Elf-e

Über uns raschelt es gold

{pochende Zahnschmerzen hatten letzte Woche(n) mir die Sicht genommen. 
Jetzt, mit einem Backenzahn weniger und einer Zahnwurzelbehandlung weiter, sehe ich wieder Licht}

Unsere Jüngste ist jetzt eine 'Elfe':
Wir feiern ihren 11. Geburtstag mit süßen Freundinnen in den Tropen
und staunen über die Schöpfung

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Above us it fissles golden

{racking toothache had taken my sight, last week(s). 
Now, a cheek tooth less and a care of root further, I see light again}

Our youngest is now a 'Elfe' [elf, means in German even the number 11]:
We celebrate her 11th birthday with sweet friends in the tropics
and marvel for the creation

Habt ihr schon mal ein Krokodil auf Tauchgang gesehen? 

Es sieht aus, als würde es schweben

Have you ever seen a crocodile's dive?

It looks, if it would hover

After our visit at the lemurs
(first they were asleep after having dinner.
Son has told me, that the feet of the lemur were cold like a cat's nose)
we went home to have ...

a pretty raspberry cream chocolate cake,
made by Eldest and friend N.
Delicious!


Hope you have fine time, dear friends.
Is there a host for the drawing challenge this weekend?
Last dc COVER has been so superb! Thank you!
Would be so nice to play with you, again.

dc #178: COVER

Different cover, a kind of skin:
look, the pumpkin here with a derma like a whale, scarry from live.
Cover implies an inside and an outside, too, a boundary, a line. Foreground and background. It is Autumn and leafes are falling and will soon cover the ground. A big metamorphosis!

I have collected some leaves of the Ginkgo biloba
(please click to read the poem by J. W. v. Goethe) and intensified their impression of butterfly shape with a few cuts...

and pinned it on the pumpkin:

COVER

I am the host with this theme for the 178th of drawing challenge
 and wanna thank you, dear friends, for join in :-)

Please discover:
woolfy Nadeschda, Katrin of Fischefrauen, Veronica Roth, Patrice Aarts (maybe later),
  Joke Konings, Stefanie Seltner, Ritva Palander of Lumetta at her fb, Carole Reid (maybe later), Barbara Bee, Tanja of ja.nein.vielleicht, Leena of vivere est, Tammie and
 Rachel of Happy Panda and Eric

and Roberto!

I wish you a wonderful day!


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dc
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#175 Pocket
#176 Skin
#177 POT

#178 COVER

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Who is our next host?

INVITATION to dc #178

Even me has laughed loud and cried (silently). 

I was close to despair: other perception of a photo job, a photo exhibition, that scathed me, made my head burst. But an 'ommm', a family meeting and a stroll in the woods with friends put things in the right perspective, again.

May I please invite you to the next drawing challenge 

this weekend, the 17th + 18th of October? 

The theme is: COVER

Please tell me you are in, dear friends!

How the drawing challenge works: 

If you wanna join, leave a comment saying you are in. The following weekend the drawings (or paintings, prints, photos etc.) are shown on the blogs of the participants and the host links to them all, so we can visit a virtual exhibition to a theme.

Grüne Äpfel (+ Kuchenrezept)

Wir locken Maman am Sonntag an den großen Tisch im Löwenpalast
 und klappen den Lappy auf... meine Schwester (in Montréal) erscheint, et voilà:
Maman skypt zum ersten Mal!

We allure Maman at Sunday to the big table in the Lionpalace and open the lappy... my sister in Montréal appears, et voilà:
Maman skypes for the very first time!

Ich machte einen spannenden Spaziergang durchs Alstertal mit Freundinnen und Hunden (ohne Kamera). Danach grüne Äpfel für den Kuchen (s.o.) von Anuschkas Apfelbaum gepflückt.

Es ist kalt geworden.


I had an exciting walk through the Alstertal (wood at the River Alster) with friends and dogs (without camera). Later picked green apples for the cake (see above) from Anuschka's apple tree.

