The Adventures of a German Girl

We haven't been on vacation in a very long time. The last "real vacation" was last July to Hawaii to celebrate our first anniversary. Since I have a trade show coming up in July and will be crazy busy until then, and Brian can't have vacation till October, we are really looking forward for a long weekend in Jekyll Island to relax. I can't wait to stick my feet in the sand and take long walks on the beach. Rest, play some games, ride bikes around the island... I'm really ready, hopefully the day is going by fast tomorrow and the traffic won't be as bad. We are prepared for some rain over the weekend, I packed our backgammon board, which we are addicted to and some beach games. What are your plans for Memorial Day? I wish all of you some nice peaceful days, get some rest and hopefully not such bad weather!

Only for those of you who already forgot how the wing chair looked when I first got it, here is a picutre which I took in the thrift store! For the amazing price of $18 it is all mine.   Too nasty to sit in, I first ripped off all of the fabric, (I'll spare you the details, since I blogged about that before ) layed the old fabric out, cut the new fabric pieces a little bigger than the old ones and made little fabric piles. I bought about 9' of fabric online at http://www.fabric.com/  I kept all of the old buttons, cut little circles and sewed fabric on each of them. I can tell you, that was my least favorite part.    After all 27 buttons were done, the back seat was the first piece that I re-buttoned.   The buttons go all the way through the fabric and cushion - the back part gets spread apart and rests on the foam. I put the cushion in place and stapled it firm to the back. Repeated all those steps ...

..today I was able to move into my very own office. :) I can't tell you how long I have waited for this moment to arrive. T wo and a half years ago, I started at my company and about every six months this topic of getting promoted came up. Unfortunately on the international side, where I was working, a manager position was not in the budget. So last week one of my colleagues on the domestic side (the operations and conference manager) quit her job and I got asked if I would like to take her position. Immediatly After a minute of consideration I agreed on the conditions, and since last monday I am a manager. Yes, you heard right, I am a MANAGER! I know that that means more responsibilty and more work, but also more money, my very own office with a door you can shut! a blackberry and some travel involved. In Germany I always had my own office, only one time I had to share one with my favorite ex colleague Tanja, who is...

This year is my third Easter in the States and I’m still not getting used to not having Good Friday and Monday off. I always liked the long Easter holidays, especially the Easter egg hunts and a very special memory I have, is getting up with my mom and sister at the crack of dawn to go to church. It was all dark, a fire was lit in front of the church, we were standing outside around the fire and listened to the Easter story, prayed and went inside for the ceremony. When I was seven years old I got baptized in the Easter ceremony at 6am in the morning. This Easter Brian’s mom is coming down with her two grand kids (3 and 6). I wanted to do something fun for them, and when my friend Heather told me that she will bake cake pops for Easter I needed to copy her idea. www.bakerella.com has the coolest things on her website. I decided on the chicken and bunny cake pops. I baked the cake, crumbled it into a bowl and put a full can of frosting in it. After mixing (with my hands) I rolled ball...

Last week when we picked up our new dining room table at Borders, I became the lucky owner of a CRAFT ROOM! I’m still so excited about it. My own private room where I can have all my little projects lined up and organized, or just all of them messy, laid out in the room with the door shut. You already think, what does this have to do with a new dining room table? Let me tell you! J We had this spare room before and couldn’t decide what we are going to do with it. We have two guest bedrooms upstairs, one already furnished for guests the other one empty. We were thinking about renting one room, but I’m just not that kinda girl. I need my privacy and want to lay on the couch whenever I want to, without a stranger in my house. I thought about a baby’s room – but I guess that is a little too early. SO I came up with that perfect idea, since the room is empty anyways to have a craft room! Brian gets the garage and I get a room for myself! Deal! So last Saturday when we picked up the table, ...

I kind of feel bad for not blogging for several weeks now. And it’s not because nothing is going on – it’s because I have way too much and had not enough time to write it all down. Of course I took lots of pictures along the way. I have several projects running at the same time and before I finish one, there is already a next one lined up. Here is the first project I was working on , and now I’m feeling really bad – I made some bridal shower cookies for my friend Liz, not to mention that event took place in February and by now they are happily married and already back from their honey moon. I can’t believe I haven’t posted in two months. But here are the sugar cookies on a stick. I gave some to Brian for Valentine’s day as well.    I made sugar cookies from scratch, attached a plastic stick in the middle of each heart and baked them for about 12 minutes. After that, I let them cool down, colored them with glace in pink and white ( http://www.ourbestb...