be the change

Yes, change. Change is nice. Everything is currently changing in my life and I really don't have the time or the muse to post anymore. I don't want to delete this blog. It's just going to sleep.

But I set up a little Tumblr Inspiration Blog, on which I will post a lot if you want to see what's currently inspiring me or to see what I like. I'll also post my Instagram photos there! So this is pretty much the new thing. Less stress.

Thank you for sticking with me. I love you.

xx Katie

this is epic

Because, Ladies and Gentlemen, these are my first ever very own point shoes. I've been dancing ballet for about a year now and I am so proud that I am finally ready to learn to dance en pointe. 

I know it's going to be hard but that's a price I am willing to pay.

xx Katie

can't think of a proper title

Yes, it's an Instagram post again. Nothing exciting happened. I had some exams at Uni and for a few weeks now I've been doing absolutely nothing but geeking around with my friends and dancing my feet off. Well, you know. The usual stuff.
Enjoy this little photo diary of my last weeks.

xx Katie

           

           

           

           

           

            

What are you looking at? 1. Pusheen plushie some friends got me for my birthday. 2. Breakfast at Uni. 3. Kiara controls the TV. 4. Karl and I took a wald through the "Wildpark". I swear, these beauties were talking to us! 5. Something I wore for I don't remember what. 6. This hairstyle took forever. I'm so bad at doing hair and make up and stuff. So I was pretty proud. 7. I finally got myself a Magic Mouse! Now I can start playing Team Fortress 2 on my MacBook. Yay. 8. Sleepy kitty. 9. Sina, Björn and I visited the Pixar exhibition in Bonn. It was incredible. Definitely recommend it! And I think I'll go there again. 10. Emilie Autumn's new record. It is a masterpiece of music. Absolutely breathtaking. 11. Again, something I wore someday. I am strangely in love with this outfit. 12. We had a heat wave. It was way too hot for Kiara, too. 13. Ready to go to the pool. Heat wave, remember? 

jag gillar inte att läser.

What you see there is pretty much what my life consist of right now. Learning, writing, university stuff.
Right now I'm at university learning Swedish for my exam on monday. But since I'm quite tired and I wanted to try out this iPad app for blogging I'm sending you a quick hello.
Well, hello!
A question for you English people? Would it be very insane to come to London in August? I mean because of Olympia. I really want to go back this year and this month might just be my only chance.

xx Katie

can't refuse

I know. Everybody does this. I've been using Instagram for a very long time now but I always refused to make this kind of posts. But one reason why don't post so often is that I actually never carry my camera around. I always complain how it's to heavy and big and so I always snap these nice little things with my iPhone which I never ever leave at home. So be prepared to see more Instagram posts in the future.

xx Katie

        

          

        

          

          

          

What are you looking at? 1. Huge book about making the Harry Potter films. Loved it. 2. The inside of my lovely new necklace. 3. I finally got myself white Chucks! 4. My cat holding her little feet while sleeping. 5. She likes watching the village. 6. Free time at university. 7. Beautiful stuff in a shop in Daaden. Wanted to buy everything. 8. "The Night Circus". Maybe the best book I've ever read. If you haven't, I definitely recommend it! 9. I got a new car and I love it. Oh yes. 10. Karl and I are together for 31 months and 5 days. 11. Waiting for the bus. 12. Some British guy was selling posters at university. 

showing around my christmas presents while saying goodbye to 2011

So this is 2011, right? It has been a wonderful year with a whole lot of big changes in my life. 2012 is promising to be even better, for I'm planning on visiting 3 of the biggest cities in the world: Paris, London (for the first time! anyone up for a little meeting?), New York. Karl and I may finally find a flat and live together and I'll be in the middle of my studies at Uni Siegen. Sounds quite exciting, doesn't it?

I got some really really lovely christmas presents and I love them so much that I just have to show them to you!

This is what Karl got me. I freaked out. It's the whole Harry Potter series on Blu-Ray in this most awesome wooden box with the Eldar wand on top. There were only 4000 of them and Karl really got one.

This is what my parents got me. A pretty, golden Fossil watch. I love it and I think it suits me so well. I feel twice as pretty when ever I wear it.

This is what my godfather, his wife and his daughter, who's at the same time my goddaughter's mum, got me. The Harry Potter books in English! Hardcover and in a pretty box. Now I can finally read them how they were originally written. I only owned them in German so far.

And these books I got from Karls family. It's "The Vintage Tea Party Book" (if you read the most wonderful WishWishWish, you know it), "Der perfekte Kleiderschrank" (translated: The perfect closet) by Nina Garcia, a Cupcake Decoration Set and a Cupcake recipe book (you cannot see it, sorry).

And my sister got my a lovely make-up bag, a necklace and a sculpture named "The Dancer". I didn't take photos of these ones. I actually don't know why. Maybe I will later on. We'll see.


And this is it. The last post for 2011. Thank you for reading this blog and I hope I'll see you again next year. Have a wonderful New Year's Eve tonight! And don't forget to watch "Sherlock" tomorrow. I have to wait until Monday. It will be hard to avoid Twitter tomorrow night if I don't want to read any spoilers, won't it?

I love you.

xx Katie

EDIT:P.S. The very first picture shows what I wore New Year's Eve.

a market like me

I promised you a new post and here it is!
A market like me is a weird title, I know. But I just wanted to show you some picture of the Katharinenmarkt. A market in a little town near me which has my name. ;) When I was a child I actually did think that it was named after me. You can get pretty much everything there. Really everything.

