Ich hatte Langeweile, und wenn ich Langeweile habe, schreibe ich Werbetexte.

(In German)

So oder so ähnlich werden wohl die Gründe für das folgende in der Debakelgebirge gelegenen Dorfschaft Geigergrab entstandene Werbetextchen ohne Sinn und Verstand gewesen sein :

"Aus Russland sind alle Yodaxode-Hersteller gekommen!! :D*

* Sind auch SIE Yodaxode-Hersteller? Unsere Firma ist stets an neuen Produkten aus dem Hause Yodaxode interessiert, was ich an dieser Stelle noch einmal betonen möchte.
** Haben Sie Probleme mit Ihrem Yodaxode-Produkt? Melden Sie sich doch bitte bei unserem Customer Consultant Team und wählen Sie die Nummer, die wir in unserem General Information on Yodaxode Products Video angegeben haben, oder kommen Sie einfach vorbei. Eilen Sie dazu die Entengasse entlang, dann die nächste Straße links und daraufhin drehen Sie sich einmal um, fahren zurück in die Entengasse und spühren Sie etwas von dem Flaire unseres herrlichen Yodaxode Distribution Centers. Es lohnt sich ;).

Yodaxode ist und bleibt DAS Topp-Produkt aus dem nach dem Produkt benannten Ort Yodaxode. Sie werden sich nach dem Gebrauch des Produkts so fühlen, als wollten Sie nie wieder etwas benutzen, was nicht aus dem Hause Yodaxode, das für Topp-Qualität zu Topp-Preisen und Topp-Konditionen steht, kommt. Yodaxode -- Der Weg ist zwar bereits frei, aber wir machen ihn noch freier für Sie, damit Sie unterwegs etwas von unserem Yodaxode-Flair fühlen können. Yodaxode fühlen, Yodaxode verstehen. Dafür stehen wir. Seit 1986."

Wer JETZT noch wissen will, was zur Hölle ein Yodaxode-Produkt ist, dem kann ich wirklich nicht mehr helfen ;).

In diesem Sinne -- Guts Nächtle und SERVUS!! :P

REIMEN UM JEDEN PREIS

Stell* dir vor, mein Kind, wenn*s wäre

Dass nur Reimen bringt dir Ehre!

Dass der Regen aufzieht und verglüht

Und danach die Sonne blüht!

Dass das Leben aufgeht wie der Mond,

Worin ein Häschen lang schon wohnt!

Stell* dir vor, es gäb *nen Reim

Auf Kleberleberrabenheim!

Und alle, die nicht reimen können,

Würden machen nur ein Rennen!

Ja, wir reimen immer hier!

Geh* mit mir durch*s Zimmer, Tier!

Wer sucht den Sinn,

Ist bald dahin!

Wer küsst die Feder,

Zieht nie vom Leder!

Wer mich jetzt sieht und sagt : "Der kann es!",

Dem sage ich sobald dann : "Hannes,

Man muss nicht Reimen in Gedichten!"

"Geht*s denn nicht um tief* Geschichten?"

"Auch nicht, nein, und jetzt mal ehrlich :

Ich find* Reimen an sich recht gefährlich."

This is my life ... :)

Those who have a certain song from the movie "Fight Club" stuck inze brrain now, I salute you.

And that said, HELLO!! :)

I figured I never really shared much more of my life with you guys, so there you go. Moments taken from my life ... Enjoy. :)

Recently, we saw ducklings in a city close to where I live. I hope you can spot them on this picture (It is a little hard, but you will eventually see them --- I hope?) :).

This is the book I am currently reading (Danny Wallace*s "Yes Man"). I love drinking tea, too, in my Barbapapa cup, because Barbapapa brings back happy memories ... =) The book*s also pretty good so far!!

Recently I cut my hair ... It was pretty long beforehand, and yes, I did that all myself. :)

Some time afterwards, I also shaved my hair. There are more steps yet to come ... As in, applying bleach + dying the hair again in brighter colours :).

By the way! Since I am a little suffering from Blogger*s Block as of now, I*d like to ask YOU : What would you like to read? Is there anything you are interested in, or that you*d love to read more about? :)

Since I really wanted to post more photos, this is some kind of attempt to do better. :) Maybe you will see more "artistically worthy of recognition" photos, but as of now, deal with the ducklings :P ... :D

And the grinning award goes to~ ...!!

Hello everybody!!

I am writing something spontaneously for you :). Here you go :

***

'I am waiting for your sweetest nightmare to come and take your soul, and I have been doing this before, remember?' was the only thing she did remember witnessing when she was falling into a deep dreamless sleep. Everything around her was foggy and dark. She could barely see her own hands before her eyes.

The light was switched on, while he started getting closer to her.

'Leave me alone!' she cried. Fear in her eyes, she didn't even dare meeting his cold eyes.

