boys, boys, boys

This song just came into my mind.

This post is a about boys. Not real human boys but super soft and cuddly boys.

These boys are not for dating or having a drink.

These boys are for the silent moments in your life.

These boys don't run away when you cry.

They are handsome little guys who always calm you down in hard moments.

These boys love kids.

They love to entertain them or just cuddle up under a warm blanket.

They are filled with love and they are thrilled to share them with anyone.

Go and get youself a new little friend. They are waiting in my shop for you .

A normal (boring) week

Sometimes it's really hard for me to find something to write about on this blog. My weekend and weeks are always the same and I don't want to bother anyone with my boring life.

Who is reading this blog ????

 I have no stories to tell about raising kids or cakes I made . Some weekends or weeks I'm just hanging around after work and do nothing. I watch TV , read blogs and try to kick my ass to be creative or productive in any way. But most of the time it doesn't work.

Now I'm sitting again in front of my laptop and try to summarize the past week.

Monday: I went to work. I went jogging after work and relaxed at home while watching old "Made" episodes on my laptop.

Tuesday: I went to work and recieved a lovely package from Loki. I spend the evening again watching MTV "Made".

Wednesday: Again work in the office. I met for lunch with my friend Katja and went jogging again. Found out that my car might get broke.

Thursday: I had several meetings at work and worked on a flyer. I found out that my car is OK. It wasn't a big thing (knock on wood). I had a doctors apointment to get my lungs checked. X-rayed again but gladly everything is fine. We rushed to mr. artistics parents home to spent the weekend with them

Friday: I slept a bit longer. Finally I got up and went jogging. I hang around and watched TV untill we went for birthday dinner (mr. artistics mom).

(outfit for birthday dinner)

Saturday: I had a good night's rest again. I went grocery shopping. Did a bit of sewing (not because I was in mood it's because I had to finish it) and watched TV. I dyed my hair dark brown again (sorry no blonde this time) and went to bed early.



(grocery shopping outfit)

Sunday: I went jogging with mr. artistics parents. One hour car ride untill we arrived back at home. Discovered that MTV US published all the "Real life" episodes. My evening are filled with escaping from reality for the next days.

So my week is borring and the same EVERY WEEK !!!!

Today I was a lucky day because I found a lovely package from my dear friend Lala. She sent me the cutest handmade things ever and I'm already wearing Matroschka (that's how we call the wooden dolls in east germany) necklace.

Everything she sent is so darling and even the envelope looked like a piece of art.

(lovely mail from Lala)

Good news from Mo because the Hoppel bag I made for her finally arrived.

(Hoppel bag)

I hope that all of you had a good start into the new week.
I'm off to see my psychologist today.

busy like a bee

Recently I'm busy like a bee when it comes to crafty things. Since I designed the Hoppel's I fall in love with the little critters. They always make me smile and I love to play with them. They inspire me to take out my re-ment and force me to use my camera more.

Last year around christmas I discovered the Hoppel's are really cute as a appliqué. While I was at mr. artistics parents home and everybody was sick I worked on some Hoppel appliqué's. Last week I started to search for some fabric collections in my stash. I noticed that I rarely bought the whole collection Sadly most of my stash are single pieces of collection.

I found a few matching fabrics from my fave lecien collection.

(flower fabrics from lecien)

Sadly it's a very old collection and I'm not able to find more of flower and duckling fabrics .

I had a lot of fun arranging the fabrics and decide for bag type.

I wanted some really colourful bags this time and I have to say that I'm very proud how they turned out.

The bags are now available in my shop .

(Hoppel collection)

I decided to make a small collection out of my Hoppel appliques and of course I will name the collection "Hoppel". I'm so happy that I was finally able to use my vintage zippers which I bought a few years ago. The bright colours match the design of the Hoppel bag perfectly.

(Duckling Hoppel bag)

(Ballon Hoppel bag)

(Umbrella Hoppel bag)

ducklings again

While we visited mr. artistic parents for christmas I took some craft stuff with me.  I discovered my love for appliqué again.

I started making appliqué bags in 2006 and I stoped making these bags when I started with the dolls.

I'm still a bit "rusty" so I started with a little bunny for mr. artistics niece. It's a simple H&M shirt but with the bunny it's now a unique garment.

(little Hoppel)

Around 5 years ago I planed to make a bag collection called "musical ducklings". Sadly I never finished the collection so I made only 5 duckling bags.

While mr. artistic was sick and I was borred I came up with idea to make "circus duckling" bags. I just finished two of them and you can find the i phone/ i pod touch bags in my shop.

(duckling bags)

You can find more pictures of the bag on etsy.