My week in pictures

Another Sunday  evening after another lazy Sunday. My PLL "Personal Laziness Level" was 10 out of 10 today... I had a date with my bed, another one with my sofa and will have one with my bathing tube soon ;-)
But I guess that I deserve a lazy Sunday after I was on tour for the rest of the weekend. One of my project kept me quite busy on Friday evening and Saturday morning and yesterday evening was a TLNOOTHHP which is short for The legendary night out of the honorable HP which is the name my best friend and me gave to our cinema-evenings. HP by the way does not stand for Harry Potter or HP printers but H is short for her nickname, P for mine.
TLNOOTHHP always follow the same schedule. We meet at half past five in front of the lift (we are not only best  friends but also neigbours), take the train into town and have dinner somewhere. After cinema we go to Starbucks and enjoy some Frappuchino in summer and hot chocolate in winter. Yesterday we went to see Anonymous.

So, but I promised pictures... Not novels...

Finally got my Cath Kidston order after I've waited for almost 4 weeks!
I ordered teatowels, an apron and pillow cases

Redecorated my kitchen

The new Crossstitch Card Shop. So many projects to start!

Only ten days to go till my UK holiday. Time to start preparing

Finally sorted out old cosmetic stuff

 

These lovely roses bring a bright spot into my flat at the moment

"Räbeliechtli" where do you go?

Räbeliechtliumzug is our Halloween or Bonfire night. We do not carve pumpkins but Räben, which are a kind of beet with a violet coloured outside, so they look lovely with a candle inside. Kids (or better their fathers...) carve motives into them, mostly with a cookie cutter, but the more ambitious fathers do it freehand. The motives are not cut out, only a thin layer at the outside is removed, so the motive is white on the violet Räbe and the lights shines through. On the evening of 11. of November (St. Martins day) the streetlamps are extinguished and the children walk with their Räbenliechtli (beetlights) through the streets. Sometimes people along the way decorate their houses as well, one even had arround 40 lamps in front of his windows! Lookes so lovely from the distance, but I was not able to take pictures.

The title of the post by the way comes from a song the children sing while walking arround. 

That's the way they look in the light

My week in pictures

Sunday evening, how quick the week went by! But I had a weekend just the way I like it! Dinner out with friends on Friday evening, a lazy Saturday with some baking and today a lay in, brunch with my best friend, a long walk and now a cosy evening on the sofa with some episodes of "Yes Minister", tea and my stitching.

So, let's get the picture-thingy started!

A nice bath with a fir-bathing-bomb.

The tree outside my living room window changes colour daily

Zurich by night

You cannot have too many cookery books...

Finally found the Catrice Big City Live limited edition.
I bought Berlin and Sidney plus the Berlin nail polish

A nice autumn walk with my best friend

Hello sweetie. I love cows!

My hairdo of this week; a gibson tuck.
(Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JZOVnSjjE)

I'm Shauny the sleepy sheepy or so... Spent a lot time hapnaping this week!

If only I could have you back

if only I could have you back

we would do all the things we used to do

over and over again

work in the garden

visit your friends

go for a walk in our town

buy a Christmas tree

look at old photographs

throw stones in a fountain

take pictures

eat chocolate

if only I could have you back

we would do new things

for the first time

and I would be able to ask questions

and to get all the answers

if only I could have you back

I could met you as an adult

not as the small child I was when I lost you

to my grandad who passed away 12 years ago and who I still miss very much. I love you, Grospi! 

Pumpkin soup

I'm a soupy person! I love a good pot of soup on a cold winters day and pumpkin soup is my autumn favorite.
This one is quick and easy and just the right thing to stock up the freezer to have someting ready when there is not much time for cooking.

For one liter or 2-3 servings

You need: 400 g pumpkin, 4 carotts, 2 small potatos, water, sock-cube, 100 g sour cream.

Cut pumpkin, carotts and potatos in pieces and cook till tender. Put the vegetable and some of the cooking water in a blender, puree and fill with more water till you have on liter of soup. Put back into the pan, add the sour cream and some stock-cube (best use the amount for one liter of water first, you can always add more if necessary) und stir well. If you like you can add sausages and keep the pan on the fire till they are hot.

Lea Lemons spa day

Tonight I decided to indulge myself a bit. Though, do I really need more indulgence after an evening with my best friend? Two episodes of Downton Abbey, countles cups of tea, pizza and our stitching made our evening. Yes, we do have a problem with keeping our hands quite while watching TV, so we do some multitasking in order to get our christmas crossstitching thingies done before end of November.

But back to topic. I came home and had the sudden feeling that I'd like to have a shower and then treat myself with some bodylotion and stuff. The full program, or at least the part of it you can do in half an hour or so and only with lemon-cosmetics. Lemon body scrubb by The Body Shop, body lotion and hand cream by Crabtree&Evelyn and a facial mask by Yves Rocher. Oh, and of course some tea, Raspberry and Lemon.  While I put together my sour spa program I had a flash of creativity. Halloween is coming closer, so why not practice with lemons instead of pumpkins...? Don't laugh, arts were never my strong point...!

Can you keep a secret? I was so busy with all my doodeling and lemon-carving that I completely forgot about my spa-plans and now it is too late for today.... I will have to postpone it and give it another go tomorrow evening...! With my favorite lemon-song of course; Lemon Tree by Fools garden

Love letter to autumn

Dear autumn

I like you very much. You may wonder why as some people say that you're making them feel depressed. But I can tell you why I love you.

It is because of marrons and cookies and mulled wine and tea. Coloured leaves and fog, winter frost and the first snow. Long evenings on the sofa with a good book and a warm blaket. And of course it is because I can look forward to Christmas without all the stress cause there is still enough time to buy presents and bake cookies. 

The time will come when you have to leave and winter will arrive. I will be sad, of course. But then... Well, you will come back next year. I'm looking forward to it! 

With lots of love

Yours tea-queen

Just a small note about my pictures. I take most of them with my Nikon D-90 and the only thing I do on the computer is adding my name and change the size if necessary. I do not belive in photo shop, this is not the way I see photography. For me it is the art of the moment, a situation you catch to remember it and to show it to others. No need to change anything.