Monday Mood Board : Doxies

We have lots of fun here with the summer weather, the water in the fjord, the garden and our doxie Peggy. She is the most sweetest Dachshund you have ever seen ! Therefore, some lovely Doxie pictures from four of our European Street Team members on Etsy.

For more monday mood boards see Estella and Esther's blog.

1. YanArt
2. FioreJewellery
3. lesfrotteurs
4. reevpapercuts

And here's my own little Doxie:

Tidbits : Peggy goes crazy

Vanessa and Matthias from EST on Etsy came to visit us last weekend. Our Peggy loves visitors and is always the center of attention, at least that is what she is trying to do :) Although we had to eat a lot of cake and ice, and I got photo-lessons from Matthias, Peggy managed her task quite well :) Matthias could not resist her charm and took a zillion of pics of her. Here some beauties. (By the way, that awesome art work on my shoulder is the last tape of my bursitis....)

Monday Moodboard: Beach Weather

This weekend it was gorgeous warm and sunny weather here up in the north of Germany. We went to an art market and thereafter to the beach. It was still peaceful, no tourists yet, and little Peggy ran and played with some other dogs. So, from the spring mood of last week to a real summer beach mood; look at some summer beach finds from our European Street Team sellers on Etsy.

For more monday moodboards see fleurfatale's blog.

1. PeshtemalShop
2. magalerie
3. magalerie
4. thelightgarden

My Peggy enjoying the sun on our terrace and a picture of the Schlei fjord in the sun:

Button Wednesday : Oktoberfest

It is Wednesday again, so it's BUTTON DAY on my blog. It would be great if you could do the same; make your Wednesday a button day too. Have you seen a lovely, beautiful, stunning, crazy button or button-related thingy, or did you make something with a button / buttons, or did you even make buttons yourself, blog about it on your blog on Wednesday, and give the link here via Mister Linky at the end of this post.



Last week the Oktoberfest in Germany ended, so I thought I will do a Button Wednesday around the Oktoberfest. As an unknowing and straightforward Dutchie I do this in October and not in September, as I never understood why the Oktoberfest was held in September..... On Wikipedia I read that the first Oktoberfest occurred in Munich, on October 12, 1810; so they had it right once :)
I digged into my buttons and made a selection of real Bavarian specimens, starting with the Dachshund.

The first three buttons are from metal, showing a man in traditional outfit with a goat (maybe more Swiss than Bavarian....), a rucksack and a ram's head. They are followed by two real horn buttons, a lederhosen and one with Edelweiss. The last button in that row is a typical Bavarian glass heart. Then three fake horn ones, with Edelweiss, flowers and stag antlers. Can it go more kitschy ?


!!!!!!!!!! If you have something for The Button Wednesday, give Mister Linky your name and the link to your button post !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

The day started not so good; when I put Peggy outside she immediately grasped the first blackbird chicken that flew out. It was my fault of course, I expected the birds to fly out over 2 or 3 days, and not so soon. So, I scolded her and she had to go inside, and she is not allowed at the back of the house anymore. The other three chickens are doing fine ....
Then Peggy tried to be nice and walking around my feet, looking with those big brown eyes up to me (because I scolded her); so how do I deal with that ??? Maybe the flickr favourites can help...
For more flickr favourites see ArtMind's blog.

1. teckel_klein, 2. Oh puppies!, 3. dachshunds, 4. BIRTHDAY DACHSHUND COOKIES

Tidbits : A'dam Goodies part 2

There were also so many fantastic non-button items on the fair in Amsterdam last Sunday, that I could not withstand buying a few .... (next to the button goodies I bought). So, here are the most gorgeous little apple-green dachshund you have ever seen by my friend Mitsy from ArtMind as a brooch, and the most stunning purple earrings by my friend Brenda from Lindecise. Have a look at all their other lovely creations !!

Tidbits : Peggy at the Craft Market

Last sunday it was beautiful weather and we decided to attand the largest craft market in northern Germany. The market was in the village of Süderschmedeby and there were 150 participants from the whole of Germany and Denmark. It was really huge ! We (Pieter and I, at the left in the picture above) met there with Vanessa (you can see here at the extreme right in the picture above) and Matthias (with his parents, behind Vanessa in the picture)) from the European Street Team on Etsy, and that was so nice ! I always like to see the faces behind our team members. I got some lovely green earrings from Vanessa, and Matthias made some beautiful pictures of Peggy.



We decided that it would be great if we all could attend this market next year with a big Etsy group. You can see lots of gorgeous pictures Matthias made on the market on his photo blog.

Tidbits : Peggy in the snow

Peggy loves the snow ! Although the snow is pretty high, she somehow manages with her short legs to jump-run in it. The snow is cluttering on her legs, but that does not diminish the fun. I am always astouned how long she can do this. It tires me faster than her.... The pics are from this afternoon in the fields behind our house.

Tidbits : for Susi !

Cold outside, so little Peggy loves to cuddle with us at the fire. She has found the perfect spot; just long enough to stretch her body and just warm enough to drowse away. Both are wearing scarves for not catching a cold.

Tidbits : Peggy 7

I bought a very lovely wrap halter for Peggy on Etsy. Doesn't she look lovely in it ? Raedy for spring ! Have a look at this cute shop: anniessweatshop; she is a very lovely lady making lovely stuff !

Tidbits : Caught in Action !

Most of the times I am too late with the camera when Peggy is shaking; but this time I was there ! She prefers doing this on my bed though :)

Tidbits : Peggy's Daily Morning Ritual

How can I say it ? Yep, Peggy is sleeping in our bed....
Most of the night she lies somewhere around our feet, but in the early morning she moves up. And when she hears one of us starting to wake up, the ritual starts. Licking arms, rolling, begging for tummy rubs, licking noses, etc., till we go out of bed. She runs downstairs, runs in the garden, does her doings, and runs upstairs again, up in bed, and start snoring again. And from that moment we are totally awake and cannot sleep anymore...
The world is unfair !

Tidbits : More Peggy .....

We celebrate 1 month Peggy !
She is doing very well; sleeps a lot, eats a lot and plays a lot. Took some pictures of some of her funniest postures; she loves to roll in her basket, asking for belly rubs.



And she likes to sit on the terrace table in the sun, looking out over her territory ....

Tidbits : More Peggy

It's now 5 days since Peggy came to us and she is doing better and better. She loves walking and is sweet for all other people and dogs. Sometimes she still whimpers a bit in front of the outside door, but when I take her tennis ball she comes directly for a play and forget everything about whimpering.....
Here some more pictures of our new star !

Tidbits : Peggy

We just got our new dog; she is called Peggy and is a Dachshund. She is pretty nervous at the moment; a new house and new people. But she is very sweet, so we hope she will calm down in the next days, because we want to give her a very happy life !