New shabby stuff

Besides pocket letters I also had the plan to make new shabby stuff. I wanted to turn some old 70ies vases into shabby chic as well as an old table of Volkers parents. Here you can see how they look now. If you look at one of my older posts you'll see how the table looked before. What do you think? Nice, not nice?

Now I only need some old chairs which I want to paint in different pastell colours. I really hope that we'll be able to find some old chairs. If you ever know someone, who has old chairs, please tell me.. ;) 

My latest pocket letters #1

Doctor Who theme

Open theme

These are two of my pocket letters that I made lately:

And this one I got from Malinda last week.. it is so beautiful.. I love it.. :D

Wedding time

Yesterday we've been on a wedding of friends. It was at a lovely location. I don't want to tell you, how that wedding was, but I want to show you what I made as a present. I was a bit late with making it, but I was happy that I finished it on time. I found the idea on pinterest, but well it is a bit like the other things that I'm making lately. I used some coasters and decorated them with a picture, paper and washi tape.. and on the back I put some paper again and money which I folded into hearts.

What do you think? Does it look nice? I hope they'll like it and that they find a place where they can hang it on the wall. :)

Front

Back

In the next days some more pictures will follow from geocaching, new shabby things and pocket letters.. So I hope to see you soon. :)

Yeah, seems I'm addicted

now.. ;) Lately I use my free time in the evening for pocket letters instead of tv shows. Volker is happy about as he is able to watch some Star Trek episodes. ;) And I'm realizing that I need more supplies which I can put into the pocket letters. Today I want to start to look for some pocket letter pals outside of my pal and swapper world. 

Yesterday and today I made these pocket letters. The Vintage fairy garden theme is for a challenge in a group, but I'm still thinking of sending it to someone and the Gorjuss theme is for a penpal of me.

 

And I also got a Gorjuss theme pocket letter from my dear pal Nadine. I absolutely love it. :D

Throw the negative energy away and do some crafts

This weekend wasn't really my weekend. I was very down, but I tried to find my lost energy for some crafty things. And those were again some pocket letters which I tried. One of them I made for Ulrike (my pal). The yellow colors really brought some positive energy back. The purple one I made today. This one has no new owner yet. ;)

The one for Ulrike

Needs a new home

And this week the mailman also brought a lovely pocket letter for me from dear Ulrike. Isn't it great?  totally love it and of course all the things in it as well. :D Thaaanks a lot!!!

My next projects will be the vases to turn them into shabby chic and this table. Wish me luck that everything goes well.

My first try of pocket letters

In the last weeks I discovered the new art of pocket letters. Those are 9-pocket cases (those for trading cards), filled with creative stuff and goodies. And as it is called pocket "letters", you are also including a letter. :D Today I took my chance to make my first pocket letters which will go out to two of my pals. I really hope they'll like those.





And as I still owned five slams to a swapper of me (from a group swap), I made those five slams. They are not as creative as the pocket letters, but I still hope they are nice enough.

We have been very busy lately and we'll also be busy in the future: birthday, house warming parties, weddings and anniversaries. So I don't know if I'll be a able to be very creative in the next weeks. But for sure I will answer more letters. :D I also made some new envelopes last week, some may have reached the new owner already. 

Geocaching, ups and downs

Okay, the year 2014 ended very good when it come to geocaching. In December we found some really nice caches. One was in Loccum with a xylophon which I really liked and I was surprised that we were TTF (Third to find) on the second day after it was publised. That would have never happened in Hameln. This cache was also a lot of fun. You need to play a melody and have to finish it by yourself at the end. Thats how you got the numbers to the lock. I was lucky as I only need one try. Volker would have taken much longer for it. ;)

And we also found some very special caches in the region around Petershagen. I'll only show you some pictures and no stories to them. We also saw some nice building and places.

In December we also made the number "1000". That should be a special cache and we also thought that we had taken a special one. At the end we had problems with finding one station (and I had to call a friend) and when we were at the final there were no decoration material in the box with which you could built a little ship. :( That was a bit sad and disappointing. :( So I only made a picture with the box and me.




And as you've seen, we moved in January, so January and February were very busy months with no time for geocaching. So 2015 started a bit disappointing here as well. :( I feel like I want to go outside, but Volker isn't in the mood yet. Hopefully tomorrow. At least I made a "little" tour with Thordis and Fynn. We wanted to find 6 caches. At the end we only found 2 of them as we had to stop after the 2nd. And the 1st one I didn't solve and have to come back as it was too hard to solve withing some minutes. The 2nd also had a tricky box but I found a way to logbook a bit easier. :) This the cache, it looks really funny. ;)

Time to decorate

I'm sorry that I had no time to post this. In the wintertime I made again a "Winter"-decoration. Maybe you remember my "Autumn"-decoration, but this time with the letters of winter. I know it is kinda late, but maybe you still want to see it.

I also made this one for spring. :) Thordis helped me a bit and decided which fairies and colors I should take. ;) That was funny!!!

Thordis and I also made some Easter decoration. Little eggs with washi tape and Thordis wanted to make an egg with sticker stars on it. 

What do you think of these decorations? Would you try it yourself?

New year, new start, new flat

Time was flying lately and we were so busy. Last year, we decided to move back to my parents house. But that was big plan. There was a lot to do in the new flat. We had to remove wallpapers, had to make a new door and had to renovate a lot. We were making all these things from October last year to February. Here you can see the changes in our flat a bit. Sadly I haven't made so many pictures of the old flat.

 

I was also very busy with painting furnitures. I painted all our Billy shelves from Ikea and I turned all furnitures into shabby chic. These are the results:

And we had to buy a new kitchen. We decided to buy one from Ikea. My father and Volker had fun building it up and I think it looks quite nice. :)

And these are some pictures of our flat now:

Can you remember the pic how it looked before?

Thordis room

 

What do you think of our new flat. I try to do it in shabby chic. Sadly our bathroom doesn't look like it, really. And the other two rooms are too much chaos at the moment to make a picture, but I'll show it to you in the next weeks as well. ;)