October project: Remaining things...

I gave a lot of thought into what my next monthly project could be. I love the start of a new month. There is so much energy, motivation and anticipation of how the next month is going to turn out. :) :)

I decided that in October I will concentrate on all the remaining crafty things I have on my imaginary and always growing todo list for decades, but never find the time to do! The year is going to end soon and in November and December I'm going to be busy with preparations for christmas, so this is my last chance to get some things done this year. ;)

Oh, by the way, I'm mainly talking about little things, which can be done in a short time, nothing big. And everything which relate to being creative, like writing some snail mail and preparing swaps, decorating our little home, ending a yarn craft project or ordering material I want to order since months.

Every time I do something out of the list, I'm going to show it to you. :) And my goal is to do as many things as possible. :)

I'm not sure if this is going to be a good project. But we'll see...:) What do you think of it?

Swap stamps

As promised before I want to show you the stamps I carved for my swap package to Singapore. :)

I carved this address frame stamp for decorating the envelopes:

And these flower stamps to embellish everything. I used them for the envelope and the stationery paper for instance:

I also carved three stamps with texts, one for the date in the header of a stationery paper, one ps stamp for extra ps paper and one mail stamp:

I made this bird love stamp for those cute little tags. :)

The last one is this origami crane stamp for the back of the post cards I made:

I love origami cranes! I've learnt how to fold them when I was a little girl. I was told if you fold 1000 of it, the gods grant you one wish. :) I never managed to fold 1000 of it, but maybe you want to give it a try? ;)

Travel journal update

Wow, it's already October! Time has flown, as always! :)

I just wanted to keep you updated on my travel journals.

I almost finished the Reutte travel journal yesterday (so still in September, yay! :D). One problem that occurred was that some pictures of our trip are missing. Basically all pictures I took with our small camera. So today I have to start looking for them, hoping we didn't lost them somehow...

I still have to develop all pictures (as soon as I find the missing ones), which will take a while. But as I've finished the entire layout, there isn't much to do, just glueing the picture to their right places.

So here is a little peek at the journal (cover's still missing too).

I realized that my system for travel journaling works perfect for me! It's so easy to put a page together. As you see, I didn't try to make fancy pages. No stickers, no extra drawings. When I include the final pictures, I'm sure I will decorate the pages a little, but I like to keep it that simple. :)

And I haven't started with our Sicily journal yet, but I prepared a lot: Wrote all the texts during our vacation and collected and sorted every memorable snippet! So putting everything together won't be such a big deal, I guess. :)

As soon as I finish the two travel journals (hopefully on Wednesday, as it's an official holiday in Germany), I will tell you about my October project! :)

The little things

Enjoy the little things in life...
...for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things!

I love that saying. ♥
I think there is a lot of truth in it. I love the little things. Little things make me happy. :) A plant growing a new flower, a message from a friend, chocolate in the right moment, a cup of tea in the evening, the first snow, when the sun bursts out of a gray cloud ceiling.... I don't need my boyfriend to make a big gesture to show me he cares about me. The little things, not planned or prepared, are those, which really make me feel loved.

Like this cute plant, growing and sitting on the windowsill, looking at the world. Isn't it cute? :) :) I took the photo while I was visiting a good friend in Strasbourg. :)

There is always beauty around you, you just have to start looking. :) Every time I discover something I think is beautiful and might be invisible to other eyes, I'll show it to you. :)
Have you also discovered little beautiful spots all around the world that make you smile when you look at them? I would love to hear about it!

Mailbox surprises

On Monday we arrived home from our amazing trip to Sicily! :) :) We had such a great time! But being back home is always a wonderful feeling too.
And this time two surprises waited in the mailbox for me! :D

One order I made a couple of weeks ago in this cute shop via DaWanda. The shop owner was on vacation, which is why she sent me my order last week. I totally forgot about the order and was happy to receive this wonderfully wrapped little package! :)

I mostly bought items which were on sale and loved everything! :)

The second package was a big surprise!! A dear friend of mine, who works in Kenya, sent it to us, filled with wonderful little gifts and a letter!!! :D

I love that she uses leftover food cartons for the packaging, it's so creative! Once she sent me something inside a juice box! :D :D Thanks for this wonderful surprise! We loved it!

Last journey preparations

Last preparations for our journey are going on...:)

For collecting every ticket, map, post card, snippet of magazine, etc., I made little pockets for every day. Normally I just collect everything in one big envelope. But back home, it's quite exhausting to arrange everything. So this time I'll use separate pockets. :) I added some extra paper, just in case I'm suddenly in the mood of writing something down for our travel journal...you never know. :)

I've never felt so prepared for a journey like this time. :)
Wish you a great and wonderful time, while I'm gone! See you in 10 days! :)

Status of our travel journals

As I've already told you, I've never finished a travel journal before. But to be honest...I've also started just one travel journal. ;)

These are some piles (unfortunately there is much more ;)) of our collected travel materials, at least organized:

For some of our travels I made some simple travel journals with very little text, so at least I have a rough order of what we did:

In a separate post I will show you our travel journal of our easter trip to Reutte (Austria) in detail, which I already showed you on one picture in the last post.

So this is the status of our travel journals. I would love to see yours. :)