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".

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 Gü 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.