ebay, vacation and a first haircut

these 3 things have nothing in common but will be my update for you guys.

I sold some things on ebay like e.g. shoes that didn't really fit and some rubberstamps I never used and a piece of tupperware I once "had" to buy but also never really used in a way that would have justified the money I once paid for it!!
But stupid me forget our little trip to bavaria when I out the things on ebay and so it happened that some items were sold while I wasn't at home to watch and mail, etc. But my sis was so nice and we had some sort of conference call and she updated me on my profits. (I put the money aside for my trip to the KreativWelt in Wiesbaden in november!!!)

So here we are already talking about the 2nd word: VACATION
We went to Bavaria for a short vacation from last Friday until Tuesday night. My wish was to visit Munich during that trip because I like that city. We ended up going there on Tuesday basically already on our way home. We walked across the "ViktualienMarkt" - a really big Farmers Market there. Really beautiful - all the color and all these smells. (Sorry, I forgot to bring the camera!!!) Had some Starbucks there too (Raspberry Cheese Cake - YUMMMM). But here are some pictures of the days before - we were really lucky to have such great weather!! Back home it wasn't that good!!

The last pic is Felix being totally fascinated by some animals in a little zoo we visited in Ebbs.



And now on to the third word: HAIRCUT

That is him a couple of days before with his kind-of-long-hair:



Felix had his first haircut today!! He did so great! But Monika - my hairdresser - is really good with kids. Felix was standing on my lap and she started by putting a clip in my hais and combing first mine then his hair and then just starting cutting and he didn't really notice it. At the end she made his hair stand up a little put which looked really cute together with his big boy shirt!!!

Finally some LO's from the xtreme weekend

This was the Hambly Minibook class were we made a little minibook using Hambly transparencies and some ribbon, buttons and fabric. It was really cool to learn some tips about making such a transparent book. I didn't finish it in the class so I still have one page to add, but I took some pics of Adrienne's so I guess I will be fine!!!


These 2 LO'S are from the Freestyle class. At first I didn't really like the sequins, but once I started and picked that water picture and my paint colors I really liked how it turned out and made me think of the shimmering water in a pool.
We used some painted icecream or popsicle sticks on this LO too. Don't know if I will be able to get these here!!

In the second freestyle LO I used some tiny pics ( 2.5cm x 2.5 cm) from the 70' and 80's.





This is from the "altering embellishment" class were we used lollipop sticks and a stitching grid (?) and some buttons and paint to create our LO. I didn't even bother about using a ruler - just handcut my circles too!! In the close up you can also see the the 3D paint used on the PP:

xtreme weekend in Katwijk

Last friday Felix and me slept at my parents' so my dad and me were able to get up at 5 am saturday morning to drive 3.5 hours to get to Katijk aan Zee in the Netherlands. Noooo, my dad doesn't scrap!!! But he was nice enough to be my driver and enjoy a day at the see!!!
I took three workshops from Adrienne Looman and I really likes the projects we did!!
Since I still have to put some finishing touches to my LO's I will post some pictures later!!
Of course I did some shopping too. Finally got some Hambly overlays and some of these too; along with some other goodies.

workshop preparations

Saturday next week I will be going to my first scrap workshop in my life! Until now I have just scrapped the way I wanted or inspired by LO's from books, mags or the web. I'm really getting nervous about going there - last night and this morning I spend a total of 3 hours on the computer in order to fix the pictures for the classes. We got a supply list that showed how many and what size pics we need to bring. So I sat down and uploaded and resized and tried to figure out how to get 2,5 x 2,5 cm pics! ( Luckily Felix slept a whole 2.5 hours this morning so I was able to finish the whole thing, burn it on a CD and take it to the drugstore!)
These 2 are from pictures in the 70's and 80's and the next one is a mosaic made of this years pics:

My little explorer

Just a quick post to show off the LO I finished couple of minutes ago.


Paper by Danyeela, rub ons Rhonna Farrer, sticker pebblesinc. & 7gypsies

Last weekend

was a really nice one! Friday night I took some pics of Felix wearing an overall I wore when I was little. He wasn't too happy with me and the camera but it was okay!!

The first pic is me and the second one is Felix!!





Saturday my parents came over in the afternoon and while my mom went for a walk with Felix, my dad and I were able to hang up some stuff like pictures and such things that were waiting here for I don't know how long!!!

On sunday Sonja, Anja and me drove to Trier to a huge fleamarket just for kids stuff. Tons of toys and books and clothes. It was just awesome!!. Sonja and I found some nostalgic things we remembered from the 70's and 80's. Just love fleamarkets like this!!

The picture shows most of my finds!!




