tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91258435431908840632024-02-19T06:40:14.249-08:00mElinus TreasuresUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125843543190884063.post-36584277858198065252012-01-08T03:49:00.000-08:002012-01-08T03:49:17.646-08:00Keks ... cookie ... Plätzchen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Christmas is over but it doesn't mean that I do not love to eat and enjoy all the delicious cookies or as it says in German Plätzchen or Keks (you speak it similar to cakes). The word Plätzchen is mostly used during Christmas time because of the very special recipes and ingredients. Keks is used all year round for cookies and biscuits. I am so lucky because I still have some Plätzchen left!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My day started like this:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">This Plätzchen made a friend of mine and I think these are the biggest Plätzchen I ever had. But the best thing is they are so yummy!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Have a great (after Christmas and still loving the Christmas food) Sunday!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">crumbly, nibbling greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Christmas is over and we already started with a new year! I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays and started with new energy and lots of plans and new projects.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mine will start pretty soon. It will be awesome and a lot to do, but I will tell you later.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">For now I started my year on Etsy with translating my descriptions and informations in to German and also with a very NEW treasury:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NjQ3Njg4NHwxNjk4Mzk4ODc2/grey-grey-sky?ref=pr_treasury"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Grey, Grey Sky</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Someday I will ride the great bird </div><div style="text-align: center;">Into the sky, into the grey </div><div style="text-align: center;">And will take a bright secret of mine </div><div style="text-align: center;">Into the grey, grey sky.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And the light will come, piercing my eyes </div><div style="text-align: center;">Out of the sky, out of the grey </div><div style="text-align: center;">Come blinding and searing these eyes </div><div style="text-align: center;">Out of the grey, grey sky. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And I will find comfort in this </div><div style="text-align: center;">In the wide sky, in the wide grey </div><div style="text-align: center;">In the painful dark brightness of light </div><div style="text-align: center;">Light of the grey, grey sky.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My secret will fly away home </div><div style="text-align: center;">Into the sky, into the grey </div><div style="text-align: center;">And the great bird will follow it there </div><div style="text-align: center;">Into the grey, grey sky. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> And I will be riding that bird </div><div style="text-align: center;">Bird of the sky, bird of the grey </div><div style="text-align: center;">And I will come home once again </div><div style="text-align: center;">Home to the grey, grey sky. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But for now I am weighted, earthbound </div><div style="text-align: center;">One of the mud, one of the ground </div><div style="text-align: center;">And I write this sad song to sad sound </div><div style="text-align: center;">Girl of the pavement sighs. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Grace Hutton</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I hope you like poems like I do!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
You will find this treasury<br />
with all these beautiful pieces here: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NjQ3Njg4NHwxNjk4Mzk4ODc2/grey-grey-sky?ref=pr_treasury"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">t r e a s u r y</span></a><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">wish you all the best for 2012</div><div style="text-align: center;">greyish and curious greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Just added this one for you so you can go directly to the wonderful pieces!!!</span><br />
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It is alway nice to have a sunday with no appointments, no house or home work and of course nothing to do except relaxing and chilling!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But sometimes a little to-do list seems also good, because after I am finished with it, the day feels longer, like I have more from my sunday. And if you have to do nice 'jobs' with a good reason it makes even more fun.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My TO-DO-LIST for today:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">1</div><div style="text-align: center;">Go to the cemetery and 'visit' my grand grand parents, because it is the last sunday before Advent on which the dead are commemorated. And I will light a lil' candle for my grandpa and grandma.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">2</div><div style="text-align: center;">baking an apple pie or cake for a good friend who helped us out this week, I will ship this to London so the first thing to do is find or modifie a recipe so the pie/cake can be shipped ;)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb-Y8bnPgo-Tf-QrbJnAoV8YoE0Ns_IDkrpafaYWd0SvAW4VxGxgIgdI2-VIR42K1xi-AnYiDGNzfgCOYw9XXyhEH3hP_cyMA3zPS8x9kV38uT-ELloW4zzsrCaR51P1CiIBt4z_z_3Bfh/s640/blogger-image-837677272.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb-Y8bnPgo-Tf-QrbJnAoV8YoE0Ns_IDkrpafaYWd0SvAW4VxGxgIgdI2-VIR42K1xi-AnYiDGNzfgCOYw9XXyhEH3hP_cyMA3zPS8x9kV38uT-ELloW4zzsrCaR51P1CiIBt4z_z_3Bfh/s320/blogger-image-837677272.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">these are my ingredients :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">3</div><div style="text-align: center;">cook a pumpkin soup, because I have some pumpkins left and I love pumpkin soup and hate it to throw food away</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">4</div><div style="text-align: center;">and last write down all recipes so you guys can try them ... :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So after I had my first coffee, I will start and of course let you know how the pie/cake, the soup and everything else on my TO-DO-LIST-SUNDAY worked out!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">wish everyone a great sundayyyyyy</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">milk in coffee pouring and getting ready greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus<br />
