Excitement & some jobs / Begeisterung & ein paar Aufträge

Wenn Ihr meine Aktivitäten auch auf facebook verfolg, habt Ihr vielleicht mitbekommen, dass ich vor ein paar Tagen vor Vorfreude ganz hin und weg war, weil ich mir endlich meine Traum-Visitenkarten bei MOO bestellt hatte...

Nun, sie sind heut angekommen:

If you follow me on facebook too, you might have noticed that I was getting complete nuts some days ago, about these lovely business cards one can make over on MOO and that I finally ordered some for me.

Well, they arrived today:

A very busy & happy Easter/ Sehr geschäftige & frohe Ostern

Sein zweites Ostern, und jetzt pest er schon um den Tisch und durch das ganze Haus, mein kleiner Meister Lampe :)

His 2nd Easter, and now he allready can run around the table and through the whole house, my little Mr. Bunny :)

Been busy/ war fleißig

Diese hoffentlich bald zukünftige Reste-Tagesdecke habe ich schon im vergangenen Winter angefangen. Sie soll kunterbunt werden und dereinst auf Eriks Bett zum Einsatz kommen. Ich häkle sie mit halben und ganzen Stäbchen immer in der Runde, allerdings hatte ich sie am Anfang nur in Reihen gehäkelt, was im Nachhinein unpraktisch war, jetzt aber irgendwie witzig aussieht, wie ich finde! Zwischenzeitlich sind noch Apfelgrün und Schwarz als breite Streifen rundherum dazu gekommen.

This - hopefully soon to be scrap-plaid I started sometime during the last winter allready. It should be very colorfull and become the new plaid for Eriks bed. I crochet with half double crochet and double crochet in rounds, although I had started crocheting in rows, what after a while doing so, I found a little uncomfy to do but now I really like how that contrast looks. Meanwhile some aple-green and black rounds were added also.

Wickeltaschen-Startersets neu im Shop/ diaperbags complete sets available now

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Diese beiden Taschen sind neu im Shop: 

Märzhimmel

A Plaid made of rags, a Wreath & Shop-updates/ Eine Decke aus Lumpen, ein Kranz und Shop-Updates

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Meine Näma ist kaputt! Die Spulkapsel ist gebrochen und ich habe keine Ahnung, wie lang der Versand des Eratzteils brauchen wird. Also bin ich erst einmal gezwungen, mich anderwärtig zu beschäftigen - was aber, wie schon oft erwähnt- kein wirkliches Problem ist :).

Endspurt? / final spurt?

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Woche 37 geht zu Ende und, wie wohl so ziemlich jede Schwangere nach dieser Zeit habe ich irgendwie "keine Lust" mehr, schwanger zu sein. Mir geht es soweit super, dem Zwerg ebenfalls, daran liegt es nicht, aber die Spannung steigt dann doch so langsam und ich mag ihn jetzt draußen haben ;). 

Was liegt da näher, als die selbst auferlegte "Noch für´s Baby nähen" Liste weiter ab zu arbeiten und, nebenbei, noch ein paar Kleinigkeiten für den Shop zu nähen? Genau: nichts, also, hier sind die Resultate der letzten Tage:

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changing the little one? / Windeln wechseln?

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Die Windeltasche ist fertig :). Den Schnitt noch weiter von Sewfuns Version zu entfernen dauerte dann noch einmal eine Weile, aber letztlich bin ich sehr zufrieden:

© PanPanCrafts 2010

Followup: Recent work & random tales

I just reviewed the pictures I have taken over the last few weeks and saw, that 2 projects weren´t mentioned here so far.
But the most obvious thing I learned by sorting, reviewing and deleting unneded stuff, was, that since I work for Kodak´s digital support I have taken bazillions of pictures. Of course, because I work as a technical advisor for the support staff, I need to know the products around quiet well and if I´m honest, there is no better way to find out about digital photography and what functions you prefer. I can use all of the cams and learn, run tests and finally found out, which one I love most. I don´t need a reflex camera for my purposes, I think, for my needs the Z915 or Z950 are the chosen ones, while I guess, I´ll go for the first one. I defenitely love working in this job! :)

