... I hereby solemnly swear to attempt sitting down every single day drawing.

This may not be possilbe on some days, but I will at least try.

Some time ago I’ve told you about this ongoing photo contest hosted by the German Tolkien Society.
Now the voting is over and ...

I’ve won!

Not the first prize, but a tolal two of the three second prizes, and I think that’s more than a good result.
Thanks to all of you who voted for me!

And for all the non-tolkien-people out there who are curious what I’m actually talking about - here are the two pictures I‘ve handed in:



The Garden of Yavanna





The Elves are fetching their Silver Lamps

Lindir, Ronja this one’s for both of you

I’m driving a lot these days.
I wish I could take the train - or even better the bicycle to go to work ...
But I can’t and I’m trying hard not to let time get wasted.
So I’m doing audio books.
Currently I’m hearing the BBC radio drama 'The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy' by Douglas Adams - again.
Next will be 'The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul' also by Douglas Adams - also again.
In the fall of 2012 it will be 'The Lord Of The Rings' like every year.
Between and afterwards it’s an open road ...
Any recommondations you have - throw them at me!

You know me ... I’m interested the history of fantasy and fairy literature, also science fiction, really good contemporary fantasy, classics, fairy tales and all sorts of nerdy, geeky stuff.

Back in Bavaria a colleague and good friend of mine promised me a fare-ye-well present. Now it arrived and it’s an awesome model of a victorian-style glasshouse!
It’s made of some thin, minted metal ... sort of sheets and you have to fold it and put it together yourself.
Which cost me the better part of an evening. Which is quite easy.
It’s finished now and looking only a bit battered.





Thank you Micha! I love you for this! It’s already inhabited!
First the gargoyle wanted to move in but there was not enough room …
Now there is a baby dragon living there, complete with his own little slice of forest





Here are more impressions:


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In a few days I’m starting a new job.
It will be very time-consuming and demanding and I expect there to be less blogging for a while.

So stay with me, even if it gets awfully quiet.

This goes out to all the Tolkien people out there.
For the next two weeks you can vote on the
"Middle Earth is everywere" - DTG photo contest.

Click here to go to the poll.

You can select up to three pictures - and naturally mine are the best! Mua-ha-ha!

On Good Friday Zelde over at Indigobirds did a very lovely review of my blog.
"Thank you my Dear! I’m feeling very honoured and a bit embarrassed too."


You may want to visit her blog from time to time.

I’ve known Zelde for some time now, at first from the big-bad-needlework-online-forum and later from her blog. (Actually I’ve got a shirt and a tunic that she sewed for me in the course of some fantasy-swapping-activity. I don’t know if she remembers it.)

Although originally from the German speaking area, she’s been living in London for years now , studying physics and creating a lot of creative output. Her blog was created to document her sewing and knitting activities and to gain more motivation for her projects.

Today we find a much broader variety of topics on her blog. The handiwork was joined by cooking, photography, decorating, baking ... and of course living a daily life in London.

Over the last weeks she has given her blog a great deal of attention, made some changes and right now it’s looking really great and shiny.


Keep going my Dear!

I really don’t want to turn this into a photoblog, BUT look whom I met!



His name is 'Turdus pilaris', but I call him 'Alphonso'.

I just wanted to tell you: The Hedgefairy is currently hosting a giveaway on her Blog.
If you want a to win a slice of her fairy-tale castle click here.

Since you’ve asked Lindir ...

That’s the bough,



and there you can imagine how the whole shadow looks like.



See the shadow vase? Pretty.