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Industrial ambience and lots of creativity – “Vogelwild” market

May 12, 2014 by nadel&gabel

This weekend I mingled with the young-creative-hipster-world – on the lifestyle and design market “Vogelwild” that took place around here. A fine selection of different kinds of small makers presented their craft and design work. From furniture or clothing, bags, jewellery to stationary – everything could be found. A lot of the designers are working with ecological and fair produced material or are recycling old material – an approach that becomes more and more important for me, too. The industrial […]

Categories: At the sewing machine, Behind the camera, craft & DIY, objects & places • Tags: art, bag, craft & DIY, creative, dawanda, decoration, design, eco, fair, fashion, furniture, hipster, industrial, jewellery, lifestyle, market, recycling, retro, sewing, startup, stationary, young

My work space I – DIY geometric memory board and masking tape holder

February 8, 2014 by nadel&gabel

Already weeks have passed since I promised to show the outcome of my working space redo. Ans still there are some things in progress, some improvements to make. Anyway I decided to start my little tour around my desk – showing you the things I made during the last weeks step by step. One of the elements I changed was this (dormer) wall next to my desk. A while ago I had decorated it with a DIY chalk board that […]

Categories: craft & DIY, interior, storage • Tags: band, black, Craft, craft & DIY, decoration, design, display, geometric, holder, masking, memory, mood, office, pin board, rubber, space, storage, tape, tutorial, wall, washi, white, work

Blank pages – Hello 2014!

January 2, 2014 by nadel&gabel

I hope you all had great holidays with your families and a good start into the new year … which is already 1½ days old. Another 363½ days to come. A new diary full of blank pages. What kind of year will you be 2014? What experiences are awaiting? Who will I be after these 363½ days? … Somehow or other: I am ready! Ready for new challenges that life will bring, new places, new people, new experiences, tears of […]

Categories: Behind the camera, black & white, Blogging, craft & DIY, paper • Tags: calendar, craft & DIY, decoration, diary, DIY quick, masking, paper, scrapbooking, tape, washi

Recipes, gift wrapping & free labels – Homemade hot chocolate powder and marshmallow starlets

December 16, 2013 by nadel&gabel

The christmas preparations are reaching their final stage. After making or buying all the “big” presents, now it’s the turn of the the small ones: a little something for some colleagues, neighbours,… You know what I mean! This is just the right purpose for a small gift from your kitchen. I came back to my “little bags of sweetness” – nicely packed homemade hot chocolate powder. But instead of cinammon this time I added some dried and grounded orange zest. […]

Categories: cake, cookie & dessert, craft & DIY, digital design, drinks, freebies, gluten-free, In the kitchen, interior, paper, vegetarian • Tags: bag, chocolate, christmas, craft & DIY, design, drink, free, gift, label, marshmallow, paper, present, recipe, tag, tutorial, winter, wrapping

Dimensional – Geometric wall art

May 18, 2013 by nadel&gabel

New season, new decoration! For quite a while now I had the idea to create something similiar to those cute snug. magnets. The optical illusions created simply by rhombs arranged in different ways is fascinating. And the wall next to my working desk definitely needed a renewal. At least I am sitting there many hours each day. This would be a great eyecatcher and bring as well a bit more wideness (at least visual) into this corner of the room. […]

Categories: craft & DIY, interior, paper • Tags: art, Craft, craft & DIY, cube, decoration, design, dimensional, easy, geometric, hexagon, paper, pastel, pattern, retro, rhomb, wall

My Eigenwerk – Felted mini coin purses

November 3, 2012 by nadel&gabel

Concerning felted accessoires I am a bit torn: They can be very stylish or cute, but then what I see often looks to me more frumpish and kitschy. So, for a long time I hesitated to do some felting myself. I stopped hesitating and finally gave it a start with a little project – a mini coin purse in grey and pink/purple. My intention was not to create a felted colour shock but to keep the colour reduced to little […]

Categories: Accessories, craft & DIY • Tags: Craft, craft & DIY, felted, felting, grey, pink, purse, trend

News – and a giveaway

October 7, 2012 by nadel&gabel

Bigger things have been going on in the background during the last month, and now the final step is made: I opened my own little shop at Dawanda with nice handmade things made with ♥! “ju.” is the simple name. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now always shrinking back from all the bureaucracy that comes with it. But in the end I managed to jump over my own shadow, and we will see where this new project […]

Categories: At the sewing machine, bags & totes, wallets & pouches • Tags: bag, clutch, craft & DIY, dawanda, giveaway, handmade, pouch, sewing, shop, tote, wallet

All my little notebooks

July 13, 2012 by nadel&gabel

Phew! Last class tests corrected, final grades made! During the last days there’ve been a few points of despair and frustration (“Where have you been during our lessons?!” – “Hey, it is your mother tongue!”). I probably wouldn’t have survived without the help of chocolate cookies. Now this work is done and I am so happy and relieved to have at least a bit more time for … living. And being creative again!

Categories: accessories, At the sewing machine, craft & DIY, paper • Tags: binding, Craft, craft & DIY, notebook, paper, recycle, scrapbooking, scraps, sewing, tutorial, wrap