Picturesque Month 08'&09'&10'17

~ My favorite (Murder) Mug! Stay sexy and don't get murdered & dehydrated with my MFM DIY's.
~ Speaking of dehydrated. It's been way too long since my last wine-soaked girls night.
~ Also don't forget to stay hydrated during crafting. Drinking out of my new fancy wine glasses helps.

~ Fancy wine glass with fancy breakfast watching silly tv cartoons. Stay squanchy!
~ Birthday Dinner with the Birthday husband. We had delicious Korean food.

~ Made homemade butterbeer for a magical movie night: We watched Fantastic Beasts and where to find them!
~ Got this awesome old globe at the fleamarket for only 5€. The husband wants to turn it into a bar.
~ My dear friend Sonja just had a baby and we threw her a surprise baby party. I made her this cute mushroom plush music box as a gift.

~ Loving my new art prints of Harry Potter inspired Herbology by Zentaurius. They found a nice spot on our craft room wall next to my new Aloe plant.
~ Got some new nerdy swag. Every couple of months we get to raid the Bravado storage where they sell all the sample clothes.
~ Went to play our very first VR Exit Game, it was very cool, but the equipment is pretty bulky and wearing glasses didn't help much with the huge goggles you have to wear. It's the first game I couldn't finish, because it was really tricky in the end.

Year 3 of Pure & Crafted Festival fun with my dear Lu. We had a blast as expected and it was a close to perfect festival experience with friends and drinks and sun.
Of course we had to go see the amazing feller's at the Motodrom again. It's a thrill every time!

~ Saw Bill Murray live at our annual sales convention Universal Inside. Such a charmer!
~ Gregory Porter also made an appearance and sang the Nat Kind Cole classic "Smile" for us.
Other guests at this year's convention were Benny Anderson (ABBA), The Kelly Family, Lang Lang, Jared Leto, David Garrett & Wanda.
~ As usual it was an afterparty to be remembered. Even though I should have left a little earlier due to a terrible cold...

In the same week as the Universal Inside the Preis für Popkultur took place, which is an alternative to the german Grammys, the Echo. Instead of just rewarding the bestsellers, the artists and projects are nominated and voted for by music industry people like myself. The finaly vote goes to a jury, so the winners are a secret until the show itself. It was a great show and I really hope this will replace the Echo eventually.

~ Sadly my collection of music festival bracelets didn't grow any more after the Preis für Popkultur because my cold was getting so bad that I canceled going to Lollapalooza.
~ Fall is here! Acorns always remind me of my favorite Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and his adventures.
~ Visited the Kawaii Festival, organized by one of my favorite german Youtubers Breedingunicorns. They had all kinds of japanese goodies and since I'm a huge Matcha Fan I got all of the green tea snacks including an intense but delicious Matcha cheesecake.

~ Got invited to the Fellowes on the Move blogger event by Viking where we learned about Ergonomics and how to stay healthy at the workplace. Fellowes showed us their Sit/Stand desk solutions, which are great if you sit in an office all day like myself.
~ What's most important about staying healthy is what you put into your body! That's why we got treated to some fresh green smoothies.
~ Of course you  have to treat your body inside and out. Got a super relaxing back massage (can all blogger events please come with a personal masseur?) and then we had a personal trainer show us a few easy excercises that can help after a long day of sitting at work.

Went to my first Reeperbahnfestival! It was so awesome and I learned so much. Really makes me appreciate working in such a creative industry and getting to know so many cool people through the years. So grateful for the chance to educate myself and possibly further my career in the music industry.

~ My highlight of the musical part of the festival: Faber. This young swiss guy really knows how to play a live show and make a lady's netherregions all tingly ;)

~ Another highlight was Beth Ditto. We barely made it into this one, but it was definitely worth it. What a woman!

~ Got to be at Max Raabe's album prelistening event. Free champagne at Soho House.. that says it all!

~ Another concert highlight this year: Lorde! Her performance was spectacular. 

~ I remember seeing her at Clärchens Ballhaus 4 years ago when her fist album got released and she hasn't lost any of the charm and energy she had back then.

