Sunday, January 30, 2011

Backpack Coffe Dispenser

DJ, I was busy

weekend I had not much time duties, so I could sew, I much -

So tatata. The result are five small block until yesterday.

DJ - B4 B4 Chris's Soccer Field

DJ - D13 D14 Field of Dreams

DJ - F4 F4 Old Windmill

DJ - K12 K12 Doris' Dilemma

DJ - M10 M10 Simple Simon

I've not started to count the parts, maybe I should do.

And then I was even more diligent. Friday night I was suddenly not tired and sew until a clock at night. Since were still the items for Jacob's Ladder blocks. Some time ago I had ever cut squares of batik strips of 2 1 / 2''width, which were combined into Four Patches, Half Square from wider pieces of blocks. Some were already a complete block composed of some other half blocks. However, I need a total of 63 pieces, so it was more to do.

are now finished all the blocks and put together the first four rows.
pictures there when the top is finished.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Hard Fingers After Snow Shoveling

Men o 'War: "Predators"

A kidnapped from Earth Trüppchen Schlagetots of soldiers and is being chased on a jungle planet by a group of predators to their cultural edification and must deal with some oomph and thick List rid of their skin.
captures the very good and thrilling in the sense of a Count Zaroff updates, but at some point leave the path of reduction and gearing up so to speak, with superfluous material and unnecessary digressions edge. Competently filmed, beautifully bloody inferior to the first part of nature, because the Predators in the audience now views the element of surprise have lost. Stephen Hopkins' second part of 1990 is decidedly less cinematic, but technically stronger and more consistent story Nimrod Antal's 2010 version, the first part but respectfully and at a high technical level of re-enacting, but it tends to shatter. Still pretty good, mainly because of the abrupt onset of a careful and tightening the screw.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

North Face Which Detergent To Wash

"Lost in Germany" reading No 2

love LiD fans

yesterday, the first "Lost in Germany" - takes book reading in the Hamburg Mathilde Café: and it was a clear success. Thank you to everyone who came - and to all who see them smiled and laughed loudly - because you gave me Courage made and after one minute, my wildly beating heart again and get my reading not consent leveled. It then has only been fun, my favorite texts from own book you read.

So much fun that I have a desire to repeat it immediately: and this I will do in a week in Dusseldorf. On Thursday the 3rd February comes the LiD-reading series in the most beautiful city on the Rhine, in a place in the bookshop BiBaBuZe in the Aachen Street 1 Because I'm trying to improve like always, admission is free even to this solution!

I am looking forward to meeting many of you to see!

Greetings from the LiD editorial

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Congratulations Cards For Pregnancy Wording

Satan in the East End: "Heartless"

The young Jamie wanders at night as outsiders through London's seedy East End and photographed. His face under the hood, he shows her reluctance, because it is distorted by a large birthmark. As Jamie observes a walk-murder, he recognizes the perpetrators demons and finds himself back in a hastily-between world of weird creatures. Last, the devil gave him the world and asks him a bloody pact. Or it could be much more likely be that the labile Jamie, this hodgepodge of social neglect, family involvement and the devil pacts somehow imagining that?
The story is based on British models from the eighties. The psychological and psychoanalytic dimension and the social component are from Campbell, the urban character of complexes, Barker. The film established an impressive universe of characters and converts it to visually talented enormous. The result is a mixture of social realism and fantastic Reality, infiltration, how to get to see such a rare and welcome. Interpreted by the supporting actor Joseph Mawle devil will go down in the annals of horror film. A perfect idea.
accumulates Unfortunately, the movie together too many images, and if you followed the confusing story and their teeth and psychopathology "resolutions" without the direct power of images again goes through, come to mind the inconsistencies, confusion, coarse fragmentation and a merely lying writer mechanism all the more. One should, for example, time devoted to the question who really belongs here, which gear and who kills whom so if you please. Since so few true so, particularly as 'realistic' resolution at the end of a minimum level of consistency has to be given not to the film in his 'visionary' approach ready. Characters behave in implausible or crazy, and with them, develop themes and characters have a huge imbalance. Heartless proves prätenziöser Blender, which captures the audience with his brilliant adjacent to the design to make it then be satisfied with half-baked, want. Really does not ignite it all.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Antique Wooden Irionong Board

Dear Jane pictures

Yesterday I promised you pictures. Here they come:

Block A 5 DJ - A5

the squares with the Flying Geese are sewn on paper, then put together with the single-color squares as Nine Patch

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Block B patched a DJ - B1

a pure application block

Block C 1 DJ - C1 free

Block C 3 DJ - C3

Here I have ever sewed a blue and white stripes together and appropriate portions of it cut off, and this composite.

