Double-Half or One Ten without ham

Bumblebee

2009-07-09T20:00:00.017+02:00

... what a sweet name! In German she´s called "Hummel", which doesn´t sound nice at all!
Here she sits, in one of my sunflowers. You can click to enlarge.

Yes, taken with this cam - is really great for bright days!!!

Ingo thought she was dead and I know that sounds stupid, but at first it felt odd to take pictures. Maybe not dead, only deaf! The clicking of the camera didn´t impress her at all, but when I came back she was gone.
Isn´t she just beautiful?

We went to the hardware-store today, didn´t get what we needed, but Ingo bought me two sunflowers for 1 €!

A gardener is included in that!!! And he brings his tools and own house even, too:

I didn´t like the house and Ingo, the creative one here, made some very cool 70´s platform shoes from parts of the roof for my gardener.
He now lives on the grass in the windowsill. Hope he´s happy with that:

My Poppy finally blossoms, too!

You just step out the door these days and the city is so, so beautiful:

Summer...

We also saw this car, belongs to the garbage-management (German) and it says:

"[Break up with your garbage. But do it right.]"

Funny pic, no? Yips, waste separation is great ;-)

You need to click to enlarge to really see it.

From left to right; Paper, compost, rest-garbage. Rest garbage certainly is not glass, metal, plastic or batteries, those go extra in public bins (that are always full here. If they got emptied you shortly after see people running there with the "residues" they have had so long in their apartments - us included. That´s sadly no joke).

Chocolate-Chilli-Sausages

2009-07-09T19:53:00.004+02:00

Just to finish this report: Yips, next day I went and bought the Chocolate-Chilli-Sausages and Sunday we went to the park and gave it a go. We had some regular stuff with us, too, in case they´re awful.

They got all crusty and brown, yum:

Here you can see the chocolate:

They were yummy. Really yummy, but I tasted neither chocolate nor chilli! And hence I won´t buy them again. With 4 € for a pack of four they´re just too expensive.

Great Idea For An Anniversary

2009-07-08T19:40:00.003+02:00

... or any other tribute, how great is this?

Walled In

2009-07-06T19:56:00.004+02:00

Ingo found this...

I consider myself really lucky that I grew up in "West-Germany"... with no death-strip keeping me away from freedom.

Two Cents Worth

2009-07-03T21:00:00.010+02:00

We have a coin press in town now, too. It´s the Otto IV. - The Kaiserjahr 2009 (Emperor Otto) and so there is a new focus, other than City of Science 2007 (yips I truly love this town!).

Now, I certainly wanted such a coin, and Ingo, too! Make one costs 1 euro - and 2 cents, that´s where the Lion will be on. We both had a euro. 1 cent-coins, 5 cent-coins... no 2 cent-coins!!!

So we went to the Tourist Information right around the corner to get a change - and I found that very cute sticker shown above!

I will get a new company car in Feburary and there he will go!
(you can click to enlarge - it´s worth it, he´s got a great face! Does he look shy? Proud? Protective ? I dunno!)

I paid the sticker and asked for the change in 2 two-cents-coins.

Guess what?

When we came back... there lay 2 two-cents-coins!!!

They didn´t before! Did someone see us? Thinking maybe, gosh, maybe that happens more often and people go away because they lack coins of two cent??

We took the coins and left ours :-)

I just love "my" town! :-)

Hot In The City

2009-07-01T20:23:00.011+02:00

... yips, I liked that Song, I even admit I liked Billy Idol!

And I love it when it´s hot in the city and elsewhere!!! Yay, summer is truly here, we hit over 30 C, happy-dance! :-)

My Sunflowers opened up, isn´t it a joy to see?

And the town s just so beautiful now....

We certainly did a lot of cycling. The gym has no aircon and I don´t think it´s healthy to work out there now. Plus. It´s just too beautiful outside!

Hehe, I thought this mobile toilet (German) has a cute pic, no?

This is hot, too, but will Ingo give it a try???:

These are Chocolate-Chilli-Sausages for the BBQ. Sounds interesting, no?
Maybe I buy them secretly and sneak `em in?

Today I bought a frozen Pizza though and maybe some of you know the bag we brought it home with?

What I read on the balcony these days:

Another crime thriller taking place right here. Well, not in our apartment. But in our town. I think it really is a "fun" idea!

