A happy, happy new year to everyone! :D

Wish you all a wonderful, joyful and happy new year! ♥
2013 has been a wonderful year, full of exciting events, and now I'm looking forward to the new year! :D

The last weeks were very busy but wonderful. We enjoyed the christmas days with our beloved ones and I was busy making handmade gifts, meeting old friends, eating a lot and relaxing. ;)






One of my new year's resolution is to find more time for blogging. I also want to rethink and reorganize some things on my blog. I'm not going to take a blog break, but it could get a little quieter around here the next month. :)

Wish you all a wonderful start into the new year! ♥

My swap with Adriana

I love Adriana's blog. She's so talented! I've found her over The Happy Mail Project and asked her if she'd like to swap with me and this is the outcome. :)

This is the beautiful mail I got from her. I love the parcel and the stamp so much!!



A nature inspired mail with pretty little pieces.



Tea, yarn and a cute button! :D



And this is what I've sent her.
If anyone is interested in the pear coaster pattern (only in German, but if you have questions, just ask :)), check this out.





By the way, Adriana blogged about our swap too. :)

Another snail mail to Spain

This week I will continue to show you the missing snail mails and the last two weeks before christmas, I'm going to post some christmas-related things. So the plan. :)

This is the last swap I've sent to Blanca. I made her a crocheted mandala and filled the swap with some tags, selfmade mini envelopes and other things I hope she enjoyed. :)




I hope the christmas season inspires you to send out a few more mails than during the year. ♥

Snail mail happiness from Spain

Blancas snail mails are always so pretty! Every time I feel honored she's sent me such a beautiful composition. I love the stationary she used to write on. It's so cheerful! :)



A pamphlet from a Japanese art exhibition.



Wonderfully painted tags and pretty stamped envelopes. I love the teapot and the flying blowball seed.



A cute selfmade little plant. Unfortunatelly one leaf broke during its trip, but I fixed it. :)



Thanks for this beautiful swap! ♥

An almost forgotten swap

During the last months I forgot to show you some of my swaps and I'm going to catch up on it the following days.

I've sent this swap package a couple of month ago to dear Blanca, who has sent me such a beautiful swap package.

The swap for Blanca included a new stamp I carved.



I used it for the cover of a little self-made journal. I added a little shell necklace, funny stationary from Korea and some sweets.





Almost December. :) Maybe I'll send out a couple of seasonal swaps. :) Are you looking forward to the upcoming month and all the christmus stuff?

From summer back to winter

We're back from our lovely and wonderful honeymoon!!! :) And I almost froze to death waiting for the train from the airport to Karlsruhe. ;)

While I was away two beautiful parcels arrived. With lovely content. :)



From Doro...



...and from Nina.





And another great thing happened. Finally the other feature of our wedding invitations on Bildpoeten went online. :)


Source Susann Probst

At the end of our honeymoon trip the travel journal looks like this.

The material I collected...



...the weekly overviews...



...and the daily journal.



There's still some things to do. The daily headings are still missing, picture pages have to be printed and the collected materials have to be included into the entire journal. But I'm happy I managed to write down our experiences and all the lovely memories every day. :)

So, I'm very happy to be back and looking forward to December, the christmas month. :D

The travel kit

The last days were quite busy, so many things to do... But I finished the travel kit for our honeymoon today. :D
As I wanna go to bed as I have to get up quite early tomorrow, I have to finish this post in 5 minutes. ;) So here I go....;)

The covers for the different islands.



A weekly overview for each island.



All the papers and stickers I prepared for the travel kit.



The travel kit itself. :)



Opening the travel kit: On the left the covers with the weekly overview, on the right an envelope for collecting snippets and other things.



The papers and stickers for the travel journal.



Another envelope and blanco sheets for the travel journal.



Wow, I almost did it in 5 minutes. ;) Sorry for the short explanations. I hope you've enjoyed the post anyway.
Wish you all a wonderful, cheerful and hopefully sunny November! Enjoy it! :) See you in the end of November (till then of course blog pause)! :) :)