(and expect if I could, I would not have enough strips for 2 more blocks of ...) order

Then, a central square.

Block C 12 DJ - C12

The checkered squares are also composed of strips and then assembled with plain squares for Nine Patch.

the way they are beautiful just as crooked, they are only taking pictures, because the block is not exactly in spite of iron.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Mahogany's Chest Midnight Meat

Continue with my DJ

Last year, it's been not quite in gear with my DJ. Uvo's too many, too often ill and have to work at all so even a little bit.

be gradually Uvo's less Quilt especially Martins has always made me feel guilty "may not do anything new before it is finished" was circling in my head. In addition to three Liesel projects that are created intentionally for a long time, now are still 2 big quilts on hold, but both are for me, so my thing.

For the year, we have teamed up to fifth-order every 4 weeks to sew together on Dear Jane. This will maintain the motivation, as well as the range of Ute luck to create a design wall. The latter will get addicted, I must look again at the design wall whether anything has changed. Does it not, of course, as long as I sew, no new blocks and send in their images. So? Get up early and sew. Today I've done it before second Let's see whether it be more. There are pictures tomorrow.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Sample Greetings For A Coming Baby

continuum of damage, "Black Death

England during the Great Plague. A squad of fighters to Episcopal in the swamps locate a village that has been untouched by the disease and in which it obviously is not odd things. A young monk joined the group and will be put to the test of faith.
Affordable British-German joint venture by director Christopher Smith, who is gradually getting better. Finally gets perfect Black Death not sure, but instead of endlessly thrash out the pros and cons, one can sometimes relate a clear stand: The film leaves me back as an absolute fan. For the middle of all the comic and game adaptations, the gothic fantasy Geknödel and the romanticized Middle Ages, Reenact and its fun clientele If he is a rarity, a good deed. Black Death fawns very clearly about more than three-gloom veritable role models and strive to assemble on sensible way. There are Heart of Darkness , The Witch Hunter and The Wicker Man . Which is equipped with a realistic approach that the budget necessity is a virtue, is against the higher, faster, further trend turns, but also creates a largely cliche-free poetic approach. Existentialist almost barren, completely humorless and sidekick-free, and once or twice almost on the art-film trip. The dialogues are sitting, the performers are excellent, the Soundtrack congenial, the action is reserved, and the horror film director is content in the atrocities by suggesting they mostly only and has achieved much more effect. The result is a dark road movie with an equally brutal as discourse-term confrontation and an evil end that is failing, however ahistorical. The film moved the organized persecution of witches sometimes just a few centuries. For the purposes of aesthetic enhancement but this is legitimate, since it shows a continuum of pervasive physical and psychological damage, which replaces a terror to others. In the discourse-term partner Christian fanatics take on something that masquerades as a religion of nature, actually but carries on a fanatical atheism. Despite the pleasantly anachronistic narrative here could hardly be more specific references to the present striking. While the history of the Religious Ausmerzungsstrategien well enough known, the fanaticism and the aggressiveness of atheists are quite a novelty. None of these positions is the film haunted, and he creates an inspired models of oe, quasi-fantastic microcosm in order to let each other go. The narrative position at the beginning and end of life by a voice-over, proves ultimately that of a survivor of the fighting force, a disenchanted veteran Crecy, the last vestige of faith lost to the legality of her own actions and it has given up to philosophize about the contradictions of the ideologies and delusions. He is also a disabled person, but which seeks to reinterpret the experience of the time constructively for themselves. The last word of the movie is "humanity".
tradition-conscious middle-age horror with rage and clenched teeth. Does it make the audience not too easy. Very good.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Purple Nurples Give You Cancer

a jar for my quilt tools aka round tray

After my pink Nähutensilios have found a new home, I finally had the necessary pressure, another container to sew.

The advent of the QF, it was a great tutorial called round filing Quiltjule. Any use for no longer usable CDs. The model is great, but only suitable for garment workers who are not afraid of hand sewing, because a significant portion have to sew by hand. (Do I like but). Soo, enough talk, here come pictures:

Quiltdöschen 1a

Quiltdöschen 5b

Quiltdöschen 4b

The use I made up myself, because I thimbles quilting always switch back times must. I would like to simply let it fall to a safe place. And they are not constantly einanderklackern against, specifically did the porcelain glider is sure not to long run. The stakes are not as inherently stable as the rest, because it is stabilized only with Decovil, but it is sufficient. Now I'm still a soft cover, maybe even from matching felt so well during transport by anything other tumbles.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Female Genital Stretcing

Martins Quilt

... is finally finished. At last weekend I made the binding and now it is really and truly finished. Almost 2 years it took. 3x I just died in the meantime, the sewing machine and each time was gone for so long that I had lost the thread.

