Voting needed!

..as I mentioned a few blogposts earlier, our daughter is studying in China and partaking a blogging challenge hosted by a chinese newspaper.

Here´s the link:  Blog of Anming 

and here´s where you can vote for her, if you like her blog !  Thanks!

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I spent some days in the "hardware studio", forging silver tulips , soldering eyelets and posts......

  

little beaded halfspheres will complete these complex ear dangles.

....just to mention, you don´t get these tiny wooden halfspheres in the accurate size I need!
The size depends on the beads, and so I have to treat every piece with sandpaper (goodbye fingernails!)..

...to be finished next week!

was tut sich im Garten?

Alles wächst und gedeiht!
Schönes Wochenende!

fortune and prosperity - Glück und Wohlstand

Do you remember? 

the color combination which promises luck and wealth.

To wear such lucky charms can not be wrong, even if you are not chinese and don´t plan to marry.

available here

Here you can read some china impressions on our daughters blog on china daily if you are interested...

back to work!

I hope you all had great and relaxing easter holidays!

Back from a week of hiking and cycling at the sea! ....wonderful weather, abundant vegetation and less people.

The water was a bit too cold for swimming, but  you can´t have everything in april!

above the sound of a mallorcan beach , just nature (except a short hammering sound the background)

...and this sounds a mallorcan beach sitting in a beach bar and sipping a cup of coffee after a bicycle ride in the mountains!

For comparison : here is the sound of a greece beach: 

some cool sheep---and one yellow rabbit

 handmade animals, full of character !

found on Etsy and Dawanda

1. Felt Lambs by TeddySoul
2. Felt sheep art puppet by TwoSadDonkeys
3. Easter bunney  - HappyDollsByLesya
4. Plüsch Lamm  von Andrea´s Farm
5. Schaf Marian von lakurra

Fortune and Prosperity

...these are the colors to express luck and wealthiness in traditional China

(we all know the furnishing and decoration in chinese restaurants..)

Red and Gold also are used in wedding dresses and wedding decoration in China!
Take it as a little feng shui statement, to put the working tools into such a promising vessel!
In fact it´s more simple: it just pleases me ......

but it led me to an idea......
...which I would like to realize, as soon my gardening allows an intermission!