Rosehips...

As we went for a little walk at Christmas we found a place with lots of Rosehips...my MIL was the first who saw all the red . They still are very nice and so yesterday I decided to go there again - to look if they still are there after the snow we had...and I took a bag full of little stems.

Today now I made my first rosehips-wreath .

Now as the Christmas deco finally is away I also took my old wooden window frame ( I found it at the fleamarket and stored it in my cellar) and put it to my bears.

And ...talking of bears....yes...I took some fabric and started on bearmaking again! ;-))

Now a little word on something I found out the last days...

next week is my cousin´s (she is in the USA) birthday.

As I haven´t send a card or package for christmas ( couldn´t find what to send to be honest) I thought I HAVE to send something special now....time is running and shipping to the US from Germany takes some days...well...still no idea...what about flowers???

I very often send flowers in Germany. It´s not that expansive..

This one for example is about US $ 26 with fees.

And there are many Germany websites which offer also sending flowers to the US.

In Germany for example fleurop has it´s shops and sends the order to the nearest shop. They do not send the flowers...so I thought international it woul be the same...they will contact the nearest shop for delivery and that´s it. But hey....

Choosing delivery to the USA the cheapest bouquet is about US$ 57 incl.fees.

????????????????????????????

Please...blogreaders from the USA...could you please tell me....is that because flowers over there are that expensive???

I spend some time with google and browsing the internet and finally found an US shop with affordable prices...but ordering was tricky as the system didn´t take my German billing address... but finally the order was send and I hope it will work and my cousin will be glad to.

But I still can´t understand where´s the difference of ordering here or over there....

Anyway...

Have a nice weekend everybody -

First try

on scallops today!

And I can say it was really good!

Will keep on trying food I didn´t try before this year!

To-do-list

As I told yesterday it seems as if I need a kick to get into crafting again...


I´m not really that kind of friend of To-do-lists...but maybe I should start with a kind of plan for each day.


So for yesterday I did my promised undecorating...now theres no more christmas decaration or snowman (well..snowman would have still be ok but I decided to take it all away)


And I decorated my Valentines stuff...but ...hey...where is it gone?? There´s hardly some stuff I made for Valentines! And Valentines Day in Germany isn´t as popular as in the US.


But I still had some stuff from valentine Swaps.

OK...today I had to go to the doc..made some shopping and later have to get the boys...but for tomorrow I´ll put on my To-d-List to get out some fabric and sstart a new bear!

I feel as if

I do need I kick into the new year of activity.
Can´t really get me into anything new.
Feels as if I´m still in the lazy holidays mood.

But here it is...a wonderful new morning...


So today I´ll take off the last Christmas decorations ( all the primstuff still was left)...and will take out the valentines decorations. Hope that will give me a little kick.
I really have to get into sewing again as there are lot´s of bears to make for spring...

Got the new Dell!

Yeah!!!!

Yesterday my new Dell arrived and today I was just testing everything!

Now I´m able to use it everywhere around the house...

...in the kitchen...

...see the snow outside?....

Ok.... now with the new computer I try to get more organized with my files and emails...lol I´ve had really too much an my old one...

And....really important day...today Prison Break continous after a very long pause...! ;-))))

Promised pics of Christmas

So finally here are some of the promised pictures of Christmas.

OK - first I´ve to tell that over here in Germany we do celebrate Christmas on December the 24th. That´s the day Santa comes and presents are given.

For us the day is even more special because it´s also Fabian´s birthday.

We do celebrate in Family in the morning...but he has his birthdayparty 6 months later on June 24th.

After celebrating his birthday with cake for breakfast ;-) he ( and his brothers) have been very busy with his new Nintendo DS. And we decorated the tree.

It was the first time I tried a popcorn garland...and as the tree is not just a small one I have to go on next christmas to get the garland much longer. ;-)

After we went to Church it didn´t took long and Santa arrived.

And after all presents were unwrapped we had our "Wurstteller".

That´s what my husbands family used to have. Just bread, butter and all kinds of salami and this year we had a big ham.

Happy new year

We do have lots of snow and its really cold.

We had a wonderful christmas - will post some pics later.

I just have some trouble with my computer so it´s not fun tu surf the internet or work with while it turns off itself everytime. But....my present from hubby was a new pc...could choose if maybe an apple or a laptop...as I do prefer do be able to also go outside in the summer or not only upstairs I decided for a laptop. ´We ordered a Dell ans it should arrive the next days.