Colour Me Inspired - East side gallery part 2

I was so completely overwhelmed by the artwork on the wall that I decided to split this post. This is the second and last post I will share with you on the gallery but I do have some more lovely things to share with you about Berlin.

Colour Me Inspired - East side gallery

When I recently visited Berlin I stayed a stones throw away from one of my favourite things that I did on that trip. The East Side Gallery is what remains of the wall, the 1.3km is now a colourful gallery with around 106 paintings at any one time. The gallery begins at the former checkpoint charlie. 

The vision for the gallery was to created an international art space that explores the ideas around walls and borders not just the history of Berlin/Germany. I love the concept of artists expressing these themes on a wall that holds such historical significance. Below are a few photographs that I took of the East Side Gallery.

Blog Love Tuesday - Living with punks

Susan the author of Living With Punks and the proud mum of "punks" is my favourite go to lady for craft projects. Susan consistently provides her readers with fun craft projects for every crafter from novice to not so novice! Many of these are her own creations but she also manages to direct you to other fab crafty folk.

After my 6 ways to change your life series - learn something new I cannot recommend a better blog to get you started making beautiful things.

Here are some images from her blog to wet your appetite - watch this space as Susan has agreed to guest for me when I am on honeymoon this September. Thank you again Susan!

My Current Happiness

Here is the second of my new features. It is a fine fine thing to post about things I love.

1. Breakfast; this is my favourite meal anytime of the day. It has the best collection of foods to eat, from fried bread and eggs, tinned spaghetti, fresh fruit, yoghurt and granola, french toast and lots and lots of breads. Don't let me stop at the food we have juices, tea, coffee there is nothing I can think of that is wrong with breakfast!

2. Cows; just like breakfast this is an ongoing obsession of mine as opposed to a current happiness but what the hec, many of these current happiness as life long loves. I am outed I love cows, real cows, silly images of cows the list is endless. This has led to many cow related gifts that litter my house that I will one day share with you.

3. These breakfast tokens. When Joe and I went to Berlin we stayed at a fantastic hotel that was full of cute and personal little touches and these breakfast tokens were by far the cutest. We had to hand them in for breakfast but I really really wanted to take mine home but had to settle for this photograph.

4. Brightly coloured tights. I love all of the jewelled tights that are on offer these days, not to mention my pretty gold sandles!

5. Purple; this is my favourite colour, for as long as I can remember and if I didn't make car buying descisions based on substance not style I could be driving a cute little motor such as the one below.

Light layers in Berlin

Last month I had the opportunity to trvel to Berlin to exhibit some work. With a long drive to Heathrow and a flight in the early hours of the morning a good 24 hour outfit needed to be picked out. Light layers is always the obvious option to combine style and comfort.

A story of travel & loving your home

Once upon a time there was a blue/green planet in a solar system you may know. Well in this time the land on this blue/green plant was one. Then some fantastic science stuff occurred and the land started to split and float away from one another. This distance left the people on the islands with an inert curiosity about surroundings that were not their own.

Well some time past a great machines were invented and these curious folks could travel between lands and so holidays and travelling was born. This proved to be a vast industry, people made bags so people could carry their belongings around, and they charted maps and wrote books so that they knew where to go and what to see.

This brings us right up to date when two enterprising people called Sanne and Bart decided that travellers might like to explore cities as if they lived there and so a very cool website was born called Spotted by Locals. I am now one of the proud authors/spotters for a new city addition Manchester! I love this city and now I get to share all of my very favourite places to eat, shop and hang out with lots of other lovely people. 

Nic's giant to do list

Two nights ago Joe and I went to start our registry list for the very soon impending wedding. Maybe it was the bright lights and pretty colours, maybe it was the fact that I couldn't work the scanner properly or the fact that I find the whole concept of making a gift list a hard thing to come to terms with but I suddenly began to feel exhausted and overwhelmed. 

Today is a new day, I have 64 days until my wedding and 63 to complete all of my pre wedding jobs. I have decided to make a really big list with everything on as previously I have had lots of smaller ones such as a craft a list, food list etc... Although when the list is long and daunting seeing everything in one place will help me get focused and ticking things off the list will be fun and deeply satisfying.

make butterfly and circle garlands

make pom poms

make pom pom garlands

make and collect photo booth props

make a photo booth sign

stitch table plans

print and laminate castle door signs etc

make direction signs for turn offs

make buttonnaires (x3)

Ask around to friends and family for decorative bird cages and fairy lights

make guest book sign 

guest book print outs

test the pops and pinwheel recipes

make dal makhani and freeze

make tarka dal and freeze

make 200 chicken balls and freeze

make 200 pizza wheels and freeze

sort out games to bring

sort out movies for the cinema room

finish playlists

- reception - during dinner - early evening - early evening - kitchen  - late evening

finish making Joe's wedding gift

make and freeze saag aloo

make and freeze food for friday night rehearsal dinner

finish sewing tablecloths

alter dress for Lucy

make a dress for India

make thank you gifts for the wedding party and helpers

wrap gifts and write thank yous

get large tubs for plates

make a packing list for the castle

make a list for photographer

decide on photos for me and Joe to have 

make mini dessert stands

make button bouquet for India

make menu cards

make a time plan for the kitchen helpers