Life is just so good in summer! The looong days. The heat. The flowers. That´s life!

Cycling Is F.U.N.!

2009-06-28T16:33:00.015+02:00

Now I understand those people who say cycling is fun!!! I missed out on it for-- lets say 30 years?! Thirty!!! Years!

With aged 37 I have my first real bike! And cycling is fun! I love it! And we did it so much this weekend!

I always got the old bikes from... my Mom. They were still good enough. Yes. Good enough to get from A to B.
I got exhausted - and angry!! when we went for a "tour" because Ingo was always so fast - and seemingly so easily fast.

Seemingly??? No!

With my new bike... I don´t have to do anything! It runs on its own! Guess I didn´t burn a calorie at all! ;-)

Pics:

Yips - we went far - we even took the Navi!
Me and my new love bike:

A Lion - I think he looks sad - Ingo says he looks friendly - what do you think?

We stopped at the Okercabana (German), named after the river Oker - isn´t really Hawaii, but, nearly:

Was sweet.

Sand, oh, this so great!!! They bring the sand in here the.. 3rd or 4th summer now!

Oh, yeah... when I think back to May last year when we sneaked outta hospital...

Everything turned out ok after all, see this man?

"Alive and kicking"!!!

It´s still not running that smooth, though, I lost a pedal at full speed!

Luckily Ingo had his Leatherman with him and fixed it all ok:

We made another stop at beer garden Katharina...

Haha, just a joke... we had Alster or Radler, a mixture with beer and lemonade :-)

Yay for summer - yay for my first "real" bike!! Better late than never, huh?!

Bluccoli

2009-06-28T16:27:00.002+02:00

Blumenkohl (cauliflower) and Broccoli in one package :-)

Moo - Moooooh!!! Part II

2009-06-20T19:53:00.015+02:00

I forgot in the first part to mention I also bought my very own "Mastercard", from which I´ll have brekkie now (what do you call that thing? We call it Frühstücksbrett):

My Mom loves fried eggs, hence she´ll get this one:

Speaking of food - we just had "Caribbean" food, yum:

My calendar sheet today said:

Will be there tonight at 0:00.

Your Summer.

Keep your fingers crossed!!! It´s been rather cold so far!

Summer starts officially on June, 21st.
Means also: Longest day, shortest night. Means: The days are getting shorter - what a pity!!!!

Article 5 Has Passed Away

2009-06-19T18:57:00.002+02:00

"There shall be no censorship." is no more. You can find the document RIP in Englsh here or read more here.

#censursula, Minister for Family Affairs Ursula von der Leyen, who started the whole thing, didn´t even find it worthy to show up yesterday.
I mean, seriously...!!!
And I wonder, will the over 130,000 people singning the e-Petition really be ignored? Do we live in democracy?

Moo - Moooooh!!!

2009-06-17T21:53:00.017+02:00

That´s cow-ish for "Pressies! Pressies!!!"

I saw something cute at pigmento (German), but Ingo said, naaah, the postal charges will be higher than what you buy!

Right, man! So true.
And since Ingo was so sick last year I just know it can be over any time and you can´t take anything with ya on the last journey.

So I made sure I´m (waaay) over the postal charges ;-)!!

Our cow is in good company with this milk jug - isn´t that too cool?

We´re talking kitchen, right?
My Bro loves snowboarding. I know you don´t need a ski stick for snowboarding, but... for x-mas he´ll get this:

This is a potatoe-masher!
(Yes. I bought that for Christmas. For December. I always buy when I see and avoid the rush at the actual time.)

Hmmmm... when you cook... and it´s cold outside, then the windows get steamy, right?
This is a window cleaner. My Bro as well as my Mom are/were both into gymnastics (my Bro can still make a ... Riesenfelge (German, but with animated .gif) without exercising! Right from where he is, just like that!
So, I bought one in black and one in pink.

Make sure the door doesn´t close shut with a loud BANG!, right?

A door stopper - for me!

Cleaning... Well, I was about naming this post "My Brother HAS to marry" because the packing says "Just married" - I didn´t see that online (I could have!).
It´s an emperor and his wife as dustpan and our name is "Emperor" (Kaiser), hence...

Dirty after all the cooking and cleaning? I recommend a bath!

My Mom always wanted a bath-tub and never had one! They have a whole house! No bath tub!!!! Yes, better for environment, but, gah...

