Envelopes part 2 and winter is going

I know I haven't written anything in the last few months. :( We didn't go geocaching and we were very busy lately with birthdays. The winter is still here, but the snow is finally melting. I have to say, that I don't want to see it anymore. Normally I'm a winter person, but this year we had enough snow and the spring could come. I want to go out for some geocaching. ;) But here are still some pics of our winter:

Today I started to make some envelopes again. In the moment I'm much behind with my mail. I try to answer them in the next weeks. For my birthday I got a great book from Volker and I already had some inspirations from it. Here are the envelopes I have made.. :) More will follow..

Where we live

 Today I wanted to show you some pics of the places around our flat.. the street, the little mountain.. ;)

the view to the little mountain

some of the houses in our street

the street we live in

In this house we are living

a way to get to the forest

The winner will be announced

14 people took part in the christmas competition. I had a lovely fairy who draw the winner:

Nadine, as I know your addy, you don't need to send it to me. I'll send you a little present in the next time. I hope I'll manage it within the next week. Congratulations!!!

Christmas decoration

As I said, I wanted to upload some more pics of our decoration. :) I just made the Advent wreath. So here we go:

 This is an advent calender, that my mother-in-law once made for Volker. Now Fynn is using it every year. :)

My first ATCs

Today I was busy again. In the morning I found two caches in the city and this morning (while Thordis was sleeping a bit) I made my first ATCs for ages. :) Saskia, my pal from Netherlands, and I want to exchange ATCs now and then. Our first two themes were "Rauhnächte" and "Geocaching". Hm, in my point of view, I think I wasn't creative enough, but what do you think? These are the ATCs:

And I also wanted to tell you where the cache was hidden at the weekend. Well, it was hidden under the knob. You could open a hole with it. ;) I think that was a lot of work to do. And in autumn I wouldn't say that this cache has the difficulty 2,5. It must have more.

Where is the cache?

A Letterbox

At the weekend we made a little geocaching tour in Hespe, Meerbeck and Stadthagen. We found some really nice places of which I didn't know that they exist. ;) Some caches were easy, some were very hard and I think the hardest ever we found on that weekend.

Where is the cache?

Maybe it wasn't that easy as it is autumn, but hey, we never had such a cache and who knows that sort of that is existing. We got finally help from my sister. ;) It was the Bonus of a tour we have made with team Gyldenale in July. I want to show you a pic here and you should please tell me, where we can find the cache. ;)


The other were quite easy. We found them very fast. For the next weekend I have to solve some more Mysteries, so that we can make a little tour again. Maybe we'll also have the time for a little multi.

Christmas preparations

In the last days we made some christmas preparations. :) Last weekend we made 8 different cookies. I'm happy that we didn't need so much time as in the last years. Normally we need more than 8 hours for all. Maybe I looked for easy cookies, I don't know. But we finished the last ones after 6 hours. That is a new record for us. Now you'll think, how will they eat all those cookies when Solveig makes a diet? I don't know. Really! Well, our parents get cookies and if we'll have guests for the christmas market in Hameln, they can eat them, too. :) Do you make christmas cookies? Which ones do you like most? I prefer the "Lebkuchen", but I never managed that they taste like the ones from the grocery market. :( Well, the best cookies are our "Basler Leckerli", but they are more like Lembas bread of the elves, you only need one piece for a day.. ;)

But I also decorated the flat a little bit. On the pic is not our Advent wreath. It is only a decoration. The Advent wreath we'll make this weekend with my sister. A pic will follow then. :)

New projects before new year?

Haha, yeah.. I started a new project one week ago and I hope I can stay the course.. Maybe you know what I mean.. It is very hard in the time before christmas.. cookies, christmas markets, nice food.. Well, I try to lose some weight. I try to eat lower fat and after 16 o'clock no carbohydrates. That isn't easy for me as I always ate rice, potatoes and noodles in the evening. Today I ate the chinese food without rice, sometimes I ate a salad.. Have you ever made a diet where you shouldn't eat carbohydrates in the evening. If so, what did you eat? Maybe you have some ideas for me...
And of course I started again to do sports. Mostly at home and especially for my back, but once a week I'm trying to go swimming with Fynn.

Another new (old) hobby came back to me. Soon I'll start to swap the first atcs for a long time. I already swapped them in 2006/2007. The pics that I post here today are from that time. Who else is swapping atcs? If you ever want to do a swap please tell me...


And I want to remind you of my competition.. Please feel free to join. You can also join if you are from oversea.

***Christmas competition***

I decided to make a christmas competition here. The winner will get a little present as a christmas gift from me. The only thing you have to do is answering on this post. You can join the competition until 30th November 2012. The winner will be announced on the next day. I hope a lot of you would like to join this. :)

Geocaching on Halloween

Last weekend we were in Loccum and tried to find some caches. A cache that was there was called "Ghost town" and it looked like a ghost town. I never knew that there was a place like that. Maybe it was a childrens summer camp some years ago. Even if we needed a flashlight (and we had none with us) we found the cache. Sometime a camera is helpful.





Today we went geocaching again. We had very nice weather, cold, but sunny. We made the "Berkelwood" round near Hameln. All caches have something to do with movies. And every cache (all traditionals) had a question which you needed for the Bonus. Sadly we couldn't find every cache. :( But the round is really worth to see. The questions were all easy and all stations had great ideas.



Luckily I have a friend who gave me a hint for the Bonus, with that and the hint of the Bonus we found it. And I must say, it was the best cache I've ever found. :) I don't want to tell more, maybe someone want to look for that, too. But I'll add a picture. Maybe you know what it means, maybe you don't.