Have a good week!!!

Daily something

Just finished some little LO's for the daily something project Ali started on her blog.

Another Mosaic and a wedding

1. Krispy Kreme, 2. Untitled, 3. think coffee, 4. ...or another..., 5. Pay Phone, 6. 71 - Fuzzytop, 7. thank you, mav., 8. Mr. Light, 9. Mom ! Don´t leave me here ! Helppppp !, 10. The Market (La Boca), 11. Untitled, 12. Splash, 13. Welc_me to Fabulous Las Vegas, 14. Wildflowers, 15. My life through a window, 16. Don't Just Look

Some new pictures from Flickr.

Last Saturday was my friend Katharina and Tim's wedding party. Little Felix slept at my parents house and Stefan and I were able to stay as long as we wanted. For Stefan that meant till about 1 am (he had to get up early in the morning though) and for me it meant dancing, dancing, dancing until 4 in the morning. And I really really enjoyed this so much. It was such a nice party and they got a DJ for a present so the music was super cool too.

Started taking some pictures for the daily something project started by Ali. Have to get them printed to get started on this one!!

Flickr Mosaic

1. Tooth Fairy Pillow for AK - a little closer ... :), 2. Yellow Vespa on Acid, 3. Paraffin Lamp 1, 4. nos perdemos, 5. Untitled, 6. grazia innata, 7. Untitled, 8. Happy Saturday Morning., 9. flickr.com/photos/73921950@N00/915158805/, 10. SUPERMARKET, 11. blinkie blink blink flowwiee, 12. first page, 13. parliament of owls, 14. Starbucks, 2005, 15. Retrato de familia, 16. poppies

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Saw Ali's great mosaics on her blog and wanted to try these out too. Great pic over there at flickr, but you really get lost looking at all these fotos and time runs by so fast!!


Today we have moved Felix bed into his own bedroom. So far - 9pm - he is doing fine. Feels somehoe strange without his bed in our bedroom but it's also great to have our room back to ourselves. Being able to sit at the computer without worrying if he might wake up.

Oberstdorf

I didn't know that you have to pack so much stuff when traveling with a kid!! Diapers, wipes, sunscreen, toys, ......



Felix sitting in our new backpack. He just loved sitting in there and being able to see everything.

We really enjoyed our trip and Felix especially liked Daddy being around the whole day!!! Maybe we are going for another trip in fall - either the Netherlands which means sea and beach (my choice!!) or the mountains again (which would be Stefan's choice!!).Let's see who wins!!

lazy blogger

so sorry that I'm not able to keep this blog updated ona regular basis. But being a mom is very time consuming.
Tomorow we are off into a little family vacation. More when we get back - hopefully!!!

Carrots for the first time!!!

Felix has been really interested in our food for quiet some days now so we decided to give it a try and start feeding him solid food this monday. I picked some carrot baby food up in the store this weekend and when he started to ask for food around noon today I was ready for the experiment!!
Very important: to wear the right equipment - especially with carrots!! (And have mommy take a picture of it!!!)




Next thing : Warm up the carrots to a nice temperature. And then the fun part starts!! But he really did so well. Didn't spit out a little bit. Took the spoon so well. I guess we're off to solid food! Not the little baby any more now! He was so concentrated swallowing and tasting and all that stuff. Couldn't get him to really smile for the last picture.

winter came back...

On Monday we woke up to see the above outside! It was really surprising because we had some really warm spring days with lots of sun the week before. But of course the snow didn'T last for long and before noon most of it was already gone. But right now it is snowing again - not too much though.
As for me I don't need the winter to come back again. I felt really comfortable with the sun shining. It made it a lot easier to be outside with Felix.

Guess he saw I wrote his name - started crying right away - gotta go check on him!! See ya!

98th birthday

Last thursday Stefan's grandpa turned 98. So we had some days of celebrating his birthday. On thursday it was just the family having coffee and cake and a light dinner at my in-laws. The next day there were mainly the neighbours and we had the leftover cake with them and last but not least we went out for dinner yesterday with him.

Here are some pictures of last years birthday (because of Felix I didn't bring the camera with me this year!!):


That's him with his four sons.





That is him with his grandchildren and his 2 greatgrandchildren and the last one is him and Niklas, his first greatgrandchild.

Baptism etc.

On february 11th we celebrated Felix' baptism in the church here in Oberkail.




It was a nice ceremony and some of our friends joined us. Afterwards we celebrated a little bit together with our families at home. It was a real nice day and Dirk took my camera and really got some nice shots with us and Felix.



