Shopping Tipp: Beautiful Sticky Tape

Look what I found today:

Aren’t these tapes amazing! I found them at Rossmann today and the whole lot is just 4.99EUR. Incredible, isn’t it?

They are not washi tape but more sticky tape, so you cannot remove them and they do not have the nice matt finish of washi tape, but I like the designs very much and since they are not as expensive I am so much more likely to actually use them.  The more expensive ones I tend to keep forever, never really daring to use them. And that is not the real point, is it ;-)

What a nice offer!

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Yes, I would like that very much! Thanks for offering ;-)

Virtual Window Shopping: Black& White

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The „Holländischer Stoffmarkt“ in Numbers

Numbers of fabric stalls: uncountable

Number of passionate sewers at the market: uncountable

Number of fabrics, I could have bought: 746

Amount of money, I spent (in Euro): 30

Number of beautiful fabrics, I bought: 5

Number of bags on my buggy: 3

Number of alleys full of fabrics: 3

Number of stalls with accessories: 2

Number of friends, I kept on losing: 2

Number of heavy rain showers: 2

Number of babies who wouldn’t leave their mama’s arm: 1 = mine ;-(

Number of numb arms after carrying her around for hours: 1 = my left one

Portions  of French fries I needed to keep on going: 1 with mayonnaise

Despite the numb arm, I am a very happy girl today! Now I can start thinking about what to make out of my new treasures. Happy days!

Fabric Shopping Spree

To all sewing addicts in and around Berlin, clear your calendars, cancel all dates and rob a bank – tomorrow is holländischerStoffmarkt in Potsdam.

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I am already dreaming of a pram full of bags, mountains and mountains of new fabrics, overstuffed containers, and an immensely enlarged fabric stash... I haven’t been to holländischer Stoffmarkt before since I spend my sewing-addicted years down under, thus I am extremely excited and hope that my high expectations won’t be crashed tomorrow.

I hope to show you tons of new fabrics tomorrow evening.

Have a great Saturday, no matter what you are looking forward to!

Ruby Tuesday – For a Country Holiday

Yes, I am going on a holiday to the Bavarian countryside next week. Ah, I cannot wait! So, in the meantime I have to fire my imagination with these lovely ruby holiday finds:

A sun hat for the little one...

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... comfy summer shoes for me...

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... a booklet to start writing this travelogue I had in my mind for ages...

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... a big bag to have everything (sun cream, sun glasses, magazines, crafting material, water bottle, and so on) at hand at the canvas chair ...

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... and finally a soft cushion so my neck doesn’t get stiff after so much relaxation.

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Enjoy dreaming of your summer holiday!

All found at DaWanda today!

My Product Innovation of the Summer

Quite a strong statement giving that the summer in Germany hasn’t even started, yet. When I saw this Barbecue Chocolate at my local supermarket, however, I was sold. This is definitely my highlight of this year’s barbecue season. Melting chocolate in an aluminium bowl directly on the barbecue – brilliant! I think you have to be German or Australian to understand the appeal of this unique offer. No one else is as obsessed about barbecues and outdoor kitchens, I guess ;-)

Ruby Tuesday

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Following a tip in the CUT magazine I found a great new online shop. Envelop only sells unique, small batch items – mainly tote bags, pillow covers, aprons, table runners and the like. The wonderful thing is that you can also upload your own design and then everyone can buy it and you get a share of the money. Maybe that is just the start of your international design career?

Ruby Tuesday: Kitchen

I would love to have a red kitchen. With bright red, shiny doors. As long as we are living in a rented apartment, however, I don’t think that my dream will come true. So the next best thing is to brighten up my classic white kitchen with lots of red accessories, like these ones e.g.:

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Cupcake cases found here

Wine glasses found here

Pot holder found here

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All red kitchen accessories found at Etsy.

Ruby Russian Doll

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No, it is not a Matroschka-Babuschka doll this time. This cute little doll is called Newaljaschka. Or Wanjka-Wstanjka. This both means tumbler (“Stehaufmännchen”), , but I like the Russian words so much better. Because they are so onomatopoeic – when you hear the words you can almost see the little doll tumble from left to right, from right to left – wanjka-wanjka-wanjka.


I discover this cutie in a Russian shop today and couldn’t resist her. Look at these big dark eyes. And these incredible lashes. And her stylish forelock. There are actually a number of different types of Wanjka-Wstanjka, from sailor to clown, from mouse to bunny, from brunettes to raven, but I think she is just the sweetest.


Obviously Wanjka-Wstanjkas are very popular toys in Russia as I learnt here. It is ideal for little ones, because it is not only a tumbler, but also a rattle and the bright colours catch every baby’s attention. Oh well, I think I have to share this beauty with my little one.

Lazy Saturday!