Martins Quilt 3b

The planning was long before the first in my head, then in EQ6. . At an anniversary in gnome fabric patchwork & quilting forum, I had wanted matching fabrics in nature and fall colors, lots of stripes and checks

Then came in the same forum nor the Monatsblöckchen - swap in which I have wished for houses. In August 2009 I got 12 houses. 10 of which I used in Martin's Quilt, I still have to some of my own sewing, the red wine bottle with the glass, the wolves, the bamboo, etc. And then there

were still a three-digit number of classical small lumps, which outlined the images blocks. Quilted

I have the center by hand, the surrounding rounds I quilted to the seam with the machine.

One thing is certain: the processing of checks I've had enough. Actually, I'm in the exact sewing can not be that difficult, but the substances are often completely skewed, they can be cut either parallel to or parallel to the yarn and stitch pattern. That's enough for a lifetime!

Here you can again see the center in more detail.

Martins Quilt 2b

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Wholesale Clubwear In La

work longer? Yes please!

It's amazing how big the difference in the public discourse manchmall fails between Britain and Germany. In Germany

invites me my trade union Verdi to one, in demonstrations against raising the retirement age to participate. Left-aligned media giving people a voice, the makers of the reform en a 'Ride the horse to certify it zusammenbricht' mentality. And the general mood is definitely against the retirement age to 67, a term that is likely to be negative connotations with the majority. This reform must be flat against the will of the people are pushed through .

In the UK, but rejoices in the majority, that they will no longer be forced to do so, with 65 to go into retirement. The tenor of the reporting in the media is very different, the people are inclined rather to the new reform. And that, despite a simultaneous increase in the uncircumcised age at which the state pension can be claimed, from 65 to 66 years.

Why? There

The answer is not (and I would not know one way or another off the cuff), but the following is likely in there to play with:

- poverty in old age: The German pension system is comprehensive and generous than the British, so it is not so bad if you previously get off the career needs / wants.

- Debt: British are often very high private debt (mostly due to a mortgage) and have to work longer. The house is actually the private retirement provision, have fewer British life insurance or other savings.

- Alignment: The UK is really bad, a skiver , so being a truant. ' Presenteeism ' is called the common disease, always wanting to go out as the last out of the office to get upset about it later, can do little as the others. It defines itself more strongly than in Germany about his work.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Cruise Spots In Mobile

composer Gone Wrong: "Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky"

The Lord is a composer with "Le sacre du printemps" 1913 swim against the bourgeois audience, but attracted the attention of progressive-minded contemporaries. When he threatens to deplete after the Russian Revolution in exile, takes luxury tailor-Coco Chanel on him and his family in their villa. Stravinsky family man embarks on an affair with Chanel, finds passion provoked a break with his wife and at the end but still there as a celebrated composer.
Brilliant art design, interwoven with music and fashion. Already starts with the opening credits to where an Art Deco wallpaper seems to come alive. Lavishly furnished in period style, especially the black and white interiors of Chanel's villa. By blows and roars of Stravinsky compositions, supported by excellent performers, precise cinematic images and inaccessible with character sketches, brittle, a cool artist types that we all draw from the nose or on the faces and gestures must read. This works for some time before it evaporates in the last quarter of an hour drifting fragments and suddenly claimed a sentimental biopic arc, which it has not otherwise. The author says the novel in the making of, in the case of Stravinsky and Chanel would have found two loose parts in order to strive for unity. A daring hypothesis, especially since the film is patently not even quite believe, and it can therefore far less idealistic represents. For Stravinsky it may be something primarily sexual. A classic affair with knowledge (but not approval) of the wife who behaved always loyal to self-abandonment. This time, however, charged the master composer. You do not really know what he thinks of it, for he never expressed it. Chanel contrast, appears to want to be perceived as an artist, strengthen their self-esteem, loneliness that comes with independence, overcome, so it postulates a kinship with Stravinsky, to the just heard also enhance. This makes them appear in a rapid succession with a lot of guys and quite notorious. "She is a collector of people," says the betrayed wife who tries desperately to keep her husband in the family system, before it gives up being. Where the whole thing out now has, how it will end, the film verschwurbelt in the last fifteen minutes to decide to self-loving ways. But ultimately it is only logical, because the whole affair remains a warm mysterious, the film is a design product.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Zebra Print Personalized Napkins

"Lost in Germany" reading

made love blog readers and blog readers, I have

the publication of "Lost in Germany" in book form as an opportunity to try out more new media. So according to the blog, the articles, the video blog and the book is taken up into the reading program.

