As the financial capital of Germany, Frankfurt often gets a bad rap for being boring, expensive and ugly. Now I know I’ve not always written the nicest things about Hessen and the people that live there, but I also know that many people end up there because of their jobs and they really don’t have […]

When we moved over to Germany 11 years ago, we had already started several businesses (being the crafty entrepreneurs that we are) and didn’t have any thoughts of closing them down just because we were moving. Thankfully, we had family back in the US who could help us with order processing since shipping things to […]

How hot has your summer been this year? With school starting again very soon, I wanted to do something to fun. So I’m thrilled to be able to host The Hot Hot Summer Photo Contest via Facebook! All you need to do to enter is “Like” NOH on Facebook, then upload your favorite summer photo […]

Now that we’ve been here in Berlin a little over four weeks, we have really begun to compare the city we left with the city we moved to. To be honest, there is no real comparison between Frankfurt and Berlin, because they are just worlds apart. One is an amazing city full of culture, history […]

When I first got my camera nearly 4 years ago, I was looking for inspiration to help me learn how to use it and in turn take great photos. What I found instead of a course to take (although there are some great courses and ebooks available) were a few fun photo challenges, like You […]