There are some big changes coming here. And friend and I are complete redesigning my blog (I know. For the 1823489348634628th time... but I'm still not satisfied. You know, I'm a perfectionist.) and these changes are actually so big that I am thinking about creating a completely new blog!
Now my question for you is... What would you prefer? A totally new thing? Would you follow me over to a new blog? Or should I keep this one, just completely different? I don't know what I'll do yet. Maybe I'll listen to you. ;)
Pleas let me know! Write your opinion in a comment or just answer the poll on the right side.
Thank you so much!

Ich habe euch einen neuen Post versprochen und hier ist er!
Ein Markt wie ich ist ein seltsamer Titel, ich weiß. Aber ich wollte euch ein paar Bilder vom Katharinenmarkt zeigen. Ein Markt in einer kleinen Stadt hier in der Nähe, der meinen Namen trägt! ;) Als ich ich ein Kind war dachte ich wirklich, dass er nach mir benannt ist. Jedenfalls kriegt man dort alles. Wirklich alles. 


Es wird hier bald große Veränderungen geben. Eine Freundin und ich designen meinen Blog komplett neu (Ich weiß. Zum 1823489348634628ten Mal... aber ich bin immer noch nicht zufrieden. Ihr müsst wissen, ich bin eine Perfektionistin.) und diese Veränderungen sind so groß, dass ich darüber nachdenke, einen komplett neuen Blog zu eröffnen! 
Meine Frage an euch ist nun... Was wäre euch lieber? Etwas ganz neues? Würdet ihr mir zu einem neuen Blog folgen? Oder sollte ich diesen behalten, nur völlig anders? Ich weiß noch nicht, was ich machen soll. Vielleicht höre ich ja sogar auf euch. ;)
Bitte lasst mich wissen, was ihr denkt! Schreibt das ganze einfach in einen Kommentar oder beantwortet die Umfrage auf der rechten Seite.
Vielen Dank!

xx Katie

This is a test

Well, hi!

This is a test post from the Blogger iPhone App.
I am so sorry for the huge lack of posting but I've been very busy with university and the musical production.
I am so sad that this time is over but now I can totally focus on university.

A real new post soon! Promise!

xx Katie

i got news

Well, hello! Here are three things I wanted to show you.

1. My gorgeous new frankie Diary 2012! It was in the mail today. Hooray! I was too late to get one for 2011, so when I got the email that the 2012 Diary is ready to pre-order, I just had to do that immediately. I'm so glad I'll have frankie loveliness every single day next year.

2. My wonderful steampunk style necklace. A friend of mine made it especially for me, so it's very unique! I actually have it for a few weeks now I wore it almost every day. It's absolutely lovely! You can order one, too. Just write here an email with what exactly you want to: Lanue@ymail.com. I am sure she can do it for you. A necklace with a clock like mine is for €25. And check out her deviantART gallery, too. She has some more of her Steampunk Jewellery listed there.

3. My pretty new purse. My beloved old Louis Vuitton is really really wonderful, I know. But it's too small. It was bursting, really. So I got myself this nice one by Fossil.

Yes, what you see there inside my new purse, that white and blue little piece of paper, is my student ID. I got accepted at the University of Siegen! Siegen is a little town about an hour away from where I live. It's where we play our musical in a month, too!

My course is called Literature, Culture, Media Studies and I chose the the linguistic main focus English and German. Everything starts in three weeks and I am already very excited about it. Some of my best friends study there, too, so I won't be totally lost the first weeks.

I have to go now, my second ballet lesson is waiting for me! :)

xx Katie

what a delicious day

I spent yesterday with Sina (We're friends since kindergarden. Did I ever tell you about her?) in Cologne! It was really really wonderful, even though I spent too much money. We drank too much coffee (damn you, adorable Starbucks!) and did not eat enough but nevertheless, it was really nice day. We strolled around a few shops like Accessorize, H&M and more but our main goals were a cute little café named Royal Cupcakes where you can eat the most delicious cupcakes in the whole world and an also cute little shop called Törtchen Törtchen where you can buy those adorable macarons! I know, they're not Ladurée but still, they're wonderful. If you live in or near Cologne I highly recommend you to visit those places. I bought some nice things. You can see them on a picture further down.

Gestern war ich mit Sina (Wir sind Freunde seit dem Kindergarten. Hab ich euch je von ihr erzählt?) in Köln! Es war ganz wundervoll, auch wenn ich zu viel Geld ausgegeben habe. Wir haben viel zu viel Kaffee getrunken (Sei verflucht, Starbucks!) und dabei zu wenig gegessen aber nichtsdestotrotz war es ein sehr schöner Tag. Wir sind durch einige Geschäfte gestromert, aber unsere Hauptziele waren ein süßes kleines Café mit dem Namen Royal Cupcakes, wo man einfach die besten Cupcakes der Welt essen kann, und ein süßer kleiner Laden namens Törtchen Törtchen, wo man diese fabelhaften Macarons kaufen kann! Ich weiß, sie sind nicht von Ladurée aber trotzdem wundervoll. Wenn ihr in oder nahe Köln wohnt, geht da mal hin! Das empfehle ich euch wärmstestestens. Ich hab auch ein paar nette Dinge erstanden. Die seht ihr weiter unten auf einem Bild.

xx Katie

Some street musicians. They played the Summer of The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. It was beautiful.

Macarons from Törtchen Törtchen, €25 App Store Card, Top and Skirt from American Apparel, Jacket from H&M