On 25th January it starts with the first event: Here in Hamburg it will be in the Mathilde Literature & Café to 20:15 . Admission costs 4.00 EUR , 3.00 EUR for those who go there often and the patrons are.

course I will try to stuff the place as possible with my entourage so that no one was inappropriate asks what between calls, pulls funny grin or something. But in the spirit of the British fair play I say to you, to know if you want to take me out of the comfort zone out ...

Greetings from the LiD editorial

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Can You Get High From Paregoric?

emergency declaration: "Grace is Gone" Beautifully filmed

U.S. indie film. Ran on TV. As the employee learns
Stanley, that his wife was killed in Iraq, he does not know how to teach the two twelve-year-old and eight daughters, and gets into an emotional declaration of emergency. He takes the first girl with a spontaneous, day-long car trip to an amusement park. What looks at first like an act of cowardice proves to be in the later stages as the only proper way to address the matter.
Stanley feels himself to be overwhelmed Loser, and he is estranged daughters. The absent mother, he can not replace. This remaining family is like not another suitable piece of work. Before he can tell the girls the news of his death, he has clearly come first even with the news, then become a real father, the only point of reference and emotional center, go to a position of unconditional love, from which he can collect his daughters. On an instinctive, unplanned way, the stiff, stooped extensive, clumsy acting authoritarian Republicans the loving father. Actor John Cusack is undergoing a transformation as impressive as unspectacular, which is completely free of political implications, but is seen purely human. At first he was hardly seen, in the end it looks like the guy after all John Cusack, as one is accustomed to it. Not the rock and rollers from High Fidelity , no, of course, but relaxes, relaxed, absolutely gentle to the daughters, who initially seemed more likely for him to be a problem. In between we learn a lot about the guy is either built correctives (his brother-student liberal stroll) or it can even out the unpleasant and the types of early understandable. Guilt about their own shortcomings as play a significant role.
A delicate, small home-front film with impressive acting performances, not just the Cusack, but also those of the two young actresses. Purpose, a road movie-image design of the old school and a todtrauriger soundtrack by none other than Clint Eastwood.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

White Bumps Diaper Rash One Year Old

The story of my Müeslilöffel or the Royal Danish Ambassador in Paris

I like ch start the new year with a cheerful story that has nothing to do nothing with the research area of East Prussia, but highlights the fact that we can come unexpectedly in our everyday life with deeper levels of historical references in touch if we as are inclined to follow the tracks that lead us happy accidents before the (tracer) from nose or eyes.

It happened one Sunday in the fall of 2009 that we were strolling through a flea market in Berlin. Just as we do this more often to give our desire to move a goal, if we quiet Sunday with a bike through the then little Rolling roads of the metropolis, just to explore areas and neighborhoods that you do not get on everyday ways to face. Completely independent of constraints and requirements as quickly as possible to get from A to B, we'll go easy on the nose, hold and talk time up where we suggest an impulse of curiosity, the deeper exploration of unknown locations.

We came for that Sunday in the fall of 2009 at a flea market in some remote village of Wilmer, actually almost Schmargendorf, so those villages of Berlin, in which no tourist gets lost so quickly. In the parking lot in front of a simple flat in it with a supermarket and everything else in such architectural ensembles unassuming houses are wont to, that on this Sunday orphaned open space in front of several rows are then with flea market stalls. In good weather, vendors jostle with simple trestle tables in front of her car on the parking lot and enrich the offering. It peddles what the financial burden of useless or what from the estate and household dissolution of Aunt Gerda appears not useful, or what you can do without any necessity to supplement the household budget.

This mélange can be hazardous emfindsame minds in the harbor is still a sense of true beauty and uplifting aesthetics, scare when the view of mountains müffeliger used clothing, evil roams in the sun sparkling, crystal cave ugly or calcified Bathtub faucets. A real flea market hunter must not be guided by such anachronistic sensibilities. Bravely he inspected a box of some rusty, some black tarnished cutlery; bravely, he asked the grim-looking vendor for prices although vegilbten hard, but probably never used, beautiful woven linen tea towels of exceptional quality.

