Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2012

"Cup" Cookies

As a little christmas present for the "X-Mas Wichteln" I bought "cup" cookie cutters from Tchibo. When I thought about a sweet packaging for the cutters, the idea came to my mind to cut out little paperboard cups, to stick them with gift wrap and then sew on the cookie cutters. The three cups I put in an empty tissue box which I also wrapped into the gift wrap.




Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012

Let's take a photo!

It's christmas tiiiiiime and for a present for a friend, everything was about PHOTOGRAPHY. 



For packaging I used a cake box, printed tiny cameras and put them together with drawn pennants in a garland. On the upper site of the box I put the name of the photography brand of the friend and on the left and the right side I sticked a quote which to my mind really fits the personality of the photographer and is haunting - "eyes like a shutter - mind like a lens". I like it. :)



I filled the box with homemade cookies, but to 'pimp up' the typical christmas tree and bells, I used cookie letter stampers from Tchibo. With the help of the letters I branded every cookie with the name of the photographer. Then I put them in a tiny plastic pocket and wrote again a little phrase on it which is related to photography but also to the food.


And as the "main" present I ordered a funny thing from design3000 - an Online Shop which really offers crazy products. :D I bought an egg timer which looks like a lens and wrote "freeze the time" on it - again connected to the overall issue "photography". 


Inside the box I put cotton wool which is a little cue on the coooold winter filled with lovely warm presents - for me it was really fun to create the present and the packaging. :)





Freitag, 9. November 2012

Let's neon, baby!

For a neon theme party at a students club I prepared some decoration and sweets. 



The first I was thinking about: "There have to be cupcakes! GLOWING cupcakes." What followed then, was lots of experimenting. I found only one recipe in the Internet with Tonic Water and Jello! I tried it out but to be honest - It didn't look aesthetic. :D Fortunately I got some "powder" (Illuzon and Fluorescin) which are usually used for coloring cocktails in neon. I used them to color the frosting of the cupcake and it worked out! Finally I've decorated the frosting with a little flag of neon paper on which I printed the logo of the club.


And from the chocolate cookbook of the British "sweet" company  I got some further inspiration for the neon sweets. :-) They look like 'reversed' CakePops and are made of sponge cake, jelly and darc chocolate couverture. I've taken wooden sticks, colored them with glowing-in-the-dark-acrylic-colors and then colored again tiny cupcake liners as 'dinner mat'.



The neon-painted cardboard letters of the club name in the first picture as well as the glowing-in-the-dark-acrylic-colors I've bought at the idee. creativemarkt.



Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2012

The wind is playing...

At the weekend I've visited a kite festival at the southern beach of Burgtiefe in Fehmarn. To see the colorful dancing of hundreds of kites in the sky was an impressing picture. For me kites are not only a symbol of joy of life, but when they are gliding through the air and shaping fancyful pictures in the sky, they have kind of meditative character. It's like a completely different world, full of ease and freedom. 


It was funny and fascinating how the wind plays with the colors and shapes of the kites. Here are some impressions of the festival:









The highlight of the festival was the so called "wind bowl": It took many people to let the the huge rainbow wheel fly. But to see the colors dancing in front of the blue sky and the blue sea was incredible.





Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2012

Hello Fehmarn - Café Liebevoll

Stellt euch vor, ihr spaziert durch das beschauliche Burg auf der Insel Fehmarn und plötzlich strahlt euch dieser Baum an, eingepackt in einer bunten Wollpracht in seinem herbstlichen Blättergewand. So herzlich und warm begrüßt euch das Café Liebevoll von Marco Eberle.


Der Name ist auf jeden Fall Programm. Der liebevoll gestaltete Außenbereich mit den vielen kleinen Details lädt auch im Herbst zum gemütlichen Verweilen ein. 


Mit ebenso viel Liebe zum Detail ist der Innenbereich gestaltet: Holzbalken mit Handmade-Produkten, alte Reisekoffer und Barhocker geben dem Café ein uriges und familiäres Feeling, sodass man sich auch als Tourist sofort willkommen und aufgehoben fühlt.


Auch die Tischdekoration besticht durch ihren individuellen Charakter.



Was mich allerdings am meisten fasziniert und neben der auffälligen Baum"bekleidung" ins Café gelockt hat: Das Café bietet Cakepops an, von denen ich mir natürlich gleich einen gegönnt habe. :D Dabei geht es mir weniger um den Trend, sondern um die Offenheit und Neugier des Cafés, Anderes auszuprobieren. 

Diese Philosophie zeigt sich auch in den angebotenen Speisen: Neben einem "internationalen" Frühstück, das von klassischen amerikanischen Pancakes über italienische Pizzabrötchen und sizilianischem Ciabatta bis hin zu britischen Scones noch viele weitere Leckereien aus 'fernen' Ländern beinhaltet, ist auch in Hinsicht Kuchen Experimentierfreudigkeit angesagt: So duftet es neben Obstkuchen und Torten schon auch mal nach dem ein oder anderen exotischeren Gewürz von einem Kuchen aus 'fernen' Ländern. 


Das Café lockt aber nicht nur Kuchenfans, sondern ist gleichzeitig ein Ort der Begegnung für alle Kulturinteressierten: So wird die 60qm große Backstube regelmäßig für Lesungen, Kabarett, Theater und kleinere Konzerte umfunktioniert. Eine bessere Kombination gibt es doch kaum, oder? Leckere Kuchen und ein anregendes Kulturprogramm. :-) Das Café ist auf jeden Fall einen Besuch wert!

Montag, 22. Oktober 2012

About Me

I'm Katja, 25 years old and I've studied Media and Communication Science at the University of Technology Ilmenau, a place in the wonderful small state Thuringia in lovely Germany.

I love creative and artistic baking, crafts, travelling, sport, nature and discovering new places. I love browsing the whole wide world for new and fresh designing and product ideas. I love people who surprise with uncommon, innovative and individual ideas.

That's why I write this blog: I want to give creativity a place. This blog introduces artists and people I 'met' on my way and who fascinate me with what they do. But this blog is also a place for my own creativity, to show you my discoveries, thoughts and impressions of my journeys.

I hope one day this blog will become a place of inspirative and creative exchange and giving to all of you a piece of "joy of life" I feel within this creativity.

The W-W-Way

// PAPETERIE //

turnowsky art

BEAU MONDE

Silke Leffler

Grätz Verlag

pleasedtomeet


// SWEET PLACES //

Ben und Bellchen Cremetörtchen-Manufaktur

Goldhelm Schokoladen Manufaktur

Confiserie Sprüngli (speziell die Luxemburgerli ;-))

Herr Max

Liebes Bisschen

Mintastique

Delacre Biscuits

La Belgique Gourmande 

// CRAFTY PLACES //

Knot Magazine

nauli

Eggling


// Brussel Places //

Natural Food: Exki 

Community Food: Le Pain Quotidien 

Pizza in Style: Mamma Roma