We had to empty our living room to make space for an extra table for all the guests that day, so that was a bit of a challenge for us! My mom came saturday to help me clean everything and set the table. But I guess everyone was happy once everything was on his place again by Tuesday!

The Monday after the baptism Felix got his first shots at the doctor (vaccination). He did cry a little but calmed down real quick.

Have to go - he is waking up, maybe later some more!!

Misc.

It is even harder to keep this bloggin thing going with a child. And Felix has been really time consuming the last few days. He needs lots of attention, wants to be carried lots, etc.

I started a class last week for women who gave birth. Don't know if that is known everywhere but here in Germany we have it and the purpose is to activate and strengthen the muscles again that weren't used during pregnancy or suffered due to the weight or labor... It is just an hour a week but it feels nice to be on my own for this hour and to know that Stefan is with Felix so he's fine and I don't have to worry about that and just do something for me. Last night we did a little massage at the end. The instructor - Heidi - read a little story about being on the beach and feeling the sun burn on your skin and the the rain starts to fall, you feel the wind, ... There was one woman sitting and imagining this scene and the other one sitting behind her using her hands to "be" the sun and wind and rain on the womens back. I really felt the sun and the rain and everything and it felt soo good.

Afterwards I went to BurgerKing and grapped something for dinner and a Latte which was the second highlight of that night!!

Some random pictures:My Mom and Felix on New Years

8 weeks old

Sunday morning thoughts...

Just some random things I wanted to post:

...Cathy Z. is back with her blog. I liked reading her blog and thought it was sad when she stopped it in fall 2006. But anyways- she's back!!!

...Just had a great breakfast with fresh baked croissants filled with nougat!! Mmmmh!!!

...Felix is sleeping right now so I got the chance to be on the computer, but Stefan is also waiting for it!!

... started a Mini album about 2006. Just finished the january page and have to wait for the pictures to be developed to continue with the other months!

Have a nice Sunday

Angels seem to make their way...

... to the ones that need them.

While being in the hospital giving birth to Felix there was a woman together with me in the room. She was given one of these beautiful angels with the metal wings by one of her visitors. I really tried to remember the name of the company but I guess I failed. Being back home I searched the net and couldn't find these angels.
Then I found in one of the blogs I read a post where someone else was given one of these angels and I tried to get information about the angels from her. She did comment upon my blog but not about the angels !! :-(
So again some days later my mom came visiting me - or I guess more Felix than me LOL - and she had a present for Felix with her. One of her friends gave it to her. I opened it up and immediately recognized the logo on the box and started screaming!!! My - or Felix' - angels has found us!!!

It's a Guardian Angel and the company is called Willow Tree and the designer is Susan Lordi. I just love these angels and the other figurines.

Then christmas eve came and in germany that is the time to open up the presents. Stefan had 2 for me. The first one was a perfume by Calvin Klein I wanted quiet for a while and the second one was another figurine:

It was a really touching gift for me, because I think Stefan sometimes has a hard time in finding a present for me - although I think I'm easy to find a gift for!! - and plus that he chose this one. Representing our new little family which makes it even more clear to me how happy he is having Felix and being a father now.

I hope these angels (although the family figurine is not really an angel one) will guide us through 2007 and make that this new year will be one of laughter and joy and good new things for us and our families.

Belated merry christmas

and already a good 2007 for everyone!!!

Didn't imagine that I wouldn't get the chance to blog more often with Felix being around here. But it seems that I have to sneek away while he is sleeping to get some computer time. But this mostly is so short that I have to limit myself to just a few of the blogs I like to read. No more time for message boards or blogging for me! On the scrapbook side it is almost same thing: Not really time to create something.

But don't get me wrong. I'm not really complaining! I mean I miss being able to do what I want to do and when I want to do it, but Felix really makes it up to me!! He is really easygoing and sweet. A good sleeper and eater and you just want to sit there and watch him all the time. All the funny faces he makes whether sleeping or awake. It's just the normal things a parent has to go through with a newborn around: Not being able to dress somedays until noon e.g.

But I really enjoy every day and take pics for the time he is older and able to play some time on his own. I mean he is just so little and small and needs his parents for every little thing right now!!

Have a nice New Years Eve everyone!!!!!!!!

He's here!!!!!!!

Welcome the new member of our little family:

FELIX



He was born on November 25th , 52 cm and 3720 g

He is the cutest little thing you can ever imagine (of course that is what every mom thinks). He is doing really well and he sleeps a lot. That makes is easy for me to catch up on some of that missing sleep during the nighttime.

I feel like Stefan and me can't imagine ever living without him any more, even after this short time. He brings so much joy into our lives and he is the best pre- christmas - gift ever!!!!!