~ Charles Pasi, a french gentleman with a gentle voice singing jazz, blues and a little bit of rock'n'roll.

~ Faber again. Can't blame me, can you?

~ Siegfried & Joy, a hillarious magical duo. Very entertaining, but I've seen better magic ;)

~ Skinny Lister, shanty punk galore!

~ Pumpkin Spice Matcha Latte to celebrate fall.

~ Got myself the Buffy comic omnibus. I started the 8th season a while ago, but never finished, so I'm excited to see how the story continues.

~ Got a little crafty one night and made some geeky accessoires with LEGOs, melting beads and a bat cocktail pin.

And thus we enter Halloween time, the most wonderful time of the year:

~ Made these cute decorative bats from craft foam.

~ Have you seen my Jack O'Lantern Vegan Pumpkin Quiche yet? It was delicious! And spooky. What else could you want from a quiche?

~ It's the eyeeeeeeees of the Pumpkin. Dum dada dum dada dum...

~ Finally got to test out the Basic Bitch Carving Kit from my favorite Youtubers Threadbanger.

~ I never get why people don't use the meat of Halloween pumpkins. It's still a vegetable! That means you can eat it...

~ Yes, I'm a design victim. 

~ My last minute Halloween costume: Anna von Schlotterstein (Der kleine Vampir/ The little Vampire). Had a little Halloween Get-Together with my girls. We even made a fire! Too bad we didn't get any trick or treaters.

~ Muahahahahahaaa.. evil pumpkin!

~ Sooo, there's a reason things have been a little more quiet than ususal on here. It's because we took on a new diy project. A big one. Like diy for life. It's a house! 

Check it out:

Yeah... it's official. We got a house! And it's in need of a lot of work. It's been crazy gettting started these past two months and we're not even close to moving in. I'm not sure how I will show you the process of fixing this house, but I will figure it out along the way. I was thinking of a new blog series called 'OMG We Got A House' (inspired by the OMG We Bought A House series by Mr. Kate). 

Exciting times for sure :D

Picturesque Month 05'&06'17

                          
~ May the 4th be with you! I showed off my handmade Star Wars skirt on Star Wars Day.
~ Sooo, can I get married again, please? Just kidding, but isn't this second hand wedding dress just gorgeous? Saw it at the Humana thrift store at Frankfurter Tor.

~ So excited to see the Gorillaz for the very first time in November this year. I've been a fan since their first Single: Clint Eastwood <3
~ Free Comic Book Day Haul. I also got the most recent Walking Dead comics. I started getting the comic books after reading the third compendium, the story was getting too exciting to wait for the next compendium!
~ I'm really happy about how many people took part in my Guardians of the Galaxy Give-Away! The husband got to draw the lucky winners and the Hoff presented them ;)

~ I went to see Embrace in the movie theatre. All my lovely ladies: Please watch this movie! It's got such a powerful message. We even got the chance to meet Nora Tschirner and Taryn Brumfitt fter the movie for a Q&A.
~ Tom Schilling & The Jazz Kids played at Columbiatheater. The concert was pretty cool (apart from some obnoxious audience members), but the evening spent with some lovely ladies was much more fun <3 4/5 Bazooka Points for a jazzy & girly night.
~ There was another cool showcase at work. This time it was Joseph J. Jones whose talent I already got  to witness at Communion Night in February. 4/5 Bazooka Points for some broody manlyness in the work environment.

~ I went thrift shopping with my dear Lu from Luloveshandmade. Just for future references: If you ask me if I want to go thrift shopping, I am most likely to say Fuck Yeah! (Funny story: I was at Humana Second Hand when she asked :P) We were shopping at Vintage Berlin, which is full of gorgeous vintage dresses!
~ Thrifted lots of flowery clothes!
~ The husband is showing off the octopus bag I brought him from Fuerteventura. I bought it from the talented Camelia Neata at the Lajares Craft Market.