In the new apartment she hopefully moves to soon she has one and she can sail the world with this:

Certainly you don´t take a bath that often, save water! Use a sink!

Actually I seldom use paper-clips, but I thought this was so funny:

I now come to what I wanted to have in the first place, maybe you can guess... it fits perfectly to my beloved (really, I enjoy him every day I can wear him!!!) King Frog-chain:

A key ring! Those spices are in a tiny tin - a pressie from Ingo, also a key ring, with real spices!
Sadly the frog is of bad quality - see his right foot. I get the money back and can keep him - any idea how to safe the green from chipping off???

Along with him came yet another King-Frog (sadly same "quality"):

Isn´t that one of the cutest things???? I looove him!
(You can click to enlarge, like for all pics)

Last not least I bought a rather ridicously expensive door-mat for my Mom´s new apartment - I hope it´ll make her smile when coming "home" in the future:

Just what did we do before Internet? Online Shops?
I just love pressies, no matter for whom!

Yes. You noticed right: Not a darn thing for Ingo.

Honestly - I searched for a surprise, really!
Nothing! Nothing he´d like!

But I realise there is one thing I missed out on, two! It´s dark now, will take pics tomorrow!
(Nothing for Ingo, though!)

Don´t you just love pressies?! Awwww!

I Had A Bit On The Side

2009-06-13T20:01:00.008+02:00

... and Ingo didn´t even mind!
Dunno bout Nico, though...

But from the start.
We went to our old place today. Ingo went to see a friend and I went to meet my family. Like an ooold couple we had snacks on board:

Very yummy blueberries.

There was more eating, yummy horse-sausages:

Dunno why, but we can´t get them here in Braunschweig. Or haven´t found them yet.

Reason why my Mom wanted to see me this weekend was:

My haul:

YUMMY!!!!! The tree was loaden with cherries! Such a pleasure to see! And even more to eat :-)

Back to the start. The other day Ingo went there, to Bornhausen, to work on the moped. He drove to Seesen to get me a 10 without ham - but Nico didn´t open up! I asked my Mom if Nico is on holiday, because when I come "home" I wanna have one! She told me, hmm, there is a new Pizza-restaurant and people say it´s great.

Ingo said, why not go to Nico, you know it´s good!

But I always wanna try new stuff and I kinda had a bit on the side, so to say:

Was yummy!
But next time I go back to Nico!

Was good to be "home" again, great to see my Mom and my Bro.

Green Is As Green Does

2009-06-09T22:18:00.005+02:00

Awww, seesh. Could´t find that on the internet, how come? Will take a pic - was a T-Shirt my Bro brought me home from a holiday: Kermit sitting on a bench, white-red suitcase by his shoes, à la Forrest Gump :-)

Anyhows (I´ll come to frogs later, too)...

Monday we went to the hardware-Store to bring back a piece for my bike we didn´t need for the repair after the theft.

Was 3 euro something and I came back with... A - Whole - New - Bike!!!!!!

After I was fighting around with the darn ole, heavy bike my Mom gave me, we saw - and took - this "beauty" - a leightweight for only 99 euro! Sadly a men´s bike (the women´s-version was heavier), but I´ll learn!

Still gotta say thank you online - there was a really very, very friendly woman at the store who gave us tools and didn´t mind to find the right air pump for us/the bike either (I certainly thanked her personally straight away, just wanna make sure her boss knows about it, too)! First thing to do in my lunch-break tomorrow!
Really, she was obviously enjoying her job, it was great. (Here in Germany?) We have the saying "the customer is the King" - and I felt like one!

Took the bike up into our apartment and made use of the leftover paint from the now green shelf, and - tadaa:

Doesn´t look like a super-new lightweight bike anymore, no? Just like an ole bike not worth stealing! Cross your fingers people buy that!

Every Body Comes To

2009-06-06T17:45:00.008+02:00

Hollywood...

Sorry if you got that earworm now... I meant to talk about my Hollywood-Schaukel (German), or Porch Swing, as you call it.

It´s done! Project finished - much to Ingo´s help!!!

I love the green feathers on top! No worries, if they turn into dustballs, I just throw em away - I glued them on wrapping film and pinned that on with needles, yeah, clever-head, me, no? ;-)
Ingo hates them, but, well...

