Just a tiny short post to show of my finished cardigan: Waves Cardigan Isn’t it pretty? I finished it yesterday and just love how it turned out. Also it fits perfectly. It will be fun to wear it over short sleeved shirts in spring. Right now it’s a little too chilly for that… Anyway, I [...]
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Waves Cardigan
Posted in knitting, pattern, personal, self made..., Whatever on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Books I’ve read in 2011
Posted in Books, personal, Whatever, tagged beezus and ramona, elizabeth enright, elizabeth jane howard, farmer boy by laura ingalls wilder, laura ingalls wilder, nicholas stuart gray on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
2011 was quite a busy year where reading is concerned. I read 39 books and listened to 77 audiobooks. Of those 77 audiobooks only 16 were either commercial or non LibriVox recordings. The other 61 were Librivox recordings, for which I did the prooflistening. Of the books I read the one I liked best probably was [...]
LibriVox Christmas Carol Collection 2011
Posted in audio, LibriVox, personal, self made..., Whatever on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In perfect time for Christmas this year’s LibriVox Christmas Carol Collection is now in the catalog and ready to be downloaded. It consists of 25 wonderful carols in several different languages. As I’m not very good when it comes to summaries, here is what the official catalog page says about it: LibriVox volunteers bring you [...]
The Little Mud-Sparrows
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, personal, Whatever on December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just a tiny post to tell you all about the beautiful poem I recorded last weekend for the fortnightly poetry collection at LibriVox. The poem is called “The Little Mud-Sparrows” by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. (taken from CHRISTMAS IN LEGEND AND STORY; A Book for Boys and Girls, complied by Elva S. Smith, Carnegie Library Pittsburgh [...]
Aladdin und die Wunderlampe – My new LibriVox Solo
Posted in audio, LibriVox, Whatever on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I finally had time to edit the first chapter of my new LibriVox Solo, called “Aladdin und die Wunderlampe”. It’s the famous story of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, which is part of the book of A Thousand and One Nights retold in poems by Ludwig Fulda. Here is how it starts out: Aladdin [...]
Happy 1. Dec – Adventskalender 2011
Posted in audio, Books, LibriVox, Whatever on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For once I’m on time posting about the German Adventskalender on LibriVox. It’s a collection of 24 lovely stories, poems, fairy tales and many other texts centered around Christmas, snow, winter and everything related to it. Anyway, here is the catalog page with all recordings and other details: Happy 1. December and have fun listening! [...]
Super Mario Bros Opera
Posted in audio, video, Whatever on November 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
If you love Super Mario you absolutely have to watch this. I think it’s the very best opera I’ve ever seen. Isn’t it absolutely great?
Happy Halloween!
Posted in personal, self made..., Whatever on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s such a pity that we don’t have a proper Halloween, with witches, ghosts, zombies, trick-or-treating and other fun stuff here. Still I had a wonderful time carving out this “beauty” for today’s party: My Jack O’Lantern Doesn’t he look great (though his teeth are crooked and in desperate need of braces )? He did [...]
Blackrose Mittens
Posted in knitting, pattern, self made..., Whatever on October 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just a tiny little post today to show off my Blackrose mittens: Blackrose Mittens They turned out really well, are great to wear and look simply amazing. It’s the same pattern I already used for the socks I blogged about in my previous post. There is only one thing I’d do differently… that is, should [...]
More knit socks and some poetry
Posted in audio, knitting, LibriVox, pattern, self made..., Whatever on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I finally finished the pair of socks, I started to knit last month during a 4 hour train ride to V. to attend a congress there. That’s why I’m calling them by the terribly creative name “Train- Socks”. The pattern looks quite complicated and intricate but was supereasy and fun to knit. In fact [...]
