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Stroll Through The Hood

A lot of times I get asked what inspires me. And one of my key answers is always “a stroll through the hood”. It might be street art, it might be thoughts or feelings connected with certain sights, it might be stuff I find to buy…in one way or the other you might find the photos, the thoughts, the feelings, the colors or anything from those strolls in my art journal, a mixed media project or a scrapbooking layout.

I would love to show you once a month what inspired me while strolling through my neighborhood. I hope you like the little insights into my daily life where I live . This is also a wonderful way for me to remind myself on the inspiring things in the hood. Maybe you get inspired by those posts and even invite ME to a stroll in YOUR hood – feel free to grab the logo and leave a comment for me on the post and share!

Now that the weather is warmer, there is finally more strolling around in the neighbor hood and I discovered this:

which was by the way on the way to the art store- which I love because it has changing art work out side and has very knowledgable staff and …it is always good to support small businesses when they do such an awesome job

Perfect to also stop to get a yummie bread which was used with an awesome mask

On the way I love to see the obvious stated

And shake my European head in disbelief when stumbling upon adventurously installed power cables…in front of a window…in the middle of the pavement…

These are the things you still have to keep in mind and watch when you are looking for all this amazing street art work here

or smile at this

and then you can take the path and visit a friend in Hoboken and find inspiration in the subway station too -isn’t this color combination great? White, Blue, Black and Rost (forget the feeling that the subway station looks as if it is falling apart ;) )

And when you arrived in Hoboken you can drive your friend Carla crazy by telling her that Hoboken is the 7th Borough of NYC ;)

It was an awesome day and I am so happy that the weather is now getting better and more strolls in the hood are coming up…and time on our deck too :)

Wishing you a gorgeous day!

Nat

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Joan vMetz

May 1, 2014 at 4:33 pm | #

Hi Natalie, I do so love your “Stroll through the hood” snap shots … The different infusions of colours and tones leaves me wondering what you wil be presenting on your next canvas’ ! Thanks for all your inspiration!!

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Sue Clarke

May 1, 2014 at 9:53 am | #

Great pic of your friend with a bird in the background.
The detail on the foot in that first pic is crazy good!

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Stroll Through The Hood

Jersey City Photos

It has been a while since I did this….why? Because of this:

and this

perfect days to stay inside and work in the studio…or travel (NOT!) but sometimes it looked like this:

and then I bit the bullet and bundled up to go outside ;)

It was COLD- but I was rewarded with fun stuff like this

Who could have PERDICTED? And then with a friend visiting you – it is even more fun to stroll through the hood :)

Especially when said friends likes the same grungy stuff as I do …btw- I do love the background to this- it already inspired me to something :)

And since they are big here on Security cameras…this is a good advice me thinks :) :) :)

I do love this building- It will be in one of my canvases some time- I am sure.

And a little view over to Manhattan…YES…we are the Sixth Borough…so there Hoboken…don’t even try to claim this…LOL (I figured a bit of local patriotism doesn’t hurt ;) )

And an insane walk through snow and ice and wind chills in Liberty State Park rewards you with this view…

I mean…all in all it is all about

And as for Spring…well…gotta make your own spring at home I guess ;)

Hope you had fun strolling through my hood – until next time…in J.C. :)

Nat

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Jan B

February 28, 2014 at 10:11 pm | #

Hey! You can come stroll through my neighbor in PA anytime! I’m so excited to see you tomorrow, by the way! As I lay here in bed in the Jane Hotel (talk about eye candy – oh my gosh!), I can see your ‘hood right across the Hudson! Love seeing your strolls…

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  March 2, 2014 at 10:41 am | #
  
  it was so good to see you again Jan! Thank you for coming <3
  
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Mary K. Parker

February 28, 2014 at 8:12 pm | #

Thank you do much for the pictures and narrative of your stroll thru the hood. I don’t do much mixed media anymore but loved it at Art Venture. When taking your canvas class, I futzed around with materials a bit until I came up with a friend. She loves roses and calligraphy which were on one sheet of paper. I immediately selected it, and knew it was going to be for her.

Your question made me realize that I am most of the time inspired by the people for whom I make things. Even cards. When it is scrapbook pages, generally it is materials and ideas for titles that come together. I don’t even worry about matching my photos to papers. I like all the colors together.

Good question! But again, living on west coast, I enjoyed your stroll… you can keep the white stuff, though!