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</div><div class="mobile-photo" style="text-align: center;">I love sweets, I love cake, I love good food in general, but cookies are my all over favorite sweets. But I do not like any cookie, they have to be special, different but most important delicious!!!</div><div class="mobile-photo" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="mobile-photo" style="text-align: center;">I can say, because I travelled a lot, I have in all countries I have been before at least one favorite cookie brand. Because I have been in Italy a lot, when I was a child, I had a lot of time to find my personal favorite one: <b>PAN DI STELLE</b></div><div class="mobile-photo" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">These cookies are so good, they taste not to sweet, are crunchy but not crisp more like short bread. And they taste like cocoa, not the super sweet one you drink in winter time, more the real one, a good cake shop uses.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And then these lil' whit sugary stars on top, they do not only look lovely but give the first bite lil' bit more sweetens.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You see, I am all about this cookies, but now we have the bad news, they are not available in my area. I cant buy them. Sometimes you get lucky and get some from the internet, but not so often.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">BUT</div><div style="text-align: center;">two good friends have been in Italy a couple of weeks ago and brought two bags of 'joy'!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">;)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">sometime I fel like </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So now I am off to enjoy some cookies...yummy</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wish you a great day!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">crumbly greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">... welcome fall! I really love summer, the warm and sunny weather, eating ice cream, being outside and of course swimming. But on the northern hemisphere we are wearing hats, scarfs and drinking hot tea already.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> But I realized that this is the time to eat more delicious things.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Today I got an invitation for a lunch time BBQ and hat a yummy freshly grilled burger. And now I enjoy a delicious and sweet doughnut. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Thats the good think about fall and winter, you don't have to take to much care of your figure, because the time of wearing a bikini starts earliest in 6 months.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So lets enjoy the good things of having fall/winter. :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">wish you all a great weekend</div><div style="text-align: center;">sweet greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not having a real Halloween party does not mean, we cannot celebrate the 'spooky' time of the year. To bring a lil' Halloween even to my rooms and friends I thought about it. How can we have a little bit of it without actually having a party.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We could not have a real Halloween party because we got an invitation for a birthday party without any theme, except birthday :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So I invited friends to come over for a Halloween brunch and the pictures show you our decorated table. It wasn't easy to get some Halloween stuff one day before, but you can transform some regular things into spooky ones.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The only really Halloween-like decoration I got have been some chocolates which look like witches and pumpkins. Oh and of course 3 really cute little pumpkins.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">All the other stuff was transformed from normal to 'spooky'. Tangerines with Jack O'Lantern faces, orange and black napkins, spider webs from cotton wool and candles. Not that much, right?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I even tried to make a spider with an old black button and dark yarn, but to be honest after 4 legs I had no patience anymore and decided to have a very spooky 4-leg spider hanging over the table. :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">All thi picutres show you the table without food, because I decorated it bevore we went to the birthday party so I could sleep a lil' longer the next morning and just had to prepare the food.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh I forgot to mention, one of our friends has a really cute dog, and I thought he (his name is Klaus, isn't this funny) has to get a little Halloween as well and so he became an extra space decorated with orange and black napkins.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just to give you an idea what we had to eat for our 5 hour brunch (yes we ate, talked and enjoyed our selves for 5 hours):</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">veggie lasagne</div><div style="text-align: center;">whole grain rolls</div><div style="text-align: center;">ham</div><div style="text-align: center;">6 or 7 different sorts of cheese</div><div style="text-align: center;">cream cheese</div><div style="text-align: center;">salmon</div><div style="text-align: center;">apple pie</div><div style="text-align: center;">solyanka</div><div style="text-align: center;">tomatos</div><div style="text-align: center;">egg salad</div><div style="text-align: center;">pickled herring salad</div><div style="text-align: center;">cold cuts</div><div style="text-align: center;">coffee</div><div style="text-align: center;">tea</div><div style="text-align: center;">juice</div><div style="text-align: center;">champagne</div><div style="text-align: center;">fruits</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and so on</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I think it was a really good way to celebrate Halloween even at day time.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wish you all a great week.</div><div style="text-align: center;">spooky greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">wish everybody a great weekend</div><div style="text-align: center;">sunny greatings mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125843543190884063.post-20212586301969749802011-09-13T06:48:00.000-07:002011-09-13T06:48:09.479-07:00we have to leave ... for now!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;">My last couple of hours in sunny California are counted, the airport is waiting. So I have to say Good Bye and go home. All pics from LA will be posted when I am back!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So hopefully the flight will be not so exhausting.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I wish all who have to leave something they liked or even loved:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>If it is worth in your eyes, change your life so you don't have to leave any longer.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">packing and sniveling greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mELinus </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125843543190884063.post-49307507405852669592011-09-10T10:19:00.000-07:002011-09-10T10:19:45.828-07:00a sneak peak at the city and a boats tour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yesterday we cruised through the city and made a boats tour through the San Diego Bay.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="mobile-photo" style="text-align: center;">Now the boat tour starts:</div><div class="mobile-photo" style="text-align: center;">We came aboard the Marietta and had a nice guide named Marco. He is a former US Marine and was able to tell us a lot about the US Navy.</div><div class="mobile-photo" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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a liner who brings American cars to Japan and/or South America<br />
