australian food recipes: October 2011

Hello! :) Here's a sewing project I finished a few weeks ago, I sewed this awesome Gameboy pillow for a friend of mine as a birthday present. :) I didn't know what to make for him and since I wanted something which is an object of daily use as well as something personal, I made this pillow, because he loves video games. :) I think it turned out great, so how do you like it? :) Such a pillow can now also be bought on DaWanda, so in case you need a Christmas present for your boyfriend, you can order it here. :)

Hello, happy Sunday! :) Yesssss, after some strenuous weeks of preparations, we finally moved! :) Here are a few first impressions, I'll share better photos in a few days... :) As you can see, fall has come and the leaves have turned yellow and Mogli enjoyed cuddling with his blanket. :) A few days ago, my mother had an awesome surprise for me, she gave me the most beautiful sleigh as a present!! <3 She ordered it from Bavaria and it's sooo pretty. Only some days earlier, friends of us gave us their old sleigh, too, so now we have two and I can't wait for the first snow to come!! :)

I organized some of my favourite bags and I received this pretty vintage etagiere which I ordered from a really lovely shop on DaWanda where I had already ordered something before. Then, last Friday, we spent our first night in the new apartment and on the right photo you can see how it looked like when I went out for a walk with Mogli in the first morning. :)

Then, our friends came and this is how it looks like when the girls are 'helping'. :D Haha, no, they actually helped me to prepare dinner for us and the hungry boys who were carrying all the heavy stuff. In the afternoon, after everything was done, we had dinner and rewarded them with the little present bags I prepared a few weeks ago. :) On the last photo you can see our breakfast table this morning, I was preparing lots of food while the boys were still sleeping. Do you see my pretty vintage plates from the flea market? :) We had a fresh fruit salad, a cake, hard boiled eggs and many other delicious things to perfectly start the day. :)

Our breakfast was great and Flo and I were so thankful for all the nice people who helped us. :) Do you recognize my handprinted Mr. Mouctache mug? :)

Finally, everything (apart from decor and little details) is done. :) Here are my new sewing corner, my cozy cord chair by the window and our new kitchen with my pretty, turquoise table. :)
Wish you a lovely Sunday, I'm gonna use my new sewing table for the first time and I'll share some more photos soon. :)
Lu <3

Happy Sunday! :) For those who are relatively new to my blog (Hello, I'm glad you read my posts! :)), here's a list of past DIY projects I posted some time ago. I know that Sunday is a day when many of you sit at home and craft or sew (Apart from going to the flea market, that's one of my favourite ways to spend Sundays, too :)), and that's why I thought I could share a list of tutorials I once made and maybe there's somebody who wants to try one of those projects. :)

1. This is an easy sewing project perfect for beginners and I posted it only a short time ago. The tutorial shows you how to make a simpe heart-shaped pillow, either as a gift for the special one you love, or to beautify your bedroom. :)
2. During my first blog party which I hosted past summer, I shared a project for how to make little cupcake pincushions.
3. Making those cute, little felt owl brooches was one of the first DIY projects I ever shared on my blog. :)
4. Here's a sewing tutorial for a camera case. If you want to read the German version, you can click here. :)
5. This project has also been developed last summer during my first blog party, I shared how to print tote bags with natural stamps.
6. Finally, this was a colorful present I made for my mother: a canvas embellished with felt clouds and rain drops.

Wish you a happy Sunday, I'll be going to the new apartment to go on arranging the rooms and to build up furniture. :)

Hi! :) Here are a few new snapshots I've been taking during the last few days. My mother bought us pretty flowers for our new balcony, I wore my new vintage dress and two of the cutest pins I made at work and I finished painting my extremely pretty kitchen cupboard. :) Of course I'll show better before - after photos after everything's done. :)

Moreover, the new semester has started and I could use my pretty, new owl pencil case. I know, I already own lots of those cases and handmade pouches, but it was so cute, I couln't resist buying it. :) One day, I bought my mother fresh flowers and we had quiche for lunch.

