Garden

Our garden is greener then ever! We are drowning in salad. Please invite yourself for a salad dinner:-)

Spring

Very glad for some warm days after the winter.

Spring

Early signs of spring, found today.

Bags and purses

Keecie produces bags and purses in the Netherlands. All bags are handmade and real leather and simply cute. Pics are from the homepage.

Coati

I’ve got a coati (Nasenbär) in my office tracking every movement I do.

Click here (http://www.horrorvacui.it/temp/coati3d.jpg) to download the pattern, print, cut, fold and glow and you’ll have a cute friend following your doing.

Instructions: Hold the coati at eye height, close one eye and the head of the coati should pop out. Now move the coati to the right and left and the eyes should follow you everywhere.

Day dreaming about Norway

I am planing my last field season and came across some nice pictures my master student took this summer in Tromsø. How many trips to the far north will there be this year? 3 or 4…

Kings kake

Now that I think about it: why does Switzerland “celecbrate” Three Kings Day? We don’t have a king and by no means three! Must be all about the kings kake then. It’s the best part anyway. Here is this years kings kake.

Vanilla

I just got a bunch of vanilla pod from the jungle (from a friend who spent 4 month doing field work in Madagascar). My finger smell, the whole office smells. Good yes, but very intense. I put the pods in a plastic bag that they don’t dry out. What will I do with them? Vaniila cream, a cake, …? Any ideas?

Did she meet Alex, Marty and their friends? No, they were already gone to Africa and are running around in Europe at the moment but she got a glimpse of  the lemur king Julian!

deuxfillesenfil

Bags made of surplus material from the fashion industry in France. You get them flat and they are easy-to-assemble with press studs and Velcro. Each piece is almost unique and you get them in various and varying colours.

Winter

It’s getting cold and plants are freezing or they cope with the cold. This plant can bear cold nights. However it does not grow anymore until the spring. I got some nice shots last week when I visited them in Zürich.