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And now lets talk about the day before yesterday. I think you heard or red it, that we had a huge black out here in southern California. It was just a lot of fun for us.<br />
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We all had a great afternoon, evening and night.<br />
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Because nothing was working, no supermarket open, no gas station nor any restaurant, we had to improvise. We had a gas grill outside and of course it was working, so we talked to Stella and Richard our hosts and decided to have dinner together, because their oven wasn't working like ours. And a very nice thing happened, a neighbor, Takehashi, came over and because he is a sushi chef we had sashimi and he made some fried fish and also fried rice. We had a huge variety of food, we made scrambled eggs with ham and cheese, we had potato salad and some left overs from our BBQ the day before. We had salad and Stella and Richard brought a huge bunch of candles, sushi, bread and pizza.<br />
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We made pizza on the BBQ grill and we figured out, it is the best way to make frozen pizza.<br />
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We sat there in the dark, just the light from the candles and the moon and had such a fun night, unbelievable.<br />
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So if you missed the huge 'event' here are the news:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So the power came back late at night and we heard all around people who clapped on hands or just screamed because of happiness.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We will start our last day in San Diego today, we are all very sad, but we will have a nice last day here. We will have dinner with Stella and Richard again. And afterwards the two will show us what 'rocks' in the city's gas lamp quarter.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wish you a great day.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> 'power' full greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Yesterday, it took us a while before we could start our day trip. But after a lot of computing and emailing and mailing, we finally made it in the car and more or less straight to Coronado Island.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Because everything was so beautiful and we haven't done really spectacular things, I just want to show you some nice pictures:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwNPk9mdRbBdMyx-spqvBkO3kJtMkZrd_DaucoUrD5CkTcZizwnh1aPTb_sFVbql8KtbDyuVGVQXUl6sC5dCXgM66jfBolecjZH4IoShQWBF9PIVNjB_JZIVG-4QAIlrvsyfrL-fF15Xv/s1600/photo-715877.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650025680517544402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwNPk9mdRbBdMyx-spqvBkO3kJtMkZrd_DaucoUrD5CkTcZizwnh1aPTb_sFVbql8KtbDyuVGVQXUl6sC5dCXgM66jfBolecjZH4IoShQWBF9PIVNjB_JZIVG-4QAIlrvsyfrL-fF15Xv/s320/photo-715877.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">after lunch we strolled through Coronado</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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thats how people live here ;)<br />
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the sun and stars<br />
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a beautiful entrance in a private garden<br />
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after our stroll we went to the beach and visited the pier<br />
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the beach left from the pier<br />
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the beach right from the pier<br />
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surfer waiting for a wave<br />
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after some fun hours at the beach we headed home<br />
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back to San Diego via Coronado bridge<br />
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a ship is coming to San Diego<br />
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We had a wonderful day at the beach, with fun in the water and enjoying the sun.<br />
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Afterwards we went to the supermarket and bought some really big steaks for our BBQ we had for dinner. The steaks were better than in every restaurant, just perfect. And since we know how to make Margaritas, it's our drink for the evening and night time :)<br />
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I send you a lot of sun!!<br />
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little tanned greetings<br />
mElinus</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125843543190884063.post-41367506754970828852011-09-06T10:22:00.000-07:002011-09-06T10:22:12.076-07:00what happened the last 3 days?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;">The day after we went to the outlet shopping center we decided to see something from the inner country. We drove 1 hour NE to <a href="http://www.cityoftemecula.org/Temecula/Visitors/OldTown/default2.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Temecula</span></a>. It is a city which is famous for the old town, with its wine bars, lil' shops and a lot to see. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.anne4property.com/briefcase/41182_915200942402PM67455.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.anne4property.com/briefcase/41182_915200942402PM67455.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(from anne4property.com)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We walked along the historic streets on wooden sidewalks with music playing from the lamppost and the sun burning our skin by at least 96°F/ 36°G.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was pretty warm but I thought it's OK, only the guys complained about the heat. When I went to the tourist office, the lady told us it isn't hot today because it's under 100°F. </div><div style="text-align: center;">:)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Later we drove further east to the <a href="http://www.temeculawines.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">wine country of Temecula</span></a>. We visited one winery and bought 2 bottles of wine at the <a href="http://www.callawaywinery.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Callaway winery</span></a> (still in the fridge).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">....</div><div style="text-align: center;">The next day nothing really happened, we went to the beach in La Jolla and had dinner with our incredible hosts. This evening was amazing, we had so much fun and absolutely delicious strawberry Margaritas. Stella and Richard are awesome!!!!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yesterday the weather wasn't perfect to go to the beach and so we decided to stay in San Diego and visit the </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sdmaritime.org/festival-of-sail/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Festival of Sails</span></a> and the <a href="http://www.midway.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">USS Midway</span></a>. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
