Things I did this weekend...

Hello everyone,

it is getting cold and all I wanna do is roll up in a little cave of leaves like a little hedgehog and not leaving anymore. Which reminds me that I actually saw wo hedgehogs last week. I get to see a lot of bunnies (every day) and ocassionally a squirell (at least every or every two week(s)) but a real life hedgehog is something new in this neighborhood and I hope to see more of those spiky cuties. They were not even afraid and I got to tickle the nose and take a photo of one of them.

Anyway.... This Saturday I got stuff done because John wasn´t home. Number one mission was to find a coat for Sweden. Right now I mostly wear capes because while it is cold it is not coat-cold yet. It was hard to find one because most coats seem to have dull colors only (grey and black or brown. bla. I need something that puts me into a better mood!) OR a terribly unflattering fit. Luckily I found that one by Manguun which has exactly the colour of my eyes (which you do not see on this picture though...)

Finally finding a coat in a nice color put me in such a fantastic mood that I was in the mood to get addional things done at home that I planned for a while but never got to do..... I re-aranged the heads on my wall (by the way: Note my beautifull new commode. I don´t know what to put in yet, but I love it! A work mate sole it to me for 20 €!) and put the (cheeky) metal signs I got myself over at least some of the holes in our kittchen wall (the one living in the apartmen before had shelves hanging there and as he removed them we have some holes in the wall that just don´t look pretty. I´ll need more signs to cover up all, but it´s a start ;-)

Hello heads

goodbye holes

8 years of Pin uping

Once upon a time...

there was a little country girl named Sari, growing up in the terrible wilderness of Odenwald (That is one hour behind Frankfurt, almost at the Bavarian border in the middle of nowhere). She was allways different and couldn´t even tell why. "Why are you so weird?" did the farm girls ask while the farm boys lit their torches. "I had no idea Iam beeing weird at all!" said Sari and ran off cause this was no safe place to be.

She ran off to Düsseldorf, which is way more far away from Frankfurt, unless you take the Intercity Express. Beeing in a city her weirdness did not stand out as much as it used to.

That was until she found a magic pin up book and started to do pin up modelling...

The End

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No, it was just the beginning.

 8 years of Pin up - not one moment of regret!

How Herr Mann changed his marital status and other fleamarket stories...

Hello everyone,

yesterday I went to a fleamarket but to my disapointment I only hunted down one souvenier brooch. However keeping in mind there was another one in the city today I figure I´d strike gold there instead. Oh how damn right I was!!!!! 

 You probaly saw Herr Mann (left side) in pin up pics of mine before. I once found him on a fleamarket for (I think) 8 or 10 €. He spent at least one year living with me as a bachelor.... Until today. I found those 3 black 50s poodles that I asume to be from the same brand (Herrman, hence Herr Manns name) because they wear the same ribbon. The big one is in very good condition, the small ones have flaws, but for 10 €for the three of them including the basket I couldn´t say no! So meet Herr Mann, Frau Mann (birth name Mademoiselle Femme) and their darling daughters Colette and Paulette.

As if having a bunch of French 50s poodles wouldn´t be enough I found this darling French lecture book for 50 Cent (and now it is once for all settled that I need to do a French-themed shooting including booklet and poodles), a handbag for 7 € (big enough to put a book in + everything else I need), the ABC book for boys AND girls for 1 € each (seruiously... I think a couple shooting with John is underway) and a book on good behaviour for 1 € - finally I can get a read on how to fix stocking seams in public in a appropriate way.

All of the things I got before would be enough to make me absolutely thrilled and cosider this a more than sucessfull fleamarket visit but it goes on.... This set of  1950s snack dishes for ALTOGETHER 2 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) €. I would have happily paid 1-2 € per DISH!

And on the way home we found this huuuuge tuscany themed 50s painting in a faux gold frame for 10€. We still have free space on our bed room wall. Well, not anymore once we put up this one!!!

I have rearely been that lucky and I have rarely spent so much money and got so much for it during one fleamarket visit. And the best thing. It was 5 minute walking distance and so HUGE!!!!!

Aspargus, boiled potatoes and green sauce

Hello everyone,

it is my fave time of the year: Aspargus time! The only thing I hate about it is the actual peeling of Aspargus and because I know from workmates from the US and Canada that they do not know white aspargus: Yes, you really have to peel it before cooking!