As a mum you need those lazy Saturdays so badly. The little one sleeps. You have nowhere to go. You have nothing to do (well, you always have something to do when you are a mum, but the secret is to ignore all those chores for a while and pretend that you have nothing to do). You have a cup of coffee. And your laptop in front of you. And thanks to the WorldWideWeb the shopping world is at your feet.

Today I did a virtual shopping spree at Anthropolgie and as so often I fell in love with their accessories.

Isn’t this dachshund cute?

And look at this classic Chanel-like necklace!

Oh, and what a sparkling but sophisticated headband!

Ahhh, and those golden feathers!

Oh and what a beautiful Obi-belt!

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Hope you have a wishful Saturday, too!

Shopping Sunday

By chance I found a wonderful etsy shop today: Purrr...

It is full of postcards, which I would never ever send. Instead I would hang them up on my wall. Because they are true pieces of art. If I could only decide which ones I love the most – sigh!

I love fashion meets art meets book pages!

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Well, while I make up my mind here, please have a look at Jess’ blog. It is full of beautiful art, jewellery and its inspiration from old movies & books, fabrics & fashion, and other etsy shops.

Creative Shopping Heaven Berlin

After discovering their fabulous website last night and discovering that their shop is just 20min away, my daily midday walk ended by chance at

I spend a wonderful hour in this relatively small shop, because despite its small size it houses an amazing range of beautiful-beautiful things. Amazing children toys. Wonderful home decorations. Breathtaking stationary. And of course I couldn’t resist. I am very proud of myself, however, keeping my limited spending budget in mind that I just bought these

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Aren’t they a real sensible, economic purchase? Imagine how many different things you can make with them. I will never have to purchase a postcard anymore in my life. From now on I will make my own. Little pieces of art, personal and worth-to-keep, instead of overpriced, badly printed pictures of the Louvre, Bavarian castles or the London Eye. That’s a bargain, isn’t it?

While chatting with Nicole, one of the two lovely founders founders of schoener.waers.wenns.schoener.waer (it would be more beautiful if it was more beautiful), she told me that right across the street, at Moritzplatz, an amazing craft department store will open soon. A Modulor department store to be precise. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. For all of you who haven’t been to the Modulor store in Berlin before. This is the creative shopping heaven. They have specialised in materials of all kind. I think it is the best-known secret for all architects, model railway builders, artists and creative people of all kind. Their only disadvantage was that the hop itself was pretty small and you really had to dig to find all the amazing things. And now they are opening a multi-story department store this year. Huraay! I knew this part of Kreuzberg was up and coming. Well, just now I am sure ;-)

And for all of you who don’t live in Berlin, please don’t cry. Modulor has a great online shop as well.

Ruby Tuesday

Keel’s Simple Diary by Taschen

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Animalistic Wooden Blocks

Every Monday I will post something related to babies: inspiration, craft projects, baby news, and discoveries I have made in this new and exciting world for me. I hope you come along on that rollercoaster ride with me.

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I am really sorry that this is another shopping inspired post, but when I saw these beautiful wooden at my local chemist, I just couldn’t resist:

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They are just 7 EUR and I think they are an amazing addition to any set of normal wooden blocks. I cannot wait for my little one to be old enough to play with them. In the meantime I “save” them on my window sill for her ;-)

Fabric Shopping Spree

Today I had a wonderful fabric shopping spree. I met with Catherine from Cat-und-Kascha at the market on Maybach Ufer. Besides wonderful fresh food, you can also buy there incredibly affordable fabrics. Catherine and I found out that we do not only share a passion for sewing, retro fashion and the colour red, but that we also have very similar fabric shopping behaviour: browse, strike whenever we see something beautiful and then buy a couple of metres, so that we have enough fabric no matter what we are going to make out of it (dress, skirt,...).And since I didn’t have anything on my shopping list – en contraire, I didn’t need anything at all – I found wonderful things:

bright pink lining fabric

beautiful ribbons

and wonderful thick jersey (grey with pink and turquoise graphic flowers), which was a perfect gift for my sewing-addicted friend N., who is expecting twins and doesn’t know whether they will be boys or girls or a boy and a girl.

After our successful shopping spree, Catherine and I dried our children (it was pouring with rain all the time and still we kept on moving from one stall to the next) and had a wonderful lunch. And chatted, chatted and chatted. Although we have just met once before. Amazing what interesting people you can meet through blogging. And if you are lucky, they live right around the corner ;-) I am looking forward to our next meeting, Catherine!

The world’s cutest trailer

Every Monday I will post something related to babies: inspiration, craft projects, baby news, and discoveries I have made in this new and exciting world for me. I hope you come along on that rollercoaster ride with me.

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Aren’t these the cutest children’s cars you have ever seen?

Max is already pretty cool...

... but together with trailer Loretta, they are an unbeatable dream team!

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