DEINE HILFE IST GEFRAGT

Heute mal ein Post auf Deutsch, denn es geht um UNS - die deutschen Scrapbooker!

Die liebe Nina schreibt gerade ihre Diplomarbeit zum Thema “Scrapbooking und das Handmade Movement – Hintergründe und ein deutsch-amerikanischer Vergleich”.

UND GENAU DAZU BRAUCHT SIE UNSERE HILFE!

Denn wir können ihr helfen, dass sie so viel Rückmeldung wie möglich auf ihre Umfrage bekommt!

Hier geht's zur Umfrage!

Hier noch etwas von Nina zur Umfrage selbst: Die Umfrage ist anonym. Eure Angaben werden absolut vertraulich behandelt und nicht mit eurem Nickname (Spitzname) oder eurer E-Mail-Adresse  in Verbindung gebracht. Nickname und E-Mail-Adresse werden ausschließlich zur Ermittlung und Benachrichtigung des Gewinners/ der Gewinnerin verwendet, sie werden nicht an Dritte weitergegeben und werden nach erfolgter Gewinnbenachrichtigung unverzüglich und vollständig gelöscht.

Damit ein möglichst realistisches, unverzerrtes Bild entsteht, ist es sehr wichtig, dass ihr wahrheitsgemäß antwortet. Macht euch keine Gedanken darum, was wir hören wollen oder was besser klingt. Wie gesagt, eure Angaben sind absolut anonym und es ist systembedingt nicht möglich, diese zurückzuverfolgen. Also nichts beschönigen und nach besten Wissen antworten, dann wird diese Umfrage ein voller Erfolg!
Auch ganz wichtig: Bitte nehmt nur ein Mal teil. Diese Umfrage ist im Rahmen einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit erstellt worden; alle gewonnenen Daten werden nicht für wirtschaftlichen Profit genutzt, sondern ausschließlich in meiner Diplomarbeit verwendet werden.

Und es gibt sogar etwas zu gewinnen: einen Gutschein aus dem Onlineshop von Daniela Peuss.

Also nichts wie ran an die Umfrage! (;
Sie macht sogar richtig Spaß! (;

...one - two - three more things! (;

A WONDERFUL LAYOUT!!!

About when my former-boyfriend proposed to me in LONDON! (;

LOVE THE LAYOUT - love the situation! (;

LOVE HIM! (;

Supplies: fiskars cloud punch small and large,
Studio Calico Mr. Huey White & stamps,
Basic Grey Metropolitan paper cut for the silhouette,

real wood veneer

And two recent birthday cards

This one for my mother-in-law accompanied
by a real matching bunch of flowers.

It's a pop-up-card.

And a man-ly birthday card for my man! (;

Supplies: PP October Afternoon, ribbon American Crafts,

stamps Studio Calico

BUT THAT'S REALLY IT FOR TODAY!!! (;

Good night!

MY-VEGGIE-PROJECT

I've started a little project lately:

I've decided that I want to cook with vegetables that
I have never eaten or cooked before.

My mum has always cooked fresh every single day of my life!
(except for a very few days)

And since my man and I moved together 10 years ago,
I have been freshly cooking most of our meals, too.

Only exceptionally we buy ready-made food

(like pizza, "tarte flambée" or fish fingers)
for example when we don't have the energy to
cook after returning home late from work.

So, I started this project a few weeks ago and the
first vegetable was savoy cabbage.

We really loved it! It was so yummy that we'll have
it again tomorrow - I just bought another organic head.

But today's veggie was: fresh young organic spinach.

(I'm also quite new to pumpkin that accompanied the spinach today,
just started to eat it end of last year AND LOVE IT!)

Here are my ingredients:

...onion, garlic, pine nuts and parmiggiano....

 ...young fresh organic spinach and a slice of hokkaido pumpkin...

... and organic Penne-pasta. 

 I chopped onion, garlic and pumpkin and roasted them together with the pine nuts.

Then I added some milk, chopped parmiggiano and spinach.

