“Clover” by Susan Coolige – my latest LibriVox Solo is finally finished. Originally Neeru and I started it as a duet way back in June 2009, but I ended up reading it all by myself when Neeru got too busy. So don’t be too surprised if the quality of the recording changes somewhat between chapters [...]
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Clover – another finished solo :)
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on January 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Beautiful Cover for Scrooge and some more…
Posted in audio, Books, knitting, LibriVox, personal, self made..., Whatever on January 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Just a short post to show off the beautiful cover Sonja created for my latest LibriVox solo of “Der Weihnachtsabend” by Charles Dickens (Thanks so much, Sonja!!!): Isn’t it absolutely lovely??? Oh and here is my second lovely-super-comfortable-vividly-Santa-Claus-red-cabled-finglerless mitten. As you can see in the background, I finished this one while watching “Wives and [...]
Der Weihnachtsabend
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on December 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Proudly presenting my finished solo recording of “Der Weihnachtsabend – Eine Geistergeschichte” by Charles Dickens… and I managed to meet my own deadline. (YAY me! ) It’s the German translation of the famous “A Christmas Carol”.Here is a proper summary of the book: Der erste Geist 1843 verfasste Dickens den Roman A Christmas Carol (deutscher [...]
Wurzelkinder & Co – my new solo
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, Whatever on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was a holiday here (YAY!!!) and having finished recording “Der Weihnachtsabend” by Charles Dickens (still have a lot of editing to do…d’oh!) I started a new German solo. It is going to be a collection of cute, well known and not so well known stories for children. For now I have called the project [...]
Advent and more Christmas Stockings
Posted in audio, Books, knitting, LibriVox, self made..., Whatever on December 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a couple of days late posting…. but just like last year there is a wonderful advent calender of 24 lovely LibriVox recordings (in German) ready to download. It consists of poems, short stories, fairy tales, recipes… all with some relation to Christmas and winter! Here it is: http://librivox.org/adventskalender-2010-by-various/ Also I knit a couple more [...]
My Very First Little German Book
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kara and I finished our tiny duet of “My Very First Little German Book” by Anonymous yesterday. It’s an incredibly cute English – German children’s book with beautiful pictures. Die Muscheln Here is the “official” summary: An adorable picture book with 29 little lessons in German. Learn many simple and useful phrases, such as “How [...]
My tiny Christmas Stocking
Posted in Books, knitting, rant, Whatever on November 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Just a short post to show off the tiny Christmas Stocking ornament I knit today (and there will surely be more over the next few weeks): It turned out so well and was amazingly fast to knit. All in all it took me about 1 1/2 hours, though I went wrong somewhere in the pattern [...]
Struwwelpeter & König Nussknacker
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on November 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My latest LibriVox solo is finally done and cataloged. It’s Heinrich Hoffmann’s well-known “Struwwelpeter” and another really lovely story, I didn’t know called “König Nussknacker und der arme Reinhold”. It’s about a sick boy who dreams of a magic land in which toys come alive. Here is my recording of König Nussknacker (Struwwelpeter can [...]
Blooper and Halloween Socks
Posted in audio, Books, knitting, LibriVox, personal, rant, Whatever on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With Halloween coming up, I decided to knit a pair of proper Halloween socks for myself. The pattern is from ravelry.com and a link to it can be found on my project page (aravis83). It’s my first attempt at knitting with different colors and it’s a LOT harder than it looks. Actually the whole thing [...]
Harding’s Luck
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on October 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here is another one of my BCing projects that got done recently. It’s a lovely book called “Harding’s Luck” by Edith Nesbit. Harding’s luck is sequel to E. Nesbit’s “The House of Arden”. It tells the story of Dickie Harding, a disabled boy, who one day accidentelly discovers an old magic, that allows him [...]
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