He smirked. 'Oh, I shall. Once you have told me everything about what I asked you earlier.'

What has he even asked her? She tried to remember, and thought hard, but nothing - except for these words - was coming to her soul. Tears ran down her hot face, and she started breathing in the same speed as her thoughts ran and raced through her mind, leaving nothing behind whatsoever.

She closed her eyes, and panic-struck, she yelled : 'I am cold, I am sick, I want to go home!!'

'Sure you do. However, I want to know everything.' He whispered dangerously.

This was the moment when he tore down her soul and took a long, deep look into it. Her memories being pushed backwards into what seemed like the ultimate memory of everything that has happened to her in lifetimes before (or so it seemed), she stood up, exhaling slowly.

Nobody has ever dared to get this close to her, nobody but him. She was sure she was going to lose this fight, but no matter how she would lose, he had threatened her, he had crossed the line, and he was not going to be shown another fragment of the (actually she thought it was) brave soul that she was.

'I have told you I don't remember, and here I stand now. Take everything you want!' She looked him directly in the eye.

'What has happened to her?', he wondered. Was it really in-character for her to stand up, or was it yet somebody else he was facing? Whatever had happened, he could not hold back his smile.

'Stop grinning, you lousy-', she started threatening him.

'Oh, are we getting annoying? Has puberty finally hit you?'

She glared at him. All the hatred, aggression, as well as apathy she had been feeling in the past, or that seemed to have hurt her soul immensely in the past, stood now up inside her, defining a new sense to herself.

'You have nothing but your words. You did not hurt me, and I am sure you never will!' Her eyes narrowed. 'You are a coward!'

He had to admit he was quite shocked because of her words, yet nothing seemed as daring and challenging as the look in her eyes that she was exposing to him.

He came nearer, but with a quick movement, he was thrown to the floor. Angrily he stood up again, and faced her. He decided to run for it, run as fast as he could, run for his life, and for his revenge. Whatever has happened to her, it must be treated as an altered state of mind, he suspected her to be delusional.

Storming in her direction, he was soon to be thrown to the floor, and this time, she had taken her chance to stomp one foot onto his stomach.

'I swear if you do this again, I will not remember my nicer side of myself anymore!' She smiled. 'Now WAKE UP.'

***
 
Yeah, I have no idea what the above means really. I only tried writing as "gracefully" as I could, and it was an experiment. I hope you like it nevertheless.

I am off now, waiting for my birthday :P.

Poets try to write poetry, haiku*s cooling ya down.

I tried writing some haiku while listening to music videos on Youtube. :) They are not to be taken too seriously, I just had these ideas ... Thought about sharing them with you :) :

Love Army?

An army of love

Now came through the air to me

To predict my death.

Since plays with words really amuse me from time to time, I wrote the following :

Sarcasm

Poets, try writing
Haiku for your own good *cause
Poems are so out.

And since I wanted to try writing one sentence into more than one line (I failed, partly), here*s my attempt to do that :

The Letter

Hearing silence for
My own good. Return as soon
Soon As possible.

*goes back to listen to more music ... or to scrapbooking?*

Sew awesome!! :)

Sew awesome & special!! Oh my, those puns are GREAT :D.

How are you all? I somehow wanted to share with you some resources about sewing. I went to a small list of things I*d like to do and there was "Learn to sew" written on this, so I thought I should write about this a little, share some resources with you, etc. :)

During my childhood, I had an almost-"sleeping beauty" moment when I tried handling a sewing machine without anybody to give instructions & help, and then got my finger in between a piece of fabric and the needle - ouch! That moment, I SWORE to myself to never touch a sewing machine again. In fact, I started despising people who did sew, and I though they were "too feminine" in my eyes. Because being feminine is evil and all that *note for the readers : SARCASM!*.

Then Natron & Soda happened to upload their page(s); I am mainly refering to the actual site of "Natron & Soda", because Soda took down her site years ago, and I won*t blame her for this. However, "Natron & Soda" REALLY was a great place to start, at least for me. Basically, the page used to be all about sewing and generally making goth-related clothing, accessories, and so on. It is amazing!

So, I made a list of clothes to sew, but the list grew and grew and basically said includes (almost) every piece of clothing introduced on this site :). I *always* wanted to cut that list down, but all the planning is getting boring, to be honest. I can, however, see where the patterns come from - or better said, there are (mainly?) sewing instructions on the page on how to make your own unique pattern and how to sew it. They also give tips on music to play whilst doing that, and many people have contributed their own sewing instructions :).

So that was a turning point - discovering this site. Ever since, I couldn*t stop thinking about "I want to sew!", just imagine that with a zombie voice ... "Need ... to sew!! BRAINS!" (Need to sew brains? - Sounds like a cute version of a plushie to me :D!) Ah, that said, they also featured how to make some plushies on the page. I will put the link under "Resources" :).