Here I asked my mother to take a photo of my outfit, but she isn't used to my mobile phone and so she cut off my head. :D This is my lovely, new vintage dress from Olenka Vintage. <3 I took the last photo just a few hours ago, my new room starts looking like it's mine!! :) I love it, here you can see my future sewing table and my comfy cord chair just next to the window. :)
Can't wait to finish everything and to finally live there and I'm soooo endlessly thankful for my mother helping us with everything. <3

Hello! :) Wanna see some awesome sources of inspiration I found on Pinterest? :)

1. I really love this bright kitchen shelf, the colorful details are so pretty and I like the bunting.
2. I've recently seen lots of DIY tutorials like this for how to make a pretty Peter Pan collar and I definitely wanna make one myself.
3. Which pretty shoes! I must make cute clips for my shoes to make them look as pretty as the ones on the photo. :)
4. This is such a beautiful home decor idea, I'll try that as soon as the new apartment is finished, this will add lots of color to plain corners in each room. :)
5. Some months ago I fell in love with floral vintage plates, I started to collect some and I totally fell in love with those especially pretty ones on that photo. <3
6. Great idea for a photo display using a wooden picture frame.
7. Awwww, I'm usually not a big fan of candles (to me they are just dust catchers, I only use them during the Christmas season), but this is such a cute idea! Wanna make those one day as little gifts and this way, I have a good excuse for vintage teacup shopping at the flea market. :)

8. This is an awesome idea, isn't it? I have way too many scarves and other accessories and I love this way of using an old ladder to organize those things.
9. I've recently been thinking of making bow ties for Flo and Mogli for Christmas and this one looks extremely nice.
10. Oh my gosh, this is incredibly beautiful! <3 I've been seeing those old enamel sieves everywhere on the flea market and the person who had this pretty idea of using it as a flower pot definitely inspired me to make such a thing for my new balcony. :)
So, what's your favourite? :)

My life in fake polaroid pictures: We are moving! :)

Hello, happy Sunday! :) Did you have a nice weekend? I had a few busy days, so much to do! :) I ordered some Vintage dresses and shortened them, I worked a lot (as you can see, at the fabric store where I'm working we made tons of pins and buttons for the upcoming Christmas season :)) and I prepared some things for the new apartment.

I also sewed some pretty fabric bags which I'm using as gift bags for the people who are coming here to help us and are even accepting a long journey to come here. <3 On Friday, Mogli and I had a loveley afternoon in the wood and afterwards, we snuggled a bit. :) On the right photo you can see some of the smaller items of furniture which I've bought and painted and the beautiful kitchen textiles I've sewn; an apron, oven gloves, potholders, dish towels and a pretty bunting (can't wait to hang it up in the new kitchen... :)).

On Friday evening Flo and I had a mediterranean omelette for dinner. On Saturday, the handing over of our new apartment finally took place and here you can see my beautiful new room and our kitchen with the old paint (I painted it white yesterday). I'm so much in love with this new home and although I'm awfully tired while I'm writing this post, I enjoyed the last two days which I've spent with cleaning, painting and rearranging things. One of the best things is that my mother is here to help us! :))

Awwwww, this is our first photo in the new apartment, I love it! :) How do you like my new kitchen cupboard? I bought it from a furniture restorer, it's from the 1950s and it was a real bargain!! :) This evening I've been painting it white, can't wait to share photos. Finally, we improvised our first dinner in the new apartment, fresh and healthy.
Ok, it's time for bed now, I'm sooooo tired and I think I'll fall asleep immediately! :)
Wish you all a good night,
thanks for reading! :)
Lu

Another one of those pretty woolly hats.

Hey, happy Friday! :) I just wanted to share some photos of a woolly hat I recently made. Remember the pretty woolly hats I crocheted last year? :) A few weeks ago a customer bought a yellow one and she liked it so much that she asked for another customized woolly hat in brown, so I made this one. :) If you still need one yourself for the cold season, check out my latest hat shop update. :) Any special plans for the weekend? We're going to start renovating the new apartment and I'm sooooo excited, can't wait. :) Moreover, my mum is coming to visit us, I'm so happy! :)
Wish you a lovely weekend, I'll spend the rest of the day with preparations for our relocation. <3

Lu loves fashion: I fell in love with Vintage, part 1.

