Vogelparadies and Slams

Yesterday we went geocaching with Sabrina and Ramon again. :) We normally wanted to a South Seas-Cache, but there was a triathlon yesterday, so we had to take another. It was "Vogelparadies" (bird paradise) and had 7 stations. At every station we had some numbers which we had to take for a calculation. Everything was easy and we had no problem to find the box. I put the "Thordis Geo-Diary" into it, but there was nothing interesting in it, mostly trash. :(









On the way we surprisingly met a friend of my sister. There were not many people around and it was very quiet, so it was really a big surprise to meet them there. ;) The pictures were made at the tour. After that multi Sabrina showed us another cache, which we easily found. :)

And these are the slams, that I made lately inspired by the weekend in Berlin. I think I'll make some more in the future, when I have more labels. I also decided that I'll join some swaps in slambase. :) 

Berlin, Berlin

Some girls of the swappers meeting!

Last weekend we were in Berlin. There we were on a swappers meeting. We were around 30 people from everywhere in Europe. :) And it was so great to see all those ladies from the slam swapping world. Now I'm more infected into slam swapping. In the last months I didn't swap so much. I can remember times when I swapped decos, that I had hundreds of them lying here on my craft table.

But back to Berlin. It was a good mix of this meeting and sightseeing. And I guess you know what we have done, too? Yes, geocaching. We have found some nice caches (under a giraffe, under a duck,..), but we were also watched at one all the time, because they thought we would break into a museum. Hey, we only watched at a wall at night! But it was only the wrong day for us, as the museum was open at that night. I left some trackables in the caches. And now I hope they'll go on moving fast. :D

Team Gyldenale with the duck

It was a really great weekend which will hopefully be next year, too. For the slam swappers who'll read this maybe, I'm still looking for slam swappers outside Germany (in the moment I have only German/Austrian swappers). 

Pentecost geocaching

Fynn had to go on a childrens birthday party yesterday and we decided to take that free time for another caching tour. This time it was too hot. :( We found at least 5 caches, but mostly with only short stops, no long walks. :( And the nettles are really horrible in the moment. They were too high and most caches were in these nettles, that we decided to visit those again in winter. No way! My hand still hurts a bit. We found one great but scary cache. It was in a channel under the street and masked as a spider. ;) Not really for us, but Volker found it.

Gyldenales wedding cache

Yesterday we were on the wedding party of Sabrina and Ramon. As both are geocachers, we decided to make the present as a cache. We decorated a box for a wedding, but also with geocaching things. The logbook was made out of the money and we also put in a sheet of paper. On this one they found a Unknown cache made for them. We asked some questions about USA and Germany. And if they can answer them right, they can find another box at these coordinates. If this is going well, we want to make the cache official.

Trackables are ready

Yesterday we were in the city of Hameln and we bought some cute little toys for our travelbugs. :) Now we have some Trackables, that can move on in Berlin. :D The sheep is "Lenny the sheep", thats Fynns travelbug. The wolf is "Hjalmar the wolf" and it is my travelbug. The book is for Thordis, it should work like a moving log diary. :) Thordis got the travelbug from Sabrina and Ramon. Maybe one day the book will come home and Thordis can read the entries. That would be really great.

Hjalmar the wolf

Thordis Geo-Diary

Lenny the sheep

Books for my project

These are the books, that I bought to start my projects:

But before I start the first things I really need to buy material for it. My first tries with the bags will be with the clothes that we have still here. And if I can do them, I want to take new bought clothes. :)

The Cache is published

On Friday night our first cache Brandywehl-Brücke was published. Until 7 people incl. Fynn found the Cache. I know it was easy for everyone, but I think they liked it as the posts were not worse. ;) We also got a fave point. :) I think it'll be the first and last one, but it is great. Maybe we got it for the nice place where we have hidden it.

Fathers day geocaching

On fathers day we were geocaching again. This time with Karsten. It was a multi with 7 stations and a final and everything had to do with pirates.

We always wondered what we'll find next. It took us 4 hours, but with a pram and many breaks, it is normal. ;) Two times we were really blind and couldn't see the cache. But we found them. And the calculation at the end made problems, but that was my fault as I gave the wrong number to a letter. It wasn't so easy to hide our searching as many groups of teens were hiking in the forest, too.

On fathers day the teens are hiking and drinking alcohol, so we always had to be back on the path when we heard them.

And the final was really nice. It was in a valley. :) We didn't know that something like that is in the forest. Now we know where we can put down our caches. We'll only make traditionals now, as we have already this and a night cache here in the forest. No more multis.

My first braid

Today I tried to make my first selfmade braid. Well, it doesn't look really good, but it helped a lot to understand everything. At the end it got more and more better. I made the fault to take two different kind of wools, one was thinner than the other. :( Thats why you couldn't see the pattern very well. But Fynn still want this one for his medieval dress. ;) And I think I should take thinner wool.

The result

Tablets are ready

I've read the description about tablet weaving in the last hour. And now I cannot wait to start making my first braid. :) But I have to wait until tomorrow. If you want to read about it, here is the link:  Flinkhand - Brettchenweben But it is only written in German.

My first tablets

Here you can see my first tablets. They are made out of game cards. :) It was very easy and if you only want to try it first, it is a possibility to make it cheap. :) Have you ever tried weaving or tablet weaving? Or do you want to try it?