No answer...

from the lady at the building inspection office til now...
Is this a good or bad sign?
Fingers crossed everything will go well for me, and for Sammy too.

Not so good news...

Today i got the answer from the lady at the building inspection office.
In our state its not possible to build an aviary like mine without a planning and building permission.

So I answered and asked the lady if there is any kind of aviary I could build, maybe smaller or combined with our house, or an altered caravan. Because I want to have a habitat for the budgies that is as natural/animal friendly as possible. I really hope she has good news.

A dream comes true!!!

As I told you in my last post I´ll try to save some money during the year. First I thought I could use the saved money to buy a new doll or new furniture. But last weekend something incredible happened. My husband "allowed" me to build an aviary in our garden.

I have to say that I have budgies since I´m nine years old. But everytime one bird dies you buy a new one and then the older bird dies, you buy a new one... it´s a never ending story. So we both decided we would not buy a new one when our 3 birds die. So Coco died and 1 year later Susi. Sammy was left alone...
And that made me so sad that I always asked my husband if I could get a friend for her. Maybe for 3 or 4 years. Last weekend he was kind of angry, because when he asked for my birthday wishes the first thing I said was: a budgie... This is always my first answer whenever he askes what I wish for.
He was a bit angry and said I should not say "budgie" everytime he asks. My answers was: As long as Sammy lives, this will always be my first answer.

Then he said: Well, budgies are a kind of hobby, right?! Like my saltwalter tank. If you save the money(~5000€) you can build an aviary in the garden. I guess he thinks i will never save so much money alone...

YAY, I didn´t need more.... In my head I was always thinking about what I would do, if I ever get the chance to do this. So there are already many ideas in my little brain :-)

I want to have 6 budgies and 4 cockatiels. And I already know where my first budgie and the first pair of cockatiels will come from. The rest should come frome animal shelters.

My aviary should look like the one Silvia at www.wellivilla.de  has.
Same size, nearly the same layout for the house. But different decoration inside, of course.

I hope to have the money in one year, so we can start to build everything in early spring 2017.

To help me to spend less money on not so important things like clothes, jewelery or magazines, I started to go to the cash point every monday, get 40 € and then I put my credit card away. This way I only have 40 € every week. The money thats left on sunday gets into an extra pot and next monday i start with 40 € again. The left over money I can use to go shopping or later for my aviary too.

I am so excited about this. I want this aviary as soon as possible.

Happy New Year...

Hey friends. I hope you had a wonderful Christmastime and a good start into 2016.

As you may know many people start the new year with some New Years Resolutions.
Normally I don´t do that, but this year my resolution is to save some money. I found a post somewhere in the internet. I will try to put some money away like they did.
So you start on the first day of the year with 1 Cent or Penny, next day 2 Cent/Pennies  til December 31st (366 days) 3,66 Euro/Dollar. They say, this way you safe 664,61 Euro/Dollar over 1 year. Lets see how far I will get.
I think the first 100 days will be easy, but then it gets harder to put away 1 Euro/Dollar every day. I think I have to set my alarm so I don´t forget it. and I have a calendar to sign that I have put the money away every day.
With the saved money I will buy a new BJD or some new furniture for my craftroom.

So wish me luck everybody.

Tag for April and in the garden

Hi everyone!
I hope you all had some great easter days. We had....The weather was not so good, very cold, but luckily no rain or snow! There was a lot to do in April, like taking care of my parents in law's home for 2 weeks, so i had no time to make the Tim Holtz tag. But today i made it.
And, lucky me..., this weeks challenge over at Simon Says Stamp is: anything goes. So I'd like to join this challenge with my belated tag....

I have been to a garden fair in Berlin in April to do some shopping for plants. Here is what i bought. 2 ferns, 3 hostas and a Pulmonaria

  And, because thats the reason I can´t craft so much sometimes, some pics from the garden.

Hostas in pots

 Small statue in front of a rose

 Primulas

The front garden

The back of the garden(the right side)

B is for...

is the new challenge at Simon Says Stamp. For me B is for Birthday Card.
I like making cards since i started crafting. And for me it is very important to give a friend or familymember a selfmade card for his or her birthday.
Here is a simple birthday card i made for this weeks challenge.

My next Tag...

.. is finished. After I worked in the garden today I took some time for crafting. I worked on a Mini Album, but it is not finished yet.
This month i was a lot faster with the Tim Holtz Tag for March!!! It was very easy to make.

The background looks great with the technique Tim uses! A must try!
To fit in the challenge at Simon Says Stamp I used some green color for the background, because the challenge is called: A hint of clover.

February Tag Tim Holtz

Hi friends

today i finished the Tim Holtz Tag for February. Just in time to upload it on his site. With my Tag i would like to join the Simon Says Stamp challenges for this week too. It has no rules this week...
So as i have not all the cool stuff Tim uses, i tried my best using what i have on hands.
Here is my Tag.
I hope you like it a bit ;-)

 And now i will visit Tims Blog and the SSS Blog to get a little inspiration from all the other entries.

New year. first post...

...Hi my scrappy friends out there. I am back in the new year with my first project.
It is the Tim Holtz tag for january.

Now, with more time and less work, i hope to have more time for crafting, to try new recipes (baking and cooking), for the garden and for relaxing... I started with making new cookies for christmas. Some Swedish Butterballs, After Eight cookies and Snowflakes. Snowflakes are my favorite, followed by Swedish Butterballs. Both are so yummy...

The next new recipe i want to try is a WeightWatchers cheesecake with mixed berries. I will try a lot WW recipes during the following weeks. For my birthday i plan to only have WW things on the table.

Yesterday i started with cleaning my craft room. I sorted out some things i did not use a while (or never!!!), like decoupage papers, glass nuggets, translucent paper, newspapers, glitter.... I definitely need more space in my cupbords. Maybe i will get a little money for this.


Thats all for now. Thank you for stopping by. I hope to be back soon.

Back again....

Hello everyone!

After a long time I am back with a new blog post. As every year, I had not so much time during the summer. The garden needs a lot of it....Next year I guess it will be better. In January I will start to work less hours a week. I hope it will give me more time for the household and my hobbies.
But I started and finished some projects during the last month. I bought my first can of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint and the wax too. I painted a small table with it and a chair. But there are no photos yet.
I crochet a bit. I started a LalyLala pattern. A little sheep. These patterns are so cute.
I have been to the craft and hobby fair in Leipzig with my good friend Franziska and I visited her too.

Yesterday I finished a small journal. The tutorial is by Stephanie Miller. I made 2 others, month ago. The link to the tutorial is somewhere here on the blog....
I also watched some tuts from Xannero1 on Youtube. She always uses lots of flaps and pockets on her mini albums. In this journal I used magnets for the first time.
It has lots of pockets and flaps.
I hope you like it....

With this journal I would like to take part on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge. This week anything goes.

 

 I hope to be back soon with a new finished project. Have a wonderful long weekend everyone....