excessive furniture painting

I spent the last four days painting my old dark brown dresser. I have always liked its form and style, but the colour, oh the colour... I didn't fit at all into my room. But now, HAVE LOOK :D It's so much better now, don't you think?
I chose some motives of artists I admire and added some of my own ideas.

Two total views. Small drawers with my own designs. Upper big drawer with pacman, of course (I had to do some pacman painting!!), lower big drawer with a little umbrella girl and it's mushroom friend inspired by Tanji Akiko, apples by me.
Upside: Smiling funny trees and sun by myself, super cool smoking caterpillar copied from a painting of Dain Fagerholm.
Twiggeldy/Twiggeldum-like Siamese Twins, inspired by a drawing in Anorak Magazine issue No. 10 (I could not find the artist, if someone knows, please tell me!)
Mother Magpie and her babys and Jussike, from Jussikes Sieben Freunde by Silvi Väljal (old USSR childrens' book,one of my favourites)

Everything done with acrylic paint. By the way, last week, I rearranged my whole working place. Pictures coming soon!

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baby time

I'm sooo much in love with little ones these days. I want a baby. NOW. It fills my mind every day, and I suppose my biology wants to tell me something... my hormones are playing "classics for baby" recently, and they're getting louder each day. As a consequence, I'm very much affected by ANY YOUNG CHILD that crosses my way (which is rather funny at work, where I had to examine a pair of very cute female newborn twins yesterday and suddenly behaved like a teen- the mother looked rather bewildered..ummm). Even worse if it concerns people I know. I've started to produce A LOT of baby stuff in the last weeks. For example, these two:



It's for my dear friend Chris who gave birth to Damian two weeks ago (and she's 6!!! years younger than I am ...). Poor Mr. P. He loves children and he wants some, but not AT ONCE, which I can understand quite well as he's still younger than me, and I won't definitely try to make him want a child if he doesn't... but I simply feel that it's time for me. Puh. Any suggestions??? ;)

(By the way, the sweet cap is made of this pattern.)

mädchenflohmarkt!

Last Sunday, it was finally thrifty girls' paradise day in Tiny Town. Had been working for the last three weeks to finish some cool projects for selling, and I WAS exited. It was my first own stall. YEAH :D Felt good, worked wonderful, got a lot of really nice feedback and made promo for my tattoist, too. haha :) The organizerettes made an amazing job, they had so much sweet granny style deco :)



Some people were strange (not speaking of me). We had much fun muttering about the people standing in front of the stall and not realizing that we watched them while they examined my stuff.




Also,for the cake buffet, I tried out two recipes from Post Punk Kitchen: Peanut Butter Chocolate Pillows and Pignoli Almond Cookies, and they turned out even better then I hoped.. Vegan cookies ROCK!

Alltogether, I think it was a success, but there's still some stuff left- kawaii and crochet AND vintage which I added to my dawanda shop. Lookee!

far far away-advent calender for Tamara

The people who are furthest away often are the ones most present in our minds. AND in our hearts.
When my soulmate Tamara left for brazil last july to spend the next 9 months there, I was really depressed. You get used to it, but it's simply not the same.

Assuming that she must sometimes feel even worse than I do, and especially during Christmas season with all that glitter and family stuff, I had the idea of making an advent calender for her. In Germany, this is a very common tradition and even grown-ups without kids often have one hanging at their kitchen door :) I like best the version with 24 small bags or booties or packages fixed to a band and hung across the room or along the walls, that's what we had at home since I was a child.
But for Tamara, it should have a certain touch of travelling, and express the feeling of homesickness as well as the longing for being far away. Then I found an old road atlas my parents sorted out some time ago, and it flashed my mind to use the sheets for creating some unusual triangle paper bags :)



And then, PUH, the fillings...it took me several days to finish all that stuff because it HAD to become something really special. That's what came out in the end:

two family recipes, crocheted personalised wristband, vouchers, bath soak, spice mixture ...


anti-homesick-handkerchief ;)


embroidered winter spice sachet, ilovemate-trivet (mate is her favourite drink), short stories book and so on...

I took it to the post office the day before yesterday. By registered mail. I am so anxious that it reaches her safe and on time.

Tiny Girly Stick Stick Stick

My dear friend Christin is currently love sick, and when she lended me her stick drive for a few days as I had lost mine (no wonder, all that MESS in my house), I had the idea to make a mini-bag for that tiny stick. It's about 1,5 inches long and took me 7 minutes. And it earned me a huge smile from her face.

I love to present people with little things when they don't expect it. It's so thrilling to make others happy... isn't that the MOST thrilling thing there is, in fact? And that way, it's not so altruistic as it seems at the first glance... I feel much better that way, thinking about what would be a nice and fitting gift, and how to package it, and thinking about little bitty things to decorate it with and so on... :)
Enough now, I have to go and get my concert tickets for tonight.

Eduard Le Bear

Look what I just finished, isn't he cute? No, not handsome, but definitely unique. It is a birthday gift for Moe, he wished for a crocheted animal and let me decide what species it should be. My usual characters would have looked much to sweet and girly for him, as he is rather cool and well-read and stuff. Besides, his whole flat is furnished with chocolate brown leather sofas and matching wallpaint, and his living room looks more like a library... Having these things in mind, I thought of a bear at once, but what came out surprised me all the same. Eduard resembles the Mr Bean Teddy in a strange way :D

Nevertheless, I'm convinced that he will like his new companion. Wonder what place my little Mr Le Bear will get in that gorgeous house.