Easter in April, Easter with snow...

My self-made Easter tree with Easter eggs brought from Salzburg:

Decorations from Stift Heiligenkreuz near Vienna (hung on crystal candleholders):

Granny’s cat:

Visiting:

I finally found a little time to get out my big box of paper and make something. In view of the current crisis such things may be a good alternative to bought postcards. I'd be making them crisis or no crisis though!

Going on in the Christams/New Year spirit

I decided to give handmade cards this year and I'm quite plesed with the first one. Funny to think it's made of advertisement cards, chocolate and teabag covers (can you discern TWININGS on the tree?) :-)

Wieder Herbst... Autumn again

This time autumn comes with a November calendar page I made last Sunday, the quotation is from Persuasion by Jane Austen. One of my favourite autumn quotations? whatever other beautiful quotations autumn might have extracted from various minds...^

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which has drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

And of course, thanks to my friend Tanya for giving me this lovely Bastelkalender which gives youк imagination whole 24 pages (12 white and 12 black) to fill in! The November page was the 1st one I used, after the year is almost gone, but there are only 7 days in the week so calendars have a tendency to repeat themselves every several years...

Tomorrow is the last day of October... so introducing a November calendar page is rather appropriate!