random shot

fiddling with my iphone i have just accidentally taken this picture... i quite like it actually, so by the way: here are the new origami paper guarlands. they are slightly different from the ones i used to have as the lights are further apart, but on the upside the guarland is now longer.

unpacked today

this is just a sneak peek of my bespoke mobile that just arrived with his little brothers and sisters today - watch this space as i'm planning to hang it in the shop window soon!

about canned sardines and apples

i hope you had a splendid sunday, the weather certainly was. eager to pay the sun god our respect boyfriend and i went to the river (werdinsel)and duly aligned with another 6842 sardines. never have i seen this place so packed. mind you it was very instructive! while intently peering into your book you get to hear a lot of interesting things.

in the past the beginning of the bikini season could convince me to eat more apples and less cake for about 5 hours. nowadays i'd rather count on these apple earrings to look dishy!

too cute to resist...

for no apparent reason i really need this little mug. perfect for your espresso in the office!

summertime!

today it's official: summer is here! let's hope we'll have plenty of icecream-eating and barefoot-walking...

it is a shame to remain inside the whole afternoon as i do, but since i have room #3 i get some lovely sunbeams in the late afternoon.

today i added this to my playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DBcbZc3ck

sunday bits

tucked away in my favorite agglo coffee shop (eating once again too many warm croissants) i read in the newspaper that the basel art fair was a huge success with an all time high attendance. no wonder as so many seem to go for a networking party. i could do with some meeting fresh people too actually.

to quote louis jouvet: "il faut mettre de la vie dans son art et de l'art dans sa vie" (or was it the other way round?). i'm glad to say i did the latter last week as we were invited to pick up our freshly framed japanese artwork we had bought in a tiny gallery in paris. the frames i had found on an antic market a few years ago. i'm really happy with the result! even the backside of the frames are cute. all in all each set us back around chf 560.- but i think its totally worth it. i don't think i could have bought anything half as beautiful for double the money in basel.

nothing to rival with nature's beauty. on this sunday morning walk one minute the sun was out, the next it was raining. and windy it was too. very nice. these old sbb palletts rotting away wouldn't have looked wrong at the art fair i guess. as a child my mother showed me how to string strawberries on a grassstalk. really tasty.

i'm so bummed both with this template and my homecomputer i want to make mincemeat of it! i swear this one is playing games with me. what you see on the screen is not what you get, it's driving me nuts.

light as air

summer is upon us and it's delightful to let sunbeams and summer breezes enter our home. to keep home as a dynamic environment as often suggested in home magazines is all very nice but mostly we're way too busy and/or lazy!

nice surprise to see the lightblue glass vase i sell in the shop on this magazine picture (photo Jörg Brockmann) which encourages to stash away clutter and bring on a single item like this one.

to get a closer look at the vase click on the label "vases" below and scrolling down you will find several pictures of it and also of the miniversion.

a farewell to my holidays...