Oh hi there....

I am alone sometimes. And I don't like to be. And I look at old men in the restaurant eating alone and I feel bad for them. But I should not. Because being alone is not always a bad thing. I am very emotional at the time. My inspiration is suffering under a big bunch of thoughts and my whole application business thingy. But I am coming back pretty soon. Till then this video about being alone. It is more than beautiful.

Loretta

I have the best cat in the world. Her name is Lori or Milford Cubicle or Gribon or Lorelei or Loretta or Rhododendron.... (and so on). One name would never be enough for her. But her real name is Lori. :) I just to only give her a name when we were in a fight. But in the meantime every name she gets (which is about one per week) is filled with love.

She is almost two but has not aged a bit. She is a baby at heart. I believe. I thought about not writing about her. But she is such a part of my life. It would not be fair. And I won't show her to you right now.... by the way. Have you seen her ?

Thank you

Dear friends,

This weekend my source for inspiration Katrina from PuglyPixel answered my letter in which I asked her how she managed the first weeks and months of being a blogger. You know, those weeks where nobody reads what you write and the only people reading your blog are friends ?! I never expected her to answer and especially not the way she did. She wrote a post giving 9 lessons about blogging which all are very inspirational. When I saw this sunday morning I almost flew out of the window. I ran upstairs to my boyfriend and woke him up more or less screaming. I felt like a teenager receiving a letter from a favorite band. It really made my day, my weekend, my week  :)

Lesson #1:
Blog about the things that excite you—the things that you can’t stop thinking about. Blog about the things you think of before you fall asleep at night, the things you think of when you first wake up in the morning. Blog about the things that you work on until 3AM for the fun of it. Blog about your passions.

This is my favorite lesson and I think the one that will be most useful for me. I will be honest. I sometimes have been sitting around and thinking: What do I want to blog about? What would make people read my blog? But why actually. I think i should just blog and be myself and maybe I'm lucky and people actually want to have a look. 

Btw today I am posting my first thing someone might think is useful, although I have to admit it is really girly. Thats actually the reason I have been keeping it back. But now I feel it might be the right time. Thanks to Katrina's post I have gotten a lot more comments and 5 followers on my blog. It makes my heart jump.Therefore I want to give something back.

Two present labels. Print them, cut them and put them on any present. I hope some of you will find this useful. As always the graphics are by GraphicsFairy <3. 

Click the picture beneath to get a large version of the labels.

The power of secrets

Secrets are our friends and enemies at the same time. They can save us from time to time and they can destroy things. Secrets can be scary. And they can make us safe. Everybody knows how it is to keep a secret you have been told. Sometimes we know that keeping them is the biggest problem. But sometimes letting them out is too scary. I think secrets are amazing. And I also think we never think about their true nature. Something natural that comes without trying and which makes us happy at some times and sad at the other.


SecretPost, a movement online, receives anonymous letters or postcards with secrets. I fell in love with this. Here underneath a few of my most favorites. The nice thing about this that some are shocking, others could even make you cry. But it shows the power secrets have even if not connected to a person.

Dear friends,

I know I have not written in a while. And yes I felt guilty. This morning, on my way to work, my bike felt the need to make these Frankenstein noises and everyone was looking at me. They almost look startled, with their mouth a little bit open, looking at me saying: How can you do this? How can you ride a bike that makes those kind of noises. I understand. A loud bike in the middle of traffic is kind of an inconvenience. I truly am ever so sorry.  So two reasons for feeling 'the' guilt. But I am posting two things today. So that will make up for it. :)

First of all something about my 'forever in my heart' artist Soap&Skin. I love the music and I adore her. I saw her in concert one year ago and she was amazingly angry and still so shy. It was one of the best concerts I have ever been too. 

Now, Soap&Skin has come back into my life through a Ford commercial. Which makes me proud on the one hand, but really angry on the other. I really do not want anybody to know about this girl because I liked her first before any (any !) one else had even heard about her. And now FORD ? A car commercial. I am really angry at them for stealing my special secret connection to Soap&Skin and now everybody knows about her. Before it was just her and me. But now... I am devastated. 

Well, of course I am just kidding. Please listen to her music I am sure most of you guys will think it is terrible but I bet at least one of you will be thankful about me mentioning her. Oh and yes, beneath the Ford commercial with Mr.Gaunt my personal favorite since like EVER! (so don't you like it too!).

Love, Ricci