Hello Fehmarn - Die kleine Stube

So urig, veträumt und romantisch wie das kleine Städtchen Burg auf Fehmarn ist auch die wunderbare "kleine Stube" von Katharina Maaß. 

"Wohnbehagen & Geschenke" begrüßt der herbstlich gestaltete Aufsteller die Besucher von Burg und lässt schon ein kleines bisschen erahnen, dass hier ein ganz liebevoll eingerichteter Laden auf sie wartet! 

Bereits der Außenbereich des Ladens ist wunderschön gestaltet: Ein fantasievoll angerichteter Blumengarten empfängt die Besucher am Eingang.

Der Innenbereich der "kleinen Stube" erinnert an eine kleine Fantasiewelt: Die veträumte, romantische und familiäre Atmosphäre weckt fast schon Kindheitserinnerungen an die Wohnstube von 'damals' - bei der liebevollen Einrichtung möchte man eigentlich gleich einziehen!

 

Die Inhaberin Katharina Maß bietet in ihrer "kleinen Stube" eine individuelle Zusammenstellung von Wohnaccessoires im skandinavisch-ländlichen Wohnstil an: Von einzigartiger Tischwäsche über Geschirrkollektionen aus Melamin bis hin zu Kissenbezügen und vielen, vielen kleinen Wohndetails.

Diese Papeteriartikel habe ich mir in der kleinen Stube gekauft: Zwei Karten der Illustratorin Silke Leffler und da ich Kuchen & Süßigkeiten-Fanatikerin bin, durfte auch ein kleiner Torten-Anhänger nicht fehlen.

Falls ihr mal nach Fehmarn reist und auf der Suche nach einem individuellen Geschenk seid, seid ihr in der kleinen Stube genau richtig! Stöbert einfach ein bisschen und lasst euch inspirieren.

Duck Competition

On the weekend in Ilmenau 'everything' was about DUCKS: The annual Ilmenauer Duck Competition, organized by the Bergfest e.V., took place and every Ilmenauer was invitied to design his own duck.

Within the competition the Ducks were priced within three areas: For being the most beautiful, the fastest and the most technical duck.

What I like most about this event, is that people get VERY creative, when they design their individual duck. Every little duck mirrors a special character. When I thought about what my duck should look like, I totally know that I wanted to design an Indian duck. So we bought some felt and material for getting crafty - but my material looked more like a "princess duck" - nevertheless this was the result - a pink-ethno duck. :D

And here are some impressions of the Duck Competition and the creativity of the Ilmenauer in DUCK DESIGN. More pictures you can see on my Flickr.

*naknaknak* Starting Point. Bye bye little ducks, good journey!

Very modern and crazy Duck design *thumbsup*

Pippi Lotta

Warm Costume

Guerilla Knitting

Right now Germany's biggest International Students Week takes place at Ilmenau! According to this year's slogan "Moving YOUth" many workshops and discussions are happening. I joined a "Guerilla Knitting" workshop held by the artists and 'textil' activists Klaus Dietl and Stephanie Müller. They showed us how to knit with our hands.

Let's go crafty! :D

  

Second project was to knit a tree. Fun for all participants!

And the result!

What I liked about the workshop is that knitting was shown from a totally different, modern, creative and rebellious viewpoint. I like the way how both artists perceive their environment as an artistic play ground - everything can be knitted - it depends on your creativity!

Stephanie Möller told us that there exist also several urban knitting groups that not only present their knit art but leave little messages like poems to communicate with the people.

Knitting-Flashmob in Frankfurt am Main

If you want to know more about Urban Knitting and the political backgrounds, go to http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1677882/

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".

Yummy Lindt

Hello Lindt as a Birthday present? I chose a coat-hanger and the four wonderful colors of nougat crunch, caramel brownie, cookies & cream and strawberry cheesecake. I am sooo hungry now. :-)

"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.

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. :)