We also watch the sun set and it was soooo romantic!!!<br />
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Thats for now and all of you who took the challenge to find out whats wrong with the picture from my last post, will get a post card, just write me your address in Facebook.<br />
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I wish you all a great week!!<br />
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coffee thirsty greetings<br />
mELinus<br />
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Yesterdays was a day full of surprises and I will have one for you too. After a late start in the day we drove to an Outlet about 20 minutes from San Diego and shopped until the credit card got hot.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8XAy4SvYHRNsBtFGwTC_7P1rBYDhNxztu4E5BpLY6Y_fhGEd86gYyoEqMw-L42qe_4AFu7Bbr23iuAJYBL62OAASfFmrFo0q-wT1PHLUD3Ry32NszwFKWXqdxSf9phzgNapJDy3DME_e/s1600/photo-781962.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648178699411548562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8XAy4SvYHRNsBtFGwTC_7P1rBYDhNxztu4E5BpLY6Y_fhGEd86gYyoEqMw-L42qe_4AFu7Bbr23iuAJYBL62OAASfFmrFo0q-wT1PHLUD3Ry32NszwFKWXqdxSf9phzgNapJDy3DME_e/s320/photo-781962.JPG" /></a></div></div><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">outlet center</span></div></div><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;">When we realizes we wont make it through the whole center, we decided to go back to the car and drive home. But we wanted to see everything and so we drove to the end of the outlet center and then we saw this:</div></div><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We have known that the boarder to Mexico is not far from San Diego and the outlet is even closer, but this close, we never thought that. We shopped the whole day and did never realize that the fence from the boarder is just a stone throw away. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju4bXcHLLYar_v808sL-emAs4vY8b8JULH-rDsi4AeIq99OghJyOHmtWm2epWXjXVyw-Yu1jYvV-PUudNB9RaZwSTuax9MUmOwncReexvaYTuJrRQYogQLcSkXHDcQ4tyOTh4D5ODbC0Rp/s1600/photo-783091.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648179133932636866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju4bXcHLLYar_v808sL-emAs4vY8b8JULH-rDsi4AeIq99OghJyOHmtWm2epWXjXVyw-Yu1jYvV-PUudNB9RaZwSTuax9MUmOwncReexvaYTuJrRQYogQLcSkXHDcQ4tyOTh4D5ODbC0Rp/s320/photo-783091.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">boarder and Mexico </span><br />
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To our left was the shopping center and to our right was Mexico. We were stunned.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was a very difficult experience for us and we talked about it a lot when we drove back to San Diego. But the day was great we have been very exhausted of all this undressing and dressing again. The best thing was, it's Labor Day weekend and that meant a lot more savings for us. Yayyyy!!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>AND NOW </b></span><br />
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something new for you. Please look at the following picture and tell me what is wrong in it. Write a comment under the post with your thoughts and I will pick someone and she or he will get a postcard from sunny funny San Diego!!!<br />
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</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMRfC3jUT6f_WKa534D4DE1s1Hj4-_TtNyXSKAkHAkIxW_ee_XSg7hZTm5AUcOTteCu870_3kNiRfHpeEm81lH4ktpRSU1hMcWT7sQ07IavqVhU0aSWgqcfoCIAqqKKTBVPzYzVVOG78Ch/s1600/photo-724912.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648178884141174850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMRfC3jUT6f_WKa534D4DE1s1Hj4-_TtNyXSKAkHAkIxW_ee_XSg7hZTm5AUcOTteCu870_3kNiRfHpeEm81lH4ktpRSU1hMcWT7sQ07IavqVhU0aSWgqcfoCIAqqKKTBVPzYzVVOG78Ch/s320/photo-724912.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Whats wrong in here???<br />
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So lets start and have a nice day!<br />
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finger crossing greetings<br />
mElinus<br />
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</div></div><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivmc2F1VJt7eB0nX2TcAs9JkYx1yaZeaIfJ7GMSNH34CcOfHmr7vWU7io7i0c3LDH-pCA10MQaepwRoDl-3G4J9fGo5ebLoMfifSwJzDsQGzu2A7f8MmeNW0tozpP8Zd-LEoEenz7UUEC/s1600/photo-798839.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647798671520052994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivmc2F1VJt7eB0nX2TcAs9JkYx1yaZeaIfJ7GMSNH34CcOfHmr7vWU7io7i0c3LDH-pCA10MQaepwRoDl-3G4J9fGo5ebLoMfifSwJzDsQGzu2A7f8MmeNW0tozpP8Zd-LEoEenz7UUEC/s320/photo-798839.JPG" /></a></div></div><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;">Bench in Oceanside</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yesterday we made a beautiful trip to sunny Oceanside, just about 30 min. north of San Diego. I mean it would have been 30 minutes if you are going straight, but it's vacation and that means once in a while you do not have to do straight things. We drove up the Hwy. 101 and had stunning views over beautiful beaches and harbors. The waves have been great and we saw a lot of surfers. So yesterday was all about "Harbors & Beaches".</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6kBLT41S8KildZuwMWi7GThFJiqLjg6_n_RphUbag3Dwlrw0XyayUwAU_BUijhllPUGBem06076S_w3OOALpFtxXhXvaxXaPAq8_EhQhcyF7Yb3SudBRgqJGvrjb1mOfTCy-w9K5cPsku/s1600/photo-718200.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647798751969923986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6kBLT41S8KildZuwMWi7GThFJiqLjg6_n_RphUbag3Dwlrw0XyayUwAU_BUijhllPUGBem06076S_w3OOALpFtxXhXvaxXaPAq8_EhQhcyF7Yb3SudBRgqJGvrjb1mOfTCy-w9K5cPsku/s320/photo-718200.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">not Hollywood but beautiful as well</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">When we arrived in Oceanside, we needed a break from all these impressions and of course to get something to eat. We had lunch at a roof top restaurant in Oceanside and the pic below shows our stunning view over the harbor of Oceanside.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkY-tNZM32l7KApsVMAYeksDMaNXNc2PzbSOxJ-ZH2_H74eUjZVokZNjk13U5qcFlIexZVayapOAmBf-51EjMqtYoPyFIG0CgFBWA46_53hgkZEMfFY89p4mR8_NTf8lxZ5JIW2zUdsZa/s1600/photo-782590.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647799030786254594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkY-tNZM32l7KApsVMAYeksDMaNXNc2PzbSOxJ-ZH2_H74eUjZVokZNjk13U5qcFlIexZVayapOAmBf-51EjMqtYoPyFIG0CgFBWA46_53hgkZEMfFY89p4mR8_NTf8lxZ5JIW2zUdsZa/s320/photo-782590.