Selfmade envelopes

Today I thought to make my own envelopes.. I was inspired by a group at facebook where they made a lot of envelopes lately.. I hope you'll like those.. and maybe you'll receive one of those.. Think I have to buy some A5 envelopes to make for my slam swappers.. ;) I only made A6 size so far..

Questions by Jonna

Jonna asked me some questions via a game and I thought of answering them.. (sorry, for this late post).. As I don't have a lot of blog friend (most are on lj) I decided that I won't tag anybody.. so here are the questions:

1. What do you usually do in rainy days?

On rainy days I'm mostly inside the flat, playing board games, reading, playing with Thordis, relaxing, watching tv, things that I love to make..
 

2. What is your favorite time in the year and why that?

Thats for sure christmas time or winter. In winter it is so nice, that it gets dark very early (I like that), I love the smell of snow and I am in wonderland when the snow is fallen. I could even cry because I am so happy of that. :) I just looove snow. Sad that it doesn't snow here very often, last year not one day. :( And christmas time is fun and time for family. :) 

3. How do you pick up the next book to read?

Sometimes I let my family decide what I should read next, or if it is a series, than I'll chose those books or only my mood is picking up the book. 

4. Share you top 5 blogs? 

http://isawalight.blogspot.de/
http://astaldothoniels.blogspot.de/
http://we-love-food.de/
http://www.zwergenliebe.de/
http://muettermafia.blogspot.de/

5. What is the best memory from your childhood?

Hm, I couldn't remember a lot of things, but it was the time we were playing outside.. playing with Playmobil in sand or playing horses on the playground.. such things I loved.. :D

6. Where do you usually write your letter's?

Nowadays I'm writing my letter on the table in our dining room, but sometimes I'm writing them in bed to have nobody around..

7. What is long letter for you? How many page's? Front and back or only front?

Hm, a long letter, that is hard to say.. I think a long letter is 5 and more A5 pages (front and back written).. but it is up to the handwriting what a long letter is..

8. What is your bravura in the kitchen?

I don't have any.. maybe only the Topfenkolatschen, but I think everyone else can do them..
 

9. Who is your favorite character what it come's to books? And why you like her/him?

Severus Snape.. I absolutely liked this character.. He is so magical and you didn't know until the end if he is a hero or a villain..

10. What is your favorite place in the world? And why?

My home.. I absolutly love to be here. It is calm and close to the forest. Sad that we have to move soon. :( 

11. What five things you would bring with you in the desert island?

2 books, my cuddle pillow, an mp3-player, a knife

Denmark

As you might have known we were in Denmark this summer. We have rented a house at the Limfjord and spent two weeks there. In that time we've seen quite a lot and we also went for some geocaching. We have been to Norre Vorupor (at the North Sea), the island Fur, a flowerpark, Skive, a living history museum and an aqua zoo. The beach was really nice.

In Denmark we have found around 40 caches, which is a lot for us, but I must admit that we tried to find a lot more. Maybe we are not good at Danish caches or the caches in Denmark are really hard to find. But that wasn't in the caches we've found. Easy to find, some were not hidden or anything. :( That was really sad. They were placed in a ice cream box and you would have thought that there was trash laying in the bush.. :( We have found only traditional caches (we tried a Multi, but couldn't find it).. On the pic you can see me in front of the only Earthcache we've made.

And we have visited a medieval market that was only 3 km far from our house. It was on the Spottrup borg. That is one of the best medieval castles of Jylland. We visited the castle some days before, to have more time. But it was a really nice place for a medieval faire. It was like German faires, but they also had some interesting stalls like selling vegetables, cakes,.. And I also found some new things for my new hobbies like a weaving board for tablet weaving. It needs less space and I think it is also easy to built. I got a link to homepage for a Danish woman, where you can find the pics of thie weaving board: http://brikvaevning.dk/

It was a really nice holiday and I was a big sad when we drove back home. But here a lot of other things are waiting for me. ;) I'm wishing you still a nice summer.

