Mon petit péché mignon

or "my little weakness"

While fearlessly taking the bike to the city in spite of the rain, I came by a really cute shop. 

It was crammed full of little clocks, cups and porcelain, jewellery, umbrellas and pretty boxes.

Take a look

Of course I went and splurged, paying 90 € for little tidbits to take back home to my friends. 

I don't know if you can say it was worth it, but I love my picks:

Lisbeth Dahl umbrella - all covered in frills & stars

A cigarette case and perfumed letters and cubes by Givre Blanc

golden sugar crystals and sugar pearls for my baking girls & cook bf

Atsuyo et Akiko Star Dia necklace 

I found out that Lisbeth Dahl and Atsuyo et Akiko are well known brands and have their own online shops. 

  You can find Lisbeth Dahl online  here  &  here 

   

   Mind you, the shop is only for the UK, so if you live somewhere else,

   just type Lisbeth Dahl and your home country into the search field

    in your browser.

Atsuyo et Akiko you can find      here   

they sell a lot of tutus, shirts and jewellery for children too and have a Atsuyo et Akiko Disney collection.

Burning Bridges

 

London's burnin, London's burnin, fetch the engines, fetch the engines, Fire! Fire!

Called my mother yesterday – mostly out of a bad conscience, cause she is all alone and has to cope with her stuff. I hereby vow to visit her more, sorry Mum!

Anyway, she seemed kind of preoccupied, so I asked her what she was doing. She replied: “Oh you know, just getting rid of my stuff, I’m BURNING some papers right now…Ouch, that was my finger!”

Is this some kind of spiritual zen thing again?

Seriously, the women in my family…

She then told me about what happened to her the other day and I must say  - it made me laugh A LOT. Apparently she took a metal bin and her papers, letters and such and drove to a field to burn them. When she was almost done, it started raining heavily. She got into her car but the motor wouldn’t start and when she tried to call the ADAC her mobile ran out of battery. 

By then it was hailing. She stopped a women (probably told her all about her lifelong problems) and asked her to call the towing service. The women replied “Oh, my phone's run out of battery as well. Sorry there.” So when the service people finally arrived, she was practically drenched – even the blanket over her head was soaked...

She is one strange character, but I just love her to bits :-D

(btw, thanks for the image RB-design :-) )