Happy holidays !

Rene & Radka

Some pictures from two of my favorite photographers Rene and Radka

new...neW...nEW...NEW !

A lot of new stuff in the shop today !!!
Also, let me present you the brand new ExcUsE mY frEnch packaging ^^ YEAH !

IKEA... love you

Hi, i'm Caroline and i'm an Ikeaholic.
Totally fond of their dishes, lamps, collection of fabrics etc..

My Place & Yours : Front Door

This week, Pip's meme "My Place & Yours" theme is "Through the Frontdoor".
So here is mine.
I live in the former "East Side" of Berlin, in a very basic typical building on the 1st floor.
There's not much to say about my frontdoor except that it's VERY brown.. The stairway and my door look like they're all painted with chocolate.. i feel like i'm Willy Wonka everytime i come home.

Anywhere you go...

Anywhere you go in Berlin there's always something to see and nice moments to spend.
That was an ordinary, mild and lovely sunday.
Ernst-Thälmann Park
Graffitis
A cactus fan's window
Delicious spinach gorgonzola pizza at 'Il Pane e le Rose'
A precious pink building in Bötzowviertel
Zeiss Planetarium

Saturday market

Here is a picture of my stand today on Kollwitzplatz : it was in the middle of the alley and i think it looked nice ; the weather was very mild ; a LOT of people asked me about my APE, they all want one ! Well if you do, remember it only goes 35km per hour maximum when it's empty (40km per hour if the street goes down..)

My Place & Yours : secret weapon

Now Meet me at Mike's meme, "My Place & Yours"!
Ok, i know i'm a bit late on this one but i really didn't know what was my secret weapon..
I felt i didn't have anything but my energy and the pleasure and peace i feel when doing my stuff.
and this morning it hit me ! my coffee machine IS really my secret weapon ! i was just too sleepy to realize it
It's an old Krups coffee machine i bought on a fleemarket when i arrived in Berlin 2 years ago. The guy who sold it to me said : 'you'll see it works a bit like an expresso machine'
Actually.. no. It doesn't make a hell of a coffee but i enjoy using it because it's beautiful.
...
Yeah it's not really a hell of a weapon..

To the post

I've been to the post office today, so that your packages will arrive very soon :
Carine in La Comté / France
Mariana in Mülheim an der Ruhr / Germany
Inès in Lyon / France
!

Today is a great day (suite)

Well it was raining cats and dogs, but it was great to be there to see all those dominos falling down. All of them were painted by people from everywhere in the world ; they symbolized the former wall and how it's fall had chain consequences on European history. Mikhail Gorbatchev was here and Lech Walesa made the first domino fall.

Today is a great day

I feel VERY emotional today because we're celebrating the fall of the Berlin wall.
It's amazing for me to be here in Berlin and to feel like i'm "from Berlin", twenty years after this D-day.
I'll come back later with my own pictures of the celebrations that are taking place today.

Circus

Kind of creepy from the outside, but amazing when you sneak in..

yum yum

I'm a huge fan of Thaï food and i decided to make my favorite dishes. I can make a green curry with tofu (we ate that yesterday) and today i tried springrolls.
Before trying i didn't know how to use rice paper.. and i thought it wasn't easy.
I was sooo wrong !
It's super easy to make : you just have to put them briefly in the water and then on a towel, put all the ingredients (carrots, rice noodles, tofu or chicken slices, fresh coriander, soja), and then wrap.
Don't tell my husband it's so easy, because he was quite impressed !

SNOW !!!

Today is officially the first day snowing in Berlin ! Oh la la... it's only the very beginning !

Colours : All Red

Red things at home... (foxy puppet head from former East Germany, tomato salt shaker, wood mushroom to fix the socks, timer, "poivre" metal box, lamp, wool mushroom, japanese wood wishing puppet)
... and outside (amaryllis, detail of the berlin wall, 6-babies carriage)