The last last minute gift – instant DIY sweater Bracelets

As Heiligabend (Christmas eve) is the big-gift-giving-stuff-your-face day in Germany my last minute gift making time has been shortened by a full 24 hours! eek! Enter the last lastseriouslyabsolutelast minute handmaderecycledrefashioned gift: Cuffs & bracelets …

Licketysplit Gluten and Lactose Free Gingerbread

Christmastime can be evil when you’re a kid & desperate for something you can’t have. For me it was always gingerbread. Gingerbread cookies, gingerbread houses, gingerbread men. I needed them but my mom refused to …

Not the army anymore – a DIY maxiskirt tutorial

As a young German dude mein Mann had to do a compulsory year in the army. He kept EVERYTHING! Seriously, in our basement we have  boxes full of stuff like this: Yay! Army rations from …

Gluten and Lactose free German Christmas Cookies

The-final-countdown-to-Weihnachten is in full swing in our house…that means that once-yellow-pajama’ed dude is eating cookies faster than I can make ’em! Here’s another favourite of his: …made with a secret German ingredient: Waldmeister Goetterspeise…

Opulent Upcycled Refashioned Baby Outfit

Our little elf has been invited to a lot of Christmas parties and although we’re allowed to tag along as well, she’s definitely the one people really want to see. Like all fashion icons, she …

Traditional German Baked Apples for Christmas

Ahhh…Weihnachten! The dude has his own fondly remembered childhood Christmas sweets. Once he was old enough he had the honour of lighting the Adventskranz every Sunday, then onto “helping” Oma make the Bratapfeln (baked apples). Here’s …