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">lunch view</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was an amazing time, because the food was good, the music absolutely perfect and the breeze from the ocean was the perfect addition to the midday sun.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNmdA9q00eCvBbC4YR7kDld5z7Am8lvF96YhSTMMpD7L6Bbtfs35VQvC1XzT9oJl5n3EQlTV5AZD0OfpjJZD8RtbnjZSizzQ8Je72Z99kn-zBvgh9Q-Ep799XkSVYuMvY9znyXJkHwSk8/s1600/photo-759702.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647799357999407650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgNmdA9q00eCvBbC4YR7kDld5z7Am8lvF96YhSTMMpD7L6Bbtfs35VQvC1XzT9oJl5n3EQlTV5AZD0OfpjJZD8RtbnjZSizzQ8Je72Z99kn-zBvgh9Q-Ep799XkSVYuMvY9znyXJkHwSk8/s320/photo-759702.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">blue water, blue sky and white boats....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We even saw some monsters at the beach ... ;)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The best was the parking lot, because it was way more than this. A lot of campers and families had their vacation homes there and enjoyed the sun, the ocean and the beach right at their 'door step'.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">When we came back to our vacation home, we had a nice talk to our lovely host Stella. She is amazing, I mean she is way more than that. No 5 Star hotel can offer this love, dedication and personal passion for details. I can't say how much I love her and her husband. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Last but not least we had dinner at <a href="http://www.flemingssteakhouse.com/locations/ca/san-diego?gclid=CIKX6PeF_6oCFSgbQgodR3MRzQ"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">FLEMMINGS</span></a> in Down Town San Diego with steak and mashed potatoes, exactly how it should be.<br />
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Now I am looking forward to another wonderful day at sunny California and wish you at least a sunny day, where ever you are.<br />
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sand between my toes greetings<br />
mElinus<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">As promised here are some pics of my first day in sunny San Diego. And by now, I can say, I LOVE IT. The city is beautiful, the ocean is stunning and the people are the nicest you can wish for your vacation.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0HPjeX_bCxR32VzQPrkXOEX_n1bFQqZelyoslLkJ4rzGzSzTwD9b-v0oJBjY_2aUJe0bCTjwYIMEkYW0jwm4ILEMIDdaTbilcTxgDuLiUU1ru2kq5ANWQEkBPiGFu2jBs-fBrbZ4DESms/s1600/photo-795696.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647218406028121826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0HPjeX_bCxR32VzQPrkXOEX_n1bFQqZelyoslLkJ4rzGzSzTwD9b-v0oJBjY_2aUJe0bCTjwYIMEkYW0jwm4ILEMIDdaTbilcTxgDuLiUU1ru2kq5ANWQEkBPiGFu2jBs-fBrbZ4DESms/s320/photo-795696.JPG" /></a></div></div><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">BREAKFAST</span></div></div><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My first breakfast in San Diego were Texas Eggs Benedict with hash browns and a cappuccino at 1pm in the gaslamp quarter.</div></div><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgODIoSaCSzWlLJtwEYMxn4nxbw8spN_ubhoaECY3zyMt33QX14imAWWRiEpxtsQ7eRFZ6GQByxmFNPCyi81v7uiCxwG4H44NpqtTxo2pME-cTTRFVyGBNPzEzqcfTkvHSlEL9p8HZtgcI/s1600/photo-756490.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5647218669863746450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgODIoSaCSzWlLJtwEYMxn4nxbw8spN_ubhoaECY3zyMt33QX14imAWWRiEpxtsQ7eRFZ6GQByxmFNPCyi81v7uiCxwG4H44NpqtTxo2pME-cTTRFVyGBNPzEzqcfTkvHSlEL9p8HZtgcI/s320/photo-756490.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">GASLAMP QUARTER</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This area is so beautiful and the perfect place to watch people and enjoy a breeze from the ocean in the wonderful California sun.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We took the stairs up to the top of the San Diego Convention Center to get the stunning view at the San Diego Coronado Bay Bridge.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">What an amazing start in San Diego. Afterwards I laid on the beach and got a lil' sun burn.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Today was great and we will go out for dinner tonight.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wish you all a sunny day tomorrow.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">overwhelmed greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125843543190884063.post-10666648725133674132011-08-21T04:31:00.000-07:002011-08-21T04:31:39.474-07:00nice birthday surprise<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yesterday I got so many presents and cards for my birthday, good friends called and emailed me and after a long day I checked my FB and Etsy account. And I could not believe it, but I sold 5 of my collection cups. Ok, it wasn't that surprising, because I wrote with So Min Lee already and made a rEserved ISTING for her, but it was a very nice birthday surprise. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">My fist collection cup was shipped to Wisconsin, USA. This time all 5 sets are going to be used in South Korea. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This two sets are my favorites, because they are such a nice 'couple' and the decor is just perfect for a dreamy tea or coffee meet up with a good friend.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This one is my favorite when it comes to design, because even if its more than 40 years old, it looks modern and stylish to me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And last but not least, these 2 beauties. The golden one is very classical and fits for nearly every occasion. The pink / purple one is very girlish, I think and gives your table a nice splash of color.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But for now I have to say god bye to all 5 beautiful German collection cups and send them on a long journey to South Korea.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am happy that I sold them, but I really like these cups, so I am also a little sad. But I am happy in the other way, because I found some beautiful 'new' ceramic pots, cups and plates during the last weeks and they will be up soon.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">'carefully packing' and 'left-over birthday cake eating' greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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I want to share a very interesting find with you. A friend of me lives in Australia and she shares my passion for self-made and vintage. She loves Etsy and everything what is not made in a huge factory.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">A couple of months ago she introduced me to a wonderful magazine from Australia and I want to share this with you. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This magazine is ' is a national bi-monthly based in Australia, aimed at women (and men) looking for a magazine that’s as smart, funny, sarcastic, friendly, cute, rude, arty, curious and caring as they are.' <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(describtion from frankie.com.au)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And this description hits the bulls eye (metaphorically speaking). You can find recipes, music, news, many things about craft, art and fashion, events (most of them in Australia, of course) vintage, food, and ideas for your home and interesting places for travelers.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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So if you need a boost of ideas, creativity & opportunities and a down-under point of view your are absolutely right here.<br />
