For now...

...I might just post pictures I thought. My only problem is that I don't know how to get the pictures to pivote.. still trying.

On an other note, I have been trying to write down 3 good things daily. This was inspired by this video of Mister Shawn Achor. For now, I am at day 8. The tricky part is that I come across many things during the day but can't possibly remember them in the evening when I sit down to make the notes. But I want to complete 21 days. What a wonderful thought it is that my (often negative) thinking would be changed into  more positive thinking which could result in more joy in life and so on..

Marbled Birthday Kugelhopf

It was real yummy.

Restoring a Chest

This is what the inside looked like before.. the velvet moldered. The reaktion from the metal to the glue is funny, it turned green.

Switz Xmas Cookies

I have just recovered from this crazy cold. Just in time, it seems since it was high time we started our traditional Xmas cookies bakery. So we did and it was just so much fun as you can tell by the pictured mess. 

I've got the flu

I don't know how or where I got it but I'm doing pretty badly. It started yesterday in the morning. I have a mean sore throat and bad headaches, also some rhinitis which is the most tolerable of my ailments. I'm not too sure if ailment is the right expression since it's nothing serious. I mean, I do feel pretty awful but I guess I shall feel a lot better, soon. Hopefully tomorrow already. That would be real nice.
To get back some feeling of self efficacy, I have been drinking lots of hot water with slivered fresh ginger and dried peppermint leaves from my mother's garden. I guess you could call that tea until I pour some seabuckthorn (Hippophaë rhamnoides) jelly in it. Sounds strange, right? But I got pretty much used to it and now actually like it. Seabuckthorn contains lots of vitamine C and the jelly also some sugar so I makes a great brewage for the sick.
Just wished I wasn't too sick to get any sewing done. Sniffle. Oh, well.. I'll just wait and drink tea as the Swiss say.

My friend's trash is now my stash

Don't you just love rhymes? I do. And I love myself the newly organized view of below my working surface, where I never dared to inspect because it never was neat. But the other day, I was visiting a dear friend of mine and next to her door, she had piled up those wheeled plastic boxes. She explained, she was going to toss them. No. Way. I had to have them. I didn't even know yet when and where but I was pretty sure they were going to be used. Or maybe just one? Anyways, the next day, I realized they were all just perfect to fit below my sewing machine and now it's just so much easier to get hold of all the boxes and not having to lift them in a crouching position. Did I mention, I took them home by train and bike? What a journey!

Going mobile

Actually, I started this post in the train. I thought I had finally figured out how to blog with my android phone in the train. Thought this was great since most of my pics are taken with my cell phone anyways so I guessed this made sense.

I downloaded and installed the official blogger app. It looked quite nice to handle. So I went and took a pic from the interior of the train. Second class to first and a lil shaky coz the train was just rattling. Then I wrote a mini text and wanted to upload it. But the photo would be come lengthwise and couldn't be changed to heightwise. Very frustrating and annoying. And then, I couldn't publish the whole thing. It would have been so nice but no. Maybe I'll try some other time when I am really really bored in the train. Of course, I will not withhold the photo of the interior of the train, so here it is.