(The page*s in German only as far as I know, though.)

So, I bought some books from book-selling pages which are famous for low prices :). Around the same time, Burda (a sewing/DIY magazine) released a collection of four magazines in which they explain the basics of sewing, and that said, the instructions are easy to understand. :) For example, I learned (theoretically) how to make a bigger version of an existing sewing pattern - which to me is really important, as many awesome sewing patterns are not available in my (plus) size.

On BurdaStyle*s homepage you can either download [or order?] sewing patterns ("Schnitte & Shop"; you can also regularly buy the magazine, it is really worth it!) ... There also is a section (somewhere) in which people explained how they tailored their clothes, plus there is a how-to on how to (ORLY?) make your own dress form. Great, I say!! (Also in German.)

Then, there are also resources like Dunkelsüß, Kostenlose Schnittmuster, and Cut Out And Keep. Dunkelsüß is probably most famous for being probably the most popular German-speaking page on which you can find information on lolita clothing. I am far from being as elegant as many lolitas (I mean it! I am just really clumsy and all that :(!), BUT I love the fashion styles in this genre. It is beautiful to look at, plus I like the broad creativity which enables fashion designers to create unique and pretty pieces of clothing.

BTW, there is a great page called SpoonFlower for designing your own fabric!! (Link in the resources!)

Anyways, I*d love to try out wearing Lolita fashion [I don*t want to make myself ridiculous but it would be an honour and a pleasure to me to wear it?], and for the reason Dunkelsüß also offers some sewing instructions for Lolita fashion, I want to go for this :). (Reminder to self : Do that!! :D)

Also, you might find the releases of the "Gothic Lolita Bible" interesting. They also feature some patterns on how to make some Lolita fashion items yourself, like scarfs and such. I only own one of the releases but they show how to make a skirt there, explain how to alter sewing patterns, and there*s a kitten scarf explained :). The version of the GLB I have is in English even.

Kostenlose Schnittmuster is a collection of links to all kinds of sewing patterns online. Some descriptions are in foreign languages like German, [English,] French, and Japanese. I guess there are even more languages I didn*t come across, but brace yourself for the mass of languages you can choose from (I find this amazing. If you need help with some, please tell me!).

As for Cut Out And Keep, that is an English-speaking page on which everybody can contribute their WIP for creative projects. Some might show you how they painted their shoes, some may show you how they dyed their hair, some may show you how they tailored a skirt ... It is an amazing resource and in my opinion one of the best :)!!

Of course, you can also google DIY blogs or craft blogs or sewing blogs or whatever you like.

Lastly, some words on the "Nähmaschinen-Führerschein" and the "Große Nähschule" : I have bought the former book, and it is showing you step-by-step how a sewing machine works. You have small tests to pass after each lesson, and all through the book you get to sew smaller items like plushies or bags.

The latter I haven*t bought yet, BUT I once saw it in a book store in one of my former hometowns and thought, "Someday I will buy this book!! It is amazing!", and my opinion hasn*t changed ever since. Fabrics are explained, steps on how to sew what are explained, and so on. I think it doesn*t contain any sewing patterns unfortunately, but the general knowledge delivered makes it worth the price nevertheless.

Okay, now I want to sew :D. I also have two (!) sewing machines, one is a bigger one by Singer, and the other one is one of these small sewing machines which you can use for smaller projects. Which one would you choose for your first projects? (I haven*t tried either of them. Maybe they still need some oil or so? Hm!)

Resources :

Web Sites :

* BurdaStyle. (Also has a "physical" magazine you can buy over here.)
* Cut Out And Keep.
* Dunkelsüß.
* Kostenlose Schnittmuster.
* Natron & Soda.
* SpoonFlower.

Books :

* Der Nähmaschinen-Führerschein (Author : Eva Schneider).
* Die Große Nähschule (Author : Alison Smith; original title : "The Sewing Book").
* Gothic Lolita Bible.

Hossa, me again!!

Lately I have suffered from many things which I don*t really want to go into detail about now. However, I ended up reading (almost completely) through a list put online by Gala Darling on how to overcome "Blogger*s Block" (I accidentally tend to write "Blogger*s Blog", haha. Thank you, thank you!), which encouraged me to do the following.

I recorded myself singing. Again. Somehow I always tend to sing something, but I want to improve after all, and how to improve singing? By sitting there and not doing it? WRONG! :) The original song is sung by Rihanna and you may recognise it. I don*t want to do any copyright infringement, I am not earning any money with this, it is just me trying to sing something I think some people may recognise so that ... I can get better? Maybe I will record the same song some time again, and see how well I have done. :)

Russian Roulette? 

What do you think? Constructive criticism counts ONLY ... (I know I screwed it up ... At least partly.)