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If you want to check this awesome magazine out, go to<br />
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<a href="http://www.frankie.com.au/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">frankie.com.au</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Frankie-Magazine/8624401129"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Facebook</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/frankieMagazine"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Twitter</span></a><br />
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I hope you get a boost and lots of new ideas. I wish you a joyful read and a sunny day!!<br />
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browsing and marveling greetings<br />
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</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvutENI4b8SweLi6ErRYDaxJ6DVCAdntkkzJYRhbQpccm8KmQPlA9KQTxFYjmd69s96keEKfyId_rE30ORQ2KbrYyYqTAxOHSa1aVrbofLA5mzLlAiHxGUOs8hoKYVughbdLV7cma4-HE4/s1600/photo-761530.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638745573609488914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvutENI4b8SweLi6ErRYDaxJ6DVCAdntkkzJYRhbQpccm8KmQPlA9KQTxFYjmd69s96keEKfyId_rE30ORQ2KbrYyYqTAxOHSa1aVrbofLA5mzLlAiHxGUOs8hoKYVughbdLV7cma4-HE4/s320/photo-761530.JPG" /></a></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here are the beans, we needed nearly 2 hours to cut the end off and chop them all.<br />
Afterwards we had to wash them pretty much, because of the bad weather during the last days, they had a lot of dashes of rain and dirt.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(if the beans are smaller you do not need to take the stringy bits from the side off)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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I put a whole lot at the side and the rest of them in a colander to get the water out. I froze most of them so I can use it later.<br />
The others I put in a pot with water, 1/2 table spoon salt, 1 stalk of savory and rosemary herbs (or 1 table spoon savory and 1/2 table spoon rosemary) and cooked it.<br />
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After 20-30 minutes the beans are ready to cool down.<br />
Just put them in a colander again and wait until they are cooled off.<br />
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For the salad you will need one chopped and braised onion (for about 4 hand full of beans, please use oil and not butter, it won't taste well after cooled down), salt, pepper, olive oil (or any oil you like) juice of a lemon and herbs just as you like. I used dried basil and garlic.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center;">After you flavored your bean salad, put it in the fridge for at least 12 hours.<br />
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Before I served the salad, I added 2 cut tomatoes.<br />
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Unfortunately I do not have a picture with the finished salad, because when I was ready, friends came over and we ate the salad right away and I forgot to take a picture :)<br />
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Yummy greetings<br />
mElinus</div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125843543190884063.post-78482341660552242662011-08-03T01:49:00.000-07:002011-08-03T23:45:56.952-07:00Help needed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I need your help!!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Please look in these eyes.<br />
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This little dog is the best friend of my 3 year old god child. She love her lil' 'bow-wow' so much.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">As you can see this little stuffed friend is worn out. She sleeps with it, she plays with it and no matter how the weather is outside her bow-wow has to come with her. Her mum and I tried hard to find a new one, but nobody has a dog like this. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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This stuffed animal is approx. 8" to 10" / 20 cm to 25cm long, pale yellow body but with yellower ears (please see the pic). It has a dark brown/black dog collar and dark embroidered dots on the dogs nose.<br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center;">As you can see on the following pic, the tail is falling off. We tried to fix it several times, but it will not hold much longer.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="mobile-photo"><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">My god child and her mum are on their way to a mother-child clinic for a rehab, because she had a kidney surgery. So her little friend is more important than ever.<br />
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PLEASE, if you have a stuffed dog like this one or you know someone who do not need it, let me know. I will buy it straightaway.<br />
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Just write a <a href="http://melinus-treasures.blogspot.com/2011/08/help-needed.html#comments" style="color: magenta;">comment under this post</a><br />
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write a comment at my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/MelinusTreasures" style="color: magenta;">Facebook-Page</a><br />
or<br />
convo me at <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/melinus" style="color: magenta;">Etsy</a>.<br />
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Thank you so much for your time!!<br />
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hopefully greetings<br />