Wanna see the underpart of the young man? (Did you see him, to the left?), here we go, the full swing:

A few weeks ago we went through all the shops in search of a chain of lights - with summer on the way, I expected to find some... no success. Until today!!! YAY!

I just love it. To much kitsch? HA! I don´t care! I call it Poppy Seeds! (You can click to enlarge) :-)

New "Trick"

2009-06-06T15:40:00.003+02:00

.. Ingo told me. The radish was dry and had wrinkles - just put it into water and voilà: Good again, fresh and full! :-)

Yum? Yum, Partially! Europe...

2009-06-04T21:13:00.016+02:00

Ingo is always on the experimental side.

Thanks to The Simpsons - or rather, well to Moe Szyslak - Ingo started making Pickled eggs. First ones were rather very salty, now he tried the Chili-version, let´s see tomorrow - looks yummy so far!:

Not so yummy was - in my eyes - the stuff from Italy (why, just why always Ingo and Italy?!!!).
Looked freaky in the internet, looked even freakier when we had it home - and, certainly, I did not join in! Eeeeeeek to Zampone (German) - a filled pig-foot (Ingo found this English site... yeah, gotta go into defence here ;-) :

But, will you believe it... there was something yummy indeed after all in the box from Italy! The packing! Is made from corn - corn-flips - they taste really good (and yes, they say it is edible) and they are rather low in calories, yay:

You don´t like corn? No worries, just put it into your compost!

Else... it got darn cold, we call it Sheep-coldness (German). Temps have been getting down by 10 C! One day you have end 20, next only 18C!
It usually starts around June 11th - when the sheep-shearing is already done, which can get dangerous for the poor fellas.

Gack! Search for a pic gave me this!!!

And by a German site, too, http://www.killersheep.de/!

I want summer back! My flowers and plants what summer back!

Busy weekend ahead for us. Sat another footy game - Sun we are to vote...

Just. Whom. Should I vote?! Elections in the European Union are due... and heck, I´m so unsure. Yep, did the tests and all, still... but then. Do I make a difference?

Anyone?

2009-06-02T20:32:00.004+02:00

So, went to IKEA today for dinner.

Actually we met in Wolfsburg to have a look at a place to keep the Moped - turned out ok! Now all Ingo needs to do... haha, is get her running and through TÜV.

Back to the IKEA-Story... Usually you got a Hot Dog and a Refill for 1,50 €.

Now we had to look twice: Hot Dog and Refill 1 €. Hello?
Tasted bad.
We both don´t feel good.
Is IKEA into Gammelfleisch (German)/old meet?

How at other places? A drop of a third, too?

Eek. We´re off.

Soooo.... Cute!

2009-05-29T20:05:00.007+02:00

S´rry... I just needed that. A little Jerboa.
After this day....

First message: Ingo didn´t get the job he was so confident with.

Outch.
I just couldn´t stay at work.
So, I finished my time report and sent it to the printer and thoughtless made "uohhha". The only left colleague said, hey, what´s with you?
I told him bout Ingo´s missed job, he gave tipps and then we were in a hurry.

I forgot my best brush. And realized that too late.

Since Monday is a public holiday... I got stuck in traffic. Bingo.

Finally home, Ingo made me a coffee, wasn´t in a mood too bad either. So, I grabbed my sports-stuff, helmet and went out.

Some F##### #### had stolen my bicycle seat, with the bar.

I tried very hard to not get down. I still do.

You see... I have a colleague who says people here are unfriendly, steal bikes and so on.
I on the other hand had experienced only good stuff so far, friendly, helpful and honest people and have always defended this town with all the good examples
(lost a sweater when getting my bag out of the car, just to find it on the hood the next morning and many incidents like that).
And now? Wasn´t a whole bike, but still... Ingo thinks the guy stole it to sell it, wasn´t such a bad/cheapie, obviously. I had no idea, it´s my Mom´s old bike after all.

So. I´m pretty upset. Like "my town" did this to me.

Scroll back up and watch the lil´ fella once more...

Eva

2009-05-26T19:45:00.016+02:00

After having bought so much love and more even more love... it´s not too surprising I bought Eva yesterday, no?

We went to the city. On foot. And the new white shoes are really great for driving a car... not (yet) for walking, though (guess I need to wear them a lot more, I plan to wear them on my friend´s wedding!). Well, but back to Eva!