Fortunately the sauce is easier. i choose to make hat we call "Frankfurter Grüne Sosse". For one thing because it´s Hessian and I am Hessian, for another it´s yummy and easy to make.

Back in the old days when I was a child it was harder to make because you need 7 (!!!) different herbs to put into the sauce:  borage, sorrel, garden cress, chervil, chives, parsley, and salad burnet. Oh yes. Life wasn´t easy when I was young ;-) Now you can just buy them in a perfect mixture FROZEN and ready to use quickly. Even at Aldi. 

You need: 

200 ml sourcream

50ml joghurt

herb mix

2 boiled eggs that you´ll cut to small pieces

a tea spoon of mustard

salt & pepper

You mix it, let it rest for a while so the flavour can develop and you´re ready to go. Perfect for Aspargus andboiled potatoes (and if you take everything low fat healthier than Sauce Hollandaise I am sure).

Finally getting some work done!

Hello everyone,

cause I can´t leave the house I get things done that I did not find the time for yet... I updated my galleries and news on www.retro-model.de and added the Guten Abend RTL Video from last year to youtube.

Enjoy!
Sari

The Tiki Room

Hello everyone,

I don´t think I showed a picture of my living room in the making yet!!! Here it is! It is red, the former tennant painted it like that and we kept it. We got the red chaiselounge whose back you are seeing for free! The little bamboo shelf aka the Tiki-Shrine was a fleamarket find for 5 Euros. The seat on the ground was by IKEA and I found the pillow in some cheapo-store where I got it for 8 Euros. I promise better pics with better light and maybe even close ups once the tiger seats and the dinner essemble arrived.

My flea-market findthis Saturday. I got those 5 books for 4 Euro and I LOVE the covers so so much!!! I should display them somehow but I don´t know where/how yet!

When I saw this little kitten-vase I immediately knew it should be the keeper of my make up brushes. I was thinking "Please be 3 Euro, please be 3 Euro" while the stall holder took out his price list and checked forever. It was..... 3 Euro. Maybe I have special mind powers (or maybe not....)

And yay!!!! The mirror of my vanity table is finally hanging!!!! Now I can set my mind on how to decorate it!!!! I got the mirror for free from my grandpa, the vanity table off ebay and the chair for free from a neighbor that wanted to get rid of it. Sometimes Iam a fortune cookie. Here counts "More and better photos when Iam finished", too!

Iam back online!!!

Hello everyone,

Iam back online! REALLY online I mean! I had the internet phone, however typing on it takes forever, I couldn´t read blogs and not really respond to messages either. So if you wrote, messaged, whatever - don´t take it personal that I did not reply. I just couldn´t!!! :-)

Slowly things are starting to look up. Every evening after work there is a lot of things to do. The laundry, that kept piling because we had no wasching maschine previously and either had to go to a wash salon or handwash, is fainally getting less, I sorted my private library by genre and I hope John will get out his driller to make the picture frames and the mirrow hang where they ought to... As the progress goes on here is a picture of my boudoirs current state...

The mirror is still laying on my kidney formed vanity, there are still boxes standing around, stuff on the wondow board that shouldn´t be there, but it starts to get fewer and fewer and the little shelf is still standing around (I consider putting it above my chippendale and store my lipsticks and perfumes in it. any thoughts bout that? More photos will follow when things are getting done! Still work in progress!

While I was gone I received this beautifull pictures from my shooting with Steffi and I hope you like them as much as I do.

That´s all for now!!!

The happy Home Makers!

Hello everyone,

our moving is in full preparation mood right now!

Last week I went to IKEA with a workmate and we bought a bed and a bureau (hope this is the right word, I had to bablefish it. In German it is kommode) and he was kind enough to give me two wardrobes he didn´t need, so me and John spend two afternoons setting things up! And I finally got around snapping some photos of what we have now... In the progress of moving in I will take some more photos and I hope to find a photographer that will do a shooting with me once it is completed...
The view from our balcony
The wardrobe I was gifted! I might put tapestry on it or white paint or I leave it as it is, as it´s the same color as our floor. Iam not sure yet. Oh well... I have time to decide :-) We set it up without a manual. Iam very proud of that :-)


