a sunday smile.

Ich habe eine sehr stressige und ereignisreiche Woche hinter mir und verbringe den Sonntag gerade damit, mir Inspirationen für zukünftige Selfmade-Projekte zu suchen. Ein Vorsatz fürs neue Jahr war nämlich, wieder mehr selbst zu machen und im kreativen Raum wieder aktiver zu werden. ;)
Daher, weil ich es unter anderem hier gesehen habe, hab ich mal eine Liste gemacht mit 30 Projekten für 2011 (wir haben immerhin erst April... dumidum.. ):
1) Schal und Mütze zu Ende stricken
2) ein schönes Alltagskleid nähen. Und noch eins. Und noch eins.
3) Fimo Broschen, Ketten und Ohrringe
4) Einen schönen, warmen Shrug mit Zopfmuster stricken
5) Bügelperlen-Broschen
6) Einen Quilt!!! Und Kissen, passend zum 1. Quilt!
7) Noch einen Quilt nähen (zum Mitnehmen fürs Picknick) :-)
8) Teekannen-Mäntelchen nähen
9) ein Sommerkleid nähen
10) Luna Lovegood Ohrringe
11) Handschuhe ohne Finger (haben die einen Namen?)
12) Haarband stricken
13) Blumenbroschen stricken
14) Circle Scarf
15) Rock
16) T-Shirts bemalen/bedrucken
17) größere Tasche
18) Duftkerzen
19) Nilpferd-Mütze
20) Szenen in Flaschen/Glühbirnen
21) Pferdekopf aus Dosen (Gilmore Girls inspired)
22) Halstuch
23) Handyhülle
24) Schlüsselanhänger. Irgendeinen.
25) Eine Lampe
26) Bilder (Acryl, Öl, Kohle, Copics, Aquarell, etc.)
27) 2 Collagen (eine persönliche und eine kreative)
28) eine Wanduhr
29) ein Scrapbook. Und das alte beenden.
30) Wanddekoration aus buntem Papier

und natürlich noch mehr, weil mir andauernd was über den Weg läuft was mir gefällt. Mein Problem heißt nur Aufschieberitis, aber da kommt eine solche Liste doch wie gerufen. :)
Jetzt werde ich Rhabarberkuchen backen und davon dann eventuell noch ein Bild einfügen! Ich wünsche der Welt einen schönen Sonntag!

coney island cotten candy.

ich brauch ein neues Radl! Ich besitze zwar ein Fahrrad, aber leider nur die Schrottvariante für 20 € vom Flohmarkt. Nicht, dass etwas gegen Rostalinde auszusetzen wäre... aber lange Radtouren wird sie nicht mitmachen können. Beziehungsweise mein Hinterteil auf ihr. Daher findet sie ihre Verwendung im sorglosen Parken vorm Bahnhof. Da kann ich eins der folgenden Babys nicht abstellen:









Was denkt ihr?

Greenpeace.

Green Action.
Eine Community zum Aktiv Werden. Ich bin soeben beigetreten. Momentan fühle ich mich ziemlich ziellos und ein wenig verloren und ich hatte das dringende Bedürfnis, endlich irgendetwas wichtiges zu machen, etwas zu verändern. Tiere und Umweltschutz waren mir schon seit meiner Kindheit wichtig (und das nicht nur zum Streicheln). Die Community macht es uns wahnsinnig einfach, auch mit geringem Aufwand schon die Möglichkeit zu haben, sich an einer guten Sache zu beteiligen. So werde ich mich jetzt langsam herantasten und das Ganze erstmal kennen lernen. Ich hoffe aber, bald schon intensiver aktiv werden zu können.
Falls jemand Tipps hat, wie man sich auch aktiver beteiligen kann wäre ich sehr dankbar. Das Ganze ist eben noch ziemliches Neuland für mich. ;)

Ich überlege auch, mich Amnesty International anzuschließen. Aber immer eins nach dem anderen.

My cookies & milk (&tea).

My cupholders and tea-parties.

I am a little perfectionist when it comes to.. well, everything basically. But there are certain fields that are more involved than others. Therefore I don't even think that perfectionist may be the right term, because a perfectionist has specific ideals in mind, like the perfect car has to be "insert what your perfect car would be like". I don't have many of these ideals, for example I don't know what my perfect car would be like or my perfect house or my perfect job or whatever. I only have certain ideas that I like, like a car, perfect or not, must have good cupholders. My house, whatever it may look like, must look like it's mine, so very cozy but also very stylish and one-of-a-kind. Blah Blah. See what I mean? I think perfectionists (at least that's how I define that word) are people who have "checklists" in their head that need to be fulfilled. I don't have checklists, what's perfect how and when is something I don't know from the start but that I learn once it's in process.
Something I am ridiculously crazy about though is my food. I love to cook and bake and make a perfect meal from a perfect recipe that looks perfect on the perfect plate so that I can take a perfect picture. And it's not only about cooking, it's also about like "I really want a coffee with a muffin right now" - then it has to be the perfect muffin with the perfect coffee and I go mental on the delight i get when I finally have those things. Food. I'm serious. That's why you're gonna see very many pictures of food on this blog. The picture in this entry for example is today's breakfast: French Toast with Syrup and an egg sunny side up. Just sayin'...

My awesome epiphanies.

There are times in your life when you just suck. You know you suck, the people around you know you suck, even people you've never met before know you suck. Whenever you have reached a suck-phase, it is fairly important to get out of it at your terms, don't lean on anyone else because it's your mess. They might have their own suck-problems to deal with.
These events always follow a certain scheme, some people can skip certain steps better than others but it doesn't really matter once you left all that behind you.

1) Wallow. You fell useless, you don't have the energy to do anything. So you don't do anything. While doing so, you think about your situation over and over again until your hippocampus and all his buddies get dizzy from all the circles in which you are thinking.
2) Weird.. you know something is going very wrong but you don't have the willpower or even will to change something. After all, that would require some serious work...
3) Disgusted. You hate that you're this useless idiot and you try to get up and do something about it.
4) a) you succed > great! But remember: This isn't something that happens overnight. It takes a lot of time and work.
b) you SUCK, so the cicle continues.

As you might have guessed, there's a lot of sucking going on in sonja-town. I would diagnose myself a stage 3. So we'll see. :P My scottish friend Louise has put my thoughts on the subject in very delicate words that I couldn't have phrased better myself.

Mid-October, late-night resolutions: Will work harder, will cut my talking by 50%, will stop analysing people, will stop analysing self, will be less cynical, will only argue with people when important, will stop giving up if, after 5 minutes, i am not an expert at something, will fight urge to dye hair silly colour again, will be kind, considerate, understanding and gentle human being, will become Carla Bruni.

Now I don't really have a problem with compassion and kindness and stuff (I hope), but other than that this is really the point. Things I could add: Returning to being happy with self, stop being so lazy, doing what makes me happy without putting other people first, and most importantly: not just saying these things but actually change something to not let anyone down, especially me.

My clean hands

This is something which I found on the way to Hannover at some restroom. I went to Hannover a few weeks ago with Justin and Jenny to go to the Germany-Azerbaijan soccer game. I have noticed that many soup dispensers are now called "Soap Susi", not only this one but also the one at the Düsseldorfer Subway next to the university. The other pictures of my Hannover trip are coming up soon, but I thought I should give this one extra credit. Unfortunately, they wouldn't let me take my DSLR-camera onto the premises so there will be no high quality pictures of people such as Michael Ballack as originally planned. Now I'm gonna take a shower and then buy a "Nussecke" at the bakery where Jenny works. ;)