Medieval faire at the "Sparrenburg"

Yesterday we've been the first time to the medieval faire at the "Sparrenburg" in Bielefeld. We have tried it nearly 8 years, but we never went there. In some years it was too hot or there was another faire on the same date. Yesterday we finally managed it to go there and we had a lot of fun. We only had Thordis with us as Fynn is on holiday at my parents-in-law. The faire was really nice. It was around the castle and there were a lot of stalls. You could eat so much and also buy a lot of things. It was cheap for all those things (only 5 €). But we had luck that we drove there really early (12 o'clock). We wanted to drive home at 15 o'clock there were soooo many people visiting the medieval faire.
The only bad thing is the hill. ;) Why are castles built on hills ;) It was really difficult with pram as the ways were very steeply. But Volker is strong. ;) And I also saw a tablet weaving frame. So after our holidays in Denmark I have a new project to make this tablet weaving frame.

Caching in July

This month we were geocaching a bit.

One weekend we were in Emmerke at a cousins meeting and I was asking if the younger people liked to go geocaching a bit. So we walked through the fields and found 2 caches there. :) We had a fun time and we saw a wonderful sunfall. Here you can see the path in the field.

And one day we made a 21 caches tour at the Mittellandkanal near Hespe. It is called MLK-Tour. We made the tour with the team Gyldenale. We walked about 8 km and it took us nearly 6 hrs to find everything. Sadly it rained a bit, but we had lots of fun. The caches were all different and there were a lot ideas. The cache I liked the most was a fluete. We had to close the holes of a pipe and then we had to fill in water to get the cache. That is such a great idea. This is the pic of it.



Another nice cache was the treasure chest. It was made with a lot of work and it looked so nice. :D I wish I had such a treasure chest. Really nice idea.










For one cache Volker and Ramon had to climb a bit. And we also visited a TB-hotel on that day which is a really great idea. It was on private ground.

Multis and Art

Today I was geocaching with someone I've never met before. We only knew us through emails as I once discovered their car. :) And today we decided to go geocaching together for the first time and it was so much fun. I've found 3 traditional that she already had, but together we managed to complete two multi caches. They were taking us at places we've never been before or I saw so many times, but never really realized them. Here you can see some places where we've been. :)

And in the morning while I was waiting to go into town, I draw this picture. I saw a link to this kind of drawing yesterday on facebook and it was such a nice idea that I had to try it. And this is the result. I'm not a good drawer but this was kind of fun and easy. :D

Everything is on paper

Today I decided to make some more pages in the journal. :) Here you can see the results:

And today I have visited the cache that I have made. I changed the paper in it. And I wanted to see if everything is still okay. This is the logbook. 49 people have found the cache so far (including a friend of Fynn who seemed to have written his name, too). Thats so great after 1 1/2 months. :)

My start to wreck my journal

Last month I bought the book "Wreck this journal". Today I started to make the first things. In the book there are different pages how to destroy the book, make something creative or you can do things you'll always wanted to do with a book. I made some easy fast pages together with Fynn (who wants his own book ;) ). Here you can see the result.

Jam and Geo

Omg, my last post is really long ago. Seems I have to write again, but nothing really much happened lately as I was mostly writing letters.
Last Saturday we tried to find a cache in my homevillage. It was a multi and I got some help of users, that already found the cache. My problem was to get the right hex code of pink. Well, I got the right coordinates and we tried to find it with my sister and her boyfriend. But there was nothing. :( I hope we can log it anyway as the geocacher before were allowed to log it, too, as they had sent a photo with it. There should be normally here:

And today I made some strawberry-gooseberry jam and gooseberry jam. :) Yummy! I cannot wait to eat it. I already had made some other jam, strawberry and rhubarb. But I think some more will follow as I absolutly love berries. ;)

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. :)