New year, new start

Hello, 
2011 wasn't really my favourite year of all time. Don't ask me why, because a lot of things went extremely well but then a lot of things didn't really turn out how I imagined. However, 2012 is going to be different!
For starters I'm going to start Blogging again. Hopefully I'll stick to it this time! And I'm going to start on a few new projects, to keep me busy when I get bored. Although there really isn't enough hours in the day to get bored. I'll keep you posted on what I'm doing and if I actually get around to it...

Also, we've moved house. The old one was just far too cold to live in, you could actually see your own breath when you woke up in the morning, that's how bad it was. Anyway, after lots of stress with the Landlord we have finally handed over the keys and can start settling into our amazing new 'warm' flat. No photos yet as its just a huge mess. Soon!

Standing on top of Gornergrat. Jan 2011

We were in Switzerland last week, in a hut at the foot of Matterhorn. It was amazing because we weren't in a village or even on a road, so you can imagine just how quiet it was at night. The nearest village (with shops) was about 300 Altimeters below us. (Is Altimeters correct?) We had to take a cable car or snowboard down to go shopping.

Furri, Jan 2011

The weather was a bit against us, because out of the 5 full days we were there we only managed to go boarding on two of them. I wasn't that bothered though, because for me, Snowboarding isn't the most 'pain-free' sport there is, I was quite happy to spend time up at the hut building Igloos with Philipp and reading, or playing games. That was my idea of a good time!

Happy New Year everyone!

A Secret Underground World.

On the way to the zoo on Sunday, Philipp, DK and I discovered a world I've never seen here in Stuttgart, a Graffiti Paradise. It was fantastic, so many colours, and of course I wanted to stay for hours and Photograph everything. There was unfortunately not enough time and I had two boys with me, who wanted to go to the zoo. I havn't had my camera in my hand for a while now and it felt good to be behind the lens again. I couldn't get enough.

This place we found was under a bridge crossing the Necker River, in Bad Cannstatt (the rough side of town) and was obviously a skater location.

Here are some of the better pictures I took:

A Short Visit

DK came to stay this last weekend, which was lovely because it looks like he won't be coming back to Germany in the near future and it was nice to see him before he disapears again. He wants to set up a farm back home in Australia and I'm pretty sure it'll be hard for him to take a holiday once he has started that! It was only a short visit but we managed to fit in a small trip to the zoo, well we didn't actually make it inside, we just walked through the park that surrounds the zoo and looked at the animals over the fence. No, we were not trying to save money, we just did't actually want to go in because it was the first really warm weekend of the year and EVERYBODY was at the zoo.

I would love to write more but I'm so tired, I nearly fell asleep at work today, so I'm going to hit the sack and get back onto here tomorrow!

Goodnight xx

Oh Satchel Bag, where art thou..

So about two weeks ago, at least, I ordered a beautiful leather bag from Scaramanga, and it still hasn't arrived. I'm absolutely fuming about it because I could really use it right now, instead of slowly ruining my handbag with all the books I'm carrying around at the moment. Grrr. And it's not like I can write nasty emails to Scaramanga because I know it's not their fault, it's stupid Royal Mail and Parcel Force! Just so you understand why I'm so annoyed, here's a photo:

See what I mean? It's beautiful!! And I want it NOW!!! ;)

I Love Chocolate...

So I know Summer is still a long way off but it can't hurt to be prepared. I found these the other day and just Love them. What do you think? I know they are a bit 'retro', and they're white, but that's exactly why I like them.

Brogues...

I have big feet. Especially for a woman. It used to bug me so much because I could never find the right size, or I could find it but it would be too small anyway and hurt like hell when I put them on. Then as I got older I discovered that Skate shoes and Converse shoes usually fit me, and if they didn't I would just get mens sizes instead. And since then I have lived in Sport shoes with a few very rare exeptions. Then a while ago I found these:

The other blog...

Hello Everyone,
I was just wanting to let those of you who don't know, that I have another blog which is more just about Photographs and things that I'm learning on my adventure towards becoming a Media Designer/Graphic Designer. Just in case you wanted to know...

www.madi-photography.blogspot.com

But remember that right now it's ...under construction! The name may stay but only time will tell!