December 6 – My advent calendar

December 6 - My advent calendar

W owym czasie rzymski cezar August wydał dekret o powszechnym spisie ludności w swym państwie.

Today the Christmas Gospel in Polish.

Poor-Santa

I created my first .gif file.
Unfortunately the file is huge. I still have to learn how to make such a file much smaller.

December 4th – My advent calendar

December 4th - My advent calendar

In quel tempo uscì un decreto da parte di Cesare Augusto, che ordinava il censimento
di tutto l’impero

Today the christmas gospel in italian. The language whose country was part of the Roman Empire. The land that Emperor Augustus served. And the language so similar to Latain.

I’ve just seen that I forgot to put a candle in the car while taking a photo.
Maybe because I was looking for this car for so long and now I don’t want to light a candle there so that nothing can happen to the porcelain 🙂

December 3rd – My advent calendar

December 3rd - My advent calendar

                 En ce temps-là, l’empereur Auguste donna l’ordre de recenser tous les                      habitants  de l’empire romain.

I searched the Internet for the Gospel of Christmas in Aramaic. The language Jesus used.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything. Therefore today the beginning of the Christmas Gospel in French

December 2nd – My advent calendar

December 2nd - My advent calendar

Advent, advent, a candle is burning
First one, then two, then three, then four,
Then the Christ Child is standing in front of the door.

 

Yes, I’m a little late because I had problems photographing the burning candle. 😦
I wanted to do it as best I could. And that took a lot of tries 😀

December 1st – My advent calendar

I love December with the advent season, the smells of cookies and fir, the lights. Everything.
I also love the christmas gospel. I have already had it read to me as a little girl and still enjoy reading it today…
I believe that a lot of people all over the world do.

That is why I will make my Advent calendar international. On almost every day the beginning of the Christmas Gospel in another language.
I hope you like my idea 🙂

December 1th- my advent calendar

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world…

 

For about 2 years I have been collecting decorations of a certain brand.
Meanwhile it has become so much that I could decorate 3 houses hihi

Three weeks ago, I happened to find this figure in a shop. You can use it to change the number cubes every day in December.

That gave me the idea to create my own online advent calendar – with photos.
So for each day I take a photo that I want to use for the calendar.
Among other things also pieces of my collection.

For clarification: I only photograph pieces I own. I don’t advertise the company or sell the objects.

I just love all the things I bought and I think it can be nice photos for an advent calendar ❤ ❤ ❤

 

Colors of fall, simply beautiful – Photos

Is summer really over?
If yes, then the weather doesn’t know that hehe
Last weekend it was so warm that I went out only with shirt and shorts to take photos.

I wanted to make the first fall photos in the sun, because there all colors shine and fall shows itself from its most beautiful side.

I took the first photo at a small tower. It was covered over and over with red leaves.

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Not only have I enjoyed the sunny day, also bees were still on the way

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Whether these are fall flowers, I don’t know. But the colors were simply fantastic.

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But also some trees have their colourful leaves visible from afar

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I wonder why the leaves do not turn from green directly to brown …
Is it nature’s help to tell the animals that, for example, bears have to put on winter fat, or birds have to fly to warmer regions?
Or is it just for people like me so we can take great photos? Hihi

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I love the sea (photos + film)

 

 

 

I love the sea.

No matter how the weather is, whether hot or cold, windy or rainy  I love to be at the sea.

Never before have I had the few days of vacation as needed as this summer.
In my last post I wrote that I had a construction site IN my apartment for 10 weeks.

Every year we went cycling by the sea, to a different place almost every day.

But not this time!

We took hours of walks by the sea, slept late, made no plans for the next day.
For a week we simply rested, enjoyed the sea, calmed our nerves.

Of course I took photos again. I think I have a million photos of the sea now, but still I take new photos every year hihi

I took this photo the first day. It was very cloudy and windy, perfect for kiting

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Here my favourite motive at the sea, waves that break

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We passed the bike to walk up the stairs to the beach.
No, that wasn’t our usual way to the beach. We went that way for the photos. As you can see on the photos, the weather was perfect

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Here you can walk up the steps in the middle of the dunes.
The brown is not withered but a special form of the plant Ericaceae. This plant can be found all over the dunes because it can grow on sandy soil and thus prevents the sand from being blown away.

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And now the best look of all when you’ve gone up all the steps. Down the stairs to the beach.
When I was standing on top, I made a little video with my mobile 🙂 The noise in the video is the wind and the sea

I hope you like the view too ❤ ❤ ❤

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My new window

In some posts I have already written that my apartment is under the roof. Like a penthouse hihi

I’ve only had sloping windows so far.
At the end of June, my landlord told me I was getting a dormer.
Brilliant, great idea 🙂

Which I didn’t know, however, how long it would take. I expected a week or so, instead it was 10 weeks !!!!
First they cut a huge hole in my roof, over 3 x 2 yards.
Then nothing!

I asked my landlord when the new window would be installed. He said that the hole should first be measured and then the window ordered. And then I would have to wait 6 – 8 weeks until the new window comes.

It took exactly 8 weeks until the new window was delivered and the work could continue.

Over 8 weeks where temperatures were over 86 degrees every day,

Over 8 weeks where I could not air down in the apartment because the hole was completely covered,

Over 8 weeks where I could not use the room because I had made room for the craftsmen.

The worst thing I could not sew since the end of June. Unfortunately, this was the same time my sewing class was on a summer break. Last Saturday the course started again!!!! Finally.

Yesterday I started to put my furniture back in its place. It’ll take me a few more days to finish completely, but at least the new window is ready.

The result was worth all this, but how often I have cursed the last few weeks I can’t count.

Now I have scolded so much, now I want to show what it looks like before and after.

Unfortunately I had taken the before photo at night so that one cannot compare it correctly and I put a foil over my window seat.

New window before

Here is the new window. Doesn’t it look great? The room is now much brighter and my homemade window seat looks great under the window. Like it was meant to be

New window after

Tomorrow I’m going to the sea for a few days to relax. I hope I can bring some nice photos.

DIY Miss M’s first maxi dress

Do you remember the first time you wished for a maxi dress? I was a teenager.
Miss M and her family are invited to a wedding. She wished for a long dress with a spaghetti strap. I think because she saw it at her Mom’s.
She chose the fabric for the dress herself. The first time I saw the fabric, I thought, “Yuck.”
I would never have picked this fabric for a seven-year-old girl.
Her dress – her decision!
Here you can see how the dress turned out. Looks really good!

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Two months ago, I bought fabric for Miss M. It was supposed to be a dress. Since there was more than enough fabric for a long dress, I also made the pattern with this fabric.
Now I just hope she likes that dress, too.

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I sewed both dresses so that she can still wear them next year. There’s more than enough seam in there.
In a few hours she’ll get the dresses and I hope I can get some nice photos so I can show them here 🙂

Et voilà

Miss M was right about the intense colors. She’s blonde and has very light skin. The contrast green/blue looks simply more beautiful….

Maxi dress Miss M 1

Maxi dress Miss M 2