Good morning everybody! :) Eeeeeeeks, I'm so excited, cause it's only so little time left until we are moving!! :) I've been so busy with organizing, planning, packing and dreaming about our new home. :) In the meantime, while I've been doing lots of online shopping for the new apartment, I found an awesome shop on DaWanda, OLENKA Vintage, and there I bought three amazing Vintage dresses. Their condition is awesome and they look so pretty, I only had to shorten them a bit. :) Here's the first one, I'll show the others soon and I hope to find some time for an outfit post during the next week. :)
Lu :)

Shop update: accessories for fall and 15% off. :)

Hi! :) These are a few new accessories I listed on DaWanda about one week ago, I think they are perfect for autumn. :) The leaves are attached to hairclips and the toadstool is a brooch. :)
Moreover, this week there's a special on DaWanda with -15% in all participating shops where you haven't purchased anything before, so this is a great chance to get to know my shop. :)
Lu

My life in fake polaroid pictures - flea market edition.

Hey! :) Yesterday I spent the day doing one of my favourite things on Sundays: going to the flea market in Berlin. <3 As usual, I love looking at all those interesting treasures and I love wondering about who has once owned them. I saw pretty furniture, old typrewriters and pretty, colorful coat hangers.

Here are a few snapshots of my outfit, I didn't take a photo of the entire body, so you have to put them together by yourself. :) I'm happy that it was cold enough so that I could wear one of my handmade scarves. :)

Ohh, these old roller skates are awesome, aren't they? :)

I love the turqouise clock! And here are my flea market finds: I bought the most beautiful floral necklace (It's not vintage, it's a new one), a hoop which I wanna use for a mobile and I found a type case which I was looking for. I'm going to paint it white and then I will hang it on the wall and use it for storage. :)
Did you have a nice Sunday, too? :)

And I'm still crafting and sewing...

Hey, happy Saturday and hello to my new followers! :) How's your week been so far?
Apart from the projects I've already posted on my blog (and apart from working, of course :)), I went to IKEA, sewed a lot and prepared even more things for the new apartment (I know, I'm barely talking about anything else at the moment, but that won't change untill the beginning of November... :)).
When we went to IKEA, I bougt a huuuge sewing and cutting table (can't wait for the day when I do not have to cut large pieces of fabric on my floor anymore), shelves and some other stuff.
Moreover, I made those cute felt pinwheels for the window seats of our new apartment's kitchen and this weekend I'm working on kitchen textiles (I'm sewing matching potholders, oven gloves, an apron and kitchen towels, using extremely pretty fabric with red apples. <3
What have you been doing? :)
Lu :)

Home decor for my sewing corner.

Heyy! :) I recently found an awesome DIY idea on Pinterest and then I decided to make such a pretty fabric frame myself. One just needs an embroidery hook and some nice fabric. :) Pinterest is such a great source of inspiration, I'm always so impressed what kind of amazing ideas some people have and so I was impressed by this idea. It turned out so pretty, can't wait to hang it above my sewing table in the new apartment... :)

Moustache mania.

Good morning! :) Here are a few new items I sewed last weekend and apart from the green pillow which I made for Flo you can find all of them on DaWanda. I love the moustache trend so much and I think that these bags and pillows have turned out especially pretty. :)
What have you been creating lately? :)
Lu

Preparations for the new apartment...

Hello, my dearest readers! :) I already told you a few days ago in this post that I bought a crate and inspired by the idea of using old wine crates as a shelf, I decided to get one for our new apartment. :) I went to an enoteca in Berlin where I bought the pretty, wooden crate for 2,50€. I know, it already looks great without paint, but I rather like it white, so I painted it. I will either hang it above my sewing table or above my desk and use it for little decor items or for pens, brushes, etc. What do you think? :)
Moreover, as you can see in the next photo, I've been shopping for other things for my new home, too. :) I found these pretty coat hooks and the tiny spice rack on DaWanda in a pretty vintage shop and I love them. :) I won't use the rack for spices (Flo doesn't like the color as much as I do and he probably wouldn't be excited about pink shelves in our kitchen :D), but instead, I will use it for my sewing corner. <3
I hope you had a lovely weekend, I've been relaxing and crafting a lot and I started watching Gilmore Girls again. <33 Lu :)

Handmade birthday present.

Good morning, happy Sunday! :) Just wanted to share a photo of the hot water bottle cover I recently made. My lovely friend Sarah is celebrating her birthday today and I made it as a present for her. :)
I think handmade presents are the best! :)
Wish you a nice Sunday, I'll be spending the day with sewing, studying and taking photos. :)
Love, Lu

Handmade home decor by normalean.

Hello, lovelies! My friend Malin is a custom tailor and she has made me those amazing handmade birds a few days ago. :) Aren't they more than pretty? Can't wait for seeing them in our new apartment! :)