Free May Calendar

Here is May's calendar. It's a beautiful little fountain hidden in the open space behind our apartment. Please leave a comment if you use it, I like to keep track of how popular it is.

Just click on the picture. When it comes up in its own browser window, right click and save the picture somewhere on your computer. Then go to that location, right click on the picture, and set as desktop background. Voila, you have a photo calendar on your computer!

My family is coming for two weeks starting Monday. I'm super excited. I will be posting Word of the Week but after that I'll be in and out since we'll be so busy traveling around. I'll be sure to post pictures after.

The Hair is Dead

I got it cut. My hair is gone. Yay! It's so perfect because it's now getting hot here in Germany and it's lovely to let my neck breath. It's crazy, I think I got the best haircut of my life and I couldn't even communicate with the girl. All I could say was, 'Ich moechte eine neue Frisoer.' (I want a new haircut.) I showed her where, put my hair in a ponytail and had her cut above it...and thirty minutes later I was a whole new person.

I kinda figure you don't want to see the ponytail. It's always kind of gross to me. Like a dead fish or something. So here's the package. And coolest part that I didn't notice until after I was walking out of the salon. The place was called Hair Killer! How apt.

Here's another self portrait I took the same day. (My hubby helped with these since I wanted specific framing and the crazy flying hair.)

I have an extreme passion for books. So this is what you would normally see if you looked into my house any given day. Me with a book and a cup of tea on the couch. Always in between writing and house chores of course.

Where Will You Be?

I was tagged to answer a few questions by Christine Danek. I stole her blog title too because I liked it.


Question 1: Where were you five years ago?
1. In my freshman year of college.
2. Learning what is was to be an adult.
3. Having fun with my boyfriend. (Now husband.)
4. Studying like mad. (I finished high school early and did college in three and a half years, ugh.)
5. Wishing life would start.

Question 2: Where would you like to be five years from now?
1. More settled.
2. Agented.
3. Published.
4. Still in Germany (Sorry family!)
5. Writing more.

Question 3: What is (was) on your to-do list today?
1. Finish an article.
2. Finish my craft projects.
3. Clean the free chair I got.
4. Exercise.
5. Read.

Question 4: What five snacks do you enjoy?
1. Pears.
2. Carrots.
3. Potato chips. (Gotta throw that unhealthy one in there.)
4. Chocolate! Duh!
5. Croissants.

Question 5: What five things would you do if you were a billionaire?
1. Buy a new house! A big one!
2.  Write full time.
3. Travel. Everywhere.
4. Refurbish furniture.
5. Cars! Lamborghini Diablo/Superleggea, Porsche GT3, MiniCooper...the list could go on.

I'm supposed to tag five people. So here guys. Answer the questions. I want to know.

Kelli
Cora
Lisa and Laura
Lilah
Karen G

Bier and Piepsen

Yep...it's

bier! Or beer if you prefer English spelling.

We went to Frühlings Fest two weeks ago, well and last week too, and we'll go again next week...anyways. It's just like Oktober Fest only for spring. (Frühling means Spring) We took Piepsen along. He has been begging for bier and swears he's of age, in mouse years of course. We let him have a few sips of Albert's stein. He got pretty tipsy, but he said it tasted heavenly. We watched people dance on the tables in the bier tents, and stayed safely on the ground ourselves. We rode a roller coaster, so fun! And ate chocolate covered fruit. Here are a few pictures of Piepsen enjoying the best German past-time.

Word of the Week

Thanks for all the help last week. I'm definitely much less fried this week and have a lot of fun stuff for the blog. First off our weekly game. These four photos have one thing in common, guess what it is in the comments. You can click on the images to see the products or click on the shop names to visit the shops. Thanks for playing! I'll post the answer tomorrow.

beerring

ScreamPrinting

skinessentials

Glademade

If you have an etsy shop and would like to have a give-away for one of your items, let me know! I will feature you in another Word of the Week and display an ad for you on the side of my blog for two weeks.

The Writing on the Wall - Home Painting Project

Back in high school my two best friends and I had a painting business. We called it The Writing on the Wall and we even had business cards. We only worked for friends and family, but it was a lot of fun. We designed and painted rooms and typically we wrote a bible verse or some lovely saying in big letters on the focal wall. I've grown to love having words on the wall. And when I saw a rug that was like an old letter, I got my inspiration to paint on the wall again. So in my office I have a big wall that is just over my bookcase. Here is the recipe for painting words on a wall.

Ingredients:

A blank wall.

Paint and a calligraphy brush.

A cup of tea and your favorite quote. Of course my hero is Jane Austen so we're going for some pieces of Pride and Prejudice. It helps to put the quote in a font you like on the computer so you have something to refer to.

Some twine or other way to keep the lines straight and the letters the same size. It's like a big rule book back in kindergarten when you were learning to write.

And voila! You have a lovely, hand-painted letter on your wall. I have Mr. Darcy's proposal, Elizabeth's refusal, her first glimpse of his wonderful house, and the first time they meet after their fight. In this situation I wanted to fill the whole wall so I picked a lot of words. With my friends we usually just did one line at the top of the wall. Although with one room we did one line all the way around the top of four walls. And another we did a long bible verse above someone's bed. Easy weekend project, and simple way to spruce up a boring room.

Good Hausfrau

Sometimes I'm a good Hausfrau (housewife) and I make dinner. I provide a beer for my husband and we sit on the patio watching the sinking sun. This is fried rice with peppers. I chopped red, green, and yellow peppers and sauteed them in butter. Then I cooked the rice. Then I put all that in the sauce pan and poured two whipped eggs over the top and cooked it all together. Like everything here, the peppers had amazing taste.