last night was my old school friend’s 30th birthday, for which i decided i would make some handmade presents regardless of whether i actually have the time or not! i sewed her a little pouch which i embellished with some felt and some shrinkplastic flowerbuttons – how creative can you be when you are in [...]

procrastination is a virtue and demands a high threshold of stress, otherwise i would already be running down the street naked quoting linguistic manuals to complete strangers. mind you, i wouldn’t have to do that naked to attract weird looks. bah. it will get done somehow. within the next 2 weeks. ok, i’m not panicking.
how [...]

when you spend hours doing this :

you also want to do this:

for as much as it is interesting and important to broaden your horizon, it is always a little bit of a turn off if the learning process becomes laden with rules, deadlines, grades and pages and pages of dry empirical research data. these are [...]

pasqualina was my first close friend. we walked to kindergarden together every day. we shared everything kindergarden age children share, the fights, the laughter, the tears, we even fancied the same boy at kindergarden… Then my family moved away and we went to different schools. We still tried to keep in contact and visited each [...]

i have a new friend. now i keep walking around looking at the world in macro mode…

in its path it found an unfinished christmas birthday easter present for my mother. but given the weather around here she will still be able to wear the scarf at easter! the yarn is anny blatt [...]

there is a busy little boy about this house, and he loves his pencils. in the world he draws everything is round, and “soft and smoooooth”, as he likes to say.
and this is his favourite object by far:

oh yes i did.
i finished my birthday calendar and therefore now fully deserve my first merit badge.

feels good to have at least one project finished, and what a fun one, too!

amy’s mailorder helped me get through the day today. it was gloomy, windy, it rained on us on the way to mother and child activity group and my throat felt a little sore by the end of the day. how did i survive? i made amy’s fantabulous amazing apple crisp and indulged in all its [...]

it is snowing here in switzerland. again. but it’s march! the birds should be chirping and building nests, flowers should be poking their little buds out in the garden and the air should be filled with fresh and uplifting scents.
instead it’s freezing and the garden is barren and still.

i’m pretending spring has arrived, with [...]