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My Life in Instagram Photos: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

January 6, 2014

The end of the old year was pretty awesome and here you can see in Instagram photos how I spent it:

December plans and organizing. // My mother made me the most fantastic Advent calendar, happiness every day! // Reflections. // Shipping orders and gifts.

Date with my best friend Anja, winter walk included. :)

Winter walk. // Going to university by bike. // Potsdam under construction. // Daily outfit. // Illustrating with my new graphics tablet. // Outfit of the day.

At home. :)

During the weekly workshop at DaWanda. // Wrapping presents with handmade gift tags. // A tiny bit of powder snow.

Yayyy, one of the best days, my video game party!!

Preparing goody bags for my Crafty Christmas party.

Daily outfits. // I met my online pal Lisbeth of You and I Heart DIY, it was love at first sight! :)

In the middle of December, I hosted a Crafty Christmas party and made a winter food table. :)

Time to get out all the ornaments and decorate our Christmas tree!!! // Wrapping Christmas presents. // Mogli waiting in the kitchen on Christmas morning. // Our most beautiful tree!

Delicious holiday breakfast on Christmas morning. // Holiday outfit. // Brunch on the second day of Christmas. We spent the holidays at home with lots of good food and movies. :) // New polaroids on my wall. // My beautiful boyfriend during our winter walk. // Blue and red.

Home sweet home.

Mint and white. // Colorful walk. // Waiting for our holiday guests. // Clean kitchen. // Colorful outfit. // Above my sewing table.

Happy new kitchen stuff. // Dog walk. // Awesome mail from Sandra of Blogland Bremen // Wortkonfetti. // Brunch on the last day of the old year. // Pink and orange. // Our beloved friends were here for a few days! :* // Happy New Year! // Staying at home, playing Super Mario all the time.

Hopefully you are all having a super awesome New Year!
Lu

Parties

Colorful New Year’s Eve Brunch

January 2, 2014

Hello, my dear readers, happy New Year!!!
I wish you a magical, creative, healthy and inspiring 2014!
To celebrate the last day of the old year, I hosted a colorful brunch for our friends who have been visiting us for a few days. I love brunching a lot and so I prepared milkshakes, fruits, eggs, fresh scones and bought some donuts.
When good friends are here, a colorful brunch is even more fun. :)

I hope you were also having a lovely ending to the last year. Can’t wait for the next twelve months!
Lu

Recipes

Recipe: Vanilla Christmas Cupcakes

December 24, 2013

Eeeeeks, merry Christmas!!!
Today is the day, the most wonderful day of the year! I hope you are having a cozy and magical day with your loved ones!
In case some of you need a last minute recipe for the holiday for which you will surely have all ingredients at home anyways, here I’ve got a Christmas cupcake recipe for you.

Here’s what you need for the dough:
– 250g flour, 250g sugar, 5 tea spoons of baking powder, 250ml milk, 100g butter, 2 big eggs
– Cinnamon, fresh vanilla and some vanilla sugar

What you need for the frosting:
– Fresh vanilla, cinnamon, orange zest
– Curd cheese, butter and powder sugar (the amount depends on the consistency you prefer, I personally like using lots of powder sugar and only a little bit of butter and curd cheese so make it creamy)

Mix all ingredients for the dough and stirr everything until it’s a creamy mixture.
Next, fill the creamy dough into your cupcake paper baking tins (fill
about two third with dough) and let the cupcakes bake in the oven for
about half an hour at 180°C (depending on your kind of oven: because
ours is heatened with gas, time and temperature sometimes vary a bit and
I can’t leave the kitchen for too long without looking at the
cupcakes).
Afterwards, mix the powder sugar with the curd cheese and the butter, add some vanilla, orange zest and cinnamon. Put it into the fridge so that
you can then easily spread it over your cupcakes when it has the perfect consistency.
Done! :)

Enjoy your cupcakes and have super cozy holidays!!
Happy Christmas!
Lu

Everything Else

Apple Crumble Recipe and Book Review

December 23, 2013

Hello, hello! Today I’ve got a book review and apple crumble recipe for you, maybe this is even a perfect dessert for tomorrow’s Christmas dinner!
Before we come to the recipe, I’d love to talk about this awesome book. It’s called “Vom Vanillekipferl zum Ribisltörtchen” and is a really special book with baking recipes from a family history of 200 years.

