Vacation

Today I spent the whole day in my pajamas, reading, browsing the internet, reading my favourite blogs, baking and eating cheesecake muffins. Doing only things I wanted to do, nothing I had to.
It's such a wonderful difference to workday mondays and a perfect start to a week off.

Preparations

When at this time of the year the first Christmas sweets arrive in supermarkets, I ignore them. I might take a quick look, ahhh gingerbread, mhhh "Dominosteine", think no no no and walk away. It's way to early for me.
But ... when the first magazines with Christmas Cookie recipes hit the newsstands, I simply have to buy them. Every year!
Well, this Friday I bought "Brigitte" with the cookie supplement, the Christmas special edition of "Lecker", "Essen und Trinken" and "Living at home".
And to be prepared for future baking, I got my cookie cutters out to see what I have and what I still need.
For example I want a polar bear cutter, like the one pictured below. The picture was from Katja and Minna's blog "Nestled in" (still miss it).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nestledin/4206550973/

And a snowflake and gingerbreadman cookie cutter would be nice.
Oh yes, I like this early planning!

Autumn Sunflowers

A co-worker gave me those sunflowers last friday and they are still beautiful.

Putting a smile on my face

Diamond Head

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Ukulele Duo U900. Fantastic and supercute!

Quince crop...

... and a dragonfly

Breakfast

On weekdays my usual breakfast consists of orange juice, green tea, muesli with yogurt and reading the paper. And for a good start in the office I make myself a coffee to go.

The last image is from this sunday. Well, weekend breakfasts are different ;-)

Autumn Finding

Long weekend

We had a long weekend here and I tried to get as much sun and fresh air as I could.
The images were from a walk on saturday.
The wooden thing in the third picture was used as a stage. Years ago I saw a performance of Shakespeares "A Midsummer Night's Dream" there. It was so beautiful and magical.