Traveling Dresden-Neustadt

Back from a trip through Dresden-Neustadt with a lot of creative input. :D I've visited many lovely shops with unique products. Love the shop-traveling through special parts of the city because behind every shop and its products, there is a special character:

I like this tiny Maytroshka teabag. There were lots of other ethnic culture bag clips, e.g. inuit. Got this from the FengShui-Haus Dresden.

In Dresden-Neustadt there is a place called "Kuhpassage" where you can find many small and specialized shops to buy original and individual presents for friends and famly or just a little present maybe for yourself? Shops range from tea specialized shops to paper specialized shops where I bought this wonderful notebook from Jackie Paper...

...as well as the 3-layered masking tape.

And to "catch" the spring I also bought this wonderful poster from British designer Emily Burningham.

And last but not least these cute paper stars from Danish Rie Elise Larsen to decorate my little "tree".

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.