This book is a collection of recipes of Mädi’s family. Mädi was born in Berlin in 1932 and her childhood was highly influenced by the war. Maybe these unruly years are the origin of her love for tradition and are the reason why she created this book to preserve her family’s recipes and baking traditions and to give them on to the next generations.
This book has been made with Dreimorgen, a design agency in Frankfurt (am Main) who gave me this book for review.

When I first heard about this project, I got super excited because this book carries so much meaning. I got my own copy and started reading it.

The book is not only filled with the most delicious recipes for cookies, bisquits, cakes and pies, it also lets the reader dive into Mädi’s family history which is really exciting!

Among all the delicious recipes which have been approved by Mädi and her ancestors over the decades, it wasn’t easy to pick a favorite to try out. In the end, I decided to make Apple Crumble and I didn’t regret it, soooo incredibly delicous!

What you need:
– 6-12 apples
– 1 tea spoon of cinnamon
– 2 table spoons of brown sugar
– Some raisins
– The juice of a fresh lemon
– Moreover, I also added vanilla and orange zest

What you need for the crumbles:
– 130g flour
– 130g butter
– 130g brown sugar
– A hand full of walnuts, almonds or hazelnuts

Here we go:
Cut the apples, put them into a baking dish, add cinnamon, sugar, raisins, lemon juice, vanilla and orange zest.

This is the orange zest I added.

Then make the crumbles: knead the dough consisting of flour, butter, sugar and nuts. Spread the crumbles all over the apples and bake your
apple crumble in the oven for about 30 minutes at 180°.

Tastes perfect with cream or vanilla sauce and can be eaten hot or cold. :)
Enjoy!

At the end of the book, there’s even an additional chapter with memories and family stories, this was one of my fave parts. When knowing about all those special stories which are related to Mädi’s delicious recipes, they taste even better! :)
I’m really happy about having discovered this awesome baking recipe book, because with all those old recipes and stories related to it, it’s way more than an normal collection of recipes.
Moreover, the book is super pretty to look at and the old photos and recipes have been put into a modern layout and design without changing old content’s special meaning.
Happy baking and enjoy reading in case you buy the book yourself!
Lu

Parties

Christmas Sweet Table

December 22, 2013

Hello everyone! Last weekend I’ve been hosting my yearly Crafty Christmas party. We were crafting all afternoon and had a super fun time. Of course every party needs a proper sweet table, so I prepared a candy color Christmas sweet table. :)

My dear cooperation partner Partyerie again provided me with paper plates, cupcake paper tins, paper cups, paper straws and some honey combs. :) We have been cooperating for occassions like this one for about half a year now and it’s always a pleasure and her products help a lot to make a great party pefect! :) Thank you!

Honey combs are so super pretty!! It took me a while to prettily arrange them in the way you can see them on the photo and I had lots of fun putting together all the different colors. :) The turquoise tree bunting is handmade.

In addition to our kitchen table who served as a sweet table, I used another tiny table for the paper dishes and some lemonade.

These cupcakes have been my cupcake masterpiece so far! :) They are vanilla cupcakes with cinnamon, so delicous! Recipe coming in a few days.

As you can see in this photo, I again used my white braches for decor and hung some candy color ornaments. I love this color concept!

We were having cinnamon stars, tiny chocolate beads, marzipan, donuts, gingerbread bisquits, spiced cookies, meringue, cookies and homemade cupcakes.

Awww, I made tiny mitten cake toppers and toppers with handmade present stamps.

This decor made me sooo incredibly happy! I’d been planning the details and the color scheme a while ahead and then I was so excited when I finally finished everything!! :)

This awesome cardboard cakestand is from Partyerie, too, I got it for my last project that she supported by sponsoring some pretty items. :)

Writing this blog post makes me want to eat some cupcakes again! :)
I hope you enjoyed looking at those photos as much as I do!

Happy Sunday!
Lu

P.S.: As you already read, some of the items shown in this post have been sponsored, but this of course doesn’t change my opinion or way of displaying them.

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