But back to OUR business ;) 2 months ago, my lovely mom in law had have her birthday. She dreams of having a special bed by IKEA, and since we cannot affort to buy it I decided to make a piggy bank as a gift at least. It´s dreaming of the one bed and wants to be feeded with money untill we can go back to this funiture store from heaven and buy it :)



It´s made of an air balloon and papermâché, the feet are made of egg-cartons, it´s painted and finally sprayed with clear varnish. The bedcap I sewed and taped it with 2sided carpet tape over one of the freehand modeled paper ears. An How To I will publish asap, it´s a funny thing, we made these in school when I was little and I remembered making these piggies was fun.

Now 2 pieces of random stuff...

1st: Finally A picture of me, which I actually like :):
It was taken at my bff´s birthday party (she is the left one). This was one of the first pictures after having the tonsils removed, not beeing able to eat afterwards for 2 weeks and then starting with WW, because I did not want to gain the allready lost pounds again. It´s pretty amazing, how obvious the lost of 26 pounds did change the face as well ;). So, I´m quiet happy about the result and (forgive me) a little bit proud of myself too. The aim is to loose another 12 pounds, just to reach a good BMI, and then I´m fine with it again :).

2nd: Lets do a little time-warp...
When I was 3 years old, one day my dad took me on a trip to the town (we lived in a small village back then). We went for shopping and so on. In front of a toy shop window I suddenly stucked and did not want to leave, because I had seen something, I wanted to have desperately. It was a little blue bunny with white trousers and a face made of rubber. These toys were some sort of modern back then in the GDR. After I had started to cry and acted up terribly for a while, my poor daddy saw no other choice than to buy the damned thing. I still remeber me schleping it the whole way home from the bus stop, holding it by it´s lugs. It was my best friend over many years. But years later I moved and somehow lost it. I searched all over, and finally... ok, it´s not HIM, my "Blauer" (this was his name, which means "blue one") had eyebrows I had painted with a ball pen, when I had have a flue aged 5; but I got his twinbrother at ebay:

Isn´t he adorable? Just think of how old he must be, they were produced back in the 70´s and 80´s. This one, I never, ever want to loose again, because, besides I still have some photos, it´s the only item I have to remind me of my childhood.

Ok, enough childhood memories, another crafty thing I sewed last month was this:


A tiny belt pouch. It´s that small, because only my cell phone and a locker key need to find place in there. I wanted to have one for the gym, since most of my sporty pants don´t have pockets. I need some music while running and lifting some weights and use the phone for this. It´s working well with the pouch, the inner lining is made of polar fleece, so the display of my nokia gets an extra polish each time:



Again, this was a complete "free style" pattern. I only decided, which fabric I wanted to use and the shape the pouch should have. The rest was fitted to the cell phone and to the last zipper I had on stock ;).

Ok, thats it for now, just let me check the pictures for the piggy bank how to and I´ll come back with that!

wishing you a wonderfull night,
Mone

a 6-months summary...

... or the "same old song", to quote anothor song title by another great band - PAIN this time... by the way: While HE was doing this: we were doing that ;)

Yes, it was... uhm, let´s say quite satisfiyng having this fantastic artist in front of us and playing all the good stuff. For those of you, who are not into Metal that much, there is talk of Peter Tägtgren, who had held court with his solo/side project PAIN two weeks ago at the Wacken Open Air. But this blog isn´t about Metal or music in general, so, if you´d like to see more pics of strange guys floundering in mud, defenitively drinking way too much alcohol (at least some of them ;) ) and having a good time over all, then, feel free to check my flickr for this years photographical loot or see, what I and my beloved pals uploaded to our myspace pages ;)

But, how did I get the "same old song" thingy in my mind? Just, because, it´s allways the same: I plan, I set a deadline only to myself, for getting things done, like the shop or the never ending updating-my-homepage-nightmare or, most annoying, finally getting my driver licence. But there´s allways something strange happening. And, in this case(s), it did again. No dramatic stuff almost, but enough to receive setbacks in all the mentioned points. Anyway, here I am, and here I go.