mElinus<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">This was a rainy weekend. It started with rain on Friday, continued on Saturday and even the prime-time program on Sunday was accompanied by falling rain drops. But even a rainy weekend has it's beauty.</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rainbows are a great thing. I love them. I wish I could catch one, put it in a jar and place it on my bedside table to watch it glowing in the dark and all the beautiful colors while I wake up.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I love the sun, but without rain I would never see a rainbow and thats sad. So we need all the nice things every day, the good friends, the helpful family, time fur ourselves, vacation, shopping and so on...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">without the 'rainy' days, we couldn't see the beauty of a rainbow or the sun breaking through the clouds.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We need these rainy days to realize how beautiful the world and our lives are.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">colorful greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125843543190884063.post-33810547578096766672011-07-26T22:55:00.000-07:002011-07-26T22:55:37.999-07:00How to: go on vacation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;">I made a new treasury, because I wasn't on vacation yet and I would love to pack my things and start traveling.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So I made a treasury for all those out there who are like me, without the possibility to go on a trip soon.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Please check it out and tell all the creative and talented 'Etsians' what you think.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So get ready for you cyber trip:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1. you have to save money. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2. you have to find a place </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">3. you hvae to book a flight </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">4. youn need a suitcase</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">5. you will need a hat and a luggage tag </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">6. you hvae to pack your towels </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">7. you have to pack an extra pair of sun glases and your camera </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">8. you need your ticket</div><div style="text-align: center;">9. you need your passport </div><div style="text-align: center;">10. you have to fly </div><div style="text-align: center;">11. you have to find your destination </div><div style="text-align: center;">12. you can make sight seeing</div><div style="text-align: center;">13. or go to the beach </div><div style="text-align: center;">14. for swimming </div><div style="text-align: center;">15. or surfing </div><div style="text-align: center;">16. and hopefully you will got lost in your thoughts ...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So who will come with me and start the trip??</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Please click <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NjQ3Njg4NHw0OTQ5NjAyMjQ/cant-wait-for-vacation?ref=pr_treasury"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">here</span></a> to see the whole <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NjQ3Njg4NHw0OTQ5NjAyMjQ/cant-wait-for-vacation?ref=pr_treasuryhttp://www.etsy.com/treasury/NjQ3Njg4NHw0OTQ5NjAyMjQ/cant-wait-for-vacation?ref=pr_treasury"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Etsy Treasury</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">wistfully and expectantly greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125843543190884063.post-23600901555394570292011-07-24T21:50:00.000-07:002011-07-24T21:50:26.150-07:00carriage ride and family<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;">This weekend was a family weekend. It wasn't as good as I hoped, but I got through it. I haven't seen this pat of my family for about 3 or 4 years. But it wasn't like that. We had lunch together and nobody talked to me seriously. It was like a show and I was watching.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The beste thing was the carriage ride between lunch and afternoon coffee party:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Unfortunatelly the weather wasn't nice and so we had to take an extra jacket with us. </div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The conversation was slow, but the coffee and cakes were delicious!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wish you all a more than beautiful week!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">cake eating and horse whispering greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">That's how my day starts and I am happy every single second I can sit in the kitchen and enjoy my morning. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We should enjoy ourself every day even if it's just for half an hour. And it doesn't matter if you take a bath or relax on the porch, sit in your garden or listen to music. Every day has 24 hours and I think we can take a little for ourselves. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's appreciate and savor life's little pleasures. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">coffee-slurping greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">During the last weeks my life was an up and down, it was like living in two different worlds. Summer time means parties, weddings and BBQs, it means happy people, buying presents and preparing and organizing party games. But for me it also meant bad news, sleepless nights and sick bed visits.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's never good to be in a bad mood, but in summer time it's even harder. I tried to switch between both like you do it with your TV-channels. And it worked for a couple of weeks, but I reached a point where I didn't knew what to do first, what is more important. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My friend told me it's like juggling, and yes it feels like juggling with to many balls. But you can handle it and at least try to juggle with the balls you can keep up. But I couldn't hold the balls in the air any longer and so I tried to find a better metaphor. And I came up with the following:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">MAKE A SANDWICH WITHOUT BREAD.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">You can try it again and again, you can put on cheese and bacon and sliced tomatoes and lettuce, but without bread or a roll it won't be a sandwich. Everything will fall of and even if you get it in your hand you won't eat much because it's to fat, to rich. (metaphorically speaking)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So my power (the bread) got lost during this time but I tried hard to keep all things in order and be what everybody ask me to be and to do (the bacon and cheese and tomato and lettuce and mayo and so on). Till one day there was a big BANG and everything fell off. And thats the point when I realized all this brought me to this bad mood feeling. All power was gone and I had to think about me and my life.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So I hope everybody feels way better, I try hard, every single day, to get back to normal. And I will tell you in the next post, what helped me to feel better, not exactly good, but way better. So if you are in a bad mood or you are feeling alone and hopeless be sure there will be more out there with this feelings, even in summer time.