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13 favourite songs/bands in 2014

Today I want to share my 13 favourite songs/bands with you I had in 2014.
the new year started and it still feels weird to write the new date -->2015.
I hope you all had a lovely spent new year eve, I first had dinner with my friends and after we all went clubbing in Stuttgart, where I also met my sister <3
The beginning of 2014 I was still living in London and working as an Au Pair.
So obviously the music I listened to includes a lot of children songs out of children (disney)filmes (oh maybe I should also do a post about my favourite films..but let me warn you, I was a lot into disney movies!)

1. Frozen - do you want to build a snowman      
     - I often listened to that song while bathtime and we all had to sing it, a nice and catching one

2. the snowman - walking in the air
    - a cute film and a lovely song. My kids did a lovely fair in their school, where some of the kids sang that song. 


3. maroon 5 -move like jagger here
    - because my girls always understood "move like (a) dragon" <3


4. Pablo Alboran - me iré here
    - my sister told me about him and when I visited her in Cran Canaria we listened all his songs when we went to the beach


5. Jaymay - never be daunted here
    - when I discovered the awesome art movie "happy thank you more please", I fell in love with its film music.


6. M83 - Outro here
    - In summer the film "tracks" was released in the theatres in England. Outro was part in the awesome trailer of the film "tracks". It's worth watching and listening. Even though I'm not sure if the song is actually part of the film, too.


7. Lung - open palms here
    - one of the songs I listened before going clubbing with friends in London. Unfortunately clubbing, especially in London, is way to expensive to do it every weekend. 


8. Basilisq - doy here
    - one of the songs I can relate to my best friend. She was the one, who discovered the song first and then showed it to me. 



9. Rising appalachia - scale down here
    - an awesome folk band, which is very naturally in every way


10. Mrs. Greenbird - shooting stars and fairytales here
    - a fantastic german band, very cute and flowless


11. Dotan - let the river in here
      - this band was in the radios everywhere and actually got a hit with the single "home", but I personally like "let the river in" most. I always listen to it when I'm riding my bike to university.


12. Hundreds - happy virus here
      - such a good song about society and life


13. Anouk Aiata - naci en alamo here
     - a hippy girl, who sings in english, spanish and french. So much love for the ears <3


14. Ben Pearce - what I might do here
      - what an awesome song for getting ready before clubbing or enjoying yourself. Check out the video as well


What did you enjoy to listen in 2014? I'd love to hear :)
Have a great 2nd january 2015
xxx, Isa

merry christmas and a happy new year

wow, christmas is already over and it couldn't have been nicer. 
All of my family came together and I saw finally my siste after one and a half month again. 
On christmas day my dad usually set up the tree in our living room and put on all the lights. After everything is lighted and smells good after the tree and tea my mom and I decorate the tree with our red and shiny christmas baubles together.
Generally I'm a last minute present wrapper so this is the time I finally think about which paper I want to use for each present. 
Next year I should definitely not postpone that and start earlier. Maybe I could then print my very own christmas paper? Oh well...we will see how it goes.
In my family it's all about enjoying themselves, having a good time together and share love.
Especially after my sister and I moved out this october to study in different cities. Of course it's kind of a tradition to come home on the weekends, but it'll tend to be different since our exames and presentations are soon coming up and we have to study.
So in the evening we have some yummy dinner together, this year we have (okay had, since it's over and already new years eve) potato "Auflauf", it's a german pie made of potatoes, brocoly, leek and onions and cheese. Yumm!
And after it's present time and we all have a look what we get :)
How is christmas for you? what are you doing/what did you do?
XXX, enjoy new years eve wherever you are, Isa