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laurajo

February 28, 2014 at 2:23 pm | #

That was loads of fun. I just can’t imagine the cold. i am a weeny!! It looks like the antarctic! I still want to visit but I will definitely wait until Summer. Thanks for you inspiring stroll, braving the elements, even when you weren’t feeling great. You’re such a trooper.

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Leadonna Kimmel

February 28, 2014 at 10:50 am | #

Nat, thanks for the stroll! It makes me want to take a stroll in my neighborhood and look for some inspiration. It also makes me want to go to our downtown area and walk around with my camera and capture some inspiration there, too. We have a small downtown as Winston-Salem is not a big city but we do have some lovely architecture. Inspiration can be found all around us, we just have to open our eyes and look with our hearts and our creative minds. I’ve been meaning to tell you how much I enjoyed Creative JumpStart. I’m already looking forward to next year! Thanks again for the walk-about and some giggles along the way!

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Kathy P

February 28, 2014 at 9:56 am | #

So awesome….so inspiring….you have such a great camera eye! I love when you do this walk-about!

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LindaBrun

February 28, 2014 at 9:50 am | #

Thank you for sharing Nat and I can just imagine all the inspiration you would get from a big and interesting city like NY. Can’t wait to take a stroll.
Hugs

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jackie

February 28, 2014 at 9:33 am | #

a great stroll! even if it was cold and windy! look forward to see that building in one of your pieces!

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Leigh Pogue

February 28, 2014 at 8:48 am | #

Nat, I really love to see what other artists see around them through their eyes! I think it’s ‘Über’ cool to do this sometimes. TFS this little stroll. What a view of NYC ! Wow. Very niceand btw, I so enjoyed Creative Jumostart 2014 with you ! I will def do it again. I promise I will get around to uploading my pics, even tho they aren’t great, they were very fun and inspiring. Thanks. Leigh

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Sue Clarke

February 28, 2014 at 8:28 am | #

It never ceases to amaze me that cool street art that you find on your strolls. Love the Native American and the Open Your Mind ones.

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jean marmo

February 28, 2014 at 7:29 am | #

Love your strolls!

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Stroll Through The Hood

Jersey City Photos

This bathtub used as a planter in front of a neighbor hood florist always makes me laugh…I see this funny face with a funny nose …hilarious! – You should know by now I am a weirdo…if not…LOL- Welcome to my world!

I did n’t even see those faces hidden in our stucco at our apartment building till my friend Marsha visiting me from The Netherlands pointed them out. There are several different ones…very funny. I am intrigued to find out about the story here…

On the way to the Hamilton Farmers Market, I saw this sign…this makes me giggle ..I want this- LOL

My sis in law and I took a screen printing class in my favorite store in J.C. – Kanibal Home . The store is filled to the brim with wonderful home decor items, beautiful gifts, vintage furniture and cool clothing. The owner is amazing too and she probably thinks I am a weird stalker because my strolls through the hood let me end up in the store every second day – LOL.

I love this old advertisement in the brick wall – you see a lot of those fading away in J.C. .

Last saturday we were at TEDx Jersey City. A lot of great and inspiring talks- my favorite one was by Ben Figueroa. Ben “Broken English” Figueroa is a self-taught writer, spoken word artist, and stage performer. His talk was on “Step Your Art Up: Creating Honest Art for Today’s Youth”. It was such an amazing and inspiring speech – I hope it will be soon available so I can share with you. BTW – it blew my mind that there almost no people at TEDx here…if you ever have a chance to go to one in your hood- GO!!!!

Some of the street corners still have the old street signs- I love them – I hope they will keep them!

A new mural- I saw the progress of it and it was pretty cool how they sprayed it –

Other than strolls November was pretty crazy busy – so here is a stroll through our living-dining room where we hosted our house warming/home coming party and our first Thanksgiving Dinner in the states with our family. It was wonderful and we had a great time with our loved ones!