found on that Sunday in the fall of 2009 when we stroll through the rows of flea market stalls abruptly before a state again that stood out conspicuously from the otherwise rather chaotic, messy superfluities Sammelsurien old. On the three meters of the flea market table shone in many well-ordered rows of cutlery: spoon on spoon, fork and fork next to some in between shells. All parts were made of silver. Not just silver, no, good noble silver with half moon, crown and 800 hallmark. We took a few pieces in hand, the pattern and admired considered audacious, to treat ourselves to two of the spoons to our Frühstücksmüesli in style to enjoy with fine silver. The dealer encouraged us to purchase, stressed that the pattern " Augsburg Thread "one of the elders and was always in use yet, so that one could easily be supplemented by aftermarket parts. We weighed several spoons in his hand and found two that we attracted attention by their massive processing. Coat of arms engraved on the back. This pleased us spoons. Actually, should not cost a 25 €. The dealer came to meet us and offered volume discounts on orders of two: a total of 40 €. On closer inspection I discovered that information on the selected pieces of the silver fineness no punches as the other spoons. There were 5 different small punches, but they were me and the dealer also completely unknown. He assured us that the guarantee of solid silver spoons, were also eased again slightly from the price. We dare to buy and invest € 35, despite the uncertain quality. Instead of punches, we relied entirely safe to our aesthetic sense, to feel like they were in our hands, the harmonious balance between bowl and dipper, the enigmatic coat of arms, the heavy version.

At home I was cleaning the parts thoroughly and brought the spoon to radiation. The discreetly engraved on the back of the shield coat of arms showed a leaping greyhound was around it quite a bit of tendrils with large letters, did not recognize the connection and read up about it, a helmet with feathers. The next morning we spooned our proud and noble and majestic muesli began our day's work.

A few weeks later, our Silberlöffelmorgenmüesli had been a cherished tradition, I traveled to Holstein to see my mother after the rights to help in the garden and enjoy the last sunny autumn days on the Baltic Sea. A Sunday stroll took me outside the church of the old town, where I was baptized 50 years ago. It was open and invited to a visit. I was curious how the church looked like the last renovation of the interior and went into it. In my youth I had even been interested in history and history, my interest was never extended to the interior of this church. Now I looked at everything very closely, even those at a corner stone sarcophagi. Then I discovered surprised and puzzled, along with many other arms and the leaping greyhound, whom I knew from my silver spoons.

Back home in Berlin, I began to search the Internet: who has had a leaping greyhound coat of arms? Who used to eat with my spoons? That must be even figure out! During my research I found the same to several families that are the distinguishing feature of this coat of arms had chosen. Finally, I reached into a special heraldry forum where experts told me that there was probably EEnter 10-15 families with a leaping greyhound in the arms, depending on how far they understood the radius and the period of the investigation.

As you can now find the right family in these many greyhounds coat of arms? Every detail is important. Above all, what I describe as a clear outsider as trappings or tendrils. Looking closer, you realize something like a shield framing the chain, which consists of letters and crosses with a cross turn down. Behind the shield protrude out the ends of a cross, which are also provided with letters: RE STI TU TOI. The last 3 characters can be seen not remember exactly.

After the identification of those rare women's chain as the "Dannebrog Order" and after screening of the history of candidate noble families, interest is focused on the Holstein family of Blome, with the leaping greyhound coat of arms. This would then also the discovery of the arms on the sarcophagus explain in my Baptistry. The Order of Dannebrog was instituted by the Danish royal family and awarded to deserving subjects. The v.Blomes also made at the Danish court career. Several family members wore the medal. And again the question of who supplied with my spoons? Can we now find out more?

Now the unknown punches were important. There are specialist books on the identification of old Silberpunzen. Kenner helped me: the silver was actually made in Paris between 1780-85. Although the counters are seen not quite clean. But by accurate comparison of two identical spoons can be utilized also the unclear details. The silver fineness was estimated at 916.5 / 1000.

There was only one member of the family of Blome with a reference to Paris at the time of production of my spoon:
Otto von Blome , * 1735 in Hagen near Kiel, Royal Danish Ambassador in Paris 1770 - 1796, Knight of the Dannebrog and the Order of the Elephant, 1797-1800 ambassador to St. Petersburg, died 1803 in Kiel. The rich wealthy Blome were related to all old Holstein noble families. Its modern roots in the area of Hanover. In medieval times, they turned to the north and established themselves for centuries in Holstein, where they were gegraft later. The last name carriers moved in 19 Century to Austria from because he was against the appropriation of Schleswig-Holstein by Prussia.
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the internet I have found a sympathetic portrait of Otto v.Blome, see top left. He should have remained unmarried ...
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my silver spoon have therefore already a considerable history of about 225 years behind: dinners for distinguished guests in the Royal Danish embassy in Paris, French Revolution turmoil, possibly long journeys from Paris to Petersburg and Kiel, and finally some time due to unclear from Holstein to a Berlin flea market dealers.

Our healthy breakfast get this unexpected spoon history a touch of extravagant luxury and glamor. So we ennoble the sometimes so common here and now by the noble grandeur of bygone times.
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