So lets resume the past months since my last post in more pics than words, not that you get bored by reading all that stuff ;)

1st: newly sewed things:

new mobile purses, the orange one was an order, the brown one I made for myself.

Another "FeKa", as a birthday present for Dani this time. Unfortunately I totally underestimated the hard conditions in Wacken, so both front buttons need to be re-sewed now :(



a non-sewed tablerunner - non gothic, non victorian, just spring-like ;):

A ready-made Opeth longsleve; the band´s logo on the front and logo plus quote from the song "To rid the disease" on the back, both prints made with Photoshop and transfer foil (the shirt I wear on this pic):

the back:

The quote says "I have lost all trust I had in you..."

2nd: new soaps:
from the top to the bottom: coffee, honey (1st try) and vanilla-cherry. And no: one should not eat them ;)

Coco-soap in progress back in march:

OK - more pics and news will be shared tomorow - I promise. But for now, that has to be enough, I need to sleep; the holidays are over :(...

finally: The Gothic&Lolita swap

You might remember, I was doing some little sewings &crafty stuff for the Gothic&Lolita swap at the german Natron&Soda forum.
This morning Miaka, who was my "Wichtel" got my swap bounties. And now I finally can show you, what I made for her:

1. a big sized tote bag with lots auf ribbons, lace and a tiny selfmade cameo:

2. matching to this bag a little purse with a keychain on it and a readymade cameo pin:

... and the other side of the purse:

I´m very proud and happy to tell of Miaka that she loves the bag and the rest of the bunch. *phew!* Now I wait eagerly to get my swap surprise from whomsoever ;)...

That´s it for now, hugs - nan

Und noch eine neue Geldbörse...

Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Auftragsarbeit, die sich aus meiner Präsenz bei Dawanda ergab. Die zukünftige Besitzerin wünschte sich den Skull-Stoff in schwarz und das selbe Innenfutter, wie bei der original Skull-Geldbörse. Diesmal habe ich, anders als beim Original und gleichzeitigem Prototyp jedoch die Stoffteile verstärkt, so dass die fertige Börse in den nächsten Jahren tapfer in Form bleiben kann. Im Innenraum finden sich eine Kleingeldtasche, 6 Kreditkartenfächer, ein Fotofach und ein großes Fach für hoffentlich reichlich Geldscheine und den üblichen Ausweis-Krempel.
Hier mal ein paa Bilder :

Ein neuer Geldbörsenschnitt

Inspiriert von diversen tollen Geldbörsen bei SkillyT´s Shop bei Dawanda musste ich einfach versuchen, den von ihr verwendeten Schnitt nach zu nähen. Herausgekommen ist beim ersten Versuch eine (zugegeben noch etwas schiefe) Börse, die aber durch Verwendung der selben Materialien, hervorragend zur Tasche Lorei passt.

Im Gegensatz zu den Börsen von SkillyT, welche innen aus Kunstleder/Leder oder Stoff und außen aus BW-Stoff gemacht sind, besteht mein Exemplar vollständig aus Kunstleder, Taschenfolie und dem guten Bettwäsche-Satin, den ich immer noch én masse habe und nach und nach für eben diese Art von Projekten verbraten werde. Seine schwarzen glänzenden Streifen finde ich einfach zu schön :)

Sämtliche Innenfächer und das Kleingeldfach sind mit eben diesem Satin gefüttert.
Hier nun ein paar (etwas verblitzte) Bilder von der "Neuen":