Santa Claus

Hi everybody,

christmas is on the move and everyone is already decorating their homes very beautifully. 
So did we. My flatmates and I went to the shops last weekend and bought some christmasy themed stuff to make our flat pretty. 
Yesterday was the opening of the famous "christkindl" market in Weingarten, which was rather nice. We met up after our lectures to stroll around the market.
It was super fun and the streets were very pretty decorated with lights, twigs and christmas baubles.
We wandered around and got christmas presents, drank mulled wine and ate "Apfelstudel".
When we got home it was quite late, but I needed to do some crafts I'm making for my flatmates.
In germany it's a tradition to celebrate 6th December. Therefore I made these little cuties for my 16 flatemates:

have a wonderful friday afternoon and a beautiful weekend (if you wonder how I did these santa clauses, there are basically painted (milk)tetra paks. If requested I can also do a DIY --> already thought about that anyway)
Bye and lots of love, Isa

5 nice ways to make pretty garlands #tassel garlands

Hey everybody,

so this is part number 2 out of my little serie "5 nice ways to make pretty garlands".
Today I'm going to show you the tassel garland, which is pretty easy as well, yet it needs more time to accomplish. 

you can basically use every bench of colours you prefer; I was in the mood to create a litlle rainbow for my door I can look up every morning to (which hopefully takes my crumpy morning mood away).
Your equipment consists basically only tissue paper, which is very thin so perfectly for waving softly in a breeze.
I made it with normal paper, though.

• (tissue)paper
• threat 
• yarn 
• scissors

1. draw a line on the paper (it's the mark for the length of the stripes) and cut small stripes until this line. Repeat that step with all your papers

2. Roll every single paper into itself and wrap the threat around it.

3. The last step is to stitch the yarn through the tassels and slide them on the yarn (you can make it as long as you want). Now your tassel garland is ready to be hung up on a pretty wall or anywhere you want in your room. 

 Have a nice day and fun while crafting, I'm going to enjoy my tea now :)
Isa
 

5 nice ways to make pretty garlands #garland made of apple stamps

 

Hi everybody,

today I'm going to show you how to make a pretty apple-stamps-garland. I personally love garlands, because they make everything prettier and cute.
Apparently for the current autumn winter weather (at least in germany it's pretty cold and wintery now) an garland made of apple stamps would suit that weather at its best. 
It's super easy to create and you don't need much equipment:

• brush
• apple
• thick paper
• needle
• acrylic paint

 1. cut the apple in half and spread the paint all over its surface

2. press the apple on the paper and make sure that all of the apple is attaching your paper since the  result just will be prettier
Repeat that step as often as you want, I made 8 prints.

3. after the paint dried make a hole with a darning needle (actually you can use pretty much every needle, but to put through a yarn after, it will be easier to use a darning needle since its diameter).

4. the last step will be to threat the apple stamps and to hang it on your favourite place.

Have fun making that pretty garland and if you want you can always send me your result, I'd love that <3
Happy monday evening, Isa

#recipe and talk about pinterest

Hi my dear readers,

first of all I want to say sorry for my absence. It was incredible busy these first weeks in university, organising everything and so on. Additionally I became ill, the whole flue thing, which didn't help at all.

But here I am, fresh and recovered.

Today I was going to have only one lecture ("sing with kids"), but it was canceled due illness.

So I'm enjoying my freetime and do crafts and actually wanna ask you if you are as hooked on as I am when it comes to Pinterest?

I just love, love this page so much that I could spend hours and hours searching for stuff, since I’ve heard the first time of it.

Basically you can find everything you would want and beyond, such as food recipies or style support…there are no boundaries.

What I love most ist that You can get a lot of inspiration and support for your own stuff. It works like you can follow people you like, for example crafting girls, whom you like there DIYs of or style blogger or...

So for me it works as a tremendous inspirational source when it comes to crafting and other pretty things, which make life beautiful.

A few days ago I was searching for a nice recipe for a cake and what I found was a drawn one. I was so amazed by that idea to not just write down a recipe of a certain cake or dinner, but draw it. What a lovely idea, I thought.

And at the next day I tacked my sketch book under my arm and grabed a pencil and found myself drawing in my bed with a cup of tea and nice music.

I'm pretty pleased with the result. What do you think?

What are you enjoying doing in your freetime?

Have a wonderful november day, love Isa