since we celebrate here in Germany from the 24th till the 26th – I wish you a wonderful holiday season and a magical time with your family and friends!

See you next week :)

Love

Nat

Nat

What a great group all over the world we had for the 5th Secret Santa Ornament Swap this year! We had 23 people from Germany, The Netherlands, USA, Denmark, Australia, Sweden and Canada. And here we go – this is what they made and send out :

Daphne – who sent to Liz

Shawn – who sent to Jo

Stine who sent to Dani

Linda B. who sent to Alexia

Jo – who sent to Majbritt

Eeva – who sent to Stine

Jan – who sent to Rae

Carmen who sent to Michaela

Martha who sent to Marja

Marja who sent to Daphne

Majer who sent to Shawn

Rae who sent to me (so can’t wait to hold it in my hands – I got notice there is a package waiting at the post office and I hope it is it :) )

Liz who sent to Martha

Dani who sent to Bill

Bill who sent to Carmen

Christine who sent to Linda

Mine- which I sent out to Jan

Linda S. who sent to Karen

Katja who sent to Cat

Karen who sent to Katja

Michaela who sent to Eeva

Cat who sent to Linda S.

Alexia who sent to Christine

It is my favorite part each year to see the ornament photos rolling in :) Thank you all who participated and send such an awesome surprise out to someone in the world! You all did a wonderful wonderful job! It truly made this last and 5th Secret Santa Ornament Swap a blast!

Have a gorgeous day!

Nat

Nat

Finally did it – and created a page for n*Studio. I was really hesitant to do this but it was really hard to keep private and business apart. Some of my friends love my work but they are more interested in my private life ;) and some of my friends are just interested in my business life and not in my private life :)  So I would love you to join my new side – I’m looking forward having you there :)

Nathalie Kalbach n*Studio

Wirb ebenfalls für deine Seite

Thank you!!!

Nat

Nat

Finally…LOL -I finished up my XXL-Scarf. It is 7.20 feet long (2,20 m) – warm and cozy, topped off with some wonderful Prima Flaxence Barley Flowers and I finished it just in time for going to Berlin with Julie Fei Fan Balzer who arrived yesterday :)

I will try to post some pictures of us in Berlin before the Mixed Media Circus starts :)

Have a great day

Nat

Nat

The Tattered AngelsDesign Team 2012 is picked  :) . Hier ist es also das Tattered Angels Design Team für 2012

Golden Ambassadors:

Nathalie Kalbach – Germany (Design Team Coordinator)

Vicki Chrisman – USA

Designers:

Alissa Fast – USA

Anna Björklund – Sweden

Anna Dabrowska – Poland

Birgit Koopsen – The Netherlands

Evgenia Petzer – South Africa

Holly Simoni – USA

Jana Korečič – Slovenia

Kaori Fujimoto – Japan

Karine Cazenave-Tapie – France

Lene Neby – Norway

Louise Nelson – Australia

Martha Richardson – USA

Zoe Nemburt – Canada

Nat

Don’t laugh at me ….this layout was something I was smiling while doing it, tongue in cheak included and photoless.

I totally love  the wonderful images on the Vintage Street Market Family Paper Pack especially for a while now I have a nack for 50s clothing and last CHA you could have seen me wearing a nice 50s Sailor dress (and I have a new style dress for the coming CHA ;) ) . I love 50s furniture too.

But there is one thing that I really don’t wish back….the way how a women’s path was determined  back then. I think we are very fortunate today that the way how women are treated and the possibilties that women have nowadays  have changed so much. Although….a bit of gentlemen attitude by men could definetly come back (DUDE you could help get my suitcase up in the baggage net in the train…and NO you do not have to let the door crash into my face and YES…even though I act as if I do not want you to treat me special because I’m a woman…I love it – keep going- hahahha) – LOL.

Good thing my hubs is a true gentleman – he laughs about my attempts in doing as if I don’t care- so if you read it ….here you go…truth out!

A little Memo- on – yes I like it clean – but no – I’m not a Hausfrau :)

I used my new yum yum Tonic Studios Border Punches with the Papers and also with my all time favorite metallic paper sheet from the Dimestore Vogue Kit.

What do you like from the 50s?