We don´t have the dinner table and the chairs yet. I will order that just before my vacation in July so we are home to receive it. This years summer holiday will be on balconia. Meanwhile my balcony furniture will serve as our dinner-table. I saw it a month ago at Strauss for 59,90 € and I wanted it! I had to wait and hope it would be around once I have the place and indeed IT WAS! It was a pain to carry home, but it is so pretty it was worth it. I can´t wait to have breakfasts on the balcony on warm weekends!
My bed, my bureau and the fake sheep fur are from IKEA, so yes, you can buy cute retro-ish things on a budget.. Our bed is so HUGE! We had to unpack it to fit it into my workmates car and I got a little panic attack "This is too big!!! This is WAY too big!!!!!" I kept saying and we set it up and John said "Damn is that big! So so big!!!!!". But now we got used of the sight and as long and my vanity table and my chippendale bureau fit into the sleeping room we will be fine :-)

By the way: I checked and all my make up fits into the chippendale, which I dubbed Chippie. Even my oscene amount of fake lashes!!!! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!

Be patient, as I won´t have internet starting from next Saturday to the 8th of July and I will just be able to write stuff occassionally on twitter and Facebook over my internet phone, but there will be new posts when we are back and set ourselves up, including photos of how it looks once we moved in!!!

Today we also put out our old trashy furniture. No worries, not old in sese of Antique. Just old in sense of "I needed something for my first apartment on a limited budget and this is what I got". And Saturday we are finally MOVING IN!!!

Random, but with many pictures :-D

Hi everyone,

this is a random post about my weekend and other stuff :-D

As I feel a bit out of power since the beginning of the week I just went to the mall on Saturday. No tidying up. No hand laundry. no sewing. Just a trip to the mall.

There I got my zipper stuck in a dress so bad that I had to get out ofthe changing room and had to find a saleslady to help me out of this dilemma. I think this is the worst shopping nightmare that can happen to a lady. Despite the fact that I totally lost the drive to try on any more dresses I bought me some cute acessoires on H & M. I LOVE cameos. The fact that they had matching brooches and earings made it even worse...

When I got home I put things on ebay. Check them out cause a lot of it wasn´t even offered on my blog before. I´m open towards international shiping, but contact me on ebay first - you´d have to do that anyway to ask how much the shippings costs. Most things have a 40 inch bust. Exept for the polka dotted and the turqouise dress.
http://shop.ebay.de/gurusari1/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
John said to me that by summer 2011 he wants us to move into a bigger apartment. My nesting mode is activated. I already browsed a book on how to decorate your home from the 50s and I found adorable pictures in a sewing book as well. I share them with you as I find them very inspiring!!! John will star to look for a better paid job, we will start to look for an apartment with 2-3 rooms (this seems like total luxury for me after living on 30 squaremeters for the past 8 years!) and I think about interieur...

In the same book I found colour recommndations for women. Detailed ones! Not like "if you have blond hair you can wear blue." more like "if you have blond hair and your eyes are brown you can wear this and that shade of blue!". It´s in German, but they are a nice guideline I think. Isn´t it weird that guidelines in a book from the 50s are way more detailed than the recommendations that you can read in modern magazines? go figure!

Let´s bump it - with bumpits

There are days where I´m just lazy and can´t be bothered wih setting my hair. However I have the straightest and most boring hair one can imagine. And if I atempt to do a sleek 60s style and tease and tease and tease my hair and spray and spray and spray it with hairspray it will just sink down again within the next 2 hours. This SUCKS. So I was curious when I heard about bumpits. They are not available in Germany, but I got them on ebay for just a few bucks. What do those thingies look like and how do you use them anyway? To find the answer to this question check out this video by Super Kawaii Mama:




And here comes my review. (excuse the bad photo, but I was just about to leave for shopping, so I just snapped a self in the bathrom mirror). They are indeed easy to use. I just teased my hair, attached the bumpit under it and smoothed the hair over the bumpit. What I didn´t see however was that my hair was a bit too short for the huuuuge bumpit I took, hence I realised that one could see it a bit if you saw my back. By that time I was in town though and didn´t give a damn.

Next time I will use the one that is one size smaller or take a bigger hair-section. Besides that I find it fab. My hair stayed up and up and up eventhough I was changing in the dressingroom and pulled the sweater over my head. In my oppinion it is a good investment for lazy hair days!!! And also if you wanna go for a 60s look or an updo.

The next thing I wanna test is Benefits Dr. Feelgood vs. Shills Miss Perfect. They are supposed to do the same, let´s see who´ll be the winner.