Ingo bought sneakers (first time!!!) and I saw Eva. Ingo said, "are you crazy?! 10 bucks for those? We saw flip-flops for one!"

Yips. But my feet hurt now and look at the color, isn´t this a perfect match (to the glasses! They are "sunglasses", btw, turn blue)?!:

On the way home I thought, man these are comphy, feel so great on the skin, too.

No wonder!!! Those are (very hip) Birkenstocks!

For only 10 bucks!!!

Else: Ingo sent me a pic to work today of what waited for me:

Cow-Cake, haha! Wasn´t too sweet and looked so funny:

No gym today. It was hot and so humid! In the evening like in the morning we had thunderstorms, lightning and even hail! Over 30C and hail!

So we just ran some errands and got some soil for my poppy.

After I spotted this sad fellow (the poor frog hanging upside-down):

It was hard to not buy one free of this army:

I just took a pic:

Awww, today predicted only some 20 C for tomorrow...

Scarecrows For Real!

2009-05-22T16:36:00.017+02:00

I never thought they really exist... but they do!!!! I saw my very first Scarecrows today!!!

As many people, I had the day off today and so we roamed around... I never understand why the Siegfriedviertel, the part of town named after Siegfried, the dragon slayer (Sigurd) is ALL IN PINK?!

My Mom´s oldest brother is named Siegfried, too. I am not to adress him "uncle Siegfried", because he then feels old - just "Siegfried". Well. At over 70... Gosh. Haven´t heard from him since 7 years!!!

On we went, following the tram...

All the way to IKEA and yes... see the poster? And the car? That does fit!

IKEA was full, people from all over the place came here! Also these guys, my, they are proud being German, no?

Speaking of... why ...?

Here they are called "LKW" (LastKraftWagen), is even shorter.

Anyhows. Not IKEA, but... had to... live in Braunschweig, hence .... Henry the Lion:

again :-)

My swing? Will be cool soon, cause we also got these:

In case you read the last post, you might wonder, ... A-HAND, didn´t you forget something?!

Yes, I did! One pair is still in the car!
But here are two:

Comphy and cool :-)

Maybe was my lucky day today! Well, no wonder, I wore my Sweetie, I liiiike your T-Shirt!-T-Shirt today!!!

Can('t) Buy ... II

2009-05-21T19:18:00.024+02:00

This sure is weird!
Seems like you do can buy love over here!

We went for a walk today and guess what? And it´s for free, too!

"Love for free", this says. And where did we find this?

Right, at the institute for foundation engineering and soil mechanics - how romantic is that, huh? ;-)

That´s not all! Whilst I was at work, Ingo went shopping and came back with - yep, typically German - beer.
Not some, but ASTRA (German), a beer from the free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - and my, do they love their beer or what?!

"Brewed with love", oh, yips!

Despite all the love - don´t try to open this with your bare hands! Here you need an opener.

Love... it´s color is red, no? Oh, have a look at these beauties!

Awww, a stupid ole Poppy, you say?! Nah!!! Ha-ha, look at how huge these are!

Amazing, no?

Further on we went to our good ole Botanical Garden... We don´t go there as often anymore, since we moved. But, hey!!!!! We live together, that´s all that counts and I don´t wanna change that!

On we went to Löbbeckes Insel (German) and found another Lion on the way:

All day it was cloudy - all day. Hence I wore no sunscreen. Yips, guess... sun came out. Luckily Ingo wore a cap and gave it to me.

"Show and Tell", yes, yes, I do! ;-)

Did you know, btw? Today is "Father's Day and what did we see? Ohhh....

Many a dad came here t our new Dinosaur with the kids:

13 metres in lenghts, 4 1/2 high!

At the house of Science.

Back we went to Katharina (oh!!!! Oh!!!!! You need a Weisswurst, if you turn on the sound!!!!! ;-)...)
We are "fishheads", the music is bavarian!

Guess what I got?

Wheat beer with banana-flavor!

Neighbour´s doggy got some water:

Wonder why my piggy looked so terrified?

Well, just behind us...

But!!! 10,90 € pp!!! And the best you find on Cuba anyways!

So, we ended up with... yes, I know, I´m not into sweets, but hey! Was a warm day!

Heaps and heaps of people were out in the parcs having BBQ´s, it was a joy to see!!! We had frozen Pizza in the fridge. But soon...

