i’ve been studying all day long today. but the weather was so nice and i just couldn’t focus anymore. thanks to these two i could escape my papers and went out for two hours of sunlight.

sunlight and flowers

isn’t the smell of lilac the most wonderful thing in spring? i know some people dislike it but i just can’t get enough!

lili and i went on a walk through st.marx cemetery on sunday, enjoyed the sunlight and the fresh lilac blossoms all over the place. it might sound strange to take a walk on a cemetery, but this one is open to the public. it’s closed for new funerals and you can take a look at really beautifully carved gravestones. there are little meadows where the most beautiful flowers bloom and you can just walk around on little alleys.

the light was more than right and i took some pictures. see more on flickr.
… i think lilac would be a pretty nice name for a boy. i don’t know why. ok maybe a cats name.!?

royal

sunbeams

sometimes i try out ideas which i build in my head… and somehow they don’t look how i wanted them to :)

anyhow this one didn’t go as planed but looks nice as well.

i wanted to make a bowl out of air dry clay and press a fern into the clay. well this did work, but i didn’t think of the fact, that once it was dry i would see the fern on the outside anymore. so if you want to try out this bowl, you might want to place your fern “print” on the inside of your bowl. :)

this is how you do it:

you need

press the fern onto the flattened clay

put something round onto the clay and cut it out

put your clay circle into the bowl and form a nice seam, let it dry for a day

you can smooth the seam with a nail file like i did here

finished, i use it for tiny objects i tend to lose

i just can’t get enough of fern. i think baby fern plants look like the home of tiny fairies, when the roll out the look so magical. even though it’s “just” a green plant i think it might be one of my favourites!

this is one of the reasons why i post much less at the moment.

university and another training i’m doing absorbs most of my time. plus a huge we love handmade project which will hopefully be up soon.

i’ve been waiting to do this some time now, but i thought it would be boring to show me studying different things every hour. so i waited for a more adventurous day… which didn’t come along, so i took this sunday, filled with friends and work. it’s not exactly my whole day… but still 10 hours of it.

the blurry one above. 10am ready to start the day, sunglases and all!
actually my day started at 8am but all the pictures somehow came out super high lit… the camera was still tired i guess ;)

11am: cheering with julie for teresa… who’s running the vienna city half maraton

12pm: she’s our hero

1pm: coffee, flowers and work at h.annas place

2pm: still working

3pm: more coffee for work… there’s so much to do!

5pm: going home… already tired

6pm: coming home – this one is already waiting for me

7pm: and this one wants my supper

8pm: pan doesn’t want to cuddle …now my work “day” begins

now that the light is gone i start with my school/university work. but that might be boring on pictures. even though i’m someone who has her camera around all the time it’s not so easy to take a pic every hour. but it’s sort of fun to capture a “whole” day… i hope your sunday was as sunny as mine!

this weekend has been sort of slow.

i had to bring mr. pan to the doctors office on saturday and kept the rest of the day watching him around walking like a drunk kitten. poor little one.
but today he was much better already.

happy mum

through the bushes

my family and i spent the day at my other grandmothers house… we ate all day long and went for a walk.

even though i love rainy days, i’d like some sunshine now please :)! how was your weekend?

since spring decided to turn it’s back on us i enjoyed the work i have to do for university. i have to invent different material for school. 



this is a spring flower memory. i painted all the flowers and scanned them… is there any elementary school teacher reading this blog who would enjoy this memory as well? maybe i can find a way to make it a downloadable special…

i’m looking forward to the weekend. there will be woods and woods and food and easter and chocolate and family :) what are you up to?

together with the rest of the we love handmade girls i held a workshop for natural egg dyeing today. it was a lot of work but lot’s of fun as well. i hope everyone had fun and is happy with their eggs :) i even baked a cake for the occasion ;)

who might that be

how to dye

#weloveworkshop

looking for eggs

i even backed a cake

did you take a look at the we love handmade mag #2 already? if you didn’t you don’t know my little clay project. these succulents have a pretty new home at my place… how pan helped me to make those little clay pots and how you could make them yourself you can find out in the magazine on page  53

this is not only a great project for a wedding but for anyone else as well. i really like to work with clay, it’s so easy to make little things and you don’t have to burn in the oven. do you use clay? what else can be made out of it? any ideas?

all the sleepless nights and the working-weekends made me go to the museum today. i deserved a day off! even though it where only a few hours it was still a nice time. there is a special anatomic exhibition at the moment where you can see a lot of strange body parts and learn interesting things about yourself you didn’t know… well at least i didn’t know all of them :) sadly you’re not allowed to take pictures in this special exhibition. but since i’m not that often at the museum of natural history this also involved a visit to the other parts of the museum.

dinolove

how much i like dinosaurs you might have guessed by now, the new dinosaur exhibition is awesome! there is even one who moves and roars all the time. if you haven’t been tho this museum for some time you should definitely go there. everything is new and there are a lot of features that involve you as a visitor to interact with the exhibition.

under the sea

i’m a zebra

if you’d like to see some more pics …flickr’s your friend :)