button T-shirt

As I said the past weeks were very busy as I had so much stuff for school, so there wasn't much time for any serious sewing. However, I made this funky T-shirt. I had many different sizes of buttons of the same type. Vanessa bought me a simple green T-shirt and the result was done in 15 minutes...however, the T-shirt is original now and that's what I like :)

L'Italia - Reunion

I was looking forward to going to Italy for really long, so I was happy to be there again. It was a great feeling it is sooo different than Germany, life there is so nicely relaxed, people smile at you without a reason, they hug you and they are friendly... while here, in Germany, it is simply different.
I stayed with Marina, my adoptive mum, she was so sweet and all the family took me as I would be one of them. Hence, I was Italian girl for 4 days...but I am still a little bit even now. I got to see all the Duino people I miss so much and also my primi who mostly change a lot and now they are these mature people prepared to leave Duino and go to live the real life. It felt strange but good at the same time to be in Duino. However, now I know that my place is here - meaning this German flat and the European Studies course in Maastricht, the swimming pool here around the corner, Va piano pizzeria, the great bookstore in the middle of aachen and much more. Moreover, while I was in Italy, I missed some new friends who I have here namely Vanessa and perhaps Simon with whom I like to talk a lot... and of course Viktor :)

Home

Spring in Duino

Eifel - feeling free

I was rather busy with all kinds of things lately and I am still busy even now. I was travelling and I have an exam to do...but anyway, it will be fine...
Around 2 weeks ago we went to the national park called Eifel, it is not far from us - around 1 hour of driving. It is such a gorgeous place! I was a little bit fed up with the city or perhaps rather town culture lately, but the trip to nature helped me a lot to see the beauty around me again...I enjoyed the open space and the sudden freedom that surrounded me once we got out of the car and I looked around. I felt so great to have the feeling that you can run any direction you want and that there is nothing that would stop you. No crowds of people rushing to work, no traffic lights that would stop you....we were there for around 7 hours, nice hike with tonns of breaks as it was the first hike this year. I was very tired in the evening but after a long time I was feeling free and full of life again.

freedom

shy spring

Iva - fashion designer

When I was home, my parents asked what I want to do in the future and I said "I want to make clothes". They were a bit shocked, but yeah...what I said was the truth. That's what I want to do, although I know that I will not do it as my main job. I will probably be one of those very important people doing something very important in the EU or in the government at least...but still I will be sewing in my free time. I invaded cloth shops at home and got some nice material. The next stuff I will make in the near future is a skirt for my friend Vanessa. She is a very stylish person who does not hesitate to wear even her granmum's clothes if she likes it. She mixes things together and the result is always awsome. She was actually the one who made me start with making clothes for other people than for myself. You can see the patterns I bought for skirts... Do you like it?

Here I am...on the road again. Actually, I am done with travelling for some time...until the Italian trip in the end of March. I was in Paris where I lived with Gundula, a friend of mine, and with an awsome French family. I had a really good time, active relaxing... I loved it but at the same time I realized that Paris is such a huge city and I would not be able to live my life there, maybe few months but not years and years... and after Paris I went home. Home is always good, although I think that I have my home inside me already, it goes where I go...However, it felt good to be home for a moment.