Walls of memories

Who has not that? Souvenirs, in your room, on the wall, on tables or wherever. I am actually not the fan of "blocking" my room with decoration and souvenirs, but after my study language travel through Europe for 5 months, I had to proudly present modest achievements^^

First of all I began to collect flags, from all countries where I have been to, I don't know why, but unfortunately the flag of Ireland is so small... I was looking for the big ones, but well.... mission failed -.-

Oh and can you guess the last flag?? It's not a country, I can say that^^ The first flag I got, not from my recent travel... Some time longer ago :)

I am soooo proud of this!! I have to say, I am a big F.C. Barcelona fan! I have another top which I bought the first time I visited Camp Nou. Actually I wanted to have a real shirt from Xavi, but a "bit" very much expensive -.- 

As Spain won the Europe Cup I hoped that anybody wearing a Xavi-shirt would be drunk enough to give it to me^^ But well... thousands of Iniestas and Torres, but just three Xavis!! And all of them had girlfriends or weren't drunk enough. I was a bit dissapointed -.- 

So we spend a bit time at the beacht and finally three guys came wanted to talk to us, I actually was pretty tired, but one of them got a Barca shirt!!! So we stayed for an hour or something and then he gave the shirt to me because I was so freezing. So I had at least a shirt of Fabregas^^

The Xavi shirt bought my parents as they were visiting me in Barcelona :)

The Italian shirt I found in Sitges, a smaller city near to Barcelona... someone just left it. Luck for me!

Do you have such interesting or funny memories of some souvenirs???

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Creating a photobook, part 2

I already wrote here a bit about with which programm I designed my photobook and now it's here, in my hands! Well ok not really, otherwise I couldn't write that post^^

Here you can see the "final printed version". I have to say that I am very confident with the quality, the colours are brilliant and it actually looks exactely like I hoped it to be^^
Just the "D" at the cover might be a bit to far left... but, it's not really disturbing.

Yeah it's German^^ Anybody wants a little lesson? "Danke" means "Thanks" :)

I just found one little mistake in the book, just by one picture I forgot the shadow... But I think that only I will recognize that...

What do you think?? It's not that cheap, but for a special occasion or a special person - any time!
I am actually not the big fan of photo books when you can buy them at a store, but when they are your own taken pictures, it's just great and you kind of proud of it!! :)

So I'll see how my grandma reacts tomorrow when I present it to her!

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Creating a photobook, part 1

After my language study travel this year, which was nearly completely financed by my grandma, I felt like she deserves a special gift. So I had the idea of creating a photobook, but not just a simple one, like printing out pictures and stick it onto paper...nooooo! I mean a REAL book you can create on the internet and which is completely printed and send to you. So I looked on the internet which service would be the best and I decided for www.saal-digital.de.
Here you can see some impressions on the way of designing my book for my grandmother.

First you have to download a software, I am actually not a big fan of downloading thousands of softwares for everything, but ok... 

So first you have to decide which product you want to create - I know this is German, but a German website for a German book for my German grandmother^^

The screen is very clear and it was pretty easy to get started. You can arrange the picture in any way you like, only the magnetic adjustment of the photos was a bit nerving sometimes.

I am so excited how it's going to look in real, I think this already looks great, but sometimes in real it's a bit different... Of course I give you a review about that too.

What do you think of such photobooks??
Have you ever created such a book?

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4 days until I'm gone

Hier ein paar Bilder von den letzten Wochen bevor ich los reise :)
Just some pictures of the last weeks before I go abroad :)

Mein perfektes Wochenende: LOST Gü Käsekuchen, häkeln und...
my perfect weekend with LOST, Gü cheescake, crocheting and....

und suukla manna = Schokogries aus Finland *yumyum*^^
and suukla manna = chocolate semolina from Finland *yumyum*^^

Kennt ihr das Spiel noch? Ich weiß leider nicht mehr wie das heißt... Ping Pong?
Do you remember that game? I don't know how it is called... Ping Pong?^^

damals wars ;)
long long time ago, right? ;)

Ich hab meine Cousine mir ihren beiden Kindern besucht
I visited my cousin with her two little kiddos

Ich hab den Tag im Kindergarten verbracht und es war sehr interessant!
I spent the monday there in the play school, it was really interesting!

Ich hab ein Geschenk von meiner Cousine für meine Europa Reise bekommen, voll süß!!
I got a present from my cousin for my Europe trip :) so lovely!!!

Das hab ich am Bahnhof gefunden und musste es unbedingt probieren! ... aber für mich ein bisschen zu süß...
look what I found: Arizona!!! At a German train station and I had to taste it! ....but it's a bit too sweet for me...

Und so siehts hier zur Zeit aus, nass, kalt, ekelig :/
thats how the last days/weeks here are: rainy, grey, sad, just uncomfortable :/

Der nächste Post folgt dann aus Dublin :) Ab morgen bin ich bei meinem Bruderherz in Berlin bis der Flieger am Sonntag geht *hui* und ich hoffe, dass ich gutes Internet hab und regelmäßig mit meinen Ellis skypen kann ;)

The next post will be from Dublin :) Tomorrow I visit my brother in Berlin until my flight starts at sunday *hui* and I hope, that I have a good internet connection, that I can skype regularly with my parents ;)

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Was habt ihr die letzten Tage so getrieben?
What didi you do the last days?

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Getting Started

Nur noch exakt 20 Tage bis zu meinem Abflug raus aus Deutschland und in die schönsten und interessantesten Städte Europas (meiner Meinung nach^^).
Und wie man schon sieht, hab ich auch meinen Blog diesbezüglich ein wenig umdesigned, wie gefällt's euch??
Ich kann es schon gar nicht mehr abwarten zu starten, deswegen hab ich letzte Woche auch schon Klamotten gepackt und in dem Zusammenhang mein Kleiderschrank mal wieder aufgeräumt.

Und typisch Frau konnt' ich mich natürlich nicht sofort entscheiden was ich mitnehmen möchte, hab alles auf den Boden gelegt, geschaut was ich unbedingt brauch, was ich womit am besten kombinieren kann und was ich schweren Herzens doch hier lassen sollte...

Zu Weihnachten habe ich von meinem lieben Bruderherz so ein tolles Notizbuch geschenkt bekommen, das wird mein persönliches "Reisetagebuch", darin möchte ich schreiben was ich gesehen hab, Eintrittskarten einkleben und Photos.

Noch ist es leer, da ich mir genau überlegen möchte, was ich wie reinschreibe bevor ich es "versaue"^^

Ja und eine Kleinigkeit habe ich mir deswegen auch gegönnt, damit das mit den Photos einkleben klappt (ja ich weiß, dass man eigentlich "Foto" schreibt aber ich find's so schöner!):

Mein neues Baby namens "Polaroid PoGo" und es ist ein Minidrucker!!!! Ganz ohne Tintenpatrone und schwer und so^^ Und ihr seht ja, wie klein es in meiner Hand ist. Noch hab ich mich nicht getraut es auszuprobieren, da das Papier recht teuer ist... aber diese Woche werd' ich mich damit noch auseinandersetzten (müssen).

Habt ihr auch schon mal so ein kleines Reisetagebuch gemacht? Oder vielleicht etwas Ähnliches?

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