candyland valentine

I have been too busy lately. Working overtime hours and doing a german class 3 nights a week. Some days look like this: wake up, ride the u-bahn, work 8 hours, ride the u-bahn, 3 hour German class, ride the ubahn, sleep 8 hours, repeat.

But its the weekend, so I swim to the surface and take a big gulp of air. Today looks like this, wake up, drink coffee, blog, go to the library, go to fabulous second hand store, knit, go to party. aaahhhhhhh.
that's better.

The above pictures were taken from a christmas market. I like to call this market "disneyland vegas christmas." Pure tacky, it stuck out like a giant glitterball in the middle of Berlin's tourist area. Going there was like wearing 5 pounds of costume jewelry and sucking on sugar cubes. and I loved it.

hopefully I will have better, craftier things to show you soon. (i have been knitting!)

xoxoxo
Kimberlee

last week's market and another give away!

well it is giveaway time on this blog! Lies is doing some this week, which I am sure you have all seen. Very generous, thanks Lies.

Just so you all have something to look at while you are holding your breath and waiting to win, here is another mosaic I made from photos I took at the Oxfam charity market. Loads of good stuff was sold.

Guessing game from last mosaic:
I asked who could guess the only interior space that was put together by a man (my brother) and NOBODY got it right! the unmade bed in fact belonged to melissa (her flickr here). And by the way I LOVE the unmade bed photo! Joel's room was the red living room, see it on his flickr here.

And just to let the good times roll, here we are back in the early 90s. That is me in the white and navy sailor dress, brotown joel is looking dapper in the blue collared shirt, and little miss Carling is the wee sailor in the red and blue number. Thanks mother for coordinating so perfectly that we have something to look back on and laugh at.


Okay now next mosaic question!
Of the oxfam charity market photos, which one pictures something/s made by my boss? For a little incentive; if anybody get this right there is a prize! You can win one of my fully lined tote bags (with pocket! oo la la). Pictured in the market mosaic.

and just in case there are masses of right guesses, I will award the first 2 who are correct.

Cheers!
-kimberlee
ps. I am loving mosaics right now, can you tell?