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Praha --- my love

Time to tell you about the wonderful weekend that I spent in Praha. Clément and I took the opportunity to visit Michala, a good friend from Sweden, and her boyfreind in their home town. Another friend who I met during my time as an intern had by coincidence a friend in Praha as well, so we all met up there to visit the city. It was a wonderful weekend with minus 15 degrees. I love to be guided around by people that know a city so well and Michala and Olda, both born and raised in the middle of Praha were the perfect guides for us. We arrived on Friday night and just spent the time chatting and trying out weird workout maschines that Michalas sister bought on one of those tv channels that only send commercials. It was so nice to see Michala again and there was a lot to catch up. 

The next day we went to see the old city. It was sunny but crazy cold but our hosts prepared for that by picking out little cafés and souvenir shops and tourist informations to warm up again. We saw a lot of Mucha and I wished I had the time to go to the museum. We visited an exhibition with old pictures of Praha and it's so nice to discover that most of the buildings still exist. The evening was the highlight of the day. We went to a super nice veggie-restaurant and ate food that we all could and would have died for... 

Then we went to the opera and we watched SWAN LAKE! It was my first ballet and I loved it from the first second that it started! I could have cried in the old opera, the red velvet seats, Clément next to me making fun of the men in tights :) Too bad that we didn't have the time to put on some appropriate clothes but we had to hurry there from the restaurant. So we were standing there a little uncomfortable during the break among all the well-dressed people in our  snow boats and big jumpers. So obviously the tourists with no sense of taste... After the ballet we changed :) and then we left to a club to dance a bit. But we were tired soon and took the bus home again playing some stupid childrens games. 

The next day, Michala showed us her neighborhood. We walked through a big park and then went to a little pub to have some traditional czech food and try their beer that they make in their own brewery. And soon after we found ourselves packing our bags, rushing through the city to find our car sharing for the way home and spending our last crownes on tons of amazing czech sweets. 

A perfect weekend in a wonderful city with great people! <3

A little bag for a wonderful friend...

One of my best friends just got her master in psychology! (Applause, please!!) Unfortunately I could not be there with her to support her like she did for me, so I wanted to send her a special present to make up for it. I went to a second hand store and bought some Old-Lady-Skirts. I cut one of them and brought it into the typical baggy shape by rounding the edges a bit and adding the handles. And to make it a bit more Laura-like I added some flower fabric and put it around the top like a little belt. 

I hope the bag will fulfill its duty and carries around all the things that are dear to her!

All the best to you, Laura, M. Sc.!! <3

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Before Christmas I had some time to be creative and the following pieces were brought to life. 

A new calendar for 2012 for my flat mate Theresa.

Two examples of the 1000 christmas cards that I made for family & friends.

A scarf for my good friend Julia to keep her warm and cute.

It's too cold outside to fly,

SO I took the train to France. When I came back from the toilet, I saw my seat with all the things I spread over it and I thought "If anyone walks past this seat and sees all this stuff, he must think that a (quite messy) grandma is sitting here." I didn't make a picture but on my seat where a big old red leather bag from the 1950s, a knitted beanie and gloves from light brown wool and, to make the impression complete, a ball of light pink wool and a half finished head band with the crochet hook pocking out of it. 
The only thing speaking against the grandma-suspicion was the shere amount of things lying on the seats. As people who spend a lot of times in trains know, old people tend to sit on their seats very rigid, holding the handle of their luggage and do not dare to take their coat off, always ready to jump right up when their destination is called out by the conductor.

If I could give one gift to you, it would be convidence.

Convidence. Without it we are nothing. People will believe that we are nothing. With it, we might still be nothing but people might not recognize it and still believe we are everything. 


I tend to loose my convidence about something small like a mistake at work, a lonely night when no one I try to call picks up the phone and a pimple on my nose. Is it allowed for small things like this to take our convidence away? Probably not. That's why we envy those people that accept their little flaws, take them it, embrace it. I want to be like those people. How do we become like one of those people? Should we care less about the opinions of others? Should we read less into looks and comments that they throw at us? 


Or are we affected this much by comments made by others because we have the impression that we would just be a bit more considered.  That we would not comment on an obvious and stupid mistake someone has done and that we would tell our opponent that her outfit looks amazing today even if there is a little red spot on her nose? Shouldn't we all make it our goal to strengthen the convidence of the ones in need when we see it crumbling? 


Trying to put a smile on the torn face that just wants to hide from the world... 
Lure somone out of his or her shell to enjoy the beauty of the world...


And probably even more important: Believe in ourselves, in our strength and talents. And in our ability to be exactly the person that we want to be.