Today it was a balmy 14°C/57°F, so I went for a walk. It was warm enough to go out in a light jacket – five days before Christmas!
Michelsbach in der Hördter Rheinaue.
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Mehr Fröbelsterne
Twisting my ankle on Monday has forced me to take it a little easy, so I’ve gone into mass-production of Fröbel stars.
Here’s the second batch in blues and greens:
I think the colors look great together:
Weihnachtsbastelei – Crafts for Christmas
How to make a Fröbel star – Wie man einen Fröbelstern faltet (YouTube, no sound, so works no matter what languages you speak :-) )
I tried this for the first time yesterday and was instantly hooked. I cut the strips (size about 1.2cm x 30cm) myself from construction paper in four different colors, but apparently you can buy the strips in many different colors and designs, at least here in Germany.
Here are the ones I made yesterday and today:
Now I think I also need some in a blue-green-purple colorway.
Morgensonne
After two weeks of dreary rainy weather the sun was out this morning. View towards the east from our balcony around 10am:
More than a century
The Washington Post: Meet two amazing women who are still working at the age of 102. Yes, 102. “Everyone asks the centenarians: “What’s your secret?“ The answer is pretty simple: work.”
Of my grandparents, my grandmothers died at ages 88 and 91, one grandfather died in his seventies of diabetes and his unwillingness to take medication for it, and the other grandfather is still alive and quite well at 92, so we’ll see how long I’ll be able to make it. The women in the article are certainly people out of whose book I might take a leaf.
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