Time to snuggle up in front of the fireplace for a moment…before the next crazy bit of the year begins. Looking forward to my December strolls through the hood…although…the weather here is something I have to get used to. While cold weather in Hamburg is like Needles in your Bone, in NJ/NYC it is like scissors in your lungs and the wind is like a shovel in your back…or …actually …it is more like a shovel right in your kisser ;)

Have a wonderful day in or out :)

nat

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Nancy Sapp

December 2, 2013 at 3:36 pm | #

LOVE your “Hood” posts! Yes, IF we have the time to look, there are so many neat & interesting patterns, odd shapes & funny signs in any neighborhood.
LOVE YOUR apt! It looks so roomy – compared to my house!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts & art every day.
Grandma Nancy

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jenny

December 1, 2013 at 11:25 pm | #

Hi Nat
love the eat local sign hmm I could use that sign here
you are so funny
thanks for the stroll

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Sue Clarke

December 1, 2013 at 7:13 pm | #

I so enjoy your strolls that you share with us.
Zombies eat locals…too funny.
The face in the stucco is kinda creepy to me.
The mural on that wall is gorgeous.
Your table setting is simple and elegant.
Your fireplace looks like the perfect place to snuggle with cat, hubby, a huge mug of tea and a good book.

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Liz

December 1, 2013 at 3:37 pm | #

Did I ever tell you that I worked at a screen printing place one summer? Oye! Enough screen printing for a lifetime, I tell ya.

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Barbara L

December 1, 2013 at 1:18 pm | #

Your neighborhood is such fun. I love that bathtub pic and the “eat locals” sign. Let us know what you find out about the stucco faces. Interesting. You’ll eventually get used to north Jersey weather. It can be tough, but enjoy it anyway.

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Jean A Marmo

December 1, 2013 at 1:14 pm | #

I love your strolls through the hood! What a gorgeous apartment!!

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marshavalk

December 1, 2013 at 12:33 pm | #

;-)

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wilma Voermans

December 1, 2013 at 7:25 am | #

Love your strolls through the neighborhood! I like the housepainting(spraying), wowww!

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Stroll Through the Hood

Jersey City

DISCLAIMER: This Blog Post contains a picture that leads me to make a joke about drugs maybe also one about farting (ooops sorry “tooting”) – some might think of it as totally inappropriate , if you have a problem with this, you might be better off looking at something else . Don’t email me to complain, don’t visit my blog anymore because I might post things like this again and for sure do not let your kids look at this !

Jersey City and Manhattan Skyline …I loved seeing this when I placed a water glass on our window sill in the living room.

I love all the fun carved pumpkins on the stairs…I figure the squirrels do too- the go nuts chewing on those pumpkins ;)

I walked past this store so many times during the night- but never realized that you can buy Pharmacy AND Liquors until walking by at night. LOL. In fact you have to walk through all liquor aisles in order to get to the pharmacy. I mean I get it…It is ALL drugs ;)

I love the colors and the motif on this one- BEAUTIFUL and the black makes it pop perfectly!

How some extra strokes on a garbage can can make you laugh out loud!

Another amazing Mural in my hood- it is so detailed…love it!

I hope you enjoyed this stroll through my hood here in J.C. and I for sure will keep them coming

have a beautiful day!

nat

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apgjamie

January 29, 2014 at 11:51 am | #

the thing that I like best about inspiration is the Surprise

I mean I never know when it will happen and what the tiger will be, but it is usually a few different things that puzzle around in my head, unaware, and then Bam . . . OOOOO I need to write that down OOOOO I wander it that would work OOOOOO yes Yes YES

the Surprise of it all

loving the CJS2014

xoxo

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Kim Bright

November 3, 2013 at 9:52 pm | #

what a great and fun new twist on the advent calendar! :)

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Carmen Lucero

November 2, 2013 at 3:57 am | #

There was nothing that bothered me from this post – I actually had a few giggles! Thanks for posting your walk through your new home!

Carmen L

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Amante del papael

November 2, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

Fantastic post and amazing photos!!!

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marsha.

November 1, 2013 at 12:27 pm | #

:-D

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Madeline Rains

November 1, 2013 at 10:21 am | #

I love your strolls through the hood! Especially the liquor/paharmacy store! Crazy! And the farting dude. I am on my way up north to R.I. and then to the hood across the river from you! I can not wait for some NYC culture, sounds and even smells!

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Kathy P

November 1, 2013 at 9:45 am | #

So interesting when you look at a place with an artist’s eye! Many see it as run-down, but you show the real beauty under the layers! Great perspective, and thanks for sharing it!

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Sue Clarke

November 1, 2013 at 8:36 am | #

I always enjoy a walk through your hood Nat.
The reflection in the glass is priceless!
Drugs and drugs in one spot…funny.

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Jean A Marmo

November 1, 2013 at 7:29 am | #

Love seeing your hood! Makes me want to do this in my hood!

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Kirsten Alicia

November 1, 2013 at 5:39 am | #

Great photos, love the reflection in the glass of water.

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Stroll Through the Hood

Jersey City

DISCLAIMER: This Blog Post contains a picture that some might think of as offensive (I think it is hilarious), if you have a problem with this, you might be better off looking at something else . Don’t email me to complain, don’t visit my blog anymore because I might post things like this again and for sure do not let your kids look at this !

I would love to show you once a month what inspired me while strolling through my neighborhood. I hope you like the little insights into my daily life where I live (this is the first one from my new home in Jersey City, NJ). This is also a wonderful way for me to remind myself on the inspiring things in the hood. Maybe you get inspired by those posts and even invite ME to a stroll in YOUR hood – feel free to grab the logo and leave a comment for me on the post and share!

Jersey City is oozing with creativity and it really makes me happy to wander around here. I wasn’t even surprised when I read that it shows in a 2011 survey of census data Jersey City to have one the nation’s highest percentages of residents who work as artists. And now there is one more ;)

And it is a 20 min Path-Ride away from Manhattan – I mean seriously- I met my wonderful friend Julie at MoMA and from door to door it took me 45 mins with walking between stations and getting lost and buying a Metro Card…not too shabby, eh? Next time I make it in 35…I hope – hehehe

There are farmers markets almost every day in close walking distance and I love to discover new or fun things. The purple peppers for example- beautiful. Also the New Jersey Tomatoes- all kinds of colors and forms and boy are those yummie!

Also very interesting business models around here- LOL- I am not sure if that store would work in Germany-but hey- I love the set up and think it is also very inspirational with the green and yellow, the circles and the stenciled title :)

Advertising at it’s best…LOL- love this – I was cracking up!

I also love all the black iron cast railings in front of the brownstones here- so beautiful and so detailed too.

About a 20 minute walk from here starts the Liberty State Park – I love this place! It starts with this Marina and this view of Jersey City Down Town and Manhattan.

Also in the Park is the official New Jersey 9/11 Monument called “Empty Sky” . It’s short illusion of the twin towers still existing is very emotional and touching.

While walking further along the Park, my husband and I started talking about our container and when it should come in, we knew it should be in around that day and go to somewhere in Newark Harbor. So we checked on the vessel’s tracking and I kid you not – my husband yelled “It just passed under the George Washington Bridge three minutes ago”…and we were staring right at the bridge at that very moment. So we started running like idiots until we saw the ship coming out again behind the Statue of Liberty – you cannot really see it on the photo – as a cell phone camera can only do that much – but YES it was it. It was quite funny. So the container is in…now it is up to customs on how long this will take to clear. After we got clarified our ship made it, we were able to look at the main tourist attractions again ;)

Jersey City Skyline to the left, Manhattan in the middle and to the right. Amazing to see these buildings all together.

I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to photograph the Freedom Tower through a field of sunflowers. The one leave drives me nuts though- hahahha- but I couldn’t get it over me to take it off (read – I am wayyyyy to short to even reach it ;) ).

I hope you enjoyed the first stroll through my hood here in J.C. and I for sure will keep them coming ;)

have a beautiful day!

nat

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Liz

October 4, 2013 at 3:03 pm | #

I had really been looking forward to your first stroll through your new “hood”. I love the views of the amazing skylines! Glad your container arrived safely- hope you get it back soon.

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Petrin

October 4, 2013 at 10:30 am | #

Delighted with your first stroll!…The thing i like the most, is that you look for details! that’s me, because large things take care for themselves, not the small ones…i liked every photo, in special the iron gate!… and also the sunflowers – waiting for a canvas showing them! in special, the one leave.. I see you are enjoying as your wait for your stuff, – very particular the moment when you saw the ship!…The best for you both…an continue strolling!

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Karen Mathews

October 4, 2013 at 9:32 am | #

My dream place to live!!! Great photos.

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Rob Keogh

October 4, 2013 at 5:22 am | #

Great photos Nat, enjoy your new neighborhood.

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Jackie

October 3, 2013 at 6:10 pm | #

I enjoyed the stroll- and laughed with your excitement over your container coming in! The sunflower shot is amazing and would not have paid attention to that leaf,had you not pointed it out! Glad to see you liking your new digs! hugs”)

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lily

October 3, 2013 at 3:07 pm | #

love it!

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Heidi O!

October 3, 2013 at 2:36 pm | #

Welcome to thr USA! Your stroll through the hood was great – Thanks.

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Denise

October 3, 2013 at 2:13 pm | #

Love this stroll, such a beautiful day and fun things to see. I have a great silly smile on my face. I hope you get your stuff soon and customs is fast

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LaurieJay

October 3, 2013 at 1:54 pm | #

Gorgeous pix. I just came home from NY yesterday. So close to you – I was in the Village for a week.

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Michelle Guesy

October 3, 2013 at 1:47 pm | #

It sounds like you are happy!

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Cheryl Boglioli

October 3, 2013 at 12:57 pm | #

Love reading all your observations and love the photos. So glad you are settling in and hope you get all your stuff soon!

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Madeline Rains

October 3, 2013 at 12:39 pm | #

I so enjoyed this! Fall light! NYC and NJ! All good in that neighborhood. I love the hair dresser ad. : )
When I lived in NY in the 80s many of my actor friends lived in Jersey City but only because that was all they could afford. It was very dangerous back then, though even then filled with artists. It has come so far!

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Amy Riley

October 3, 2013 at 11:45 am | #

How fun to see your new hood. I live in Ohio but just returned from a trip to New Jersey. The lovely beach area of Sandy Hook / Highlands is just a ferry ride away from Manhattan. It was wonderful to be on a beach with crashing waves and seeing the NYC skyline in the distance. I highly recommend it!

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Kathy P

October 3, 2013 at 11:26 am | #

Just have to thank you, Nat, for starting this day off on a beautiful note for me!!! You truly have a photographer’s eye, and I loved seeing your photos. Great capture of street art, architecture, and the beauty that is NYC and environs! And the clouds…..fabulous! Come southwest some weekend and explore Philly…..great street art here, too! Thanks for this uplifting post! How anyone could find fault with it is beyond me!

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Lisa Flaherty

October 3, 2013 at 10:07 am | #

Great photos, and so much cool inspiration within an easy radius! I love the challenge/invitation to find some in my cookie cutter suburban neighborhood. :)

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Sherri

October 3, 2013 at 10:03 am | #

Welcome to New Jersey -from one “Joisey” girl to another! – lovely stroll – great pics -love your blog and your work!

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Sue Clarke

October 3, 2013 at 9:24 am | #

Great first stroll through your new hood. Purple peppers have never been seen by me. How crazy that your container should pass right by you. Didn’t realize that you live that close to Julie…creative world watch out!

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julie

October 3, 2013 at 9:00 am | #

Love it Nat!!! I’ve never seen a purple pepper – how gorgeous! TFS!!! Can’t wait for next month!

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bridget joss

October 3, 2013 at 8:35 am | #

What a nice neighborhood .Welcome

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Jean A Marmo

October 3, 2013 at 7:43 am | #

I love your strolls! Hope you get your things soon! How funny to see the boat.

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Thea

October 3, 2013 at 6:45 am | #

Hey Nathalie,

You know how to make people curious to take a look at your blog. :) Funny to see that there was no picture that could have been offensive. Love to see how you are setteling in in you new country. And what a blessing for you to have a good friend close by. Have fun and a wonderful day. Alway’s looking forward to your blogpost.

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Kirsten Alicia

October 3, 2013 at 4:50 am | #

Fantastic photos Nat, I love the one of the marina. How funny that you actually saw your container ship arriving, perfect timing! I’m looking forward to more of your ‘stroll through the ‘hood’ photos.
PS If the haircut doesn’t work, do you think you’d get your money back???!!! :-)

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- nathalie-kalbach
  
  October 3, 2013 at 10:22 am | #
  
  LOL- I should ask ;)
  
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- Lisa Flaherty
  
  October 3, 2013 at 10:09 am | #
  
  Lol, Kristen! Better the refund than the stylist having to make good on the “guarantee”! Haha!
  
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Stroll Through The Hood

Hamburg

I would love to show you once a month what inspired me while strolling through my neighborhood. I hope you like the little insights into my daily life where I live (this is the last one from Hamburg, Germany). This is also a wonderful way for me to remind myself on the inspiring things in the hood. Maybe you get inspired by those posts and even invite ME to a stroll in YOUR hood – feel free to grab the logo and leave a comment for me on the post and share!

While on a Beatles-Tour with a friend (yes…you gotta do some sightseeing in your own city) I actually for the first time realized the St. Joseeh Church in my neighbor-neighborhood St. Pauli. The Beatles started their career in Hamburg and it is said that Lennon once said: “I might have been born in Liverpool but I grew up in Hamburg.” Well…same for me- I might have been born in Düsseldorf but I grew up here as well…or so I think…snigger ;)

Actually I let you down a bit on photos of the hood- LOL- there will be photos of me in the hood mostly. I asked Andreas Muhme to take some photos of me in the hood as a memory- and we had a wonderful morning.

He always makes me laugh and do the worst faces…I guess it is a face of the hood ;)

Here is actually my bestie, former room mate and maid of honor Esther goofing around in front of our old apartment. We used to live in the yellow house in the background which back then wasn’t as cutely renovated and we froze a lot with wooden windows and had the ugliest bathroom you could imagine. But oh I loved this little place – lot’s of happy memories connected with it.

And just recently they put up these tourist signs in my hood. It is quite funny for me- because 20 years ago when I moved here, my family would anxiously call me because they heard bad stuff again about my area on the news and would asked if I was ok. Nobody wanted to live here, the rents were still low and now, the rent skyrocketed, and it is constantly changing – some things are good some things are not good at all…this neighborhood is tourist destination when you go to Hamburg. I made a joke when I saw the sign and said “I guess it is indeed time to go now” ;)

And so..this was the last stroll through my Hamburg Hood (at least online ;) ) …I am moving in less than 2 weeks. Packing up stuff, doing lot’s of paper work, sorting, giving things away to friends, seeing lot’s of friends every day…slowly saying good bye to this wonderful place that was my home for 20 years. But I am so excited to stroll through my new hood in Jersey City next month and I cannot wait to share pictures with you.

Have a wonderful day!

Nat

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Scra

September 12, 2013 at 9:56 am | #

Thank you SO much for sharing. Beautiful pictures of you!!! :D

And how exciting to move to the big U.S!! That’s a big change!!! :)

Moving both business and family — You go girl! :D

You are brave!! :D

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fran from down under

September 3, 2013 at 3:30 am | #

Thank you so much for sharing the hood with us Nat. It has been a wonderful journey and I’m looking forward to following you as you start a new phase of your life .All the best . ENJOY

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fran from down under

September 3, 2013 at 3:30 am | #

Thank you so much for sharing the hood with us Nat. It has been a wonderful journey and I’m looking forward to following you as you start a new phase of your life .All the best . ENJOY

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Jean A Marmo

September 3, 2013 at 3:16 am | #

Love your hood!

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Madeline Rains

September 2, 2013 at 3:29 pm | #

This must be challenging. I love all the strolls through Hamburg that you have shared. On to new adventures!

Your pictures also make me sad. I lived in exciting cities my whole life until I met my husband and moved to the country and I still miss that vibrancy of city life. But I am doing my best to embrace country life.

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lily

September 2, 2013 at 10:43 am | #

Lovely stroll. Bittersweet….. You will me missed!
Looking forward to the new strolls in your new hood!!

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suzanne bouchard

September 2, 2013 at 12:48 am | #

Nathalie I wish you all the best in the USa but i really don’t understand why you are mking this move!

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Mila

September 2, 2013 at 12:00 am | #

Beautiful historie, I desire the best in the new city. Hugs

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Sue Clarke

September 1, 2013 at 7:32 pm | #

Gorgeous pics of you Nat! Can’t wait to see what your strolls show us once you’re in New Jersey. Happy packing and I’m sure that your “see’ya laters” are full of memories and hard to say.

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Laura Strack

September 1, 2013 at 7:15 pm | #

This must be bittersweet for you…but aren’t you glad you have been able to document all your memories of Hamburg? I am looking forward to your strolls and post when you get to Jersey, your new hood! Although I live in the states, I’ve never been to NY so it will be interesting and fun to see your new hood. TFS, Nat!

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Marie-Anne Raeman

September 1, 2013 at 7:14 pm | #

Wish you the best of luck in your new hometown, can’t wait to read new stories about your new hood

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Micki

September 1, 2013 at 6:15 pm | #

wonderful pictures of Hamburg. I love the pictures of you. He did an awesome job, really captured your personality. Looking forward to your strolls in Jersey City.

PS: I hope I get to take some of your workshops now that you’re in the States. :-)

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amante del papel

September 1, 2013 at 5:00 pm | #

fantastic, thank you

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Corrine

September 1, 2013 at 2:34 pm | #

Pretty place your “hood”. I am sure you will miss the views and the friends as you start your new journey…xox

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Kirsten Alicia

September 1, 2013 at 11:49 am | #

Great photos, I hope I get to visit Hamburg one day. I hope everything goes smoothly for you in the next few weeks.

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Cuchy

September 1, 2013 at 9:55 am | #

Beautiful post.
muacks!

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Michelle Guest

September 1, 2013 at 8:45 am | #

Thanks for the stroll… Hoping you have an easy move & a good transition to your new “hood”…

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Stroll Through The Hood

Hamburg Sternschanze

Disclaimer: This post makes a bit fun of “The Lions of Michigan” – if you are a Lion of Michigan and weren’t in this crowd – I am sorry, I do not mean to make fun of all Lions of Michigan, nor all Lions nor the Lions Club nor all people of Michigan! If you are on that photo…sorry- if you hadn’t shouted out so loud..I would have not even noticed you in the crowd- you were almost invisible! ;)

I would love to show you once a month what inspired me while strolling through my neighborhood. I hope you like the little insights into my daily life where I live (at the moment Hamburg, Germany). This is also a wonderful way for me to remind myself on the inspiring things in the hood. Maybe you get inspired by those posts and even invite ME to a stroll in YOUR hood – feel free to grab the logo and leave a comment for me on the post and share!

You gotta love a neighbor hood where an artist works on the street – this guy is working on a canvas and is a friend of the hair dresser – the canvas will be hanging there soon. I hope I will see it finished. It is pretty cool!

Our Central Park- LOL – it is a piece of land …prominent right smack at best building location – which is now for several years rented out for a “beach-club” – yup right…in the middle of the city, at the train tracks going above you have a piece of beach with nice chairs and you can hang out there if you want. Totally forgot to take Julie for a break there…oh well…we did so much ;)

The usual saturday flea market from a different angle – it was so hot that day and soo crowded. But fun. Apparently this flea market made it to some travel guides for Hamburg

The Lions of Michigan…we did almost not know they were here…almost ;) ROAAARRRR

One Saturday morning I met my friend Sandra for a breakfast at one of the many portuguese cafe’s in this particular street. It is even called Galao (portuguese expresso with hot foamed milk) Strip . Great place for people watching and catching up before heading out to do the weekend grocery shopping.

Well…gotta say I love Hamburg ;) Only one more Stroll from the hood is going to be from Hamburg. I think I might continue though once I moved to Jersey City- might be a good way to keep me going checking out my new hood. What do you think?

Have a wonderful day!

Nat

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Michelle

August 9, 2013 at 8:15 pm | #

Oh my goodness Hamburg looks so cool. Jersey City has it’s cool spots- it’s changing so fast due to the increasing rents you’ll be a welcome addition to the artist community there.

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Enikö

August 5, 2013 at 5:02 pm | #

I hope you continue the tradition…I love your stroll through the hood posts!

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Jeanette Nyström

August 5, 2013 at 9:08 am | #

Great photos for inspiration! What a lovely city!

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Deleted User

August 5, 2013 at 12:56 am | #

I know you will find many hoods, and many new ideas around in NJ…waiting to see your strolls in America!.. The best for you!..

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Donna

August 4, 2013 at 6:43 pm | #

Oh yes, I’d enjoy seeing your new neighborhood adventures!

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Corrine

August 4, 2013 at 5:16 pm | #

Nice stroll. Yes do keep it up from Jersey City…xox

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Chrisd

August 4, 2013 at 1:14 pm | #

You will enjoy visiting all over Nj and check out the Lower east side of manhattan. Just a train ride away a d so many different ethnic groups in a Small area of land with sights and sounds to match.

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Kathy P

August 4, 2013 at 1:09 pm | #

Wish we had visited Hamburg while in Fermany…oh, we’ll, a good reason to go back, right? I think strolling is a wonderful way to get to learn about a new area!

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Michelle Guest

August 4, 2013 at 8:30 am | #

I will miss seeing Germany (as I’m sure you will too!), but it will be fun to see NJ too! I enjoy your tours!

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Love this simple cute one -it would be a perfect postcard- and…the wall does indeed look like this- pink patina ;)

Speaking of pink….hello…it is usually not my color- but ohh love. This is from the inside of my favorite flower store …you get a bunch of flowers- no big stuff around, 5 Bucks, and you are out. They open Wednesday till they sold all flowers…sometimes Friday your are out of luck. Then they are on their way to Holland again to stock up ;) Awesome awesome- I know I will for sure miss this one.

I love this in a little alley in the hood. I also love the background- I am not a brown color person- but this is intriguing with ll the dots and little hints of red.

And how can you pass up this photo-op – in a site street around the corner – so much fun with Andreas Muhme– we did another photo shoot, this time outside and had fun strolling around looking for places.

And another pussy cat…again love the simplicity of it- and yet so cool!

This is the outside of a kindergarten – loooveee the colors! So much fun!

Especially since I know we move I walk around my neighborhood with more open eyes than ever and explore little alley ways too. It is a lot of fun.

Hope you liked it- see you next month in the hood

hugs

Nat

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cal8007

June 29, 2013 at 11:45 pm | #

What beautiful flowers – roses? We are not as fortunate to get a bunch for a low cost here in TX; but in order to go get roses we have to go to the supermarket – hate going shopping! No, no, really. I don’t enjoy shopping when there’s a lot of people and there’s always a lot of people around. I only go when I’m running out of food in my fridge! I’ll have to go around my hood and take pictures of the school grounds, see what interesting art I can find!

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jenirae

June 28, 2013 at 4:23 am | #

Hope the skull isn’t on the kindergarten wall! ;-P How can you leave this wonderful hood?

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Sue Clarke

June 27, 2013 at 2:25 pm | #

That kindergarten wall is very cool and makes me think that the students and teachers are creative. And yes, definitely your color pallet. My family thinks that I am strange because I just can not pass up an opportunity to take pics like the ones you took of yourself inside of the tiger’s mouth. Your hood will be changing soon.

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mjmarmo

June 27, 2013 at 1:23 pm | #

Love this!

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Michelle Guest

June 27, 2013 at 7:45 am | #

Love the “pink” peony picture….

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Hamburg

I love these pillars that some of the houses have around here- this one is my favorite as it has also so much texture – ahhh – I want to create a background that looks like this

This is outer wall to a garden of a kindergarten in the hood. I love this – it is funny and I am sure the kids love it too.

I was rushing to go out with some friends when I passed by this clothes stores and the decoration made me stop. Love the clothespins lamps- such a cool idea – it is formed chicken wire and attached to it are the clothes pins

Love this view out of the window of the train right before you roll into my neighbor hood train station. BTW…notice T-Shirts ? Yes…the ONLY day so far in this spring there it was warm enough and I spent it in train….LOL

I thought this was such a fun idea – in this shop which sells things from local designers and artists you step up from the shop into the window display and you can walk around the display and check the things out in the window. Great idea to make it part of the shopping experience.

Hope you liked it- see you next month in the hood

hugs

Nat

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micki7764

June 2, 2013 at 5:33 pm | #

That’s one of the things I miss about Germany. Living in the midwest you don’t see that. Sigh, I have a love/hate relationship with your blog. LOVE you, your art and your photos but yet, photos of “the hood” really (really) make me homesick for Bad Hersfeld. :-(.

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rains

June 1, 2013 at 9:19 pm | #

European neighborhoods are so cool to me! I love the details that you see and share.

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mjmarmo

June 1, 2013 at 4:01 pm | #

Love seeing your hood!

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Sue Clarke

June 1, 2013 at 3:19 pm | #

I love the stroll through your hood Nat.
Such a beautiful area with tons of street art!
You will get more of an inspiration from nature if you come to my hood. You’re invited.

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scrapvat

June 1, 2013 at 11:43 am | #

Such cool photos. How nice to do this. A good idea to kick start creativity :D thanks for sharing.

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starlightdoodler

June 1, 2013 at 7:39 am | #

Love your hood, looking forward to next month

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Michelle Guest

June 1, 2013 at 6:49 am | #

I like the idea of the customers becoming the window art!
I glad you are going to get to experience living in America, but I’m going to miss your foreign tours…

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