Weekly musings

I lost my blogging mojo the last weeks, but there i am. So my perfumes of last week were What I Did On My Holidays, Memoire d une Odeur, Fidji, Tea Rose, Eau de Rochas and Batucada.

We had a week off, but did not cook very much, just some pasta and even a takeaway Doner kebab, but finally our first tomatoes had ripened, so a big tomato salad was our first meal we made with them.

We visited my boyfriends father, because he had his 88th birthday in july, but there was nothing to do there besides sitting around, eating a bit and talk a bit. We spent some time and money at IKEAs and finally found a small butchers block for the kitchen, perfect for a small nook. I did some sewing and finally made a new Gilbert blouse and new bike shorts in a quite 80s like colour combo, but i will be SEEN, whilst riding my bike! We also went to the Cindy Sherman exhibition in Stuttgart, that was a really good one, although i hoped so see some earlier works of her too. The boyfriend was not so enthusiastic, no wonder, a lot of her works were artistic fashion photographies, which did not interest him as much…

Weekly musings

This weeks perfumes were First EDT, Eau de Lancaster, Eau de Rochas, Camelia Chinois (the bottles has some drops left, but nearly empty, but i will not buy this again), Coriandre/Tea Rose, Memoire d´une Odeur and Roma

last weeks bike tour impressions and a new skirt

I lived mostly of leftover frozen meals and sandwiches during the week, because i was really tired. Saturday i managed to make greek Gemista and red cabbage slaw, sunday was green been salad, fake tuna salad (chickpeas and algae) plus gnocchi and zucchini (from our alottment garden).

I was so tired on saturday, that i lay down twice over the day to rest, which was quite unusual for me. Thankfully i felt rested on sunday, so i tackled the cleaning of the flat and also managed to sew a new skirt. It is the Designerstitch Paige skirt, a nice A-line with big set in pockets at the front. I used a dark denim, so this will certainly get lots of wear, because everyone needs a denim skirt!

The Paige skirt is a really wellmade pattern, the pockets are a real eyecatcher and practical too. The instructions were really good, so i had no difficulties at all making it. I also made a wearable toile in a white linen-cotton mix to wear at work. Maybe i will even make a third one in corduroy for winter wear. I really like making my staple wardrobe items in some different fabrics

a bit crinkled, but the pocket detail is great!

Last week we did a nice bike tour along the Glems river to Besigheim. Along the river there are lots of active and inactive mills to see. Mostly the bike lane goes along the riverside, so there was a bit of shade and beautiful views. When we got hungry we discovered an opened „Besenwirtschaft“, which is a sort of pop-up farmers restaurant. They are allowed to open only a few weeks a year and mostly serve their homegrown specialties. We had a big portion of potato salad with pork and potatoes with herbed quark. Plus some icecream at our destination in Besigheim.