It has become cold.

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Kuchenrezept: 

Apfelkuchen à la Rose 

Ofen auf 175 Grad vorheizen.
250g Butter, 150g Zucker, 5 Eier, Prise Salz, 1/2 Fläschchen Bittermandelaroma, Tütchen Vanillezucker verrühren, 250g Mehl (hier 150g gemahlene Mandeln + 100g Mehl) + 1/2 Tütchen Backpulver rasch unterrühren.
In runde, gefettete und bemehlte Form bringen, mit 4-5 Äpfeln belegen.
In das untere Drittel des Ofens schieben und nach 45min mit gehobelten Mandeln bestreuen.
Ca. 10-15min fertigbacken (Holzstäbchenprobe).

Voilà! Kurz etwas abkühlen lassen, derweil Sahne schlagen:

Bon appétit!

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Plate from Gudrun Jantzen, even the text is printed by her 

I know, you are very busy, my dearest. And, 

who is our host for the next drawing challenge? 

Am I to do it? Well, I think I have a little trauma...

Gut beschirmt (dc host? who?)

Hier winke ich (nun wieder im Regen) mit meinem Regenschirm...
während meine liebste Azalee unter dem Sonnenschirm lustwandelt.

Here I wave my umbrella (again)... it is raining in Hamburg...
during my dearest Azalee strolls under a parasol.

Photo by Azalee, Khartoum 2015

Die kleinen Akazien wachsen weiter und inzwischen gibt es noch mehr Quitten auf der Fensterbank

The tiny acacia are still growing and in the meantime there are more quinces on my windowsill

Ich liebe den Duft von Quitten!
und sie sind so samtig (die Jüngste greift und staunt)

I love the fragrance of quinces!
and they feels so velvety (Youngest picks and marvels)

velvety just like this beautiful book by Claire Wellesley-Smith,
that has arrived today in the Lionpalace. And look:
It fits perfect to my 'fast' stitch for the last dc POT ;-)

(and the soup of pumpkins tasted delicious,
made with coconut milk and a few potatos, an apple and a small shallot,
well-rounded with cumin)

Love, Ariane. Rose

Any host for the drawing challenge this weekend?

dc #177: POT

In Isolde's garden
(here she fills boiled water from the kettle into a pot of tea)

I have shown you even here this marvelous place, e.g. in the dc #54 Garden.

Maybe the last pot of tea in the garden of my dear friend Isolde is already drunk this year
(photos are from the last June. I hope I will find time to meet her there, soon, still in this October and the kettle isn't in hibernation so we can make a fine bonfire to boil water in it).

This place, its simplicity, the nature, calm my nerves. 

So I put my photo of it (above) on linen and hang it over our table in the kitchen. 

Every time I look at it I recognize my dear friend Isolde, left, but often I see also a woman through the ages... with a yellow golden parasol and a long dress on, wrapped in a scarf. You follow?

Here! I stitch that image into canvas (a table runner), 

in pointillism's manner, because it is looking like the trees, they soon will turn defoliated as the birch tree on the photo. I wrap the threads round warp and woof, it goes up and down, round and round

as knitting, crocheting or sewing potholder, too, or small crochet tablecloth, fine as a spiderweb in Indian summer

Stefanie Seltner has inspired me to throw some wooly into the potty. She is our host of this drawing challenge No 177 with the theme POT. For me a rounded theme (round like the base of a pot itself), thank you! 

Btw: Those pomegranates reminds me on your Crown-Houses or House-Crowns, liebe Stefanie :-))

Please come to Stefanie's place to find more pots!

Later I will cook a golden pumpkin soup

Potholder by:
Renilde de Peuter
Alessandra Taccia
K.L.M.

dc
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#175 Pocket
#176 Skin
* #177 POT at Stefanie Seltner's

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Who is our next host?



Wish ya a nice weekend!