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 07'17 *incl. Birthday & Kopenhagen Vacation*

~ Here you can see the rare state of tidyness of my craft area! I got some new camera lenses and I've been really obsessed with the fisheye as you can tell.

~ Fisheye shot of our annual fashion week visit. You can count us in if there's free booze ;)
~ Work break well spent with a mini photoshoot on top of the Universal building. I don't go up there as often as I should, the view is amazing!

~ Can't believe I only went to one concert this month, but this one was quite amazing. Romano is a german Rapper, which should make me dislike his music by default, but there's something about this guy... so I have to make an exception. So I went to his new album showcase a bunch of my colleagues and the husband and it rocked!
~ You can actually watch part of the Showcase here on Facebook, definitely 5/5 Bazooka Points for a great evening with an extraordinary artist and friends.
~ Another extraordinary artist sent me a postcard! Amanda Palmer asked all of her Patreon supporters if they wanted a postcard from her and of course everyone did. On the same day I received a postcard from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Florida that I won in a charity auction. It was really nice to get mail that wasn't bills or unwanted ads for a change!

~ Beautiful Pumpkin flower <3
~ Showing off my Harry Potter Shirt and my handmade Felix Felicis necklace.
~ June is my birthday month and I turned 30 this year. For this occasion I wanted to make a cake that I always got on my birthday when I was a child. It's called Kalter Hund (cold dog) and it is made of shortbread cookies and a mix of coconut fat and cacao which is layered to make a cake. It's delicicious!

~ Too bad I forgot to bring the cake to my birthday party... Oh well, I had no shortage of sweets for my 30th kids birthday as you can see here.
~ It was quite a party! Totally forgot to take pictures, because I was so busy catching up with everyone who came and putting on temporary tattoos ;)
~ I did take two polaroids at the end of the party when the last of us girls were rocking out to 90s songs on the dancefloor! Thanks to everyone who made this birthday extra special <3

~ Vacation time! We took the bus and ferry to Denmark's capitol for our small summer holiday.
~ We booked an apartment via AirBnB which was not as luxurious as advertised, but it was still nice to have a place all to ourselves.
~ Coffee and a Cinnamon Snegl at our favorite place in Kopenhagen, the Torvehallerne, a market hall with food and drink from all around the world. We went there twice in the 4 days we were there.

~ Cuddles with BB-8 at the Disney store.
~ After visiting the original we saw the LEGO version of Nyhavn at the LEGO store.
~ The city hall was fenced off for the filming of a danish Netflix show. It looked like an apocalyptic scenario that was confirmed by this article I found online, very excited to see which scene they filmed while we were there when it aires in 2018. One thing is for sure: the scandinavian apocalypse looks very clean and there were a bunch of bikes.
                          
~ Rosenborg Slot <3
~ We also visited the local Ripley's Believe it or Not which is like a cabinet of curiosities from all around the world and they had this huge Godzilla made of metal scraps in their entrance hall.

~ Of course we had visit a few other geeky shops. After spending the first half of our last day thrifting(where I found these danish Micky Mouse & Donald Duck books) we spent the rest of the day visiting merch and comic stores.
~ This awesome Totoro wall mural can be found at the Animerch Store.
~ And we found this gigantic dragon sculpture at one of the 3 Faraos Cigarer shops, which were awesome! Comics, Merch & boardgames from top to bottom. All a nerd could wish for!

~ Just one day after getting back home we were at a dear friends wedding. It was a super relaxing summer garden celebration without any big activities, we had a great time! Congrats again Mia & Johnny.
~ Staycation breakfasts are the best breakfasts! Especially when there's cold brew, french toast and Bob's Burgers involved.
~ Summer wine at work when you're not working..perfect!

~ Of course I've been crafting during my vacation as well! My planter pallet was getting too small for my baby plants so I made it into a pallet table. More on that soon.
~ And then to celebrate the almost non-excisting summer this year I fixed up the sun hat I got on Fuerteventura. I stitched a hearty "fuck off" by hand with a sequined ribbon. Too bad I never actually got to wear it because the sun was barely out this summer. Maybe next year :)