Quote: She's addicted to jam.

That's what my bf said, after taking a look at our kitchen:

In the middle of the night I simply HAD TO make a new batch of plum jam.
Again I did only use homegrown fruit, this time the old plum tree is standing in my grandparents' garden.
The fruit were really very ripe, so I didn't have time to wait till the next morning. Midnight jam-session XD
Out of roundabout 4,5kg fruit I made nine big jars and 3 little try-outs, unfortunately the lid doesn't close well enough on those cute little glasses :(
But my gran told me a little secret, and I hope I can use this old secret to fill my next jam (apple-cinnamon) in those darling little glasses.

fruit and vegetable, orange and green.

Ooooh, finally I had the excuse to make a looooad of jam. Apricot jam. Mjam!

There's this region in Austria, the "Wachau", where the best apricots ever are grown.
Traditionally, my grandpa and my uncle go there in the summer and buy about 50-60kg of apricots from a farmer for our families.
This year my parents are out of town BUT - tadaa, I'm here!
So I offered to cook jam for my parents and me and my BF.

And this is it: 5kg of fruit + sugar = about 7kg of jam *nomnom*
And about 4kg more are in the freezer *hrhr*



I hope that a lot of jam cooking will follow this year, since my father recently owns a garden with some apple trees, raspberries, strawberries, zucchinies...


So, thats the fruit part of this post, but I do have some vegetables to spam about too *G*
People who know me heard of my almost legendary inability to grow any plants. They always turn brown, or black, or yellow, or... well, plants don't like me.
But somehow I broke this curse!

Look! Tomatoes! THREE nice, sweet, small, fresh tomatoes! And one's already orange! I'm so happy xD
They even survived the move and everything :)



And I'm proud to present this little fella too, basil in a can. Thankyou A. for this sweet little gift, it's doing perfectly fine here in Austria!

her heart beats for austria

Finally I'm back in Austria. Home sweet Home. BUT - my very best friend moves to Kopenhagen next week! ahhh! No!
We've been apart for 3,5years and now AGAIN we won't be able to see each other! (ok, she'll come back in 6 months. but anyway, not fair!)

Since I wanted to give her something that reminds her of me I did a little sewing yesterday and made this cute little plushie:

Austrian-Kitsch-Heart.
Just for you, darling, love you!


I used darkred thin cotton fabric, some white cotton lace, offwhite flowerthingies and a darling little button shaped like a cottage in the alps.
Very sound of music, isn't it?


I'm gonna miss you so much!

I am from Austria

Hello World,

aaaah, being back feels great!
Although it was really exhausting, everything is in the right place now, my sewing machines found their new home, our cats like the new couch (so do we!), the apartment turned out really fine.

But all those weeks of not being able to sew, knit, being creative were horrible!
I'm glad that now I can sew clothes again - not curtains (although I love our new curtains <3)

But we couldn't have done it without the great help our families were.
So as a small token of gratitude we prepared a little something for everyone of our 8 very brave knights:



First I dyed the bags from beige to dark lilac. Then mr.Denocte prepared a map of Austria and pencilled in the route. NOW - I'm so not good at stencilling, we used this picture as a stencil.
It's not perfect, but I think it looks nice :)
Every bag contained a small bottle of wine (red, white, rose), some raffaellos, some mercis and either some Lindt-Pralinés or those darling little Tool-Sets.

Thanks again to all who helped us make our moving day this smooth!

See you soon,

denocte

meow, must eat fabric.

why I don't post this much these days:

First of all, we'll move back to Austria in 15 days. (aaah, so soon!)
So there's a lot of stuff to do.
Packing, sewing curtains, planning where to put the new furniture, searching for new furniture ;)

And second, two furry little babies try to "help" me with everything I want to do.
Well, not always helping, but sure it's fun!






Great help. Really.

Summertime for Surferbabe

Haha, I went colourcrazy!
Due to longlasting problems with my back I can't kneel on the floor cutting out patterns.
So I "invented" a lot of "patterns" for dresses and skirts which contain just rectangles and simple stuff like that!

That way it's easy for me to cut.
Sewing and everything I can do on a desk goes ok with my back, so I tried to make the best out of this simple patterns.

And I have to say - I loove my new colourful dresses and skirts!

They are just so perfect for summer, my alter ego may be a surferbabe *lol*



Pink-Violet cotton Skirt





Red-Black Leo Print Cotton Jersey Infinity Dress





Venice Print Cotton Jersey Infinity Dress
(yes, that's gondolas and the doge's palace on the print *aaaaw*)





White-pink-violet striped cotton dress





Flower Print Cotton Jersey Dress







Have a nice Weekend!

Nostalgia - Me four years ago

I just found this wonderful picture when trying to reduce the chaos in my files and flat ;)

This was taken on the evening of my "Maturaball", the formal ball in the last year of highschool.
My dancepartner on the pic and me did the last figure of our latin-american dancepart, when a photographer caught this moment - good job I think ;)

*nostalgia*