this neck of the woods

A couple of weeks ago, we bundled ourselves against the cold and headed out on the town with a couple of friends for the Basel Museum Night (the one night a year that all the museums in Basel are open until 2 am, with one entrance fee). In about 5 hours, we only managed to make it to 3 museums (hah!) – our favourite of which was the Basler Papiermühle (paper mill). Contrary to what the name suggests, the mill doesn’t only make paper – it’s also a fully functioning letterpress printery.. they even cast their own lead letters! Totally awesome if you ask me :)

Valentines Day doesn’t mean much to me, but we saw this leaf while we were walking in the forest the other day and I thought it was appropriate – even if I am a day late! I also thought this might be a good time to restart the blog after a rather long holiday, part of which was spent at home in Australia.. but I’ll post more about that later.

Um.. it seems that I’ve lost my blogging mojo. Any ideas how to get it back? I tried taking some time out to re-focus but instead, i just forgot about it.

It would appear to go hand-in-hand with losing my mobile/garland mojo. A few weeks ago a florist down the road agreed to put some of my mobiles and garlands into her shop, which was exciting news, but when I handed them over a week later, I didn’t get the reaction I’d hoped for and left feeling really discouraged. Mojo = squashed. I know I shouldn’t give up so easily, and I don’t plan to, but maybe I need to back away from it for a while?

I really want to get my motivation back soon.. so please tell me how!! Perhaps a nice long holiday in Australia will do the trick ;)

I have decided to start two new weekly segments here on this neck of the woods… hooray! The first, starting now, will be called Fancy That and will be a carefully compiled collection of things that I’m fancying this week. My obsessions change daily, so this way I can keep track!

The second, inspired+admired, as I’m sure you can guess, will feature someone or something that’s got me all excited and inspired and the like – and in turn, maybe you can be inspired too!

If you have any tips or advice for my new segments, feel free to share!

(photo by Edyta on flickr or deviantArt)

So it would seem that I’ve been on a bit of a blogging holiday lately! My apologies for the lack of posts, it’s been a crazy month.

September was the month for visitors here, with Dave’s parents, my parents, and my sister all arriving in Europe for a holiday. This was a real treat for us, because we hadn’t seen most of them (Dave’s Dad being the exception) since we left Australia almost a year-and-a-half ago.

We had an amazing month tripping around and spending as much time as possible with the people we miss the most. Sadly, everyone has gone home now and we’re back into routine… boo. On the plus side, Autumn has arrived… hooray!

I’ve also been keeping busy creating some more mobiles and garlands, and now just need some better weather (it’s been dark and rainy all weekend) to photograph them. So, I promise to post more in the coming days!