The unicorn on the wall

Remember how I mentioned we were taking down the wallpaper in our apartment? Most of our apartment pretty much looks like this right now:

We didn’t take down all of it, although we’d much prefer to have nice, smooth walls instead of the typical textured wallpaper found in most German apartments. We only took it down on the walls that are facing outside, in the hopes that the mold we had professionally removed will stay away. With the exception of the wall in the living room, because it would look weird otherwise. Hopefully the painter will come soon and we can get things back to normal.

In the kitchen, though, it looks like there’s a unicorn on the wall. Do you see it, too?

It’s like cloud-watching…except here it’s on the wall in our kitchen!

Happy weekend!

Tobi’s back home from his 5-day trip to Zürich, just in time to spend the weekend with me. He brought back some pretty  things from our favorite thrift store in Zürich, the Zürcher Brockenhaus, including these vintage glasses, a unique carafe, and a set of gold-rimmed schnapps glasses!

Here’s one that shows the detail of the glasses a little better. Gorgeous, right!?

It’s nice to have him back home again, and so sweet that he brings gifts back when he travels! He also brought like 10 Emmi yogurts (our favorite from our Swiss snowboarding adventures!) and some delicious Swiss chocolate. YUM.

On the menu for this weekend:

- Taking down wallpaper in the living room and kitchen (FUN!)
- Birthday party for a friend
- Sunday Tatort as usual

And possibly a little shoe shopping…? I saw some glitter pumps (1, 2) at Goertz and I might just have to see if I am able to walk in them, because they’d be pretty awesome wedding shoes. I don’t have high hopes though, because I’m very picky about comfort when it comes to shoes. But the glitter is just too fun! I have to at least try it!

Happy weekend, everyone!

We are golden

Or at least I’m golden. I just couldn’t resist making a reference to MIKA, as usual. To be more accurate, I am still covered in gold glitter from last night’s craft project.

I originally planned to do the actual glue then glitter technique for my cardboard letters I cut out, although that tends to be extremely messy.  As luck would have it, I found some awesome glitter wrapping paper while I was searching for extra glitter, and I decided it looked even better and would probably slightly less messy.

So last night I watched three or four episodes of Psych and glued the wrapping paper to my letters, and I love the way it turned out!

My inspiration for this project came from these two pins: I loved this phrase and this glittery goodness, so I just combined the two ideas and did gold instead of silver, at Tobi’s request.  It looks extra good on our blackboard!

And here’s a better look at our Adventskranz (Advent wreath)!  Isn’t it pretty?  This is a very German tradition.