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What are you doing for New Years?

Dec 12, 2011 | Entertaining, Marriage

Since Stefan and I got together over a DECADE ago (ack!), we have hosted quite a few New Year’s Eve parties at our house. Most of the time they were quite intimate and casual, and they seldom involved fireworks since Ayla seems to get more and more disturbed by...
{Garden Life} Seed Savers Exchange

{Garden Life} Seed Savers Exchange

Dec 9, 2011 | Featured, Garden

Seeds. They are the life-force of your garden. Without seeds, most of the plants in our garden would cease to exist — whether you are planting seeds yourself or using store-bought seedlings — and in turn, life would become far more complicated since qe...
Getting Chilly

Getting Chilly

Dec 8, 2011 | Photography

As luck would have it, the one week that “chilly” is the selected topic on YouCapture, we have no frost at all. But since you got to see our frostiness just a couple weeks ago, I guess you’ll have to settled for the signs of the chill in the air...
Hemming drapes with ease

Hemming drapes with ease

Dec 8, 2011 | Decorating, DIY, House & Home

I could hardly believe it when the call came in on Monday evening. Our new windows were being delivered to the window installer on Tuesday morning, and they wanted to set up an appointment to deliver them to us and get started with the installation in the afternoon....
Mingling with the locals

Mingling with the locals

Dec 5, 2011 | Expat Life, Featured, Travel

So you’re here in Germany and you want to find a place where you can really hang out and let loose with the locals. But you’re either apprehensive about the language barrier or you just don’t even know where to go to get yourself started when it...