a sun. You know, one of this nice, baroque ones. With a smiling face and all that stuff. So I made a cirle and the “halo” around it. While I filled that my brain somehow jumped in and told me to make that little dots.
Okay, so next step where the eyes. But as the dots made it look somehow “technic”, I decided to make real circles instead of almond shaped forms for the eyes. And at that point, things went into a totally different direction …
What I had in the end didn’t look anything like what I had planned when I started. It looked more like one of my (obviously) crazy brain cells.
Yep. There you have it, my creative process. I’m glad we finally discussed that.

By Renate on July 7th, 2010 | Posted in Diverses | 4 Comments »