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">big hugs and sunny-sanwich-making-greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125843543190884063.post-35890461885489598482011-06-04T04:02:00.000-07:002011-06-04T04:02:19.164-07:00book recommendation: Divergent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;">This is my first book recommendation and I hope you like it. I bought the book second week of May and it took me only three days (Friday till Sunday) to finish it. It's the first novel from Veronica Roth and the name is </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>DIVERGENT</b></span></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's in US stores since 5/3/2011 and costs 12 USD. I am reading it the second time right now and I like to tell you a little about the story:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The story takes place in the future Chicago, where many buildings are abandoned and moldered and the lake Michigan is just a marshland. The city is fenced since the last huge war and people do not live any longer like we know. They are separated in 5 different factions: the selfless people called ABNEGATION, the brave people called DAUNTLESS, the intelligent people called ERUDITE, the peaceful people called AMITY and the honest people called CANDOR. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The main character is 16 year old Beatrice Prior and her way from her faction ABNEGATION to the faction she surprisingly chose at the choosing ceremony. This choosing ceremony takes place once a year with the young citizen of the city at the age of 16. Before the ceremony, all the teenagers have to go through a test which will show them to which faction they will belong for the rest of their life's. But the results are a secret to every single person and so they have the chance to decide on their own which faction they will belong. Beatrice has to make a tough decision between a life with her family or to follow her real feelings. She will rename herself Tris and experience a new life. Tris will go through a hard and strenuous initiation and has to learn who are her friends and to figure out what these confusing feelings for a fascinating but also exasperating boy have to do with her and her new life. While Tris has to go through all this, she has to keep a very dangerous secret, which she does not understand and while the conditions around change, she has to figure out how her secret may can help her and all she loves or if it may destroy her.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The book has 480 pages and is more a teen book, but it's worth to read! So if you need a good and easy-to-read book for this summer, I can highly recommend this novel. For more informations just go to the following fb pages:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/DivergentSeries"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">DivergentSeries</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/DivergentExaminer"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">DivergentExaminer</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheDivergentTrilogy"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">TheDivergentTrilogy</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Please let me know in the comments below which book you read right know or which you can recommend. If you have already red Divergent, let me also know!! I am always highly interested in new and good books.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wish you all a great day!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">reading and book-browsing greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mELinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">By the way, I also would recommend you to not just be / become a follower, but also become a email subscriber, so you will get an email with the latest post and than you can decide if you like to stop by and read the post here or just delete the message and check back later. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9125843543190884063.post-24851128622951020522011-05-29T23:49:00.001-07:002011-05-29T23:49:58.303-07:00Etsy Shop Feature: PookahDesigns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;">I am sorry for being offline during the last week. I had so much to do and so many things to organize. I was on a business trip again and a family member was in hospital. But this week we will have a new Etsy shop featured:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/PookahDesigns?ref=seller_info"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">PookahDesign</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><script src="http://www.etsy.com/etsy_mini.js" type="text/javascript">
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</script></div><div style="text-align: center;">This shop is all about art and color.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Pam has been a passionate artist since she was old enough to pick up a crayon! She has almost 30 years of experience as a fine artist in a variety of mediums including oils, gouache, charcoal, ink, and cut paper. Pam attended art schools in both New York and San Francisco, and her love for everything "art" contintues to grow every day. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She is a lover of nature and of abstract design, and Pam can say that both have helped to foster her creativity through subject and expression. Her goal is to create something that expresses herself as an artist and makes a connection to the viewer. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But you need more to be such a great artist and creative person. Pam has a wonderfully supportive husband and two boys, 8 and 5 years old. She is also very lucky to be from a family which helped and encouraged her every step of the way and she is eternally grateful to them!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Of course I ask Pam the questions about 3 favorites:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Q)In which country/city would you live if you could choose? </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">A) If I could choose anywhere in the world, I would live in Ireland. Not only because I am part Irish, but because it has everything that I want: breathtaking physical beauty, wonderful people and culture, beautiful music, rich and interesting history.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Q)What do you like more: apple or orange juice? </div><div style="text-align: center;">A) I LOVE orange juice, especially when it's fresh squeezed. I don't even like apple juice!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Q)What is your favorite color?</div><div style="text-align: center;">A) My favorite color is green</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So what do you think, are you not also of the opinion that these pictures are very special, unique and precious. I love the bold colors and the concept. A mix from paint and cut paper.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Which picture do you like the most?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I wish you all a wonderful week and I am sorry for not writing a last weeks feature!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">bold color greetings</div><div style="text-align: center;">mElinus</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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