Feeling blue…with here and there a spot of color

There’s much going on in my life at the moment, a lot of happy things, but unfortunately a couple of sad things too. Sometimes it seems like things happen all at the same time and I can’t seem to find the time to give them a place in my head and get on with my […]

My best friends wedding

My best friend is getting married and she gave me the honour of making the ringcushions for her Big Day. She likes plain and simple designs and I made them matching the wedding invitation. It feels very special to make something for friends for such an imporant day of their life. When the bride-to-be unwrapped […]

Cheburaska and some final conclusions

Reading back my posts, it feels like I didn’t had a good time in Saint Petersburg. But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. We had loads of fun with the good friends that travelled along with us and travelling into a country like Russia is what I would call an experience. You have […]

Dolls dolls dolls

If you write about Russia, you must write about Matryoshka’s. Though St. Petersburg isn’t very much of a shopping city, the amount of Matryoshka’s you can choose from is humongous. I photographed these (unfortunately a bit blurry) in a shop called “Northwest” at the English Embankment (nice clean toilets! no pushy shopkeepers! ;-)), but bought […]

This museum doesn’t do extinction

This is definitely one of the most weird museums I’ve ever visited, but maybe I just have not been exposed to much weirdness in my life.I walked through the Zoological Museum of Saint Petersburg with a mixture of fascination and disgust. The museum contains one of the biggest collections of – to put it straight […]