Up Up And Away

If this little girl had just one more balloon, I'm sure she'd take off ;-)

Fake or real?

This is another version of the famous Sky Disc, the tasty one ;-)

Geometrical Landscape

It's for a reason that they call my region The green heart of Germany:

Pending Flower

A bunch of pendants I made these last days:

Le jardin est tout vert*

Although this is a photo I took at the palace gardens in Würzburg, I read the headline on a café's signboard in Brussels. I found it original because it says "the garden is all green" but when I read it out loud, it sounded like all the lines at all the signs during the summer: "le jardin est ouvert" (the garden is open). So, intentional or misspelling?

Currant Impulse

They don't taste very good, they have too many seeds for such small berries and they're a pain to pluck. But they look as if they were made of pure crystal - white currants:

Wildlife

.. on my kitchen table:

Another little flower

.. and exactly the colour that was still missing in this garden:

The upside of summer rain

Yesterday, it rained for most of the day, to a point that it started to depress me. But when it was over, I could take this picture:

Italy?

Little towers on Würzburg Castle that have kind of an Italian feel to them - at least to me:

Modern architecture

Seen from a different angle, the city's architecture can seem quite different...

Next step: quarter finale!

We did it again - 4:1 against England today. The next step is the quarter finale this Saturday, and however far we get, we know for certain that we are one of the world's 8 best teams!
Oh yes, this photo was taken at the Parade der Kulturen yesterday, and there is more to come.

Btw., Anonymouses, how are your respective teams doing in this World Cup? :-)

Beautiful Things...

... come in small packages :-) This bracelet was given to me by my student at the end of the term. She remembered that I like little jewellery things, that I had admired a similar bracelet on her and noticed that blue is my favourite colour! Isn't that lovely?!


PS: Since I didn't get around to posting a picture yesterday, you get two for the price of one today ;-).

Still standing

With all the crisises, it's reassuring that the Euro is still standing...

Celtic Babe

Celtic Babe is what I have been called on my first day on an Indian chat site when I told the inquirer where I am from. So to bring out my heritage, here a triskel-like celtic knot on my palm:

Röslein auf der Heiden

Roses don't have to be red to be beautiful, on the contrary - I think red roses are so clichée and importunate.

Lost and found

Long time ago, a friend gave me a golden brown cabochon that had fallen out of a belt-buckle of hers. She thought I might be able to use it somehow, I liked it and so I kept it.. for two years. And finally this weekend, I made something out of it. This:

Mirror, mirror...

On my desk, there "live" a lot of things: my laptop, graphic tablet and printer always, my camera as a regular visitor and at the moment, there is a Wong Kar-wai DVD box sitting on the left.

Underneath (where a keyboard would slide in and out) is room for the current jewellery hype (many many little colourful beads right now) and the (half) finished products along with some make up items.

So what you can see in today's picture is a beaded glass cabochon, reflected in the package of an ayurvedic kohl kajal.

Work in progress

Every time I go to a craft store, I see a new interesting technique or when I visit my parents, my mum's got some new jewellery book and I'm immediately interested. The downside to all this is that I want to try something, I have to purchase the material and that adds up with time.
The latest thing is beaded cabochons as pendants (this will be one when it's finished), earrings, brooches ... anyone interested...?

Second sight

How's the weather going to be next week? Who is going to win the World Cup? When will the economy pick up?
Looking into my crystal ball(s), predicting the future should be no problem at all...