Two days ago, in the middle of the night, I finally used my Rühlemann's gift card from three years or so ago and made a spontaneous plant order for the spring (which was, considering that we're currently in the middle of this winter's only cold wave with temperatures between -2°C in the day and -15°C at night, maybe a little optimistic. But, okay, ( Read more... )

Because all my ordered plants finally arrived last weekend (with bugs again, argh, fucking organic gardening companies, AAAAAAAAAAARGH), I realized it might really be time to show you what survived and what didn't and what I bought in April at Berliner Staudenmarkt (a plant market at Berlin Botanical Gardens that takes place annually in April and ( Read more... )

So, winter is (meteorologically speaking) over (probably not for you guys in the US Mid-West and East Coast, huh?) which means: new decoration at Casa de Gila \o/ I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to make yet another door wreath but last weekend, I finally had a last minute idea for a wreath and dragged Mom to the craft store (don't worry, Mom loves ( Read more... )

Or at least my hands. It's been ages since I posted anything that wasn't fic or fic related, and there are reasons for that (which I will talk about in a separate post since it's a little more complicated) but hey, gardening season is nearly upon us again!

( Grow ALL THE HERBS! )

Okay, not only for this, since I'm kind of hoping to be at least semi-regular with posting anything to do with gardening but yeah, I still have a lot of free icon space and I guess I can be generous with it?

( Lots and lots of plant pictures (so picture heavy, not dial-up friendly). Did I mention that plants are my family's pets?) )

Seeing as I have about a month left until the new semester starts (and 1 1/2 until uni starts) I decided to use my left over leave days and do some of that studying thing I haven't been doing for two months now (ie. not go to work until the end of September but I have to negotiate with the guy who keeps tracks of my work hours and stuff at our ( Read more... )

Because I'm pretty sure I'm broke now. But look at ALL THE PRETTY THINGS I brought home from London :D

( I'm broke, broke, broke, broooooooooke! )

Anyone of you who can find me an affordable nice-looking wearable quality Ravenclaw women's shirt in size M with this crest (the real one, as opposed to the movie one which sucks because seriously, haven't they read the goddamn books?):

( Cut because of picture and stuff. )

Apparently, apartment hunting in Berlin is just as crappy now as it was two years ago. Or even crappier because apartments have become even more expensive. My favorite example from two days back: one room (as in: one room to sleep, live and eat in, but at least a separate kitchen), 38 square meters, 400€ (gross, that is including water and ( Read more... )

So, after a little conversation with keylafirefly and an encounter with an origami frog army for my favorite co-worker (I wish I'd taken pictures. But then again... better not. It probably would have put me up right there with Parker *points to icon), I decided to do a collective order from KnockKnock to save shipping costs to Germany. Anyone on the flist ( Read more... )