~ Had a lovely mini bachelorette adventure playing an exit game at Claustrophobia and having some Cocktails at Tiki Heart afterwards.
~ Thrift Haul Deluxe! One of my best hauls yet <3 Found Star Wars Vans in my size for 15€ and some Moscow Mule cups that I've been looking for forever among lots of other cool stuff.
~ We made another batch of Ginger beer! I hope I'll get to post the recipe soon.

~ Made a hoggy friend while cycling through the woods.
~ Mirror Selfie.
~ Went to the Malzwiese Festival where Dawanda was offering multiple diy workshops. I made this cool bead chain for my sunglasses (which are kind of useless for me, because I can't take off my glasses without putting on other glasses, cause I'm blind. So I gave it away to a friend.)

~ Went to Hamburg with a friend from work to see Amanda Fucking Palmer. You can tell we're very excited!
~ The concert was great, bt since she was touring with Edward Ka-Spel and their new album so she played very few of her own songs. 4/5 Bazooka Points because the journey is the destination, right?
~ Late night fun in Hamburg's red light district. We even dared to go on Herbertstraße, which is "forbidden" for non-business ladies.

~ Visited my favorite Hamburg AirBnB again after staying there last year for the Ronan Keating concert. I really love the wooden pallet style all over the apartment.
~ Of course we had to stop by Mamalicious for some delicious pancakes again! Definitely a must if you're visiting Hamburg.
~ The next travel destination was Nuremberg for my dear Sophie's wedding. I even got the husband to smile in a picture!

~ After all is said and done, it was a beautiful wedding! Being the maid of honor was a bit challenging at first, but the wine helped (had to translate the bride fathers speech simultaneously for example...).
~ We did a bit of sight seeing in Nuremberg, visiting the castle and the old town. A beautiful city really, too bad we only had half a day to explore before the bus took us home again.
~ Made a Pop-Up Card to hold my wedding gift for the happy couple. We used to call our group of friends the Undead and I was the Zombie ;) We also had a Vampire and a Corpse and the three of us all made cards that we connected to make a mini pop up book. It was much appreciated <3
                          
~ Cool kids in the castle.
~ Home sweet home! I ordered the 4th and 5th season of Bob's Burgers for my birthday. It's our favorite breakfast show, cause everyone knows you watch cartoons for breakfast!

~ Won this supercute Pygmy Puff by the talented Helen at a charity auction on a Harry Potter DIY page on Facebook organized by Drachenherzfaser & Zentaurius.
~ Went to a DIY workshop the the Dawanda Snuggery, not knowing it was going to be my last workshop there :( We made cool stuff out of quick dry concrete, so of course I brought my Star Wars silicone forms.
~ Sadly Dawanda downsized and is closing up the Snuggery and let go a bunch of their employees. I'm really heartbroken for everyone who was fired and that I can never spend any creative evening there ever again. Thinking back to my first workshop at the Snuggery 4 years ago...

~ The husband was kind enough to heave this pallet up to our apartment on the 4th floor. Its home to all my baby palnties now.
~ Always a pleasure to visit the Gemeindehof in Karow where our wedding took place 3 years ago. Once a month they hold a fleamarket, which I try to visit as often as possible, because I always find so much cool stuff there (for super cheaps!).
~ This is my last thrift haul from that fleamarket. All together this stuff cost me less than 15€ :D
                          
~ My pumpkin baby is growing like crazy! By now it's even got a bunch of flower buds.
~ Anniversary time <3
3 years of marriage and 12 years of knowing this goofball that i call my husband.

~ Reflecting on my Mindfulness workshop at work. I'm so glad we get the chance to educate ourselves during work hours.
~ Birthday time! I turned 30 on June 21st and got this awesome Awesome Mix from my colleague.
~ Brought cookies to work for my birthday.

~ Here you see a 30 year old playing with LEGO at the LEGO store in Berlin.
~ It's been so rainy lately! Good thing I always have Totoro on my back to lend me his umbrella.
~ Love is Love! Same sex marriage was just legalized in Germany <3

June is definitely my favorite month and this year proved that once again!
Cheers, Anni