 After a few minutes I added ground pepper and
some instant vegetable broth and the pasta.

 READY!

It was soooooo easy and soooooo yummy!

I think from now on - I will prefer fresh
spinach to the frozen one I used to buy!

LESSON LEARNED - another vegetable added to the menu! (;

So this weekend we'll have savoy cabbage once again
and these pretties (their German name is
"Butterrübe" - butter beet/turnip -
I didn't find a translation or wikipedia-article.

We'll see how they will taste!

Have a nice evening!

Hello blogger-world – HELLO WEEKEND!!!

Not the best start into the weekend to be honest
- I started it today with a visit @ the dentists...

I had another appointment on Monday this week, where he revealed
to me that the tooth needed a crown... GREAT...

This morning they called me that it was already finished and
delivered from the dental laboratory and so I got an appointment @ 5 p.m.
The crown was put in and then there was a small thing that he had not
finished on Monday, he looked at it again and saw,
that he couldn't just fill it,
BUT HAD TO MAKE ANOTHER IMPRINT FOR ANOTHER CROWN!
AAAAAAAAH!
I'm just saving money for the wedding and
don't want to pay a little fortune to the dentist... ); 

Yeah, but such is life...

On to nicer things! (;

I crafted a simple card for my aunt who will celebrate
her birthday on Monday. Not really a patterned paper that I would
have bought, but I received the paper

for free from lovely Papierwerkstatt, when I ordered some other papers
and the border-punch I used here.

And I think she will love the colors! (;

I hope I will have some time to craft something this weekend!

Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

A layout about my newest possession! (;

A PAIR OF KEEN-SHOES!

I can remember, that when my boyfriend bought his first Keens, I thought "Oh, these are ugly!"

I never wanted to try some, although he told me they were sooooo comfortable and while out in the woods geocaching I would never ever want to wear something else after trying them!

A few years went by... and wearing my teva-sandals I hurt my toes more than once... ); I'm known for tripping over my own feet! (; (By the way, that's why my blog's name is "Schrottvögelchen" - a pet name for somebody who is a bit clumsy/hamfisted).

So - to cut the long story short:

Last August  - when the boy asked, what I wanted for my birthday present - I told him, that I wanted some "girlier" Keens!

We looked online, during our holiday in the UK we looked in every sports-shop in London and Southern England - NOTHING.

So we finally ordered them online beginning of January.

And now I have some GREEN KEENS - and I already love them! (; (;

No, no - men are never right! (;

And here's the layout I did yesterday - my first LO with a photo something different than a person!

And it uses only papers from the January Studio Calico kits that I bought, plus: Fiskars cloud punches, Studio Calico's Mister Huey white, a piece of wood (yes I know - not archivally safe (;), Bazzil pompom ribbon, green American Crafts ribbon from their Travel paper kit, Cosmo Cricket Mr. Campy Rubbons - AND the shoe-wrapping paper for the background and a quality check sticker peeled from the shoe box.

Journaling (along the sides of the picture) translates roughly like that:
"I've always hated sandals - i never liked to wear them - i practically never did 

- but my Keens - I already love them dearly!"

Love it! (;

I have to show something to you.

Beginning of last year I bought a glas of mustard which had a sticker on it,
that you had to peel off, send it to the company to receive a little book with recipes.

That was the theory.

In reality I never heard back from them...

So in June 2010 I filled in a online form on their website complaining
that I had never received my cook-book - and I saved a screenshot of this form.

And never heard back from them...

So with my OLW in my head (CHANGE) I set up another email 2 weeks ago,
complaining about customer service and how sad this made me.

The next day I received a reply from a young junior product manager,
who wrote excuses and offered me to send the booklet to me if I gave her my address.

AND THIS IS WHAT ARRIVED YESTERDAY:

A letter, not one BUT TWO booklets and two BIG tubes of their mustard! (;

Now I'm okay with it again! (;

And man: I LOVE THEIR BITING HOT MUSTARD!!! (;