Have a gorgeous day

Nat

It is this time of the year again: We will have the Secret Santa Ornament Swap and it is the 5th Year Anniversary- WOOOWW- I can’t believe it.

If you would like to create one cute little ornament for someone please email me till next Tuesday November 15  at nathalie.kalbach(at)gmail.com. Grab the logo, link to my blog and tell that you play along and spread the word.

Due to organization everyone who wants to play along has to be willing to ship internationally. Email me your address. I will email you your happy recipent by the 19th of November. You have to commit to send out the ornament the latest by December 1st! If you think you can’t keep up with this deadline, please do not play along – I don’t want any sad faces here!!! One year one person did not receive her ornament – but it was sent out. It is always a risc here -but I can’t take responsibility. We can only trust each other and trust the mail system. Send me a picture of your ornament by December 1st. After December 15th I will show all the ornaments on my blog 

Es ist wieder so weit! Auch dieses Jahr gibt es eine Auflage des Geheimen Weihnachtsbaumanhänger Wichtelns, die 5. Auflage.  

Wenn Ihr also Lust habt einen Anhänger zu basteln und diesen an jemanden weiterzuschicken, dann meldet Euch  bis Dienstag, den 15. November bei mir per Email bis Sonntag: nathalie.kalbach(at)gmail.com. Schnappt Euch das Logo für Euren Blog, linkt meinen Blog und verteilt die Kunde :)

Aus Organisationsgründen kann ich dieses Jahr nur Leute annehmen, die auch International versenden würden (die meisten wollten das sowieso und es ist schwierig alle gerecht zu verteilen, wenn es nur im eigenen Land versandt werden möchte) Schreibt mir Eure Adresse. Ich emaile Euch dann zum 19.November den Namen Eures Empfängers! Der Anhänger muss bis zum 01. Dezember versandt worden sein! Wenn Ihr diesen Termin nicht einhalten könnt, dann meldet Euch bitte bitte nicht an, ich möchte niemanden enttäuscht sehen! Vorletztes Jahr gab es eine Person, die ihren Anhänger nicht erhalten hat, aber rausgeschickt wurde er. Es gibt immer ein Risiko- aber die Verantwortung kann ich hierfür nicht übernehmen. Wir können uns nur gegenseitig vertrauen und das gilt auch für das Versandsystem. Schickt mir von Eurem Anhänger bis 01. Dezember ein Bild. Ab dem 15. Dezember zeige ich dann alle Anhänger 

Last year we had 22 participants and you can see all the awesome and different ornaments here – it’s a lot of fun.

Letztes Jahr haben 22 Leute mitgemacht und Ihr könnt all die grandiosen und unterschiedlichen Anhänger hier sehen – es hat so viel Spaß gemacht!

Nat

Cocoa Daisy crops always provides you with a ton of challenges, prizes, and most importantly laughter & camaraderie with people who “get this scrappy thing” you do. You do not have to use Cocoa Daisy kits or even be a subscriber to play along. We welcome everyone.  You just have to be registered on the Message Boards, especially if you want to participate in the chats.

There is a HOW TO PLAY posted on the Message boards.  Don’t forget to add your songs to the PLAYLIST.  You can play music while you chat & have fun.  The SCHEDULE is in Eastern (New York, Toronto) but you can easily convert time zones HERE.  Got more questions?  Post them to the MB post here and we will be happy to help.

Cannot wait to see you on the boards for this awesome inspiring event November 11-13!

nat

Nat

Do you have a cat? Well- if so you know the Cat in the box thing, right? I actually did a layout about this back in 2007 – hehehe- funny to see that my style is really different there.

Hast Du eine Katze? Falls ja- dann kennst Du die Katze-in-der-Kiste Sache, nicht wahr? Ich habe darüber sogar mal ein Layout in 2007 gemacht – hehehe- witzig zu sehen, wie mein Stil sich verändert hat. 

My Box My Castle – 2007

So having this in mind- I really love the videos by Simon’s Cat – and this one totally cracked me up again- so I’m sharing it with you- have fun :)

Dies im Hinterkopf – ich liebe ja diese Videos von Simon’s Cat – und bei diesem hier habe ich mich scheckig gelacht – ich wollte es Euch nicht vorenthalten – viel Spaß :)

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKvNqe8cKU4]

Have a wonderful day :)

Habt einen tollen Tag :)

Nat