That’s all folks.



At least for now.
Muah-ha-ha

I’m a bit worried about the Tolkien stuff.

There ist so much of it! I’ve already moved it to a langer level, but there is still more to come.



I’ve counted, there are four copies of 'The Silmarillion (two in german, two in english), five copies of 'The Hobbit' (one in german, four in english) and eight (!) copies of 'The Lord of the Rings' ( two in german, six in english)
I haven’t checked but I suspect they all tell the same story.

Don’t ask!

I think I’ve bought 1 'Hobbit' and 1/3 'Lord of the Rings' and I think my boyfriend, who is not here to confirm it, has bought about 1 set and a few of the secondary works.

Please don’t ask!

I think we have to many books. Books are good. Need more books.

Patience dear Lindir, patience.

I’m not at work today, I’m sorting out the books.

And because I love doing it, I’m building stacks.



That’s SF and childrens stories



That is no stack. Also it’s mainly fantasy and tolkien.



And that is the non-fiction part. The highest stacks are science, plants and art. No, we are not pedictable, aren’t we?

We My boyfriend spend the weekend finally altering and installing our old/new bookshelf.
Thank you dad for building it in the first place!






I think this means we’re finally living here ...

Reality is having a lock on me.

But there is content comming up soon.
New content.
Better content.
This content.





To sunflowers!

Last weekend we visited the "Peter und Paul" festival' at Bretten, which is a small town somewhere eastward of Karlsruhe.
It’s some kind of annual renaissance fair including the reenactment of a battle which happend 1504 and was about the citizens of Bretten defending their home so as not to becomme a "Swabian" town but staying a "Baden" town. By now the whole area is a integral part of Baden-Wuertemberg but every year they remember that in truth they are people of "Baden" only.

Apart from that it was really nice there.
There was some arabic tea, great friends, splendid jugglers, good artisans, music, food, flag throwers and a marching band. Some marching bands in fact.

Flag throwers an a marching band.

I know it sounds a bit boring, but yet ...
.. you had to be there.

I’m talking about the italian group called Contrada della Corte. (I know some of you speak italian) They’re really awsome.

You may think there is an end to what you can do with one flag, and also there has to be a limited number to how many flags one person can handle, but, BUT like in juggling there’s a lot more posible than you can imagine.

They are just guys, but sometimes they look like butterflys and most of the time I just stood there wondering about what exactly they were doing.
And they acted with this sort of pomp and ado as only the italians can do...

Whatch this:



Well, here you can see only three flags, last weekend I saw some guy juggle with up to seven flags!

They don’t just do this juggling thing, they also have a bunch of choreographies which include a lot of throwing and waving.

Watch:



They also have a fire show, but we didn’t stay long enough to see it (this time).


You Had To Be There!

Here’s a speach Neil Gaiman gave last May:

Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012

There’s also a comic strip by Gavin Aung Than, who took a bit from the middle of the speach an made it into a comic.
(Actually I read the comic first and until today had no idea what the original speach was like)

zen pencils

This speach is floating around the internet for some time now, so maybe you have seen it already.
But maybe you don’t and you’re listening to it now and you’re feeling as touched and inspired as I am right now.

Do what only you can do best.

As of now you can buy prints of my pictures at Artflakes.

I’m just getting started on this, so there are only a few offers at the moment. But there will be more.
If there is any picture you’re especially interested in - please let me know!

I ran out of book before I ran out of week.

I planed to aquire new reading material at the weekend but I finished my book (first in a trilogy) today. And now I have two workdays still to go ...

I tried reading some classical fantasy short stories by people like Lin Carter or Roger Zelazny, but .. that’s not really an option.

If don’t find anything readable soon, I’m going to be stuck with a book about vegetarian diet or maybe Erich Fromms 'Die Kunst des Liebens' - not really easy listening reading.

ps. sorry for the bad english :(

A couple of weeks ago we finally went to the 'Casa della Lindir' to fetch the origami picture I told you about.
It really is gorgeous! To think that it’s just one piece of paper ... and these great columnlike, arabesquish ... structures, reminding me above all of greek architecture ... *sigh*

It’s hanging on our window now - it kept on falling down but it finally surrendered and remained fixed.



The passe-partout has a beautiful ruby colour, a bit like the one on this blog, only deeper.
I like how the light is shining through the paper, becoming this deep yellow shade - surrounded by ruby.

Here’s some details:



You can see the pre-folding lines. There all over the piece. Imagine the effort!

Once again: Thank you very much my dear!
I’m looking forward to the many more things you will create in the future!
Happy folding!