62. Table light

Today I finished the project I had already started yesterday: a table light out of oiled paper (thank you Lena for this idea!), printed with my favourite bars from all the songs of our christmas concerts.

Actually I wanted to stamp out flowers all over the surface, but technically this was impossible so I only did it at the upper edge.

This is a very personal project and a wonderful souvenir. I think I will also make one with the songs of our past and next year's summer concert =)

61. Waffles

Yesterday I came back from a wonderful, cheerful but nevertheless exhausting weekend with the student's choir of my university. We did great progress with our christmas programme and apart from that we had a lot of fun singing, playing group games and, well, maybe the alcohol did its part, too...

Since I came home in the afternoon, the songs we will sing at our concerts are haunting my mind. So I decided to do something of them. But as it took a bit too long to complete it yesterday, and as suddenly I had this weird and persistent appetite for waffles, I made another flower count for Sunday:

60. Eggshell

On Saturday we had our first morning in our youth hostel in the Thuringian Forest, where I passed the weekend with my choir, practicing for our christmas concerts.

We had a breakfast buffet with everything you need for a great start into the day. I was delighted to see there were also boiled eggs, as normally I don't boil eggs for breakfast, but nevertheless love them =)

I made a quick flower from the eggshells before rehearsal began:

P.S.: On Friday I totally forgot to make a flower. This was the first time something like this occured. On some days I didn't think of it during the day but in the evenings I always remembered that I had to make a flower. Sometimes, when I didn't have the time or it was too late, I postponed a project to the next day. But this time I didn't even think about it until the next morning. After some thinking I decided not to substitute the flower I forgot on Friday by a flower made on another day. I will count on normally and finish my yearlong project one day later. I think this is the solution that feels the most right to me.

59. Weckmänner

Today was another fun-day. In the afternoon we met to bake "Weckmänner", small manakins from yeast dough which are eaten on St. Martin's day (11th of November). Well, not much of a surprise, I also made a flower:

After eating some of the Weckmänner and drinking Glühwein (spiced hot punch), we went outside into the forest with our lanterns and some torches and did a procession. It was a bit creepy, very dark and foggy, and really a cool way to spend an early November evening =)

58. Stollen sweets

Yesterday I baked the first kind of christmas-pastry this year: Stollen! Me and my friend Verena baked those beauties all day long... It was so much fun!

Verena had the idea of making stollen sweets (Stollenkonfekt). I made a star, an angel (not really recognizable...) and, of course, a flower =)

57. Stamped-out flowers

When I was at my hometown last weekend, I bought an instrument to stamp out flowers (after searching for something like that here in Jena for several days...).

This is the first thing I made with it, the decoration of a sheet of paper for a birthday present of a good friend of mine.
I think this was the beginning of a looong friendship =) (between me and my stamped-out flowers instrument)

(I made this on Tuesday but until now somehow didn't manage to post it here...)

56. A sandwich

I went to a party last night and when I came home early this morning I was soo hungry... That's when this picture happened: