by amiemccracken | Jan 7, 2010 | design, Germany
I’m really having trouble deciding what color to paint my accent wall in our new living room. The couch we want is a dark grey, so I’m thinking of going with a red or blue. Sadly, I didn’t take these beautiful rose pictures. But now I’m...
by amiemccracken | Jan 4, 2010 | Germany
I’m sitting in Albert’s office writing this blog post…because we locked ourselves out of our new apartment. In Deutschland the doors lock like a hotel room, the instant you shut the door you better have your key because it is locked tight. Luckily,...
by amiemccracken | Nov 25, 2009 | about me, etsy, Germany, Her Daughter, i AM alive, writing
Here comes one of my very rare ‘lay it all out there’ blog posts. I don’t like airing out the dirty laundry, and I suppose this isn’t really any big secret or anything, but I usually also don’t blog or talk about my feelings a lot.But I...
by amiemccracken | Nov 21, 2009 | Germany, photography
Day 87 – Rote JohannisbeerenI was going through the market one day and saw these next to a box of raspberries. Something I hadn’t seen before, so I bought them. They are called Rote Johannisbeeren…do you know what they are? They have an addictive...
by amiemccracken | Nov 19, 2009 | Germany, photography
A few photos from our drive to Kassel and other places. The gray sky can actually be beautiful sometimes.Day 84 – The Lone WindmillDay 85 – Tiny towns with tiny steeplesDay 86 – These windmills are huge, and they come up all of a sudden, like giants...
by amiemccracken | Nov 18, 2009 | Germany
Albert had a dream of owning a European Porsche, since we were moving here. Porsche is from Stuttgart, where we live, and they are beautiful. He thoroughly researched which Porsche to get and decided on a 924. When we got here he found a few of them, and one...