I´m out to the balcony, "feeding" plants and flowers. My... turned on the bavarian music... after it goes on ones nerves... it feels like summer, somehow!

YAY for long weekends - hope you have a fun time, too!

(Tomorrow Ingo goes and buys shoes with me - for me!!!! Oh, yay! Anybody: Why are there so few shoes that look good (I even don´t say great!) AND are comphy???? Cross your fingers I find the right stuff!!!)

Addendum:
Feeding is over. I called Ingo with his super-good-cam to take a pic of new and old:

My Duckling... Ingo said, he waited for him, since last year...

Maybe so... wasn´t only blurry for me, so it seems:

Can('t) Buy Me Love

2009-05-16T17:27:00.007+02:00

Oh, yes, I can - I did!!!! For only 6,99 €...

Ok. I only bought "You've Got Mail". I really do like Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks :-)

Else... I just love this time of the year, seems to be all orange on our balcony:

Except for my Duckling, that is:

Ingo is making roulades and right outside some Punks, the "cocky bitumen culture"-band give a... concert, oh, my!

And we bought two pendulum clocks today!

The Ugly Duckling

2009-05-14T20:14:00.004+02:00

... was so ugly, I don´t even have a pic from the early days anymore! I took one, but then the cam said, memory card is full, and I deleted.

I kept the Duckling, despite Ingo saying, throw him out.

"Him" were some plants, weeds, I thought. I was curious what it was, and guess what?!

My dear ones from last year!!! Despite the snow and all!!! My Ugly Duckling has become a graceful swan after all, have a look!

We went to a nursery instead a hardware store this time and got these beauties as well - was less expensive there, too, who would´ve guessed that?! And you even get professional advice there, yay, we´re new customers for sure!

Else: I got some earrings today! Wasn´t a surprise though, cause Ingo told me he ordered some for me, but aren´t they cute?

These are so-called Ampelmännchen. I´ve never seen them in reality. They were the little traffic light men in former DDR, or GDR, German Democratic Republic, as one may say. They look way better than the ones we still have.

Tomorrow it´s a visit at the doc (routine) and since she starts so late in the morning, I took the whole day off, yay :-)
We´ll kinda sleep in tomorrow, Ingo said he´s gonna get some fresh bread rolls (yum!), doc, gym, weekend!!! Yay!

Speaking of yum, btw: Ingo was at "our" coiffeur and came with two meals for me :-)

Fight The years?

2009-05-11T20:28:00.008+02:00

Probably not, but maybe some wrinkles ;-)

Though... for Ingo it was more like this!:

He said he won´t do it again and I can have the rest of his mask. Let´s hope I don´t grow a beard, ha-ha!

The new soup-receipe turned out fine, btw, very yummy!

Ingo made some jelly, too:

Is sure glued to the plate!

Else: Ingo´s still working on the moped:

She needs to go through TÜV, one of the most... dumb German inventions - keep your fingers crossed!

Week Gone By

2009-05-09T16:49:00.012+02:00

Time runs!!
The week was rather uneventful. Heaps of work, after that Tue to Fri gym, all in bad weather. Seems like the rain stops the sec I´m off the bike and go inside! :-(
But, well. It´s just water, right?

Today we ran some errands in the neighbourhood, means we walked, means I could take pics.

Now isn´t that a sad pic I took at the butcher round the corner?!

Well, what kind of a look does one expect anyway? After all they carry their tinned friends to the grave the customers (you can click to enlarge)!

We went to Edeka - we love foods today and guess what I got? (Like every other customer, that is):

I asked what the occasion was, but the check-out-woman wasn´t sure, maybe Mother´s Day. Heck! How come she doesn´t know?!

Ingo bought me something green today:

Actually the bowl is for chips - aww, we really need to try and make salt and vinegar chips again. Just how? All the other attemps were rather poor - maybe we have the wrong vinegar here in Germany?

Atm Ingo makes a soup. New receipe with ginger, apple, turmeric (we call it Kurkuma), meat and some kinds of veggies, rice... let´s see!

You think, aww in spring?! Well. It´s not that warm yet. And!!!

You, know... who can resist such a cute face? Our new soup-bowls!

Don´t shake your head, though. I managed today to not buy a very, very sweet cup with a cute king frog. It was 10 €! And too big. And sooo darn cute!