Macro part two, battlefield on the couch and busy bees....

A sunday afternoon full of paint and collage bits.........
Grid work, is for sure a nice background, but kind of a flow stopper....but I'm satisfied with the end result...lot's of extra layer on the grids....

Looking up......
giving comfort......
break time.....
Macro fun in the Studio!






What's that cat doing?
Always doing something.....
Battelfield on the couch.
Our/my weekend!

Award from Mim

Hi there! I just picked up my award from Mim. So with the award I have to share 7 things about me you don't know yet. That's a tough question....so let's see:
1 - I did athletics for ceveral years it was fun, I was really fit than!
2- I was really into protecting nature when I was 10, we even collected trash on the side of the roads. We also created posters to put on the side of road but we weren't allowed to put them up.
3- Once a day I need kind of some order in the house.....not to get crazy with 3 kids chaos. LOL
4- I'm a thinker....this brain of mine is always busy!
5- I love to make surprises!!!
6- I turn 30 this year (don't know what to think of that yet)
7- I'm not a follower, I like to go my own ways.

So now I pass this award on to Lee and Lisa, for constant inspiration and great blogging friends!!!!!
Thanks again Mim, I feel really honored!
Smiles, Anke ;)

Macro views, snow wonder gone and big steps.......

Where are they going?


Spring soon?
Ah those interesting tags.....
The snow wonder turned into muddy baehhhhh landscape
A closer look.....
Holding on to the colors.....

That's what I and my family was up to this week!
Smiles, Anke ;)

More details published, click on photo to see......

Click on the photo to go to the link for more details on my new teenager class!

More snow, racing down the snowy hill and setting goals.....

We got some more snow beginning this week. So far it still sticks, and we had a blast going down the hill yesterday and today with our new snow plates! Even I had a great time!
Sister book time!
Yes, this bright thing on the sky is the SUN, we got some sun for about 5 hours today and now the afternoon is back to grey!
Constantly on the move.........
This is the new snow plate, lot's of fun going downhill!
Monday morning, lot's of snow!
My goal card or better 'going-to-be' goal card any day now. I know kind of later, but better too late than never!!! LOl! It's made out of a blank folding card and my selfprinted papers or even my daughters painted papers.

So this is all for today, we expect some more snow coming tonight, let's see. Wish you all a great week, smiles, Anke ;)

Sneak preview....for my new class coming some time soon!

A little preview for my new class....it will be one for teenager, making your own diary with cheap/school materials! So here are some close shots! Playing around with my favorite tool the camera, big smile!

Anke ;)

Creative mess, new curtains, quotes and other stuff......

Hello! How are you? I hope good and the cold bug didn't get you right now. Looks like we have the cold bug again....but when it doesn't get worse it's ok.
Here are some photos from my week activities, I want to share. I was playing around with my camera earlier. So here they are:
My sewing maschine is sitting on the table right now, waiting for some more sewing....I did last weekend a new curtain for the living room and from the left fabric and want to make new chair pillows....so let's see when I get to that ;)

Lately I search for all kind of quotes....so here is a piece of paper I collected, the background was stamped by my middle daughter and me. It was fun!

This quote is in german but I think it's so true. 'To find ones' happiness in the happiness of others is a secret of luck.'

This week our little one got her first solid food, she didn't spit it out, but wasn't too sure about it either. She also had to grap onto her bib...never know what's coming, I guess ;)

Finally! Our new living room curtain! I like it so much better and it's thicker, so at night you can't look through!

The creative mess today on our dinning room table....but really productive I wasn't......

Asleep in her little bed downstairs, she got a bad running nose but today she is feeling better and is more active as well.

So that is all I was pretty much up to this week. Tonight I will finish another Collage Class, a new one will start next week. Oh I totally forgot we did have one day with sun! Of course I went with my girls for an hour walk! Felt so awesome!!!!

So off to maybe get a haircut today? Or tomorrow I need one soooooooo bad!!!!!!

Have a great weekend, smiles, Anke ;)

Little wonders, inventing a bird feeder and lack of sun AGAIN!

This monday my middle daughter and I invented some bird feeder. Out of two plastic cups, plastic plates and duck tape! And of course some string and food for the birds. She had a blast and I needed the vaccum cleaner after for sure. After I hung them outside we watched them all day to see if the birds actually will fly onto them. It took a while till they trusted that hanging UFO. But some birds eat regulary from it now, it's kind of fun watching them. The snow is still around, but the temperatures are above freezing so it won't take long for it to melt all the snow, especially if the sun comes out, but since we didn't see any sun for about two weeks??? Can't even remember when we had sun last.

So since we don't have the sun around to give us cheer ups I look for little wonders around me to give me a cheer up every day. Above are two photos of my orchid in the bathroom, I followed the delevopment of the little growing wonders.....the green was so amazing, too bad my macro lense is in repair (didn't work from the beginning, really dissappointing), so I try to manage the best to get a close shot. I have two other orchids in the dinning room and one is blooming right now too in a bright pink.

Concering doing art, I did some yesterday, some experimenting for my new teenager class. Takes some more time to get all the details done, but I had a great time experimenting and my two girls were great company, one did create herself (0r better create a paint mess) and one was playing around on a blanket.

This is all news for now, wish you all a great weeend, smiles, Anke ;)

Sunday fun in the snow and some more.......

Hey everybody...how long has it been since the last post...I can't even remember. Anyway, here are some more new photos from this week/weekend. We got some more snow and had lot's of fun sledding today with family and friends. It was an awesome time and for me especially playing around with my camera ;)
Our little one makes such a fast progress right now, rolling to the belly and today the first time alone back to the back! I was so excited and so was she! It's just such a blessing to see all those small steps towards getting more and more active. She also is so curious about everything and discovers everything with such an open curiosity, like the hand blender.....
Creative wise, I'm in the development of a new class for teenagers.....so more details soon!
Enjoy the photos below and have a great weekstart tomorrow!

Smiles, Anke ;)

PS: What's up with piling up???? I have ceveral piles laying around in our house, what's up with that??? Do you pile stuff too?

Sunday Collage: Finding value and a photo of me.....

A photo of me....so rare, since I'm usually behind the camera. But my son got for Christmas his own kids proof camera so here I am! I acutally like the photo, which is rare as well. My son caught me good or the right moment.

I made it! I finally found some time to go to my Studio and play around....it has been a while. But timing was perfect, my oldest ones stayed the night at Oma and Opa and my little one was hanging out with daddy.....so I took the advantage and had some fun....I need to do that more often in the future......it's kind of hard lately to squeeze those times out of the day. As soon I'm in my Studio my middle one is behind me and wants to create as well. But this means I have to pay attention where she is getting into and not relaxing creating time for me.

Concerning the weather....well right now it's snowing again......if it sticks? I don't know. Yesterday we went for a walk again in the sun!!!!!! Kind of miss going for walks more often during a week, but with this rainy, nasty, icy weather walks are cut short.

This morning I also did some brainstorming for new ideas. I have some advanced classes coming up in January and in February, so I have to plan.......beginning of January all the classes start again. I'm looking forward and hopefully many more participants will join the creative fun this year!

The taking photo process is still in the experimenting stage......my new camera has so much things to discover that it will take some more time till I'm back in the groove. I also discovered that my macro lense doesn't work...bummer, so back to the store this week, which will be probably madness after Christmas!

The kids are doing great, no one sick, except for some runny noses, but that is kind of hard not to have in winter season. So hopefully it stays like that....we DON'T need any kind of flu here in the house.

That was a quick update hope you all had a wonderful Christmas time and enjoy the last days in the year 2009!

Smiles, Anke ;)