Stop to live in the future...

I've been thinking a lot lately about where I am going. There are so many things I want to do and so many places I want to go that I'm not even sure if I can fit everything into my life. I have to confess this makes me a little unhappy, I keep thinking that I'm going to miss something if I start doing something else. Anna, my Irish hostmum sent me a nice e-mail a few days ago putting me straight and now I have decided to slow down a little, just enjoying what I'm doing right now. She's so right. Right now, I really love my job and I want to keep doing it. Maybe next year or the year after or in ten years I won't like it anymore but that doesn't matter right now. So I really hope to live a little more like that from now on. The only thing is that I want to start doing something that challenges me like a community college course or something like that. Something creative, that's for sure because there are so many ideas in my head at the moment, just need to learn some new techniques to bring them out...

Jenny, xoxo

Another try

I tried to make a post with my new phone yesterday. Didn't work, so yet another try, real post is coming up soon...

Hi everyone!

Dear, I haven't been very productive since last week, I was just working a lot. I had a lot of ideas though. I have to get myself a sewing machine, because I have a nice idea for a bag and some other things. A while ago I already made a nice little bag and I wanted to do some more but I did that with my Mum's machine and that is still at home ;-)

I got some good news from a friend I met in Ireland. She's from Brazil and I haven't seen her in ages but now she's probably coming back to Ireland, that would be so great!

Unfortunately my holiday plans are still not fixed. A friend of mine who had thought about coming to Spain with me can't come now and I don't know if I can afford it on my own as I wanted to go by car. Now I'm thinking about going to Ireland instead. I don't know... But what's good is I might go to Paris for a weekend in October with two friends who are living in Cork, that would be great. I have never been there and I miss the two of them a lot.

Well, I'll keep you updated and I hope to be able to show you pictures of the bag and all soon.


Jenny, xoxo

Finally

Well, there are the pictures, finally, the ones of the oven cloths:

and then some I took of the decorations in my flat:

 I got some old records from a vintage store and decorated my living room with them.

 I even used them as picture frames and I'm in love with the idea.

 That's my tiny little kitchen with lots of postcards and lovely pictures on blue color. When I moved in it was simply white and looked very boring.

 I also decorated the kitchen shelfs with records and tiny pictures with funny sayings on them. I didn't get to choose the kitchen myself, it was already in the flat and it's not too nice so I had to do something about it.

 That's my bedroom door decorated with lots of pictures (mostly advertising from magazines). I love that these pictures here and in the kitchen make the flat more colorful as it's mostly white, white furniture, white walls...

 I got those from my Nana when I was at home the last time. She got so many flowers for her golden wedding that she offerd that I could take one. And I just love flowers and plants in my flat. I've got loads of them...

Oh, and of course I have a tiny Ireland-corner. It's just a shirt I bought in Cork, decorated with my St. Paddy's Day hat and a shamrock. Also it has those tiny lights so in the evening I can turn them on and have a very lovely light in my living room. Oh, it's beside my dining table, by the way.

I hope you like my pictures, it's just so that you have some impressions of how I live.

I still haven't got a new haircut, by the way but I coloured my hair a bit darker. It's a mix between black and red. It's really dark but lovely.

Something else: I am thinking about getting a new camera and starting to take more pictures just because it's so much fun. Does anyone know something about cameras? I'm new to this topic and I don't really know where to start looking and how much I'm going to have to pay...

Anyway, that's it for now,

Jenny xoxo

I'm just thinking about cutting my hair again. It's pretty long and I'm not sure how I'd like to have it. Whenever I see a girl with nice short hair I want to have short hair again. Like today, I watched football and that one girl, Megan Rapinoe from the American team has really lovely hair...

What do you think? Long? Medium? Short? (and don't even get me started about colors ^^)

Hey there,

it's me again. A lot of things have happened since the last post. Short version: We just made it to the Scouts camp on my birthday when my car died. It was probably just too much but I'm glad it happened there and not on my way back to Cologne or something. Anyway, it was very sad and I had to leave it there. Besides that we had some lovely days there. When I came back my Mum and me went looking for cars as I said I definately want a new one. We were driving around looking at used cars and found a lovely turqouise Nissan Micra which I now bought two days ago for a very reasonable price. I'm pretty happy with it although I am flat broke now...

Right now I'm back at my parents' because my grandparents have been married for 50 years now and there's a big celebration going on until tomorrow. It's unbelievable that someone is married for such a long time and I'm pretty proud of them. My Mum and Dad have been married for 25 years now which is pretty impressive, too, especially because my Mum is still so young.

Now, I have been a little productive and made some lovely watermelon-shaped oven cloths. I'll show you some pictures when I'm back at home.

Tell me, has anyone some nice ideas for lovely decorations for the summer? Or any other summer plans? I really hope to go visit a friend in Spain in September. What are your plans?

Look, who's back

Someone reminded me a few days ago, that I used to blog. And, yes, I did, and I always enjoyed it, I just didn't have the time to do it lately. And, to be honest, I enjoyed spending time away from the computer, in the sun, at the lake and stuff like that.

Life has been pretty good during the last weeks/months. Work is still good, although I really needed holidays which I am having now.

Also things in the choir went pretty well so far except for a few little things but that's a different subject. We had our big concert at the Opera House a few weeks ago and it was fantastic. I really enjoyed it. Caro and Tina came to visit and they really liked it too.

At the moment I'm at my parents' enjoying a few days off. I planned to go away for a while with Caro but it didn't work out so I'm just staying here instead and going away for a few days with the Scouts on friday. I'm really looking forward to it, I haven't been away with them for so long...

I haven't been very creative lately, well, actually I had a lot of ideas and plans for my living room and my balcony and some decorations and stuff but I didn't have the time and the material to do anything. Now I've got some plans again and I hope it'll work better this time. I also promised to paint some pictures for a friend's flat and that means I really have to do it ;-)

My plans for this week are: Reading (I hope to get myself a Kindle soon, that's an e-book-reader and before I use it I really want to finish the book I'm reading now or maybe even one more), drawing, relaxing. And: go to IKEA with Caro (but I'm not allowed to buy ANYTHING!), pack the stuff I need for the Scouts trip, celebrate Tina's birthday, celebrate my birthday (not a big deal really, I just hope to go out for brunch with some girls and that's it).

That's it for now, I think, I hope to spend the rest of the day in the backgarden with a book and some sunshine...

Jenny xoxo